“Here, wear these robes before getting close to the flames,” Jiang Ruoxi said.

Seeing Wang Ming approaching the flames, she stopped him and handed him a pair of robes enchanted with fire-resistant runes.

Jiang Ruoxi frowned when she saw him shake his head and say, “I don’t need it. I have a fire-resistant physique.”

Wang Ming looked at the robes and snorted inwardly. If his True Elemental Physique failed to resist the fire, then there was no way a mere enchanted robe could.

“Oh?” Jiang Ruoxi raised an eyebrow when she heard Wang Ming’s words and did not insist anymore, watching him walk toward the flame.

Everyone in the audience also looked at Wang Ming in anticipation, while some hoped that he would be burned to cinders like the previous person who had been burned to death.

As soon as Wang Ming crossed the barrier, he could feel the heat radiating from the white flames. He calmly walked toward the flames and touched them with his hand, feeling a warm sensation envelop him.

Wang Ming then frowned when he felt rejection from the flame, and in the next second…

Wooosh

In the next moment, a fierce white flame shot out from the small one, directly swallowing him whole.

“Hah, this guy also failed.”

“Even though he won the auction and got the flame, what good is it if he can’t use it?”

“Sigh, such a handsome guy died. It would be better if that Lu Bai got burned to ashes than a handsome stuf like him.”

“Sigh, youngsters these days are way too arrogant. Maybe if he had taken the protective robes from Lady Ruoxi, even if he were gravely injured, at least he would be alive—but now only his ashes will remain.”

“Heh, even I, a Pure Core Realm cultivator, feel threatened and would die. Glad I lost the auction,” Lu Bai said with a look of glee on his face as he saw Wang Ming get swallowed by the flames. However, even after a few minutes, Wang Ming was still standing, which made his smile stiffen.

“Wait, he is not dead!” someone shouted from the crowd. In the next moment, they saw all his robes vaporize completely, leaving him naked.

Gulp

Many of the females swallowed mouthfuls of saliva upon seeing his naked body, but when they looked down and saw the huge thick tool dangling between his legs, they felt their little sister become itchy and wet. Meanwhile, the men, seeing their partners like this, darkened their faces and were filled with jealousy.

“Fucking hell! How is he so big at such a young age?”

“This just gives me another reason to fucking want to beat him up!”

“Wife, why are you drooling at his little brother, aren’t I enough?”

“Enough. Your thing between your legs is so small that you are comparing a lizard to a dragon. I’ve had enough of you. I’m divorcing you. Maybe I can ask him for a night of true pleasure so I can vent my years of frustration with true pleasure.”

“Damn, why didn’t this bastard get burned to death?”

The women watched with gleaming eyes, while the men cursed at him.

‘Why is it not accepting me?’ Wang Ming ignored their chatter and also the fact that he was naked, which did not bother him one bit.

Boom

The fire grew even larger, and the temperature rose further as even the floor Wang Ming was standing on started to melt.

Jiang Ruoxi, who had been staring at Wang Ming with a blush, snapped out of her daze and jumped down from the stage as the heat became unbearable even with the protective robes.

‘Just what kind of physique does he have to withstand such a temperature? Definitely Immortal Rank at least,’ she thought. Not only her, but the experts also thought the same thing.

“System, do you have any solution?” Wang Ming asked the system in a low voice as he ran out of ideas.

[System Message: To subdue the Heaven Mending Flame, it must sense the aura of the Purgatory Flame on the user.]

Hearing this, Wang Ming’s expression darkened as he cursed inwardly and thought, ‘How the hell am I supposed to get that flame? I don’t have enough Dual Cultivation Points to buy it. Damn, do I need to get a loan?’

After some hesitation, he gritted his teeth and said to the system, “System, looks like you’re going to earn a hefty profit. Give me a damn loan to buy the flame.”

[System Message: Host, are you sure you want a loan? The terms of the loan have changed; the monthly interest rate is now 50%.

“!!!!” Wang Ming felt dizzy when he heard the reply from the system and replied, “Forget it. Who wants a loan from you?”

[System Message: Even if the host wanted a loan, the system wouldn’t give one because the system is not confident in the host’s ability to repay the loan.]

When Wang Ming heard this reply, he almost coughed up a mouthful of blood.

[System Message: Unlike the host, who is useless, greedy, and ignorant, the system is magnanimous and will give access to a trace amount of the Purgatory Flame so the host can subdue it.]

Wang Ming became angry at first, but then a look of disbelief and suspicion appeared on his face.

Soon, he felt a kind of power condensing on his fingertips. He looked at his finger and saw a small, bean-sized black flame appear on his thumb.

As soon as the flame appeared, the Heaven Mending Flame, which had been trying to swallow him whole, instantly retracted under everyone’s surprised gaze and directly plunged into his body.

[Ding Dong]

[Heaven Mending Flame has detected the presence of the Purgatory Flame.]

[Heaven Mending Flame is trying to form a contract with the user. Accept? Yes/No]

Was this even a question? Wang Ming, without hesitation, picked the Yes option.

[Ding Dong]

[You have formed a Soul Contract with one of the ???? Flames, Heaven Mending Flame.]

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