Li Fan had a feeling that in this state, even if his body were destroyed and he faced immediate death and the dissolution of his Dao, he would feel no fear.
This was a state of absolute calm and rationality.
It was in this state that Li Fan silently watched as his body was completely encased in ice.
It seemed to be plunged into absolute zero, falling into utter stillness and silence.
Simultaneously, within Li Fan’s sea of consciousness, the Blue Flame phantom spirit fully took form.
The temperature did not rise, yet vitality swiftly returned to Li Fan’s body, as though the extreme cold could no longer affect him.
With a thought from Li Fan, the Blue Flame in his sea of consciousness flickered slightly, and the intense cold vanished in an instant.
In the blink of an eye, Li Fan returned to normal, emerging from that state of absolute rationality.
The extreme cold felt like an illusion, leaving no trace behind.
Is this the power of Blue Flame?
In his sea of consciousness, the nascent Blue Flame phantom spirit fell into slumber. But Li Fan knew he could awaken it at any time to reenter that state.
The four scenarios encountered while visualizing flames of different colors likely correspond to the four states of the Soul Arbiters of heaven and earth.
After some contemplation, Li Fan formed his hypothesis.
Soul Arbiters were the manifestations of the Heavenly Dao’s laws. At the same time, cultivators in this world could refine these Soul Arbiters to attain the Dao Unity realm.
Thus, during the earlier visualization process, those phantoms that could take form but possessed no power likely represented the absence of such Soul Arbiters in existence.
Those that could not take form, like Crimson Flame, likely still belonged within the system of the Heavenly Dao’s laws. Though he could invoke their power, he could not claim ownership.
Those like Black Flame had likely already been refined by Dao Unity cultivators and no longer existed within this world’s system of laws.
So what did Blue Flame represent?
A law on the verge of being born?
Does this mean that soon, somewhere in the cultivation world, the true Soul Arbiter, Blue Flame, will descend? Li Fan fell into deep thought.
After a long while, Li Fan let out a slow breath, pushing his various conjectures about the Soul Arbiters to the back of his mind.
Though he had not succeeded in coalescing the Crimson Flame phantom spirit, he had serendipitously visualized the Blue Flame phantom spirit instead.
Though their attributes were polar opposites, Blue Flame’s power seemed no less formidable than Crimson Flame’s.
His heart surging with delight, Li Fan struck while the iron was hot, resuming his cultivation of the Nether Spirit Illusion Art.
He sought to nurture and strengthen the Blue Flame phantom spirit, to forge it into a weapon capable of striking others with divine sense.
Time flowed onward, measured only by the rhythm of his cultivation.
It wasn’t long before Li Fan was abruptly ejected from the Assisted Cultivation Mode.
The prolonged session had drained his resources; his contribution points had dwindled once more, leaving him with barely over a hundred.