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Chapter 2956: Chapter 59: Huge Gain! Shouzhe Joyfully Acquires the Sacred Fire_4

The Daoist Master’s mobility is extremely strong, otherwise he wouldn’t have the ability to sit in town and guard the entire Dongxia Divine Dynasty.

After all, as the Daoist Master stationed on the Eastern Dawn God Continent, Taoist Master Taichu often plays the role of a ”firefighter.” Once a major event happens anywhere within the Eastern Dawn God Continent, he has to rush over to resolve it.

Fortunately, the sort of major events that require him to personally intervene are relatively rare, otherwise he’d be worked to death.

This time, the whole trip was very simple as well—they could directly teleport to the forward base via the Spatial Teleportation Array. Going there and back, at most it would take a few years.

While Wang Shouzhe, Jiu Yang Dansheng, and Taoist Master Taichu were speaking, on the other side, Jing Feifei was also having a brief exchange with Jing Beidi.

When Jing Beidi learned that Jing Feifei was the daughter of the great leader Crystal Five, his expression instantly turned extremely shocked and excited: ”So you are the great Princess Fei Fei, Your Highness. I am willing to follow in your footsteps.”

Within the Crystal Ancient Tribe, it’s quite common for the remnants of a fallen powerhouse to be taken in by other powerhouses. Now that the Crystal Ancient Tribe has already been destroyed, and his direct superior Commander Crystal Seventy-Eight has fallen who knows where, it’s perfectly normal for him to follow another powerhouse of the tribe.

What’s more, he had heard of this Princess Fei Fei’s name back in the day. With her talent and ability, her future achievements would definitely not be inferior to Crystal Seventy-Eight’s.

”I accept your allegiance.” Jing Feifei said calmly. ”Do you want to reincarnate, or follow me in the form of a spirit remnant? If it’s the latter, I can repair the Core of Crystal Ancient Battle Armor and forge for you a puppet body with Level Thirteen combat strength.”

”Level Thirteen strength is too weak, it’s not of much use.” Jing Beidi was a bit troubled.

”Right now, I still don’t have the ability to forge a Level Fifteen puppet body.” Jing Feifei said evenly. ”Why don’t you choose reincarnation? With your potential, you’ll still have the chance to return to Level Fifteen combat strength in the future.”

”I’ll choose to first become a Level Thirteen puppet. I believe that Princess Fei Fei will certainly develop a Level Fifteen puppet body in the future.” Jing Beidi finally made up his mind.

And with that, the matter was settled.

Time flew quickly, and before they knew it, five years had passed.

During this period, Jing Feifei repaired the chip of the Core of Crystal Ancient Battle Armor, and using this core as the foundation, she forged a True Immortal Level puppet body that could be powered by Origin Crystal or Immortal Spirit Stone.

”Reborn,” Jing Beidi was somewhat idle, so he was assigned as a personal bodyguard to the Three Little Ones.

As for Jiu Yang Dansheng, he was once more arranged to reside within the Nurturing Soul Wood, staying by Wang Shouye’s side and imparting all his alchemy knowledge to him.

This benefited Wang Shouye enormously; the breadth and depth of his knowledge in alchemy shot up at a mad pace.

And it was precisely in these short five years.

Taoist Master Taichu, Wang Anye, and the rest of the exploration team successfully completed their exploration and returned to the Wang family.

In the small courtyard of Wang Shouzhe.

In that familiar four-sided pavilion, by that familiar stone table, everyone sat down for a small meeting to tally up the gains from this trip.

By this time—

Taoist Master Taichu’s face was still full of lingering shock and doubt.

He had originally thought that this trip would take at least several decades, and even then, it was uncertain whether they’d be able to retrieve all the lost treasures.

Never did he expect that under the combined efforts of Wang Anye, King Baofu, and Wang Baocai, they would actually find treasures such as the Azure Flame Holy Fire, the Sacred Grade Storage Ring, the Nine Sun Holy Chart, and the Nine Suns Holy Pill Furnace in an extremely short time.

They even retrieved the Level Fifteen Crystal Ancient Battle Armor wreckage that had been burned by the Azure Flame Holy Fire.

Besides that, they also brought back a large pile of miscellaneous ”junk.”

Such efficiency left Taoist Master Taichu inwardly rattled for a long time.

He had already started pondering whether he should simply team up with Wang Anye and ”go out picking up trash”—he’d be in charge of clearing the way, Wang Anye would be in charge of ”picking.”

At that rate, it wouldn’t be long before they’d be rich.

”great grandfather, this is Senior Jiu Yang Dansheng’s Azure Flame Holy Fire.” Wang Anye took out a lump of gently flickering, very aesthetically pleasing azure-green flame. ”When I found it, it was hiding in the Nine Suns Holy Pill Furnace, snoring away in deep sleep～”

Sacred Fire is essentially an elemental-type lifeform that possesses Spiritual Intelligence, though its intellect is generally not that high—about the same as some ordinary small animals—and most of the time it acts based on instinct.

Now, faced with so many people all at once, the Azure Flame Holy Fire seemed somewhat frightened, and its flame shot straight into Wang Anye’s arms.

After spending a few years together, it had become quite familiar with Wang Anye.

”Good, good, good, it really is my Azure Flame Holy Fire.” The spirit remnant phantom of Jiu Yang Dansheng emerged from the Nurturing Soul Wood, his expression wildly agitated. ”Shou Ye, the Red Sun Sacred Fire you’re using now is pretty decent, but it’s ultimately borrowed. You might as well start nurturing the Azure Flame Holy Fire early; in the future you’ll also become more and more proficient in using it.”

Since Sacred Fire possesses Spiritual Intelligence, it can naturally be ”nurtured.”

The relationship between it and an Alchemist is somewhat similar to that between Wood Type bloodline cultivators and their Life-bound Spirit Plant.

An Alchemist can use his own Mysterious Energy to nurture the Sacred Fire, allowing it to gradually grow stronger over years of continuous nurturing. The longer the nurturing, the more smoothly one can use the Sacred Fire in alchemy, and it can also slightly increase the success rate of alchemy.

For a highly promising Alchemist like Wang Shouye, the advantage of having a Sacred Fire in advance is self-evident.

Yet before Wang Shouye could even agree, that lump of Azure Flame Holy Fire seemed to sniff out some incredibly enticing aroma. Without warning, it suddenly ”whoosh”—and shot out.

In the blink of an eye, a ball of azure flame had appeared on Wang Shouzhe’s chest.

It was like a spoiled little puppy, sniffing him all over, occasionally rubbing against him to show affection.

Wang Shouzhe was a little amused and exasperated. He reached out to touch its ”head”: ”I don’t even do alchemy. There’s no use for you to follow me.”

”Hoo hoo~~~”

Azure Flame Holy Fire flickered unhappily twice, brightening and dimming. A thin strand of flame split off from the main body and wrapped itself tightly around Wang Shouzhe’s arm, refusing to let go, looking exactly like, ”I don’t care whether you do alchemy or not, I’m sticking with you no matter what.”

This scene drew exclamations of wonder from everyone.

”Haha～ This Azure Flame Holy Fire is a rare wood-fire dual attribute flame.” Taoist Master Taichu also couldn’t help laughing as he explained on its behalf, ”Wood can generate fire, so clearly it’s taken a fancy to your pure Life Origin Great Path Law, Shouzhe. Being nurtured by your life-type Mysterious Energy will benefit its future evolution path tremendously.”

”So Master Shouzhe is of the Life Great Path bloodline?” Jiu Yang Dansheng’s spirit remnant was also startled, then quickly wore a look of sudden enlightenment. ”So that’s how it is, that’s how it is～ The Life element is the higher-ranked Dao Law above the Wood Type Path. With that, the Azure Flame Holy Fire’s dependence on you can indeed be explained.”

That’s right—the Life Great Path Law.

This is the ”bloodline talent” that Wang Shouzhe displays, which explains why his ”healing milk power” is so abundant, while also concealing the fact that he actually possesses the Origin Bloodline of Life.

If the Life Great Path is the higher Dao above the Wood Type Path, then the Life Origin Great Path is the higher Dao above the Life Great Path.

”Well, since you like me so much, that’s a kind of fate too.” Wang Shouzhe rubbed the Azure Flame Holy Fire, smiling as he said, ”You can follow me in the future, but when Shou Ye needs to do alchemy, you also have to go help him out.”

Hoo hoo!

The Azure Flame Holy Fire bounced excitedly in place twice, the flame on top of its ”head” swaying up and down to show agreement, then stuck close to Wang Shouzhe in an extremely affectionate manner.

This sight left Taoist Master Taichu feeling full of envy.

In the end, he’s a life-type pretty boy—not only did he sweet-talk Senior Sister away, even an extremely precious Sacred Fire offered itself to him of its own accord.

Sigh... truly, comparing people just makes one furious～

Sacred Fire is a scarce resource; even among Dan Shengs, not every single one possesses Sacred Fire.

And Sacred Fire isn’t only used for alchemy. In battle, Sacred Fire is also an outstanding support partner.

With the assistance of Sacred Fire, Profound Martial cultivators—especially those whose Dao aligns with the Sacred Fire—can have their combat strength greatly boosted.

If not for this, how could Jiu Yang Dansheng, a Great Luo Golden Immortal obsessed with alchemy, possibly have the ability to drag a dedicated combat-type Crystal Ancient Tribe Commander like Jing Beidi down with him?

Wasn’t it all thanks to how powerful Azure Flame Holy Fire was?

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