Celestial Peak

Inside the hollowed area, Wang Ling opened his eyes after five days of sleeping. His body was reinvigorated by Bai Xue's blood essence and his very own angelic qi.

But Wang Ling was still feeling pain as he got up from the ground. Looking around, he didn't see the corpse of the Frost Dragon, instead, there was a dried-up corpse just a couple of meters of him.

Beside him was Bai Xue who was on her white fox form but was a lot bigger. She was huddled up to Wang Ling, she looked like she was protecting him from possible danger.

On Bai Xue's fur was his blood and her mixed together as one. They looked like a mess but Wang Ling could not do anything as this was the first time he woke up after a long while.

He looked at himself and realized just how filthy his body was. The image he carried right now had no inkling of an expert's pride but that of a homeless one. Wang Ling was disappointed at himself.

Wang Ling checked his whole body and noticed that his right leg that was supposed to be broken was already beginning to heal. In a few more days, it should heal completely.

He saw some more injuries riddled all over his body. His back was especially injured. The sharps from the pointy rocks he crashed into managed to injure him so much, there was also some mark on Wang Ling's hands left by the Frost Dragon's teeth.

Wang Ling was healing at a fast rate thanks to his angelic qi would seem that it was not enough to completely heal him.

"This is troublesome." Wang Ling commented as he placed his hands atop Bai Xue's body. He injected her with his angelic qi and accelerated her recovery rate.

It would be five days later that Wang Ling's wounds would fully heal. But the burden he put on his body was too intense that he could barely move. On the seventh day after his awakening, Bai Xue finally woke up.

Her waking up was not peaceful. The roar of a Dragon echoed in the hollowed-out room. Bai Xue's body shot up to the skies and she transformed into a Frost Dragon that was over 20-meters large.

The temperature drop as Bai Xue's new form and ability was used. Her surroundings became icy and resembled that of an ice cave. Bai Xue had gained a Dragon form.

Wang Ling watched as Bai Xue celebrated. The dragonic qi from the Frost Dragon was already coating her body.

Bai Xue's roar of delight continued for hours before she stopped.

Landing on the ground, Bai Xue transformed into a white fox and landed in front of Wang Ling. She had been aware of him since his awakening but had been saying nothing as she too was busy with assimilating the Frost Dragon's Soul and Blood Essence into her body.

Seeing Wang Ling was alive and was looking good as his cultivation had already reached the peak of the middle-level-2 nascent soul stage.

"So you have gained the form of the Frost Dragon?"

Bai Xue nodded her head heavily as she answered, "You have helped me a lot this time. The original plan was to free you of your debt, but now, I am the one deeply indebted to you."

Wang Ling stopped her there, he already where it was going so he stopped her from talking any further, "It is fine, I know you are thankful and you have already conveyed those words back then. Besides, you're supposed to be my partner, I can't just abandon you when things go south."

Bai Xue's awkward-looking expression vanished as Wang Ling's voice echoed out. She nodded her head in a heavy manner. The usual outspoken Bai Xue was silent. It was very disappointing but Wang Ling could see why she would act like so.

Bai Xue had just been beaten black and blue by the Frost Dragon. She almost died and Wang Ling was together with her. In the end, she, who was the far stronger than Wang Ling was saved by him.

It was along the while he was injured beyond belief. She was too embarrassed to directly face him right now.

Wang Ling saw this and sighed, he now knew that this white fox was rather immature when compared to his state of mind. He paused as he said seconds later.

"I'll take the opportunity to go into seclusion now. Watch for anything that will endanger the team and our victory."

Bai Xue readily agreed and Wang Ling was given a lot of space for his seclusion.

Wang Ling laid out everything he would need and entered his mind. Wang Ling began cultivating and threw any worry out of his mind.

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Upon entering cultivation mode. Wang Ling was met with various complications. His meridians and veins were stretched taut and the pathways had widened.

Wang Ling was silent throughout but he didn't keep his silence soon after as he understood that he was changing once again. But those changes will be put on hold after Wang Ling tries something that had been in his mind for some time.

How can he make use of his flames in cultivation?

He had thought of this when he was left alone waiting and recuperating a couple of days ago. But Wang Ling was now sure that he should do what was in his mind.

So, Wang Ling began circulating his angelic to set the plan in motion. It took him three days to completely heal his veins and meridians. Another three days to make sure that everything was fine and his muscles to heal.

After such a long time. Wang Ling was ready to start his unconventional thoughts. Wang Ling drew the Hell flame from his energy palace and as he took one deep breath, he said, "Let us begin."

Wang Ling immediately began organizing the flames. The Hell Flame was made to circulate all over his body and the Heaven Flame was made to stay inside his energy palace.

The pain made his face reflected the pain he was feeling. The distortion on his face says it all.

Wang Ling had started his plans to gain more strength. It took him a week before he could settle with his plans in cultivation.

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A flame is seen as the essence of life and destruction all at the same time. With a flame, one will be able to get heat. With a flame, one can destroy a single mountain in a matter of hours if not minutes.

Wang Ling was using his inner mind to project his body inside the energy palace. In the middle of the energy palace was his miniature self, standing before a towering flame that was over tens of meters in height.

"These two flames should have killed me." Wang Ling lamented as he thought back to the time he fought the Frost Dragon and ignited the Spark.

The ignition was a very dangerous process and if he couldn't control the flames well enough. Wang Ling would have burst into flames and die after having veins in his body were destroyed.

Thankfully, Wang Ling managed to control the flames astoundingly. It might have been because his mind was so concentrated on the fight and controlling everything meticulously so he wouldn't die that Wang Ling managed to pass the ordeal.

In the end, it was not worth his time thinking it through the matter. Wang Ling closed his eyes and observed the figure that was swaying inside the towering flames.

Stretching his hands as he opened his eyes. Wang Ling thought he could reach out to his nascent soul that was bathing in the two flames like nothing but the flames were too strong that he could not approach it.

The flames were controllable but that was only on the outside. Wang Ling had yet to do the second ignition of the flames, meaning, he had very limited control over it.

There were different stages of ignition in terms of the flames. In the past, the True Chaos Flame had a total of 3 ignitions: first would be the [Flame Burst] where the flames run rampant outside without any use other than coating and burning the surrounding area, second was [Avatar Creation] where the cultivation must create and manifest the forms of their avatars, third was [Ascension] simply put, this process requires the user to gain full control of the flames.

Wang Ling was at Flame Burst and he was a long way from Ascension. But that doesn't mean he wouldn't reach it sooner or later. Wang Ling was sure that he would only need a couple of years to reach it.

Watching his nascent soul burn and bathe in the flames. Wang Ling had no problem as the two flames were purifying his nascent soul. The Heaven Flames purifies all that was impure.

His nascent soul was not an exception. The only difference, however, was the fact that his flames do not intend to destroy his nascent soul but to strengthen it. Wang Ling was originally only going to focus on meditation to purify his nascent soul but the flames were already doing that for him.

On the other hand, his Hell Flames were constantly flickering as it spread all over his body. The black flames were tyrannical and powerful that had the essence of slaughter and destruction.

Right now, Wang Ling using the black flames as a means to refine his fleshy body. He wanted to reshape his body that can accommodate his flames and bloodlines.

The black flames was destroying his body but the angelic qi that flows in his meridians made it so that he would never die even if the pain was unbearable.

Wang Ling would be dead by now if not for his angelic qi and the fact that his body refinement method had the essence of slaughter and destruction. It was a harrowing experience to go through constant pain.

But Wang Ling will grit his teeth to gain strength. He had just experienced a life and death fight where he was suppressed to the fullest. The drive to not let such a thing happen again pushed Wang Ling to break past his limits.

And after doing so well in passing his limits, Wang Ling's cultivation broke through and he was now a late-level-2 nascent soul stage.

Wang Ling opened his eyes with his body still on fire. He will not stop doing this until he could get the most benefits out of it.