Immortal Ice Empress: Path to Vengeance

After almost a month of mediation, Mira finally opened her eyes. Her once muddle-headed mind was now as clear as day. All those emotions plaguing her before have now successfully been pushed to the recess of her mind.

Unfortunately, there wasn't any other choice than to do that. Mira would've very much liked to deal with all this shit right now before breaking through, but she felt like her state of mind might not be in the right place once she began her 'self-help bullshit'.

Anyways, after nearly a month of meditation, Mira finally cleared her mind enough, so she only thought of one thing: breaking through to the Core Formation Realm.

She looked at her two Beast Companions and said, "I'm ready to break into the Core Formation Realm now. You two should exit the cave and as I said before, make sure nothing disturbs me! My breakthrough will be somewhat unique, and I'll need to use all my concentration during this process."

Elenei and Rhydian nodded before exiting the cave, leaving Mira alone.

Mira sat down and started bringing out all the items necessary to form her Core. She then rearranged them in the order in which they'll be used.

This caused the items to be separated into three different groups.

1. Foundational

2. Supplementary

3. Tertiary

According to the Recipe, the Foundational items are exactly that; they directly affect Mira's Foundation along with her future strength, talent, and cultivation.

Supplementary items are used to help Mira breakthrough into the Core Formation Realm along with adding a few extra benefits, but they won't directly affect Mira's strength, talent, and cultivation.

Tertiary items are items that neither directly nor indirectly affect Mira's Qi cultivation but will still be used to increase her overall strength.

In truth, the Tertiary items aren't needed for Mira to break through and form her Core. Still, they are included in the Recipe because not only will Mira benefit from integrating these items into her body, but they will make Mira's future life much easier.

Mira also won't get a chance like this again. A chance to seamlessly integrate items into her body that would otherwise take months or even years to do so.

Now that she has all the items laid out, Mira can begin the process of breaking through, which is oddly simple despite all the items she's using.

All she has to do now is control every ounce of Qi in her body and move it into the Orb of Limitless Death and Infinite Life to begin her breakthrough.

However, the Recipe stressed that she must bring out every last drop of Qi! If she doesn't, then it may affect her foundation! Even the tiniest bit of Qi left in her body is more than enough to cause her Foundation to destabilize!

Although Mira didn't know how having such a minuscule amount of Qi left in her body after she began her breakthrough would ruin her Foundation, she wasn't about to test it out.

If the Recipe said it would, then it would.

So, Mira began to control the Qi in her body and carefully transfer it into the Orb of Limitless Death and Infinite Life.

This actually took much longer than Mira thought it would have because after she transferred all of her Qi into the Orb, she kept inspecting her body for any bit of Qi she may have forgotten about or hadn't noticed.

She took the Recipe's warning very seriously, and thankfully, she did because there were a few places where her Qi resided that she would never have thought to check.

One of those places is her brain. Yes, Mira never realized that her brain actually contained bits of Qi mainly because she never actively accumulated Qi there.

The amount of Qi in her brain was also negligible compared to the rest of her body, so it was easy to miss if you weren't explicitly looking for it.

Mira wanted to think about the reason why Qi was in her brain without her knowing but now wasn't the time, so she could only push these thoughts to the back of her mind and continue her breakthrough.

It wasn't until an entire day later did Mira finally felt confident that she had extracted every bit of Qi in her body and transferred it to the Orb. Strangely enough, during this entire process, Mira's body hadn't passively absorbed any more Qi to replenish her reserves. It was almost like something was preventing her body from doing so.

She just assumed this was the Orb's doing and moved on to the next step of her breakthrough!

Now, it was time for her to integrate the Qi she had just transferred into the Orb and effectively merge the two of them together.

Currently, the Orb, although it is technically hers and has been residing in her body for the past two years, isn't actually a part of her. It was just sitting around her Dantian because she is the Successor of the F.LD.I.L.

By merging her Qi with the Orb, she is effectively making it a part of her. Well, only partially for now. She'll have to complete this breakthrough for it actually to become a part of her body.

However, by merging her Qi with the Orb, she effectively makes it a Pseudo-Dantian that she can bring outside her body, using it to refine the items she's placed around her.

There's also another reason for doing those, which is also the main reason for her needing to merge her Qi with the Orb.

Her Qi is what will be used to refine the items into something that will directly affect her Foundation, Talent, Strength, Comprehension, etc. If her Qi isn't what's being used to refine them, then there will be a sense of incongruence after she finishes the breakthrough and the Orb becomes a part of her body.

That will, in turn, affect her Foundation and may even severely limit her growth. She may not face too many issues because of this while still in the Mortal Realm, but once she ascends, she'll most definitely face problems in her Cultivation that will be nearly impossible to fix or just outright impossible.

It has to be known that Foundation is everything in the Cultivation World. Gods, Immortals, Demons, Beasts, Humans, and every other race that wants to cultivate, have to worry about their foundation.

Having a strong foundation is even more important than talent in the Cultivation World, or it could even be said that having a sturdy foundation is what makes someone talented.

That's why these beginning steps of Mira's breakthrough are so important and why she's in no hurry to complete her breakthrough right now; because these steps serve as the Foundation for the rest of her breakthrough, and just the slightest mishap could affect her future.

With that said, Mira spent another entire day fully merging her Qi with the Orb, making sure that there wasn't one spot that had more Qi than the others and that there were no mishaps.

Mira didn't actually need to go that far and could've finished this step in a few minutes to a few hours if she just let the Orb do most of the work, but she didn't know that the Orb would actually take control over the situation. Even if she did, she probably would have done it herself to ensure nothing went wrong.

Now, after completing that step, Mira can move on to what makes this breakthrough so unique.