Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Obtaining the Sunset Glassfire Art Inheritance

The scene before Shen Sang Ruo changed, and in the next heartbeat she stood on a high mountain.

Below the mountain, countless fierce looking cultivators were ready to launch their attack.

At the very peak, a man stood holding a fan.

A casual smile hung on his lips, but the power around him was awe inspiring.

The mountaintop wind tugged at his clothes, yet his figure stayed straight and steady.

He looked like someone who would not change color even if a mountain collapsed in front of him.

Both sides faced off. The air grew tight and heavy.

Suddenly.

A strange sound came from somewhere, and the mass of cultivators surged up the mountain all at once.

The man still did not react much. Only the smile at his lips deepened a little.

A sky wide storm of attacks crashed toward him.

He raised the Crimson Feather Fan in his hand and swung it in a single fierce strike.

In an instant, the heavens changed.

A wide sea of fire clouds appeared at the horizon and spread fast, covering the whole sky.

The setting glow painted the ground orange red, so beautiful it made one’s mind drift.

Then countless flames rolled down from the fire clouds like falling sunset bursting into the world.

In a blink, the cultivators who had started the siege were turned to ash and scattered.

The man on the summit lifted a hand and lazily brushed the dust from his shoulder. His smile grew even more wild and free.

Shen Sang Ruo was stunned by the sight.

In a daze, a few large words floated before her eyes.

Sunset Glassfire Art.

She blinked, and now she stood on the mountain peak, holding that Crimson Feather Fan.

She became that person from a moment ago and swung the fan.

Such a strong and overbearing strike made her completely drunk on the feeling.

Even when the scene around her shifted back to the cave estate, she could not return to herself for a long time.

[Can someone really use a Fire Method to this level?]

“How is it? Are you satisfied with this Sunset Glassfire Art?” Immortal Lord Chang Li asked, his tone full of pride.

She answered without thinking: “Satisfied.”

A moment later, she realized what Immortal Lord Chang Li had said.

She remembered the face of the man in the Ice Coffin. It was exactly the same as the man she had seen in the Illusory Realm.

Her heart understood at once whose method the Sunset Glassfire Art was.

And a bold guess rose in her chest.

Her heart thumped fast, but she still kept calm and asked: “Just now I seemed to see Immortal Lord Chang Li wipe out ten thousand people with one fan swing. May I ask, Immortal Lord, did I receive the inheritance of this method?”

Powerful arts often stored the creator’s scenes of using them to help later people understand the Way.

Only those who received the inheritance could see those scenes.

Immortal Lord Chang Li did not answer her directly. Instead, he said: “Train this method well. Do not embarrass me.”

“What you practiced before, the Fanning Wind and Stirring Fire Art, is actually the prequel of the Sunset Glassfire Art.”

“And only those who have gone through quenching can receive the Sunset Glassfire Art inheritance.”

In her last life, Shen Sang Ruo had stumbled upon the Fanning Wind and Stirring Fire Art. In this life, after her cultivation scattered, she chose to re-cultivate it.

By chance she also picked up a piece of Darkwood that carried Daoist Wu Wei’s divine sense, entered Ninghua Sect, and put on the Blazing Heart.

While searching for magic items, she fell into lava by accident and completed quenching.

One coincidence after another brought this top method right to her.

Maybe it was fate in the dark.

In a way, Shen Sang Ruo was the chosen person for training the Sunset Glassfire Art.

Yet at this moment she felt a bit unsure.

One should not accept a reward without earning it. She had not helped Immortal Lord Chang Li much, and she was not his disciple.

If she accepted it, it would be like taking a method meant for his disciple.

How could she so easily accept the right to practice the Sunset Glassfire Art?

Immortal Lord Chang Li seemed to know what she was thinking and said lightly: “I have created many methods. I do not lack this one. Just train with peace of mind.”

At worst, she could bow to him as teacher later. No, she must bow to him as teacher.

[He thought, The disciple I have my eye on cannot be snatched away by someone else, right?] Of course, he did not say any of this out loud.

Mainly, he felt that right now he was too down and out. [Back then, I was so cool and wild, yet now I can only move as a strand of soul.] To propose taking a disciple at a time like this would be too embarrassing.

He would wait until he returned to the peak, then take a new disciple with high ceremony.

“Thank you for gifting me this method, Immortal Lord Chang Li. I will not bring shame to it,” she said, no longer refusing, and bowed to the red stone.

Maybe this was the chance she had waited for across two lives.

“Do not call yourself ‘junior’ all day. It makes me sound very old,” he muttered. He was not even ten thousand years old yet.

Shen Sang Ruo smiled and nodded.

“This place is perfect for your training. But this Secret Realm will collapse in one month. Treasure every minute you have here,” Immortal Lord Chang Li said.

“As for the things in this cave estate, take whatever you want.”

“Really?” With an offer like that, Shen Sang Ruo definitely would not miss it.

Most precious items in the cave were stored inside jade chests. She walked up to one to test it.

“Open it directly.”

She did as he said and, sure enough, it opened.

The next few jade chests were the same. She began to put the clues together.

From the start, Immortal Lord Chang Li had been sure there was no one else in this cave, and he went straight to the spot where his magic items were. Now they were searching freely without any hindrance.

“Was this once Immortal Lord Chang Li’s home?” she asked.

“Mm.”

“And the Fire Phoenix at the volcano’s mouth was formed by your spiritual power, Immortal Lord?”

His answer did not surprise Shen Sang Ruo.

By now she also had a good guess about Immortal Lord Chang Li’s true body.

Fire Phoenix, Nirvana Power, Phoenix Feather, Thousand-Year Phoenix Bone, Phoenix Heartblood. The signs were more than clear.

Even the two characters “Chang Li” were another name for the phoenix.

She could also roughly guess how Immortal Lord Chang Li would wake again.

“Mm. After some days, when I recover a bit more, I will be able to control it again.”

“Oh,” Shen Sang Ruo said with a nod, her eyes thoughtful.

With the urgent matters solved, she finally remembered what happened before the Fire Phoenix dragged her into the lava.

Back then, she did not know why the Fire Phoenix attacked her.

After Bai Mu Mu shoved her, a strange force froze her in place.

In her memory, Bai Mu Mu had never trained any immobilizing or controlling method.

“Then how did she lock me down?” Shen Sang Ruo frowned and murmured.

Immortal Lord Chang Li heard her and said: “You mean that Bai Mu Mu? There is something strange about her.”

“At first the Fire Phoenix did not notice her. But the next moment it was pulled toward her as if by some powerful force.”

He and the Fire Phoenix had a faint link.

“A powerful force?” Shen Sang Ruo’s doubt grew.

“At that time I had not yet woken up, so I do not know exactly. I cannot rule out that it was some malevolent spirit,” Immortal Lord Chang Li said.

“So she did it on purpose. She lured the Fire Phoenix toward me,” Shen Sang Ruo said coldly.

She used herself as bait, pretended to flee in panic from the Fire Phoenix into Shen Sang Ruo’s path, then pretended to save her by pushing her, while actually freezing her in place so she would die to the Fire Phoenix.

“Heh, what a clever plan,” she said, a sharp glint flashing in her eyes.
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