Chapter 135: Flames Collide

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Chapter 135: Flames Collide "What the heck is going on???" The fourth and fifth enhancements at least showed ability names. The sixth and seventh enhancements didn’t even show names??? This string of mysterious language looked really familiar to Carlos at first glance. It was extremely similar to the mysterious incantations he’d used when performing various ceremonies before. But without a clear ritual context, Carlos couldn’t fully figure out the specific meaning. Vaguely, it seemed to hide the word "seal"... This made Carlos’s already aching head throb even more. At the same time, it filled him with strong anticipation. So mysterious, and the final two in sequence. Clearly something special. Unfortunately, Carlos currently had no clues whatsoever. "I’ll just pretend these two enhancements don’t exist for now." He calmed his emotions. As long as the Sun Emperor’s Sword was in his hands, someday he’d be able to figure out the unsealing conditions. After checking out the new ’Sun Emperor’s Sword’s’ attributes and enhancements, Carlos couldn’t help wanting to test the Sun Emperor’s Sword’s abilities. Well... though currently he could only activate the first enhancement: Blazing Radiance. Thinking led to action. Firing up psionic energy, Dawn Flame continuously flowed into the Sun Emperor’s Sword. The sun-flower patterns on the golden blade were rapidly getting filled with crimson flames. Just as the charging was more than halfway done and Blazing Radiance was about to be released, suddenly: "Boom!" A fiery red flame actually burst violently from inside the Sun Emperor’s Sword. Aggressive, with an attitude of wanting to kick out the Dawn Flame. "Another type of companion spirit flame?" Seeing this suddenly emerging fiery red flame, Carlos’s eyes filled with delight. He instinctively thought this was also one of the Sun Emperor’s Sword’s companion spirit flames. After all, when the Sun Emperor’s Sword fell into the spirit realm years ago, there was no official record that the Sun Emperor’s Sword had ditched all its companion spirit flames. This fiery red flame might have been sleeping until now and just woke up. Carlos got excited. A companion spirit flame not only represented something that could be absorbed to become a powerful flame spirit technique, but could also work together with the Sun Emperor’s Sword to unleash various terrifying abilities. "But this definitely isn’t Radiant Sun Burning Flame. Radiant Sun Burning Flame is that clan’s sacred object, guarded through sacrificial rites for hundreds and thousands of years. It absolutely couldn’t show up here. Could it be Afterglow Nirvana Flame?" Carlos’s tone was uncertain. In his perception, this suddenly emerging fiery red flame seemed somewhat lacking in power, appearing underdeveloped. Facing the Dawn Flame’s influx, the crimson flame retreated step by step, and within moments was forced to the sword tip. The gap between them was obvious. "Because it’s been dormant too long?" Carlos tried to find a reasonable explanation for this weird phenomenon. The fiery red flame reluctantly launched wave after wave of counterattacks, trying to defend its remaining living space. But the effect was minimal. Suddenly, Dawn Flame surged with force, driving this strange fiery red flame out of the Sun Emperor’s Sword with overwhelming momentum. "Boom!" This fiery red flame, exposed to the air, rapidly went through changes. It was actually a small spirit realm fire creature! Humanoid, less than two feet tall, made entirely of flames. Fiery red flames burned from inside to out! It had been kicked out of its ’home’ by someone! The fire spirit couldn’t accept this fact. That damned robber was now living in its ’home’! Its reddish eyes immediately blazed with sizzling flames, desperately wanting to go back and drive out the robber to take back its ’house.’ But remembering the heavy blow it had taken at the end, it didn’t dare get close. It could only stare pitifully at its ’house’ being filled with strange flames. At this time, Dawn Flame, finally returning to the Sun Emperor’s Sword after countless ages, excitedly rolled and wandered inside and outside the blade. Incidentally cleaning away that certain outsider’s aura completely! Not only kicking it out and stealing its ’house,’ but also erasing all traces of its life inside. Too much bullying of fire spirits! "Wah!!!" The fire spirit couldn’t hold it together anymore. Small flame balls dropped like rain from its reddish eyes. "Bang!" "Bang!" "..." They fell on the salt surface, blasting small craters. Carlos watched everything and immediately realized this wasn’t a companion spirit flame of the Sun Emperor’s Sword at all, but some kind of fire spirit. For unknown reasons, it had actually made its home inside the Sun Emperor’s Sword. "This is?" His brain raced, matching the crying little creature before him with various beings in his memory. Suddenly, Carlos’s eyes burned with intensity: "It’s actually a Fire Spirit, one of the four great elemental spirits of the spirit realm!" Fire Spirit—one of the four great elemental spirits of the spirit realm. Born directly from the spirit realm’s source—the Spirit Sea—under extremely lucky circumstances through spiritual resonance. Therefore also called Children of the Spirit Realm. Naturally packing extremely high spirit realm status, even higher than the terrifying high-level creatures that had chased the Sun Emperor’s Sword earlier. Extremely high spirit realm status inevitably brought terrifying spiritual talent. Fire Spirits didn’t need to work hard at cultivation like other creatures. As Children of the Spirit Realm, fire-attribute energy in the spirit realm would actively flow into their bodies without needing to be captured. They only needed to stay in the spirit realm—even wandering around and sleeping all day would make their strength grow rapidly. Once grown to complete form, they would have almost no opponents in the spirit realm—invincible across the realm, absolute spirit realm overlords! Now, before Carlos was a living Fire Spirit. And it was still in juvenile form!!! This filled Carlos with tremendous joy! It was lucky this was juvenile form. If a mature or older Fire Spirit had shown up, Carlos would feel not delight but terror, and should immediately activate teleportation scrolls to get the hell out of there. Though his emotions were excited, Carlos showed no outward reaction. "What should I do?" At this moment, Carlos’s mind was crystal clear, considering various plans. Partner contract? No good. This type of contract only worked on creatures from the same material plane, having no binding force on spirit realm creatures. Kill it to extract fire elemental crystals? Too wasteful, and wouldn’t help him much. "If only I could fuse it with a Shield Guard to birth a new retainer." Retainers could inherit everything from fusion materials. This way loyalty could be guaranteed while preserving terrifying aptitude. "But how to break through this little guy’s soul barrier?" This was a tough problem. The most challenging condition in retainer creation ceremonies was opening the fusion creature’s soul barrier. Only by opening the soul barrier could the ceremony’s power penetrate deep into the fusion creature’s soul core for complete source fusion of both parties. "To make sure the retainer ceremony succeeds, it would be best to get it to join voluntarily." If only the Fire Spirit would actively cooperate, but this was almost impossible. "No... it’s not completely impossible."

Chapter 135: Flames Collide

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