Two months later, Xiao Yu awoke from meditation, seated cross-legged in the Cultivation Room.
His eyes flickered, and he suddenly raised his right hand, extending one finger.
With a soft pop, a small tuft of purple flame appeared on a fingertip of his left hand.
He formed an incantation, and the flame suddenly flickered, transforming into a little bird of purple fire. With gentle beats of its wings, it circled and danced before Xiao Yu, nimble beyond compare.
Then he exhaled a breath of pure energy, which turned into a sweep of golden radiance and enveloped the purple flame bird.
After its fiery silhouette flickered several times, the bird split into a small tuft of blue flame and a white frost flower.
His finger trembled, and the white frost flower slowly vanished. The blue flame flickered and instantly became a slender fiery snake, which coiled tightly around his finger.
After playing with the fiery snake for a while, Xiao Yu drew it into his body. A faint smile appeared on his face as he murmured to himself:
"The Qianlan Ice Flame has been completely refined and fused with the frigid breath of the Six-Winged Frost Centipede, forming a new flame. Now that I can control all three at will, it's time to try opening the Void Sky Cauldron!"
Over these two months, his refinement of the Qianlan Ice Flame had progressed faster and faster. At first, refining a single wisp had taken an entire day. By the end, he could refine the same amount in just two to four hours.
He had originally expected it to take more than half a year, but he had finished in only two months.
The new flame produced by fusing it with the frost flower was far more powerful than the Qianlan Ice Flame,