âBoy youâre quite ruthless; this lord admits defeat,â the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said spitefully as it gnashed its teeth. In the end, it could only curb the flames of fury within its eyes - after all, it didnât have the right to bargain with this youth. It could only preserve its life for now and take each step as it came to it.
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow raised its head as it roared in anger and sadness, âGoddamit!â Back then, it had been so noble and majestic, and yet it had fallen to such a state.
âWhat are you crying out like a woman for? Youâve completely ruined the heroic image of you within my heart,â Xiao Yun said disdainfully. Back then, he had viewed the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow as a peerless expert, especially after it had devoured the Tribulation Lightning. That courage was incredibly admirable.
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow rolled its eyes, ignoring Xiao Yun as it grumbled inwardly, â If you were caught by someone, Iâm sure you wouldnât be happy either. â
Xiao Yun said as he smiled, âDonât be like this. If you work together with me, thereâll be benefits for you as well.â
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrowâs eyes lit up. âWhat do you mean?â
Xiao Yun said, âI had a pretty good idea. If you take me to find that Sovereignâs inheritance, Iâll help you take revenge in future. How does that sound? Now that youâve lost your fleshly body, it wonât be so easy for you to take revenge.â
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow was quite powerful, and to Xiao Yun, it would be quite good to resolve the enmity between them. After all, it wouldnât be good for the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow to remained trapped in the Heaven-Devouring Tower for all this time. Moreover, Xiao Yun was still too weak, and needed a helper.
âWork together?â The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow fell silent as it thought, then coldly harrumphed, âWhat right do you think you have to ask this lord to work together with you?â
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrowâs background was extraordinary, and it was arrogant and unyielding. It very rarely placed other people in its eyes, and when it heard that Xiao Yun wanted to work together, it couldnât help but feel disdainful. Back then during its prime, geniuses from all clans trembled in front of it. It was just that it had fallen on hard times now.
âBeing able to suppress you â thatâs what gives me the right,â Xiao Yun replied.
âAlright, Iâll work together with you. Can you let me go then?â the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow asked as its eyes flashed.
Xiao Yun shook his head and said, âNope. You need to show sufficient sincerity.â
âSincerity?â The Heaven-Devouring Sparrowâs eyes couldnât help but darken.
Xiao Yun lightly smiled and didnât say anything. His mind left the Heaven-Devouring Tower and started looking around.
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow suddenly spoke, though a trace of coldness flashed within its eyes. âYou want sincerity? Just then, I was fighting with a Violet Flames Martial Spirit that an expert left behind. Its spirit has been greatly weakened, and you can try to capture it and fuse with it. That way, youâll have an extra Martial Spirit.â
â Hmph, as long as your spirit collapses while trying to fuse with the Martial Spirit, Iâll be able to escape. â That way, it would even have a chance to obtain the Heaven-Devouring Tower. The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow felt quite delighted; this calamity had actually brought it blessings.
Xiao Yunâs eyes lit up. âMartial Spirit? Those violet flames is a Martial Spirit?â
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow replied, âThatâs right. Itâs a Martial Spirit left behind by a supreme expert. Its consciousness has mostly dissipated, and after fighting with this lord for the past few days, it has become incredibly weak. Thereâs a chance for you to fuse with it. If you succeed, youâll be able to control fire.â
âDidnât it escape?â Xiao Yun asked.
âItâs still hiding in the Fire Vein ahead of us. Itâll be quite easy for you to force it out,â The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow calmly replied.
âAlright, Iâll go get it now,â Xiao Yun said as his eyes became serious. Obtaining another Martial Spirit would mean gaining another remarkable ability. It would give him an advantage as he grew in future.
For example, it was because Fang Hao awakened his familyâs Ice Martial Spirit that he was able to stand as an invincible existence to those of the same cultivation as him. In fact, it was possible that Fang Hao could fight those with a higher cultivation than him. As such, Xiao Yun naturally did not want to pass up on this opportunity.
After walking over, Xiao Yun came to the boundary of a massive pit of fire. The flames below roiled and raged, sometimes rushing high into the air. What was strange was that the flames here were all completely violet, giving off a resplendent light. The heatwaves that assaulted him were incredibly wild and berserk.
These heatwaves would be incredibly intimidating to a normal cultivator, but Xiao Yun only frowned. Very soon, he connected with his Martial Spirit, which released a jade-green light that covered him.
âWhat are these runes of light? Why do they contain an aura of life?â Although the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow was trapped in the Heaven-Devouring Tower, it could still release a portion of its spirit outside to detect what was happening. After discovering the jade-green light around Xiao Yun, it couldnât help but mutter to itself as it thought to the scene of the youth disrupting it devouring the violet flamesâ Martial Spirit.
As the jade-green light covered Xiao Yun, his Martial Spirit had also stretched out its jade-green branch, stabbing into the sea of flames.
Right as it stabbed into the sea of flames, the jade-green branch gave a buzz, incredibly excited.
By now, Xiao Yun had gained quite some understanding towards his Martial Spirit. As long as it was Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, whether it was Fire Essence Qi or something else, the Martial Spirit would devour it all as food. Moreover, it was able to naturally suppress these Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
After the jade-green branch entered the flames, it continuously extended. Xiao Yun followed it in, jumping into the flames. Although there were flames everywhere, a path miraculously opened up for Xiao Yun â it seemed that the Fire Essence Qi seemed to fear his Martial Spirit.
â What sort of origins does this boy have? â When the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow saw this scene, it was dumbfounded. Was he really a human cultivator? Or could he be the descendant of some god? The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow simply couldnât believe a cultivator at the Innate realm could do such a thing.
â Looks like I wonât be able to screw this boy over, â the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow muttered inwardly, looking devastated.
Within the sea of flames that Xiao Yun had jumped into, there was an extremely deep Fire Vein that seemed to connect to the deep ley lines. It was as if the jade-green branch had discovered a treasure, and madly charged forwards. As it did so, it also continuously absorbed the Fire Essence Qi around it. Within Xiao Yunâs sea of consciousness, the branch flashed, and the sub-branch with the red leaf actually turned violet.
After examining it, Xiao Yun found that there was incredibly dense Fire Vital Essence on that leaf, and the fog above it swirled around, looking both real and illusory.
Finally, after falling nearly 1,000 metres downwards, the branch suddenly stabbed towards an orb of violet light.
âItâs that violet orb of light!â Xiao Yunâs lit up. He never thought that his Martial Spirit would be able to find it so quickly.
â This boyâs not ordinary at all, â the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow thought to itself within the Heaven-Devouring Tower as it looked at the youth. It had thought the youth would needs its assistance in finding the Martial Spirit, but in the end, it didnât even have the opportunity to speak.
The jade-green branch madly stabbed towards the ball of violet flames, as if it was ravenous for the Fire Vital Essence that it contained. The violet flames trembled, giving off terrifying energy waves and jolting the branch away.
Following this, the violet flames dashed upwards, trying to run away. After its tedious battle with the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow, the violet flames had expended much vital essence. Without any of its strength left, it didnât dare to stay.
âYou want to escape? It wonât be so easy!â Xiao Yunâs eyes flashed in concentration as he activated the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art and connected with the Heaven-Devouring Tower.
As the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art activated, a vortex appeared in front of Xiao Yunâs body, and an illusory image of the Heaven-Devouring Tower appeared. A dark tunnel opened, looking like an inescapable net, and sucked the violet flames within it.
Whoosh!
The illusory image of the tower disappeared as the passage also dissipated, and a ball of violet flames appeared within the Heaven-Devouring Tower. Just like that, Xiao Yun had plundered the sea of flames.
âIt was taken care of so easily?â The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow was completely astonished when it saw the violet flames suddenly also appear within the Heaven-Devouring Tower.
After being devoured by the Heaven-Devouring Tower, the Violet Flames Martial Spirit went berserk, letting out searing flames as it tried to burn its way out.
âThis Violet Flames Martial Spirit is too strong; although its consciousness has mostly dissipated, itâs still arrogant and unable to be easily subdued.â Xiao Yun slightly frowned. With a slight thought, a wave of runes descended, starting to devour those flames.
The Heaven-Devouring Divine Art could devour all things within the heavens and the earth, and although Xiao Yun hadnât practised it to such a level, it could still weaken the Violet Flames Martial Spirit. That way, it would be easier to suppress it and fuse with it. With the support from the Heaven-Devouring Tower and Heaven-Devouring Divine Art, the runes covered the Martial Spirit and devoured its Fire Vital Essence, transferring it into Xiao Yunâs dantian. At the same time, the Violet Flames Martial Spirit continuously resisted, though it was futile.
Back then, it had exhausted too much of its strength in its fight with the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow, and it didnât possess the ability to counter-devour the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art like the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow.
Very soon, the Martial Spiritâs aura dampened as Xiao Yunâs spirit energy rapidly grew. This was because the violet flames was a Martial Spirit left behind by a supreme expert, and was also a soul-like existence. However, after the expert died, it was impossible for its consciousness to continue existing. As such, it lost most of its consciousness, but still contained boundless spirit energy. To Xiao Yun, this was the best resource for raising his Spirit-Destroying Chapter.
While Xiao Yunâs spirit was being strengthened, his Martial Spirit was also absorbing the Fire Vital Essence to strengthen itself.
Suddenly, Xiao Yun felt his sea of consciousness tremble as his spirit sense became many times more powerful. Before, Xiao Yun had been a spot of light within his sea of consciousness. Now, the form that he took was an orb of light, while he felt his spirit energy became like a sea. Xiao Yun felt as if he had a limitless supply of spirit energy, and was confident that if he fought Fang Rui again, he would have the advantage.
Within the Heaven-Devouring Tower, the Martial Spiritâs aura became weaker and weaker.
âI should try to fuse with this Martial Spirit now,â Xiao Yun thought as his mind entered the Heaven-Devouring Tower. The Martial Spirit was still letting off a violet glow, but it was evidently much weaker.
With a slight thought, Xiao Yun activated the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art, creating a vortex within the Heaven-Devouring Tower which started to absorb the violet flames. The Heaven-Devouring Divine Art could absorb and refine all Essence Qi within the heavens and the earth, and could fuse Martial Spirit â there was a special annotation on the main page of the manuscript.
Of course, fusing a Martial Spirit required that the gap in strength between them wasnât too great. Otherwise, he could suffer a backlash. The Violet Flames Martial Spirit had lost all of its strength, giving Xiao Yun a perfect opportunity to act.
After activating the art, the vortex started to refine the Martial Spirit, trying to completely wipe out its consciousness so that it wouldnât be able to lash out against Xiao Yun. The Violet Flames Martial Spirit had already lost most of its consciousness, so this went quite smoothly.
Next was Spirit Fusing. This involved fusing his own spirit with the Martial Spirit. As long as his spirit and the Martial Spirit fused together, he would succeed. Xiao Yun released his spirit into the vortex, using the art to start fusing with the Martial Spirit.