"Gather your Qi in your stomach. Then concentrate your body heat in that spot. Make the spark of fire stronger, and brighter, feed it more Qi, and more heat. That is the principle behind [Blazing Furnace]"
Xia did not respond as he continue his march for a place to protect himself from the cold. Trying to follow Kathako teachings. Xia breath is as white as the snow he breathes in the cold air as he channels his Qi into his stomach. The Qi gathers in his stomach and takes the shape of a ball.
As he moves his feet through the snow, its coldness entering his body, he started to control the body heat around his body. Moving it all towards the Qi ball in his stomach.
"Good, good, the Qi will be the fuel and the body heat will be the spark. Make your stomach a Blazing furnace."
Xia try to follow Xia teaching, but he tries to make a spark with his body heat. He losses concentration on the Qi, letting disperse from his body, his body heat soon following. A warm wave comes from his stomach, as it melts some of the surrounding snow.
Giving Xia a fraction of a second when the temperature when numbing cold to freezing cold. He grinds his teeth as he tries to walk, and the voice spoke a new sentence.
"There is no fire or warmth in this world that can battle the never-ending winter"
"The numbing cold of winter will never end and your fire will be extinguished"
"Succumb to winter and walk the path of snow"
The voice grew in strength as it continues to speak in Xia mind. Its words made the winter's winds stronger, the numbing cold started to enter his body. His muscles slowly freeze because of this. Sings of frostbite appear on his face and arms.
"Don't worry kiddo! Just keep trying! You will soon get the hang of it"
"-----Fuck------its-----too-----cold----"
"Come on, just try again, you will get it this time"
Kathako said as Xia started the process once again. He made the Qi ball in his stomach appear once again. Then he controls his body heat to move toward the ball of Qi. This time he did not lose control of the Qi as he created the first spark from his own body heat.
The spark is small and insignificant as it did not cause a chain reaction and light up the ball of Qi in fire. His teeth clash against each other as he gathers more and more body heat in his stomach. Making his limbs colder became of that and letting the numbing cold increase its roots in his body.
As more body heat gathers around the ball of Qi, he tries to create the spark once again. The spark this time was a bit bigger than before, allowing it to ignite a small part of the ball of Qi.
"Good, good! We are now done with the first part. Now feed it more and more of your Qi, keep making sparks and igniting more of it on fire"
As the ball of Qi slowly becomes a ball of fire, it started to produce heat. The heat fought against the numbing cold, making the journey to find a place to stay more bearable. The voice grew colder as it continues to speak.
"No matter what you do, the coldness of winter will end your pitiful flame"
"Succumb to winter, join the Eternal Slumber"
Xia try his best to ignore the genderless voice, its preaching's not registering in Xia mind.
"Kiddo! I think I see a cave to your right!"
Xia turn his head in the direction Kathako said. His eyes landed on the blurry silhouette of something. It could be a cave or at least something to protect him from the cold winds. Xia turns his body as he started to walk toward the blurry silhouette.
As he got closer to it the details of it became clearer.
"Holy Celestial Dragon"
"-----we have no----choice---to stay here---"
In front of Xia, it's the head of a large monster. The head is in the shape of a moose. A large giant size moose. The fur of the moose is covered in thick layers of skin. Its mouth is open as red and thick blood comes out of it. Its eyes have fallen from its sockets. Making empty, bloody, and fleshy caves.
Xia bites his lips as he climbs up the head of the dead giant moose. Using its thick and frozen furs for support of his body. As he climbs up the winds become stronger, becoming stronger, and the voice that speaks in his head becomes clearer.
"Join the Eternal Slumber. Bask in its numbing cold. Worship the [Frozen Eye]. Join us"
"We will accept all that worship the [Frozen Eye] all that bath in coldness. All that sleep for eternity"
The preaching became harder to ignore. The voice cold voice made him want to close his eyes and sleep for all eternity. To freeze to death like the moose he is climbing.
"Kiddo! Ignored that voice! The fire! The fire is about to extinguish!"
Xia woke up from his cloudy state as he controls his body heat and moves it to the ball of Qi. Making more sparks as he tries to rejuvenate the fire. As the fire grows with life, it started to burn through all the fuel. Forcing Xia to feed more of his Qi to the fire.
He felt his reserves of Qi slowly drain more and more.
"Thank the Celestial Dragon that it did not extinguish"
Xia nodded his head as he continues to climb the dead moose's head. Soon arriving at one of its eye sockets. Climbing into the socket, he is greeted with a sight that could only be described as horrendous. The inside of the eye socket is filled with burst veins and arteries.
Nerves hang from the ceiling and drops of cold blood leak from it.
"This…is horrendous"
But that is not everything, in the shadows, he could see the frozen bodies of other humans. All with their eyes close in a peaceful everlasting slumber.
"-----its----better that----nothing"
Xia said as he prepared to make this his temporally home.
"Told you that an array will always have some fun effects"