Soul Spirit saw Zhu Xuan also using his wood elemental Qi along with his fire element Qi and wondered if he had figured it out.

Hours passed, and the fire lotus became more and more translucent, and at the same time an outline of nine petal fire lotus formed inside his fire elemental roots.

Unsurprisingly Zhu Xuan absorbed all the essence of Bodhi fire before Wu Qing. After he passed the test, he got up and saw Wu Qing was still absorbing the essence fire.

He waited on the side and observed the outline of fire lotus formed inside his elemental roots. He was shocked to see some of the elemental Qi passing through it and coming out more concentrated and purified, but ever so slowly.

Zhu Xuan wondered "Does the Bodhi fire essence have an effect of purifying my fire Qi? But it is very slow though. Maybe if I obtain the complete fire essence I will be able to purify my Fire Qi more."

He already knows from reading many books, one have to atmospheric Qi though his elemental roots and spread throughout the body purifying various parts of the body. He also read about certain people born with innate special body type who can naturally purify the Qi they absorb throughout their body and increase their cultivation speed.

He was envious when he read about those innate body type geniuses among cultivators, but he didn't expect he would come across such an alternative method.

Wu Qing spent less than ten minutes after Zhu Xuan before completing the absorption of nine petal fire lotus. Zhu Xuan thanked Senior Long for telling him the way to absorb the essence fire faster or else he is sure she would have definitely won.

She saw Zhu Xuan already finished absorbing the fire lotus before him and her mood got complicated for a second because she didn't expect she would fail, and Zhu Xuan's absorption rate will be higher than him. But she immediately went back to normal and congratulated him happily with a smile.

She also realized by now about the function of the outline of fire lotus inside her and was thankful towards the soul spirit.

When she was about to disappear, Soul spirit spoke to Wu Qing "You didn't pass the test before him, but your alchemy talent is great and I can accept you becoming an Inner Door disciple instead of Direct disciple of Jinghua grandmaster."

Wu Qing was happy and agreed immediately; she would do anything when it comes to alchemy knowledge.

Zhu Xuan and Wu Qing entered the blue barrier and found themselves in a simple room with chair and table and some books. A fireball appeared from above and turned into a tiny small kid with a chubby face with yellowish white fire spreading outwards from his body.

The tiny kid was standing in front of another barrier, but this barrier is completely dark unlike other barriers in each hall which is semi transparent. They understood that tiny boy is the soul spirit which has been speaking to them since they enetered the Ruins.

"Congratulations for passing all the tests. From this day on, you will be fourth direct disciple of my master, Jinghua Grandmaster, and you will be the seventy eighth inner door disciple of Jinghua Grandmaster." spoke the Soul spirit.

As it spoke, the barrier disappeared and he saw a middle aged man lying on a stone bed covered by a complicated barrier made of many arrays. They were amazed that his body was preserved after so many years after his death and he realized it must be due to the arrays covering his body.

Both calmed down and kowtowed three times to Jinghua grandmaster lying in the stone bed "Disciple greets Master."

Soul Spirit nodded and continued "Even though my master passed away, he arranged so that his knowledge and comprehension is passed onto future generations."

As it mentioned that, a jade card and a pill appeared in front of Wu Qing and continued speaking "There are pill recipes; his comprehensions regarding all he learned about the alchemy knowledge in this jade card. This will help you reach the peak of Alchemy master stage. And this pill will help you breakthrough to Qi gathering late stage."

She received the Jade card and the pill with respect and thanked the soul spirit. It continued "That will be all; you can wait outside the ruin until he comes back."

She bowed again to Soul Spirit and Jinghua Grandmaster before disappearing from the room.

As soon as she disappeared, Soul Spirit asked Zhu Xuan "You know who I am?"

Zhu Xuan smiled and replied "I'm not sure since I don't have much knowledge, but I have an idea. If I'm not wrong you must be the soul spirit of Bodhi essence fire."

Soul Spirit was surprised a bit, even though it expected such an answer from the moment he started absorbing the lotus it created from its own essence using two elemental roots that it favored. But it didn't expect he will even know its name.

"Looks like you are not so simple. Tell me how you came to the conclusion that it is me and not a Weapon soul spirit like the other man said when he realized I have a conscience?"

Zhu Xuan smiled and said "Forgive me, I have my own methods and realized from a clue I learnt but I can't divulge this secret at the moment."

Zhu Xuan did guess from the clue that Senior Long helped him to pass the tests so that he would get his hands on Bodhi essence fire. He figured if it considered so important by him, it must be extremely rare and precious and Jinghua grandmaster will leave the control of ruin to such a soul spirit; moreover the yellowish white fire coming out of the soul spirit has a faint life essence which made him guess it is the soul spirit that controlling the Ruin.

"Alright, Here take this jade card and there is every alchemy knowledge master had gained in his life is inside the card. There is also will left by master inside to guide you when you pass through each grade." Soul Spirit spoke as the jade card appeared in front of him.

It moved its hand again and one more jade card and a spatial ring appeared in front of it "I have a request for you. My master is not only an alchemy grandmaster, but also a powerful warrior who cultivated to Qi Dan stage and this jade card contains all his mantras, techniques he acquired in his life along with comprehensions and enlightenment, and this spatial ring contains all the resources my master collected in his life."

Zhu Xuan was shocked and excited because this is what he needed the most right now. Even though a master who would teach him in person would be much better, this is also good for him. Moreover there are various techniques and mantras and details of comprehensions and enlightenments are there, he couldn't ask for anything better.

Soul Spirit continued "I will give these to you if you make a heaven's oath that you will take my master's remains and return it to his family. But you are not strong enough to go to my master's hometown with your current strength, come back here when you reach Qi sea stage and you can take my master's remains."

Zhu Xuan learned from clan's library once he made a heaven's oath he needs to keep his promise or else he will be hit by lightning and only his ashes will remain in the end. But he was not worried because he decided to leave the place sooner or later.

So he made the oath and the sky above the ruins made a rumbling sound like the heavens are observing the promise made.

Once he made the heaven's oath, soul spirit gave him the jade card and spatial ring and waved his hand "You can leave, come back here when you reach Qi sea stage."

Zhu Xuan was conflicted inside when the soul spirit asked him to leave, because the main reason he came here for the Bodhi essence fire that is in front of him.

While he didn't know what to do, he heard the voice of Senior Long again "Let me handle this"