Chapter 2859: Chapter 1057: Blue Fish Fire Spirit, Qi Xia’s Scheme

Jiao Emperor True Flame!

As for this azure flame, Luo Chen was not unfamiliar with it.

Back when he entered the Land of Fallen Demons and crossed hands with Jiao Emperor Liu Jun for the first time, he had already faced this flame head-on.

It was very peculiar, created specifically to target the Physical body of living beings.

Especially Savage Beasts!

The more vigorous the Qi-Blood, the greater the power of the Jiao Emperor True Flame. The Qi-Blood in the enemy’s Physical body was like fuel; once it touched the Jiao Emperor True Flame, it was like Bone Creeping Maggots—until it burned everything completely clean, it would not stop.

Back then, Luo Chen accidentally got tainted by just a wisp, and was directly forced to sever one arm on the spot, barely escaping the fate of being burned into ash.

Later, Luo Chen checked some related records and roughly arrived at a guess.

The Jiaoren Clan in the North Sea Cultivation World had a long inheritance, but in truth, they were not some great power.

In Ancient Times, the Jiaoren Clan were rations for many Savage Beasts, targets to be hunted.

By the Ancient Times and up to now, the Jiaoren Clan, due to their beautiful appearance and the fact that every part of their body was a treasure, were once again subject to large-scale hunting by experts of the Human Clan.

Jiao Emperor Liu Jun’s eagerness to participate in the battle to annihilate the Yuan Mo Sect was also the effort of a clan’s Emperor trying to change the plight of his race.

And this Jiao Emperor True Flame was precisely a countermeasure devised in Ancient Times by peak experts of the Jiaoren Clan to escape being hunted by Savage Beasts.

They used the grease on Jiaoren bodies to nurture a type of Sourceless Fire, slowly cultivating it to the Fourth Order Level, specializing it to counter Savage Beasts with powerful Physical bodies.

Over thousands of years, who knew how much grease and Blood Essence of powerful Jiaoren this oil lamp contained!

By rights, after such a long period of generation-after-generation nurturing by experts, the Jiao Emperor True Flame should already have advanced to the Fifth-Order Level. Yet in Jiao Emperor Liu Jun’s hands, its performance was not particularly outstanding.

At least from Luo Chen’s current perspective, Jiao Emperor Liu Jun had not fully drawn out the power of this flame.

With a thought, the oil lamp spun and flew to Luo Chen’s front.

He stared at that blue flame, letting his Divine Perception seep in bit by bit.

A moment later, Luo Chen finally came to a sudden realization.

"No wonder!"

Little White asked curiously, "Master, no wonder what?"

"No wonder Jiao Emperor Liu Jun couldn’t exert the full might of this flame." Luo Chen chuckled softly, pointing at the blue flame as he said, "After being nurtured for tens of thousands of years, stained with the grease and Blood Essence of countless powerhouses from the Jiaoren Clan, too much Consciousness has been mixed into this flame, to the point that it suppressed the birth of the Sourceless Fire’s own Fire Spirit! And with Jiao Emperor Liu Jun’s personal Realm, he could not suppress the杂念 of his predecessors within it, so naturally he could only unleash a portion of its power."

Little White gave an oh, but did not feel much about it. As a Kindred of Yin Souls, she did not like these mighty flames.

But the Demon Monk Kongchan at the side did not think like that.

If the Jiao Emperor True Flame really contained so many杂念 that even its successor Liu Jun could not fully control it, yet Luo Chen could easily Suppress it and even make it backfire on its master, that alone was enough to show how extremely powerful Luo Chen’s Divine Soul Endowment was!

For a moment, the look he cast at Luo Chen grew even more reverent.

If Luo Chen knew what Kongchan was thinking inside, he would probably agree with part of it!

The reason it was only part, was because Luo Chen’s method of Suppressing the Jiao Emperor True Flame did not rely solely on his powerful Divine Soul Endowment.

There were many factors involved here.

First, the "Tianhuang Nirvana Sutra" that Luo Chen mainly cultivated was itself the strongest Fire Element Technique under heaven; in terms of Fire Control, nothing could surpass it!

Second, Luo Chen possessed the two great Fifth-Order Divine Fire of Withering and Flourishing Nirvana. Even if only a trace of their Breath leaked out, it was enough to Suppress the Jiao Emperor True Flame, which had yet to reach the Fifth Order.

Lastly, it was related to Luo Chen having comprehended the Law True Meaning Fire Origin!

Before the Fire Origin, no matter how unique the manifestations of these Sourceless Fire might be, in essence they were still fire. How would they dare to put on airs before him?

After giving Little White a brief explanation, Luo Chen held the oil lamp in one hand, rubbed his chin with the other, and sank into thought.

Little White and Kongchan did not dare disturb him, quietly standing to the side.

In the howling north wind, the azure lamp flame gently swayed, shedding a hazy radiance.

Suddenly!

Luo Chen’s left hand formed a sword with two fingers, and toward the starlight-like lamp flame, he slowly began to pull outward.

Kongchan let out a low cry, "Soul Hooking!"

Luo Chen cast him a glance and said casually, "What is called Soul Hooking?"

Kongchan’s expression froze. "Isn’t what you’re using now precisely the High-level Soul Technique Soul Hooking?"

Luo Chen’s black brows twitched lightly. "This is just the Soul Absorption Technique among the Lower Order Spells."

Soul Absorption Technique?

Kongchan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling even more keenly how unfathomable Luo Chen’s attainments in the Divine Soul were.

He had actually used the lowest Order Soul Absorption Technique to achieve the effect of the High-level Soul Technique Soul Hooking.

These were two Soul Techniques that looked similar but whose power was completely different.

Both seized the Soul, but the former could only pull and draw it when the enemy no longer had a body. Soul Hooking, however, could ignore the shackles of the Physical body and forcibly yank a living being’s Soul out alive.

After Kongchan explained, Luo Chen’s interest was piqued.

"So you understand this High-level Soul Technique. Do you happen to carry the original Cultivation Technique with you?"

"This humble monk indeed understands this Technique. It was collected by chance after the annihilation of the Yuan Mo Sect, but it is only a copy."

"A copy will do as well!"

Kongchan respectfully took out a piece of yellow skin and presented it before Luo Chen.

"Human Skin Paper?"

With a glance, Luo Chen saw through the material nature of the yellow skin. He calmly unfolded the skin; the characters upon it entered his eyes at once.

After observing for a short while, the motion at Luo Chen’s fingertip changed ever so slightly.

The index and middle fingers, which had been straight like a sword, bent ever so slightly, like a hook, like a crescent moon. As he silently chanted the Magic Spell, his Divine Soul no longer focused on intimidation and pressure, but instead turned into enticement and lure.