70 Chapter 70 – Heaven’s Oath (1/2)

Soul Spirit saw Zhu Xuan also using his wood elemental Qi along with his fire element Qi and wondered if he had figured it out.

Hours passed, and the fire lotus became more and more translucent, and at the same time an outline of nine petal fire lotus formed inside his fire elemental roots.

Unsurprisingly Zhu Xuan absorbed all the essence of Bodhi fire before Wu Qing. After he passed the test, he got up and saw Wu Qing was still absorbing the essence fire.

He waited on the side and observed the outline of fire lotus formed inside his elemental roots. He was shocked to see some of the elemental Qi passing through it and coming out more concentrated and purified, but ever so slowly.

Zhu Xuan wondered ”Does the Bodhi fire essence have an effect of purifying my fire Qi? But it is very slow though. Maybe if I obtain the complete fire essence I will be able to purify my Fire Qi more.”

He already knows from reading many books, one have to atmospheric Qi though his elemental roots and spread throughout the body purifying various parts of the body. He also read about certain people born with innate special body type who can naturally purify the Qi they absorb throughout their body and increase their cultivation speed.

He was envious when he read about those innate body type geniuses among cultivators, but he didn't expect he would come across such an alternative method.

Wu Qing spent less than ten minutes after Zhu Xuan before completing the absorption of nine petal fire lotus. Zhu Xuan thanked Senior Long for telling him the way to absorb the essence fire faster or else he is sure she would have definitely won.

She saw Zhu Xuan already finished absorbing the fire lotus before him and her mood got complicated for a second because she didn't expect she would fail, and Zhu Xuan's absorption rate will be higher than him. But she immediately went back to normal and congratulated him happily with a smile.

She also realized by now about the function of the outline of fire lotus inside her and was thankful towards the soul spirit.

When she was about to disappear, Soul spirit spoke to Wu Qing ”You didn't pass the test before him, but your alchemy talent is great and I can accept you becoming an Inner Door disciple instead of Direct disciple of Jinghua grandmaster.”

Wu Qing was happy and agreed immediately; she would do anything when it comes to alchemy knowledge.

Zhu Xuan and Wu Qing entered the blue barrier and found themselves in a simple room with chair and table and some books. A fireball appeared from above and turned into a tiny small kid with a chubby face with yellowish white fire spreading outwards from his body.

The tiny kid was standing in front of another barrier, but this barrier is completely dark unlike other barriers in each hall which is semi transparent. They understood that tiny boy is the soul spirit which has been speaking to them since they enetered the Ruins.

”Congratulations for passing all the tests. From this day on, you will be fourth direct disciple of my master, Jinghua Grandmaster, and you will be the seventy eighth inner door disciple of Jinghua Grandmaster.” spoke the Soul spirit.

As it spoke, the barrier disappeared and he saw a middle aged man lying on a stone bed covered by a complicated barrier made of many arrays. They were amazed that his body was preserved after so many years after his death and he realized it must be due to the arrays covering his body.

Both calmed down and kowtowed three times to Jinghua grandmaster lying in the stone bed ”Disciple greets Master.”

Soul Spirit nodded and continued ”Even though my master passed away, he arranged so that his knowledge and comprehension is passed onto future generations.”