Ling Tian, through his Heavenly Eye divine ability, saw dozens of energy bodies with very strange shapes wandering in this area.
Just as Ling Tian was pondering the origin of these things, an energy body floating dozens of meters away seemed to be suddenly awakened.
Ling Tian saw that the facial features on this energy body suddenly became ferocious, and then the energy body lunged at Ling Tian at an extremely fast speed.
Ling Tian was greatly alarmed. With a flash of thought, a Blazing Fire Talisman appeared in his hand, and he directly threw the Blazing Fire Talisman out.
A fireball the size of a human head flew towards the energy body.
"Boom!"
The Blazing Fire Talisman exploded in mid-air, forming a large flame about two cubic meters in size.
However, this flame did not cause any damage to the energy body. Instead, after the energy body came into contact with the flame, it seemed to directly absorb the flame, and the energy body actually became larger!
"Holy crap, what the hell is this!"
Before Ling Tian could react further, the energy body collided with him.
Ling Tian's true essence circulated wildly within his body, and the fire-attribute true essence formed a barrier on the surface of his body.
However, even so, Ling Tian felt his body enveloped by terrifying heat, and five white lights flashed intensely on his body at that moment!
Ling Tian's face turned green with fright. He knew that these white lights were his Diamond Talismans, and each Diamond Talisman could withstand a fatal level of damage for Ling Tian!
And the explosion of so many Diamond Talismans just now indicated that the energy body had dealt him at least five fatal blows!
However, after all, Diamond Talismans were not ordinary objects. The immense energy generated by the explosion of the Diamond Talismans also dispersed the orange energy body, causing it to dissipate in the air.
Ling Tian felt a lingering fear. If two such energy bodies had pounced on him simultaneously, even with his life-saving abilities, he probably wouldn't have been able to withstand it!
What one fears most often comes to pass. The explosion just now might have caused air currents, and from a distance, several energy bodies were rapidly approaching Ling Tian.
It was clear that Ling Tian's situation was somewhat perilous.
Just then, Ling Tian suddenly felt a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if a lot of knowledge was suddenly being poured into his mind.
Ling Tian's thoughts flashed quickly, and his figure immediately disappeared from the Spirit Realm space. Only a key-shaped imprint appeared on the ground where he had just stood.
Shortly after Ling Tian disappeared, several energy bodies also arrived. They circled the place where Ling Tian had vanished for a long time. Finding nothing unusual, they continued to float in this space as if they were lifeless and unconscious, just like before.
Ling Tian entered the Spirit Realm space and began to digest the knowledge that had entered his mind. Soon, he found relevant descriptions of these energy bodies.
From his inheritance, Ling Tian learned that these strange energy bodies were called Fire Spirit Essences.
These things generally appeared in places where fire-attribute heavenly spiritual energy was dense, and there was only one such place: near volcanic craters.
A large amount of fire-attribute heavenly spiritual energy collided and accumulated, eventually forming an energy body with basic consciousness.
This energy body was the Fire Spirit Essence. Of course, this thing possessed a tiny bit of intelligence, but it was not enough for them to think. Instead, like single-celled organisms, they acted purely on instinct.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this was an invisible, colorless high-temperature gas. Only cultivators using techniques like the Heavenly Eye divine ability could see its true form.
In the memory inheritance, the Fire Spirit Essence was a very precious item. Although dangerous, it was a heavenly treasure in the eyes of cultivators.
For example, Fire Spirit Essences could be used for artifact forging. This thing had a very high temperature and could melt most metals, burning away impurities.
Even more precious was that it could be directly converted into the spirit of a weapon, imbuing the weapon with a certain spirituality during the smelting process.
Furthermore, Fire Spirit Essences could be used to cultivate some very powerful and destructive fire-attribute techniques!
However, for Ling Tian at the moment, a very serious reality lay before him: how to deal with these Fire Spirit Essences and how to collect them for his own use.
As Ling Tian pondered, his footsteps involuntarily led him to the blacksmith's shop in the Spirit Realm space. Ling Tian was stunned because he discovered that the Spirit Realm space had evolved again after absorbing a large amount of fire-attribute heavenly spiritual energy!
Originally, only some functions of the blacksmith's shop were unlocked. Now, the entire blacksmith's shop had appeared before Ling Tian.
But what attracted Ling Tian the most was the large furnace placed in the center of the blacksmith's shop. While called a furnace, it looked more like a cauldron with a lid.
This furnace was covered with very ancient yet mystical patterns, and in the center, three human-head-sized characters were engraved: Burning Heaven Cauldron.
Following this, a large amount of information entered Ling Tian's mind.
The Burning Heaven Cauldron before him was no ordinary item. It was said to have been forged by a supremely talented cultivator thousands of years ago with his lifelong efforts.
This cultivator himself practiced fire-attribute cultivation techniques, and his greatest strengths were forging and artifact refining.
During his forging and artifact refining, he was troubled by some materials that were both hard and heat-resistant, making them difficult to melt.
So, he racked his brains, spent decades collecting materials, and finally created the Burning Heaven Cauldron. However, on the day the cauldron was completed, he fell ill and eventually died.
The Burning Heaven Cauldron then fell into the hands of Ling Tian's ancestors.
The greatest function of the Burning Heaven Cauldron was refining qi. By injecting true essence into it, it could generate temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius.
Even titanium alloy, a top-tier heat-resistant metal, would melt directly at this temperature, and objects with lower ignition points would even vaporize.
The second function of the Burning Heaven Cauldron was refinement.
Earlier, the Spirit Realm Key had absorbed a large amount of fire-attribute heavenly spiritual energy, and this spiritual energy was ultimately drawn into this cauldron. The violent fire-attribute spiritual energy became extremely docile and obedient, stored within the Spirit Realm space.
The third function of the Burning Heaven Cauldron, and the most needed by Ling Tian at present, was to absorb and store various fire seeds and all kinds of fire-attribute energies!
Coincidentally, the Fire Spirit Essences wandering in this area were also part of an energy body!
Seeing this, a smile finally appeared on Ling Tian's face.