{"id":741,"date":"2025-10-09T01:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sakuratranslation.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:12:28","slug":"the-gate-of-heaven-25","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.velvetink.xyz\/fr\/chapter\/the-gate-of-heaven-25\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gate of Heaven 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 25 The Blood of the Two-Headed Wolf

At night, starlight poured over the castle like water.

Loran and Rodney walked side by side behind Instructor Heim toward the Tempering Tower, neither of them speaking. Rodney was a rather taciturn youth from a noble northern family, his temperament cold; he would never utter a word unless absolutely necessary. Yet, in this year\u2019s Blood-Colored Cage training camp, the boy ranked near the top in virtually every category\u2014only his raw physical strength lagged slightly behind Loran\u2019s.

So, although Rodney said nothing, Loran could feel a faint edge in his gaze. At some point, Rodney had already marked him as a target to chase and compete with.

…

“My lord.”

In front of the massive furnace, the warlock in a gray robe held a sheet of crimson parchment and respectfully addressed Heim and Michaela: “With Lady Katherin’s permission, the potion for Loran is being upgraded today. Today’s formula uses 800 milliliters of blood from a sixth-order two-headed wolf, 1,200 milliliters of Rielan juice, one jin of Huanggu grass powder, and three jin of fire-serpent vine powder. The potion was mixed this afternoon and can be heated and used now.”

“Good, thank you!”

Heim nodded with a smile, then turned to look at Loran and said, “Today’s potency is roughly three times greater than last time. Be mentally prepared. If you can endure today’s trial, your physical strength will rise to an entirely new level, and you might even leave Rodney’s bodily strength far behind. Understand?”

“Understood, thank you, Instructor!”

Loran nodded and replied crisply. He knew he hadn’t awakened the Star Vein, which was a congenital defect. To catch up to a student of Rodney’s caliber in overall strength, he would have to achieve a tremendous breakthrough in physical power; otherwise, he probably could never hope to match him in this life.

In truth, however, Loran didn’t know that if he hadn’t shown outstanding talent in the cultivation of the laws, Heim might not have invested so much care and effort in him. Heim could have skipped training students at night\u2014everything he did was simply because he hoped Loran would grow.

“Rustle\u2026”

He stripped off his clothes and in a flash knelt into the stove, then turned and sat down. The glass door of the furnace in front of Loran slowly closed; he could see Heim and Michaela when he looked up. Immediately, a sizzling sound rose beneath him, and for a moment it felt as if a wisp of flame and a wisp of frost had risen inside the stove. The two-headed wolf’s blood began to unleash an overwhelming power!

Among the books on the room’s shelves, Loran had read about the two-headed wolf: an incredibly formidable sixth-order beast, bearing two heads\u2014one that breathes blazing fire, the other that summons biting frost. A single beast commanding two utterly different elemental laws made the two-headed wolf extraordinarily powerful, capable of killing slightly weaker earth knights in an instant, and even giving strong sky knights some trouble when they encountered it.

The Blood-Colored Castle being able to obtain the cooling blood of a two-headed wolf shows just how exalted its status is within the Stellar Empire; resources that even the Order of Light might secure would be supplied to the Blood-Colored Castle as a first choice. It’s no wonder so many noble houses send their heirs to train in the Blood-Colored Cage\u2014this place’s resources are truly beyond what even most top-tier families can hope to match.

“Huh…”

Suddenly, a wisp of frost and a wisp of flame rose from the furnace, intertwining and raging within two opposing forces of law. They danced up and down inside the cauldron, forming a brilliant spiral of light. As the two forces moved together, Loran couldn’t help but gasp; his body felt as if it were caught between ice and fire, every pore opening to draw in the powers of both frost and flame.

Moreover, the two-headed wolf was a creature of nature, a fusion of the world’s spiritual qi and a mundane beast, so its flames and frost-elemental power were extraordinarily pure. With the aid of the potion, the wolf’s bloodline power detonated across the entire furnace, filling every corner. The moment it touched Loran’s body it madly burrowed into each of his pores; the sensation of his body about to be torn apart made Loran feel like giving up the refinement right away.

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“Sssssss~~~”

In the furnace, strands of the two-headed wolf’s blood energy rose and then separated, becoming a wisp of frost and a wisp of flame. They whirled endlessly in the crucible, washing over Loran’s body, while the potion turned to mist and slowly seeped into him, tempering the savage power of the wolf’s blood. It was thanks to those auxiliary ingredients; otherwise, Loran’s body could never have borne the blood force of a sixth-order beast. He might have coughed up blood and died at once, been burned to ashes, or turned into a shard of ice.

Thus, an hour later.

Many furnaces opened; one by one, exhausted trainees crawled out, some even letting out pained wails.

Loran sat in the furnace with his brow tightly furrowed, the two-headed wolf’s bloodline power swirling around him. He said nothing\u2014he had resolved to absorb every drop of the wolf blood’s power, and would not leave until he had done so.

Directly opposite Loran, inside the transparent stove glass door, an orange-haired young man, Rodney, slowly opened his eyes. Seeing Loran still gritting his teeth to endure, Rodney slowly closed his eyes again and continued painfully drawing strength from the beast’s blood. His formula today used 800 milliliters of fresh blood from a fourth-order demon hellhound, already one of the better elixirs among the trainees\u2019 tempering potions, but it still couldn’t compare to Loran. If he also lost out in time, then he would be utterly defeated.

“No, I absolutely won’t lose to Loran…”

Rodney clenched his jaw, his body swaying inside the stove, then quickly relaxing his muscles, forcibly suppressing the surging star-source power in his palms. At this moment he couldn’t let the star-source power clash with the beast’s blood; otherwise the tempering effect would be nullified, and the beast blood’s ferocity might lash back\u2014possibly endangering his life.

An hour and a half later.

Loran slowly opened his eyes. The scene before him had already begun to blur, and his consciousness was fading with it. But there was still nearly a quarter of the two-headed wolf’s blood essence in the brazier left unabsorbed, so he was unwilling to give up. Besides, from where he sat he could see across to the opposite brazier and noticed Rodney still hadn’t emerged. Naturally, Loran wouldn’t accept losing to him in the forging of the body\u2014after all, this was his only pride. If he lost even in this, he could never compare to a favored son like Rodney in any respect.

…

Heim watched in silence.

Michaela’s brows knitted slightly and she murmured, “Rodney’s always been proud; he won’t admit defeat to anyone. It seems he’s already taken Loran as a rival.”

“Mm.”

Heim nodded and said, “And doesn’t Loran feel the same? Haven’t you noticed? Though Loran comes from the rural outskirts of Ailan, there’s a stubborn pride in his eyes\u2014he’s not one to yield to Rodney. If… if Loran also has exceptional talent like Rodney, he might very well become, like Rodney, one of the brightest prodigies in the entire Blood-Colored Cage.”

Michaela smiled faintly: “It’s a pity; Loran and Rodney are destined to belong to different worlds.”

“Yes.”

Heim’s gaze chilled as he said, “The difference between noble houses is something that hard work alone can rarely overcome. Besides, Loran is the disadvantaged one. For now I only hope Loran can steel his will, survive the darkest trials that lie ahead in the Blood-Colored Cage, and emerge a true strong one\u2014then my efforts won’t have been in vain.”

“Mm~~”

Michaela glanced at Heim and couldn’t help but lift the corner of her mouth, revealing a warm smile.

…

After nearly two hours of forging.

Loran felt as if half of the pores on his body had been frozen shut while the other half were being singed by flames; he kept gasping for breath, and even the air he expelled carried sparks of fire and flakes of ice. Through this process, he was no longer merely tempering his flesh\u2014he had entirely relaxed his body, accepting the frost and flame elemental forces contained in the two-headed wolf’s blood, attempting to attune himself to both elements.

The process lasted almost half an hour; finally, after two and a half hours of refining, Loran’s expression was no longer one of pain. Instead, it had been replaced by a look of comfort. Threads of frost and streams of blazing air drifted around his body. The two elements had not fully fused with Loran, but they were at least quite harmonious.

“I didn’t expect\u2014”

Heimu revealed a look of shock and said, “Loran, that kid… his talent for elemental perception is actually far greater than Rodney’s! My god, if he were to have a star vein, he might one day become a legendary mage…”

Michaela nodded: “Mm!”

Just then, a cracking sound came from the furnace nearby, and Michaela hurriedly said, “Rodney can’t hold on\u2014he’s coming out. Instructor Heim, quickly dispel the Hound of Purgatory’s demonic aura from him!”

“Mm!”

Heim stepped forward in a single bound, raised his palm and struck, and immediately strands of mighty star-source force swirled around his hand. With a “pong” it landed on Rodney’s shoulder, instantly dispersing the blood-qi of the Hound of Purgatory that had been enveloping him. He then lifted Rodney by the arm and led him out of the Refinement Tower, saying, “I’ll take him over first. Michaela, look after Loran.”

“Yes, Instructor, rest assured!”
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