Qinghuo Yuanchen was secretly astonished.

His courage and strength were well-known in the Branchless Grotto.

This could be seen from his unceremonious treatment of Qinghuo Qiming.

Qinghuo Qiming was, after all, a shaman, and naturally of noble status. Even if others looked down on Qinghuo Qiming, they rarely mocked him openly.

However.

Just now, in the midst of intense battle, when Jiang Wang reached out to pull him, he had instinctively flinched, and almost retaliated.

But Jiang Wang’s hand had still accurately grabbed him, neutralized his counter-attack, and naturally pulled him behind, as smoothly as flowing water.

This demonstrated that the gap between their strengths…was considerable.

And Jiang Wang’s precise and peerless sword strike also made Qinghuo Yuanchen’s eyes light up. Without excessive expenditure of energy, it almost precisely struck the Star Beast at its maximum tolerance. This showed that Jiang Wang had sufficient understanding of both the Star Beast and his own sword.

This gave Qinghuo Yuanchen more confidence in the outcome of the Game of Life and Death.

Jiang Wang did not pay attention to Qinghuo Yuanchen’s mood. After the sword strike, he directly performed a Dao spell.

Completing the incantation as quickly as possible, he unleashed the strongest Dao technique he had mastered so far, the Eight-Sound Firefinch, which boomed out and covered the entire entrance of the Nether Heaven.

The Firefinches shrieked, and the Eight Sounds resounded.

The densely packed Firefinches surged forward.

Extreme clamor turned to extreme silence.

This wave of Star Beasts was directly wiped out by the Eight-Sound Firefinch.

Under Jiang Wang’s deliberate control, many Firefinches dove straight into the Nether Heaven.

But not even a ripple arose.

It was as if, as they plunged into the inky blackness, they became part of it.

Indeed, everything that falls into the Nether Heaven is “dissolved”? Or rather, “assimilated”?

Jiang Wang was still immersed in his observations, unaware that the Qinghuo warriors present were looking at him with undisguised amazement.

“Who is he?” someone finally started to wonder.

“Looking at his totem magic, isn’t he our Qinghuo tribe’s new shaman? I saw him come in with that person.”

“Great! Have we finally changed shamans?”

“Wake up, hold the line!” the bearded warrior interrupted the soldiers’ chaotic guesses, before casually explaining, “This is the ‘Sky-Born One’, here to represent our Qinghuo tribe in the Game of Life and Death!”

“Oh, he’s a Game Master.”

“I thought he was the new shaman…”

Jiang Wang glanced back at Qinghuo Qiming, who was sitting in the corner. The warriors’ “discussion” had not ceased, and he should be able to hear it. But Qinghuo Qiming at this moment had his head lowered, his expression unreadable.

At this moment, Jiang Wang could not say anything, and could only sigh inwardly.

The bearded warrior had seized the opportunity to rally the troops: “Whoever performs well can participate in the Game of Life and Death with this Star General, to win a place for our Qinghuo tribe that we haven’t had in centuries!”

The warriors were already excited.

They knew very well what the ranking in the Game of Life and Death represented. The rise of the Qinghuo tribe might depend on this one event.

Nothing excited these warriors fighting on the most dangerous front line more than the rise of their tribe.

“Watch me!”

“I’m definitely going to burn everything today!”

Jiang Wang did not respond to the enthusiasm of these warriors. He just quickly completed the incantation. When the next wave of Star Beasts surged up, once again, the Eight-Sound Firefinch!

The Star Beasts were wiped out once more.

The Nether Heaven below the grotto was instantly pitch black. It took a long time for starlight to slowly approach.

It wasn’t that Jiang Wang deliberately wanted to show off. Displaying his strength once in front of these people was enough. The reason he did this was because he had just discovered that after he killed so many Star Beasts at once, a certain power suddenly began to gestate within the Fire Totem on his back.

Very weak, but definitely present.

This power was neither totem power nor Dao Essence, but a very pure energy.

It could be easily mobilized and transformed, in other words, it could be applied to any attack.

But it seemed to be water without a source, unlike Dao Essence or totem power that could be restored and increased through cultivation. It was more like a temporary accumulation, and it just so happened that the Fire Totem became the “container”.

Or rather, to be precise, the Fire Totem after interacting with the White Bone Lotus, became the “container” for this power.

To verify his idea, he unleashed the second Eight-Sound Firefinch.

As Jiang Wang expected, the power within the Fire Totem was indeed related to killing Star Beasts!

After killing this wave of Star Beasts, it increased again.

Perhaps…

Killing Star Beasts wasn’t entirely without reward, it’s just that the people of the Floating Continent hadn’t noticed, or hadn’t found a way to collect the “rewards”?

When Jiang Wang killed the first Star Beast with one sword, he didn’t feel anything either. It wasn’t until the Eight-Sound Firefinch cleared the field that he truly felt the “gestation” of this power.

He vaguely felt that this change was related to the White Bone Lotus’s influence on the Fire Totem. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why the people of the Floating Continent hadn’t discovered this for so many years.

Only the White Bone Lotus, which did not belong to this realm, carried the influence of a foreign deity, and could cause the Fire Totem to undergo some mysterious change.

It was just that with Jiang Wang’s current vision, he couldn’t see the root of it at all.

At the same time, he also felt that this power might be related to the starlight on the Star Beasts. Or, therefore, he could temporarily call it “Starlight Power”?

Killing Star Beasts and accumulating Starlight Power was a complete process.

And if there was a cultivation system that used his newly named “Starlight Power” as its core, it would form a positive cycle. Killing Star Beasts would be cultivation.

Then Star Beasts would no longer be a disaster, but a resource!

Of course, these were just temporary and fantastical ideas.

Right now, this power was just a temporary accumulation in the Fire Totem. It was like a withered pond, without a spring. No matter how much water was accumulated, it could only be used as a temporary resource.

With Jiang Wang’s current knowledge and ability, it was impossible to create a cultivation system with this as its core.

But, it did have that possibility!

If Jiang Wang were to reveal his discoveries and guesses now, I fear that the strongmen of the entire Floating Continent would come knocking on his door, to research with him, or “research” him.

From the current situation, even if it was just water without a source, it was still very useful to Jiang Wang.

What did it represent to have a pure, readily available power stored in the Fire Totem?

It represented explosive power beyond one’s own limits!

At least in this Floating Continent world, this was a brand new trump card!

Compared to those Chess Players, Chess Bishops, and Chess Pawns, it was more direct, and perhaps much more useful!

Admittedly, the “Starlight Power” gained from two rounds of Star Beasts wasn’t much. If it were added now, it wouldn’t even fundamentally improve his combat strength.

But the “Starlight Power” was only so much now. What if it was accumulated a hundred times, a thousand times?

As a container, did the Fire Totem have a limit to its “capacity”?

When the accumulation of quantity reached a certain limit, a fundamental change would occur.

This would be his sharpest weapon in the Game of Life and Death, when contending against Lei Zhangan, Jiang Wuxie, Fang Chong, and others!

While still pondering, the next wave of Star Beasts was already approaching.

“Stand back, let me handle this. I will block the Nether Heaven alone!”

Jiang Wang rare occasion, waved his sleeves and appeared unusually inflated.