Thunder and Fire Intertwined, Two Dao Fruits Achieved

The wrathful visage on the left was ferocious, its baleful aura soaring into the heavens.

It held the Star Spirit Banner, upon whose surface the Myriad Stars Array flickered unpredictably.

At that moment, the Great Light Immeasurable Dao Fruit that Xu Yunfan had long since refined within the banner was activated.

A pure, boundless holy radiance flowed from the banner. Like the toughest possible stabilizer and buffer, it formed a resilient barrier of light at the core where thunder and Crimson Yang collided.

This barrier was in truth a current of harmonized yin and yang. It continuously soothed the destructive energy turbulence caused by the clash of thunder and fire, neutralizing their violent nature. At the same time, the Star Spirit Banner drew in the vast fire-element essence from the Earth Meridian Fire Eye beneath Divine Firmament Mountain, endlessly replenishing Xu Yunfan's spent spiritual power and sustaining the foundation of this prolonged refinement.

As for the icy desert visage on the right, its expression was cold and detached, steeped in Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion.

Mysterious runes flowed endlessly around its fingertips as it formed the Lin Word Seal.

After a Golden Core True Monarch manifested his dharma form, Xu Yunfan could separately enter the Lin Stance, using it as an externalized mind—as though he had plugged in a supercomputer. His consciousness transcended the material world, granting him microscopic control over himself, control over the manifestations spreading from his body, and indirect control over an entire stretch of heaven and earth.

In this state, he cast aside all emotional interference. His mind became the most precise calculating device, and with almost ruthless rationality, he controlled with incomparable precision the output of every thread of spiritual power, the angle and timing of each descending bolt of lightning, the shifts in the light