CHAPTER 644: CHAPTER 512: UNORTHODOX ART, SWALLOWING HUNDRED FLAMES

The entire Melt Spirit process lasted for more than an hour, and Ye Lingyue watched intently.

Knowing that the Old Jiao Whip had been refined, she was still in a state of shock, unable to recover for a long time.

Before witnessing Melt Spirit, Ye Lingyue thought it wouldn’t be too difficult.

After all, she was born into the Ye Family, who have been refining for generations. Before becoming an Alchemist, she had also spent a lot of time in the Ye Family’s Refining room, learning through sight and sound, gaining some insights into refining.

However, everything changed when she saw Long Baobao refine the Spiritual Artifact without even wielding a hammer. Ye Lingyue realized that her previous views on Artifact Refining had been completely overturned.

Martial Artists refine with hammers and brute force, Alchemists with spiritual power, and Long Baobao’s way of refining was far beyond that of an ordinary Alchemist.

The blue flame was Long Baobao’s Lifebound Fire, the Star Fire.

Due to his young age, Long Baobao would suffer great Primordial Qi damage every time he used the Star Fire, rendering him unable to use it again for at least three to four days.

When he typically helped people from Mercenary City refine artifacts, he never used Star Fire.

This time, considering it was for Lan Cai’er, the little guy made an exceptional case.

At the moment, his little face was pale, looking extremely weak.

"Little Steamed Bun, you look very tired, rest for a day first." Ye Lingyue, feeling sorry for the little one, took out a Chaos Red Fruit for him to eat.

Chaos Red Fruit was a great nourishing product for Star Power, quite rare throughout the Qing Province Continent. After eating the Chaos Red Fruit, Long Baobao felt much more comfortable.

"Sister Hei, did you see clearly the process of Melt Spirit I just performed?" Long Baobao’s face was full of expectation.

Although Long Baobao knew that Ye Lingyue couldn’t possibly learn it in one go - after all, when he was learning from his grandfather, it also took nearly a year, with repeated guidance - Ye Lingyue was not from the Long Family, so he couldn’t directly instruct her. Long Baobao hoped to give her more opportunities to observe in the future.

"I understand what I saw, but the Melt Spirit Technique is truly the Long Clan’s ultimate skill, not something every person can learn. I think the real key to Melt Spirit Technique must be fire; one cannot use an ordinary Mortal Fire for Melt Spirit." Ye Lingyue pondered.

"Ah, Sister Hei, you’re amazing to have noticed after just one glance. Yes, my grandfather also said that the best fire for Melt Spirit is Star Fire. If there’s no Star Fire, Elixir Fire would also work, but the effect of Elixir Fire would be much less than Star Fire, and the refining time would be significantly longer." Like Long Huai, the Family Head, he uses his Lifebound Elixir Fire for Melt Spirit.

"That’s going to be troublesome, sister here doesn’t have Elixir Fire," Ye Lingyue said with a wry smile.

The so-called Elixir Fire referred to the Lifebound Fire cultivated inside the Dantian like Zhuge Yi’s or Jin Wu Old Monster’s.

It’s not a common fire seed, but its heat and Attack Power are much stronger than ordinary Mortal Fire.

"As long as you break through the Reincarnation Fire Tribulation once, you will have Elixir Fire, just like Sister Lan. If she’s willing to work hard, she can also form her own Lifebound Elixir Fire."

Long Baobao remembered that Lan Cai’er said that her breakthrough in the Reincarnation Fire Tribulation was due to a Five-Colored Reincarnation Fire Elixir that Ye Lingyue gave her.

This Sister Hei of his seemed to have many strange and wonderful things in her hands, for instance, the Elixir Pills that could shape the attributes of the Reincarnation Tribulation, and just now, the red fruit she gave him to eat.

Ye Lingyue stroked Long Baobao’s head, speaking with a touch of helplessness.

"Sister, due to my unique constitution, I’m different from others. Even if I achieve the cultivation of a Reincarnation Martial Artist, I will never be able to cultivate Reincarnation Elixir Fire in my lifetime."

Her realm was attained through the Heaven and Earth Tribulation.

Once one enters the Heaven and Earth Tribulation, the Reincarnation Tribulations become irrelevant. She can no longer endure any Reincarnation Tribulations, naturally, it’s impossible for her to undergo the Reincarnation Fire Tribulation and form her Lifebound Pill Fire.

Nevertheless, even so, Ye Lingyue did not have any regrets. Overcoming the Heaven and Earth Tribulation, setting aside the factor of Elixir Fire, the Power of Heaven and Earth was far stronger than the Power of Reincarnation.

Long Baobao didn’t quite understand what Ye Lingyue meant, but he tilted his head in thought for a moment.

"Sister Hei, there actually is another way for you to possess Melt Spirit Fire."

Long Baobao’s words invigorated Ye Lingyue’s spirit.

"What way is that?"

"That method is very painful, and also very difficult. I only heard my grandfather talk about it. I’m not sure if anyone has really succeeded," Long Baobao strained his little head, searching for that method his grandfather once told him.

Long Baobao told Ye Lingyue that a long, long time ago, there was a prodigy within the Long Clan who, like her, was born without Pill Fire due to his constitution.

Being a descendant of the Artifact Refining Family of the Long Clan, to be without Elixir Fire meant being unable to refine artifacts.

That disciple was then expelled from the family and cast out of Cang Country.

But he did not give up because of this. Legend has it that he traveled to a place known as the Wilderness, where he found an ancient Cultivation Technique.

By utilizing that Cultivation Technique, he finally refined his own Elixir Fire.

Having acquired Elixir Fire, the Long Clan disciple returned and took revenge on those of his clan who had mocked and ostracized him, burning them one by one with his Pill Fire, and ultimately relying on that mysterious Elixir Fire, he became the contemporary Family Head of the Long Clan.

"This person is my great-great-great Grand Ancestor, the Fire Devouring Old Ancestor, Long Wang, who brought the Long Clan to its zenith seven hundred years ago. I heard from my grandfather that Long Wang gained the ability to control Hundred Flames after devouring countless Mutant Fires. The Spiritual Artifacts he refined even reached the Heaven Rank. While Long Wang lived, even Artifact Masters of the Three Sects had to show him the utmost respect," Long Baobao spoke of his grand ancestor with reverence in his eyes.

Long Wang was known to be severe, ruthless, but he also stood as a role model for every Long Clan disciple – striving to improve continuously, surviving adversity in the direst of straits.

For the presently deeply troubled Long Baobao, Ancestor Long Wang was even more a source of conviction.

"Swallowing Hundred Flames, this Long Wang was quite formidable. Since that’s the case, why did no one in the Long Family study this Cultivation Technique after him?" Ye Lingyue, astonished upon hearing this, could not help but yearn a bit, yet she did not blindly romanticize.

All things have their pros and cons. Swallowing ten thousand fires, becoming the king of ten thousand fires sounded magnificent, but there must also be harmful consequences.

"This is what I’m about to tell you. Grand Ancestor Long Wang challenged the heavens with a hundred fires, but he was the only Family Head in the Long Clan’s history to die before turning fifty. Moreover, when he died, his body spontaneously combusted, the hundred fires burst forth from within, leading to a sky-high blaze. The entirety of Cang Country suffered through an unquenchable inferno lasting three days and three nights, with extremely heavy casualties and damage."

Mentioning that grand fire in Cang Country from years past, Long Baobao still feels a lingering fear to this day.