Gathering Great Medicine to Sacrifice to the Heartfire, Crossing the Second Calamity on Guanghan's Cloud Bed

Truth and falsehood, reality and illusion, were born in an instant; Guanghan passed another trial.

The battle between Taiyin True Monarch and her own remnant soul's turbid thoughts had been declared over in less than an instant.

Before Jiang Sheng could even react, Taiyin True Monarch had shifted the battlefield into her own physical shell, contending with her remnant soul's turbid thoughts in a struggle of soul against soul.

Jiang Sheng looked at the True Monarch's body upon the cloud bed, head lowered like a puppet that had lost its mind. After straightening his robes, he bowed deeply.

In truth, if not for protecting Jiang Sheng, Taiyin True Monarch could have relied on Jiang Sheng's body to exchange a few blows with those remnant soul turbid thoughts, weaken them first, and then contend with them for her own physical shell.

But to protect Jiang Sheng, Taiyin True Monarch had chosen the most unyielding method. Using the golden hairpin as a vessel, she had entered her body directly and begun a life-or-death struggle with the remnant soul's turbid thoughts.

Such a resolute bearing might have been a method of placing oneself in mortal danger to seek a later life, but for Jiang Sheng, it was the greatest protection.

Taiyin True Monarch and Jiang Sheng had merely met by chance. Whether she sought to reclaim her physical shell for future reincarnation or had other plans, the help she had given Jiang Sheng was utterly real.

The insights and guidance of one who had wielded the Taiyin in the previous cosmic epoch, one who had upheld the Dao as Pure Yang, were not so easily obtained.

Not to mention that, at the final juncture, Taiyin True Monarch had chosen to protect Jiang Sheng rather than use his body to fight. Whether it was