#912 - Special Artifact: 'Burning Candle'

“Ten, nine, eight…”

“Three, two, one!”

Quan Yi silently counted down the last ten numbers in his mind. At the final moment, the sound of the hammer and the vibration from within the Sun Metal finally matched perfectly, achieving perfect resonance.

One hundred thousand hammer strikes!

Not a single strike more, not a single strike less, just right.

The sunlight was dazzling, and the powerful force of the tremor shook Quan Yi's fixed fingers, sending the Sun Metal flying into the air.

The golden-red light instantly transformed into a blindingly bright white light, and the already scorching metal temperature rose sharply.

Heat exceeding millions of degrees was locked inside the Sun Metal, making it look extremely dangerous and unstable.

However, this immense energy flowed within in an orderly manner, without the slightest sense of losing control.

The Sun Metal left Quan Yi's palm, but it was relying on its own will to control the internal energy from overflowing.

The brightness of the light rapidly decreased, and a powerful mental force was invisibly regulating everything.

When the light was completely contained, a plain-looking golden sphere with spiral patterns floated in front of Quan Yi, emitting a warm aura.

Intelligence successfully awakened!

Under Quan Yi's persistent efforts for six days, the metal finally crossed a new threshold, reaching the final stage before tribulation.

After evolution, both the quality and temperature of the internal solar power of the Sun Metal significantly improved by a level.

Moreover, its intelligence reached the level of a high-level Soul Beast. Even if it had not reached the level of a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast or a human, it was only one step away.

The golden sphere did not speak, but Quan Yi could feel its inner emotions.

“Are you happy for your evolution!”

To shine and radiate heat is the nature of the sun. For them, burning themselves is not to be feared at all. They wish they could burn even bigger and more thoroughly.

This Sun Metal also inherited this characteristic, which Quan Yi greatly admired.

“Burning oneself to illuminate others.

From now on, I will call you Burning Candle!”

He stroked the Sun Metal in encouragement, then absorbed it into his body.

Looking inward at this special artifact similar to a Soul Core in his abdomen, Quan Yi's confidence became even stronger.

A week passed, and it was time to upgrade Soul Rings again.

This time, Huo Wu also chose the seventh Soul Ring, which was the Soul Ring of the Storm Petrel, as the upgrade target.

Quan Yi chose the eighth Soul Ring of the Golden Jade Furnace Flame Turtle.

During these two Soul Ring upgrades, the Dragon Phoenix Goddess did not rely on any external energy sources. She purely used the energy provided by Burning Candle to complete the evolution of the two God-level Soul Rings.

With the help of the Dragon Phoenix Goddess's transformation ability, Burning Candle's extremely high-quality solar power was brought to the extreme.

At a faster rate than before, the two Soul Rings successfully advanced to the God-level.

Little Weng and Old Turtle also successfully advanced to God-level souls, crossing the restriction that Soul Beasts cannot become Gods.

Another week passed, and the Little Lion, the King of Fierce Fang Sea Lions, successfully evolved into a God-level soul, and the fourth Soul Ring also successfully advanced to the God-level.

At this point, all five Soul Beast souls on the two of them had completed their leap to the God-level.

In an orderly and stable life, Quan Yi and Huo Wu were secretly accumulating their strength.

Unknowingly, there were only eight months left until the meeting with the God of Asura.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu, who had been in a semi-secluded state, began to frequently appear in the public eye again from this time on.

The first stop for the two who ended their seclusion was the secret experimental building inside the First Academy.

More than three months had passed since the start of the Internal Energy Cultivation Experiment.

Although this time was not enough to fully derive the experimental results, according to the message transmitted by the Dragon Soul, the initial experiment had achieved relatively significant stage results.

And today, the two were here for this matter.

Among the lush and serene trees stood an experimental building.

This building housed a large number of experimental personnel and subjects.

Among them, in the Internal Energy Cultivation test room, which focused on children under the age of six, the aloof Ye Lingling, wearing a simple white coat, carefully watched the few children who were meditating with their eyes closed.

She walked silently among the children, and with her calm and rhythmic voice, she repeatedly reminded them:

“Keep a calm mind, and remember not to be impatient.

Integrate your consciousness into the stream of Qi within your body, and gently guide the Qi to flow along the fixed meridian channels.”

The children in this room were of different ages and genders, but they had one extremely important thing in common.

That is, a special energy called Internal Force was flowing in their bodies.

Among the group of children collected, this small group of children in front of them were the special talents who condensed Internal Force the earliest.

Among them, the youngest were two years old, and the oldest were five years old.

For the two-year-old children who had just started preschool, they had not yet learned the knowledge related to meridians, so they could only use the Soul Power of the Soul Master to repeatedly circulate within the children's bodies.

Let them use their bodies to memorize the location of the meridians.

The older ones would also provide necessary assistance, but more often, they would let them memorize the location of the meridians themselves and conduct autonomous cultivation.

Among the nearly hundreds of candidates, surprisingly, even though there were no existences like Quan Ni who could condense Internal Force at once, there were still children who could cultivate within three months.

Moreover, as time went by, the proportion of people who successfully cultivated Internal Force was rapidly increasing.

Confirming the feasibility of Internal Energy Cultivation on other people undoubtedly laid the most solid foundation for the entire research.

In the room, in addition to these people, there was also a magical little golden dragon, which was using its magical dragon eyes to scan the children.

In its eyes, there was a crystal-clear energy flowing along the meridians in the bodies of these children.

It was checking whether the children were running in the correct direction.

When it saw that the attention of the younger children would quickly decrease over time.

It immediately flew silently to the child, used its own Soul Power to correct the wrong Internal Force flow, and then gently woke the child from the meditation state.

Immediately, it used mental transmission to notify Ye Lingling.

“This one's Internal Force is beginning to collapse and advance into other meridians. I have already awakened her. You should take her away from here first.”

Ye Lingling quickly walked to the awakened child, gently held the little girl's arm, and walked out of the cultivation room.

The little girl was also very cooperative, obviously such a situation was not the first time it had happened.

Just as Ye Lingling walked out of the room, she was pleasantly surprised to find that Quan Yi and Huo Wu were quietly approaching the corridor, greeting her.

“Sister Ling, this white coat is becoming more and more suitable for you.”

Huo Wu praised Ye Lingling's special professional attire, happily looking for her best friend to hug, confide in each other.