The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron

Chapter 1627: Chapter 1724: The Fate of the Xu Family Members

Fist-sized fire lotus blossoms come whistling through the air, about to crash onto Xu Yanbing’s already shattered Pill Furnace in the next moment.

Were they to truly collide, it’s estimated that his half-ruined Pill Furnace would be thoroughly destroyed.

And once the Pill Furnace is destroyed, Xu Yanbing’s Pill Refining would be declared a failure, which would essentially mean that Long Zhixin has won the competition.

Many Pill Refiners from great families are silently cheering in their hearts, muttering for the lotuses to hit.

With a wave of Xu Yanbing’s hand, a Fire Devouring Evil Beast appears before him, baring its ferocious maw to swallow all of the fire lotus blossoms whole.

Every single fire lotus, not one left behind, is devoured by the Fire Devouring Evil Beast.

Once the fire lotus blossoms are swallowed, nothing happens, as though they were quietly refined away.

“What?” The crowd is taken aback, not expecting this to happen.

“This is…” Huang Hanqing’s eyes widen, and his expression grows serious; his gaze towards Xu Yanbing sharpens considerably.

Atop Tang Tower, Dragon Haotian and several Family Heads from great families all turn their eyes towards the East Pole Heaven King, especially Dragon Haotian, who wears a displeased look.

Fang Lin’s expression also turns cold, for he has finally discerned the true nature of that so-called Innate Soulfire.

“So it turns out, there is no such thing as Innate Soulfire at all. Instead, they planted the flesh and blood essence of a Fire Devouring Beast inside Xu Yanbing’s body, making it co-dependent with him,” Fang Lin says slowly.

The East Pole Heaven King’s face is expressionless, betraying no sign of unusual sentiment, seemingly indifferent to it all.

“Heaven King, is this what you called Innate Soulfire?” Fang Lin looks towards the East Pole Heaven King, as if expecting an answer.

East Pole Heaven King answers calmly: “The Fire Devouring Beast was willingly merged by Xu Yanbing himself. It’s also something that every generation of the Xu family must undergo.”

Fang Lin smiles, not saying much, but in his heart, he feels utter disdain for Xu Yanbing.

Innate Soulfire? A talent for fire control? All bullsh*t! It’s nothing but leveraging the power of the Fire Devouring Beast within his body, how is that any sort of fire control talent?

“Is this what you have always been engaged in?” Dragon Haotian looks coldly at the East Pole Heaven King and asks.

The East Pole Heaven King nods.

The look on Dragon Haotian’s face is very grim. He used to be a member of the Pill Alliance, his status not inferior to the four Heaven Kings, yet he was completely unaware that the Pill Alliance harbored such deep secrets.

Clearly, this was something only the East Pole Heaven King knew about, even the other three Heaven Kings were probably clueless.

Dragon Haotian was even more in the dark, revealing the depth of this secret.

Every generation in the Xu family, there is someone who merges with the Fire Devouring Beast, and each merger utilizes the flesh and blood essence of the previous generation’s Fire Devouring Beast.

In this way, it becomes a kind of indirect inheritance. In their blood, the people of the Xu family are branded together with the Fire Devouring Beast, inseparable.

The Fire Devouring Beast is an Exotic Beast that can devour all kinds of flames that nature and the earth have generated. Any flame it devours can be controlled as easily as moving one’s own limbs.

With such a formidable innate ability, the numbers of Fire Devouring Beasts are extremely scarce, on the brink of extinction in this era.

Because the lifespan of the Fire Devouring Beast is incredibly short, lasting a mere ten years, no matter how powerful a Fire Devouring Beast is, it will perish once its ten-year lifespan runs out.

A long time ago in the Pill Alliance, there was a Pill Refiner with the surname Xu, who came up with the outlandish idea to refine a Fire Devouring Beast into his body. After undergoing an extremely horrifying refinement process, he actually succeeded.

Moreover, after the Xu surnamed Pill Refiner merged with the Fire Devouring Beast, he discovered that the lifespan limitation of the Fire Devouring Beast was broken, it would no longer die after living for just ten years, and the Xu surnamed Pill Refiner had also acquired the innate talents of the Fire Devouring Beast.

From then on, the Pill Alliance secretly continued this affair, but only those with the Xu family bloodline could fuse with and refine the Fire Devouring Beast, no one else could manage it at all.

In this generation, that is to say, at Xu Yanbing’s hand, like his ancestors, he fused with the flesh and essence of the Fire Devouring Beast, nurturing a Fire Devouring Beast inside his body.

Or one could say that Xu Yanbing himself is a Fire Devouring Beast.

And this is the very secret of so-called Innate Soulfire.

There was no such thing as Innate Soulfire, only the hereditary legacy of the Fire Devouring Beast, which was a great secret within the Pill Alliance, known only to the Heaven King of East Pole.

However, in this world, there is no such thing as perfect; every generation of the Xu family could fuse with the Fire Devouring Beast successfully, but there was a significant downside.

And that was a reduction in lifespan!

The Fire Devouring Beast could live only ten years, and although it would not die within ten years inside the body of someone from the Xu family, it still affected the lifespan of the Xu family members, causing each generation to generally die young.

The father of Xu Yanbing, a Pill Master with the cultivation of the Spirit Source realm, lived only two hundred years before his death.

Without any accidents, Xu Yanbing could also at most live for just over one hundred years.

“The Fire Devouring Beast has a ten-year lifespan, after a Pill Refiner merges with it, could there really be no influence whatsoever?” Dragon Haotian asked in a cold voice.

“Yes, a lifespan not exceeding two hundred, that’s the drawback,” said the Heaven King of East Pole indifferently.

With these words, everyone present changed their expressions.

“The Fire Devouring Beast not only devours flames but also consumes the fire of people’s hearts, so it can live longer, but humans will lose years of their lives. This method violates humanity,” Fang Lin said, looking at the Heaven King of East Pole.

The Heaven King of East Pole gave a wry smile: “I know.”

“Then why do you still allow such things to continue?” Fang Lin challenged.

The Heaven King of East Pole shook his head: “The Xu family’s livelihood depends on the Fire Devouring Beast. Without it, the Xu family would be nothing.”

“You want to use the Xu family as a trump card for the Pill Alliance, that’s why you indulge the Xu family in refining the Fire Devouring Beast generation after generation,” Dragon Haotian said disapprovingly.

The Heaven King of East Pole did not defend himself, many things were not clear through defences, whether it was the determination of the Xu family to refine the Fire Devouring Beast or the Heaven King of East Pole allowing it to happen, they were just part of the reasons.

At this moment, both Long Zhixin and Xu Yanbing stopped their fire-contesting.

After Xu Yanbing absorbed a portion of Long Zhixin’s Soul Commanding Pill Fire, he directly used it, and quietly, blossoms of Fire Lotus unfolded, making the fire inside the Pill Furnace even more vigorous.

Crack! Crack!

But at this moment, a series of cracking sounds abruptly erupted.

Xu Yanbing’s expression changed slightly, absorbing Long Zhixin’s Soul Commanding Pill Fire had made the fire more intense, causing the Pill Furnace to reach its limits.

Noticing this, Long Zhixin saw an opportunity, and a second strand of Soul Commanding Pill Fire appeared, directly aiming for Xu Yanbing.

No matter if Xu Yanbing uses the Fire Devouring Beast to devour this strand of Soul Commanding Pill Fire, or if he resists it, it will affect the Pill Furnace.

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