Whoosh!

Scarlet flames blazed and began to disengage from the oil lamp, slowly forming a humanoid form shaped like Lu Yun. He hadn’t directed this motion, it was something that the Sanguine Flame did of its own accord.

From this, Lu Yun knew that the flame was no longer what it was before. It’d previously been the same as his own hellfire—just an impartial, objectively existing flame. But now, it’d been influenced by the corpse oil within the lamp and gradually formed an intangible wisp of consciousness.

Lu Yun didn’t plan on erasing this consciousness. If allowed to grow, it would become a true spirit sooner or later and form a soul, evolving into a true life form.

The ripples of thought from the...