Singing the Fire in The Sun - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Blazing Fire Saber Art
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
With the experience of maintaining the array formation for the first time, Jiang Chen easily changed the next few array formations.
This also allowed him to discover many places where he could sign in repeatedly. There were more than ten places he could do so — the Myriad Flames Cave, the Demon Subduing Prison, the Magma Domain, the Flame Crystal Mine, five more locations with spirit gathering arrays, and so on.
If he had not already signed in today, he would have definitely picked one of those places to test out the effects of doing so.
When he returned to the Firesmith Hall, the other laborers had not returned yet. He had actually completed the task earlier than them.
After a while, voices could be heard from the courtyard.
“Brother Wang’s completion time is brought forward again. If you break the record, please treat me to a good meal.”
“I was just lucky. I was completely lucky!”
Two men dressed as laborers from the Firesmith Hall walked into the hall with smiles on their faces.
“Sigh, if it wasn’t for that newcomer somehow offending the manager, I might have been sent to the west. How would I still be able to do such easy work then?”
“Right, that fellow is really unlucky. I reckon he’ll only be able to return at night!”
The two of them continued to converse as they arrived at the center of the Firesmith Great Hall, preparing to look at the new record.
Every day, these workers would complete the maintenance task required for the Fire Gathering Spiritual Array, and the Fire Stone Tablet within the Firesmith Great Hall would automatically produce information regarding their work.
This information would be recorded and become the basis for their future salary.
“Eh? Why is there already a record on it? From the West District? And someone did it in only two hours!”
The two laborers looked at the stone tablet in shock.
The words on the stone tablet were clearly written: Jiang Chen, West District, two hours and fifteen minutes.
“Could it be that the Fire Stone Tablet is broken?”
“Impossible! After being here for so many years, when have you ever heard of the Fire Stone Tablet being broken?!”
“But even if we personally did the job in West District, we wouldn’t have completed the mission so quickly! Not to mention that newcomer, Jiang Chen! ”
“Maybe it’s really broken!”
In the end, even Brother Wang himself suspected that the Flame Stone Tablet was really broken.
At this time, Jiang Chen happened to come out from the Firesmith Hall.
The two laborers in the great hall naturally saw Jiang Chen as well, and their faces instantly revealed expressions of shock as if they’d seen a ghost.
“W—when did you come back? You’ve done all the array formations in the West District?” Brother Wang’s shock had yet to subside as he asked with a trembling voice.
“Of course, I’m done. Why else would I be back?”
Jiang Chen looked strangely at the two shocked laborers and shook his head. What was the matter with their mentality? He ignored them and left.
“This, this, this is actually real!”
Since he was already back, it naturally meant the Fire Stone Tablet wasn’t damaged.
As the days went by, things gradually calmed down. Except for the initial uproar, the others also slowly stopped paying attention to Jiang Chen.
After all, no matter how well Jiang Chen performed, he was just like them, a labor disciple who wouldn’t live for long.
The sun rose again, and a new day arrived.
This time, Jiang Chen didn’t sign in immediately.
He was prepared to sign in at the West District to see what he could get.
Jiang Chen quickly completed his daily maintenance work for the spiritual array. Then, he went to a place where flames were abundant — outside the Magma Domain.
This was a place where the Skyfire Sect cultivated fire spirits. It burned with the never-ending Earth’s Heart Flame.
The might of this flame wasn’t small, and it was even ranked 35th among the earth-quality fires. However, the fire poison within it was too formidable, and ordinary people wouldn’t dare to use this type of spirit flame to initiate into the Dao.
As the environment was dangerous, other than disciples who came to capture a part of the fire spirit for alchemy or artifact refinement, ordinary Skyfire Sect disciples seldom came here.
Jiang Chen stood outside the Magma Domain. His gaze wasn’t affected by the thick smoke and flames, and he easily passed through them.
He could see that within the Magma Domain, within the endless flames and thick smoke, living creatures that were aflame could be seen tumbling and chasing each other.
Yesterday, he had only taken a look from afar while maintaining the spiritual array, but now that he had come closer, he realized that it was indeed extraordinary.
Jiang Chen thought for a moment and decisively stepped inside.
“The spiritual energy in my body has actually increased by ten times. To me, this really is a holy land for cultivation!”
Within the Magma Domain, Jiang Chen couldn’t help but mutter to himself as he felt the growth of the spiritual energy within his body.
Cultivating here for a day was equivalent to consuming a low-quality Fire Spirit Pill.
Jiang Chen looked at the flames and thick smoke in front of him and said, “Sign in here!”
[Congratulations to Host for signing in successfully and obtaining “Blazing Fire Saber Art”.]
“Blazing Fire Saber Art?”
Jiang Chen’s heart skipped a beat.
The Blazing Fire Saber Art was a high quality yellow-grade cultivation technique. It was divided into six levels, and every level that was mastered could trigger a long fire saber that was three meters long and that could easily melt gold and break jade.
After cultivating to the sixth level, he could simultaneously wield six long fire sabers and still have all his arms and legs free. With a single move, the flames that filled the sky could even trigger the Heavenly Flame Network, trapping and killing enemies easily.
From a certain perspective, this yellow-grade cultivation technique, when cultivated to an extremely deep level, could then be compared to a profound-grade cultivation technique.
However, there was also a huge flaw in this technique, which was that it consumed a lot of fire spiritual energy. If an ordinary disciple that had initiated into the Dao were to use it at full force, they would only need three to five strikes to exhaust their spirit qi.
However, Jiang Chen’s spirit sea had already reached 99 feet when it was first formed. After consuming the medicinal pills that he had obtained from signing in the few days that came after, the width of his spirit sea had an increase of almost thirty feet to 126 feet. Coupled with the constant replenishment of the Authentic Solar Fire, what he lacked the least was spirit qi.
At this moment, the system’s infusion had ended.
Jiang Chen immediately mastered the first level of the Blazing Fire Saber Art, allowing him to control a long fire saber!
His originally stagnant cultivation realm rose once again. His spirit sea expanded, and a huge suction force started on his body. Whether it was the power of the Fire Spirits or the fire poison, all of them were crazily attracted to his spirit sea, causing a violent spiritual-energy tide in the middle of the Magma Domain.
But very quickly, the spiritual-energy tide stopped.
His spirit sea stopped expanding and finally stabilized to a width of 179 feet.
“Not bad.”
Jiang Chen was delighted.
In the end, the cultivation technique had given better results. In one go, his spirit sea had increased by a total of 53 feet.
“I’ll walk further in and find a better place. I’ll cultivate here from now on!”
Jiang Chen intended to find a good place. After finishing his work, he planned to go there every day to cultivate.
