Moonlight spilled upon the earth, and in the candle-lit room where flames flickered softly,
Dantai Jinglian—who moments ago had been drinking alone beneath the moon, carefree and unrestrained—suddenly became fully alert.
Her pair of eyes, once blurred with intoxication, turned astonishingly bright in an instant.
All because a voice that rang out in her mind snapped her awake.
[Ding. The reward for the diary owner Chu Ge's daily entry has been settled. Instance holder Dantai Jinglian has received the reward: Golden Crow Origin Essence ×1 (Collect 100 portions to refine the True Solar Flame. This is the progenitor of all fires, the source of ten thousand flames, capable of commanding all fire in the world—the supreme pinnacle of the Fire Dao!).]
Time seemed to freeze.
The hand holding her wine cup clenched abruptly.
With a sharp crack, the exquisite cup made of top-grade spiritual material shattered on the spot—yet Dantai Jinglian seemed not to notice in the slightest.
She continued gripping her palm tightly, as if afraid something would slip away from her grasp.
Only after a long while did she finally calm the turbulent emotions in her heart and slowly loosen her hand.
"Junior Nephew Chu… you've truly given me an earth-shattering surprise…"
She murmured to herself. Her crimson lips, illuminated by the light, glowed with an alluring sheen.
No one knew just how intense and shocking her emotions had been just a moment ago.
Unlike Luo Huangjun, Dantai Jinglian's path of cultivation at the very beginning had been fraught with hardship.
Although she was of the direct lineage of the Dantai clan, her natural talent was ordinary. Her status within the family was unremarkable, and she received very little support—only a handful of people had ever lent her a helping hand.
Fortunately, though her aptitude was mediocre, her comprehension and innate insight were nothing short of monstrous.
Relying on terrifying insight to make up for her lack of natural talent,
step by step, she steadily advanced, until she finally became a core true disciple of the Taihuang Sacred Land.
Thereafter, she was allowed to cultivate one of Taihuang's supreme core techniques—the Flame-Sovereign Incinerating the Cosmos Sutra.
After stepping into the realm of Great Power through this scripture, Dantai Jinglian forged her own unique path.
Taking the Flame-Sovereign Sutra as her foundation and the strange fires of heaven and earth as her core, she created a law that belonged solely to herself.
By refining and fusing several extraordinary flames, she elevated her own physique.
From an ordinary mortal body, she underwent transformation step by step!
Fire Spirit Body.
Azure Flame King Body.
And now—the Crimson Lotus Sacred Body!
From a disregarded junior of her clan to the current Grand Elder of the Taihuang Sacred Land—her rise was nothing short of legendary.
That elder brother who had once treated her kindly and often looked after her was aided by her to break into the realm of Great Power and, in one stroke, became the clan patriarch. As for the entire Dantai clan, even they now had to watch her expression carefully.
Yet even now, she had encountered a bottleneck and could advance no further.
She lacked one crucial thing—something that could command and unify the several extraordinary flames within her body.
On ordinary days, she could rely on her terrifying cultivation base to forcibly suppress those flames and keep them docile.
But this inevitably affected her cultivation. Only by truly commanding the flames and preventing their restlessness could this hidden danger be resolved at its root.
Yet how difficult was it to command extraordinary flames?
And hers were not just one—but several. The difficulty had been raised to a truly frightening level.
Over all these years, she had only ever seen a single object capable of meeting her requirements—the supreme treasure of Taihuang, the Blazing Flame Tower!
The three Dao-Proving weapons forged by the founding Sacred Lord, also called Supreme Weapons or Imperial Arms—
the Blazing Flame Tower, the Blazing Dragon Seal retrieved by Chu Ge, and the Blazing Calamity Sword wielded by Luo Huangjun—these were the three great treasures of Taihuang.
And the Blazing Flame Tower was currently in Dantai Jinglian's hands.
However, its rank was far too high. She held the right to use it, yet she had no way to refine it.
After all, it was one of the Dao-Proving weapons of the founding Sacred Lord.
A twelfth-heaven cultivator had poured boundless effort into forging it, combining it with his own supreme Dao-creating method. Within it resided a powerful true spirit.
To forcibly refine it would inevitably invite a backlash from that true spirit.
Not to mention that the Taihuang Sacred Land itself would never permit her to refine the Blazing Flame Tower.
After years of fruitless searching, she had long since given up hope.
Yet, just when all seemed hopeless, a new path appeared—this incomparably mysterious diary instance had given her hope once more.
In fact, when she first laid eyes on this diary, Dantai Jinglian had already recognized its extraordinary nature.
What kind of diary could be burned to ashes, yet restore itself as if nothing had happened?
After witnessing its indestructible trait, a playful impulse surged within her—and she began burning it again and again.