Ascension in Broad Daylight

The Taiji diagram began to turn the moment it formed. As its yang half rotated, it drew in the two drops of blood essence Li Yan had just released.

At the same time, its yin half swept the two Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes inside. Then the yin and yang halves began to rotate through empty air in opposite directions.

Pure black Gui Water spiritual energy poured from the Northern Abyss Kunpeng's massive claws into the diagram, and it spun faster and faster.

The opposing rotations were impossible to look at directly. Anyone who tried would grow dizzy.

The two drops of blood essence in the yang half and the two Guiyi Water-Parting Spikes in the yin half rose and fell like objects in a river. Slowly, they softened, one merging with yang, the other with yin.

Separated by their common boundary, the rivers of yin and yang crept toward each other. As they turned, it was like chaos parting at the dawn of creation.

Li Yan circulated his spiritual power. The black mist around him expanded and contracted with his breathing, while a stream of black energy shot from the top of his head into the Northern Abyss Kunpeng's eyes, keeping its form from dispersing.

At a command from his Divine Sense, piles of spirit stones, large and small, appeared around him out of thin air. Then he slowly closed his eyes...

After Falling Star Valley, Qingfeng Sect, and Liupan Hall divided the cultivation resources of the four sects, undercurrents stirred through the cultivation world for a time before gradually settling again.

Such things happened many times every year. The weak were prey to the strong; that had been the cultivation world's unchanging law since ancient times. Amid the turmoil, some sects gained extra benefits, while others vanished for good.

But