He Was Actually Comprehending the Entire Black-White Diagram!?

Whoosh.

Xia Manggan descended from the sky.

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

Even his Divine Sense as a Formal Disciple of the Black-White Academy could not penetrate the layers upon layers of restrictions surrounding it.

"The Black-White Diagram."

With his disciple Letter Talisman, Xia Manggan passed through layer after layer of formations and restrictions. At last, he saw the enormous stone wall towering in the center of the vast grounds.

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

Black and white lines densely covered the stone wall, endlessly outlining and intertwining with one another.

Yet with incomparable ingenuity, they formed an enormous circular grinding disc.

"How miraculous." Merely watching 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 had arrived earlier. Hearing footsteps behind him, he turned and saw Xia Manggan, hurriedly warning him, "Senior Brother Xia Mang, never stare directly at the Black-White Diagram! The Dao aura contained within the entire Black-White Diagram is far too vast and profound for us to bear. If you want to comprehend it, you must first observe the smaller sections of the Black-White Diagram."

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 before looking 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 warning him, Mu Zishuo soon immersed himself in the Black-White Diagram as well.

Xia Manggan stood silently for a moment before raising his head again and looking once more at the Black-White Diagram—still at the entire stone wall.

The difference was that two black-and-white grinding discs formed from the fist intent of the Wheel of Life and Death of the Heavens were now slowly rotating within his eyes.

The immense Dao aura emanating from the entire Black-White Diagram stone wall gradually weakened as it was transformed by the rotation of those two black-and-white grinding discs. His soul still strained under the pressure, but at least he could now look upon it.

Just as I expected.

Xia Manggan rejoiced inwardly. This Black-White Diagram is incomparably compatible with the fist intent and spirit of 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 Creation Yin-Yang Dao of the Heavenly Scripture of Creation as its central principle. Hong Xuanji had then blended in Confucian and Neo-Confucian concepts from the various schools of thought—preserving heavenly principles, extinguishing human desires, inner sageliness and outer kingliness—before it finally took shape.

Its entire spiritual essence used black-and-white grinding discs to embody the cycles of life and death, Yin and Yang, light and darkness... Countless Daos mingled together, turning without rest, until the wheel of life and death—or 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 acquired by chance by the Heavenly Immortal who founded the Black-White Academy from a newly formed minor world,

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

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

Thus, Xia Manggan had entered the Black-White Academy as a disciple

not only because he knew the plot and knew this place would become a gathering place of great destiny.

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

was the main reason he had chosen to enter the Academy.

Super Epiphany.

Once his soul had gradually adapted to the pressure of the Dao aura 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, immersing itself 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 his comprehension of the Black-White Diagram.

"Not even half an hour of comprehension?" Ji Ning shook his head.

According to the manual 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 his previous accumulations had already been almost entirely converted into strength.

He looked around.

Mu Zishuo was not far away.

Farther away stood Xia Manggan.

Both were still immersed in it, gazing at the Black-White Diagram as though entranced.

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

Only those who normally lack good opportunities to comprehend the Dao can gain such enormous improvement from the Black-White Diagram.

Ji Ning smiled faintly. For the first time, he felt that he had surpassed Xia Manggan when it came to resources that aided Dao comprehension.

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

There were three stone walls in this plaza.

The enormous 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 with Immortal Inscriptions left behind by generations of Black-White Academy Immortals.

Line after line of words, 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 within the words. He immediately felt as though his own Dao Heart were undergoing repeated cleansing.

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

Only the circular center of the entire stone wall was blank, with no Immortal Inscriptions left behind.

"Since they were all 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 moved to the other stone wall.

"This is—"

Perhaps it was some unseen summons, 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 drawn to a line of words that resembled sword light slicing through the night.

"Wield a Three-Foot Sword, slay all injustices! —Beixing."

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, wielding a sword in the void and thrusting it toward his soul.

"Hmm?"

Above this Forbidden Grounds Square, a scruffily dressed, short old man was passing by on a cloud. Sensing an unusual fluctuation below, he halted his cloud and looked down, his eyes immediately widening.

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

The line on the stone wall—"Wield a Three-Foot Sword, slay all injustices! —Beixing"—was gradually beginning to glow.

Powerful sword intent was contained within those rays of light.

And a faint sword intent was also emanating from the beast-hide-clad youth.

The two were actually resonating with each other.

"This youth, he actually... actually caused Senior Beixing's sword intent to stir... an inheritance across generations?"

The short old man stared below in astonishment.

As the line of words 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 hold back. He directly sent his voice toward several mountain peaks in the deepest part of the Academy and roared, "Are any of you still breathing? Get your asses over here!"

His voice crossed the void and passed through layers of restrictions, entering the ears of the Immortals of the Black-White Academy.

"Hmm?"

Immortal Diancai, dressed 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 took a step and vanished from his room.

"What madness is Senior Brother Five Madmen up to 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 towering 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.

All five stared down at the Forbidden Grounds Square below.

"The Three-Foot Sword."

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

"And it is a complete Three-Foot Sword inheritance 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 have another extraordinary disciple."

The five Immortals watched Ji Ning below, who was receiving the inheritance with his eyes closed. Every Immortal's eyes were filled with excitement.

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

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