Yin and Yang Converge, Viscera Refining Realm!

Sun Yu walked out of Myriad Manifestations Tower, and the greedy gazes in the hall still clung tightly to his back.

He ignored them, lowered his conical hat, and strode out of the stone building.

The moment he stepped through the gates, Sun Yu's footsteps paused slightly.

Two exceedingly concealed auras had locked firmly onto his back.

Without looking back, he headed straight for the exit of Icefall Black Market.

When the few lackeys guarding the exit saw Sun Yu, they retreated in fright again and again, forcibly clearing a broad path for him. They did not even dare let out a peep.

Sun Yu stepped out of the black market gates and plunged headlong into the depths of the vast Black Crow Mountain.

Rather than break into a full-speed sprint, he kept an ordinary pace, leaving behind a clear trail of footprints through the knee-deep snow.

After walking ten li, the terrain ahead suddenly narrowed, with towering cliffs on either side.

Sun Yu stopped.

He turned around and stared expressionlessly in the direction he had come from, his voice calm without a single ripple.

"You've followed me for ten li. Aren't you tired?"

The moment the words fell, three figures suddenly leaped down from the cliffs on either side.

In the middle stood a middle-aged man in gray, his face somewhat gloomy and sinister.

Behind him were two black-clad assassins holding Fine Steel Stabbing Swords, both experts at the initial Bone Forging Realm.

"Little brother, what keen senses you have." The middle-aged man tucked his hands into his sleeves, a venomous snake-like smile on his face.

Xue Mang sized Sun Yu up and down, his gaze landing on the bulging spot in Sun Yu's robes. "Little brother was quite lavish at Myriad Manifestations Tower. Half a piece of Blood Tai Sui, traded for a damaged manual. Such boldness, Xue truly admires it.

"However, that Great Sun Boiling Blood Art is a useless manual. Taking it will only lead you down a dead end. Why not hand it over to me, along with the remaining banknotes and treasures on you? I'll make the decision and spare your life."

"You sure talk a lot of nonsense."

Sun Yu's right hand closed around the hilt of the saber at his waist.

"You refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit! Do it!" Xue Mang's eyes turned cold as he abruptly waved his hand.

The two black-clad assassins instantly erupted with the Internal Breath of the Bone Forging Realm. Moving like lightning, they attacked from left and right, their Fine Steel Stabbing Swords darting like venomous snakes toward Sun Yu's throat and heart.

The tips of the stabbing swords glimmered blue, clearly coated in deadly poison.

Clang!

Sun Yu's hunting saber suddenly flew from its sheath.

No block. No dodge.

He charged directly into the two stabbing swords, his left hand shooting out like an iron pincer.

Ding! Ding!

The two Fine Steel Stabbing Swords viciously struck Sun Yu's palm and chest.

His Dark Gold skin membrane shuddered violently, releasing a thunderous clash of metal!

The stabbing swords snapped apart!

The two assassins' pupils contracted sharply, their faces filled with horror.

"What?!"

Sun Yu gave them no time to react. His left hand's five fingers clamped tightly over the face of the assassin on the left, while his hunting saber drew a bleak streak of cold light through the air, instantly slashing across the throat of the assassin on the right.

Crack!

Splurt!

Sun Yu crushed the left assassin's skull alive in his grip, brain matter bursting out.

The right assassin's head flew into the sky.

The two corpses collapsed almost simultaneously.

In a single move, he had instantly killed two initial Bone Forging Realm experts.

The cold smile on Xue Mang's face froze at once, and an uncontrollable chill surged from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head.

"You... what kind of monster are you?!"

With an enraged roar, Xue Mang knew he had kicked an iron plate today.

Instead of retreating, he advanced. His bones crackled explosively as the cultivation of the Great Perfection Bone Forging Realm erupted in full.

The muscles in his arms swelled instantly, and his hands transformed into two pitch-black claws. Accompanied by a shrill whistle that tore through the air, they clawed viciously at Sun Yu's face.

Black Sha Yin Bone Claw!

This was Xue Mang's famed ultimate technique. One claw strike could punch five holes through raw iron.

Sun Yu casually tossed aside the broken stabbing sword, drew back his right arm, and clenched his five fingers into a fist.

His blood qi surged through his body like an awakening mad bear, mixed with the bone-piercingly cold internal breath of the Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique, pouring madly into his right fist.

"Boom!"

Sun Yu threw a punch, meeting Xue Mang's claws head-on.

Fist and claw collided!

"Kacha, kacha!"

Xue Mang's ten fingers snapped inch by inch like withered wood. Sun Yu's fist, wrapped in dark-gold skin membrane and Extreme Cold internal breath, smashed through both his claws with irresistible force, then struck Xue Mang heavily in the chest without losing momentum!

"Bang!"

A horrifying crater instantly caved into Xue Mang's chest, while the fox-fur cloak on his back exploded apart.

As though struck by a battering ram, he flew more than ten meters backward, crashing hard into the sheer cliff before sliding down.

Xue Mang vomited blood in great mouthfuls, mixed with fragments of organs and ice shards.

He stared fixedly at Sun Yu, his eyes filled with incredulous terror.

"Such body-tempering... just who are you..."

Before he could finish, Xue Mang's head lolled to one side, and he breathed his last.

Sun Yu withdrew his fist and walked to Xue Mang's corpse, searching it with practiced hands.

Several thousand-tael silver notes, and an exquisite porcelain bottle containing several Blood Replenishing Pills that gave off a medicinal fragrance.

Sun Yu put the items away. Without giving the corpse on the ground another glance, he turned and continued deeper into the mountains.

Two hours later.

Sun Yu found a concealed hollow within a massive tree.

The tree hollow was extremely deep. Inside lay a Black Scale Giant Python as thick as a water barrel.

Sun Yu drew his hunting knife and severed the snake's head in one stroke. He dragged the huge carcass from the hollow, then sealed the entrance with several massive boulders, leaving only a narrow gap for air.

He sat cross-legged on the dry dead leaves and took the crimson-red Great Sun Boiling Blood Art from his robes.

This cultivation art was wicked beyond measure. It had no method for locking the blood, making it all too easy to be consumed by the flames of deviation.

But with the system backing him up, Sun Yu had no fear of suffering cultivation deviation.

He firmly committed the incantation and circulation route to memory.

Across his retina, the silver panel rippled like water.

[Technique: Great Sun Boiling Blood Art (Not Initiated)]

Sun Yu closed his eyes to rest.

Not until deep into the night did the sound of his heartbeat, like the tolling of a bronze gong, echo through the silent tree hollow.

Zishi had arrived.

[Great Sun Boiling Blood Art (Initiated)]!

There was no transition whatsoever.

An incomparably violent, searingly hot yang blood qi exploded without warning from the depths of Sun Yu's heart!

Its temperature was terrifyingly high, like boiling magma, surging madly along his heart meridians toward his five viscera and six bowels.

"Urgh!"

Sun Yu let out a muffled groan. Veins bulged all over his body, and his skin instantly turned a horrifying crimson.

No wonder everyone who had cultivated this art had been burned into charcoal.

This Extreme Yang Blood Qi was utterly uncontrollable. Like a crazed ferocious beast, it sought to burn every meridian and organ in its path to ash.

Almost at the instant the Extreme Yang Blood Qi erupted.

The Extreme Cold internal breath cultivated by the Cold Toad Breath Swallowing Technique surged wildly from the depths of his Bone Marrow like vicious wolves that had caught the scent of blood!

Extreme Cold and Extreme Yang.

Two utterly opposing, overwhelmingly tyrannical forces launched an exceptionally brutal slaughter within Sun Yu's five viscera and six bowels!

"Pfft!"

Sun Yu opened his mouth and sprayed out a huge mouthful of blood.

One half of the blood was scorching like magma, igniting the dead leaves the instant it hit the ground.

The other half was cold as frost, turning into dark-red ice shards upon landing.

As ice and fire clashed, agonizing pain tore through every inch of his internal organs.

Sun Yu gritted his teeth hard, blood seeping from his gums.

For the next several days, the tree hollow was silent as death.

On the second day, at Zishi, [Great Sun Boiling Blood Art (Proficient)].

On the third day, at Zishi, [Great Sun Boiling Blood Art (Mastered)].

On the fourth day at midnight, [Great Sun Boiling Blood Art (Minor Accomplishment)].

On the fifth day at midnight, [Great Sun Boiling Blood Art (Major Accomplishment)].

The battle between ice and fire within his body grew ever more brutal. Under the repeated ravaging of these two forces, Sun Yu's five viscera and six bowels miraculously became tougher and tougher.

His heart thundered like a war drum, pumping out incomparably powerful Blood Qi with every beat.

At midnight on the sixth day.

[Great Sun Boiling Blood Art (Perfection)]!

"Rumble!"

A muffled clap of thunder came from within Sun Yu's body.

Pressed by his five viscera, the Extreme Yang Blood Qi and Extreme Cold Internal Breath finally broke through a certain boundary and completely converged!

The two forces spun madly, ultimately condensing into an incomparably stable Yin Yang Qi Vortex in his Dantian.

The vortex turned.

Vast Blood Qi surged back through his entire body like a flood.

At this moment, Sun Yu's five viscera and six bowels underwent a complete transformation.

His lungs were like bellows, releasing a deep howl with every breath.

His heart was like a furnace, radiating inexhaustible heat.

Viscera Refining Realm!

The third gate of Postnatal Martial Dao!

And that was not all.

The panel on his retina shook violently as blood-red text flickered madly.

[Detected perfect balance between Extreme Yang Blood Qi and Extreme Cold Internal Breath.]

[Supreme Dao Divine Ability: Cold Iron Demonic Body (Not Initiated) begins fusion and completion.]

"Buzz!"

The Dark Gold membrane covering Sun Yu's entire body slowly faded at this moment, returning to its normal skin tone.

Yet the texture of his skin and flesh became like the finest mutton-fat white jade, carrying an exceedingly subtle sheen.

Dark thunder seemed to stir faintly within the depths of his bones.

[Supreme Dao Divine Ability: Cold Iron Demonic Body (Initiated)]

[Traits: Yin Yang Dharma Body. Five viscera like a furnace, bones like cold iron, skin and flesh return to their original simplicity. Immune to all poisons and hidden injuries of the same realm; Blood Qi is ceaseless. Every gesture carries critical strikes of both Extreme Cold and Extreme Yang Internal Breath!]

Sun Yu slowly opened his eyes.

A flicker of deep-blue icy light flashed in the depths of his left eye, while a blaze of crimson fire ignited in the depths of his right.

He let out a long breath of turbid air.

As that breath shot from the tree hollow, it formed a straight arrow of qi in midair and punched clean through a thick branch ten paces away!

Killing with a breath!

Sun Yu rose to his feet and clenched his fists.

He could feel that within his body now lay a living volcano that could erupt at any moment.

Early Viscera Refining Realm, plus an initiated Supreme Dao Divine Ability.

With his current physical strength and explosive force, even if he encountered an expert at the late Viscera Refining Realm, he was absolutely confident he could blast them to death with a single punch!

"This fragmentary scroll has done me a favor after all."

A cold smile curled across Sun Yu's lips.

With one kick, he shattered the massive boulder blocking the entrance.

Shattered stones scattered everywhere.

At some unknown point, the wind and snow outside had stopped.

Sun Yu took a deep breath, and with a single thought, heaven and earth seemed vast.