Elenei began releasing her Frost-Fire at full force without holding anything back. Normally, such power would be capable of wiping out empires or maybe even a small continent, but Elenei wasn't externalizing her power.
The target of her Frost-Fire was actually her body. Of course, doing this couldn't significantly damage her, much less allow her to undergo Nirvana. This was a unique step in the process of undergoing Nirvana that Elenei came up with.
Ever since she was forced to leave home due to her unstable bloodlines and inability to progress any further in her cultivation, she's been thinking of ways to overcome this obstacle.
She's come up with numerous ways, such as finding a Heavenly treasure or maybe eliminating one of her bloodlines entirely, but those options are somewhat unrealistic. For one, finding a heavenly treasure that can actually affect her bloodlines already isn't easy. Most of those treasures are mainly used for increasing the purity of one's bloodline, but she's never had an issue with purity.
Actually, that's most likely what started the problem, to begin with. Her Fire Dragon and Ice Phoenix bloodlines have the same purity and constantly fight for dominance. They refuse to merge or submit to one another, so instead, they conflict with one another, preventing Elenei from reaching the heights that a Phoenix and/or Dragon is supposed to reach.
Of course, if Elenei can overcome this trial, then she'll come out stronger than ever before.
As for trying to remove one of her bloodlines, let's just say Elenei would have to be brain dead to consider doing that!
Forget about the horrific backlash of doing something like that; even if she survived, and the backlash was relatively light, she would still be untalented trash amongst the Phoenix race. Hell, she might not even be able to be considered a Phoenix if she were to go this route!
Think about it, right now, Elenei's bloodline is exactly 50% Ice Phoenix. If she were to somehow get rid of her Fire Dragon bloodline, that means there's another 50% of her bloodline that needs to be filled.
Doing so would drastically reduce the purity of her bloodline, at least in theory. Nobody is actually dumb enough to try such a thing, and the amount of times such a thing has happened amongst Mythical Beasts is infinitesimally small, so it's not like there are many test subjects.
In theory, there are a few ways this scenario could play out.
1. Elenei gets incredibly lucky, suffers no backlash, the process goes smoothly, and the purity of her remaining bloodline doesn't drop.
2. Elenei suffers a horrible backlash, loses most of her potential, and essentially becomes a cripple of the Phoenix or Dragon race. She'll most likely die not long after due to the backlash, and since she's lost most of her potential, her cultivation rises extremely slowly.
3. The backlash isn't too severe, but her bloodline purity significantly drops. Her bloodline purity could drop from almost 100% to under 50%. At that point, she couldn't even be considered a Phoenix or a Dragon with that level of bloodline purity! Her talent, strength, cultivation speed, status, everything will be reduced so much that she'd probably be better off dead. Of course, she could use items to increase her bloodline purity again, but Elenei knew things wouldn't be that simple.
Those are the three most likely scenarios, well, instead of the first one. That one is only there just in case the Heavens are willing to intervene and help Elenei out.
Knowing this, the only reasonable option for overcoming this obstacle is going through Nirvana. However, therein lies a problem.
She's not entirely all Phoenix. Despite her bloodline purity, she can only be considered a half-Phoenix. She may look like an Ice Phoenix, but that's simply because she took after her mother in that regard.
Can she really successfully undergo Nirvana even with her Fire Dragon bloodline? And would doing so even make a difference?
No, those aren't even the real problems, as Elenei knows Phoenixs that are able to go through Nirvana while being 49% Dragon. However, they are able to do so because their Phoenix bloodline is the dominant bloodline. Going through Nirvana for them will only further suppress their Dragon bloodlines.
But that's not the case for Elenei. When she goes through Nirvana, she might very well cause an imbalance between her bloodlines, and if such a thing were to happen, who knows what the consequences might be?
Everything might go smoothly, her Phoenix bloodline finally getting the opportunity to suppress her Dragon bloodline, and she's finally able to progress in her cultivation.
However, there's also a chance that something could go wrong during her Nirvana and Elenei's instincts told her that only death awaited her should she undergo her first Nirvana in her current state.
When she told her parents what she felt from her instincts, they stopped pressuring her to undergo Nirvana as the instincts of a Mythical Beast aren't to be looked down on. If Elenei said she felt like she would die, then she would most likely die. Of course, there are exceptions, but very rarely do they happen when it comes to someone's Nirvana.
Most Phoenixs undergo Nirvana in one of two ways. Either by chance or when their instincts tell them to. However, even if it were to happen by chance, that only means that they were capable of going through Nirvana but were just waiting for the right opportunity to do so.
So naturally, if Elenei's body was telling her that she wasn't ready, then she wasn't ready.
Elenei understood this as well, so during her years of isolation, she was constantly thinking of ways that she could escape such a fate.
However, no matter what she came up with, none of it seemed possible! That is until she met Mira!
Her incredible affinity toward the Ice Element, unique physique, and Yin Fire gave her hope! Especially the Yin Fire part!
One must know that something like Yin Fire doesn't occur naturally! The only beings that might be able even to wield such an obscure power might be some form of undead or residents of Hell.
However, using the undead to help her go through her Nirvana is unrealistic, and nobody knows where Hell is, even in the Immortal Realm. They know it exists, but that's about it.
There might be other beings or places that have Yin Fire or something similar to it, but her lifespan might run out before she can find something that's actually usable.
So, seeing Mira wield Yin Fire was like a godsend for Elenei! Well, that and the fact that Mira has an incredible affinity for ice.
See, Elenei has two affinities, Fire and Ice, but due to her bloodlines conflicting with one another, so do her affinities, though it may not seem like they do. For one, Elenei should be able to use her Ice and Fire abilities separately, but that's not the case.
When she wants to use one, the other one comes out as well as though trying to prove its superiority. This turns into something Elenei has just come to call it Frost-Fire, as it's the product of two powers trying to destroy each other but unable to.
Consequently, unlike her bloodline problem, this actually makes her abilities more explosive and powerful at the expense of her energy running out faster.
If only she could either use these abilities separately or merge them into a singular power instead of two conflicting powers.
Well, that's where Mira's Yin Fire and Ice come into play. If she can use those two elements as fuel for her Nirvana, she might have a chance of merging her bloodlines. Even if she couldn't merge them, maybe they'd stop conflicting with one another as long as she could slightly alter her Fire Dragon Bloodline with the Yin Fire.
She would then use Mira's ice as a catalyst or as a mediator so she can have a higher chance of evolving into something that can actually take her to the heights someone of her status should be able to reach.
At least, that's what she initially thought. However, seeing Rhydian and after Mira's breakthrough into the Core Formation Realm, her instincts were screaming at her to take a slightly different route.
Mira's Yin Fire and Ice were still essential to her Nirvana, but what was even more important were those black runes that appeared not only on Mira's body but on her energy as well.
Those black runes and Elenei's understanding of how Rhydian's bloodline works allowed Elenei to come up with a way to make the most out of this Nirvana!
When she first saw those black runes, she felt an existential dread for some reason. Not necessarily because they were powerful, but more because of what they could do and their potential.
However, it's because of those reasons that she's able to do what she's about to do.
After Elenei fully released all of her energy inside her body, she nodded toward Mira.
Mira gave a firm nod back and began sending her Yin Fire, Ice, and Qi inside Elenei's body!
