Chapter 30
Chapter 30 – Fusing A Martial Spirit
Translator: Mr Voltaire
Editor: Phoobiee
"Boy you’re quite ruthless; this lord admits defeat," the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow said spitefully as it gnashed its teeth. In the end, it could only curb the flames of fury within its eyes - after all, it didn’t have the right to bargain with this youth. It could only preserve its life for now and take each step as it came to it.
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow raised its head as it roared in anger and sadness, "G.o.ddamit!" Back then, it had been so n.o.ble and majestic, and yet it had fallen to such a state.
"What are you crying out like a woman for? You’ve completely ruined the heroic image of you within my heart," Xiao Yun said disdainfully. Back then, he had viewed the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow as a peerless expert, especially after it had devoured the Tribulation Lightning. That courage was incredibly admirable.
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow rolled its eyes, ignoring Xiao Yun as it grumbled inwardly, "If you were caught by someone, I’m sure you wouldn’t be happy either."
Xiao Yun said as he smiled, "Don’t be like this. If you work together with me, there’ll be benefits for you as well."
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow’s eyes lit up. "What do you mean?"
Xiao Yun said, "I had a pretty good idea. If you take me to find that Sovereign’s inheritance, I’ll help you take revenge in future. How does that sound? Now that you’ve lost your fleshly body, it won’t be so easy for you to take revenge."
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow was quite powerful, and to Xiao Yun, it would be quite good to resolve the enmity between them. After all, it wouldn’t be good for the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow to remained trapped in the Heaven-Devouring Tower for all this time. Moreover, Xiao Yun was still too weak, and needed a helper.
"Work together?" The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow fell silent as it thought, then coldly harrumphed, "What right do you think you have to ask this lord to work together with you?"
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow’s background was extraordinary, and it was arrogant and unyielding. It very rarely placed other people in its eyes, and when it heard that Xiao Yun wanted to work together, it couldn’t help but feel disdainful. Back then during its prime, geniuses from all clans trembled in front of it. It was just that it had fallen on hard times now.
"Being able to suppress you – that’s what gives me the right," Xiao Yun replied.
"Alright, I’ll work together with you. Can you let me go then?" the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow asked as its eyes flashed.
Xiao Yun shook his head and said, "Nope. You need to show sufficient sincerity."
"Sincerity?" The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow’s eyes couldn’t help but darken.
Xiao Yun lightly smiled and didn’t say anything. His mind left the Heaven-Devouring Tower and started looking around.
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow suddenly spoke, though a trace of coldness flashed within its eyes. "You want sincerity? Just then, I was fighting with a Violet Flames Martial Spirit that an expert left behind. Its spirit has been greatly weakened, and you can try to capture it and fuse with it. That way, you’ll have an extra Martial Spirit."
"Hmph, as long as your spirit collapses while trying to fuse with the Martial Spirit, I’ll be able to escape." That way, it would even have a chance to obtain the Heaven-Devouring Tower. The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow felt quite delighted; this calamity had actually brought it blessings.
Xiao Yun’s eyes lit up. "Martial Spirit? Those violet flames is a Martial Spirit?"
The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow replied, "That’s right. It’s a Martial Spirit left behind by a supreme expert. Its consciousness has mostly dissipated, and after fighting with this lord for the past few days, it has become incredibly weak. There’s a chance for you to fuse with it. If you succeed, you’ll be able to control fire."
"Didn’t it escape?" Xiao Yun asked.
"It’s still hiding in the Fire Vein ahead of us. It’ll be quite easy for you to force it out," The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow calmly replied.
"Alright, I’ll go get it now," Xiao Yun said as his eyes became serious. Obtaining another Martial Spirit would mean gaining another remarkable ability. It would give him an advantage as he grew in future.
For example, it was because Fang Hao awakened his family’s Ice Martial Spirit that he was able to stand as an invincible existence to those of the same cultivation as him. In fact, it was possible that Fang Hao could fight those with a higher cultivation than him. As such, Xiao Yun naturally did not want to pa.s.s up on this opportunity.
After walking over, Xiao Yun came to the boundary of a ma.s.sive pit of fire. The flames below roiled and raged, sometimes rus.h.i.+ng high into the air.
These heatwaves would be incredibly intimidating to a normal cultivator, but Xiao Yun only frowned. Very soon, he connected with his Martial Spirit, which released a jade-green light that covered him.
"What are these runes of light? Why do they contain an aura of life?" Although the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow was trapped in the Heaven-Devouring Tower, it could still release a portion of its spirit outside to detect what was happening. After discovering the jade-green light around Xiao Yun, it couldn’t help but mutter to itself as it thought to the scene of the youth disrupting it devouring the violet flames’ Martial Spirit.
As the jade-green light covered Xiao Yun, his Martial Spirit had also stretched out its jade-green branch, stabbing into the sea of flames.
Right as it stabbed into the sea of flames, the jade-green branch gave a buzz, incredibly excited.
By now, Xiao Yun had gained quite some understanding towards his Martial Spirit. As long as it was Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, whether it was Fire Essence Qi or something else, the Martial Spirit would devour it all as food. Moreover, it was able to naturally suppress these Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
After the jade-green branch entered the flames, it continuously extended. Xiao Yun followed it in, jumping into the flames. Although there were flames everywhere, a path miraculously opened up for Xiao Yun – it seemed that the Fire Essence Qi seemed to fear his Martial Spirit.
"What sort of origins does this boy have?" When the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow saw this scene, it was dumbfounded. Was he really a human cultivator? Or could he be the descendant of some G.o.d? The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow simply couldn’t believe a cultivator at the Innate realm could do such a thing.
"Looks like I won’t be able to screw this boy over," the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow muttered inwardly, looking devastated.
Within the sea of flames that Xiao Yun had jumped into, there was an extremely deep Fire Vein that seemed to connect to the deep ley lines. It was as if the jade-green branch had discovered a treasure, and madly charged forwards. As it did so, it also continuously absorbed the Fire Essence Qi around it. Within Xiao Yun’s sea of consciousness, the branch flashed, and the sub-branch with the red leaf actually turned violet.
After examining it, Xiao Yun found that there was incredibly dense Fire Vital Essence on that leaf, and the fog above it swirled around, looking both real and illusory.
Finally, after falling nearly 1,000 metres downwards, the branch suddenly stabbed towards an orb of violet light.
"It’s that violet orb of light!" Xiao Yun’s lit up. He never thought that his Martial Spirit would be able to find it so quickly.
"This boy’s not ordinary at all," the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow thought to itself within the Heaven-Devouring Tower as it looked at the youth. It had thought the youth would needs its a.s.sistance in finding the Martial Spirit, but in the end, it didn’t even have the opportunity to speak.
The jade-green branch madly stabbed towards the ball of violet flames, as if it was ravenous for the Fire Vital Essence that it contained. The violet flames trembled, giving off terrifying energy waves and jolting the branch away.
Following this, the violet flames dashed upwards, trying to run away. After its tedious battle with the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow, the violet flames had expended much vital essence. Without any of its strength left, it didn’t dare to stay.
"You want to escape? It won’t be so easy!" Xiao Yun’s eyes flashed in concentration as he activated the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art and connected with the Heaven-Devouring Tower.
As the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art activated, a vortex appeared in front of Xiao Yun’s body, and an illusory image of the Heaven-Devouring Tower appeared. A dark tunnel opened, looking like an inescapable net, and sucked the violet flames within it.
Whoos.h.!.+
The illusory image of the tower disappeared as the pa.s.sage also dissipated, and a ball of violet flames appeared within the Heaven-Devouring Tower. Just like that, Xiao Yun had plundered the sea of flames.
"It was taken care of so easily?" The Heaven-Devouring Sparrow was completely astonished when it saw the violet flames suddenly also appear within the Heaven-Devouring Tower.
After being devoured by the Heaven-Devouring Tower, the Violet Flames Martial Spirit went berserk, letting out searing flames as it tried to burn its way out.
"This Violet Flames Martial Spirit is too strong; although its consciousness has mostly dissipated, it’s still arrogant and unable to be easily subdued." Xiao Yun slightly frowned. With a slight thought, a wave of runes descended, stating to devour those flames.
The Heaven-Devouring Divine Art could devour all things within the heavens and the earth, and although Xiao Yun hadn’t practised it to such a level, it could still weaken the Violet Flames Martial Spirit. That way, it would be easier to suppress it and fuse with it. With the support from the Heaven-Devouring Tower and Heaven-Devouring Divine Art, the runes covered the Martial Spirit and devoured its Fire Vital Essence, transferring it into Xiao Yun’s dantian. At the same time, the Violet Flames Martial Spirit continuously resisted, though it was futile.
Back then, it had exhausted too much of its strength in its fight with the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow, and it didn’t possess the ability to counter-devour the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art like the Heaven-Devouring Sparrow.
Very soon, the Martial Spirit’s aura dampened as Xiao Yun’s spirit energy rapidly grew. This was because the violet flames was a Martial Spirit left behind by a supreme expert, and was also a soul-like existence. However, after the expert died, it was impossible for its consciousness to continue existing. As such, it lost most of its consciousness, but still contained boundless spirit energy. To Xiao Yun, this was the best resource for raising his Spirit-Destroying Chapter.
While Xiao Yun’s spirit was being strengthened, his Martial Spirit was also absorbing the Fire Vital Essence to strengthen itself.
Suddenly, Xiao Yun felt his sea of consciousness tremble as his spirit sense became many times more powerful. Before, Xiao Yun had been a spot of light within his sea of consciousness. Now, the form that he took was an orb of light, while he felt his spirit energy became like a sea. Xiao Yun felt as if he had a limitless supply of spirit energy, and was confident that if he fought Fang Rui again, he would have the advantage.
Within the Heaven-Devouring Tower, the Martial Spirit’s aura became weaker and weaker.
"I should try to fuse with this Martial Spirit now," Xiao Yun thought as his mind entered the Heaven-Devouring Tower. The Martial Spirit was still letting off a violet glow, but it was evidently much weaker.
With a slight thought, Xiao Yun activated the Heaven-Devouring Divine Art, creating a vortex within the Heaven-Devouring Tower which started to absorb the violet flames. The Heaven-Devouring Divine Art could absorb and refine all Essence Qi within the heavens and the earth, and could fuse Martial Spirit – there was a special annotation on the main page of the ma.n.u.script.
Of course, fusing a Martial Spirit required that the gap in strength between them wasn’t too great. Otherwise, he could suffer a backlash. The Violet Flames Martial Spirit had lost all of its strength, giving Xiao Yun a perfect opportunity to act.
After activating the art, the vortex started to refine the Martial Spirit, trying to completely wipe out its consciousness so that it wouldn’t be able to lash out against Xiao Yun. The Violet Flames Martial Spirit had already lost most of its consciousness, so this went quite smoothly.
Next was Spirit Fusing. This involved fusing his own spirit with the Martial Spirit. As long as his spirit and the Martial Spirit fused together, he would succeed. Xiao Yun released his spirit into the vortex, using the art to start fusing with the Martial Spirit.