Chapter 219: Golden Crow Heavenly Fire

“Who exactly are you?”
The veiled woman, full of wariness, stepped back again.
She had realized that Su Che’s claimed cultivation level of mid-stage Foundation Establishment must be fake. This person was likely a skilled expert at mid-stage Golden Core.
“Who I am isn’t important,” Su Che replied in a deep voice. “You asked me for help just now, so that’s why I intervened. I didn’t just barge into your fight, did I?”
The veiled woman was momentarily speechless. Indeed, it had been she who asked Su Che for help. In other words, Su Che’s actions carried no trace of provocation.
However, Su Che’s strength far exceeded her expectations.
In the Immortal Prison, Lao He used special stimulation techniques to wake up the Fire Crow. He got straight to the point and, within just a dozen breaths, figured out the answer through mind reading.
“Master, only a small half of the seed of Golden Crow Heavenly Fire has been swallowed by it; there’s still plenty left,” Lao He reported immediately.
“Thankfully…” Su Che felt slightly relieved.
The seed of Golden Crow Heavenly Fire was extremely precious. If it had indeed been completely swallowed by that Fire Crow, Su Che would have been heartbroken. Although it had been captured and brought into the Immortal Prison, what it spat out would surely not be Golden Crow Heavenly Fire, but a corrupted, impure variant of it.
If all kinds of flames in the cultivation world were ranked into ten levels, then Earth Core Fire was only a third-level spiritual flame, Samadhi True Fire was a fourth-level true flame, Sun True Fire was a fifth-level true flame, while Golden Crow Heavenly Fire could be considered a seventh-level spiritual flame…
Spiritual flames above the seventh level were extremely rare—how could they be lost?!
“Fellow cultivator, I need to go down and fetch some flames. Goodbye,” Su Che said, bowing to the veiled woman.
After all, since she specialized in water-based cultivation techniques, collecting flames should hold no appeal for her.
Unexpectedly, as Su Che descended vertically, the veiled woman followed as well.
“Fellow cultivator, do you still have something on your mind?” Su Che asked via telepathy. He didn’t want anyone to disturb him while collecting Golden Crow Heavenly Fire.
“There’s a phenomenon here where spiritual energy is converging—clearly, a treasure is about to emerge,” the veiled woman replied telepathically. “Since the treasure has no owner, anyone can claim it. If you’re only here to collect Earth Core Fire, there’s no need for you to interfere with me, right?”
“A treasure? Whatever you say!”
Su Che smiled inwardly. The convergence of spiritual energy must have been caused by the Fire Crow swallowing Golden Crow Heavenly Fire—how could there be any treasure emerging?
Besides, even if there was some treasure, Su Che didn’t really care. At this moment, the only treasure in his heart was Golden Crow Heavenly Fire.

Having descended more than two thousand zhang, they reached the magma convergence area where the underground fire veins lay. Such an environment in an underground furnace was undoubtedly very familiar to Su Che—he had practiced in the underground fire veins of the Yin Wind Gorge for countless days before establishing his foundation…

Based on the memories in the Fire Crow’s mind, Lao He guided Su Che, leading them through the underground fire veins until they quickly found the location of the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire.

The place was extremely hidden; without deliberate searching, it would be easy to miss it. Inside the magma, a fire eye gushed forth, its flames a pale gold color with even some transparent white hues—this was the precious seed of the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire that Su Che was determined to obtain.

The temperature of the fire seed was quite low, and based solely on the surrounding temperature, those lacking experience might easily overlook this fire eye, failing to realize that such a small flame was actually an incredibly valuable Grade 7 spiritual fire.

Thus, the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire had existed here for countless years, only once discovered by Grandmaster Guang Wu… plus that Fire Crow, which had now become a prisoner of the Immortal Prison realm.

Thinking of this, Su Che couldn’t help but marvel once again at his extraordinary luck. That Fire Crow came neither early nor late—precisely when he was about to retrieve the fire seed, it showed up first to cause trouble, complicating what should have been a straightforward task.

For example, that veiled woman followed him all the way here as well. Su Che didn’t mind her following; if she dared to cause trouble, it would just be another battle. Having been tempered in the Hundred Battles Arena, he was unafraid of opponents at the early Golden Core stage.

The veiled woman thought that seeing Su Che move around here so confidently, she assumed he already had a clear plan regarding the “treasure” about to be born, so she regarded him as a guide and silently followed behind.

“This is…”

Upon seeing the fire eye, although the veiled woman didn’t recognize the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire, she instinctively sensed that this flame was unusual.

“This is the flame I’m here to retrieve,” Su Che said with a smile as he turned around. “Do you also have an interest in it?”

The veiled woman was greatly disappointed and could only shake her head silently.

Water and fire are incompatible—she specialized in water-based cultivation techniques, making any spiritual fire useless to her. Moreover, all kinds of flames in the world would strongly repel her water-based body. If it were her trying to obtain a flame, it would be a hundred times more difficult than for Su Che.

That’s why Su Che didn’t stop her from following.

Great skill breeds boldness. Under her gaze, Su Che boldly took out the bronze treasure gourd and muttered to the spark of the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire, “Absorb!”
The veiled woman’s vision and experience were rather ordinary; she couldn’t tell that the unassuming small gourd in Su Che’s hand was a top-tier spiritual treasure. She thought it was merely a special container for holding fire.
She had many such containers, all used to hold spiritual water in the world.
Ignorance can be a blessing. Regarding Su Che’s actions, she only showed mild curiosity without much thought. Thus, she didn’t provoke Su Che’s retaliation.
Huh…
As soon as the spiritual treasure appeared, all the fires bowed their heads.
The spark of the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire didn’t resist being absorbed into the bronze treasure gourd; it obediently transformed into a stream of fire and was drawn in.
The heavenly fire had a spirit—it seemed to understand that the world of fire within the gourd was a better place for it to dwell than these underground fire veins. Moreover, since Su Che had already grasped the “Rhythm of Fire,” he invisibly earned the title of “One Who Is Close to Fire,” so there would be no significant rejection from all the fires in the world.
After a dozen breaths, Su Che thought to himself, “As expected of a level-seven spiritual fire. It seems like just a small cluster of flames. Even after absorbing it for so long, there’s no obvious decrease…”
Back in the Ink Crystal Mine in the underground demon realm, it had taken just as long to absorb an entire furnace of core fire.
Huh…
Keep absorbing!
As a bystander, the veiled woman couldn’t help but disdainfully think, “This person must be short on money, unable to afford even a slightly better container for spiritual fire. It takes so much time to handle such a small flame!”
People who don’t know value often end up making such jokes…
After another while, just as the spark was about to be completely absorbed, something unexpected happened to Su Che.
A sudden change!
Boom!
The entire Golden Crow Mountain began to shake violently, as if about to experience an unprecedented outburst of fire…
“Could absorbing the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire have triggered a change in the underground fire veins?”
At first, Su Che didn’t pay much attention. As someone close to fire, he wasn’t afraid of even the largest flames, just as a fish wouldn’t complain about having too much water.
“What’s happening?”
The veiled woman, however, was secretly panicked. The world of fire posed the greatest threat to her, a being of water energy.
“You’d better go hide somewhere.”
Su Che was still trying to absorb the remaining spark. Out of kindness, he turned to advise her, “This place isn’t suitable for you.”
As soon as those words left his mouth…
Boom!

From the flaming eyes before him, a tall column of pale golden flames erupted suddenly. The terrifying heat nearly scorched even someone as fire-affinity adept as Su Che.
“What? How could there be more?”
Su Che’s eyes widened in shock.
All the fire seeds had already been collected, yet the fierce flames spewing out now were even more of those Golden Crow Heavenly Flames.
“Master!” Old Hei shouted, “A great deal of Golden Crow Heavenly Flames is surging up from deep underground. You’d better step back.”
Without hesitation, Su Che retreated over ten zhang at once, but he still didn’t forget to vigorously activate the Bronze Treasure Gourd to absorb these Golden Crow Heavenly Flames frantically.
Although a mountain of gold could kill people, no one feared it. To Su Che, these Golden Crow Heavenly Flames were like an entire mountain of gold.
“The more, the better. Come on, come on!”
Su Che was overjoyed.
Boom… Boom…
The Golden Crow Mountain was no longer just trembling—it had begun to collapse.
At the same time, the spiritual energy in a radius of thousands of li was also rushing toward this place wildly. Undoubtedly, such a phenomenon would attract all the cultivators in the nearby area.
Su Che had no time to worry about these. Gold mountains—first, collect all the gold mountains.
With such a chance to get rich right in front of him, where was there room for hesitation?
“I’m leaving first.”
The veiled woman was terrified. How could she not realize that the so-called celestial phenomenon wasn’t the emergence of some treasure but rather caused by these spiritual flames?
No matter how precious the spiritual flames were, they weren’t worth her Water Spirit body taking risks to fight over. It would be wise to retreat and avoid danger.
Su Che didn’t turn around; he just waved his hand, signaling, “Whatever.”
However, through this brief interaction, Su Che sensed that this woman had a good nature and didn’t seem like a malicious person…
Boom… Boom…
Cracks appeared on the massive body of the thousand-zhang-high Golden Crow Mountain, and thick black smoke billowed out from its crater.
Rockslides forced the hundreds of cultivators gathered at the foot of the mountain to retreat in chaos. Their cultivation levels were too low, and they still felt deep fear in the face of such a celestial phenomenon.
Yet they were reluctant to leave, realizing that such a phenomenon also meant the emergence of some opportunity—though it might not necessarily be the discovery of some treasure…
At this moment, from all directions thousands of li away, countless cultivators were rushing toward this place.
The gathering of spiritual energy over a range of thousands of li also attracted some powerful cultivators at the Golden Core stage in the vicinity.
Huh…

Within the underground fire veins, Su Che frantically activated the Spirit Treasure Gourd, absorbing vast amounts of the fierce Golden Crow Heavenly Fire. In the fire world inside the gourd, the humanoid flame monster, which was the spirit of the vessel, also screamed in excitement. Having witnessed the Golden Crow Heavenly Fire, this frog in a well finally realized that there existed even more advanced spiritual flames far beyond those of the Earth’s core. Without time to ponder further, he decided to collect as much of this Golden Crow Heavenly Fire as possible first. Su Che’s expression was solemn; he knew full well that even greater mysteries lay ahead!