Chapter 36 Golden Crow Divine Fire? Green Lotus Core Flame?

After settling on a general idea, Ling Chen opened the System Mall to browse. Aside from being able to freely create within the secret realm space, the System Mall also offered many pre-made treasures that could be directly purchased. Compared to self-creation, treasures from the System Mall were more affordable and also more stable than those imagined out of thin air.

Very quickly, Ling Chen set his sights on one particular treasure.

Green Lotus Core Flame!

This “strange flame” from the Battle Qi World wasn’t flashy or filled with gimmicks — all its attributes were stacked purely in destructive power, making it far more powerful than other flames of the same level.

The price was quite reasonable too — only 99,999 Shock Points, and it even came with a Green Lotus Gift Pack. What truly made Ling Chen interested, though, was the color of the Green Lotus Core Flame — it was almost identical to the flame he had assigned as the innate divine fire of the sixth Golden Crow prince he had created.

Three-legged Golden Crows were said to be Solar Divine Birds, born with mastery over the Fire Dao and naturally wielding innate divine fire.

Especially those with royal Golden Crow bloodlines — like the Golden Crow princes — their innate flames were close in nature to True Sun Fire, with destructive power comparable to innate spiritual treasures.

When Ling Chen was designing the illusionary battlefield, he had assigned each Golden Crow prince a unique color for their divine flame, used to represent their innate fire. The sixth prince’s flame was designed as a jade-green flame.

Of course, there was a fundamental difference between the two. Though the Green Lotus Core Flame was a well-known strange fire from the Battle Qi World, it was still far inferior to the Golden Crow Divine Fire, which was nearly on par with True Sun Fire. Their similarities were mainly in appearance.

Ling Chen wanted exactly this kind of effect After witnessing the Golden Crow Divine Fire in the illusion, which could burn heaven and earth, Xiao Yueying would naturally and subconsciously regard the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame as a weakened version of the Golden Crow Divine Fire wielded by the Golden Crow’s Sixth Prince.

From this, she would draw the conclusion that with the passage of time, the essence of treasures had diminished. In this way, the previous effects of the Golden Crow’s blood could also be reasonably explained.

“System, purchase one Green Lotus Earth Core Flame.”

Having thought it through, Ling Chen didn’t hesitate any longer and directly made the purchase.

“Purchase successful. 99,999 Shock Points consumed. Bonus: Green Lotus Gift Pack.”

The system’s voice rang in his mind.

At the same time, a green flame radiating intense heat appeared in Ling Chen’s system space, along with a gift pack decorated with a green lotus emblem.

“Open the Green Lotus Gift Pack.”

Ling Chen raised his hand and pointed forward. The Green Lotus Gift Pack immediately flew out of the system space. Above the secret realm, the gift pack burst into an incomparably dazzling light.

Then it transformed into countless green lotus platforms scattered throughout the secret realm space—there were dozens in total. These green lotus platforms were roughly the same in shape but varied in grade.

First-grade, second-grade, third-grade… There was even at least one ninth-grade green lotus!

This Nine-Grade Lotus stood about half the height of a person, with nine leaves, each crystal-clear as if carved from the finest jade. At the center of the lotus was a smooth lotus platform several feet wide, wrapped by the nine green leaves.

Around the lotus platform were many tiny holes, emitting faint glowing lights—these were the Green Lotus Seeds nurtured in flames. Below the lotus was a root several meters long, entirely crimson, giving the impression of having been burned in flames for countless years.

“The system marketplace is really thoughtful. It even included a matching Green Lotus Platform, saving me the trouble of creating one myself,” Ling Chen muttered with a smile.

The moment his words fell, he flicked his finger, and a stream of Green Lotus Earth Core Fire surged out. Scorching energy instantly flooded the entire secret realm. The fire’s core body naturally settled onto the lotus platform of the Nine-Grade Green Lotus.

“Zzzz…”

This secret realm was already filled with rich spiritual energy, and now, with the burning of the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire, it surged even more violently, making one feel as if their very bloodline was about to explode.

“This flame is terrifying. Cultivators below the Foundation Establishment stage would likely be vaporized instantly. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators wouldn’t last long in here,” Ling Chen estimated, shaking his head repeatedly.

He wanted to harvest Shock Points, not create a forbidden zone where no one could survive.

“Well then, I’ll make some more arrangements.”

Ling Chen formed a hand out of vital energy and swept up the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame along with all the green lotuses into his grasp. In the next instant, boundless magma rained down from the sky, forming massive magma pools that continuously spewed fire serpents.

But the temperature here was far inferior to that of the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame — even a cultivator at the Qi Refining Realm could withstand it, though they’d find it rather uncomfortable. Next, Ling Chen carried out a series of further arrangements.

At last, the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame was properly placed. With this, the complexity of the secret realm increased by several times. Even with Xiao Yueying’s current strength, obtaining the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame wouldn’t be easy.

“Perhaps I can use this opportunity to uncover that Yan Fei’s background.”

Thinking this, Ling Chen couldn’t help but smile.

The second layer of the Golden Crow Secret Realm was now essentially complete. After pondering for a moment, Ling Chen once again used his old trick in the deepest part of the secret realm, creating a flaming gate that led to the third layer.

Whether or not he would actually create the third layer in the future, he’d at least have the gate ready. Standing before the gate of fire, Ling Chen furrowed his brows.

His consciousness had already dived into the system space, checking his Shock Point balance. After all his arrangements, he still had 730,000 Shock Points left.

He was about to make a bold decision — To manifest, in reality, one of the items from the “Hou Yi Shoots the Suns” illusion!