Sealed Off

The Seven Fiends Heavenly Yin Pill is not actually a poison. It is a cold tonic with extremely violent medicinal properties. If someone cultivates an extremely cold technique and has a strong enough cultivation level to withstand the cold poison of the Seven Fiends Heavenly Yin Pill, then such a person can actually benefit from consuming it.

However, for someone like Yi Yun, whose cultivation level was insufficient, or Shentu Nantian, who was severely injured, consuming the Seven Fiends Heavenly Yin Pill would be equivalent to consuming a deadly poison.

Back then, Yi Yun used the power of the Purple Crystal to control the icy poison of the Seven Fiends Heavenly Yin Pill to condense within the Purple Crystal's internal space, placing it alongside another energy essence that Yi Yun obtained from the Gate of Fallen Stars — the Pure Yang Spirit.

This cold energy conflicted with the laws Yi Yun cultivated, and Yi Yun had been unable to utilize it. However, it is now gradually flowing into Yi Yun's meridians, becoming part of the energy within his body.

In fact, compared to a treasure like the Red Lotus Seed, the Seven Fiends Heavenly Yin Pill's cold energy quality is naturally much inferior. However, everything is difficult at the beginning. Yi Yun is now cultivating Dual Cultivation Yin and Yang. The cold poison of the Seven Fiends Heavenly Yin Pill has given Yi Yun a great help, allowing him to merge with Lin Xin Tong's Pure Yin Energy, giving him a feeling of achieving twice the result with half the effort.

The two progressed more and more smoothly in their cultivation. Lin Xin Tong also overcame her initial nervousness and began to calm her mind, seriously engaging in Dual Cultivation with Yi Yun.

After all, Lin Xin Tong Yi Yun had been together for a long time, and Lin Xin Tong had already developed feelings for Yi Yun.

In this situation, she was not averse to getting close to Yi Yun and Dual Cultivation with Yi Yun. Although they failed to achieve physical fusion, there was no gap or barrier between them on the soul level.

Helping Yi Yun improve his strength, allowing Yi Yun to grow step by step, and even become an unparalleled Great Emperor in the future, or even go to the Twelve Emperor Heavens to become a local lord, is what Lin Xin Tong hopes to see. She is willing to help Yi Yun reach this point.

Thinking about all this, Lin Xin Tong became more and more engrossed in her cultivation.

The Empress Heart Sutra actually requires both practitioners to have similar cultivation levels, so that Yin and Yang can achieve a perfect balance. However, in the current situation, Lin Xin Tong's cultivation level is a whole realm higher than Yi Yun's.

Generally speaking, in Dual Cultivation, the one with weaker Dual Cultivation level will gain more benefits.

Therefore, when the cultivation began, Lin Xin Tong had already made preparations to provide Yi Yun with more Pure Yin Energy, so that Yi Yun could obtain more.

However, she was much more restrained in extracting Pure Yang Energy from Yi Yun, as she wanted to prioritize improving Yi Yun's strength so that he could break through to the Dao Seed Realm as soon as possible, as Yi Yun hoped.

However, when she actually started cultivating, Lin Xin Tong realized that she had underestimated Yi Yun.

Although Yi Yun's cultivation level was weak, the Pure Yang Energy within his body was like a vast ocean, surging wave after wave, seemingly endless.

Despite their continuous cultivation, Yi Yun's Pure Yang Energy showed no signs of depletion.

This greatly surprised Lin Xin Tong. It was impossible for a martial artist at the peak of the Origin Foundation Realm to have so much energy in his body. At this cultivation speed, his dantian should have been drained long ago.

But the facts were right in front of her. After a little observation, Lin Xin Tong quickly discovered that Yi Yun, who was cultivating, seemed to have become one with his surroundings.

In the nearby Pure Yang magma pool, dozens of Pure Yang Energy converged, flowing through the void like an invisible Pure Yang river, continuously flowing into Yi Yun's body.

Along with the red lotus planted in the Pure Yang magma pool, the lotus seedpod swayed, sending even purer Pure Yang Energy to Yi Yun.

This red lotus originally possessed sentience. It seemed grateful that Yi Yun did not use it to refine medicine, but instead planted it in this pure yang treasure land that was even better than the second floor of the God Descending Tower. Therefore, when Yi Yun was cultivating, it willingly offered up the pure yang energy accumulated in its body.

This situation made Lin Xin Tong realize that Yi Yun, as a peak Origin Foundation Realm martial artist, did not have much energy in his body. However, he constantly replenished his energy from the outside world, which allowed him to maintain a balance in his body's energy and continue cultivating indefinitely.

In this situation, the help that Yi Yun can provide to Lin Xin Tong is also quite considerable.

Lin Xintong was shocked by the terrifying speed at which Lin Xin Tong absorbed energy. With this ability, Yi Yun was cultivating the Empress Heart Sutra at an astonishing speed, which was the envy of many.

"Is this the effect of a perfect Pure Yang Body...? I doubt even an ordinary perfect Pure Yang Body could be this miraculous..."

Lin Xin Tong knew that Yi Yun had achieved the perfect Pure Yang Body. Although she had never seen a perfect Pure Yang Body, her Pure Yin Body was even better than the perfect Pure Yang Body. She felt that even she herself, when she was at the peak of the Origin Foundation Realm, could not have achieved this.

Even now, her absorption rate of the extreme yin energy from the ice bed behind her is not necessarily faster than Yi Yun's.

"He's such a cultivation prodigy! No wonder he's gotten to where he is today, gradually catching up with Shentu Nantian..."

Lin Xin Tong sensed that Yi Yun might have encountered some unknown opportunities, but she didn't want to investigate. She was happy for Yi Yun's opportunities and growth, and sincerely hoped that he could become her Dao Companion partner to climb to the Martial Dao Peak.

Time slips away unnoticed during cultivation.

Yi Yun and Lin Xin Tong's meditation lasted for more than ten days and nights without stopping.

The two had entered a state of emptiness, devoid of form, emptiness, and ego, and were completely immersed in this extraordinary book.

Yi Yun was able to withstand such high-intensity training because of two factors: firstly, his perfect Pure Yang Body, and secondly, the existence of the Origin Purple Crystal.

With the Origin Purple Crystal, Yi Yun himself is like a vortex, able to continuously absorb Pure Yang Power from this cultivation paradise.

Yi Yun's dantian was like a pond, being filled with water and then emptied again and again. In this process, the pond was constantly being dug and deepened. Unbeknownst to him, he was getting closer and closer to condensing the seed of law and officially entering the Dao Seed Realm.

While Yi Yun and Lin Xin Tong Dual Cultivation, some changes were taking place elsewhere in the God Descending Tower...

Some astute trial participants gradually sensed that the restrictions on the God Descending Tower seemed to be weakening.

"Hmm? What's going on? My mirror image seems weaker than last time?"

On the steps leading from the first to the second floor of the God Descending Tower, a trial participant muttered to himself. Over the past few months, he had challenged the guardian of the second floor countless times, but had never been able to withstand two attacks from the guardian, which left him somewhat disheartened.

It should be noted that Yi Yun, who was with them, was qualified to enter the second level of the God Descending Tower the beginning, while Lin Xin Tong was even more qualified to enter the third level.

Compared to these two prodigies, he was far inferior.

"Perhaps it's not that the mirror image has weakened, but that I've become stronger..." The trial participant found a reason that pleased him, and with even greater fighting spirit, he continued to challenge the second-level guardian.

But not everyone is as self-satisfied as he is.

"They've gotten weaker again. If this continues, I'll soon be able to step into the third level of the God Descending Tower!" Shentu Nantian, who had experienced the same thing, was very certain that it wasn't that his strength had increased, but rather that the guardians had indeed been weakened.

Something unusual must be amiss. Shentu Nantian couldn't understand what had happened to the God Descending Tower to cause this situation. However, regardless of the circumstances, it was a good thing that the guardian had become weaker, as this would allow him to obtain more opportunities.

Many of the trial participants shared the same mindset as Shentu Nantian.

However...

As the trial array inside the God Descending Tower ceased operation, the God Descending Tower itself slowly sealed off.

The Artifact Spirit the God Descending Tower has fallen asleep. Since she cannot preside over the trials of the God Descending Tower, she naturally cannot allow the opportunities and treasures within the God Descending Tower to be taken away by some low-class people.

With the trial over, the treasures will naturally be sealed away.

So... several days later, after Shentu Nantian, Gongsun Hong and the others had passed the guardian's test, withstood the mirror image's attack, and even defeated the mirror image phantom, they finally arrived at the third floor of the God Descending Tower.

But then they were dumbfounded; they saw an empty hall.

There are only bare walls and a dome here; it looks like there's nothing there...

Shentu Nantian frowned at this. He knew that the Empress Secret Realm was full of strange things. When the Ancient Empress set up this secret realm, she had put in a lot of effort and set up many traps.

If you are deceived by appearances, you may end up gaining nothing.

"This hall looks empty, but that must be just a smokescreen; there must be more to it than meets the eye."

It's no wonder Shentu Nantian thought this way. After all, he never dreamed that a dark-skinned youth would cause the Artifact Spirit the God Descending Tower to expend a huge amount of effort to draw upon the power sealed by the Ancient Empress, and then fall into a deep sleep, forcing him to terminate the trial.

In Shentu Nantian's view, since entering the Empress Secret Realm, there have been opportunities everywhere; it's just a matter of whether he has the ability to find them.

Especially after entering the God Descending Tower, the various opportunities there are truly enviable.

The God Descending Tower is a vast treasure trove, containing countless benefits, but unfortunately, I have only obtained a negligible amount so far.

This made Shentu Nantian very unwilling!

He believed that Yi Yun would benefit more than he would.

This fueled his growing jealousy of Yi Yun.

"The first and second floors of the God Descending Tower offered some opportunities, and I obtained some myself. However, the third God Descending Tower has set up a trap for me. But how could I give up so easily? I will definitely find the opportunities on the third floor. The harder an opportunity is to find, the greater its value!"

Thinking about what he had gained on the first and second floors, Shentu Nantian couldn't help but feel a little excited. In the past few months in the God Descending Tower, he had gained a lot of insights and benefits, and his cultivation was much faster than when he was in the Shentu Family!

The now empty third level of the God Descending Tower did not discourage Shentu Nantian; instead, it fueled his fighting spirit. He sensed that an extraordinary opportunity awaited him.

...(To be continued~^~)