The Undying Immortal System

It took me a total of five years to understand how to control the fire seed. In that time, I focused on almost nothing else. No one hassled me about contribution points, and the deacons were very free with sharing information. The elder must have made it clear that I was to be allowed to focus on my task.

I talked to the deacons about how to use a spirit fire, and the answer I got was something I didn’t expect. Usually, when a disciple absorbs a spirit fire, they flood their body with a low level of energy. Every part of their body will then possess a trace of the spirit fire. When they want to use it, they do not even try to control it directly. They lack the necessary affinities, so it would be impossible. Instead, their control comes through how they feed it qi.

Fire produces earth. When fire qi is applied to the earth energy of the spirit fire, flames of earth energy burst forth. So, if they want to create a flame in their palm, they direct fire qi to the spirit fire energy in the palm of their hand. They are not controlling the flame itself. They only control where that flame is created.

What I did, expelling the energy of a spirit fire from my body and letting it dissipate, was seen as an incredibly wasteful thing to do. If someone without a seed did that, they would permanently lose that energy, and doing so repeatedly would mean a complete loss of their spirit fire.

When I had opened my soul, the energy of the fire poured into my chest. From there, it would be nearly unusable. That gave me two options. To slowly pull it to my hand and use it from there, or just flood my body with the energy like a normal disciple. Both of these options seemed bad. They threw away any advantage I might get from having a fire seed and turned what I thought was an advantage into a liability.

Instead of pursuing these paths, I decided to try to perfect a different option. The system had given me the most basic of basics for opening my soul to extract energy. Using this knowledge, energy would enter my chest, but I doubted that was the only place I could extract it. Instead, I believed that I could open a pathway for energy anywhere in my body, and it was the low cost I paid for my ability that caused me not to know how to do so. I just needed to learn how to do it on my own.

This search for a way to expel the spirit fire energy anywhere in my body was what took five years of my time. When my training was complete, I was able to create flames of the Cold Mountain Fire anywhere on my body, and I had decent control of the fire’s intensity. It wasn’t yet perfect, but when combined with my earth affinity, I was sure my control of the spirit fire was a match for anyone at my level.

During this time, I didn’t bother creating any pills. There wasn’t much left for me to learn about concocting Rank 1 pills, and it had become clear that learning to make Rank 2 pills even a little sooner was considered far more important than making low-level pills.

When I needed a break from working with the fire seed, I cultivated. I didn’t rush my cultivation because that wasn’t important, but I was able to break through two stages, reaching Martial Master 3.