Ying Xiaoxiao gave Xiang Yun a long look with her beautiful eyes and said evenly, "He's probably after the Earth Yuan Sect's inheritance."
"The Earth Yuan Sect?"
Ying Xiaoxiao liked to be prepared, so before coming here, she had gathered information about the place through the Dao Sect's channels.
Naturally, she also knew that this place seemed to have some connection to an ancient sect.
It was called the Earth Yuan Sect.
After listening to Ying Xiaoxiao explain that the Earth Yuan Sect's trial required one to spend a day in the lightning pool relying purely on the physical body, Ying Huanhuan looked at Xiang Yun again.
"That egomaniac is that ruthless with himself?"
A hint of admiration crept into her voice. As she saw it, Xiang Yun had already been handpicked as the Primordial Hall's Young Hall Master.
On top of that, he was exceptionally gifted. He had no need at all to risk his life for the Earth Yuan Sect's inheritance.
The lightning was so powerful that she felt she would be electrocuted into charcoal without Origin Energy to protect her.
Could this guy really be that formidable?
Watching the lightning cover Xiang Yun's body, Ying Xiaoxiao's beautiful eyes also flashed with admiration.
In their view, the Primordial Hall's people were all ruthless-or rather, those who could cultivate body-refining martial arts to a certain level
were ruthless without exception.
If body-refining martial arts did not require physical talent,
and an abundance of resources besides, the Primordial Hall might not necessarily rank below the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace and the Sword Sect.
"No wonder he said you might not be able to withstand a single move from him in half a year, sister."
"What?!"
Hearing Ying Huanhuan's words, Ying Xiaoxiao could no longer maintain her cool expression.
This guy was far too arrogant. She couldn't even block a single move?
Did he think their Dao Sect's Heavenly Emperor Scripture was that weak? Her father could use the Heavenly Emperor Scripture together with the Pure Yuan Treasure, the Heavenly Phoenix Zither.
Even the Yuan Sect's three sect masters of heaven, earth, and man dared not underestimate him.
Yet this guy looked down on her so much?
"In these six months, once I've mastered the Great Sky Demon Cloud Sword, I'll split him in two with one stroke!!"
Ying Xiaoxiao squeezed the words out through clenched teeth. Xiang Yun was even more hateful than that aloof Ling Qingzhu.
Xiang Yun, meanwhile, had no idea how the two sisters were verbally tearing into him on the platform. Even if he had known, he wouldn't have cared.
He was feeling the lightning pool's water temper his body, and it was indeed quite good. As for the danger the sisters imagined,
it might have posed some threat to Xiang Yun before Nirvana, but after Nirvana, particularly after his Origin Energy mutated,
the lightning pool's water had only just entered his body and had not even caused any damage
before it was forcibly absorbed and transformed into nourishment for his body. The World Tree, too, gradually shone with vitality as it was nourished by this power of heaven and earth.
Unfortunately, without a Pill River, the Nirvana Qi in Xiang Yun's body grew slowly. The Nirvana Qi he could draw in and expel from between heaven and earth was simply too sparse.
"I hope the Earth Yuan Sect's inheritance can give me a little surprise."
Time passed like the lightning here, and a day soon went by. In an instant,
a pale yellow light filled with the power of desolation enveloped Xiang Yun. When some people lingering nearby saw it,
understanding flashed in their eyes. They had already guessed as much when Xiang Yun used his physical body to withstand the lightning pool's water.
The Earth Yuan Sect's inheritance was no secret to them. Very few people managed to complete the trial, though, and there was no need to force themselves to take risks for an inheritance.
Besides, they had heard that the inheritance was selective. The Great Desolate Dynasty's ancestor had indeed obtained body-refining martial arts at the Spirit Martial Arts level,
but some others had barely survived the trial, only to receive Creation Martial Arts.
"So he really was after the inheritance. He's about to be transported away, right?"
Ying Huanhuan looked curiously at Xiang Yun, who was enveloped in pale yellow light. She had no particular interest in the so-called inheritance.
The Dao Sect's four great wondrous scriptures were all formidable, and could all be said to be at the level of Heavenly Martial Arts. Given her status, she could study the other wondrous scriptures whenever she wished.
Besides, she didn't cultivate body-refining martial arts.
Xiang Yun's surroundings shifted, and he immediately found that he was no longer on the platform. He wasn't surprised, having long known about the Earth Yuan Sect's inheritance.
He was merely curious about what form the trial would take.
The next moment,
he saw that he was in a void, where silver heavenly lightning and dark yellow geomagnetic power resembled two coiling dragons.
They constantly intertwined and circled, yet could never truly fuse. They repelled each other, giving off sharp crackling bursts.
Xiang Yun narrowed his eyes. There was no information at all.
He would probe them first. The next moment, the Great Devouring Technique erupted as he tried to devour the two powers.
But as soon as the two powers touched, an extraordinarily terrifying repulsion occurred, like the roar of heaven and earth being born.
It exploded before Xiang Yun again and again, the terrifying force violently shaking his body and driving even him back several steps.
The shock sent his Qi and blood churning. The fact that even his physique had been shaken so badly showed how terrifying it was.
"Do I have to overpower one of the two forces, or fuse them together?"
Xiang Yun kept recalling how the geomagnetic power and heavenly lightning had fused in the valley.
The Earth Yuan Sect.
The earth part was easy to understand: the sect should have focused on geomagnetism. But yuan...
Fusion?
The sect's ultimate deduction had been aimed at uniting earth and heaven, which was why it had created that unusual valley.
The senior who founded the Earth Yuan Sect truly had great ambition. If that was the case,
then fusion was the most correct path. Only by fusing the two could he trigger the true inheritance.
"The Great Desolate Dynasty's ancestor probably only mastered geomagnetic power, which was why he obtained the Great Wilderness Tyrant Body. If someone only mastered heavenly lightning, they'd probably get a different martial art."
"If that's the case..."
A glint flashed in Xiang Yun's eyes. This inheritance was no difficulty for him. He had not actually mastered either kind of power,
but he had the World Tree inside him.
This union of earth and heaven was, in essence, heaven and earth-a world. The people of the Earth Yuan Sect had probably
gained a similar insight from somewhere and intended to create a martial art capable of opening up a world inside the body.
Origin Energy containing world power was the purest power of heaven and earth.
His Origin Energy wound around them like silk. The heavenly lightning was like a dragon, the geomagnetism like a turtle, and the two slowly began to draw closer.
"Sizzle-!"
The moment the heavenly lightning and geomagnetic power touched, they erupted in violent repulsion, tearing Xiang Yun's Origin Energy nearly to pieces.
But his expression did not change. The comprehension granted by his Innate Dao Embryo allowed him to instantly catch that almost imperceptible point of resonance.
"There it is!"
The Origin Energy Xiang Yun poured in surged, and the illusory image of a verdant World Tree could faintly be seen swaying.
The World Tree's power flowed into his Origin Energy.
The purple Origin Energy, which had originally served only as a "bridge," suddenly gained a trace of boundless vitality.
That trace of vitality happened to neutralize the violence of the heavenly lightning and the heaviness of the geomagnetic power.
Boom!
The heavenly lightning no longer burst apart, and the geomagnetic power was no longer heavy.
As if they had found where they belonged, the two became torrents that followed Xiang Yun's Origin Energy into his body.
Yin and yang met in his dantian, and the miniature black hole spun wildly, absorbing every last bit of the heavenly lightning and geomagnetic power.
And just then,
Hum!
Countless words suddenly appeared in Xiang Yun's mind, each one brilliant as a star and bearing an ancient air of desolation.
[Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha, heaven and earth stand together. Heavenly lightning is Gang, geomagnetism is Sha. Gang and Sha unite as one: the Qiankun Battle Body.]
Xiang Yun circulated his Origin Energy with all his might, drawing the heavenly lightning and geomagnetic power madly into his body.
Heavenly Gang and Earthly Sha continually intertwined within him, while the miniature black hole transformed at a furious pace.
As the information about the Qiankun Battle Body continued pouring into his mind, Xiang Yun gradually became immersed in comprehending it.
He sat cross-legged in the void, silver lightning and yellow geomagnetic power interweaving around him like the chaos when heaven and earth first opened.
Here, time seemed to have lost its meaning.