Even Ye Qing Huan who was normally composed couldn’t help being caught off guard when she heard this.

Lin Fan just looked at the old man as if he was trying to figure out if he was being serious or not, but the old man just ignored him as he turned around to tap on the cauldron again.

Though the flames inside of the cauldron flickered in a way that made it seem like the flames were annoyed with this old man, eventually the flames came out in the form of a flame figure.

This was the same flame figure that had appeared previously to give Lin Fan his trial.

Only this time, it seemed like this flame figure acted without any restraint at all.

Before this, the old man’s soul had been inside of the flame figure and had affected it. The old man’s soul had restricted the flame figure from doing anything that it shouldn’t be doing.

Which was why the flame figure had spoken in a way that was completely different from how it was currently speaking.

"You old fool, what is it that you want?"

The old man didn’t seem bothered at all by the way that the flame figure spoke.

In fact, the way that the old man looked at the flame figure was as if he was looking at the flame figure like some kind of grandchild. Though thinking about it, it did make sense that this was the case since the old man had said that this was the last flame that it had raised...

However, Lin Fan and Ye Qing Huan were still here.

There was a reason why the old man had called out the flame figure.

He turned back to Lin Fan and Ye Qing Huan to say, "This is the Holy Spirit Flame and the guard of this storage room. To give you this storage room, you have to accept this Holy Spirit Flame as well."

The flame figure didn’t seem happy about this, but it also seemed like it had already been expecting this.

After all, it had been in this place for a long time and naturally knew about the quirks of this place. It was only natural that it knew that it was part of the defense system and the final key.

At the same time, it wasn’t as if the flame figure seemed unwilling to go.

But it also seemed like there was a part of the flame figure that was hesitating.

"Old fool, what happens to you after this?"

The old man turned to look at the flame figure with a smile before saying, "Silly child, you’ve already known that this would happen eventually. What, are you scared of leaving the nest now?"

The flame figure turned its head away as if it didn’t want to listen, but in reality it was just embarrassed.

The way that the two of them acted really made it seem like they were grandfather and grandchild. Only it was a bit strange since one of them was a human and one of them was a sentient flame.

But then again, it wasn’t as if the human was really a human anymore.

At the same time, creatures that had obtained sentience in this world were considered on the same level as humans.

It wasn’t as if they couldn’t develop emotions like humans could, so it wasn’t strange if they were able to form this kind of relationship between them. After all, the old man said that he was the one that had raised this Heaven and Earth Flame in the first place.

After calming the flame figure down, the old man said, "Before anything else, let’s form the contract."

Then tapping the cauldron, there was this small flame that came out of the big flame.

Judging by the appearance of this flame, it seemed like some kind of seed for something bigger. But at the same time, one could feel that there was something else that was inside of this.

The small flame floated to where Lin Fan was and remained floating there in front of him.

Once it was there, the old man seemed to be waiting for Lin Fan to do something.

He could already guess what the old man wanted him to do, but there was a part of him that wondered if he should give them more time. After all, the moment that he absorbed this thing, the old man would disappear.

"It’s not as if I’ll disappear right away. I still have some time to explain a few things to you before I go." The old man said this as if he could read Lin Fan’s mind.

It was one thing to think this, but to be exposed like this...it made Lin Fan feel awkward.

But since the old man said this, there was nothing that Lin Fan could do as he reached out towards the small flame.

The moment that his hand made contact with the small flame, it seemed to disappear. However, it didn’t completely disappear as it seemed to wrap around his hand before disappearing into his body.

It was surging through him, reaching his very core.

The problem was that there was something else that was already there.

When Lin Fan felt this, there was a part of him that was worried about this small flame.

After all, this small flame was going right into the jaws of a bigger predator...

There was something that was inside of his dantian that would pose a threat to this small flame. If it were to make contact, he wasn’t certain that it would be safe from it.

But it turned out that he was worried for nothing.

When the energy of the small flame reached his dantian, it seemed like the black hole that was there completely ignored it. Even though it had swallowed all of the pure elemental energy items that had appeared before, it just completely ignored this Heaven and Earth Flame.

In fact, it almost felt like there was this repulsion between them.

It was like there was some kind of rejection that came between the two of them.

Regardless of what it was, it seemed like the Heaven and Earth Flame was safe for now.

At the same time, Lin Fan could sense the thing inside of the Heaven and Earth Flame.

"This is something that will help both of you. You won’t be able to control Xiao Sheng right now, so you’ll have to rely on this to slowly gain control. Once you have full control, then you’ll be able to use the full power of this Heaven and Earth Flame."

The way that the old man said this didn’t seem like it was just for Lin Fan’s sake.

The flame figure looked at the old man in a complicated way.

"What are you still standing there for? Go and be with your new master." The old man said as the flame figure just stood there.

In the end, the flame figure dissipated. However, it wasn’t the flame figure alone that disappeared.

The flame inside of the giant cauldron also disappeared. In a way, it was like the passing of an era.

After the flame figure disappeared, there was another one that appeared. Only this time, this flame figure came out of Lin Fan.

At the same time, this flame figure couldn’t compare to the one that had formed previously. It wasn’t that it had shrunk to the size of a child, it was that this flame figure was now the size of a palm.

It almost looked like a toy with how small it was.

Naturally the flame figure wasn’t happy about this and Lin Fan could see it clearly since he could see the true appearance of this flame figure. As the master of this Holy Spirit Flame, he was able to see right through the flames to see the Holy Spirit Flame’s form.

Though it acted the way that it did, it was actually a cute little girl.

It was no wonder this old ancestor of the Dao Sect saw it as a grandchild.

Of course, Lin Fan didn’t hold the Holy Spirit Flame back as it went back over to the old man.

The old man didn’t seem like he was going to disappear right away, it seemed like he was going to slowly disappear as the source of what had kept him here disappeared. So at least there was some time to go over a few things with him.

The old man just said, "Now that you’ve found a new master, you should open up the door for him."

The Holy Spirit Flame had been silently floating beside the old man without saying anything. But since the old man called for it, it went over to the door and raised its hand to point at it.

There was an even smaller flame that came out of the Holy Spirit Flame and reached the door. Once it reached the door, the energy from that flame spread out across the door and seemed to infuse itself in the door.

"Click."

After that energy finished spreading, there was this sound that made it sound like this door was being unlocked. It didn’t take long for the door to open up after it was unlocked by the flame.

The moment that the door opened, there was this fragrance that came from inside.

This was the fragrance of high level pills.

It was a strong medicinal fragrance that one would have expected of a storage room filled with these pills.

Only it didn’t seem like it contained what Lin Fan and Ye Qing Huan expected.