Flame Cultivation

Flame Cultivation (火修) or Fire Cultivation
== Description ==
Flame cultivators were incredibly powerful. They had stamina and power, but they also had a fatal weakness. That was water element cultivators. Water cultivators were the bane of flame cultivators. In the same realm, they would definitely be defeated. In fact, water cultivators might even defeat flame cultivators across realms. That was why flame cultivators would normally have other cultivators by their side, to guard against water cultivators.
== Characters ==
== Skills ==
== Story ==
=== First meet ===
There was a man with a mustache and light beard that startled Long Chen. A strange fluctuation came from him that caused Huo Long to grow restless.
It was like the Earth Flame had been provoked. It began to automatically release its pressure. Long Chen looked at that man, and he looked back at him. He had also sensed Long Chen's existence.
That man was a bit startled, but he quickly became calm. With a cold snort, a faint smile appeared on his face.
Long Chen narrowed his eyes. Perhaps he had just gained a terrifying opponent. This man also had an Earth Flame within him, and one that was extremely powerful at that.
"He should be a flame cultivator." Long Chen was startled. This person's body contained a terrifying Earth Flame, one that was even stronger than Huo Long. Furthermore, he sensed that his flame energy possessed no trace of wood spiritual energy. In other words, he was no alchemist, but a pure flame cultivator.
Alchemists didn't just need flame energy, but also a trace of wood spiritual energy. Only then could they refine pills.
Without that trace of wood spiritual energy, there was no way for them to control a Pill Flame precisely enough to form pills. That was why a flame cultivator's flame wasn't called a Pill Flame. Their flames specialized in offense and destruction. They were berserk and powerful, and normally, flame cultivators were the ones hardest to get along with, as their tempers were too explosive.
Long Chen also noticed that the Earth Flame in that person's body had sensed Huo Long and had formed a clear hostility toward it.
This kind of hostility was only natural between Earth Flames, because they relied on devouring each other to increase their own power. Long Chen didn't know if the hostility he sensed was from the Earth Flame or the man himself.
=== Pill Valley ===
Within Pill Valley, if your alchemy skills could no longer improve, Pill Valley would order you to become a powerful fighting flame cultivator (战斗火修). You would no longer cultivate alchemy arts, but the strongest flame Battle Skills.
These flame cultivators were not very important to Pill Valley. They were viewed as nothing more than thugs hired to protect the house.
Normally, dual martial-pill cultivation was a dead end. True alchemists would not cultivate fighting techniques and instead focus completely on alchemy. If they split their time and energy between these two paths, they would be lost. They might find having powerful strength to be delightful, and because of their flame nature, they would become warlike and explosive, unable to calmly focus on refining. They would have severed their alchemy path.
That was why Zhao Xiang's alchemy skills had sharply dropped after becoming a flame cultivator. He was unable to even refine the pills he himself needed.
Pill Flames are meant to refine pills. Using Pill Flames to fight in Pill Valley is an insult. 
The difference in status between a flame cultivator and an alchemist is like the difference between heaven and earth.
== Trivia ==
*Using flame energy to attack an Earth Flame Spirit Beast would naturally have less effect than normal. This was also why fights between flame cultivators were so boring. Their power came from the same source, so unless there was a large power disparity, it would turn into a battle of attrition.
**Flame cultivators in the same realm might fight for several days without determining a winner. In the end, it depended on whose spiritual yuan and soul energy was greater. That was why no one was interested in watching flame cultivators fight.
*Flame cultivators were true experts, and their power was far, far greater than alchemists.
*Since flame cultivators all had core flames, they wanted to rely on this sense to find Long Chen. However, they didn't know that Long Chen didn't have a core flame. His flame energy came from Huo Long.
==References==
Category:Cultivation Types