Every creatures that nourish a mysterious flame match the properties of the said flame.
The mysterious flame that the Queen bee nourished is a golden fire. But much to his surprise, the flame is not a Heavenly Flame but a Divine Flame!
Golden Source Divine Flame [Divine-Rank] Affinity : Metal (Gold), Fire Potential : ∅ Special Ability : Golden Body Tempering Flame [Introduction : A semi-mature artificially cultivated Divine-Flame. It was intentionally cultivated not to fully awaken its spirituality as it was intended to be cultivated for more time and turn into Nine Revolution Golden Pill Ring Divine Flame. Due to nourishment of Divine-Rank Sainthood Realm Six Winged Golden Queen Bee, it gain a special ability to temper one's body and cultivate a Golden Body or even the Indestructible Golden Body.]
A Divine Flame!
In Azure Territory, only the Aflame Family has the only one Heavenly Flame in faction and it was the main foundation of the Heavenly Fire Empire.
Divine Flame, on the other hand, is nothing but myths and legends and something that they wouldn't fall sight into in their whole life!
And yet, there was now one quietly waiting in front of Cole.
Cole don't have the idea about the Divine Flame but he do have an True Flame, in which should be higher by one rank. And one of the most powerful ability of his True Flame is that it gave him a extremely long life-span. With his current cultivation, it can make him alive for tens of thousands of years which can be considered as immortality for Core Formation cultivator. And this'll get more longer when his cultivation further increase. It wasn't that far fetched to gain false immortality when he achieve Great Sainthood Realm cultivation.
Just that aspect alone is enough to indicate the capability of his [Immortal Purity True Phoenix Flame]. After all, what is power when you don't have a life anymore to carry it on.
As for the Divine Flame, although its more powerful than the Heavenly Flame inside his Sea of Consciousness, it was still inferior to his own True Flame.
However, he do are interested on its ability to temper the body to cultivate a Golden Body, or even the more powerful Indestructible Golden Body.
Since one of the main goal of Golden Perseverance Temple is to cultivate a Golden Body, it was proven that the said physique are considered powerful.
Speaking of the that Buddhist Temple, perhaps the presence of this Divine Flame would send them into frenzy. After all, it could greatly help at the entire temple should it fall into their hands.
However, how it'll fall into their hands is a question. And this thought makes Cole aware that he could only show the Divine Flame into someone he greatly entrusted to.
No matter how great and powerful the momentum and aura the Divine Flame produced, it was still subdued by the [Immortal Purity True Phoenix Flame] into submission. The difference were like of between chicken and phoenix.
Fortunately, its spirituality is sealed into seed for the meantime in order not be able to escape. Afterall, it is said that the original owner of this strange flame garden intend to further evolve the golden flame into suitable divine flame for alchemy. It makes things easier for Cole.
It was only then the door that leads to dungeon store open. With a whole floating islands taken away, along with a hive full of golden bees, he didn't loot more things anymore and just outright enter the store. He have quite a rich harvest in this dungeon run.
As usual, he check the items available in the shop with interest. However, the moment his eyes fall on the last item, he immediately choose to buy it!
Floating Island Blueprint [Holy-Rank] The blueprint to make a floating island. Cost : 8,000 Gold Coins
Yes, it was the blueprint for creating the floating island!
Didn't he feel pained when he leave the other four floating island away? Well, he could just make them with this blueprint!
Given that creating the floating island needs several heads of talents, especially in the field of formations and arrays, in addition to many and countless resources in order to create one, but Cole didn't leave the chance and bought it!
Talents in formations and arrays? He don't need them as the Summoning Grimoire's [Creation Magic] can do all the work!
Lack or don't have the vital resources and materials? Then just ask the Nine World Elven Ancestral Tree to gave birth into one inside her created world!
As long he was given time, Cole believe that he can make this floating island in the future!
The cost of the blueprint drain all the coins he manage to save up and just receive after completing the dungeon run but Cole smile contendly while leaving the Dungeon Clear Store. He already picture the future where the faction he created not only conquer the land but conquer the sky above them.
His phoenix blood boil with the thought of conquering the sky than the land.
The same as usual, he gave his four minion a time to stabilize their state while he busy after clearing the dungeon. The last dungeon run they just experience make them open their eyes just how weak they were. They take even the smallest amount of time to somehow improve themselves.
But before Cole leave, since the [Heavenly Beast God Cultivation Method] won't be able to show its value for the meantime without contracting their companion beast, he gave the [Three Revolution Core Formation Ring] to them to cultivate. It was fortunate that it could also be cultivated by Nascent Soul eventhough their Core is gone. Not only it could expand their spiritual energy reserves, it could also create a defensive means for their Nascent Soul and dantian.
Afterwards, he teleports himself at the edge of the [Inner World] before he release the Golden Bee Refining Island. He uproot the Heat-Spiritual Energy Converter Tree since he has a great plan to use it and replace it with mature Spiritual Gathering Tree. It was only then he took out the beehive and attach it in the Spiritual Gathering Tree.
The Golden Bees feel that they were released from storage and immediately gush out of beehive. The Golden Bees, as a Divine-Rank beast, are extremely smart. Cole don't know the exact instructions the queen bee left to them but one of them should be become obedient to him while the new queen is have yet to be born.
The environment of [Inner World] is much better than the simulated world of dungeon. The moment the golden bees come out, their bodies were like sponge that absorbs the spiritual energy in the surrounding. All of them instantly enter the peak of Tier-4. They only need to face Heavenly Tribulation and an army of Tier-5 Divine Beasts will be created.
Even the dried up beehive absorb spiritual energy and actually turn more smoother compare to before. Not only the beehive the home of the golden bees, it was also the cultivation haven of the whole hive.
Fortunately, new wave of spiritual energy fill towards the edge of the land.
While the golden bees is busy on absorbing spiritual energy, he use the crown the queen bee entrusted to him to enter the internal space of the beehive.
The first thing he did is to enter the throne room and drip his blood to the queen bee egg.
The egg were on the verge of hatching. The moment his blood got absorbed by it, the egg started to shake fiercely and show some cracks.
After acquiring the [Immortal Purity True Phoenix Special Physique], his whole body become a treasure. It was full of vitality and life and his blood is not in any way inferior to Water of Life.
The moment the first crack appear on the egg, spiritual energy of surrounding flow towards the crack and nourish the creature that was about to come out.
For the meantime, Cole don't any experience on hatching an egg. But since this was an egg of Divine Beast, it was only normal that it won't hatch in the next day and definitely not today.
Divine Beast were born powerful than any creature but not without a cost and reason.
And the moment they were born, phenomenon and anomalies are bound to appear.
This golden queen bee is considered lucky that it was hatched inside the hidden [Inner World] and it'll be born without a hitch.
Cole smile, thinking of the future where he could command an army of ferocious, deadly bees.
With that in mind, Cole immediately initiate the contact. With the blood he just introduced to the egg, the feeble soul of the hatching queen bee didn't block the intrusion of foreign but felt like familiar presence.
Without a hitch, the soul contract were successfully formed.
His 14th contracted beasts is a Golden Queen Bee!
Cole smile as he leave the queen bee crown floating on top of hatching bee egg.
All the Golden Bee's of the hive feel the impending appearance of their new queen and were now rushing on the place he were in.
Since he have yet to have the absolute control to the golden bees and the queen bee won't he able to exert its authority for the meantime, Cole immediately leave the throne room lest those golden bees misunderstood his purpose. Although they won't pose a threat to Cole, he don't want to cull their numbers should they turn agressive and attack them.
This was also the reason why he placed the hive at the edge of [Inner World]. His contracted beasts would be able to protect themselves but his family are also inside this place and they were just a normal humans with no cultivation.
He teleport himself inside the other room the queen bee open for him. It was actually the treasure room that only has few stored items. After all, any thing valuable were already used to maintain the state of the hive before. It was to be expected that the treasure room don't have valuable things anymore.
However, Cole didn't bother to preserve anything specially when he saw that most of the items in the storage room were seeds of various spiritual plants stored in makeshift jar made from beeswax. They were preserved using a special formula of honey. All of them enter the Black Ring.
Afterwards, he instantly leave the beehive. He could tell that the beehive enter a defensive state due to hatching of the queen bee. Anything that enter their range will be instantly marked as an enemy and will face the ire of the whole hive.
As a preventive measure, Cole ask the Nine World Elven Ancestral Tree to make a natural barrier that isolate the area where the floating island and the golden bees reside.
And in order to ensure the safety of his family, he ask Virgo to temporarily guard the house where they reside. Although the chance of golden bees leaving the hive and the floating island is small since they'll fully guard the hatching time of the queen bee, it's still better to have preventive measures than nothing.
Afterwards, he don't spend too much time inside the [Inner World] and drag the other four back into dungeon diving.
What Cole desire the most in [Hell] mode difficulty of dungeon was its supposedly rich amount of EXP everytime he defeats a monsters. However, although he acquire a rich rewards in the last dungeon run, he didn't acquire any EXP that'll fill the room of growth given to him by the Miracle Fruit.
Therefore, using the other two Forgotten Garden Dungeon Monolith, he challenge the [Hell] difficulty in order to check things out.
Fortunately, the next dungeon run were considered 'normal' and all the consecutive run after that. Apparently, the first [Hell] difficulty dungeon dive could be considered as bonus run with all of the available Heavenly Flame and even Divine Flame for picking.
It was then Cole started to acquire EXP he needed for leveling up.
Fernan and Fernand were on the verge on breaking through to Nascent Soul-Stage any minute but the moment they cultivate the [Three Revolution Core Formation Ring], they acquire more room for growth. With it, it could be expected that they'll be more powerful than Fernando and Mikoes in the same level and stage.
Cole smile in satisfaction at the growing martial force he cultivated. Core Formation-Stage cultivator were considered as powerhouse and force to be reckon with in Azure Territory. Besides, they were bound to breakthrough to Nascent Soul-Stage which were a cultivator could create his own sect.
Although they were nothing much in the whole Azure Territory and even in the human civilization, what's scary about them was their speed of growth. Perhaps if they were given a ample amount of time, they could grow into someone that could suppress the Heavenly Fire Empire.
Cole can't wait for the time where he'll cultivate his own force using the dungeon monolith. He believes that he could create a powerful army that could intimidate any creature, humans and beasts alike.
With that in mind, Cole return on continuous dungeon diving, mostly with [Hell] difficulty.
And at some point, he also drag his brother-in-law.