Building One's Own Energy Part Five

  As Fell focused on building up the base of his Dantian's foundation, the little golden snake was cheerfully swimming in the middle of the sea of clouds. Time passed quietly as both of them absorbed Heaven and Earth energy. Soon enough, Fell noticed a difference in his meridians. He had been cycling energy in his newly tempered energy path and had noticed a minor difference in the stream of refined energy that coursed through his meridians. The change inside him was too minute to be noticed instantly, but he felt that his energy seemed to possess a slight source of lightning in its core. Noticing the change, he refined a strand of energy to its utmost potency and proceeded to send it to the tip of his fingers. That was when he noticed the second change.

The energy that always seemed to be encompassed in his body and that was never capable of leaving his body finally took its first step in the world outside. His eyebrows roses as he felt the space surrounding his fingers fluctuate, a small lightning zap escaped from his index finger and the temperature rose slightly. A tingly feeling flooded his hand as the energy was fluctuating and transforming into lightning. His fingers flashed as he attempted to poke the tempered steel based floor. To his great surprise, he didn't even need to come in contact with the floor that he left a deep indent in the sturdy material. His mouth opened as he whistled in surprise, new ideas and applications appeared in his mind and he lost himself in deep thoughts. A few minutes after that, his head twisted toward the roof, "Looks like it's coming back home", he jokingly said under his breath.

  Suddenly, a strange light shone on the ceiling, and the next moment, a darting light made its way toward Fell. It only stopped a few inches in front of his face, giving him the opportunity to finally see what the creature looked like. The first detail he noticed was his watery eyes, a greenish tinge that reminded him of a vast plain he saw in a painting. The creature seemed to look deep in his own eyes. A strange sensation of kinship made his heart thump; his hand moved toward the nascent creature and he touched its supple skin. Soft golden-colored scales filled the creature's body. A single word formed on his lips as he eyed the creature that shared his energy source with him. "Snake… No!" he exclaimed as he saw two small bumps on the creature's head. "Dragon?" he thought as he remembered the several images he had seen in his youth. "I'll call you Little Gold!" he exclaimed while looking deeply into the creature's eyes.

The young snake seemed to understand Fell as it joyfully chirped while rubbing its small head on its owner's hand. "Quite intelligent on top of that!" he assessed as he swiftly understood that Little Gold had fully understood his words. Little Gold released a few more excited chirps before coiling around Fell's wrist, it had just been born and had been gifted a fairly decent meal. On top of that, its master seemed to be quite kind as he had gladly praised the creature. "It seems that it shares the same cold-blooded habits as snakes", he judged as he felt Little Gold's thirst for contact.

"Want to come back in my Core?" he asked while playfully rubbing Little Gold's head with his index finger. Chirps! Chirps! Excited noises escaped Little Gold's mouth as it escaped Fell's embrace, it hovered in front of him while looking deep into his eyes before nodding. "Then, come!" he exclaimed while extending his index finger toward the golden snake. The thousands of soft scales on Little Gold lighted themselves in an incandescent light. After a slight luminous flash, the golden snake disappeared from the room in an instant. It had already transited its body into pure energy and was currently dashing inside of Fell's meridian. Fell felt as if a burning sun was currently destroying his veins. But that wasn't all, Little Gold's affinity was lightning, and that caused him to release several bolt inside of Fell's energy path, shocking his inside black. Thankfully, his meridians had been partially tempered by the golden lightning bolt that descended earlier. If that hadn't happened, he would have been under much more pain.

Little Gold roughly made its way toward Fell's Dantian where it had resided before its birth. During its journey, it caused another round of tempering on Fell's energy path as it didn't seem to understand that its master was being shocked by its energy. Thankfully Fell wasn't afraid of pain, and he knew that this was just a transition to truly being Little Gold's master. How could he make the creature his own if he couldn't even shoulder its own energy, he thought while gritting his teeth. Even before he began his cultivation way, he always adhered to the old principle of pain leads to gains. Time passed as Little Gold made several rotations inside of Fell's energy path, cooking the walls of his meridian to a brim then nourishing it with pure energy. Then suddenly as if it had judged that it was enough, it made its way toward Fell's Dantian.

"Lightning possesses a tremendous destructive power, but it also seems to possess its own counterpart", he thought while feeling his meridian repair themselves at an astonishing speed. His energy path had been tempered to such a degree that he couldn't even be considered a first realm cultivator anymore. Lightning was known for being one of the most destructive energy in the universe, any cultivator that had mastered it and made it his own would become a very well-known individual. The way of the elements was closely linked to the energy system, and lightning was well known for being one of the most destructive forces in the world. And today, a youthful cultivator of a random city on Earth had begun making this power his own.