Volume One, Chapter 54: The Great Spatial Transformation

“Big sister, big sister, come quickly! Something’s wrong in the space!”

Just as Gu Mingxi was leisurely sitting in the courtyard, holding Little White and sipping tea, she suddenly heard Xiaohua’s anxious voice.

“What? Something’s wrong in the space?”

Gu Mingxi’s expression turned serious. She activated the array and hurriedly entered the space.

But as soon as she entered, she sensed something was amiss. The temperature inside was abnormally high, and it kept rising relentlessly.

Gu Mingxi frowned. “Xiaohua, what’s going on here?”

Xiaohua was equally puzzled. “Big sister, I don’t know either. I was just planting spirit herbs in the herb garden when I noticed the temperature rising inside the space. As soon as I sensed something was wrong, I called you in immediately.”

“If the temperature keeps rising, the spirit grasses and spirit trees growing inside will be affected. We must find the cause!”

“And this space has already acknowledged me as its owner. It’s my domain. If something changes here, how could I, as its master, not know why?” Gu Mingxi’s expression grew cold.

Something beyond her expectations had to be eliminated immediately. Otherwise, all the things she had stored in the space would turn to ashes under such intense heat.

Moreover, Gu Mingxi had just been inside the space, and she was already sweating!

Her magical robes were designed to insulate against temperature, so sweating under them was impossible.

This only meant the temperature inside the space was so high even her robes couldn’t withstand it.

From the moment she entered, Gu Mingxi started probing with her divine sense. Finally, she discovered the cause.

It was a small flame flickering with golden light!

Gu Mingxi, along with Xiaohua and Little White, went to the place where the golden flame flickered.

Looking at the tiny flame, Gu Mingxi was baffled. “This little flame is causing such a huge change in the space. What exactly is it? It doesn’t seem ordinary.”

“Xiaohua, did the ancestor leave any records explaining what this little flame is?”

Xiaohua, staring at the golden flame, was also puzzled. She had never seen such a flame before.

“Big sister, the previous owner never collected this little flame.”

“If it wasn’t collected by the ancestor, then what could it be…? Could it be something that was always inside the space?”

But that made little sense. With the ancestor’s cultivation level, how could he fail to detect something unknown inside his own space?

“And if it was always there, why didn’t it appear when the ancestor was around? Why show up only now?”

“This little flame’s appearance must be triggered by some opportunity…”

Gu Mingxi glanced towards the place where the Enlightenment Tree stood.

Her most precious recent treasure was the Enlightenment Tree—could it be related to that?

At that moment, Little White scratched its chin uncertainly and said, “Big sister, I think I recognize this golden flame…”

“Hm? Little White, you know it?” Gu Mingxi and Xiaohua immediately looked at Little White.

After thinking for a moment, Little White said, “I think I’ve seen something like this in my inherited memories, but it looks a bit different from what I remember. I’m not entirely sure if it’s the same…”

Little White’s inherited memories? As a divine beast white tiger, the memories it inherited were certainly not mundane. That meant this little flame was at least a spirit fire—maybe even a divine fire!

Gu Mingxi’s gaze toward the golden flame grew intense.

Little White carefully flipped through its inherited memories again and said, “Big sister, it should be the True Solar Fire… but in my memories, the True Solar Fire is extremely powerful, yet this is just a small flame… However, in my memories, the True Solar Fire always appears as a golden little flame, and no other spirit or divine fire is golden…”

True Solar Fire!

That was the legendary divine fire!

Could this little flame really be the Sun God’s True Fire?

Wiping the sweat from her brow, Gu Mingxi affirmed the conclusion. Ordinary spirit fires wouldn’t be able to burn through her exquisite magical robes, but divine fire would definitely overpower them.

Yet, Gu Mingxi still felt uncertain. “Legend says the True Solar Fire can burn everything in the world. It’s the companion flame of the Sun God, capable of consuming all evil. But if this is really the True Solar Fire, why is it such a small flame? And if it truly is the True Solar Fire, can we even survive?”

Little White shared her uncertainty. In its inherited memories, the True Solar Fire was immensely powerful, nothing like this frail little flame that seemed about to extinguish at any moment.

While Gu Mingxi and Little White pondered in confusion, Xiaohua’s casual remark opened a new line of thought.

“Maybe this little flame isn’t the legendary True Solar Fire itself, but just a fragment of it?”

Ah, of course!

Gu Mingxi and Little White had been fixated on the idea that the True Solar Fire was an overwhelmingly powerful divine fire, failing to consider that it might have fragments.

If this was indeed a fragment of the True Solar Fire, then Gu Mingxi had truly stumbled upon a treasure.

If it were the full True Solar Fire, such a powerful life form would be impossible for Gu Mingxi to contract with. But if it was just a fragment, then with Gu Mingxi’s Thunder Spirit Body, she might be able to successfully contract it!

Although this little flame was still very powerful, it looked frail. If it hadn’t now acted up, it might have disappeared in a few thousand years.

The True Solar Fire’s ability to burn all evil made it the perfect weapon against malevolent spirits.

It was a righteous divine fire, and Gu Mingxi’s Thunder Spirit Body also represented a force of justice—the two had similarities.

“Big sister, do you want to try contracting this fragment of the True Solar Fire?” Little White tilted its head and suggested.

Contract the True Solar Fire?

Gu Mingxi naturally considered it. In the novel, he had died at the hands of an evil cultivator. If she could contract the True Solar Fire, dealing with evil cultivators would be effortless.

Gu Mingxi looked at the little flame before her. Though it appeared frail and ready to extinguish, she dared not underestimate it.

Its temperature was enough to overwhelm even her finest magical robes. It might be weak now, but it was not something Gu Mingxi could take lightly.