"Since it was already one of a kind, I might as well be bolder..."
At this moment, Jiang Xuan could not help recalling the threshold he had vaguely touched when forging Heart-Demon Swords for Xia He, Zhen Youqing, and Qin Xiangling—good and evil sharing the same source, righteousness and wickedness as one.
Heart demons were obsessions, and obsessions were also part of one's Dao Heart.
The four seasons had withering and flourishing, heaven and earth had day and night, life and death had reincarnation... All things in this world had always been born from yin and yang, with righteousness and wickedness completing one another.
His gaze passed over the Calamity Eye inside the jade box and settled upon the resplendent Golden Law-Speech Tree deep within his sea of consciousness.
Amid its lush canopy, a brand-new Golden Divine Fruit was slowly taking shape.
This was the second divine fruit he had nurtured by watering it with Mystic Yellow-and-Black Qi and using his own Dao Foundation as soil. Originally, he had planned to solidify the power of "Adaptation" once more, in order to resist Eerie power.
But now, an even grander—and far more dangerous—idea was taking shape in his heart.
Nian and Fei: one was an auspicious beast, a symbol of bidding farewell to the old, welcoming the new, driving away evil, and inviting fortune; the other was Calamity itself, the incarnation of rampant pestilence and living beings left in misery.
If they were placed separately upon the Golden Law-Speech Tree and the Blood Moon Tree, then linked through the principles of seasonal withering and flourishing, reincarnation and rebirth, allowing them to transform into one another between yang and yin, order and chaos, auspiciousness and Calamity—
"In the Yang Realm, beneath the orderly radiance of the Golden Law-Speech Tree, it is an