Twin Star Secret Realm, Harmonious Union Spiritual Energy

Who knew how much time had passed.

In this chaos where even time had lost all meaning, a faint point of light suddenly appeared ahead.

That light grew larger and larger, eventually turning into an irregular, torn opening.

The Thunderfire Broken Sword seemed to have found its target. Its blade trembled slightly, then suddenly accelerated, carrying that small sword aura barrier as it plunged headfirst into the opening!

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Boom!

A deafening crash rang out, as if something enormous had fallen from the sky.

Jiang Yuan felt himself, along with the massive chunk of spaceship wreckage, slam heavily into a patch of soft marshland. The tremendous impact sent his blood and qi churning.

Having completed its task, the sword aura barrier exhausted its energy and dissolved into specks of golden light.

The Thunderfire Broken Sword also flew dimly back into its sheath.

"Cough... cough cough!"

Guo Hongtao was jolted awake by the violent impact. He abruptly sat up, coughing as he looked around, his face filled with the dazed confusion of someone who had survived a disaster.

"Y-Yuan... where... where are we? We didn't die?"

Jiang Yuan rose to his feet and dusted the mud from his clothes, his expression somewhat grave as well.

They were standing in a vast primeval forest. An unusual fragrance permeated the air, while the plants around them were extraordinarily tall and overflowing with vitality.

The strangest thing was the sky.

Two enormous "suns" actually hung in the heavens!

One radiated a scorching crimson glow, while the other cast a cold blue-green radiance.

One red and one green, one hot and one cold—the two utterly different energies filled every corner of this world.

"The spiritual energy here... is strange." Jiang Yuan frowned.

"Strange? Why do I think it's incredibly dense? It's even denser than our school's A-grade cultivation pods!" Guo Hongtao took a deep breath, his face lighting up with wild delight.

Without even thinking, he sat down cross-legged and attempted to circulate his cultivation technique, absorbing the abundant energy between heaven and earth.

"Don't!" Jiang Yuan called out to stop him, but it was already too late.

Pfft!

The moment Guo Hongtao began circulating his technique, the crimson and blue-green spiritual energies—two forces with completely opposing natures—went wild in his meridians like two unbridled bulls!

He immediately spat out a mouthful of blood. His entire face turned liver-purple, and his body convulsed violently.

"M-My meridians... they're going to break!" Guo Hongtao roared in agony.

Jiang Yuan immediately stepped forward and pressed a palm against his back, pouring his powerful Nine Yang Inner Force into him without reservation.

That supremely yang and unyielding inner force was like a pillar anchoring the sea, forcibly suppressing the two rampaging foreign energies within Guo Hongtao before carefully guiding them out of his body.

"Whew... whew..."

Only after a long while did Guo Hongtao recover. He sprawled on the ground, gasping for breath, his face full of lingering fear.

"That scared me to death... Yuan, what kind of cursed place is this?"

Jiang Yuan did not answer. Just moments ago, when his inner force had touched the spiritual energy of this place, the incomparably solid barrier holding him at the Meridian Opening Realm had actually loosened by the slightest degree!

This world seemed to hold some peculiar attraction for someone like him, who cultivated a pure yang technique.

Just then, a rustling of footsteps came from the forest.

More than a dozen women in long dresses of various colors emerged from behind the trees, surrounding the two of them.

Every one of these women was beautiful, but their expressions carried a coldness that kept others at a distance. They all held strangely shaped weapons in their hands.

At their head stood a woman in white. Her beauty surpassed that of the others, and her bearing was the coldest of all.

She sized up Jiang Yuan and Guo Hongtao, then finally fixed her gaze on Jiang Yuan and spoke coldly.

"Who are you? Why have you trespassed into the forbidden grounds of my Harmonious Union Sect?"

The Harmonious Union Sect?

Jiang Yuan's heart stirred. He seemed to have seen that name in the unofficial histories of certain ancient texts.

Before he could answer, a sharp screech suddenly came from deep within the forest!

A gigantic lizard over five meters long, its entire body covered in crimson and green scales, suddenly shot out. It opened its bloody maw and lunged at the pink-robed girl closest to it!

"Ah! Senior Sister, save me!" The girl in pink screamed in terror, her face drained of color.

"Beast, don't you dare run wild!"

The woman in white gave a sharp cry and rushed forward with her sword, joining several other disciples in surrounding the two-colored lizard.

For a moment, sword light flashed and blasts of force surged in every direction.

Yet the lizard's scales were exceptionally tough. The women's attacks only sent showers of sparks flying, unable to cause it any real harm.

Instead, during one fierce sweep of the lizard's tail, the white-robed woman's longsword was knocked straight from her hand. She staggered backward, her lovely face pale.

"Young master, please lend us your aid! I will be forever grateful!" While barely holding on, she cried loudly toward Jiang Yuan, looking anxious and pitiable.

The moment Guo Hongtao saw this, the urge to play the hero and save the beauty rushed to his head.

"Yuan, we..."

Before he could say anything, Jiang Yuan raised a hand to stop him.

With his arms folded, Jiang Yuan watched the "fierce battle" with leisurely interest. There was even a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Are you done acting?" he asked calmly.

The scene became extremely awkward.

The two-colored lizard, which had looked incomparably ferocious, stiffened.

The expression on the white-robed woman's face, as she "struggled desperately," also froze.

"If you're done, then it's my turn." Jiang Yuan gave them no time to react.

"You're courting death!"

The white-robed woman flew into a rage from embarrassment. No longer pretending, she erupted with a powerful aura. A freezing, bone-piercing yin true qi burst from her body. Abandoning the lizard, she flashed forward and struck directly at Jiang Yuan's chest with her palm!

She put all her strength into this strike. Wherever her palm wind passed, even the air seemed about to freeze.

Yet Jiang Yuan neither dodged nor evaded.

Just as that palm infused with frigid yin true qi was about to strike him, he suddenly drew in a deep breath!

He actually took that frigid yin true qi into his body of his own accord!

At the same time, he frantically drew upon the supremely yang energy cast down by the crimson sun in the sky!

One yin and one yang, two violent energies of utterly opposing natures, collided explosively inside his body!

His Nine Yang Inner Force became a massive furnace, forcibly enveloping, compressing, and tempering those two energies!

Boom!

A visible golden shockwave violently burst outward from Jiang Yuan as its center!

The solid barrier that had troubled him for so long shattered with a resounding crash at that moment!

The shackles of the Body Tempering Realm had been completely broken!

His first primary meridian was opened!

Meridian Opening Realm, First Level!

"Pfft—"

The white-robed woman bore the brunt of it. Before she could understand what had happened, the enormous recoil force generated by his breakthrough slammed viciously into her chest. She flew backward more than ten meters, spraying blood through the air.

The Harmonious Union Sect's female disciples around her were also blasted off balance by the shockwave. One after another, they stared in utter horror at the man standing where he was, his aura rising steadily.

They simply could not understand how someone could use another person's attack and the spiritual energy of this world to break through on the spot.

"You..." The woman in white struggled to her feet. Wiping the blood from her lips, she looked at Jiang Yuan, her anger transformed into deep wariness.

She straightened her slightly disheveled clothing and bowed toward Jiang Yuan from afar.

"Young master's strength is formidable. I am truly impressed."

Her attitude had made a complete one-hundred-eighty-degree turn.

"Since you have entered this realm, you are guests of my Harmonious Union Sect. Please accompany us to the outer sect outpost for some rest, so that we may fulfill our duties as hosts."

Her words were polite, but the formation of female disciples closing in around them again made it clear that this was not an invitation they could refuse.

Jiang Yuan glanced at Guo Hongtao, who was still standing there in a daze, then nodded.

"Lead the way."