Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur stood slowly from the ground while feeling his body stiff. Twenty years weren't his longest record in cultivation, but it was the longest since his rebirth and coming to this world.

In his eyes, a pure blue light flashed like they were divine. Just sobering from the cultivation made him feel as refreshed and strong as ever before.

"Hum!"

Without doing anything, just clenching the fists produced an ear deafening hum. He looked at his body in amazement while one strain of thought appeared inside his mind at this moment.

"Peak level strength! I've reached all the way towards my former power!!" he was totally shocked when he felt his strength and state of body.

He lived stuck in the bottleneck of the immortal stage for long years in his past life. He was totally familiar with that state, a state of overbearing and strength beyond measure.

But that wasn't enough. He yearned nothing more, going further to take this last step in his past life. Yet he failed.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't take this last single step ever. It was like a mountain was encroaching over his heart, preventing his body from taking this last step.

However right now he was elated by the simple facts in front of his eyes. He finally reached that stage, at last! He finally regained his former power, at last!

Without asking about anything, he closed his eyes and sat down again entering his cultivation world. He examined his body thoroughly, sensing his meridians and dantian, alongside the nodes scattered all over his body.

His mind dantain changed drastically and right now it was literally best described as a galaxy of its own. An entire universe of sparkling stars was present inside his vast dantian, not like the way he had before.

In this life he was sure he got himself much better results than what he gained before. Even with all his hardships at first, he finally managed to come back at the same stage he stood at before.

And now he was thrilled by what he saw! Jade like meridians were standing inside his body, so strong, so broad, and so majestic like never before.

He once heard about a saying, to reach the immortal stage one had to  obtain an immortal body.

At this moment his body could be described as being an immortal body. He never got such a body before in his life, not even close to it.

It wasn't only his dantian and meridians that showed all these changes, but also his entire body. His muscles looked like being sculpted out of an immortal ore. His blood vessels and organs brimmed with a strange blue luster like never before.

"This…" amidst his excitement, he slowly opened his eyes not daring to believe what he saw, "I finally got the body suited to take that step… how come?"

Arthur was always the scientific cultivator who usually wondered about things before celebrating. He knew he did have a different experience from his past life, but that wasn't simply the answer.

Again closing his eyes and watching closely, he finally found the reason.

His golden pearl energy!

Before, the golden pearl was the size of a human head. It was made by the merge between his dragonair energy and his cultivation. Till this point, he never expected his golden pearl energy to grow in magnitude or quality.

Yet the facts that appeared in front of him proved him wrong. The previously head sized golden pearl was now best described as a golden body.

Yes, his entire body was immersed by a golden shadow, faintly taking the outline of his entire body. There was no golden pearl this time, but a golden body.

And it seemed that golden body was the reason behind having his immortal body. It was more accurate to say his body turned immortal thanks to shaping out his golden body.

As for the reason behind that, he soon discovered it. Everywhere inside his body, the two kinds of his own energies were merging constantly and in astonishable harmony.

They weren't fighting anymore. In his eyes, his dragonair energy was produced from his body, taking a single circulation around his evolved blood vessels before finally merging with his spiritual energy.

As for his spiritual energy, they were constantly produced from his dantian, taking a full circle inside his meridians before actively merging with the dragonair energy.

Just during the few hours he kept himself seated like that, he saw an immense amount of both energies merging together and forming the new brand of golden energy.

That golden energy seemed like a torrent, yet his body proved to be like a bottomless pit. No matter how much energy was produced, they were all absorbed without leaving a single trace behind.

That simple scene shocked him greatly and he didn't break up his cultivation and observation until after long hours. He still couldn't believe what he saw, but his golden body was hazy, getting all the golden power produced like a hungry wolf without showing any signs of satisfaction.

"So I now need to make my golden body complete and corporeal before ascending?" he opened his eyes while slowly contemplating that issue.

Facts were presented in front of his eyes at the moment. His path to advance seemed a bit different than other mages in this world, much different than cultivators in his past world. 

Yet despite the difference, he was excited. He knew thanks to this difference he, who once failed to take this last step, was now able to go all out and become an immortal.

However he didn't get one simple point. He was different, so his ascension was bound to become a different experience than others.

If cultivators in his past life were able to ascend to higher cultivation realms, and mages in his current world were able to ascend from lower to higher realms, then his ascension was destined to go onto a totally different path than everyone.

Yet his ignorance about this point made him not realize the end of the path he was walking right now. Despite that, the conclusion he reached about how to ascend was right in the end.

He needed to turn his golden body into a real and complete body before being able to ascend.