The Record of Wondrous Flames was a kind of tome that organized the renowned flames of the cultivation world. The flames recorded within, as one might guess from the name ‘wondrous flames’, were no ordinary fires; they all possessed special properties. Wall-Suppressing True Fire.
Soul-Refining Demonic Flame… The first half contained information on relatively common wondrous flames, while the latter half was filled with various explanations of legendary flames from the cultivation world, whose names alone felt extraordinary.
However, these explanations were so grandiose that it felt less like proper information and more like reading a novel scribbled by a madman lost in wild delusions. Jaekyung simply memorized the names of such ‘famous’ flames and erased all the descriptions that followed from his mind.
‘Power is not important. In fact, the more ordinary, the better.’
Jaekyung had acquired the Record of Wondrous Flames to broaden his horizons and to see if there was a fire suitable to become his Origin Fire. For a cultivator who handled fire arts, the Origin Fire was not just a simple flame.
It was a tool like a spirit artifact and a resource like a spirit stone, and yet it was far more important than both, for it was connected to the cultivator's very origin. The benefits of an Origin Fire were too numerous to list.