Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 149 — Fire Blue
Xiao Rou and Linxia were alone when the time was already approaching night, Zhou Yuan escorted them all the way to the entrance of the inn gate.
"You must be careful on the road!" Zhou Yuan stroked the two girls' heads in turn. Xiao Rou and Linxia nodded, the two then left the inn.
"You're not in?" Yifei asked as Zhou Yuan said he wanted to go outside first.
"I have business outside, you can rest first..." Zhou Yuan smiled gently.
Yifei did not ask any further, he went into the inn and rested while Zhou Yuan sat on the veranda waiting for Jiang Long's arrival.
It almost took an hour until Jiang Long finally returned to the inn.
"Have you waited so long?" Jiang Long saw Zhou Yuan was waiting for him.
"No Senior, I just waited here." Zhou Yuan replied with a faint smile. "Senior himself has already settled the affairs in the city?"
Jiang Long did not reply but instead showed the leather pouch he was carrying. Zhou Yuan did not know what was inside the leather pouch but it was definitely quite strange in size and shape.
"Well, we're not waiting anymore, looks like you can't wait to learn this technique?"
Zhou Yuan nodded, in this second life he tried to perhaps get stronger either training or learning anything. All for his family and second for his revenge.
"Hm, I forgot where to teach you..." Jiang Long scratched his head. "Ah, how about we explain understanding first before practice."
"Senior Good..." Zhou Yuan nodded slowly.
Jiang Long then stretched out both of his hands before starting to drain the profound energy on both of his palms.
A blue flame shortly afterwards appeared in Jiang Long's right hand and a yellow flame was created in his left hand.
"You see for yourself Yuan'er, the blue flame and the yellow flame seem to exclude the same color but in terms of density, temperature, and stability both are quite different." Jiang Long began to explain.
"The blue flame is far superior to the yellow flame of all things, the temperature of the blue flame is hotter, the density is perfect and the stability is also balanced. Blue fire is the next level of yellow fire..."
Jiang Long then explained how creating blue and yellow flames was a little different. Blue fire does not only rely on internal energy changes, it also requires other elements, namely body heat.
"You know that, don't you? Humans are warm-blooded, in contrast to wild animals such as crocodiles, snakes, or fish that have cold blood." Jiang Long scratched his head, he was among those who were not good at explaining. "The point is, to make a blue fire, in addition to the energy in you also have to channel your body's heat temperature to control the fire."
"So blue fire is created when the fire element is combined with one's body temperature?" Zhou Yuan concluded.
"More or less like that..." Jiang Long then gave a leaf to Zhou Yuan's palm. "Before that I wanted to know, did you really have the ability to control the fire element or not?"
Zhou Yuan nodded, he understood Jiang Long's intention of giving him a leaf.
In the martial world, a swordsman generally has one element that can be mastered, only a small part can master two or three elements while some rare people can be more than five elements at once.
There are said to be 27 elements that can be used by warriors in the martial world but only five of them are the most commonly used elements such as fire, water, earth, wind, and lightning.
The element decider for the average swordsman followed from his lineage, for example the Jiang Family, he was one of the families where all his descendants were fire element users.
There was also Fang Ao who was previously at Zhou Yuan's opponent, that young man was from the Fang clan, every member of his clan could master the change of ice type.
Zhou Yuan himself was a user of the fire element, corresponding to the element in his first life. He once checked it with a leaf.
Zhou Yuan grasped the leaf in his palm before starting to drain the profound energy on the leaf. When Zhou Yuan released his grasp, a fire appeared and burned the leaf.
"I guessed it, your element is indeed the same as the fire element of the Jiang Family." Jiang Long smiled with satisfaction.
If the leaf is cut off then Zhou Yuan has wind element in his body, if wet is water element, tangled means lightning element and so on, each element has its own mark.
"I've seen how powerful your fire element is, Yuan'er, I think you've come to understand the basic characteristics of fire so it won't be difficult for you to master blue fire quickly..." Jiang Long then had Zhou Yuan start practicing, concentrating in order to combine the hot temperature of his body with the flames he created.
Zhou Yuan sat cross-legged on the porch of the house, on top of his palms he brought out a blaze.
Zhou Yuan started to close his eyes as well as concentrate according to what Jiang Long said, combining the hot temperature of his body with the flames he made.
Jiang Long watched Zhou Yuan, half an hour the young man sat cross-legged a blue spark began to appear in his palm but only a moment before he disappeared back.
"Hm, this is going to be faster than I thought..." Jiang Long stroked his chin.
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Jiang Yifei came out of his room after sleeping and cleaned himself up, he was a little surprised because Zhou Yuan usually woke up earlier than him and was in the kitchen to prepare breakfast but now the young man was not seen.
Jiang Yifei exited the inn, only then did he finally meet the young man who was sitting cross-legged and closed his eyes. Not far from him he saw his uncle who was asleep standing.
Yifei's eyes widened when he saw that there was a blue flame appearing in Zhou Yuan's palm, that was when he began to understand the situation.
Not long after Yifei appeared, Zhou Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze glancing towards the flames that were in his palm, after concentrating for quite a long time he was finally able to make those blue flames.
"Brother Yuan, did you also learn the blue fire technique from uncle?"
Zhou Yuan belatedly realized Yifei was already beside him, he was a little shocked but immediately calmed down. Zhou Yuan then nodded in response from the girl.
"Do you want breakfast?" At the inn, it was usually Zhou Yuan who cooked.
"No need, I can cook for myself, you just focus on your practice." Yifei was unwilling to bother Zhou Yuan, after all he had learned a lot from the young man over the past few days.
Although it could not be said to be very delicious, but at least Yifei's cuisine could be enjoyed by himself.
"You've mastered it?" Jiang Long finally woke up from her sleep after half an hour of Zhou Yuan's awakening.
Zhou Yuan nodded then showed the results of his practice, he created blue flames on both palms, with nothing yellow anymore.
Jiang Long clapped his hands. "You turned out to be very talented, more talented than Yifei when he started practicing."
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly, not feeling the slightest pride in knowing his understanding now came from his first life.
"Okay, now we move on to the second stage..." Jiang Long raised a similar blue flame in her hand grip then formed it into a sword. "Change the shape of the element."
Blue fire has a perfect density in other senses it can solidify as well as harden. The blue flame allowed one to be able to make weapons one example was a sword.
"Just like before, you should concentrate on making a fire sword by imagining the shape of the sword. The more you concentrate on controlling that fire, the sharper and denser the sword you make."
Jiang Long also not only displayed his fire sword, he turned the blue flame into a protector that enveloped his body.
Not only did he get there, Jiang Long displayed a technique that made Zhou Yuan hold his breath.
"You know why Fei'er is called the blue fire fairy?" Jiang Long created a fire wing on his body and slowly it dodged, making Jiang Long start to float in the air. "Because Fei'er can already do something like this..."
Zhou Yuan was amazed, he was now beginning to understand and wanted to quickly start learning the blue fire technique even deeper.
Jiang Long who witnessed Zhou Yuan's enthusiasm could only shake his head slowly.
That day Zhou Yuan chose not to go to the tournament arena, although the participants he had no obligation to go there again after competing and qualifying for the next round.
Zhou Yuan spent his time focusing on learning to master the blue fire technique quickly.