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Seeing that there was no way to take the Sea Heart Flame with him, Lin Feng gritted his teeth and decided to give it up!
Right now, none of them could conceal the aura of a Heavenly Flame. Trying to carry it out would be courting death.
After all, if the powerful experts outside found out he was at the bottom of the tower…
The consequences would be more than he could afford.
Even if he handed the Little Fallen Heart Flame over to the Inner Academy to settle things with Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yan and those people from the Black-Corner Region…
They would cling to him like leeches, refusing to let go.
After all, he had killed Han Feng and seized the vast fortune left behind by the Medicine Emperor Han Feng.
Those unruly rogues in the Black-Corner Region would surely swarm in to get a piece of the pie.
As for Xiao Yan and his teacher, due to both the Flame Mantra and the Heavenly Flames, they would definitely try every possible method to kill him—
To preserve the secrecy of the Flame Mantra and to seize the Heavenly Flame from him.
As for immediately switching cultivation methods to the Flame Mantra and absorbing the Sea Heart Flame and Fallen Heart Flame...
That was just unrealistic.
Who knew how much his Dou Qi level would drop after switching to the Flame Mantra?
If he was unlucky and dropped to Dou Shi, he wouldn't even dare to try absorbing a Heavenly Flame.
Even if he got lucky and only dropped to Dou Ling, he still wouldn't be confident in absorbing two Heavenly Flames in succession.
Moreover, once the fighting above in Jia Nan Academy ended, people would surely come down to try their luck and search for Han Feng's storage ring.
After all, the possessions of a peak sixth-tier alchemist were coveted throughout the Black-Corner Region.
If they saw him down here absorbing a Heavenly Flame, he'd be done for.
As for absorbing the Sea Heart Flame without switching cultivation methods—
With his current peak Dou Wang strength, there was no way he could avoid being discovered by Yao Chen.
So even if it pained him, even if he was reluctant, he could only give up on the Sea Heart Flame.
As for the Little Fallen Heart Flame, he planned to toss it out along with the Sea Heart Flame shortly—
To draw the attention of those strong individuals, creating a chance for him to escape unnoticed.
After planning his escape route from the Inner Academy, Lin Feng turned toward Tian Huo Zun Zhe and said, "Elder Yao, I need you to conceal the aura of the Fallen Heart Flame. Then we'll make our move."
"No problem. I'll take the Fallen Heart Flame back into the ring now and sever our connection completely. As long as it's not a Dou Zun, no one will be able to detect me. But remember—you have to refine a Soul Mending Pill and sprinkle it on the ring within three months. Otherwise, I'll be saying farewell to this world for good."
After speaking, the nearly transparent Tian Huo Zun Zhe absorbed the fire python into his body and then dove back into the storage ring.
"Rest assured, Elder Yao. I'll make sure to get the pill to you on time," Lin Feng said solemnly as he looked at the ring on his finger, which was radiating searing heat.
After all, up to now, Yao Tianhuo had faithfully kept every promise he made to him.
And Lin Feng naturally wasn't someone who would play dirty tricks.
Once the searing temperature of the snowy-white storage ring faded and returned to normal—
Lin Feng released his Soul Perception and carefully scanned the surroundings. Once he confirmed that no aura of the Fallen Heart Flame could be detected—
Only then did he take out the Little Fallen Heart Flame from the ring.
Since his main goal had always been the mature Fallen Heart Flame, he didn't feel much attachment to the juvenile one.
Besides, if he didn't throw this little flame up there—
And later Jia Nan Academy discovered that he was in possession of the Fallen Heart Flame, things would get very messy.
But as long as he tossed the little flame out, he could at least claim that it was a second one he found elsewhere.
Casting one last reluctant glance at the Sea Heart Flame, Lin Feng handed the Little Fallen Heart Flame to Medusa beside him and said:
"Sasha, release a Dou Technique to attack the magma below and create the illusion that the Fallen Heart Flame self-destructed. Blast both flames out of the tower to draw everyone's attention. Then we'll use the chaos to escape."
After giving the instruction, Lin Feng immediately ran far off into the distance—just in case he got accidentally hit by the magma blast.
"Alright."
Taking the Little Fallen Heart Flame from him, Medusa also understood that these two Heavenly Flames couldn't be taken out.
Without much hesitation, she casually dispelled the seal that Tian Huo Zun Zhe had set earlier.
The moment the seal dissolved, both the Sea Heart Flame and the Little Fallen Heart Flame sensed each other's presence.
Boom!
Just as the two flames were about to surge forward and devour one another, Medusa struck.
As the surrounding space faintly distorted, a multicolored Dou Qi shot out silently, blasting into the crimson magma beneath the two Heavenly Flames.
With a muffled boom, the searing magma below suddenly erupted into a violent pillar of crimson fire.
With tremendous speed, the pillar thrust the two Heavenly Flames—who were just about to clash—straight up through the bottom opening of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
In the blink of an eye, they shot up into the sky—startling everyone engaged in battle above the Inner Academy.
All the elders of the Inner Academy and the powerhouses from the Black-Corner Region stared blankly at the crimson fire pillar blasting up from the black tower below.
They had been locked in fierce combat when a deafening boom suddenly came from the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower beneath them.
Then, a crimson fire pillar nearly a thousand meters tall pierced straight through the Inner Academy sky.
As magma rained down, everyone quickly dodged or defended themselves.
When the fire pillar finally dissipated, two searing flames—one blue, one invisible—floated high in the sky, proudly displayed before the shocked eyes of all present.
"Isn't that the blue Heavenly Flame Han Feng had? Why is it here?" the Sect Leader of the Yin Ghost Sect asked, confused, as he looked at the Sea Heart Flame in the distance.
"Where's Han Feng? Wasn't he the one going after the Heavenly Flame? Where did he go?"
As the group from the Black-Corner Region recognized the Sea Heart Flame, a sense of dread immediately welled up in their hearts.
On the Inner Academy's side, things weren't much better.
Su Qian stared at the distant, shrunken Little Fallen Heart Flame—now reduced to a fraction of its former size—with a look of despair. "T-That's our Inner Academy's Fallen Heart Flame! Why has it become so tiny?!"
If something happened to the Fallen Heart Flame, the Inner Academy would lose more than half its strength.
And when the dean returned someday—how was he supposed to explain this?
"Grand Elder, could it be that Han Feng perished along with the Fallen Heart Flame? That would explain why it looks like this," speculated Elder Huo, the Inner Academy's top alchemist, as he analyzed the situation.
Su Qian snapped out of his dazed state at Elder Huo's words.
He had been spiraling due to guilt—afraid of failing the dean's trust.
Now, with Elder Huo's reminder, he realized something:
If the Fallen Heart Flame had self-detonated to escape capture, it hadn't actually caused much damage to the Inner Academy.
On the contrary, the grudge it once harbored—when it had been the Invisible Fire python—seemed to have vanished.
That, in fact, might be to their advantage.
So long as the elders of the Inner Academy took turns nurturing the Fallen Heart Flame with their Dou Qi…
Once it regained consciousness, not only would it avoid harboring resentment like the former fire python—
It might even consider the Inner Academy its home and become a powerful asset to Jia Nan Academy!
Elsewhere on the battlefield, Xiao Yan and his teacher also stared dumbfounded at the two Heavenly Flames.
After a moment, Xiao Yan stammered, "M-Master, what exactly… just happened?"
Hearing his student's anxious voice, Yao Chen gazed at the greatly weakened Little Fallen Heart Flame.
After pondering for a moment, he replied somewhat uncertainly, "Perhaps the Fallen Heart Flame, seeing that it couldn't escape Han Feng, chose to detonate all of its energy… and the two of them perished together."
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