"Heaven-Mending Stone, time for you to do your part!"
Luo Yue sank her awareness into the depths of her Life Spring, reaching out to the fragment of the Five-Colored Stone floating silently within.
As though sensing the violent collision of yin and yang Dao Principles outside, the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment responded of its own accord for the first time.
It trembled gently. An ancient, soothing five-colored Dao resonance, seemingly born from the very source of yin, yang, and the five elements, spread out. It instantly enveloped the entire Bitter Sea Secret Realm, then flowed upstream along her Divine Power and entered her Sea of Consciousness.
Like the most miraculous harmonizing agent, this five-colored Dao resonance gently seeped into the heart of the fiercely clashing yin and yang Dao Principles.
The next moment,
an astonishing sight appeared within Luo Yue's Bitter Sea!
Under the combined influence of the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu and the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment, the crimson-cloud Divine Phoenix and the cool, aloof Vast Cold Moon Palace did not collapse in their violent clash. Instead, they began to turn slowly along an incomparably profound trajectory, blending together.
The flames of the crimson-cloud Divine Phoenix were no longer purely fierce; a layer of cool moonlight tinged their edges. Nor was the chill of the Vast Cold Moon Palace lifeless anymore; a speck of blazing golden flame danced at its heart.
The crimson clouds became the Yang Fish, and the moon palace became the yin fish. The Chaos Dao Resonance between them transformed into the curved line dividing yin from yang.
Gradually, they formed the outline of an enormous, slowly revolving yin-yang fish diagram.
"Taiyin and Taiyang-which is weaker, which is stronger?"
"When yin and yang aid each other, the Great Dao reigns supreme!"
A faint smile touched Luo Yue's lips.
With the support of the Heaven-Mending Stone's Chaos Dao Resonance, the deduction speed of the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu suddenly soared. The tortoise shell and star chart broke apart, reassembled, and evolved at an unprecedented pace.
It was no longer a rigid confrontation. Instead, a deeper process of analysis and fusion through deduction had begun.
The Dao Principles of the Hengyu Scripture, once unmatched in their ferocity and capable of burning the eight wildernesses to ash, were distilled to reveal traces of Solar True Meaning, becoming even purer.
The mysteries of Taiyin's annihilation and creation contained in the [Taiyin Guanghan Diagram] were also continuously unraveled, becoming increasingly clear.
The origin of Luo Yue's Divine King Body resonated as well.
The Cold Moon within her Bitter Sea shone brighter than ever. The Dao patterns of the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu gleamed upon her Divine Bridge. After flowing through the Heaven-Mending Stone fragment, the Divine Power gushing from her Life Spring possessed both an icy chill and a nascent trace of supreme yang, growing ever richer and purer.
Time lost all meaning amid this deep deduction.
Luo Yue immersed herself completely in this supreme Dao Realm, hungrily absorbing the true essence of the Great Dao born from the collision and fusion of the Two Great Mother Scriptures.
She continually used the Yellow River Chart and Lo Shu to deduce and perfect the Dao Foundation of her Divine King Body's Sea of Bitterness Secret Realm. In particular, her newly formed [Cold River Reflecting the Moon] Vision was quietly incorporating a trace of the supreme Dao resonance of yin and yang revolving and primordial chaos opening, making its potential unfathomable.
This round of deduction took Luo Yue quite some time.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
While storms brewed in the outside world, the meditation chamber in the courtyard deep within the Luo Residence remained unchanged. Like a black hole devouring light and sound, it sealed the inside off from the outside.
Yet whenever the deduction grew intense, a terrifying aura would occasionally leak out for a fleeting instant-sometimes a heat that could incinerate heaven and earth, sometimes a chill that could freeze all eternity, sometimes the fluctuations of primordial chaos opening.
It left the mighty cultivator secretly standing guard deeply alarmed.
"Just what earth-shattering art is this little girl comprehending? Why such a tremendous disturbance?" That blazing divine sense was filled with shock and uncertainty.
Visions arose frequently within the courtyard. Their sheer momentum made even a Holy Lord level figure like him feel his heart tremble. This was far beyond anything an ordinary Sea of Bitterness cultivator could touch.
Hum...
At that moment,
Luo Yue's deduction was nearing its end.
The intense fluctuations of deduction that had continued for a full half month finally began to subside.
Luo Yue slowly opened her eyes.
Her pupils were no longer pure ice blue. They seemed to contain a miniature universe of stars, with blazing golden divine flames rising and falling like suns and a cool Cold Moon hanging silently within. Chaotic stellar paths wove together and flowed, perfectly governing ice and fire, yin and yang.
"The Hengyu Scripture and the Taiyin Scripture... I've only fused a superficial trace of their true essence, but it's enough for now."
Luo Yue opened her palm, and a wisp of Divine Power sprang to her fingertips. Its nature had undergone a qualitative transformation.
It was no longer simply icy cold. A trace of blazing golden Divine Radiance lay within the ice blue, while Chaos Dao Resonance circulated endlessly at its core.
Ice and fire aided each other; yin and yang flourished together!
Although her cultivation realm had not risen, her gains had been immense.
"Across the entire Eastern Wasteland, there shouldn't be anyone in the Sea of Bitterness realm who can match me now, right? I really want to find someone to test myself against." Excitement surged through Luo Yue's heart.
She had opened her Bitter Sea with the Dao Scripture and incorporated the Divine King Scripture to establish her Dao Foundation. Now that she had comprehended a wisp of true essence from the Taiyin Guanghan Sutra and the Hengyu Sun Scripture, both her divine sense and her Divine Power were strong enough to rival those of Dao Palace Realm cultivators.
"But the consumption was enormous. All that Variant Source must have totaled at least a hundred thousand or so, and it only went toward deducing a wisp of true essence from two ancient scriptures." Luo Yue sighed.
A pile of Source husks in various colors lay on the floor, ready to crumble into drifting ash at the slightest touch.
She was in no hurry to refine that pool of earth milk. Jiang Wei had told her she could save it until she returned to the Jiang Family; using it together with the dragon vein on the Jiang Family's Divine Island would produce extraordinary effects.
Luo Yue rose,
then swept her sleeve and cleared away the remnants.
"I've already been in seclusion for fifteen days..."
Fairy Yao Li had delivered the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Moon Lotus on the second day of her seclusion, then left with Little Yao Xi.
Luo Yue found that rather regrettable. She had wanted to study that Guanghan Palace a little more.
It definitely contained the complete Taiyin Ancient Scripture.
"Should I go to the Yaoguang Holy Land's Gambling Stone Workshop someday and win their Holy Maiden in a wager?" Luo Yue really was somewhat tempted to follow the example of that Source Heavenly Master from years ago.
But after thinking it over, she dropped the idea. The people of Yaoguang were not easy to provoke. Old monsters from the Ruthless One's lineage controlled them from the shadows, and even the Southern Region's Taixuan Sect had long since become someone else's shell.
"Come to think of it, some people within the Jiang Family seem to have had contact with the Ruthless One's lineage too. Jiang Yi of the Thirteen Great Bandits probably fell out with the Jiang Family over that back then."
Luo Yue frowned slightly.
This was also one of the reasons she wanted to use a Medicine King to extend Old Master Luo's life. She would certainly be living with the Jiang Family in the future, and given the special nature of her Divine King Body, there was no guarantee that certain people would not covet it.
If the Ruthless One's lineage came after her, it would be a great deal of trouble. Hua Yunfei was a perfect example.
"I'll take it one step at a time."
Luo Yue walked out of the courtyard.
She had not stepped outside for a full half month of seclusion. During that time, storms had brewed in the outside world, and many things had happened.
Although quite a few of them concerned her, they paled beside the Divine Source Ancient Mine. Rumors about the Divine Source Ancient Mine were now running rampant, and at night,
the tales of bloody light piercing the sky and eerie howls had not died down. Instead, they had only grown more intense.
Someone had invited Source Arts grandmasters from the Four Great Source Arts Families to trace the dragon veins, pinpoint their lairs, and fix the locations within the mountains and rivers. Yet after one of those grandmasters went to inspect the site, he went mad on the spot.
After returning, he could only mutter broken phrases about red-haired demonic shadows and ominous curses. He claimed that peerless Divine Source lay underground, along with a buried ancient deity!
The incident caused an uproar throughout Qingyun Province. Far from frightening away the great holy lands that coveted the Divine Source, this unknown terror was like drops of water falling into boiling oil, fully igniting the greed every faction could barely restrain.
There were even rumors
that a holy land was already planning to bring out an unrivaled Emperor Weapon to suppress the ancient mine.
"An ancient deity? More likely one of the Primordial Fierce Clan." Luo Yue shook her head.