Chapter 1534: The Taiyin Taiyang Dual Cultivation Scripture

The two Soul Transformation cultivators before him were unmistakably the ascension-immigrant cultivators from the Youming Sword Grotto-heaven of several thousand years ago — Qingyou Canghai Tianjun and Qingyang Canghai Tianjun.

Current citizens of the Immortal Gate!

Jiang Ding looked up their public information. As a member of the Immortal Gate Education Committee, he had this authority — as long as nothing was leaked or involved personal privacy, the Immortal Gate held essentially no secrets from him.

After ascending, Qingyou and Qingyang entered the re-growth process that had by then been formalized into immigration regulations.

The so-called re-growth process worked like this: after ascension immigrants entered the Immortal Gate, they would typically self-seal their memories, divine soul, magic power, and Dharma body, become infants once more, be born from an Immortal Gate orphanage, and attend elementary, middle, high school, and university — only recovering all their memories and power after advancing once again to Nascent Soul stage.

Only through this process would ascension immigrants share the common memories and common feelings of all citizens, rather than regarding themselves as outsiders, and gain sufficient understanding of the Immortal Gate — greatly benefiting their own Dao path.

The several hundred years consumed by this process were negligible for a cultivator for whom the Soul Transformation threshold was like dust.

After graduating with their doctorates, Qingyou and Qingyang chose to enter Qingfeng University, where the sword-path predecessor Great Sun Sword Master had once stayed, serving there as teaching counselors to this day — as the Immortal Gate's influence kept expanding, the universities' demands on teachers kept rising, especially at the two top-tier elite schools of Qingfeng and Qingfeng Beidou.

Even though Qingyou and Qingyang Canghai Tianjun were future prodigies who would surely reach Dao Merging, because they were only at Hua Shen Qi, they could presently serve only as counselors at Qingfeng University.

Of course, as the two top-tier elite schools of the Immortal Gate, Qingfeng and Qingfeng Beidou Universities had extremely abundant research resources — even a counselor could mobilize massive manpower and material resources, far exceeding professors at other schools.

Qingyou and Qingyang Canghai Tianjun's current research direction was to reorganize the Soul Transformation chapter of the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*, and after absorbing the merits of the Youming Sword Grotto-heaven's inherited scripture *Taiyou Guangming Jing*, to revise it into a dual-cultivation Gong Fa for the benefit of the Immortal Gate's vast number of dual-cultivation Dao companions.

Currently, the two were leading figures in this direction, receiving special appropriations from the Immortal Gate every century.

Those who could survive the ascension-immigrant heavenly tribulation could absolutely not be lacking in comprehension or creativity — this had been strictly screened in advance.

"You flatter me."

"Compared to Senior Great Sun back then, we fall far, far short."

Qingyang Canghai Tianjun said with a bitter smile.

Back then, the Great Sun Sword Master, while at the Hua Shen Qi stage, had already begun sweeping across realms, displaying terrifying dominion-level power even in Void Refinement-stage battles and suppressing all directions.

Unlike them — already several thousand years old, their greatest achievements in this life were merely ascending as immigrants and passing the entrance exam to Qingfeng University. Truly too embarrassing to mention.

"It's fine — you were just unlucky, born in the Immortal Gate's peaceful era."

"This is the misfortune of sword cultivators

."

Jiang Ding comforted them gently: "Still, this counts as decent. The Taiyin Taiyang sword cultivators have done well in keeping balance — if they were Great Sun sword cultivators, by now they'd have probably gone mad, or self-detonated, or died under Immortal Gate law."

"Yue is currently troubled — without enemies, there's no growth for Great Sun sword cultivators."

"Taiyin Taiyang sword cultivators have a tremendous advantage in peaceful eras. You can obtain sword-path insights through researching the Taiyin Taiyang sword Dao — progress in this area sometimes even exceeds life-and-death sword duels. This is one of the Immortal Gate's systemic advantages."

"Thank you, Senior, for your guidance."

"The two of us juniors have also gained some insights over these years."

Qingyang Canghai Tianjun bowed, and quite habitually posed his question: "Senior Great Sun, while developing the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing Hua Shen Shuang Xiu Pian*, a thought surfaced in my mind — splitting the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing* into two scriptures, the *Taiyang Jing* and the *Taiyin Jing*, with Qingyou and me each cultivating half. Would this multiply the cultivation efficiency several times over…"

Immortal Gate cultivators were like this — upon meeting an elder, they often asked questions with little small talk.

What many sect cultivators would consider extremely presumptuous — even a grave offense that might anger an elder — was routine in the Immortal Gate, as natural as breathing, eating, or drinking.

In fact, Qingyang Canghai Tianjun had been lying in wait here for many years precisely to seize this chance.

"One moment."

Jiang Ding walked and thought, falling into contemplation.

Such questions on Gong Fa had extremely far-reaching influence — a hair's breadth of error meant a thousand miles of deviation. Even he should not casually offer a seemingly perfect answer just to play the role of an elder; he should be exceedingly cautious, because this was another citizen asking him a question.

If it were an outside-realm cultivator asking, giving them any answer at all would be decent enough.

Because Jiang Ding owed them nothing — answering counted as deep personal favor, and whatever mistakes they made in the future had nothing to do with him.

But toward citizens — Jiang Ding bore the duty to answer.

This was the reason he had been able to casually ask questions of Master Master Dinghai, Senior Zhenjun Shenji, Yuan, and others back in his childhood, when he was still at Foundation Establishment, Qi Refining, with nothing to his name.

And now that he had grown, he must not forget his own past.

Back then, Master Master Dinghai, Yuan, Senior Zhenjun Shenji, and the others had been just like him — it was precisely because they had received much help from citizen-seniors during their own penniless childhoods that they went on to help the young Jiang Ding.

Generations handing down to the next — this was the Immortal Gate's inheritance.

Jiang Ding pondered this small Hua Shen-stage question for a full ten minutes, even applying to his main body for a ten-second divine-sense thread to verify, deduce, and correct, before arriving at an answer.

"Personally, I think your idea is excellent."

After a moment choosing his words, Jiang Ding said: "The *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*'s internal

meridian great circulation forms a three-dimensional taiji yin-yang diagram. If you split it — male cultivators taking yang, female cultivators taking yin — theoretically it would greatly reduce the cultivation difficulty of the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*, while not causing the magic power produced by the scripture to decline."

"It would even raise the quality of the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*'s magic power by a large margin."

"This is precisely why the ancient sage the Yellow Emperor so revered the great Dao of yin-yang dual cultivation. Men and women are inherently well-matched to yin and yang — the combined strength of two people, in the vast majority of cases, greatly enhances power, fault tolerance, and risk resistance.

This is precisely the meaning of the existence of husband and wife, of family."

"Of course, the split *Taiyin Taiyang Shuang Xiu Jing* will inevitably place far stricter demands on the Dao companions' mutual feelings, heart-nature, and Dao-heart — it is no shortcut either."

"Your need shouldn't be to lower the cultivation difficulty of the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*, right?"

"What you want should be to further strengthen the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*!"

Jiang Ding said.

"I suggest that after splitting the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*, you strengthen the meridian structures and divine-soul structures of the standalone *Taiyang Jing* and *Taiyin Jing*. Sword-forging secret arts can also be greatly reinforced — into more complex meridian structures, more complex secret-art structures, far exceeding the limits of a single cultivator."

"When the Immortal Gate designed the *Taiyin Taiyang Jing*, it took the cultivator's divine-soul limits into comprehensive consideration and did not provide more complex Gong Fa structures. But for you two, because you cultivate yin and yang separately, this is not your capability limit…"

Jiang Ding laid out his thoughts one by one — the paths the *Taiyang Jing* and *Taiyin Jing* should take, and how the Gong Fa structures should best be altered.

Great Sun Sword Master's several tens of thousands of years of sword-path experience, vast as Rushan and as deep as the sea, with unfathomable foundations — every suggestion he offered was incomparably precious, making Qingyang and Qingyou's eyes light up again and again.