Chapter 1655: 1655

The Flame Emperor was very excited . The flames that made up his body started burning more and more fiercely .

It took him a good while to calm down . Looking at Jiang Chen, he said with a puzzled frown on his face, “Have you never found anything odd during these many years that you’ve known me?”

“No . Never,” Jiang Chen said seriously .

“You have never noticed that the connection between the Vulcan Ring and me seems very weak?” asked the Flame Emperor .

Jiang Chen smiled awkwardly and scratched his chin . He shook his head from side to side .

“Oh, man!” The Flame Emperor controlled his impulse to curse . He then complained to Jiang Chen, “You’re really not treating your Flame Emperor’s inheritance very seriously at all . ”

“That’s because you’ve never told me the truth . ” Jiang Chen decided to tell the Flame Emperor everything he’d discovered . “The Flame Emperor’s inheritance is an inheritance for sure, but it’s not an inheritance of a Venerable Sovereign . Instead, it consists of the Flame Emperor himself . ”

“You know that?” The Flame Emperor who was standing in front of him was very surprised .

“Yep, I do . In ancient times, the head of all the Heavenly Gods was called Di Qun . He was the Heavenly Emperor . The emperor—as in, Flame Emperor—and the emperor—as in, Heavenly Emperor—are similar concepts . ”

Jiang Chen said bluntly, “But you have always told me that the Flame Emperor was the inheritance of a Venerable Sovereign . ”

This was why Jiang Chen hadn’t been very willing to scramble for this so-called inheritance of the Flame Emperor with others .

If he hadn’t seen Xiao Hongxue wearing the Vulcan Ring, he wouldn’t have even known enough to have called the Flame Emperor out .

In the beginning, he hadn’t been strong enough, so he hadn’t questioned the Flame Emperor . He’d simply taken advantage of the Flame Emperor’s status of a Taoist Spirit and Demonic Seed to kill many people and gain the opportunity to revive in fire .

“The Flame Emperor you are talking about, maybe his title is a duplicate of mine,” this Flame Emperor said, feeling a bit guilty .

“Yeah? I’m as strong as a Venerable Sovereign now . I don’t need the inheritance of a Flame Emperor, who is only a Martial Sovereign . ”

Jiang Chen was angry, and he’d decided to cut ties with this Flame Emperor .

“Wait!” The Flame Emperor hurried to stop him . He said, “Why are you so sure I’m not the Flame Emperor you are talking about?”

“Oh?” Jiang Chen thought about this for a while, but he decided to tell the Flame Emperor in the end . “Because I saw the Flame Emperor abandon the Black Yellow Great World and leave with other gods with my own eyes . ”

The Flame Emperor’s fluctuating emotions could be observed from how the flames would surge and subside .

“Who the h*ll are you?” he shouted in surprise .

“It’s none of your business . Who the h*ll are you? I’m the one who should be asking the questions,” said Jiang Chen .

The Flame Emperor let out a long sigh after maintaining a long silence . He said, “The Flame Emperor has departed, but he didn’t take his mount with him . ”

“You are the Fire Kylin?” Jiang Chen said in surprise .

He answered Jiang Chen with actions . His flames experienced more extreme changes, and then a Martial Soul exactly the same as Xiao Hongxue’s showed up in front of Jiang Chen .

Even though Jiang Chen was a knowledgeable person, he couldn’t figure out the relationship between this man in front of him and Xiao Hongxue .

“Xiao Hongxue is the son of Kylin, and he happens to be related to fire . So, he is kind of a reincarnation of me . I, who am speaking with you here, am only a residual consciousness,” the Fire Kylin said .

Jiang Chen thought of the clone of the consciousness of the Goddess of Empyrean that he had met in the Demonic Abyss immediately .

The thing about clones like this was that they had usually been left to finish some mission . Once the mission was completed, the clone would vanish automatically .

But this Fire Kylin had been dealing with him for almost ten years, and he was still here .

“My consciousness is kind of peculiar . As long as the flames are here, I’ll be able to last for a long time . ”

Jiang Chen asked, “The flames in each Vulcan Ring?”

“Well, the correct way to put it is that there are flames in each Vulcan Ring . ”

“What kind of fire can keep burning from the ancient times and never die out?” asked Jiang Chen .

If Fire Kylin was lying, the more he spoke, the more flaws he would expose .

“The Genuine Fire of the Sun . ”

However, Jiang Chen had to believe him when he’d heard this answer .

The Genuine Fire of the Sun was the ancestor of all fires .

In ancient times, the Ten-headed Golden Crow had this fire . It could transform into ten suns in order to scorch the earth .

“In order to explain everything to you, I will say that it is true that I intended to introduce a new Flame Emperor into the world, but hundreds of years passed, and I started to think, why don’t I become the Flame Emperor myself?”

Fire Kylin was really going to tell him everything . He didn’t hold anything back .

“You are only a consciousness . So that means you wanted to seize someone’s body?” asked Jiang Chen .

“I can’t always be a mount, can I?”

Maybe he was desperate . He, a divine beast, had come down from his high horse .

Or maybe it was because Jiang Chen had become too sophisticated to be affected by him .

“I had a perfect plan . And I even almost succeeded a few times . There was even once when I was only one step away from success . But the invasion of the Blood Race ruined everything . And now I have had to start all over from the beginning again . ”

“It has been kind of smooth this time . But somehow, from somewhere, my reincarnator showed up, and he’s got a Vulcan Ring, too,” Fire Kylin continued to complain .

“But you shouldn’t have been affected by that . ”

“I wasn’t indeed . In fact, the appearance of my reincarnator even made me feel that this was my destiny . However, Xiao Hongxue is the problem . He is way too lucky a man . None of my schemes have worked . And he got the inheritance successfully in the end,” said Fire Kylin .

It reminded Jiang Chen of Xiao Hongxue’s previous lives and his current life that he had seen through the Wisdom Eye . He nodded his agreement .

“In short, you worked out some perfect schemes . However, in the end, you still failed, and the inheritance went to Xiao Hongxue . Am I right?” said Jiang Chen .

Fire Kylin remained silent . It seemed as if he was ashamed of his failure .

If he had explained honestly everything that had happened, the only thing Jiang Chen could do would be to express his pity .

“He hasn’t got the Flame Emperor’s inheritance completely yet, though,” the Fire Kylin said in a profound voice just when Jiang Chen was going to put the Vulcan Ring aside .

He finally looked like a divine beast at this moment . His fervent flames were soaring . His eyes flashed with many lights .

“The Genuine Fire of the Sun is indispensable to become the Flame Emperor . Thus, I separated the flame of the Genuine Fire of the Sun from the ancient scripture about the Genuine Fire of the Sun in the inheritance . ”

Fire Kylin said seriously, “Xiao Hongxue has only received the ancient scripture . He doesn’t have the flame . It is going to be extremely difficult for him to get the Genuine Fire of the Sun . ”

“Xiao Hongxue killed everyone wearing the Vulcan Ring once he had received the ancient scripture . But since you’ve made changes to your ring, he wasn’t able to find you . Now you could use this opportunity to get the Genuine Fire of the Sun with your Vulcan Ring . ”

Jiang Chen smiled coldly at him . He said, “You’ve failed to seize Xiao Hongxue’s body . So now you’ve cast your eyes on mine?”

“Noooo . I’d given up on this idea of becoming the Flame Emperor already . I only hope you can defeat Xiao Hongxue so that I can possess him . ”

“He is only a reincarnator, and he is a human instead of a Fire Kylin . Even so, you still want to possess him?” asked Jiang Chen .

“Why can’t I? Do you want to mount Fire Kylin or what?” Fire Kylin said unhappily .

Shrugging his shoulders, Jiang Chen didn’t answer him .

The next question was simple: Where was the flame of the Genuine Fire of the Sun?

Without the flame, there was little he could do when he met Xiao Hongxue in the Spiritual Land Battle .

Seeing that Jiang Chen had been kind of persuaded by him, Fire Kylin asked excitedly .

He would give the flame to Jiang Chen, and Jiang Chen would help him defeat Xiao Hongxue so that he could seize Xiao Hongxue’s body and go on living in a different way .

Jiang Chen had no reason to refuse him . “Take me to find the flame . ”