Chapter 166: Primordial Flame Seed
Jiang Yue didn’t miss Yu Nianzhen’s excitement, and he looked at him in curiosity.
"What is it?" He asked.
"XiaoYue, I think this box is meant to seal a primordial flame seed." Yu Nianzhen informed.
He couldn’t be sure that the seed was a primordial flame. However, he didn’t think anyone was so eccentric to seal an ordinary flame seed in a box made of primordial metal.
It would be too much of a waste.
"Primordial flame seed..." Jiang Yue was flabbergasted.
He also examined the box with his consciousness and felt the flame in the middle of the box.
Although he couldn’t see it with his own eyes, the flame was so hot that his consciousness was directly burned when it touched the flame seed.
"XiaoYue, you should refine this flame seed."
Jiang Yue frowned when he heard that.
He originally wanted to find a flame, but he worried that a normal flame would conflict with his origin, which was yin in nature.
"In fact, you don’t need to think too much. Your origin is yin, but you are a man, and your constitution is essentially yang. Your qi cultivation won’t be affected by refining a yang flame." Yu Nianzhen explained.
After breaking through to the origin forging realm, Yu Nianzhen perceived the sword body and sword soul refining techniques.
He didn’t know the rank of these two techniques, but he knew they were high and would carry him for a long time.
However, he wasn’t relieved.
This was because Jiang Yue couldn’t refine the sword techniques.
Since then, Yu Nianzhen began searching for a body refining technique suitable for Jiang Yue, and he found a few.
One of them was a flame technique called the flame body refining technique. When practised to the extreme, a cultivator could turn their body into flames which could serve as an attack or defence method.
After finding this technique, Yu Nianzhen began to prepare.
He purchased the resources needed to refine a flame and was only missing the flame.
Unexpectedly, they found a flame seed before he had a chance to visit a flame shop. Even more fortunate, the flame seed was that of a primordial flame.
If Jiang Yue used this flame to refine a flame body, the benefits would be incomparably higher than if he used a beast flame or ordinary fire.
"It’s better if you refine it." Jiang Yue said.
It’s not that he was selfless and didn’t want the flame, it’s that Yu Nianzhen had to face lightning tribulation at every breakthrough.
If he refined a flame in addition to the sword body, Jiang Yue would be more assured of his survival.
When he heard Jiang Yue’s suggestion, Yu Nianzhen shook his head in refusal.
His tao was related to the sword, and the sword tao was very exclusive.
Even if he wanted to refine the flame, his progress would be slow, and his effectiveness would only be mediocre.
"It’s not suitable for me." He said.
"Don’t worry, I am adequately prepared this time around."
Yu Nianzhen rubbed the other’s hair and assured.
After exiting the thousand herbs garden, both refined many body-refining resources, including pills made from the golden bones herb and dragon scale fruit.
Also, the improved comprehension ability caused by the dewdrop allowed him to break through to the second level of sword body and sword soul.
Although the second level was not stable, there was still time before he had to break through to the qi transformation realm.
Yu Nianzhen didn’t believe that his current body and other preparations would be ineffective against the coming thunder tribulation.
In that case, he didn’t need to take the flame opportunity that was more suitable for his lover.
Jiang Yue looked at the other, and when he saw no reluctance, he nodded, "alright."
However, refining a primordial flame seed was not a simple matter.
Although the flame seed had been sealed for a long and had lost a lot of its edge, it was still a considerable threat to an origin-forging realm cultivator.
Jiang Yue had no doubt he would be burned to death if he was careless when refining it.
"Do you remember the way to refine a flame?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"I remember." Jiang Yue answered but still listened carefully when the other recited the process.
"The most important thing is to ensure that the flame seed is completely wrapped by your soul power at all times."
"I know." Jiang Yue said.
Fortunately, he had taken the soul-refining pill made from the soul-refining herb, and his ethereal soul was now at the second level.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t dare to use a first-level soul to refine a primordial flame seed.
Even then, the refinement was still dangerous.
To prevent his body and soul from burning to ashes, he needed to keep his body at an extremely low temperature during the refining process.
"I will take ten ice marrow pills." Jiang Yue said and sighed.
Ordinarily, he would only need one ice marrow pill to refine an ordinary flame.
However, a primordial flame was far from ordinary.
If he dared to take only one ice marrow pill, he would not last for a breath.
"Ten is too dangerous." Yu Nianzhen said and frowned.
He worried that Jiang Yue would freeze to death before he had a chance to refine the flame.
In this case, he felt it was better to take three pills at first and then add on when Jiang Yue’s body temperature began to rise.
Although it was dangerous to do it this way, he felt it was better than swallowing ten at once.
"I am lucky we exchanged more ice marrow pills." Jiang Yue said and looked at Yu Nianzhen in admiration.
Initially, he didn’t want to exchange so many pills.
He felt that five pills were more than enough to help him refine a powerful beast fire.
However, Yu Nianzhen planned for the possibility of a heaven and earth flame.
Although such a flame was not as good as a primordial flame, even the weakest heaven and earth flame was better than the most powerful beast flame.
Because of that, Yu Nianzhen prepared two bottles of ice marrow pills, and each bottle had ten pills.
Jiang Yue didn’t know if twenty pills were enough to refine a primordial flame seed, but he was willing to take the risk.
After all, danger and fortune went hand in hand.
For the chance to refine a primordial flame, he needed to bear the corresponding risk.
Also, he didn’t think having more pills would be of any help.
As an origin-forging realm cultivator, there was a limit to how many ice marrow pills he could take. Otherwise, Yu Nianzhen would have prepared more.
"I will be responsible for feeding you pills at the appropriate time. You only need to think about refining the flame as quickly as possible."
"Don’t worry. If something goes wrong, I still have these."
Jiang Yue pulled down his collar on the left side and revealed five leaves imprinted on his chest.
These leaves were the vitality sealed in his body after refining five leaves of the tree of life.
If something went wrong and he couldn’t hold on, the leaves would release the vitality to heal his body.
"Why don’t you refine a few more leaves?" Yu Nianzhen said and released the jade box to remove a few more leaves.
However, Jiang Yue grabbed his hand, and his face turned solemn.
It was not easy to grow the tree of life and taking five leaves already made him feel distressed.
If he was asked to take a few more, Jiang Yue wasn’t willing.
These leaves were Nianzhen’s life-saving resources, and he didn’t want them to be consumed carelessly.
After all, Yu Nianzhen’s thunder calamity was unavoidable, but his refining of the primordial flame seed could be delayed until their conditions were better.
"Azhen, don’t confuse our priorities." Jiang Yue said in a serious voice.
When he heard that, Yu Nianzhen sighed, and his heart felt very uncomfortable. He hated that both of them needed to be so practical and frugal.
However, loving someone didn’t mean abandoning himself.
In fact, it meant the exact opposite.
Because he loved Jiang Yue, he understood what was most unbearable to the other. He understood that the most assured way to protect Jiang Yue was by protecting himself.
His life could never be taken lightly because it was not his alone.
"You don’t have to be so nervous. The ice marrow pills, five leaves of the tree of life, and other pills are enough to get me through." Jiang Yue assured.
"Alright. However, I reserve the right to feed you more leaves at my discretion."
"I agree, but you have to promise you will not be wasteful." Jiang Yue insisted.
He knew Yu Nianzhen, and he worried the other would dare to feed him a leaf even when it was not necessary.
"Okay, I promise." Yu Nianzhen readily agreed, and Jiang Yue narrowed his eyes.
Somehow, he wasn’t assured by that promise.
He felt something was wrong but couldn’t tell what was.
