Chapter 1284 - 688: Xi Rang

This Purple Flame Earth Fire can grow into a fourth-grade Purple Flame Earth Fire, and it’s not unrelated to the existence of ’Xi Rang’.

In addition, the cultivators of the Purple Flame Sect cultivate with fire-based cultivation methods, but the attraction of ’Xi Rang’ to them does not bring as much benefit as a long-burning Purple Flame Earth Fire.

In fact, the core inheritance technique of the Purple Flame Sect is to use this Purple Flame Earth Fire for cultivation, which shows the importance of the Purple Flame Earth Fire to the Purple Flame Sect.

The Purple Flame Sect kept this secret until the White Emperor Sect’s spy became a core cultivator of the Purple Flame Sect, obtained the opportunity to learn the core inheritance technique of the sect, and thus discovered the secret of the Purple Flame Sect, bringing about its destruction.

With the destruction of the Purple Flame Sect, the good days of ’Xi Rang’ also ended.

Even if ’Xi Rang’ liked the environment of the Purple Flame Earth Fire, it instinctively knew it needed to find a new place.

The cave where the Purple Flame Earth Fire is located is quite special. Due to being burned by the Purple Flame Earth Fire for a long time, a layer of fire-based barrier has formed around the cave, preventing its energy from dispersing and also preventing ’Xi Rang’ from leaving.

So for ’Xi Rang’ to leave, it needed to use the eruption of the Purple Flame Earth Fire to send itself out of the cave.

’Xi Rang’ had not waited for the opportunity until the departure of Great Cultivator Chang Ju presented a rare chance for ’Xi Rang’.

Without Great Cultivator Chang Ju, ’Xi Rang’ felt unthreatened and was about to leave the cave with the help of the Purple Flame Earth Fire. As long as it left here and touched any piece of ground, it could blend into the soil.

The possibility of finding ’Xi Rang’ again is almost non-existent once it enters the soil, like a drop of water entering the sea.

Even if that drop of water is special, its uniqueness would go unnoticed given the vastness of the sea.

Moreover, once ’Xi Rang’ enters the soil, it can move quickly, whether going underground or leaving here.

The arrival of Li Yuanba was incredibly timely, as he saw ’Xi Rang’ rising within the Purple Flame Earth Fire.

He didn’t need to ponder much. By relying on the sensed aura of ’Xi Rang’, he immediately understood ’Xi Rang’ must be the treasure guarded by Great Cultivator Chang Ju.

The cultivation world has long matured in the ways of capturing such spiritual treasures. He took out a jade box covered with runes and threw it toward ’Xi Rang’.

Simultaneously, his divine sense transformed into a large hand, grabbing ’Xi Rang’, which began to struggle upon realizing something was wrong.

Li Yuanba felt the large hand formed by his divine sense loosen under ’Xi Rang’s struggle, which possessed an indescribable ability that made it difficult for the divine sense to hold on.

Fortunately, the jade box soon arrived. Li Yuanba mobilized the Six Yang Spirit Fire within him, suppressing the Purple Flame Earth Fire as the jade box engulfed ’Xi Rang’, and the lid closed.

As soon as ’Xi Rang’ entered the jade box, it immediately settled down. The runes on the jade box were specifically for such spiritual objects.

Li Yuanba glanced at the Purple Flame Earth Fire; this fourth-grade Purple Flame Earth Fire was of extremely high quality. If subdivided by earth fire grade, the fourth-grade Purple Flame Earth Fire could reach the high stage of fourth-grade.

A flash of severity appeared in his eyes; the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ could not be moved since it was born in this cave’s special environment. If moved, the rootless ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ would exhaust its energy and extinguish shortly.

Since he couldn’t obtain it, he would use the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ as nourishment for the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’.

There are many methods to strengthen the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’. The enhancement of Li Yuanba’s cultivation itself could boost the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’. Additionally, it could also strengthen itself by devouring stronger flame energy.

However, cultivators rarely use spiritual fire to devour stronger flames, like the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ before him. Even after using the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’ to consume it, the benefit would only increase the quality of the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’, but the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ would vanish.

Regardless of how it’s calculated, doing so is a tremendous loss. Though the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ cannot be used for alchemy, its applications in artifact refining and cultivating fire-based techniques are vast.

Enhancing ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’ only reduces a bit of time for alchemy and artifact refining. To save a little time and consume a high-stage fourth-grade earth fire, probably only Li Yuanba at this moment would do so.

The ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’ enveloped the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’. Though the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ was of higher quality, its spirit fell short. Plus, with Li Yuanba’s control, the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’s flame diminished rapidly.

In just a few breaths, the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ completely extinguished. He didn’t have time to feel the benefits gained by the ’Six Yang Spirit Fire’ before immediately using ’Instantaneous Step’, disappearing from the Purple Flame Sect’s mountain gate and reappearing three thousand miles away.

In the Thirty-Three Heavens, Great Cultivator Chang Ju was facing off against Great Cultivator Luo Pei, but as time went by, Great Cultivator Chang Ju sensed something was amiss.

Clearly, it was the proactive provocation of Great Cultivator Luo Pei, seeking a fight with him, yet why wouldn’t Great Cultivator Luo Pei make a move?

Maintaining the readiness to activate the ’Black Water Flood Sky’ secret technique consumed a lot of spiritual power, but Great Cultivator Luo Pei refrained from attacking, merely wasting his spiritual power.

"Something’s wrong, he’s intentionally luring me away!" Great Cultivator Chang Ju suddenly thought, and as he was about to act, he sensed the jade dish on him vibrating.

This jade dish was the main control for the Mountain Gate Formation of the Purple Flame Sect, obtained from a great cultivator of the Purple Flame Sect.

The vibration of the jade dish indicated something happened to the Mountain Gate Formation. He split a bit of his focus to sense it and discovered the jade dish lost connection with the Mountain Gate Formation.

He immediately realized something went wrong, instantly using the top-grade fourth-grade mountain peak treasure above his head, pressing it towards Great Cultivator Luo Pei.

A spatial ripple flashed around Great Cultivator Luo Pei, and he vanished from where he stood, reappearing a kilometer away. At the same time, he activated a water escape, transforming his body into a water arrow and fleeing into the distance.

At this point, how could Great Cultivator Chang Ju not understand he was tricked? This great cultivator had no intention of fighting him; it was all to draw him away.

He did not chase after Great Cultivator Luo Pei; he didn’t have the time. He needed to return immediately to the Purple Flame Sect’s mountain gate for inspection.

He turned and flew downwards, arriving outside the Purple Flame Sect’s mountain gate, only to be blocked by the Mountain Gate Formation.

He couldn’t afford any delay, and with one strike, he destroyed the Mountain Gate Formation.

At that moment, he sensed a presence disappearing within the formation, and he rushed towards where the Purple Flame Earth Fire was located.

The formations there were still intact, unbroken, yet similarly, he had no permission to enter.

With another strike, he shattered the formation, and upon its destruction, he witnessed a scene that nearly drove him mad.

Not only was ’Xi Rang’ gone, but even the ’Purple Flame Earth Fire’ had vanished altogether.

The significance of ’Xi Rang’ to the White Emperor Sect was unknown to outsiders, but the White Emperor Sect had sent him to guard it in secret precisely to avoid the attention of other major forces on the Central State Continent.

The bottom line was, ’Xi Rang’ was a heavenly material and earthly treasure of the Central State Continent. Even if the Purple Flame Sect were destroyed, it should belong to the cultivators of the Central State Continent.

The White Emperor Sect was not a native super force of the Central State Continent; their intervention to seize ’Xi Rang’ was a clear overstep.

If known to the super forces of the Central State Continent, the White Emperor Sect wouldn’t be able to hold onto ’Xi Rang’.

’Xi Rang’s importance to the White Emperor Sect is documented. From the research obtained by the White Emperor Sect, ’Xi Rang’ significantly increases the potential of earth element cultivators, having a high probability of cultivating them to the Mahayana Realm.

What is the Mahayana Realm? It’s the assurance for a power to become a super force.

Every super force uses various means to cultivate a new generation of Great Mahayana Cultivators.

Look at the historically declining super forces; it’s the break in lineage of Great Mahayana Cultivators that led to their downfall.

The role of ’Xi Rang’ is to increase the probability of the White Emperor Sect producing a new generation of Great Mahayana Cultivators, thus making ’Xi Rang’ an invaluable treasure for the White Emperor Sect.