Dual Cultivation God Returns

Song Lingfei sat in her room in a meditative pose, with the Demonic Blood Crystal rotating in front of her.

The crystal was sometimes found in Spiritual Lands, the blood of Demonic Beasts, spilled from constant in-fighting could accumulate in small basins, over decades forming a crystal which absorbs more and more of that spilled blood to grow both in size and potency. The fist-sized crystal in front of her took tens of thousands of years to form and saturate to this condition.

Fumes of red smoke-like energy were coming out of the crystal and being absorbed by Song Lingfei, as the veins in her body emitted gentle pulsating glow from time to time.

She has perceived bits and pieces of vague knowledge from their joint meditation with Fen Baihu, which certainly gave results, but they required time for her to process with a human mind and understand.

He physique was fundamentally that of a human, so she could not access powers that required her to have the body of a Mythical Beast.

However, as she absorbed the energy of the crystal, and felt her bloodline powers increase, she felt an increasing confidence in being able to access some parts of the bloodline legacy of the Great Void Eagle.

The crystal slowly but surely lost its glow, and the feeling of power it gave off, even the natural luster of its surfaces started to fade as the outer parts of it began rapidly deteriorating.

Song Lingfei was not noticing that, as she felt a closer connection to her bloodline. Her Core, which in Wu Long’s case would be something he called Void Core, but in her case the only one, began rotating faster in her Dantian as she felt a powerful instinct.

An instinct to spread… wings.

Her mind stirred, as she could not get rid of the urge, but had no way of doing it. Like an itch that could not be scratched, growing in intensity. Or the feeling of wishing to stretch, but even stretching somehow does not fully alleviate that feeling, instead making it worse as it starts building up.

A feeling of deep frustration went through her mind, as she made unconscious movements with her shoulders and shoulder blades on her back, looking extremely uncomfortable.

She was so wrapped up in that feeling that she did not notice that she began consuming the energy of the crystal faster and faster, draining it, and formless waves started spreading from her outward.

“Phew~, that threw me for a loop. We wouldn’t want anyone searching for a Mythical Beast bloodline at this moment and ruin it, now would we?”, Wu Long sighed with relief at being able to sense the change ahead of this and quickly expand further blocking and concealing formations, in time before the first formless wave spread, as his feet lightly landed on the balcony of her room.

Normally, the process of absorbing these crystals was pretty straightforward, and a fairly simple ordeal, even though it was a powerful boost to bloodline power.

It would not evoke any reactions, or changes right away.

It was also better to do privately for everyone because it required a certain level of intimacy to connect with the bloodline power. Not like that could not be achieved when they meditated together, but it was far easier to do in private.

Not to mention it was not strictly speaking a meditation but straight absorption of energy from the crystal, a process for which Luo Mingyu’s Dao Intent and Gong Cui’s music provided basically no benefit. And those two beauties had crystals of their own to absorb.

Thus Wu Long advised his beauties to do it separately, and did not foresee any such events happening.

However, it seemed that their joint meditation of bloodline legacy with Fen Baihu earlier, coupled with this stimulus, unexpectedly produced a synergistic effect, as a result waking up something within Song Lingfei’s bloodline, which caused it to start reacting.

He did not enter the room to not break her concentration or spook her, but remained close by in case there were any complications or further emergencies, while talismans flew out from around him, continuing to strengthen concealment formations just in case.

Meanwhile, Song Lingfei entered a state of light trance, not quite sudden enlightenment, but something akin to it, a state of deep concentration and connection with the power that awakened inside her.

Her body began floating up from the bed as her pose slowly changed from a meditative lotus pose to curling up and hugging her legs with her arms, leaning her head forward to ball up.

The feeling of discomfort at not being able to spread wings she did not have was getting unbearable she instinctively sought comfort in that pose.

At that moment, when the feeling got too much, and she could not possibly find an outlet for it, she suddenly had an epiphany, and her Spiritual Qi started coming out of her back in two formless lumps.

Wu Long’s eyes on her widened as he saw two lumps of Spiritual Qi slowly forming intricate patterns and shapes, his mind stirring as he saw each and every strand of Spiritual Qi move into a specific place and form profound flows and structures.

First, two bones, then more and more, forming a vague shape of skeletal folded wings.

Tendons and ligaments and elastic connecting tissue formed on that bone structure along with strange profound patterns distantly reminding Wu Long of his Dao Runes, and yet different.

Then Spiritual Qi muscles and nerves, as well as Spiritual Qi meridians and channels, as well as intricate circuit-like shapes, almost simultaneously grew from her back, intertwining as they covered the bone structure.

Already at this time, it was as if the folded wings came alive, slightly jolting, adjusting to the sensations while Spiritual Qi formed the skin and large primary feathers immediately sprang forth right after the skin, followed by smaller ones.

Soon, the wings were fully formed, very minor, almost imperceptible movements indicating that Song Lingfei was adjusting to the sensations they brought. There was also a feeling of slight impatience, a hurried, slightly nervous twitch going through the wings.

Wu Long felt Blood Qi spreading from her, as the last of the crystal floating in front of Song Lingfei was consumed, and a powerless husk fell to the edge of the bed and from there rolled to the floor. There was also a light feeling of his own Great Void Eagle bloodline resonating as Song Lingfei began exuding bloodline pressure.

And then, her body jolted strongly, causing her to abandon her curled up pose and completely spread her arms and her legs to form an elegant posture, her head jolting back to face up, her back slightly bending as a powerful formless wave of both Spiritual Qi and Blood Qi spread from her, making Wu Long glad he reinforced the formation.

Her Spiritual Qi wings moved, and then a wave spread through them from her back, as her bloodline power started giving them a life-like appearance of wings almost made of clear crystal that reflected the visage of the Great Void, with stars, nebulae and distant galaxies shining within darkness, a feeling of cosmic and ethereal beauty, raw and brutal power, and intricate fragile elegance all blended in them.

The wings unfolded at the same time, the wave giving them life-like appearance and shape reaching the ends of the smallest feathers at the edges at the same time as they fully unfolded. Energetic sparks scattering in all directions as they became complete.

A wind spread from that unfolding of the wings, spreading accross the room as beddings and curtains flapped, smaller furniture moved, and the doors to the balcony Wu Long was on fully burst open, the wind flapping his robes and hair.

An expression of enormous relief appeared on her face, and as her eyes opened, still looking up, the irises of her eyes turned pure shining silver while the shadows that were moving across them settled in a single thin, slightly uneven black line circling around the pupil.

A sigh of relief and bliss fell from her lips, and as she came to, her eyes widened at the realization, turning to look at her wings, that gently and slowly flapped. She knew they were made out of Spiritual Qi, but she could not get rid of the feeling they were real because of how palpable the sensation was, not to mention they looked like they existed physically here.

She was also surprised how natural they felt, perhaps because of the bloodline legacy that gave her the intricate knowledge of their structure and how it felt to have wings, she did not feel any discomfort at all.

An exhilarated, almost feverish feeling of joy filled her, so much of it, she could not adequately express it in a gesture or any other way. A laughter came out of her, filled with happiness.

That sight filled Wu Long calmly watching her with a warm, content feeling, and a gentle smile on his face, as her joy brought him perhaps even more happiness than she felt.

And then, her eyes caught a man standing on the balcony, a beloved man she wished to share this blissful moment with. She made a slightly high-pitched squeal expressing extreme feeling of happiness with a smile that shined brightly as she opened her arms, wishing to go and hug him right this instant.

The space between the two distorted, shrinking as if it was squeezed, but she did not notice that as with the unconscious flap of her wings she zipped through that shrunk space and ended up in his arms, her own arms tightly wrapping around him as she slightly jumped repeatedly in his arms.

He hugged her, for now ignoring what she did to get to him almost as fast as he moved at his maximum speed, as he concentrated on her happy feelings.

“I did it! Hahaha, I did it, Wu Long! It worked!”, she excitedly spoke as she turned up to look at him, her beautiful wings slightly fluttering with the crystalline-looking feathers that sparkled in the moonlight lightly twitching, as she felt his lips touch hers, and drowned in the warm and comfortable feeling.

“Yes, you did it Lingfei, congratulations”, he whispered softly as their lips parted only a bit, leaving just a bit of space between them, and then as they stood for a second, looking gently into each other’s eyes, their lips met in another, longer and more passionate kiss.