Yin-Yang Divine Diagram

After traveling several dozen more miles, the ground changed color. The soil became loose and soft, turning ash-white.

Jiang Yun could feel waves of bone-piercing cold. The Yin energy here was exceedingly dense, as though fierce ghosts were weeping and howling beside his ears.

In the pitch-black surroundings, it felt especially cold and eerie. Gradually, withered bones began to emerge.

Yet after the erosion of time, these bones turned to ash at the slightest touch, drifting down and perfectly blending into the ash-white ground.

These were the remains of source miners and cultivators who had died here over the past hundred thousand years. They were densely packed, seemingly endless.

The Yin wind howled, and shadowy figures flickered. Amid the piles of bones, hazy ghostly silhouettes appeared one after another, extremely faint.

A Divine Physique was naturally unafraid of such evil spirits, let alone while wearing the Divine Source Stone Garment. They could not even detect his aura.

Jiang Yun strode forward, and only after walking a great distance did he pass through this area.

The moment he left the region covered in corpses, it was as though he had arrived in a pure land.

The darkness inside the mine tunnel was driven away. Dense spiritual energy rushed toward him, carrying waves of peaceful aura, as though he had entered a sacred land.

The cries of immortal cranes came from ahead. Qilin-like creatures ran about, flocks of fiery red birds flew overhead, and other creatures circled, frolicked, and played everywhere.

After Divine Source leaked out, it would take the form of all sorts of strange creatures, galloping and roaring in the surrounding area. They were manifestations of spiritual energy, not real living creatures.

Jiang Yun paid them no mind and went straight toward the Yin-Yang Eye. The Yin-Yang Eye resembled a Yin-Yang Divine Diagram blocking his path.

The Divine Diagram resembled a naturally formed Taiji Diagram. Source Qi and baleful Qi intertwined and circulated, cutting off the way ahead.

He tested it. If he tried to cross it directly, the Yin-Yang Divine Diagram would form thousands upon thousands of sword beams, reducing everything to pieces.

With Jiang Yun's current strength, he could not force his way through. Trying would only add a splash of blood to the small mountains of bone ash beneath the Divine Diagram.

The Yin-Yang Divine Diagram changed constantly. Sometimes it was entirely shrouded in baleful Qi, while at other times it was completely covered by Source Qi.

It did not always maintain a Yin-Yang cycle. Occasionally, lone Yin and lone Yang would emerge, becoming a single polarity, and the sword Qi produced then was even more terrifying.

Feeling those dreadful fluctuations, Jiang Yun's skin still prickled as if pierced by needles, even from so far away.

Looking at this scene, Jiang Yun could not help thinking of the Yin-Yang Great Mill.

If the Yin-Yang Great Mill could also evolve lone Yin and lone Yang, perhaps its destructive power would increase.

Now was not the time to test it. It could easily draw the attention of unknown beings.

When lone Yang rose, Jiang Yun donned the Stone Garment and crossed the Yin-Yang Formation Diagram like lightning.

When the peerless sword Qi evolved from lone Yang struck the Stone Garment, it turned into ripples of water and failed to pierce through.

The Stone Garment made from the stone skin of Divine Source truly possessed spirituality. It emitted gentle holy light, protecting Jiang Yun as he safely passed through the Yin-Yang Eye.

Though the Stone Garment was fragile, it kept the killing intent and baleful Qi generated by the Yin-Yang Eye outside, unable to approach Jiang Yun in the slightest.

After passing through the Yin-Yang Divine Diagram, purple mountain rock blocked the way ahead. He had finally reached Purple Mountain.

With a thought from Jiang Yun, divine power gave rise to divine swords one after another, splitting apart the purple rock as he advanced.

As he moved forward, the path behind him slowly closed bit by bit. Purple Mountain seemed to possess life, concealing every trace.

His path-clearing speed was a little too slow. Purple Mountain might embed him within it, so he hurriedly increased the speed of his slashing.

Boom!

With a tremendous crash, the seemingly endless purple mountain rock vanished. Before him was a hazy scene: green jade formed the steps, white jade formed the gate, and a magnificent complex of buildings appeared.

He had finally reached his destination and entered the interior of Purple Mountain.

This was a cave residence excavated within Purple Mountain. He climbed the green jade steps and entered through the round white jade moon gate. It was extremely quiet and devoid of any human presence, making the atmosphere seem strange.

This palace complex had been entirely carved from Ancient Jade, worthy of the phrase jade towers and jeweled halls. Yet the place was empty, as cold and desolate as the Moon Palace.

On second thought, Jiang Yun felt that being desolate was good. If it had been bustling and lively, he truly would not have dared enter.

Admiring the ancient architecture from a hundred thousand years ago, he slowly reached the end of the buildings. There were over a dozen blood-jade steps leading into a deep cave residence.

This palace complex was merely the entrance to the interior. This was the passage leading deeper inside.

Once he entered, a purple cave residence came into view. The terrain was complex, seemingly a natural stone cave, yet also like an Ancient Mine left behind after excavating a Source Vein.

Inside Purple Mountain, hazy purple radiance flowed. It was not particularly dim, but gave everything a blurred, dreamlike feeling.

Although it lacked the gloomy darkness of the previous Ancient Mine tunnels, the danger it contained was far more sinister.

Following the cave residence downward, the route seemed to have become a place where people left messages to mark their visit.

Gu Tianshu, Jiang Taixu, Yang Yi, the independent cultivator Li Mu, and thirty or forty others had all left messages here. No one knew who had started it.

Jiang Yun had attended university, and his degree was not fake. He forcibly suppressed the urge to leave an inscription and passed through the area.

After passing several abandoned mines and continuing onward, the feeling of palpitations grew stronger and stronger.

Deep within Purple Mountain, a terrifyingly demonic force seemed to be calling him. It was unexpectedly difficult to resist, and he could not help walking in one direction.

Jiang Yun's divine sense stirred. The little figure between his brows sat down cross-legged and activated the Dao Scripture, releasing invisible fluctuations.

The nine Great Emperor characters suppressed his divine sense. Faint points of light also flowed across the Stone Garment, displaying its spirituality, and that demonic summons immediately weakened.

He then took out two pieces of Emperor Jade and hung them at his waist. The interior of Purple Mountain was now Great Emperor Wushi's territory. The powerful Ancient Races had all been suppressed and could only barely survive along the outskirts.

As long as he restrained that summons and did not actively approach them, there would mostly be no danger.

With Great Emperor Wushi suppressing them, those beings who should have perished long ago could not cause much trouble.

Wearing the Emperor Jade would definitely be useful.

The purple cave residence contained countless karst caves and was highly irregular. Large caves contained smaller caves, making the cave system rather complex.

Along the way, Jiang Yun saw the remains of cultivators again. All of them glimmered with a jade-like luster, and clear finger holes pierced their skulls.

Killed in a single blow, divine sense shattered. This was the fate of those unable to resist the demonic summons.

After continuing for several more miles, the power of that demonic summons grew stronger again.

At the same time, waves of chanting rang out from Jiang Yun's Dao Palace. The four Divine Spirits within the Dao Palace shone, the phantom of an Immortal King within the Sea of Bitterness seemed to open its eyes, and the Taiji Dao Diagram behind him shot out divine radiance, spreading mysterious light. Only then was that demonic summons finally ground away.

Jiang Yun stood where he was, his heart stirring as he deliberately revealed a trace of Hengyu Bloodline aura.

"You are... a descendant of the Jiang Family."

A sudden voice sounded beside Jiang Yun's ear. He had finally waited for him.

The voice came in broken fragments and was extremely weak, as though it would expire the next second.

"Who are you?" Though Jiang Yun knew who it was, he still had to put on an act.

"Jiang Tai...xu." The broken voice continued.