Chapter 5: The Ice Prince's Formula

Wang Zhu and Senior Shi sored through the air at a breakneck pace. The wind gushed against Wang Zhu's face, with a big smile smacked across his lips, he turned to Senior Shi, "Senior, will I one day be able to have a beast as powerful as Drek?"

Senior Shi smiled at Wang Zhu, "Indeed you will, although you can't force it. I found an egg when I was only fifteen, back when I was a core disciple at Sea Serpent Tower." Senior Shi's face turned slightly gloomy.

Seeing the upset old man Wang Zhu felt pain beating against his chest, "What happened to Sea Serpent Tower?"

Senior Shi shook his head his expression was one of longing. "It's gone. Only ashes remain. It fell to the fate of all five-star sects - the wrath of the divine palaces." Senior Shi clenched his fist.

"The White Tiger howls in the night, causing their enemies to crumble into nothingness. This is an old saying. Tell me little Zhu, do you know what it means?" Senior Shi looked to the sky solemnly.

Wang Zhu didn't have a reply. Only shaking his head. The silence was Senior Shi's answer.

"The four palaces will suffer no rivals, the White Tiger Sect is the most ferocious and the moment they view anybody as a threat they descend with a fury unmatched in the Sacred Beast Continent. They slaughter all who do not join them, coming and going in the night."

A string of fear suddenly struck Wang Zhu's heart, and a pain reverberated throughout his soul. Something called to him, the image of a tiger encased in ice entered his vision causing him to become dizzy and fatigued.

Eventually, he regained his composure, but he didn't hear the last of Senior Shi's words, making him feel lost and awkward.

"I shouldn't bother you with such matters little Zhu, the moral of the story is to be patient. Eventually, you'll find a friend who can match Drek. Isn't that right girl?" He patted the Waterdactol's neck, receiving a happy squark in reply. "Why don't you get that scroll out and have a quick look at it. You know nothing of cultivation. I would explain to you myself, but if that really is the Ice Prince's formula it'll be able to do more than I ever can."

Heeding his advice Wang Zhu summoned the scroll from his pouch, slowly he took off the seal, which was engraved with a dragon made purely of ice, with a man pressing his boot down on its head, smiling all the while. The man's eyes were cold blue, which sent shortwaves throughout Wang Zhu's body.

Unscrolling it Wang Zhu started to read.

'Ice, a state of water, but far more. What does it state of ice mean? Is it just some cold object ready to be melted away by some fools warm breath? No! Ice is Water frozen. In this freezing is the gateway to countless Dao's and understanding! But that day is far away.'

'I am the Ice Prince, and this is my technique. To be me is to be ice, cold and composed. I was born into the Dragon Clan, a bastard of the Heavenly Ice Branch. My mother was a progeny and descended to the mortal planes, there she fell pregnant and gave birth to me, a half breed. I never knew the woman, she was forced to carry out a suicidal task and failed.'

'When I was told this I was determined to kill all of her murderers, but I needed to grow. It took my five-hundred years, but I reached the necessary strength to spread the ruin of my enemies. First was my grandfather - Patriarch of the Heavenly Ice Dragon Tribe. It had been countless years since our Tribe had a True Dragon in our ranks, and it was his time to ascend and allow us to rejoin the core of the Dragon Emperor Clan.'

'I killed him, whilst he was trying to become a True Dragon I struck, slaying him with my sword. It was the second greatest moment of my life. The first, well that was revenge for my mother. She had been sent to destroy an organization with a False Dragon - the Four Divinities Palace.'

'The gall, some rampant Azure Dragon thought he was someone from the legends and tried to reform an old power with three other imitators; the Sparrow pretending to be a Vermilion Bird, that overgrown kitten pretending to be an Imperial White Tiger, and that fat shell pretending to be a Black Tortoise!'

'They were all outcasts from the upper realms, thinking they could impose themselves and conquer the weak, a true testament to their failures. And just so I cast them down, but alas the pursuit of the Heavenly Fate Dragon is growing ever closer, I wasn't ever able to ever recover her body. To you who can break the seal on this scroll you are destined with me, I shall pass you a peerless technique that the Snow Goddess herself tried to ply from my hands - A Immortal Ranked Technique.'

'I created this when I was at the Early Boundary of Heaven Ascension, yet I was invincible amount Heaven Ascension experts. If I'd been braver I would have shattered my cultivation and restarted, I would have been able to jump cultivation ranks and would have been truly invincible!'

'This is my gift to you. All I ask in return is one favor. Find my mothers corpse, give her a proper burial.'

Regards - Ice Prince, Binglong Wangzi.

'The first step in humanoid cultivation is the Qi Condescension Realm. This is where you gather your first strands of Qi and refine them. There are a different amount of stages for Realm depending on how many Meridians you have open, although true geniuses are able to overcome closed Meridians by forcing them open, and the greatest among them creating a tenth Meridian!'

Wang Zhu's mind was enthralled and ablaze from all the information he was reading. At this moment he decided that he shall fulfill the final wishes of the Ice Prince. But he didn't let himself focus on these matters and so-called 'realms', he wasn't strong enough to fight a child let alone some dragon! "I'll master the Ice Prince's Formula and conquer the Wildlands in his memory!" At this moment Wang Zhu felt a rush of excitement and true purpose for the first time! It was intoxicating the thirst for power swelled within him making him clench his fists smiling.

'My Ice Formula shall instruct you not only how to open any blocked Meridians, not only create a new one but create many more! But this shouldn't be in your mind currently, as you'll have to focus now. The first step is creating a string of Qi. When creating a string of Qi it is best to refine it until it's completely pure whilst making it as thick as possible.'

'You shall not do this, you shall be absorbing Qi and converting into Ice Qi. But how does one do this? Well, first you must gather Qi up into a strand. To do this you must close your eyes. Feel the world around you, let your Meridians breath of the world. Gather this breath and condense it into a string!'

Wang Zhu quickly put the scroll away and focused. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he felt located the meridians on his body letting them fathom the universe around him. Quickly he felt the huge expansions that were his four overly large meridians in his chest, back and arms. They breathed in the cosmos around him.

He quickly sensed the Qi around him, it was like little dots that littered the air, he concentrated on these dots and imagined two of them joining together.

Wang Zhu took a deep breath. "Joining together multiple dots must be how you can create a strand of Qi!" The realization struck him - this was easy! It usually took months for people to sense Qi, let alone string together!

If he managed to piece together the Qi and convert it to the element of Ice how long would it take to get to the next realm? Weeks? Days? "I must be a once in a century genius." A twinge of pride resounded in his heart as a smile lit up on his face.

"Wait!" Wang Zhu's thoughts were suddenly in disarray, and the words of the Artifact Spirit Echoed in his head, "don't be cocky kid!"

The seed of pride in his heart was immediately exterminated, "I may be talented, but the arrogant die young. The Four Divinities Palace was prideful, their leaders claimed to be the Sacred God Beasts, and in the end, they offended the wrong progeny, causing them all to die."

Wang Zhu let out a deep breath of pride and inhaled humility.