The Fire Dragon Flame's absorption of the Immortal Herb Flame went exceptionally smoothly, and the Explosive Flame was no different.
Although the Explosive Flame was a Beast Flame, it was only produced from a 50,000-year Explosive Flame Tiger.
The Immortal Herb Flame was no match for the Fire Dragon Flame, let alone the Explosive Flame.
The swallowing effect lasted for about half an hour...
Thus!
Of the four different flames inside Yang Fan's body, only the Fire Dragon Flame and the Ice Dragon Flame remained.
Yang Fan originally thought that with the amplification of the Explosive Flame and the Immortal Herb Flame, the Fire Dragon Flame could complete the swallowing of the Ice Dragon Flame.
However, Yao Lao gave him a very definite denial.
After successfully swallowing the Immortal Herb Flame and the Explosive Flame, the Fire Dragon Flame did indeed become stronger, but this enhancement was not enough to become the chip to break the balance between the Fire Dragon Flame and the Ice Dragon Flame.
In other words...
The Immortal Herb Flame and the Explosive Flame were too weak!
The method to break this balance was obvious.
Swallow more Beast Flames!
Of course!
This method sounded simple, but to actually do it...
Except for the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well he already knew about, he could say that he only encountered the Explosive Flame by chance after three years of training outside.
And this Beast Flame was just the weakest one existing in his body.
Wanting to complete the true transformation of the Fire Dragon Flame and Ice Dragon Flame was so difficult that just thinking about it made him feel incredibly hard.
"You don't need to be discouraged."
"For us master and disciple, the current result is already the best."
That was true!
If it weren't for accidentally discovering today that Beast Flames could swallow each other, whether he, Yang Fan, could receive a Strange Flame in this lifetime was still a question mark.
But now...
Although there was still no concrete result, at least there was some clue.
...
Time flashed by, another half month passed...
The matches of the Tian Dou District of the Continental Soul Master Elite Tournament had entered the final wrapping-up stage.
God Wind, Blazing Fire, Sky Water, and Thunder Academies lived up to expectations and successfully broke out of the encirclement.
Besides that...
Canghui Academy became a dark horse in this competition, successfully replacing the position of the Elephant Academy.
Yang Fan originally didn't want to show up in this competition, after all, there was no part for him to play.
However... It was hard to refuse such enthusiasm!
He appeared at the final match of the Blazing Fire Academy.
...
Perhaps because the Tian Dou nobles were lazy, the venue for the Tian Dou District competition directly requisitioned the Grand Spirit Arena.
Grand Spirit Arena!
For Yang Fan, this place was full of memories. The process from him being a Grand Soul Master to a Soul Elder could be said to have been spent inside the Soul Arena.
He had just entered the Grand Spirit Arena when he saw something interesting.
Although the Soul Arena was temporarily changed into the competition venue for the Soul Master Elite Tournament, many facilities inside had not been removed.
For example, the leaderboard inside the Soul Arena!
The first name on the list: Yao Chen, 99 wins 0 losses.
To be honest!
Yang Fan had never cared about this record of his. At the time, all he was thinking about was going to get his third soul ring.
He even more unexpectedly didn't think that this record remained unbroken until today.
Of course!
This leaderboard was not arranged according to strength, but according to combat record.
A record of 99 wins and 0 losses was unprecedented since the establishment of the Soul Arena.
"This is the Yao Chen I told you about."
Huo Wu stood in front of the leaderboard, her eyes seeming to have added some longing.
She was also on the Soul Arena leaderboard, but her ranking had already been thrown out beyond 90th place after she was promoted to Soul Elder.
Not just her!
Many Soul Masters who often came here to fight or audiences observing the matches would subconsciously stop when they came here.
Take a look at the name that hadn't appeared for two years, then look at the list alternating changes except for the first place.
Even until today, there were still rumors inside this Soul Arena such as 'If Yao Chen were here...'
Yang Fan looked at the name on the leaderboard and couldn't help but smile in his heart.
Who could have thought that Yao Lao, who couldn't show himself three times on the Douluo Continent, would become famous in this way.
"Haven't you been to the Soul Arena before? Why are you so familiar with this place?"
A look of doubt flowed from Huo Wu's large eyes.
"No way!"
"Isn't the internal structure of many buildings like this?"
Only then did Yang Fan realize that his familiar steps almost exposed his identity as the 'Arena God of Killing'.
Entering the Soul Arena...
The official final match appearing on the competition ground was Sky Water versus Blazing Fire.
Just like everyone rumored...
The members of Sky Water Academy were all damn beauties.
No need to fight at all!
Just standing on the Soul Arena field made people feel pleasing to the eye.
However...
Just when everyone focused their attention on the Sky Water Academy members, Yang Fan's gaze drifted to a farther place.
Because of the final match, the Emperor of the Tian Dou Empire, Xue Ye, was present personally.
But his gaze was not on Emperor Xue Ye, but on a kid sitting next to the Emperor.
Xue Qinghe!
The original work mentioned that Qian Renxue entered the Tian Dou Empire at the age of ten, killed the real Xue Qinghe, and replaced him.
That means this guy sitting next to Emperor Xue Ye now was already not the real Crown Prince of the Tian Dou Empire.
Qian Renxue in the original work became the Angel God, was the backbone of the Spirit Hall, and even more so the person in charge of the Hall of Elders after Qian Daoliu's death.
If he could kill this woman before she becomes a god, then there would be one less huge trouble on the road to dealing with the Spirit Hall.
Suddenly!
Qian Renxue's gaze shot towards him.
He had just revealed a hint of killing intent and it seemed to be detected by this woman.
She was indeed well hidden!
"That is our Tian Dou Empire's Crown Prince Xue Qinghe."
"Modest and polite!"
"He has been here from start to finish during this Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament."
Huo Wu had a very high evaluation of Xue Qinghe!
This also indirectly showed that this woman was really too good at acting.
Present at the competition scene from start to finish?
This was probably not just pretending to be a Crown Prince. If a too-excellent genius Soul Master really appeared in the Tian Dou District, presumably they would receive 'care' from the Spirit Hall.
However... Having said that.
Wanting to kill this woman Qian Renxue was not an easy thing.
The Spirit Hall had experts like clouds!
Just their Titled Douluos accounted for nearly half of the entire Douluo Continent.
Qian Renxue, as Qian Daoliu's granddaughter, the future heir of the Angel family.
Such identity, such a halo!
More importantly, this was the only successor to the God Position of the Angel family.
Facing the danger of accidentally dying and letting the Angel family completely lose their inheritance.
Would she lack protectors by her side?
Two Titled Douluos were just the basics!
There must be hidden warriors by her side capable of blocking secret arrows for her at any time.
Even with Yao Lao's assistance, for him now, it was also an impossible thing.
Yang Fan calmed his mind...
Ultimately, he could only bury this killing intent deep in his heart temporarily.
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