nChapter 089 – Silver Flame

nTranslated by: Ting

nEdited by: Robin, Leo and De Andre

nThe Training Spirit Device lit up with a dim glow, the energy that kept gushing out from the crevice was attracted by the device and floated towards it.

nTang Tian looked on curiously as each ray continuously floated towards the device at his feet.

nThe energy was absorbed by the device continuously, and the glow from the device became more dazzling and fiery. Suddenly, poof, a wisp of flame drifted out from the device. Tang Tian was shocked by the flame that appeared at his feet, but he soon calmed down, for the flame was unexpectedly not searing.

nTang Tian lowered his head, and gazed curiously at the cold flame at his feet that appeared from the device.

n“The biggest function of Training Spirit Device is to transform energy into flames which can be used to cultivate martial spirits, and these flames are known as Spirit Cultivation Flame.” Bing lightly said, “You have already congealed your martial spirit, so you can now try to use the martial spirit to hold up the Spirit Cultivation Flame.”

n“Hold up the Spirit Cultivation Flame?” Tang Tian was stunned, “How?”

n“Focus all your attention on your martial spirit and imagine that your martial spirit is like a palm, holding up the Spirit Cultivation Flame.” Bing’s tone became serious, “The first touch of the Flame is going to be very painful, but remember, no matter how painful it is, you must never throw the Flame down. The moment you throw it away, you would have failed completely.”

nTang Tian’s expression became serious as well, “Failure once it is thrown down?”

n“That’s right.” Bing glanced at Tang Tian, “Let’s start.”

nTang Tian closed his eyes and focused all of his attention on the martial spirit. This was Tang Tian’s first time concentrating so hard to observe his own martial spirit. His martial spirit was a faint flame, as though it would extinguish at any moment. According to Bing’s method, Tang Tian started to imagine the martial spirit as a palm, desperately.

nSure enough, following the changes in his thoughts, the flame-like martial spirit slowly changed its shape.

nVery soon, an almost translucent palm appeared above Tang Tian’s head.

nThe palm slowly floated to Tang Tian’s feet, and the Spirit Cultivation Flame on the device floated to the translucent palm as though it was attracted by a magnet.

nThe moment the Spirit Cultivation Flame descended on the translucent palm, a drilling pain attacked Tang Tian’s brain, and he could not help but groan. The palm holding the Spirit Flame trembled, and the Flame almost fell from the palm. Tang Tian reacted quickly and hurriedly held his breath with utmost concentration, stabilising the flame.

nTang Tian’s face was contorted in pain.

nThe drilling pain almost made his mind go blank. He even felt, distinctly, that the palm molded from the martial spirit was scorched sizzling by the Spirit Cultivation Flame. The martial spirit was connected to the mind, and this excruciating pain was so deep in the bones that there was no way of escaping. He was not allowed to escape or divert his attention either. Not only could he not be distracted, he also had to be extremely focused, Thus, the pain from cultivating the martial spirit was even more unbearable.

n“Okay, you will slowly adapt to these sufferings. Don’t you think that it doesn’t hurt as much now? This is because a portion of the impurities in your martial spirit have been dissipated.”

nUncle Bing’s reassuring guidance went into Tang Tian’s ears. Although he was not sure if it were due to Uncle Bing’s hypnotism, or if the impurities really dissipated, Tang Tian felt that it was indeed less painful.

n“Very good. You have done well, and crossed the most crucial hurdle. Next, you need to control your martial spirit to attract another portion of the Spirit Cultivation Flame, not too much though, and we will proceed step by step.” Bing’s calm voice gave him a strong sense of security, and Tang Tian instantly calmed down.

nAccording to Bing’s guidance, Tang Tian carefully drew in another wisp of flame, sizzles, Tang Tian shuddered. An indescribably excruciating pain seemed to be hammered into his head in a shot.

nTang Tian’s martial spirit trembled again.

n“Stabilise it! Stabilise it, no matter how painful!”

n“Okay, not bad, you have started to adapt, and your martial spirit has become more pure!”

n“Once you get sufficient rest, we will start another round of cultivation. To you, this is not a problem at all. Good, like what you have done just now, attract another portion of the Spirit Cultivation Flame.”

n… …

nBing started to control his speed of talking. He tried to slow down his speech as much as possible, so Tang Tian would not feel the passing of time.

nAn hour passed.

nBing’s attention was highly concentrated throughout, and his eyes never left Tang Tian.

nHe kept talking during the entire hour.

nTang Tian’s brain started to become fuzzy, as everyone has a limit for endurance. He robotically followed Bing’s guidance, continuously attracting the flames, one round after the other. He totally had no idea how long he had been cultivating.

nThe Spirit Cultivation Flame had grown to the size of a table, and Tang Tian’s martial spirit was totally engulfed within.

nBing was fixated on Tang Tian’s martial spirit amidst the flame. When he saw the martial spirit turning translucent gradually, there was a flash of agitation in his eyes.

nAn hour and a half had passed now.

nThe energy within a radius of 33 m was akin to sharks which smelt blood, and swarmed towards the fireball above Tang Tian. The Spirit Cultivation Flame became even more fiery.

nBing’s hands were now full of spirit nuclei, which included the ones that Tang Tian accumulated, as well as the ones obtained from the bodies at the base. Bing flicked his finger, and a spirit nucleus disappeared straight into the Spirit Cultivation Flame.

nThe impurities were rapidly refined, leaving a polished martial spirit.

nTang Tian’s martial spirit immediately sensed the polished martial spirit and subconsciously engulfed it.

n“That’s right, that’s the way to go. Okay, you can feel that your martial spirit is growing stronger. Continue attracting the flame.”

nBing encouraged Tang Tian while he continuously flicked spirit nuclei into the flames. Tang Tian’s martial spirit rapidly strengthened, and the now stronger martial spirit had a stronger attractive force. The energy surrounding Tang Tian gushed in wildly like the high tides.

nThe Spirit Cultivation Flame boomed.

nBing became more and more nervous. There were still ten minutes left to two hours. The record of the Southern Cross Army back then was created by Bing, which was two hours.

nHaving experienced it personally, Bing knew far more than the others. At this stage, the Spirit Cultivation Flame will become unstable, and will gradually collapse in the middle. The energy gushing out from the energy crevice may not be high level, but it will continuously decrease, which will break the level four barriers of energy.

nIn other words, this meant that the fireball of the Spirit Cultivation Flame would break through level four.

nThe higher the level of the flame, the more thorough the cultivation of the martial spirit would be.

nThe flame began to change colour, from the initially faint blue rays, it turned green.

nThe excruciating pain kept hitting Tang Tian in waves. His head felt like it was roasting over a bonfire. The excruciating pain became stronger and stronger until he needed to fully exert, that’s right, fully exert himself and his willpower, to hang on desperately.

nBing’s voice, in Tang Tian’s ears, became fleeting and vague, far and near. Tang Tian no longer had any strength left in him to listen to Bing.

nHe was on the verge of collapsing, the waves of attacks, caused his defense to crumble.

nTwo hours!

nThe flame completely turned green.

nBing’s expression was peaceful, but his insides was in turbulence. Two hours! Tang Tian actually withstood it for two hours. This presumptuous, opinionated fellow… …

nHe actually withstood a full two hours!

nTwo hours, in the army back then, no one else besides him had ever achieved it.

nBut at this moment, Tang Tian was almost exhausted! His body tremors started to increase and become stronger. His pained expression was even more obvious now, as his face began to turn pale.

nBing was flustered, but this was not the time to be distracted. He knew that once he broke through two hours, every second that followed would be extremely precious. Every second now, would prove its worth by a hundredfold in future.

nHe took a deep breath and roared suddenly, “Tang Tian!”

nTang Tian’s body paused in the fireball.

n“Have you forgotten your dreams? Have you forgotten your vows? Have you forgotten that you wanted to become the strongest?!”

n“Tang Tian! Have you forgotten the taste of failure!?”

n“Tang Tian! Have you forgotten the banter you received all these years!?”

n“Tang Tian! Have you forgotten the times when you were too powerless to change anything!?”

n“Are you giving up!?”

n“Tang Tian, are you willing to give up like this!?”

n“Are you willing!?”

nWith the last few words, an extremely agitated Bing exhausted his whole power and roared.

nTang Tian’s body paused, and then started to shudder tremendously, a tinge of colour appeared on his pale face, while his fists were clenched tight from goodness knows when!

n“Tang Tian!” Bing paused, and shouted, “Just ten minutes! Just hang in there for another ten minutes! The last ten minutes!”

n“You will be able to realise your dreams!”

n“You will be able to become the strongest!”

n“You will be able to carry through your vows!”

n“Tang Tian!”

n“Ten minutes! Just ten minutes!”

n“You can definitely do this!”

nBing almost gritted his teeth and exhausted his energy in roaring, his fists were similarly clenched tight from goodness knows when, his gaze was fixed on Tang Tian. Bing, who finished roaring, suddenly felt as though he was emptied out. He surprisingly felt tired.

nHang in there, godlike young man… …

nBing’s whisper was barely audible.

nTang Tian’s body shuddered even more strongly, akin to a sifter on the verge of collapse at any moment.

nBing was extremely anxious, two hours and three minutes!

nThe colour of the Spirit Cultivation Flame completely turned green, a dark green similar to bronze. The cold air seemed to vanish, and an aggressive chill replaced it! All the energy within radius of 66 m was attracted, and was absorbed into the flame wildly, like snowflakes in a gale.

nThe green colour of the flame continued to darken.

nTang Tian’s body continued to tremble. The shocking, excruciating pain of the attacks was far more savage than before, and more frequent than ever.

nBut Tang Tian’s mind was completely filled with those few phrases.

nAre you willing?

nAre you willing to give up like that?

nGive up?

nGive up… … No way, I don’t want to… … How can I give up… … How can I… … Never! Even if I die, never… …

nA surge of strength from goodness knows where flooded through him. Under the excruciating pain on Tang Tian’s contorted face, the corners of his mouth curled up with much difficulty, and an unruly and wild smile appeared which looked extremely ghastly!

nI am a godlike young man!

nHow can I give up?

nI am going to be the strongest man!

nHow can I give up?

nHow can I!

nAmidst the crackling sounds, the green flame turned dark green, and became darker until it became completely black. By now, the fireball of the flame had shrunk to the size of a bamboo basket. Suddenly, a spot of silver light exploded within the flame.

nIn the blink of an eye, the silver colour spreaded everywhere. The silver flame brought about a cold and awe-inspiring feel.

nThe energy within the entire crevice was stirred, and Jing Hao was alarmed. His shocked gaze took in just a sky of energy, which turned into numerous blue rays, all converging towards one direction.

nHang on, that is the spot where Tang Tian is practising!

nJing Hao was terror-stricken and bolted towards that spot, and was rooted to the ground when he saw the sight before him.

nUnder the dense silver flames, the kid’s silhouette was untamed and unbending.

nLeo: Godlike Young Man, Haaah!

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