At the Awakening Ceremony, I kindled the lowliest wisp of "Mortal Fire" and was met with scorn and ridicule.
The prodigy of Thunder Academy humiliated me in public: "A wretched kitchen flame thinks it can cultivate?"
I melted ice into a mirror and reflected his Nine Heavens Divine Thunder right back at him!
"There is no hierarchy among the laws. Today, with Mortal Fire, I'll shatter the foundation of your thunder arts!"
The academy took their side, and a genius ambushed me! The Enforcement Hall wanted to search my soul and refine my spirit!
In my desperate plight, I glimpsed a hurried scribble in the corner of An Analysis of Fire Patterns:
"Is the Heavenly Dao a shackle? Fire can burn it away!" It was the bloodstained last words of a fallen Fire Supreme!
I turned the fire inward through my heart meridians and planted a flame in my spirit void!
When the keeper of the archive turned into motes of light to protect me,
when the academy's leaders trembled under the threat of its destruction,
Mortal Fire in my palm illuminated the heavens:
"Who says the primordial Five Elements are useless?"
"Just watch this kitchen flame of mine burn through the twilight of the Age of Decline and reforge the Supreme Five Elements!"
> [Hardcore Mortal Cultivation + Enlightenment to Godhood + Defying Fate Through the Dao of Flame]
> No mutated elements, no bloodline cheat!
> Only Mortal Fire as my foundation, my life as kindling, to burn away the rusted shackles of the Heavenly Dao!
