“Wait, Wu Meiling has not yet arrived.” Inside the training cave Wu Jilong and Sima Gongming stood in silence which was only interrupted by the drops of water that fell from the cave’s damp ceiling, the heat from Wu Jilong’s Sovereign Creation Flame had caused the inside of the training cave to fill with humidity that stuck to their skin closer than their robes. Song Gongming’s blade like brow furrowed after hearing Wu Jilong instructing him to wait. Who in the Sect of Five Corners would speak so impolitely towards him? Only Wu Jilong would. Song Gongming remained quiet and waited patiently with his arms folded behind his back he twiddled his thumbs.

After an hour passed Wu Meiling entered the training cave from the outside world. She wasted no time in walking over to Wu Jilong who sat cross legged with his eyes closed. Each step she took was filled with the same bounce that she always had seemingly she had recovered from crying earlier but deep within her eyes the faint redness that crying brought about still lingered, on the skin of her cheeks the slight scent of salty tears drew Wu Jilong’s attention.

“Wu Meiling, for what reason do you cry?”

“Huh? Master why do you think I have been crying? I haven’t been crying,” Wu Meiling lied. In responses to her lie Wu Jilong gave her another smack on the back of her hand. Compared to the other times Wu Jilong disciplined her this smack was slightly harder, the sound of him striking her echoed of off the cave’s rugged walls. He did this because she had lied to him.

“The reason you have cried matters not to me, but do not think of lying to me girl,” Wu Jilong said.

From Sima Gongming’s forehead a vein appeared, clearly being ignored by Wu Meiling and ordered around by Wu Jilong had taken its toll on the Sect Head’s immense pride. “Wu Jilong the young girl has arrived. Can you tell me what it is that you need my help with now?”

“What I need you to do is bring forward all of the Qi you currently are able to and use it to surround your body. Wu Meiling sit in front of me and meditate,” Wu Jilong’s words were spoke coolly but from the way he spoke Sima Gongming could tell that the words were not a question but an order.

“Ok!” Wu Meiling sat down in front of Wu Jilong and started to meditate in the same manner that Wu Jilong did. Slowly Wu Jilong raised his hand a strand of scarlet Qi entered the young girl’s body while remaining attached to Wu Jilong’s body, at first the Qi caused her to feel discomfort but as the Qi spread throughout her body it brought a feeling of warmth and comfort to her.

Sharp strands of white Qi rose from Sima Gongming’s elderly figure, the fierceness of his Qi caused the entire mountain which the training cave was carved from to shake. Sima Gongming was the eye of a fierce storm and his Qi was the winds which caused devastation and destruction, under his feet the cave floor began to fracture and crack. The once proud stone could only struggle momentarily before turning to dust and rubble. Whispers and hisses came from the winds that shot out from Sima Gongming’s body, he used his full strength just as Wu Jilong said to. Outside of the training cave every elder of the Sect of Five Corners felt the overbearing aura of the Sect Head and started to worry profusely. They did not know that Sima Gongming was currently only bringing out his Qi, to them they thought that the Sect Head using so much of his strength meant that someone had offended him and would surely die today.

“Wu Jilong, I have brought out all of my Qi just as you asked.”

In his left hand Wu Jilong held the strand of Qi which ensnared Wu Meiling’s pitiful daitan. Her daitan was shriveled and neglected showing that she had never cultivated before, in order to allow her to began cultivating with techniques that befit the strongest Deva Wu Jilong had ever killed he would use Sima Gongming’s Qi to create a new type of Unique Qi for Wu Meiling and force it to integrate with her Daitan. Although Qi was easily controlled it was not easily subdued, cultivators could refine Qi and use it to their will but only because that was their Unique Qi that resonated with their daitan. What Wu Jilong was about to do was not something that the logic of Cultivation supported, this was something that only a Deva would know how to do.

Ten crimson flames appeared in the palm of his right hand, each burned brightly denoting the character for steal. Like greedy children the flames began to devour the fierce Qi which Sima Gongming surrounded himself in with ease. Never in all of his years of cultivation had Sima Gongming seen someone handle Qi of the Heavenly Ascension Stage so easily. One wrong move and it could have easily costed Wu Jilong his life but now his Qi was swallowed so easily that it scared Sima Gongming half to death.

As if the flames were alive they grew larger and began to burn hotter, within the cave only Sima Gongming showed a reaction to this, on his face sweat began to flow freely and a look of worry appeared clearly. Wu Jilong was naturally not affected by his own technique he continued to look as peaceful as he did when he meditated but at the same time he used the strand of Qi that entangled Wu Meiling’s daitan to protect her from any harm which allowed Wu Meiling to continue cultivating in peace.

In an instant the ten flames which burnt in his palm disappeared, they were replaced by a clear Qi so refined that it reflected all of their appearances. Wu Jilong pulled on the strand of Qi and forcefully pulled Wu Meiling’s daitan out of her body. Her face remained completely calm as she could not feel what had happened and her eyes were closed so she could not see what was happening. With Wu Meiling’s daitan in one hand and the refined Qi in the other Wu Jilong began to forcefully fuse the two separate energies using his own body as the vessel to discharge any harmful rejections that occurred.

The refined Qi rushed into Wu Jilong’s body by his own will, as it flowed through his meridians his entire body began to shake and his bones began to crack. Inside his body the Qi was running wild which caused Wu Jilong to spit up a mouthful of blood. He snapped and produced ten flames denoting heal. In order to reach Wu Meiling’s daitan which he held in his left hand the refined Qi would need to pass through his entire body and come out on his left side.

“Wu Jilong, what are you doing? This is much too dangerous that girl could die,” Sima Gongming said.

Compared to when he forcefully broke down his body Wu Jilong was now experiencing pain one hundred times worse. He gritted his teeth so hard they began to chip and tears of blood started well up in his eyes causing him to look like a madman. With the refined Qi inside his body Wu Jilong’s aura felt like what it would when he reached the Heavenly Ascension Stage for a brief second. It was in this second that Wu Jilong responded to Sima Gongming.

“Shut up.”

Sima Gongming’s entire body froze, he dared not even to think. In his mind the vision of Wu Jilong killing him played over and over again in his mind's eye. This was what happened when someone experienced such a strong killing intent infused with Qi. The target would experience hallucinations depicting their death.

Wu Jilong’s breathing became stable once again, he snapped and healed his injuries once again. From his right hand the refined Qi appeared once again only this time it was much more calm, as if it had been tamed by Wu Jilong’s will. It floated towards Wu Meiling’s daitan and began to be absorbed by the pitiful thing. Before Sima Gongming’s eyes Wu Meiling’s daitan transformed into something incomparably different from what it had been before. Her daitan contained an Aura Sea that was completely still that reflected the glass moon that hung above her Aura Sea.

“Master what is this? I feel so different,” Wu Meiling asked.

“Close your eyes and search for a strand of Qi that is leaving your body and shooting off into the sky,” Wu Jilong instructed.

Sima Gongming’s face completely changed from shock to an expression of deep thought. He had always felt that there was a portion of his Qi that he could never access but he did not know what it meant. But after hearing Wu Jilong tell Wu Meiling to follow the strand of Qi that returned to the heavens he understood what he must do to break through to the Divine Ruling Stage.

“Wu Jilong, I thank you for your advice regarding cultivation. I will take my leave now,” Sima Gongming said before leaving the training cave. Neither Wu Jilong or Wu Meiling cared much about what he said. Instead they were both focused on Wu Meiling sensing her strand of Qi.

“I found it! Master it just keeps going. I can see past the clouds, master there are so many stars. Waaa! So pretty, there has to be at least a hundred of them” Wu Meiling said. While Sima Gongming thought he understood what Wu Jilong meant by instructing Wu Meiling to do this the truth was he only understood the bare minimum of what this action entailed.

“Very good, what you have found is your Strand of Fate, judging from the distance of this strand I can tell how powerful your future in cultivation will be. Your daitan did not reject my will and even has great compatibility with it. As your master I am proud of you,” Wu Jilong said. Although she had did nothing other than sitting in meditation her acceptance of Wu Jilong’s will showed that she had completely accepted him as her master and would follow him until the end of time.

“Master how far did your Strand of Fate reach?”

“It continued on endlessly,” Wu Jilong said. Wu Meiling’s strand ran past hundreds of stars which meant that her talent would be extraordinary as it should be because she had started to cultivate using the methods of a great Deva. But Wu Jilong’s strand had no end in sight, it was for this reason hundreds of stars descended from the sky to kill him. Each star was actually the Daitan of a Deva who had ascended to the Heavens and Wu Jilong was destined to rule over them all.

Wu Meiling’s cultivation had surpassed Wu Jilong’s in an instant, she was already at the Aura Sea Formation Stage. She stood up and started to run around at speeds she had never ran before. “Master, can I learn those techniques now?”

“Yes, sit back down and close your eyes. The first technique you are going to learn is calling upon the Coiling Dragon Spear and the Reflecting Moon Shield. The Coiling Dragon Spear can expand and retract according to the users will granting a wide range of attacking options. The Reflecting Moon Shield is a shield that absorbs the Yin energy of an attack and returns it with a Yang energy attack. Together they form an overwhelming offense and unbreakable defense,” Wu Jilong said.

The thought of having such great techniques made Wu Meiling ecstatic but once she thought about it she had a question that she needed to ask her master. “Master if they are so strong then why do you not use them?”

“It is much too weak for me to use,” Wu Jilong said.