Chapter 55: The Fire of the Spirit

  Luoshen Yard changed into another mansion of the Four Directions Chamber of Commerce, bringing Ye Xuan to the residence of Kong Dashi. This mansion was very ordinary, with no signs on the gate, but when Ye Xuan walked in, he was shocked, because this mansion looked like a garden, with flowers and grasses filling the courtyard.

  At this time, an old man with white hair was lying on a wooden chair sunbathing in the yard. This old man was actually the third-level artifact refiner, Kong Daoshi.

  Kong Daishi heard someone coming in, his originally closed eyes slowly opened, and he saw Luo Xuan. Originally, there was nothing, but then he also saw Ye Xuan following behind Luo Xuan. He involuntarily sent a strand of spiritual energy to probe over, and after a moment, he stared widely with his eyes and stood up, looking at Ye Xuan.

  Ye Xuan walked forward and saluted: "Ye Xuan has seen Master Kong!"

  "You've condensed a spiritual body so quickly!" Kong Daoshi was somewhat surprised, after all, when he was discovered to have spiritual potential, it took him a whole year to condense his spiritual body through excavation and refinement, whereas Ye Xuan had only taken a few months.

  Ye Xuan nodded, he didn't want to say that he had actually condensed it out that night, but hadn't had time to come find you.

  "Great! Great! It seems you were born to be a craftsman!" Master Kong smiled with satisfaction.

  At this time, Luo Xuan did not speak, but instead went alone to the side and started watering the flowers in the courtyard. Kong Daoshi looked at Ye Xuan for a while, then said: "Since you have already condensed your spiritual body, you can now cultivate your spiritual fire."

  Then, Kong Daoshi began to tell Ye Xuan about the Spiritual Flame.

  Spiritual fire, as a symbol of the Artificer, has seven levels in total. The colors of spiritual fire from level one to seven are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Spiritual fire is often thought to be used for forging precious artifacts, but its attacking power is also quite formidable.

  Each rank of spiritual power has different abilities, the fire of the spirit is the foundation of a craftsman, it is a kind of exercise that makes the spirit materialize. After cultivating the fire of the spirit, our original spiritual body will transform into a red body, when you break through to the second rank of craftsman, it will change to orange.

  It is called a method of spiritual practice because it is said that when the creator reaches the highest level, that is, the seventh-level creator, the spiritual body will completely transform into a physical body and can leave our body to become another self.

  Spiritual energy and Xuan energy are two different energies, while spiritual fire is a fire attribute power, so the heart method of Xuan Qi cultivation can better accommodate the play of spiritual energy.

  Ye Xuan was shocked when he heard this, and it turned out that he could actually cultivate a second self, which was a real entity! After listening to Kong Daoshi's explanation, Ye Xuan also benefited greatly. Finally, Kong Daoshi said the words Ye Xuan had been longing to hear: "I will now pass on to you the secret art of cultivating the Spiritual Flame."

  Ye Xuan was overjoyed, but Kong Daoshi continued: "Ye Xuan, are you willing to accept me as your master?"

  Ye Xuan thought for a moment and nodded heavily.

  Kong Daoshi smiled with satisfaction and said: "Good, from today on, you are my Kong Ming's second disciple!"

  At this time, Ye Xuan finally knew the name of Kong Da Shi, Kong Ming. Hmm, Kong Ming? Kongming? Ye Xuan couldn't help but think, and at this moment, he saw Kong Da Shi stretch out a finger and lightly tap on his Tian Ling Gai, and Ye Xuan felt a vast amount of information appear in his mind.

  "The Fire of Spirit Enters the Gate, Cultivating Secret Arts!"

  Ye Xuan didn't even have time to carefully look at the secret technique, when Kong Daoshi said: "Ye Xuan, cultivate well and strive to cultivate a red body by the second day of next month. I hope you won't miss this opportunity!"

  After finishing speaking, Kong Daishi slowly returned to his room.

  Only Ye Xuan was left, foolishly thinking that this empty master always liked to talk and leave halfway. Later, Luo Songyuan arranged a place for Ye Xuan to stay in a house not far from Kong Daoshi. That night, Ye Xuan eagerly began to cultivate the spiritual fire.

  Ye Xuan thought that cultivating the spiritual fire would be easy, but he finally discovered that people's words about how difficult it is to cultivate as a Taoist were not false at all. According to the secret technique passed down by Kong Daoshi, the foundation of cultivating the spiritual fire was to find the spirituality of the spiritual body, which was like the soul, and the fire would be born from another life. To give birth to the fire, one must first connect with the spirit, and only by merging with the spiritual body's soul could one enter the gate.

  But Ye Xuan was depressed and felt a whole night, but did not feel the spirituality of the spiritual body. However, Ye Xuan did not give up. One day, two days, three days passed, and Ye Xuan actually gained nothing. Kong Daoshi let him cultivate the red body on the second day of next month, and now there are less than ten days left. Ye Xuan was very anxious.

  On this day, Ye Xuan was sitting alone in the courtyard, savoring the subtle spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Suddenly, he felt a strong spiritual force rushing towards him. Since Ye Xuan cultivated his spiritual body, his perception of spiritual forces had become very keen. He immediately stood up and mobilized his own spiritual force to counter this unfamiliar spiritual force.

  But this spiritual force was quite strong, and Ye Xuan's fragile mental strength could not resist this force at all.

  Bang!

  Ye Xuan was knocked to the ground by this spiritual force. At this time, a white-clothed and sword-browed young man walked in from outside the door, with a sarcastic smile at the corner of his mouth, his small eyes narrowed, holding a gourd in his hand, seeing Ye Xuan sitting on the ground, he came over and shamelessly said: "Younger brother, why are you sitting on the ground!"

  Ye Xuan glared at him, the spiritual energy just now must have been caused by this young man in front of him. He actually had the nerve to ask me... wait a minute, did he just call me "Shidi" (younger brother)? Could it be that he is a disciple of Kong Dashi? I remember when Kong Dashi accepted him as his disciple, saying he was his second disciple.

  Ye Xuan stood up, rubbed his still sore chest and asked: "Are you also a disciple of Kong Daoshi?"

  "You're quite clever, I really didn't think Master would take a liking to someone else besides me. Let me tell you, I'm the first disciple of our sect, Fu Long! Now hurry up and call me Big Brother!"

  Ye Xuan looked at him with a mixture of suspicion and doubt, Ye Xuan always felt that there was something strange about Su Long's body, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was. From the moment he entered the door, Ye Xuan had felt that this person seemed to be somewhat out of place with his surroundings. However, he didn't know why he had this feeling either.

  However, Ye Xuan still unwillingly called out: "Senior brother!"

  Fulong heard a voice calling "Shixiong" and immediately his eyebrows rose in delight, his big mouth opened wide and his small eyes formed a stark contrast as he said: "I heard you've been a disciple for three days already, yet you still haven't grasped the Spiritual Flame?"

  Ye Xuan was surprised and asked back: "Really? I don't know how many days it took for you, Master, to come up with this?"

  "One time unit!" Fu Long said proudly with his nose up.

  "What? One time period?" Ye Xuan was shocked upon hearing this.