Ice and fire

Ki had long mastered her intermediate martial forms for her palm and sword arts along with improving her archery, acupuncture and throwing or hidden weapon abilities to the best of her potential.

Unlike normal people she had already surpassed the unrestrained realm in her previous life, she had built a firm foundation for herself and after going back to the basics she had began to develop her own martial arts after mastering the sixteen intermediate forms.

She then moved onto mastering the advanced 24 forms and then went on to develop them to best suit the mulberry and drunken intermediate forms.

After constant practice and gaining much experience along with undergoing extreme training thanks to her high vitality she had progressed far faster than others thanks to her talents, experience and her practice of the blood sects martial arts.

The average person with the best talent, effort and support from a righteous sect could reach the transcendent realm by the age of eighteen but those that practice blood, devil or demonic arts tend to have a much faster growth speed but require many resources, sacrifices or some sort of cost or sacrifice from themselves.

Not only did Ki have the increased training speed thanks to her higher vitality and blood qi arts as a support but thanks to her generation qi art the poisonous qi art was constantly being nurtured by her blood qi so she had long been on the verge of breaking through to the next realm.

Not only that but the incident during the last year almost pushed her past the limits and forces a breakthrough, luckily she was able to suppress herself from breaking through during that time so she could wait for another year or two to advance to the transcendent realm.

She had already far surpassed those within her age group but still chose to continue to suppress herself to this day for various reasons.

Ki knit her brows while in deep thought as if coming to a final decision. "I have suppressed myself for too long and it is getting even harder to do so. During the journey I have planned to take part in there may be some unexpected variables and none of the people within my group have broken through the transcendent realm yet so there is always an unexpected danger that could appear that I would have to decide to abandon my people or fight."

She looked at the two sealed jade bottles in front of her and her eyes sharpened. "Wait to break through until my biggest growth spurt is completely confirmed to be over and risk endangering my own people because I gave up the opportunity to increase my realm…. Or I could take this opportunity and time I have to prepare before the journey and gain another trump card while there is not much to lose by doing so."

After weighing the pros and cons, Ki picked up the bottles and secured the lock on the door before sitting down on the ground with her legs crossed in a meditative sitting position.

She calmly breathed in and out according to the rhythm of her generation qi arts method and used both her noxious poison qi art along with her blood Buddha qi art to the best of her abilities.

She removed the lid from the cold poison bottle and then quickly drank every last drop of the cold poison until not a drop remained.

Suddenly a chill spread throughout her body as if her body was ready to freeze completely from the inside out and she could barely stop her body from shivering and breaking her concentration.

She maintained her breathing and utilised to poison qi to protect her heart from the cold poison and then her hand stretched out to the other jade bottle and removed the lid.

As the bottle touched her lips and travelled down her throat she could feel her throat burning up and as it travelled down further into her body the two opposing forces began to clash and try to assert their dominance over the other.

While Ki used her own poisonous qi to best protect her body and heart from the overall effects of both extremes of hot and cold poison, she also tried her best to manage keeping both the hot and cold poisons of an equal level as they clashed and broke each other down. Ice and fire both cancelling each other out and tempering the insides of the body along with the poisonous qi within her body.

The pain she felt when dealing with those two opposing forces was unbearable but just like a year ago she endured it and kept her mind focussed on the task.

Over an hour passed and her body and the poison stabilised, using poison to fight poison and after using two opposing poisons of the extreme natures of ice and fire or cold and hot she had gained a lot after finally completing her transformation.

After her body had undergone the battle of opposing forces it had underwent a new change which gave her a couple of new skills or abilities depending on how one looked at it.

Her body had become resistant to extreme temperatures of hot and cold so she would not get burned by fire or frostbite from ice but best of all she gained a body that was immune to over a hundred different kinds of poisons.

In the world there was bodies that were called one hundred, thousand or ten thousand poison immunity body and they were most suited to practicing poison arts so her growth rate with her poison qi art would not be slowed down due to building up her immunity.

Thanks to her knowledge from the poison clan she was able to turn her body into a hundred poison immunity body.

Suddenly Ki sensed a sudden change and fluctuation within her dantian as the qi within her dantain began to fluctuate and run riot.

The qi could no longer be restrained or refined any longer and had reached its absolute limits so all Ki could do was allow it to run wild freely.

Her poison dantain was expanding in size and strengthening during the process of the qi running riot and then the blood dantain followed closely behind as Ki continued to breathe according to how she had been previously.

A sudden change took place and the qi within both dantains stabilised and behaved like it had broke through a sudden barrier or limit so it began to settle once more.

Ki opened her eyes as a flash of insight passed through her eyes after completing her breakthrough. "I have transcended to the next realm but here is just the beginning. The generation qi art really is unique, I just broke through the transcendent realm but as I broke through my blood qi also achieved a breakthrough at the same time so they must break through each realm at the same time."

No major changes were noticeable on her body but now her qi was more refined and her strength and vitality had reached and surpassed a new realm which had been blocked by an invisible wall.

She had truly transcended in mind, body and soul.