Chapter 29: Spirit Eagle Absolute Peak

"Aunt Mo, this is……" Lin Xue could hardly believe her senses, holding Zhang Jun's hand, she involuntarily gripped it tighter.

Mo Wuyou helped both onto the horse's back, turned the horse's head, and galloped up the mountain.

Zhang Jun was severely wounded, blood continuously flowing from the corner of his mouth.

Lin Xue couldn't attend to anything else, merely glanced at Zhang Jun's wound instinctively; a sharp pain suddenly struck her chest, as if someone were carving out her heart with a knife.

"Yin-Yang symbiosis has already been achieved; your breaths are now linked." Mo Wuyou said without turning his head, "If one dies, the other cannot live either."

Lin Xue gritted her teeth, placed her hand on Zhang Jun's, trying to send the remaining true qi in her body over.

She didn't dare say that the poison in her body was spreading faster, the black aura on her neck almost reaching her face.

Mo Wuyou's voice suddenly turned solemn: "Something's wrong ahead."

She jerked the reins hard; the horse neighed once and stopped.

Mo Wuyou remained motionless, his whole body seeming to merge with the surrounding snowscape.

In the forest, a silver disc floated past silently; if Mo Wuyou hadn't been alert early, it would have gone unnoticed.

"Drone! Heaven Beyond Heaven is chasing us!" Mo Wuyou pulled a yellowed talisman from his sleeve, its surface inscribed with winding patterns, inlaid with a sparkling crystal core.

"What era is this?" Lin Xue felt a bit dazed, a talisman paired with a crystal core?

Mo Wuyou tossed the talisman into the air, muttering an incantation.

The talisman "whoosh" ignited, turning into a bolt of electricity that shot straight at the silver disc.

With a "bang", the disc exploded into fragments, falling to the ground.

"The people of Heaven Beyond Heaven have arrived here; we must hurry up the mountain." Mo Wuyou urged the horse onward, galloping all the way.

Along the way, Lin Xue had her eyes opened.

Throughout the snow mountain, cameras were hidden everywhere, placed under the ice sculptures, plus infrared detectors concealed behind those old trees.

This is no place for cultivation at all—it's entirely a high-tech military base.

Upon reaching the mountainside, Mo Wuyou stopped before a large stone and lightly knocked three times.

The stone wall slid open silently, revealing a laboratory with white walls, metal worktables, and various instruments whose names he couldn't name.

"This used to be your father's and my master's workshop." Mo Wuyou gently laid Zhang Jun on a treatment table, his tone tinged with nostalgia, "Ten-thousand-year ice marrow is extremely hard to find; we've studied it for years, hoping to extract its essence using technology."

Lin Xue felt a sweetness in her throat, a surge of bloody taste rising; she quickly gripped the lab table to keep from collapsing.

The black aura had crept to the corner of her mouth, making even breathing difficult.

"Hold on, don't die." Mo Wuyou said coldly, fiddling with the instruments while taking out several bottles and jars.

The blue liquid swirled in the glass tube, then was poured into a strangely shaped machine.

Lin Xue looked through the lab's glass at the snowy mountains outside; the contrast was too great, like a dream.

Mo Wuyou turned to Lin Xue: "To dispel the soul-devouring poison, you must go to the innermost part of the ice cave. But in your condition, going there would be suicide."

She drew a few drops of blue liquid from the machine, carefully gave Zhang Jun an injection, then drew a tube and gave Lin Xue an injection as well.

"This is diluted ten-thousand-year ice marrow; it can temporarily suppress the poison, keeping you alive."

As the medicine entered, Lin Xue felt a chill surge from within her body; the toxin's spread halted temporarily, but the pain was excruciating.

Zhang Jun remained unconscious, eyes tightly shut, brows knotted in a lump, unaware of what nightmare he was having.

In the darkness, Zhang Jun felt himself drifting, drifting to an empty void.

A familiar figure slowly appeared.

"Grandfather?"

Zhang Tian Shu smiled faintly, but said nothing. A ball of light, yin and yang, appeared in his palm and shot straight into Zhang Jun's forehead.

"When yin reaches its extreme, yang is born; when yang reaches its extreme, yin is born; the way to return to the origin lies in a single thought's turn."

Countless images flashed in Zhang Jun's mind: the taiji diagram turning, turning, and heaven and earth appeared; yin and yang qi combined, and all things grew; the sun and moon revolving, giving rise to the four seasons…

"Remember, don't look at the surface, or you won't see the truth clearly."

Zhang Tian Shu's figure grew fainter, his last words striking like thunder: "People have two sides; yin and yang lie hidden within the body."

"Zhang Jun woke up!" Lin Xue shouted.

Zhang Jun snapped his eyes open; Mo Wuyou and Lin Xue jumped—his left eye was terrifyingly black, his right eye gleaming with golden light, too strange.

Mo Wuyou probed: "What can you see now?"

Zhang Jun scanned the laboratory; the world had completely changed.

With his left eye, everything was covered in a layer of light, allowing him to see straight through to what's inside; with his right eye, people and objects were surrounded by different-colored auras, as if he could see their future fate.

"Left eye perceives the hidden, right eye discerns fate—this is the supreme divine ability recorded in ancient texts!" Mo Wuyou exclaimed.

In Zhang Jun's left eye, the black aura on Lin Xue's body was crystal clear; he could see where the poison was and how it spread.

With his right eye, Lin Xue's fate split into two branches, as if pointing simultaneously to two utterly different outcomes.

"Ice cave! Quickly take us to the ice cave! The medicine won't hold much longer." Zhang Jun sprang to his feet, then staggered, nearly falling.

The aftereffects of yin-yang disorder weren't over; his whole body ached as if pricked by needles.

Mo Wuyou nodded, producing a silver-white cloak: "Put this on; it's freezing inside the ice cave."

The three passed through a secret passage, heading toward the summit.

The further they went, the lower the temperature. The path grew harder to traverse, winding and twisting, with defensive formations combining technology and talismans at intervals.

"The ice cave has already been remodeled by us, completely sealed off from the outside Heaven Beyond Heaven." Mo Wuyou opened an alloy door; inside was actually a modern control room, screens monitoring each area in real time.

After passing through the control room, an ice-blue light curtain appeared ahead.

Mo Wuyou entered a long string of passwords on the dial; the light curtain vanished, revealing the scene within.

In the center of the ice cave hung a massive ice crystal, surrounded by countless pipes and instruments.

Within the ice crystal, a human figure could be clearly seen—someone who looked exactly like Lin Xue!

"This… this is impossible?" Lin Xue was stunned dumb, her legs going weak.

Mo Wuyou's expression was very complicated: "This is the true Lin Xue."

"What does that mean?" Zhang Jun's heart skipped a beat.

"The Lin family's secret is far more complicated than you imagine." Mo Wuyou slowly walked toward the ice crystal, "An Ice Soul Body appears only once in a thousand years; Heaven Beyond Heaven has long had its eye on it, sealing the Lin family's true bloodline here, and you—" she turned her head to look at Lin Xue, "are merely a vessel."

Lin Xue's face turned deathly pale.

Zhang Jun stared at the ice crystal; his left eye saw through the surface, noticing that inside the ice crystal the woman's body was circulating something that turned out to be exactly the same Ice Heart Scripture as Lin Xue's.

His right eye saw that two fate trajectories were rapidly intertwining and merging.

At that moment, the woman inside the ice crystal slowly opened her eyes.

She stared fixedly at Lin Xue, grinning widely, a smile that made people's hearts creep.

"Finally here, my vessel..." This voice rang directly in Lin Xue's mind, "Are you ready to merge with me?"