Against The Heavens 15 Power Of The Runes.

Drawing upon the power of his fire rune, crimson flames blazed into existence in the air around him. The crimson flames blazed with a terrifying temperature, scorching the earth black and almost melting some of the smaller rocks in the area around Li Yang. Li Yang was slightly surprised upon seeing this.

This was just the weakest type of crimson fire, yet it already held such strength. What if he found stronger types of fire in the future and managed to absorb them, how strong would his fire be then?

Seeing this fire, Jinwu's eyes lit up as it jumped up and flapped its wings, shakily flying into the fire. Li Yang was just about to pull back the fire when he noticed that Jinwu seemed to enjoy bathing in the fire, the heat incapable of even harming his feathers.

"A divine beast really is a divine beast."

Li Yang couldn't help but click his tongue when he saw this. He had wondered why the child of the Golden Crow looked like a normal crow, but upon seeing it bathe in the fire like it was nothing, there was no doubt that it really was the child of a Golden Crow.

Li Yang also noticed that Jinwu was not only enjoying bathing in the fire but also seemed to be nourished by it. After bathing in the fire for a short while, Jinwu flew out of the fire, landing on Li Yang's shoulder with a satisfied expression. It slightly pecked his neck, opening its mouth and letting out a few caws.

"You can improve your strength by bathing in fire and ice? But it has to be higher quality than this little candle I brought out? Why ice, aren't you a Golden Crow?"

Li Yang could understand what Jinwu was trying to convey. Upon understanding the first sentence, he was both surprised and confused, it could improve itself by bathing in both fire and ice? But upon understanding the second sentence, he couldn't help but be slightly exasperated.

He was fairly satisfied with the fire he had conjured forth, but this little fellow called it a little candle. He couldn't help but shake his head with a bitter smile, a divine beast really has high standards, even if it had been born just recently.

Jinwu responded to his question with a few more caws and a gesture that seemed to be it trying to shrug its shoulders. Li Yang couldn't help but feel a slight headache when he understood what Jinwu meant. He himself did not know why he could strengthen himself by using both fire and ice, only that its bloodline had told him that he could.

"Fine, fine. We'll look for some high-quality fire and ice while we are traveling, I'm sure that we will find some eventually."

Li Yang could do nothing but shake his head. Even in the memories of his past life had he ever seen a Golden Crow that could use both fire and ice to strengthen itself, so he had no idea what to do about it. He decided to put the matter aside for the moment, the truth would probably reveal itself once Jinwu grew stronger.

After he finished chatting with Jinwu, he returned to his experiments. He made the fire vanish, drawing power from his lightning rune next. As he drew power from the lightning rune, arcs of blue lightning crackled into existence around him, the sound of thunder rumbling in the air.

Li Yang continued to test the power of the lightning, having it strike down on nearby rocks and seeing how conductive it was. He was pleasantly surprised when he noticed that this blue lightning was stronger than the blue lightning he was used to seeing in his past life, none of the rocks in the area were capable of resisting the lightning.

Lightning came in several different types, each one stronger than the last. Li Yang himself had used four different types of lightning in his past life, one normal type, and three heavenly tribulation types. Heavenly tribulation lightning was lightning that only appeared when something that defied the will of the heavens appeared. Cultivators would have to face this heavenly tribulation at certain stages in their cultivation. The stronger they were, the more frequent and the more powerful the heavenly tribulation would be.

Li Yang had first used the normal blue lightning, then he started using the stronger version, red lightning. After he grew stronger, he started using purple lightning, which was the stronger version of red lightning. And the last type he used was golden lightning, the strongest type of lightning that he had been able to use in his past life.

Seeing the strength of this world's blue lightning, he could not help but look forward to seeing how strong the other types of lightning would end up being. Li Yang put the thought aside for the moment. Even if he was lucky enough to find such lightning right now, he was too weak to absorb it.

He also looked forward to the time he managed to engrave an ice rune into his dantian, allowing him to draw upon the power of ice. In his last life, he had only used the power of lightning and on a rare occasion used the power of true destruction. Now that he had the chance to also use the power of fire and ice, he would of course not waste it.

After he made the lightning vanish, he drew power from the last of his runes, his true destruction rune. Immediately upon drawing power from the rune, he felt his entire body grow weak, his face turning as white as paper.

A tiny black hole appeared in the air in front of him, only the size of a pea. Despite the weakness in his body, he moved the small black hole around, testing its power. Anything that came in contact with the black hole was completely destroyed, turning into nothing. The only thing that was not destroyed upon coming into contact with the black hole was the feathers that remained of the Golden Crow.

This, of course, did not mean that the Golden Crow could resist the power of true destruction. It only meant that the current Li Yang was too weak to draw out the full power of true destruction. Once the full power of true destruction was drawn out, even the universe itself could be destroyed.

"I'm just testing the power of my runes and checking how much energy each of them requires to use. My lightning and fire rune only require a small amount of my Qi to activate, but the true destruction rune requires basically all my Qi to just barely activate."

Jinwu couldn't help but let out a few caws as it saw Li Yang turn pale, wondering what he was doing. Li Yang made the pesized black hole vanish and pat Jinwu on the head as he explained. Not knowing how much Qi his runes required to activated could end up being a fatal mistake during a fight.

"I guess it is about time we head back."

Li Yang raised his head and looked towards where the Liang tribe was. He had awakened his past memories and even managed to tame a baby divine beast. It was time for him to leave the Liang clan and look for Fang Ying.