Chapter 81

This little Daoist is utterly insane!

This was the first thought that came to Chang Xi’s mind after hearing Su Chen’s idea.

She had lived countless eons, from the ancient Honghuang era to today’s Tiangong, witnessing countless brilliant prodigies among the younger generation.

But she had never seen anyone as insane as Su Chen.

A Xian Immortal dared to attempt simultaneously controlling the Three Forces—Taiyin, Taiyang, and Fire—to refine his Golden Core.

Moreover, what he sought to refine was not ordinary Yin-Yang energy.

It was the primordial source of Taiyin and the true fire source of Taiyang!

These two forces represented the ultimate extremes of Yin and Yang in the Three Realms, two completely opposing primordial Dao principles.

To draw both into the body simultaneously to refine the Golden Core—

What difference does this make from seeking death?

Chang Xi could almost foresee that the moment the primordial Taiyin force and the true fire of Taiyang entered his body, the terrifying clash of Yin and Yang would tear Su Chen into fragments.

“Do you know the consequences of what you’re doing?” Chang Xi asked.

“If you cannot fully control these three forces, your Golden Core will be shattered into dust in an instant by the clash of Taiyin and Taiyang.”

“Even your flesh and your Primordial Spirit will be utterly annihilated.”

“From this moment on, there will be no Su Chen in the Three Realms.”

“Have you truly thought this through?”

Chang Xi asked a series of questions, each one like a heavy hammer striking Su Chen’s heart.

Su Chen lifted his head, meeting Chang Xi’s gaze, his eyes showing not a trace of retreat.

“Disciple has thought it through.” His voice was resolute.

“Disciple knows this is extremely difficult, but he has faith in himself.”

“I humbly beg the Star Lord to grant me this!”

The great hall sank once more into deathly silence.

Chang Xi gazed at the figure within the array, her expression complex.

From Su Chen, she seemed to see a distant, blurred shadow from long ago.

Once, there had been someone just like him—fearless, brimming with confidence.

“Perhaps you truly saw the future…”

Chang Xi’s mind once again recalled Di Jun’s prophecy before the final battle.

He said that the “one destined to be connected” would leave behind a pure land for the Yao Clan.

Chang Xi had originally disbelieved this.

How could Di Jun see a future even the Holy Ones could not calculate?

But now, she was beginning to waver.

Perhaps Su Chen truly might succeed.

“Very well…” Chang Xi sighed softly.

“Since you insist so strongly, I shall grant your wish.”

“I’d like to see what kind of surprise you can bring.”

With these words, Chang Xi no longer hesitated.

“Prepare!”

Chang Xi’s cold voice rang like thunder in Su Chen’s ears.

Su Chen’s heart tightened; he immediately gathered all his focus and prepared himself.

Outside the array, Chang Xi slowly raised her hands, her ten slender fingers forming intricate seals before her.

Streams of visible silver light converged toward her front.

These silver streams were the most primordial power of the Taiyin Star, the essence of the Three Realms’ ultimate Yin energy.

Now, before Chang Xi, these primordial Taiyin forces coalesced into a silver orb.

The Taiyin power radiating from the orb seemed ready to freeze even space itself.

“Go!”

Chang Xi pointed her jade hand, and the silver orb was injected into the array that sealed the true fire of Taiyang.

The instant the primordial Taiyin force entered the array, the previously suppressed true fire of Taiyang, sensing this opposing, ultimate Yin energy, felt profoundly provoked.

It erupted in ten thousand zhang of golden light, unleashing a terrifying power capable of scorching the heavens and boiling the seas.

The golden flames and silver cold currents collided instantly, triggering an explosive reaction.

Fortunately, Chang Xi outside the array acted in time.

She once again formed the talismanic seals, and the entire “Taiyin Locks Taiyang Array” blazed with radiant light.

Countless silver runes emerged from all sides of the array, binding the two opposing forces in place.

“Subdue!” Chang Xi muttered sharply.

Ultimately, the primordial true fire of Taiyang and the primordial Taiyin force were forcibly compressed into two spheres no larger than fists.

The two spheres hovered before Su Chen, slowly rotating.

“I have helped you suppress the Yin-Yang energies,” Chang Xi’s voice sounded weary.

Controlling the array to suppress the primordial true fire of Taiyang and primordial Taiyin, and restraining the clash of Yin and Yang, was a considerable drain on her.

“Now, it’s up to you.”

“Whether you live or die, I can no longer help you.”

Su Chen stared at the two energy spheres—one golden, one silver—and took a deep breath.

Just now, the sudden explosion of Yin-Yang clash energy had sent a chill through him.

“Thank you, Star Lord!” Su Chen bowed to Chang Xi outside the array.

He sat cross-legged, once again activating the Hunyuan Golden Core.

“Come!”

A flash of determination passed through Su Chen’s eyes.

He focused his spiritual sense and drew forth the primordial true fire of Taiyang and primordial Taiyin from the two energy spheres before him, guiding them into his dantian.

The two golden and silver energy spheres trembled slightly; two fine streams of energy were drawn out, slowly entering his dantian and advancing toward his Golden Core.

Su Chen dared not slacken his focus; he summoned every ounce of his concentration, carefully guiding the golden and silver streams into his Hunyuan Golden Core.

This time, the pain was ten, a hundred times worse than when he refined the true fire of Taiyang before!

If before had been the hell of boiling oil, now it was the dual torment of ice and fire.

One force, supremely Yang and fierce, threatened to burn him from within to without into ash.

The other, supremely Yin and freezing, sought to freeze his soul and flesh into icy shards.

Two utterly opposite extreme forces erupted simultaneously within him.

Su Chen felt his consciousness beginning to blur.

He clung fiercely to his mind, activating the Hunyuan Golden Core True Scripture to refine those two terrifying forces.

Time lost meaning within the primordial space of the Taiyin Star.

Su Chen sat motionless at the core of the array, day after day, month after month, repeating the excruciating process.

Drawing forth a thread of Yin-Yang energy, refining it, drawing again, refining again…

Meanwhile, his body underwent an unimaginable transformation during this terrifying cultivation.

Sometimes scorched by the true fire of Taiyang until his flesh charred and blackened, sometimes frozen by primordial Taiyin into a lifeless ice statue.

His flesh cycled endlessly between destruction and rebirth.

Although he had not cultivated the "Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Axes," his physical strength surged rapidly through this relentless refinement.

Su Chen felt that when he emerged from this seclusion, his physical strength would be sufficient to practice the "Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Axes" beyond the twentieth form.