Chapter 86: Life 61, Age 27, Martial Grandmaster Peak
After returning to my workshop, the first thing I wanted to do was switch out my spirit fire. I wished I could keep the new one for future runs, but the box it was stored in was too large to take with me, so that wouldn’t be possible.
Early on, I had trapped a portion of Cold Mountain Fire in my body as a smokescreen for when I concocted pills in front of people so that they wouldn’t know about my fire seed. Since it wasn’t possible for a body to contain two spirit fires at the same time, I quickly dispersed the lesser fire, releasing its energy into the environment.
I opened the jade box Emperor Li had given me, and the room was instantly filled with scorching energy. I used my fire affinity to keep the excess heat away from my body, but it was a struggle. My affinity was too low to completely control it.
I nearly rushed to place my hand in the box and begin absorbing the fire, but a moment of rationality came over me, and I asked the system a question to help gather information Emperor Li had refused to give me.
“System, how much to learn to perfectly control the Three Thousand Flames spirit fire?”
Mastery of Earth-Rank Three Thousand Flames Spirit Fire. Cost 10 trillion credits.
Earth-Rank. He had given me an Earth-Rank spirit fire for free. That immediately suggested one of two possibilities in my mind. Either Pill Emperor Li was absurdly wealthy, which, if he was a 600-year-old monster, he most likely was, or he was so willing to give it away because he possessed the Three Thousand Flames fire seed. My guess was that both were true.
I didn’t know when the ‘time would be right,’ but I vowed to myself that I would find Emperor Li as soon as possible.
I was slightly worried about this all being a trap. I didn’t know if old monsters could steal someone’s body in this world, but, well, I had done it, so it definitely wasn’t impossible. If Emperor Li was truly running out of time, he might be planning to do such a thing to me, so I would need to take preventative measures, but he seemed genuine enough.