Chapter 540: Terrifying Flame

At this moment, Duan Xia's attention was completely focused on Zuo Feng's palm, or more precisely, on the flame in Zuo Feng's palm. He was also a genius in alchemy, and his level in alchemy was not much worse than Zuo Feng's.

He saw at a glance that the flame was extraordinary. Generally, the flame was orange-red. But the flame in Zuo Feng's palm, as it slowly gathered into a small ball, gradually turned into a dazzling red color. With Duan Xia's experience, he immediately judged that the energy of the flame must be extremely huge at this time.

These were of course just his preliminary judgments. Whether it was really as he judged, he could only be more certain after trying it.

When Duan Xia was concentrating on observing the flame, he did not notice that Zuo Feng showed a hint of joy on his face at this time. If he had only some ideas originally, then now it was a real success in the experiment. Before this, he had no confidence at all, but felt that he could control the flame in this way, provided that his mental power was improved.

If it was the last time in Tushan Town, Zuo Feng would definitely not be able to do what he is doing now, but after the significant improvement of his mental power last night, he can now achieve the effect he is satisfied with.

"This, is this your fire control skill? But it doesn't look like it! Why can't I feel the spiritual power in the flame at all? Instead, I feel a little trembling in my mind."

Duan Xia couldn't help but blurt out as he watched. He is not a man with deep thoughts, but he is very sensitive and quickly caught a hint of inspiration. Moreover, he is the kind of person who speaks out whatever he thinks of, and doesn't consider whether it will cause trouble to himself.

If it were someone else, Zuo Feng might have to consider killing someone to silence him now. Duan Xia's words obviously showed some of his secrets.

Although Duan Xia's fire control skill is very good, it is a completely conventional way. Use your own spiritual energy as the main body and integrate mental power into spiritual energy to control the flame. But what Zuo Feng used was not a fire control skill at all. He only used a small part of the spiritual energy, and most of it relied on mental power to control the changes in the flame.

Zuo Feng did not expect the other party to be so sharp, or to say that the other party's mental power is very good. Even if ordinary people have good mental cultivation, they still need to have a certain contact to feel something, but Duan Xia is clearly more than a foot away from the flame, but he can vaguely capture some situations.

Although Zuo Feng had some plans in his mind before using this technique, he was shocked when the other party saw the doorway, and hurriedly gathered some mental power again. He had no confidence before. When he controlled the flames to gather together, he released part of his mental power to prevent himself from being burned when the flames got out of control.

At this time, he found that Duan Xia could feel the mental power scattered around his body, so he had to gather his mental power to reduce the flow of mental power around him.

In this way, Duan Xia immediately showed a puzzled look again, and said in a daze: "Is it my illusion? The mental power I felt just now seems to not exist at all."

How could he know that Zuo Feng could control mental power so freely, and although this mental power and his own mental power have the same origin, there is still a big difference. Now that he couldn't feel the telekinesis, he immediately doubted his own judgment.

However, this person was very detached by nature. He quickly put aside things that he couldn't understand. He looked at the flame in front of him and rubbed his hands and said, "Brother Shen, I wonder if you can let me try the power of this flame."

Zuo Feng frowned and looked at the other party, not understanding how he was going to test the power of the flame. Instead, he didn't notice that Duan Xia, who had always called him Mr. Shen and Brother Shen, suddenly changed his words and called him "Brother" at this time.

In Duan Xia's eyes, his joy, anger, sorrow and happiness were all shown. Seeing that Zuo Feng had such ability, he immediately called him "Brother" with a sincere heart. If Duan Yueyao were here, he would understand that his younger brother really had a sincere admiration for Zuo Feng.

Although he didn't know how he wanted to detect the power of the flame, Zuo Feng didn't think there was anything wrong with doing so. So after a little hesitation, he immediately nodded and agreed. In fact, he didn't dare to think about it for too long, because controlling the flame in this way was a certain burden even for him now. It can still be barely supported for a short time, but it is difficult to maintain the current form of the flame for a long time.

With Zuo Feng's consent, Duan Xia's excitement on his face became even stronger, and his eyes looking at the flame were also faintly expectant. He gently licked his dry lips. Although the flame could not burn the two of them at this time, the air around them had now rapidly heated up, and the moisture in the air had been evaporated without a drop left.

However, Duan Xia was more concerned about what level the temperature in the center of the flame had reached. With excited eyes flashing, Duan Xia quickly took out a thin long needle from his arms. Zuo Feng saw at a glance that this was used to process some special medicinal materials before the ancient method of mixing medicine.

When mixing medicine in the ancient method, because the essence of the medicinal materials is not extracted by refining, but the medicinal materials are processed through multiple cumbersome steps, some of the original characteristics of the medicinal materials must be maintained. At this time, some medicinal materials such as stamens and fruit cores need to be processed with this kind of fine needle.

During the process of processing medicinal materials, it is generally not allowed to touch them easily with hands. Of course, medicinal materials that have been processed by fumigation and drying are allowed, but before that, the purity of the medicinal materials must be guaranteed as much as possible. For example, some flowers are picked before they bloom, and the stamens are picked out with this fine needle, and then processed and mixed with other medicinal materials for use. The fine needle also works at this time.

Zuo Feng also has such a fine needle, but Zuo Feng is also studying the method of acupuncture, so his own fine needle naturally has many more functions. Zuo Feng saw not only the function of this fine needle, but also, with his vision as a refiner, he also saw that the material and refining techniques of this fine needle are also of a certain level, not the quality that can be bought everywhere on the street.

After Duan Xia took out the long needle, he hesitated for a moment, and then took out a small pliers-like object, gently clamped the tail of the needle, and then slowly sent the fine needle into the flame.

The silver-white needle began to turn red the moment it entered the flame, and the red color, which represented the extremely high temperature, was still spreading slowly upward along the needle. If Duan Xia was holding the needle with his hands at this moment, his fingers would probably have been burned by the high temperature.

He stole a glance at Duan Xia beside him. At this moment, the expression of the young man had completely changed. His serious and earnest face, coupled with the calmness and composure emanating from the inside out, made Zuo Feng almost have an illusion. The young man in front of him and the one he had just brought back were completely two different people.

Of course, this was just Zuo Feng's feeling. Zuo Feng still admired Duan Xia's current state from the bottom of his heart. Only such a person could concentrate on moving towards the highest realm of alchemy. Originally, he had made up his mind not to teach the other party anything of his own, but now Zuo Feng has been somewhat shaken.

When seeing this young man at this moment, Zuo Feng seemed to suddenly be able to feel some of the scene when Yao Xun first met him. Perhaps Yao Xun was also moved by some of his own things at the time, and did not care about any master-disciple status, and trained himself wholeheartedly.

‘If possible, I’d better tell this kid some of my experiences. As long as it doesn’t involve some of my secrets, it’s not a bad thing to help him within a safe range. ’

When thinking this in his heart, the thin needle has changed again. Because the long needle has turned orange-red, as if it is about to merge with the flame. Duan Xia’s eyes shrank slightly, and his body unconsciously moved closer to the flame again. Although he looked a little scared of the flame from his expression, his body moved closer because of curiosity.

At this time, Duan Xia’s little face had turned red due to the high temperature, and the sweat on his cheeks was falling down, but he didn’t seem to notice anything.

“The flame should be tilted a little!”

Duan Xia said in a deep voice, and the voice was serious and serious. If it were someone else, he might be dissatisfied with this order, but Zuo Feng knew that Duan Xia was completely immersed in the things in front of him at this time, and he didn’t care about other things around him.

And Zuo Feng also reacted quickly, moving his palm to one side, but the flame still stayed in place. Shortly after Zuo Feng moved his palm away, the orange-red needle began to soften gradually, just like an ice needle turning into water when it was heated.

Before, Zuo Feng also felt that his flame was quite powerful, but he himself had no idea how powerful it was. However, Duan Xia's attempt made him understand how terrible the temperature of the flame in his hand was.

The process of refining this needle should not be easy, but in such a short time, the needle can be completely melted, which means that the temperature of the flame is much higher than the temperature in the cauldron when the needle was refined. Thinking of this, Zuo Feng couldn't help but tremble.

If the flame gets out of control, he and Duan Xia will have no chance of survival.

Just as Zuo Feng was thinking this, the flame in his hand suddenly trembled slightly, and then a scorching flame rushed out of his palm.

"Be careful!"

After all, the flame was wrapped with his own mental power, so Zuo Feng noticed it at the first time. He pulled Duan Xia aside in time, which saved Duan Xia from the danger of being burned by the flame. But the danger was not over, because after this shock, the flame in his hand seemed to become extremely unstable.