Life in Bright Moon Residential District settled into a peaceful routine. In between cultivating, Yin Congyang occasionally dropped by Luo Hua's home to impose on them for a meal and share a few drinks with Luo Hua and Luo Hongguo. Of course, he never showed up empty-handed. With his current assets, buying a few bottles of good liquor was effortless.
Yin Congyang's strength continued to steadily improve. He grew a little stronger each day. In the two months since his clash with Sago and Vino on March 9, his basic force amplitude had reached over nine hundred thousand kilograms—nearly twice that of an ordinary peak War God. Although the fluctuations in his Dantian continued to send in evolutionary energy, the growth of his physical fitness and mental force had slowed considerably. He was probably getting closer and closer to the Apprentice Level limit.
His physical force amplitude had officially reached ten times his strength, bringing a full-power punch close to ten million kilograms.
As for his cultivation, both his axe techniques and footwork had reached the peak of Conception Level. Yet some kind of obstruction always prevented Yin Congyang from comprehending a Domain.
Another half-month passed, bringing them to late May.
In the basement training room.
Yin Congyang sat cross-legged and took out the Moya Crystal Luo Hua had given him earlier. For the past few days, he had felt that his body and soul were nearing some kind of limit. So today, he decided to absorb the crystal and see whether it would speed up the process.
Absorbing the Moya Crystal was a pleasant experience. Before long, he had absorbed all the energy from the entire crystal.
Suddenly, Yin Congyang's body and the soul in his Consciousness Sea shuddered at the same time.
Within the boundless Consciousness Sea,
"Whoosh, whoosh..." His Spiritual Force surged like a mighty river, beginning to spin wildly and forming whirlpools one after another. Their colors shifted between pale gold, watery blue, leafy green, fiery red, and earthy yellow... The changing hues gradually surfaced in the whirlpools, which spun in brilliant, dazzling colors, both breathtaking and unfathomably profound.
The whirlpools expanded, circle after circle. When they reached a certain limit, they suddenly contracted at tremendous speed, shrinking into a single spinning sphere of multicolored water. Wisps of colorful mist trailed from it as it swelled and contracted like a human heart, each beat more violent than the last!
After one especially violent expansion, a tremendous force of suction suddenly arose at the sphere's core. All the multicolored water and mist transformed into Spiritual Force and rushed into the core as eagerly as countless rivers flowing into the sea.
"Hum!"
All the multicolored water and mist vanished. In the boundless Consciousness Sea, only a speck of light remained, radiating five-colored light like a miniature planet.
An invisible, strange fluctuation continuously spread out from the glowing sphere.
The fluctuation came from the Consciousness Sea and flowed downward, passing through every part of his body. At once, his bones, bone marrow, meridians, muscles, fascia, skin, and everything else began to evolve. His cells rapidly broke down, recombined, and regenerated!
Deep within the core in his Consciousness Sea, the multicolored mist and sphere of water rapidly condensed, becoming an extraordinarily tiny yet seemingly enormous, round, five-colored crystal, like a planet and full of contradictions. This was Yin Congyang's Soul Crystal.
At the same time, in his Dantian, a place that had been invisible and impossible to detect, all the Genetic Origin Energy in his body gathered there.
"Boom..."
Like Pangu opening the heavens and splitting the earth, the Dantian abruptly opened. Countless streams of Genetic Origin Energy gathered there, spinning faster and faster as they repeatedly expanded and contracted. In the end, they formed a five-colored Miniature Planet.
The Miniature Planet spun continuously, releasing strange fluctuations. The fluctuations surged out of his Dantian, and in an instant, every part of Yin Congyang's body—including his bones and bone marrow—underwent changes even more dramatic than those caused by his Spiritual Force breakthrough. His bones crackled all over...
Since his spirit and Dantian had broken through at the same time, the two forces of evolution merged into one. Yin Congyang's body evolved even faster, growing even stronger!
What Yin Congyang didn't realize was that when his Dantian had successfully opened and the Miniature Planet had formed, an imperceptible point appeared at the planet's very core. No outsider could sense it, yet it continued to send that faint, mysterious fluctuation throughout his body...
After a long while, the breakthrough was complete, and his Dantian and Consciousness Sea had fully settled down. Yin Congyang immediately spread his mental force over himself.
"Phew... Thank goodness, it's still there..."
Before breaking through, what Yin Congyang had truly feared was that the faint, mysterious fluctuation in his Dantian would disappear afterward. That would have greatly slowed his rate of improvement. Without the fluctuation, he didn't even know whether he would ever reach the peak of the War God level, let alone break through to the Planetary Level.
Yin Congyang had a vague feeling that this fluctuation was the key to his growing stronger, and that it would determine how far he could go in the future. He had always suspected that it was the reason he had crossed into this world. The dazzling five-colored light that had burst forth when he was felling a tree had been strikingly similar to the five-colored light in his Consciousness Sea and Dantian.
After familiarizing himself with the Spiritual Force in his transformed Consciousness Sea and the Genetic Origin Energy in his Dantian, he sent his mind into his Dantian, hoping to find the source of the fluctuation.
Following the fluctuation, he probed for a long time. At last, deep within the Miniature Planet at the heart of his Dantian, he sensed that strange point. The moment his mental force touched it...
Yin Congyang felt as though he had entered a place that was both infinitely large and infinitely small. It seemed to contain everything, yet his mental force found nothing when it swept through. He could only sense that the place seemed incomplete, as though something was missing from the whole. But Yin Congyang couldn't understand what that meant—not yet...
He didn't know how long he had stayed there when, suddenly, inspiration struck. With a thought, the mental form that had entered this place took human shape, and an Axe of Creation appeared in his hand. He began to perform the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes, one form after another.
In an instant, Yin Congyang became immersed in an indescribable state. The axe techniques in his hand went from fiercely incisive to gradually subdued, then slowly rose in force again. Along the way, it was as though he experienced countless scenes: the clash of armies and warhorses, the cycle of plants withering and flourishing, rivers flowing into the sea, sparks spreading into a prairie fire, and earth piling up into mountains. Each scene appeared and vanished in turn, and Yin Congyang felt he was beginning to understand something.
He didn't know how many times he performed the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes. When his mind began to feel tired, he finally stopped. He had the sudden impression that countless ages had passed, and the feeling seemed unreal.
With a thought, his mental force immediately withdrew from that strange point. Once it had fully returned to his body, Yin Congyang opened his eyes. His mind was still immersed in that indescribable state, and his gaze held the weight of ages. After a brief daze, that ancient feeling quickly faded, and his eyes cleared.
He glanced at the time and saw that an entire day and night had passed. He couldn't help sighing at how time slipped by in cultivation. He had thought he'd spent only a short while inside that strange point, but an entire day had gone by.
He got up and left the basement training room, then rinsed off in the bathroom. Afterward, he went downstairs and ate a lunch that was a day late.
Standing before the floor-to-ceiling window, he watched the setting sun. Suddenly, he felt he could perceive the entire world with far greater clarity, as if there were no longer any secrets from him in heaven and earth. The sensation vanished in a flash. He tried to examine it, but was left completely puzzled.
His mind was alert and clear, so he turned around and went back down to the training room.
He took out the Heaven-Opening Axe and began practicing the Thirty-Six Heaven-Opening Axes again. This time, everything felt completely different. The realm that had been firmly stuck at Conception Level began to loosen. As he continued practicing, his Spiritual Force, Origin Force, will, soul, and body naturally fell into a wonderfully harmonious state. Faint golden secret patterns began to appear around him, giving off a soft glow. They shimmered in a hazy mist around Yin Congyang and seemed faintly able to interfere with, influence, and control the surrounding space!
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