4 ATTACKED

As the little ice flame proceeded towards the small lifeform that it had detected, it was contemplating about its new found experiences of these other similar lifeforms that it had just met.

As it did, it found that its decision to leave the ice casing was indeed correct.

Although there was nothing for it to do inside the ice casing anymore, but if it was still a spirit, that little spark of the past then perhaps it would have never been able to leave that ice casing as spirits could not be mentioned with souls under the same breath.

taking for example, just the fact that as a spirit, the little spark had felt fatigue after repeatedly trying to get out of the ice casing, in the end it required rest or nourishing materials that would replenish its lost energy and perhaps if it had kept on repeatedly trying to escape the ice casing without resting, it would have expended all its energy and would've disappeared from existence.

but the same was not true for a soul consciousness, as the latter was able to draw in "energy" from its surroundings to replenish its lost energy. so it would always remain energetic.

This was another one of the little ice flame's abilities or, in fact it could be said as the basic abilities for any soul consciousness.

Soon the little ice flame came to a halt in air. This was because it could already see the small lifeform down below.

ling feng at this moment wasn't at the best of his spirits. he was a little fidgety as he looked around his surroundings carefully. This was because he had just felt huge amounts of cold chilling wind blow against him.

Other animals might not be able to make much out of it, but ling feng was not like the other animals. It was intelligent to a degree and knew that the phenomena of huge amounts of cold wind suddenly crashing on his body, out of nowhere when the weather was normal was definitely weird.

whereas up in the air, little ice flame was quite surprised as it sensed that this small lifeform was many times more intelligent than its peers plus all the more so since it was able to detect the abnormality in the cold wind that had occurred due to little ice flame travelling at a fast speed through air.

ling feng at this time was cautiously looking around his surroundings.

Usually such cold winds didn't pose much of a problem to him whether it was now or in the past, as he was born and nurtured here.

But the problem he faced was not the cold wind but the strangeness with which it had arrived.

seeing ling feng's fidgeting small body as he looked around cautiously, little ice flame found it quite amusing.

Suddenly once again, little ice flame had a urge to see how this small "dramatic" lifeform would react on meeting it.

The little ice flame knew that if it let out its consciousness completely then the small lifeform might not be able to bear the uncontrollable soul fluctuations that came out with it.

so instead on its way here, the little ice flame had already came up with its own counter-measure for such a problem.

And that was to only release a small strand of its consciousness instead of releasing all of it in one go.

Although it sounded simple and even little ice flame thought so, but when it tried to send a small strand of its consciousness out, the little ice flame failed miserably as the rest of its consciousness pushed their way out as well.

And ling feng who was looking at the sudden appearance of a fist-sized white flames in air with caution, suffered the brunt of the soul fluctuations that were released due to little ice flame's consciousness.

ling feng in a moment, suddenly found his vision blurring and found huge pressure on his little soul.

ling feng had just started cultivating and knew a bit or two about souls due to his vague memories.

he urged the tiny amounts of demonic qi, which then gushed through his body and it only brought him a moment's worth of time before he fainted.

looking at the fainted small lifeform, little ice flame didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This time little ice flame truly didn't think that it would lead another lifeform which it tried to interact with to faint.

Although little ice flame thought about waiting for the small lifeform to recover but it was clear that the latter fainting had made the little ice flame lose any curiosity that it had initially held.

Since its consciousness was already spread out, it didn't bother trying to bring it back in.

So it decided to start exploring this land of white, and given little ice flame's huge consciousness which could sense hundreds of kilometres of area, after a while roaming about, little ice flame had got the basic knowledge of the terrain and concluded that this region was dominated by the lifeforms which it had previously tried to interact with.

Through the exploration of this land of white, little ice flame felt it had improved in certain ways and aspects.

during the exploration in the land of white, little ice flame had tried to control its consciousness such that it would release only a small single strand of consciousness out but it always failed miserably and had given up, since little ice flame thought that it was not meant to be, maybe a small strand of consciousness couldn't be sent out.

little ice flame's curiosity about this land of white had also relatively cooled down as it had seen much of this place and felt that its curiosity was especially peaked when it extended its consciousness outwards to see what could lie outside of this land of white and all it saw was blue seas everywhere. This only served to further boost its curiosity to go out of the land of white and explore.

After making the decision, The little ice flame proceeded towards the blue seas wanting to explore all that there is.

It had been a few days since little ice flame had already left the land of white, but it had left a victim here.

That victim was none other than ling feng who was currently staring at the skies with a blank look in his eyes.

after ling feng woke up, he had found out that the demonic qi which he had gathered by cultivating arduously, had dispersed. Given that the demonic qi in the world was already so bleak, it was easily used up when he tried to resist that soul pressure of that strange white flame. Either way, his method failed miserably and now he had to try gathering the demonic qi again, ling feng felt his will break because in the end he was only a one year-old penguin, although he was quite ambitious, he didn't have the will to back it up. It was unknown whether he would ever recover from this setback.

It had been a few months already.

strangely or not being few months at the sea, the little ice flame had not encountered any humans. if it did, it would have been surprised that their intelligence was high enough and comparable to his.

Since little ice flame was at sea, all it saw there were small and huge lifeforms of the sea and their intelligence was also not that high. The smaller lifeforms were scared away when it tried to approach them and the huge lifeforms which had a bigger size would completely ignore it.

So one could say that the little ice flame swaggered around all it like in the sea and was very relaxed.

little ice flame felt that although it could turn incorporeal by retracting its consciousness but it felt it was better not to, as it was able to look at the reactions of other lifeforms this way and also prevent them from fainting, that is, it would be inconvenient if it retracted its consciousness only to release it back later on and if it did release its consciousness, those lifeforms near it would faint due to their weak soul consciousness.

And another plus side was that its consciousness could cover a huge area, and it could sense all the lifeforms in the area.

Currently little ice flame was roaming along the sea bed, since it hadn't retracted its consciousness, it was capable of being seen by other aquatic lifeforms.

But unfortunately or not, when the little ice flame went close to a small lifeform it had seen hiding on the sea bed to observe it, the little ice flame was suddenly attacked by it. This was the first time in its life since birth that someone tried to attack it physically and its curiosity was overtaken by its fear because it suddenly realized that not being incorporeal meant that it would be seen by sight and could also possibly be harmed physically.

As it tried to recall its consciousness back in to become incorporeal, it realized it was a step too late and that lifeform firmly bit into the little ice flame.