Chapter 188: The Reason for Resurrection
If Lin Mo remembered correctly, Sacred Fire was supposed to be an exclusive Move of Ho-Oh and Entei.
Yet now, it had appeared as a new flame within the Entei talent fused into Charizard.
The last flame to merge into Charizard's Entei talent had been Solar Fire, obtained when Charizard absorbed the third spirit ring provided by the Red Sun Calendula.
At present, the Entei talent contained a total of three flames.
The innate Blaze.
The Solar Fire provided by the Red Sun Calendula.
And now, Sacred Fire.
Blaze enhanced Charizard's fire attribute when its physical condition dropped below a certain level.
Solar Fire enhanced Charizard's fire attribute while it was under sunny weather.
Compared with Blaze and Solar Fire, Sacred Fire had no such restrictive activation conditions.
More importantly, the enhancement it granted was not the fifty percent increase provided by the previous two flames.
Instead, it simply doubled Charizard's fire attribute.
Moreover, Solar Fire had clearly originated from the Red Sun Calendula spirit ring.
But Sacred Fire was different.
Its source was not the Crimson Golden Phoenix.
At most, the sixth spirit ring provided by the Crimson Golden Phoenix could only be considered the trigger that awakened it.
The true source of Sacred Fire was Charizard itself.
As this thought surfaced, Lin Mo suddenly felt a sense of relief.
The question that had troubled him for so long had finally been answered.
Why had he been given another chance at life after dying in the Pokémon world?
And why had Charizard always possessed such extraordinary talent with the fire attribute?
With the appearance of Sacred Fire, everything finally made sense.
It seemed that after Lin Mo and Charizard, who had still been a Charmander at the time, unfortunately died, they had somehow been resurrected by Ho-Oh.
However, for some unknown reason, instead of returning to the Pokémon world, they had transmigrated to the Douluo Continent.
On the other side, Lin Mo's unusual behavior after absorbing the spirit ring naturally attracted everyone's attention.
Dugu Yan walked over with concern.
"Lin Mo, what's wrong? Did something happen during the spirit ring absorption?"
Her voice carried obvious worry.
Hearing this, Lin Mo immediately shook his head and returned to his senses.
"No. Everything went smoothly."
He stood up and stretched his slightly stiff body.
"I obtained the Spirit Ability I wanted from the sixth spirit ring provided by the Crimson Golden Phoenix."
Hearing this, Dugu Bo also looked over.
His gaze swept across Lin Mo.
After sensing that Lin Mo's aura was stable and his spirit power abundant, showing no sign of any problem, he finally relaxed.
"Tell us. What is your sixth Spirit Ability?" Dugu Bo asked.
Lin Mo looked at everyone.
"After absorbing the sixth spirit ring provided by the Crimson Golden Phoenix, the Spirit Ability Charizard obtained is called Sacred Nirvana."
"Its effect is similar to the Nirvana talent displayed by the Crimson Golden Phoenix during our previous battle."
"When Charizard's condition falls to a dangerous threshold, it can trigger Nirvana."
"It can directly remove all abnormal conditions from its body, restore itself to peak condition, and temporarily increase its strength for a period of time afterward."
"At present, Charizard can store four uses of Nirvana, and it can also activate Nirvana voluntarily."
As soon as Lin Mo finished speaking, joy appeared on everyone's faces.
Charizard obtaining such a Spirit Ability was not entirely unexpected.
After all, the Crimson Golden Phoenix's most powerful talent during the previous battle had clearly been its ability to perform Nirvana three consecutive times.
Without that ability, a sixty thousand year Spirit Beast could never have lasted so long against the combined attacks of Dugu Bo and Lin Mo.
"Four Nirvanas..."
Dugu Bo smacked his lips.
"Good kid. You've basically gained four extra lives!"
Ye Linyuan also nodded.
"Not bad. This Spirit Ability is indeed very suitable for you. With such a powerful life saving ability, there probably won't be many people capable of truly threatening you in the future."
However, Ye Lingling, who had been standing nearby, frowned slightly.
She was more attentive than the others and had clearly noticed Lin Mo's brief moment of distraction earlier.
She looked at him and asked softly, "If that's all, you shouldn't have reacted like that just now."
"Wouldn't a normal person be happy after obtaining the Spirit Ability they wanted?"
Hearing this, Lin Mo shook his head helplessly.
"As expected, I couldn't hide it from Sister Lingling."
He looked at Ye Lingling with a gentle gaze.
"Besides the spirit ring, I obtained another unexpected gain."
"That was what distracted me."
"Another gain?"
Dugu Yan blinked curiously.
"What is it?"
Lin Mo did not answer directly.
With a thought, a faint tearing sound suddenly came from the clothes covering his back.
The next moment, under everyone's astonished gazes, a pair of crimson gold wings burst from Lin Mo's back and spread wide.
Each wing was roughly three meters long.
They were completely crimson gold, covered in long and gorgeous feathers, while faint golden light flowed along their edges.
Their shape was seventy to eighty percent similar to the wings of the Crimson Golden Phoenix, but they appeared even more refined and magnificent.
Lin Mo gently flapped them.
His body instantly rose into the air at astonishing speed.
Under the sunlight, the crimson gold wings left behind two brilliant trails of flame.
Lin Mo hovered more than ten meters above the ground, carefully experiencing the lightness brought by the Crimson Phoenix Wings.
To him, these wings felt no different from a natural part of his own body.
He could control them as easily as his arms, without the slightest stiffness or delay.
Lin Mo flapped his wings again.
His figure traced an arc through the air before gradually descending in front of everyone.
He did not retract the Crimson Phoenix Wings.
Instead, they folded gently behind his back.
Seeing Lin Mo like this, everyone was completely stunned.
Dugu Bo's eyes widened as he stared fixedly at the crimson gold wings behind Lin Mo.
Only after a long while did he mutter, "An external Spirit Bone..."
"And a wing type external Spirit Bone..."
Ye Linyuan also drew in a sharp breath, his face filled with shock.
The probability of a ten thousand year Spirit Beast producing a Spirit Bone was not low.
Considering the talent and combat power displayed by the sixty thousand year Crimson Golden Phoenix, there had already been an extremely high chance that it would produce a Spirit Bone.
However, no matter how they had imagined it, none of them had expected the Spirit Bone produced by the Crimson Golden Phoenix to be an extraordinarily rare external Spirit Bone.
And it was even a wing type external Spirit Bone that granted the ability to fly.
Possessing such a Spirit Bone meant that even a Spirit Master without a flying Spirit could gain the ability to soar through the skies.
The significance of this for Lin Mo was obvious.
No wonder he had been stunned for a moment after completing the absorption.
The quality of this external Spirit Bone was clearly superior to the Crimson Heart Lin Mo had obtained previously.
"This... was produced by the Crimson Golden Phoenix?"
Dugu Yan's mouth fell slightly open, disbelief evident in her voice.
"That's right."
Lin Mo nodded.
With another thought, the Crimson Phoenix Wings gradually retracted into his body.
At the torn portion of his clothes, faint crimson gold patterns briefly flashed across his back before disappearing.
"I named them Crimson Phoenix Wings."
"Besides granting me the ability to fly, they also gave me a Spirit Ability called Nirvana."
"The effect is similar to Charizard's Sacred Nirvana."
"I can currently use it three times, and after each use, it takes seven days to recover one activation."