Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 1245 - 1245 75 A Hero Has Nothing to Do with

Chapter 1245: Chapter 75: A Hero Has Nothing to Do with Strength! Chapter 1245: Chapter 75: A Hero Has Nothing to Do with Strength! Dong Xiaoyan was given a severe scolding by her mother.

Fuming to the extreme, feeling utterly aggrieved.

I know you’re all eager to hold a grandchild, but…

Not having children… Is it just my matter?

That bastard does torment me every day, but it’s the kind of torment that makes you not want to get out of bed, where do you understand the severity of it?

I’m already having such a tough time, how can I still have the energy to think about children, do you even care if I’m well…

Dong Xiaoyan angrily conjured a ball of fire with a flick of her hand.

The very fundamental ability one would have at the Cloud Top level of cultivation—the True Spirit Flame.

This True Spirit Flame, which uses the cultivator’s own life essence as the trigger and dense spiritual energy as fuel, is said to be capable of burning the Three Realms. Indeed, as long as the spiritual energy supply doesn’t cease, the flame could burn indefinitely. If there were an unlimited supply, claiming that it could burn the Three Realms wouldn’t be far-fetched!

However, even for cultivators at the Cloud Top level, there’s a limit to the amount of concentrated and refined spiritual energy they can provide; it’s impossible for the fire to burn perpetually.

Even for elite disciples from prestigious sects with superior legacies, the most they could boast is greater endurance. Moreover, this type of flame is exceedingly picky about fuel, almost refusing any other kind besides the cultivator’s own spiritual life force. As such, this technique is somehow quite lame and, over time, it became more of a status symbol for Cloud Top cultivators, its significance as an identity far outweighing its practical power.

Today, Dong Xiaoyan, out of frustration, threw out a ball of True Spirit Flame mainly as a way to vent her internal vexation—not really intending to achieve anything significant. This ball of True Spirit Flame, appearing lively and catching the eye, would only exist momentarily without further qi supply.

To stir up a bit of chaos, and then let it be.

Yet… what neither Dong Xiaoyan nor anyone else anticipated was that the casually discharged True Spirit Flame would, by sheer accident, come into contact with some greenery wrapped around two strands of Evil Spirits’ malicious thoughts, and… they were instantly purified!

Absolutely nothing left!

Then, the initiator Dong Xiaoyan was suddenly stunned, standing still as if rooted, like a clay statue.

Dong Pingjiang, who also witnessed this scene, dashed to her side, his eyes wide with disbelief staring at the greenery that was losing its flame as the spiritual energy dwindled and slowly extinguished.

“Gone… It’s gone!”

Another whoosh!

All the upper echelons of the Heavenly Sword Cloud Palace crowded around Dong Xiaoyan, seemingly babbling away, but in truth, they were all asking essentially the same question—

“How did you do this?”

“Is this for real? Is this really happening?”

“Eliminated? Completely gone?”

“True Spirit Flame? It burned away the Evil Spirits? Impossible, right? It can’t be!”

“…Tsk tsk, it’s really gone.”

“Our girl is really something! Who else, who else has such fortune?”

“…”

Amid the cacophony, Dong Xiaoyan stood there dumbly, her face a mask of bewilderment.

“What’s wrong?” Lady Dong startled, hoping her daughter hadn’t inhaled any malicious thoughts.

How would she explain this to her son-in-law?

Her daughter visits home only to be harmed…

Lady Dong felt her head throb at the thought and quickly stepped closer to check on her daughter’s condition.

“It’s nothing…”

Dong Xiaoyan shook her head, her face wearing an odd expression as she said, “After I burned those two malicious thoughts, I realized… my cultivation level increased a little bit… How is this possible? What’s going on here? I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary, did I?”

Not do anything out of the ordinary? You just annihilated two Evil Spirits!

That’s incredibly out of the ordinary, outrageously so!

“Your cultivation level increased?”

Dong Canglan’s eyes widened as he caught another key point.

“Damn!”

Dong Pingjiang, whose eyes were also wide, didn’t hesitate to grab a green orb and used the True Spirit Flame to burn it.

Practice alone reveals the truth. Why not try it out and see whether it’s true or not?

Upon trying, his eyes, already wide, nearly bulged out of their sockets!

“It’s true! My cultivation level increased! It really increased!”

People around him immediately began to buzz with excitement.

Being able to eliminate Evil Spirits in such a simple way was already a reason to rejoice. To top it off, there was an unexpected boon. How could this not be a double delight, a joyous addition?

Every high-ranking member present tried it out and confirmed that True Spirit Flame could indeed very easily burn Evil Spirits’ malicious thoughts to nothing, slightly boosting their own cultivation level, albeit the increase was minuscule, almost imperceptible.

But… an increase is still an increase!

For cultivators at the Cloud Palace’s upper level, any small gain in cultivation is exceedingly difficult, often requiring hundreds or even thousands of years of painstaking effort. A gain like this, even as thin as a strand of hair, is a welcome surprise, a huge delight.

“This… This isn’t a calamity, it’s a surprise, a feast, a celebration!”

Dong Canglan’s hands trembled with excitement.

True Spirit Flame, a common and standard technique that any Cloud Top master could muster. How many Cloud Top experts are on the continent?

Including the demon race, certainly more than a million!

It was thought that Cloud Tops would only be the lowest level cannon fodder in this crisis.

Yet, who could have foreseen such a surprise.

“With the energy reserves of a Cloud Top expert in full operation, the True Spirit Flame can be sustained for half an hour, no problem! And in that half an hour, it’s enough to absorb a wave, and as long as there are experts to protect and retreat within the time limit, there won’t be any harm done!”