The crucial next step was to completely fuse the fire seed with his Dantian.
This was essential; only then could the fire seed truly take root and combine with his Dantian.
This was the most dangerous moment; a single mistake could indeed destroy his Dantian!
However, Qin Xuan was not overly afraid.
His body had been refined by the Refining God Cauldron, with stars as his bones and Chaos as his flesh, and a trace of the Ancient Yellow Dragon's essence blood, making his body far stronger than an ordinary person's.
Even if this fire seed was incredibly violent, it would not easily destroy his Dantian; similarly, it would be quite difficult for the fire seed to fuse with Qin Xuan's Dantian.
Qin Xuan steeled his heart, controlling the fire seed to slowly descend to the bottom of his Dantian, completely making contact with it.
“Ah!”
The moment the fire seed touched his Dantian, Qin Xuan let out a scream.
This was too painful!
Ignoring everything else, Qin Xuan hurriedly mobilized the essence blood within his body, using it to irrigate the fire seed.
The burning pain slightly subsided.
It worked!
Qin Xuan was overjoyed and quickly used more essence blood to irrigate the fire seed.
Although the burning pain from the fire seed had disappeared, it still showed no signs of fusing with his Dantian.
His Dantian was much sturdier than others', so the difficulty for the fire seed to take root was naturally higher.
Qin Xuan hardened his resolve, gathering the Ancient Yellow Dragon essence blood he had recently refined and absorbed, and poured it into the fire seed.
“Boom!”
The fire seed suddenly lit up and finally fused with his Dantian; in just a moment, countless fiery threads, like tree roots, firmly embedded themselves into Qin Xuan's Dantian.
The tiny fire seed began to rapidly sprout and grow roots.
The fire seed had begun to merge with his Dantian, and now he could just wait for it to grow.
Qin Xuan stared intently at the movements within his Dantian.
The fire seed grew rapidly, and in just a few breaths, it had already grown into a flame seedling.
However, this flame was almost transparent, without any color.
At this moment, because the fire seed had taken root, the turbulent Spiritual Qi in his Dantian gradually returned to normal, and the burning pain also disappeared.
“This fire seed hasn’t been born long and hasn’t devoured any flames yet, so it naturally has no color.”
Qin Xuan looked at the three Earth Vein Fires, and his heart stirred.
These three Earth Vein Fires were indeed powerful, but Qin Xuan was confident he could absorb them.
Qin Xuan rushed towards the three Earth Vein Fires, with the Refining God Cauldron following closely behind.
With the suppressing aura of the Refining God Cauldron, the three Earth Vein Fires dared not resist, and Qin Xuan easily used Spiritual Qi chains to capture the red lotus-shaped Earth Vein Fire among them.
He guided the Earth Vein Fire into his Dantian with the Spiritual Qi chains, and immediately, the fire seed seedling swayed, completely absorbing this Earth Vein Fire.
After absorbing this Earth Vein Fire, the fire seed grew slightly taller, but its color remained transparent.
“It seems the effect isn’t very obvious.”
Qin Xuan stroked his chin; he had originally thought the fire seed would grow much taller as a result.
However, this was natural; Earth Vein Fire was inferior to Heavenly Fire and Spirit Fire, so it naturally wasn't much.
Next, Qin Xuan followed suit, refining the other two Earth Vein Fires as well.
After completely devouring the three Earth Vein Fires, the fire seed finally took on a faint red hue, and the flame became much more vigorous than before.
For this fire seed seedling to grow faster, it needed more flames, not ordinary fires, but Earth Vein Fire, Spirit Fire, and even Heavenly Fire.
Qin Xuan pondered the words left by the Empress.
Since the three Earth Vein Fires had been absorbed, the surrounding heat gradually began to dissipate.
Next, he turned his gaze towards the magma below.
There were three Earth Vein Fires here, and the fire attribute was extremely strong, so there should be fire crystal stones beneath.
fire crystal stone is a crystal purely composed of fire attribute, and it contains abundant fire attribute energy.
Therefore, it is a necessary item for many Alchemists, and can be said to be priceless.
A single fire crystal stone could sell for hundreds of High-Grade Spirit Stones in a larger shop or auction house!
The betrothal gift the Qin Family gave to the Liu Family earlier was 100,000 Spirit Stones, but those were all Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
One High-Grade Spirit Stone is equivalent to one hundred Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and one Mid-Grade Spirit Stone is equivalent to one hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones.
In other words, the betrothal gift the Qin Family gave to the Liu Family was only one-tenth the value of a single fire crystal stone.
Thinking of this, Qin Xuan couldn't help but feel even more excited.
100,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones was already an astronomical figure in Fire Wind City.
Yet, outside, it couldn't even buy a single fire crystal stone.
Thinking of this, Qin Xuan stared intently at the magma below, preparing to continue his actions.
However, even though the Earth Vein Fire had disappeared, the magma was still incredibly hot at this moment.
That's right, although the fire seed was just a flame seedling, it had absorbed three Earth Vein Fires and could already protect itself.
Thinking of this, he tried to use the fire seed to protect himself, so that the magma wouldn't harm him!
Qin Xuan controlled the flame seedling, letting it protect him, and then he plunged into the magma.
With the protection of the flame, the surrounding magma had almost no effect on him.
In this way, Qin Xuan was almost unaffected throughout his journey.
Going straight down, after less than half an hour, Qin Xuan still hadn't reached the bottom of the magma.
At this point, Qin Xuan couldn't help but be surprised.
These three Earth Vein Fires were too overbearing; he had already dived so deep, yet he still hadn't reached the bottom.
After diving for another stick of incense's time, Qin Xuan finally saw the bottom of the magma.
“There really are fire crystal stones.”
Qin Xuan was overjoyed.
At the very bottom of the magma, it was actually covered with fiery red crystals.
“I’m going to get rich now!”
Looking at the fire crystal stones covering the bottom of the magma, Qin Xuan couldn't stop smiling.
One fire crystal stone was equivalent to one hundred High-Grade Spirit Stones, and there were at least a thousand fire crystal stones here.
In other words, the value of just these fire crystal stones alone was 100,000 High-Grade Spirit Stones.
This was truly a huge sum of money.
Qin Xuan rushed over and began to collect the fire crystal stones.
Before long, Qin Xuan had collected all of these fire crystal stones.
Exactly 1,400 fire crystal stones.
“I’ve really struck it rich!”
Qin Xuan couldn't help but feel a little smug.
This trip into the mountains, he not only increased his strength by hunting spirits.
He also obtained the fire seed and fire crystal stones, which was a huge profit no matter how he looked at it.
“Eh?”
Qin Xuan's peripheral vision swept across the bottom of the magma, and he let out a soft exclamation.
Some strange patterns seemed to be carved into the bottom of the magma.
What is this?
Looking at these things, Qin Xuan instinctively felt a bad premonition!
No matter how he looked at it, something seemed off about this thing!
For some reason, Qin Xuan felt as if he was inexplicably involved in some incredibly significant event!