He Was Actually Comprehending the Entire Black-White Diagram?! (33) Please Bookmark, Please Vote!

Whoosh.

Xia Manggan descended from the sky.

This was a vast open area, as well as the core forbidden ground of the entire Black-White Academy.

Even his divine sense, as an official disciple of the Black-White Academy, could not penetrate the layers upon layers of restrictions surrounding it.

"The Black-White Diagram."

Using his disciple Letter Talisman, Xia Manggan passed through layer after layer of formations and restrictions before finally seeing the enormous stone wall standing at the center of the vast grounds.

It was a stone wall of unknown material, radiating a glossy black gleam.

Black and white lines densely covered the stone wall, constantly winding and intersecting with one another.

Yet with incomparable ingenuity, they formed a massive circular millstone.

"What a marvel." Merely observing it from afar, Xia Manggan felt an immense aura rushing toward him.

For an instant, even his soul, which surpassed that of an ordinary Primordial Spirit Daoist, felt a faint sting.

Mu Zishuo, who had arrived earlier, heard footsteps behind him. Turning and seeing Xia Manggan, he hurriedly warned, "Senior Brother Xia Mang, never stare directly at the Black-White Diagram! The Dao intent contained within the entire diagram is far too vast and profound for us to endure. If you wish to comprehend it, you must first observe its smaller sections one by one."

When he had first arrived, he had failed to notice that. The impact on his soul had nearly knocked him unconscious.

"Mm." Xia Manggan nodded and smiled at him, then looked toward the stone wall bearing the Black-White Diagram.

Ji Ning was sitting cross-legged there, his gaze fixed upon one corner of the Black-White Diagram. He had clearly already immersed himself in it.

After reminding him, Mu Zishuo quickly immersed himself in the Black-White Diagram as well.

Xia Manggan stood silently for a moment before raising his head again to look at the Black-White Diagram, still observing the entire stone wall.

The difference was that now, two black-and-white millstones formed from the fist intent of the "Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens" slowly revolved within his eyes.

As the immense Dao intent radiating from the entire Black-White Diagram stone wall passed through the rotation and transformation of those two black-and-white millstones, it gradually weakened. His soul was still strained, but at least he could now observe it.

Just as I expected.

Xia Manggan was delighted. This Black-White Diagram is incomparably compatible with the fist intent and spirit created by Xuanji in the "Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens"! I came to the Black-White Academy at the right time.

The "Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens" took the Dao of creation and Yin-Yang from the Heavenly Scripture of Creation as its central tenet. Hong Xuanji had then blended in the concepts of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, along with ideas such as preserving heavenly principle, extinguishing human desire, inner sagehood and outer kingship, before it finally took shape.

Its entire fist intent was expressed through black-and-white millstones, representing the cycles of life and death, Yin and Yang, light and darkness... countless Daos mingled together, turning without end. In the end, the wheel of life and death, or perhaps the wheel of Chaos, stood above the gods of the heavens.

In other words, the "Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens" could incorporate countless Daos, just as all things in the world possessed both black and white, Yin and Yang.

Although this Black-White Diagram had formed naturally and had been obtained by the Heavenly Immortal who founded the Black-White Academy through a fortunate encounter in a newly formed minor world,

the black and white lines within it were utterly opposed, yet perfectly compatible. This was precisely the most ideal state envisioned by the "Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens."

And because it had formed naturally, the fusion of the Daos represented by its many lines was more perfect than anything conceived by man, more in accordance with the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Thus, Xia Manggan had chosen to become a disciple of the Black-White Academy

not only because he knew the plot and knew that this place would become a gathering ground for great fortune.

This Black-White Diagram, especially after he had seen the Black-White Millstone Diagram left by the Heavenly Immortal at the Academy's main gate,

accounted for most of his reason for joining the Academy.

Super Epiphany.

Once his soul had gradually adapted to the pressure of the Dao intent emitted by the Black-White Diagram, Xia Manggan did not hesitate to exchange for and use "Super Epiphany."

At once.

Half of his mind entered the Primordial Chaos Universe, while the other half stared at the entire Black-White Diagram, immersed in the mysteries of countless fused Daos.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, less than half an hour had gone by.

Ji Ning awoke from comprehending the Black-White Diagram.

"Less than half an hour of comprehension?" Ji Ning shook his head.

According to the tome introducing the Black-White Academy, the longer one's first comprehension of the Black-White Diagram lasted, the greater the gains.

He had comprehended it for less than half an hour. It seemed that his previous accumulations had already almost entirely transformed into strength.

He glanced around.

Mu Zishuo was not far beside him.

Farther away was Xia Manggan.

The two were still immersed within it, gazing at the Black-White Diagram as though entranced.

I have the Water Mansion Star Palace. Though the Black-White Diagram helps me, it does not help me as much as it helps Xia Manggan and Mu Zishuo.

Only those who usually lack good opportunities to comprehend the Dao can obtain such tremendous improvement from the Black-White Diagram.

Ji Ning smiled faintly. In terms of resources that aided Dao comprehension, he finally felt that he had surpassed Xia Manggan for the first time.

Leaving the Black-White Diagram, he walked toward another stone wall nearby.

There were three stone walls in this plaza.

The massive stone wall in the middle bore the Black-White Diagram.

On either side of the Black-White Diagram stood a slightly smaller stone wall, both covered in Immortal Inscriptions left behind by generations of Black-White Academy immortals.

Lines of writing, some domineering, some cold and proud, some carefree, were filled with the Dao convictions of immortals who had long since fallen.

Ji Ning examined them one by one, carefully sensing the Dao hearts of the senior immortals contained in the words. He immediately felt as if his own Dao heart were undergoing repeated baptisms.

"Hmm?" Ji Ning looked doubtfully toward the center of the stone wall.

The entire stone wall had only one blank place: the very center of the circle. No immortal had left any inscription there.

"Because they were fellow disciples, they had to be modest... so no one left an inscription in the center?"

Ji Ning did not think much of it and turned to examine the other stone wall.

"This is—"

Perhaps it was a summons from the unseen, or perhaps it was the response of his sincere heart toward the sword after practicing swordsmanship since childhood.

The moment Ji Ning arrived before this stone wall, he was immediately drawn to a line of words that seemed like sword light slicing through the night.

"Wield a Three-Foot Sword, slaughter all injustice! Beixing left this!"

It was a very simple sentence, yet it left Ji Ning standing there in a daze.

He felt as though a silver-haired old man had appeared before him, holding a sword in the void and thrusting it toward his soul.

"Hmm?"

Above this forbidden-ground plaza, a scruffy, short old man was riding the clouds past the area. Sensing an unusual fluctuation below, he halted his cloud and looked down, his eyes widening at once.

He saw a youth dressed in beast hides standing before one of the stone walls bearing Immortal Inscriptions.

The line on the stone wall—"Wield a Three-Foot Sword, slaughter all injustice! Beixing left this!"—had begun to gradually glow.

Powerful sword intent was contained within that radiance.

And the beast-hide-clad youth also faintly emitted a trace of sword intent.

The two were actually resonating with one another.

"This youth... he actually, actually triggered a fluctuation in Senior Beixing's sword intent... a transmission across generations?"

The short old man stared downward in astonishment.

When the line of text on the stone wall shone ever brighter, becoming dazzling beyond compare,

and even the individual characters began to glow and fly out, the short old man could no longer endure it. He directly transmitted his voice toward several mountain peaks in the deepest part of the Academy and roared, "Is anyone still breathing? Get your asses over here now!"

His voice passed through the void and penetrated layer upon layer of restrictions, reaching the ears of the immortals of the Black-White Academy.

"Hmm?"

Immortal Diancai, clad in black robes with black hair and appearing only a little over thirty, opened his eyes. A trace of confusion appeared on his face before he understood. "It seems Senior Brother Five Madmen has just passed his nine-hundred-year tribulation and gotten a little too excited."

"Junior Brother Five Madmen?"

Immortal Hanshan smiled, then immediately took a step and vanished from the room.

"What is Senior Brother Five Madmen going mad over this time?" Black Crown Immortal frowned, but immediately Teleported over as well.

Very soon.

One immortal after another arrived.

Besides Immortal Diancai, Immortal Hanshan, and Black Crown Immortal, there was also a tall, burly man wrapped in strange chains.

Together with the short old man, Immortal Wufeng,

all five immortals currently remaining in the Black-White Academy had gathered.

The five of them all stared at the forbidden-ground plaza below.

"The Three-Foot Sword."

"Senior Beixing's Three-Foot Sword has reappeared in the world."

"It is even a complete transmission of the Three-Foot Sword across generations."

"How many years has it been? The last time the 'Three-Foot Sword' appeared was thirty million years ago! At last, another disciple has inherited the complete Three-Foot Sword."

"Our Black-White Academy is about to gain another extraordinary disciple."

As the five immortals watched Ji Ning below, who had his eyes closed while receiving the inheritance, excitement filled every one of their eyes.

Only after Immortal Hanshan's excitement subsided did he look toward the familiar figure who had already been designated as his disciple.

"Th-this little fellow... he is actually comprehending the entire Black-White Diagram!!?"

The third update is here. More tomorrow.