BTTH : Emperor Yang

Chapter 298: Chapter 298: Destruction and Creation?

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Hoo~

Xiao Yan let out a long breath and smiled.

”No matter what, at least our month of effort wasn’t fruitless. Combining the Deep Green Longevity Pill solution with Brother Wei’s Dou Huang breakthrough plan, while not perfect, is still the best we can do right now.”

At this moment, Xiao Yan also felt a huge weight lift off his heart.

The Deep Green Longevity Pill solution, while only treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, paired with Wei Yang’s earlier Dou Huang advancement plan, could be considered a partial breakthrough.

As for Xiao Li’s problem, it was serious if you looked at it one way, but not truly impossible to resolve if you looked at it another.

At its core, the issue was simply one of lifespan and life force.

Lifespan could be prolonged not only by advancing one’s cultivation realm, but also by other means.

For example, the Deep Green Longevity Pill could extend one’s lifespan.

Deep Green Longevity Pill — a Tier 6 pill, capable of extending a person’s lifespan by nearly ten years, though one could only consume a single pill of it in their entire lifetime.

And as for Tier 6 pills, as long as there were enough medicinal ingredients, Xiao Yan himself was now capable of refining them.

Plus, Xiao Li still had around one year of life left. Once he took the Deep Green Longevity Pill, he would gain nearly eleven years of lifespan.

Eleven full years — in that time, if they were willing to pay the necessary price, it wouldn’t be too difficult for the three of them to push Xiao Li to Dou Huang.

Once Xiao Li stepped into the Dou Huang realm, he would probably gain several decades more of lifespan.

And that much time would be plenty.

Because decades later, even if they still couldn’t help Xiao Li advance to Dou Zong to extend his life once more, by then they would probably have found a perfect method to break the Life Devouring Pill’s effects.

In truth, the simplest perfect solution was for Xiao Yan to reach the Dou Di level.

Then Xiao Li, whose bloodline was close to Xiao Yan’s, could immediately rise to become a Dou Sheng-level existence.

And Dou Shengs measured their lifespans in millennia, so who would still care about mere decades?

Of course, that goal was far too distant, and neither Yao Lao nor Xiao Yan gave it any real thought.

”Actually, there is another method that might be able to completely and permanently resolve Xiao Li’s problem,” Wei Yang rubbed his chin, pondering.

”Oh? What method?” Xiao Yan and Yao Lao asked curiously.

”If we could find the rank fifth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking — the Life Spirit Flame...” Wei Yang spoke softly.

”The Life Spirit Flame?”

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao were both stunned at first, then dumbly nodded after a moment.

After a while—

”Hmm, the Life Spirit Flame would indeed have a very high chance of solving this perfectly,” Yao Lao thought about it quite seriously, then nodded.

”Life Spirit Flame, ranked fifth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, a flame said to be filled with endless vitality...” Xiao Yan murmured, his eyes showing an infinite yearning.

”...this type of Heavenly Flame is extremely strange. Although most Heavenly Flames differ in shape, they all generally brim with destructive power.

But the Life Spirit Flame does not display terrifying destructive force. What it is famous for, is the vitality it contains.” Yao Lao sighed emotionally as well.

”It’s said that this flame spreads like a wellspring of life, filled with endless vitality. If one were to toss seeds of medicinal herbs into it, those seeds would sprout, grow, and mature instantly!

That means, if you possess this flame, you basically never need to worry about searching for medicinal herbs again. As long as you have enough seeds, you can endlessly harvest any medicinal herbs you wish — it would make anyone jealous!” Wei Yang added.

”...”

The three of them were all filled with amazement, envy, longing, and deep desire.

For an alchemist, no flame could match the status of the Life Spirit Flame.

Because this flame was practically tailor-made for alchemists!

Think about it — endless medicinal herbs, inexhaustible and unlimited — who wouldn’t yearn for such a thing?

But then, the three of them all shook their heads, laughing wryly.

The Life Spirit Flame?

That was thinking too far ahead. Instead of fantasizing about something like that, it was better to focus on something more realistic.

”Ahem, enough wandering thoughts, let’s get back to researching the Life Devouring Pill,” Wei Yang coughed.

Yao Lao lightly coughed, pulling Wei Yang and Xiao Yan back from their gradually wandering thoughts.

”This kind of wondrous pill, even if you cannot find a perfect way to break it, studying it still yields a great deal of benefit. Especially its method of devouring life force to boost strength — that is a stroke of genius.

There is more... ahem, these things I have gained some insights into already. You two focus on researching this direction carefully. A few days from now, I will be testing you.”

”Uh...”

Upon hearing that, Wei Yang and Xiao Yan looked at each other, both momentarily speechless.

Fine. Now this had shifted from simply studying the pill formula to being tested.

Neither of them rejected it — naturally, they couldn’t refuse.

After all, if your teacher gives you homework, which student dares to object?

So the two could only bury their heads and continue researching the formula.

However, while Wei Yang appeared to be earnestly researching, in truth his mind was already wandering far away, all sorts of ideas emerging.

First of all, the Life Devouring Pill, through this partial solution, could handle the problem of insufficient lifespan — which meant, in the future, such methods could be used for even greater gains.

After all, this was a pill capable of raising a Da Dou Shi to Dou Wang in a short time. If the follow-up lifespan problem could be resolved...

Wouldn’t that mean, so long as you were willing to pay some price, you could mass-produce a batch of Dou Huang-level experts with several decades of lifespan?

Of course, Wei Yang himself did not value this that highly.

After all, no matter how many Dou Huang there were, in his eyes they were just that — nothing extraordinary.

In a world where personal power could override all, quantity sometimes didn’t matter at all.

Next, Wei Yang’s thoughts turned toward the Life Spirit Flame.

To others, that flame might only exist in imagination and legend, utterly unattainable.

But to Wei Yang, that was not so.

First, the Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame had the ability to devour, learn, and replicate other flames’ characteristics — this alone gave Wei Yang great confidence.

He didn’t even need to obtain a complete Life Spirit Flame. If he could just get a sub-flame of the Life Spirit Flame, then let the Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame devour it, learn it, replicate it...

As for the Life Spirit Flame itself, though its whereabouts were unknown for now, Wei Yang knew it would appear in a few years’ time.

In the hands of a mid-level Dou Sheng known as Elder Shen Nong.

At the future Yao Clan’s Medicinal Ceremony, the Life Spirit Flame would first appear in that elder’s possession.

”Hmm... if the Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame could gain the properties of the Life Spirit Flame, wouldn’t that mean it would possess both destructive and life-giving powers?!”

Wei Yang’s eyes shone brightly.

The Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame was currently overflowing with ultimate destruction.

If it added the vitality of the Life Spirit Flame...

One flame, containing both destruction and life!

Damn, that’s something else!

Thinking carefully, it was terrifying.

Life and death?

Yin and yang?

Destruction, creation?

These were all extremely high-level, mysterious forces of the world!

The more he thought about it, the more excited Wei Yang became, as if falling into a strange trance-like state.

It was reminiscent of the fundamental concept of Yin-Yang Twin Flame — ranked twenty-first on the Heavenly Flame Ranking.

That flame displayed black and white colors in the shape of the yin-yang fish symbol.

It was born from the void of the universe, two flames — one black, one white — twisting around each other like yin and yang, constantly flowing. Yin and yang were the law of nature itself, the source of all things in the world.

And this flame, born from that very source, embodied a form of ultimate flame, filled with both the power of life and death. The yang flame saved people, endlessly propagating life, while the yin flame killed, leaving not even bones behind.

Yin and yang. Life and death. Destruction, creation...

These were all forces tied to the very origins of the world.

The more Wei Yang thought, the more his thoughts drifted outward uncontrollably, falling deeper and deeper into a kind of grand fantasy.

And the more he thought, the more exhilarated he became, as if faintly glimpsing the direction and the path he would one day take.

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