Chapter 1193: The Yin-Yang Dao Fruit's True Power

Bluffing!

Si Ming's Dao heart was firm, unmoved by the opponent's provocative words; countless snow mountain giants rose from the ground, kneeling before Si Ming, submitting to him, after which the earth sprouted countless living stone pillars, as lively as octopus tentacles.

Jiu Chong Xian punched down one snow mountain giant, but immediately after, an immortal gold lifeform hidden inside the giant's head ambushed Jiu Chong Xian.

The snow mountain giants were merely a decoy; the true method was the immortal gold lifeform hidden within!

These immortal gold had not been refined, lacking the might of immortal artifacts, yet immortal gold itself was renowned for its hardness—even Ying Tian Xian used immortal gold to forge his body, so one can imagine how terrifying its hardness is.

Jiu Chong Xian's fist struck the immortal gold lifeform's face, still leaving only a fist mark, incapable of inflicting substantial damage!

Jiu Chong Xian had intended to leap into the air, but unexpectedly, a branch-like tentacle erupted from the ground, wrapping around his ankle—this was a primordial sky-reaching tree frozen in the permafrost eons ago, now awakened by Si Ming.

Beneath the far north lie buried countless corpses, all within Si Ming's awakening range.

Although Jiu Chong Xian immediately broke free from the branch tentacles, it gave the immortal gold lifeforms an opportunity.

Three or five immortal gold lifeforms swarmed forward, pinning Jiu Chong Xian's limbs, while another sat upon him and pummeled his face, each blow capable of killing a Tribulation Transcendence cultivator.

Jiu Chong Xian instantly transformed into a flame lifeform—intangible and formless—passing through the immortal gold lifeforms.

"Refine!"

Jiu Chong Xian roared loudly, immortal fire enveloping the immortal gold lifeforms; his immortal fire was most suited for refining immortal gold, and in ancient times, Ying Tian Xian always borrowed his fire when forging immortal artifacts.

In an instant, the immortal gold lifeforms were refined into a mass of liquid.

Whoosh—

A mass of liquid flew out from the flames, lunging toward Jiu Chong Xian.

Even in liquid form, the immortal gold lifeforms remained beings awakened by Si Ming, still obeying his commands to attack Jiu Chong Xian by any means.

Jiu Chong Xian fled swiftly, for if the immortal gold lifeforms surrounded him and later solidified, they would form an airtight immortal gold prison, which would be troublesome.

At the same time, he preemptively extinguished the immortal fire used to refine the immortal gold lifeforms before Si Ming could awaken it.

Si Ming clicked his tongue, "No wonder he's an ancient true immortal—his reaction is truly swift."

After becoming liquid, the immortal gold lifeforms took on ever-changing forms, extending infinitely, becoming extremely thin liquid that adhered to the headless snow mountain giants.

The immortal gold solidified, forming a layer of armor on the snow mountain giants, granting them strength comparable to Jiu Chong Xian's.

Snow mountain giants pounded their chests, resembling headless giant apes.

Si Ming then produced Xuan Bing, which Jiu Chong Xian had previously manifested and which Si Ming had controlled, still unconsumed.

The Xuan Bing likewise possessed life, reshaping according to Si Ming's will into ice spears, becoming weapons for the snow mountain giants.

Snow mountain giants wielding armor and weapons surged forward, lunging at Jiu Chong Xian; the ice spears posed a substantive threat to his flame form.

Xuan Bing ice spears pierced Jiu Chong Xian's body; temporarily gaining substance, countless snow mountain giants seized the opportunity, pinning him to the ground and hammering him, as the earth formed a vortex that sucked him in.

Subsequently, the earth rose and cracked; fissures spewed firelight, which then shot skyward, shattering countless snow mountain giants like a volcanic eruption—an apocalyptic sight impossible to witness in the far north.

Facing Jiu Chong Xian's wrath, Si Ming remained unmoved, continuing to command the snow mountain giants to attack.

Jiu Chong Xian hovered in midair, fury blazing.

Suddenly, a phantom chessboard appeared on the ground, immeasurably vast, with each snow mountain giant placed in a square.

What is this supposed to do!

Si Ming grew alert; ancient texts made no mention of Jiu Chong Xian possessing such a move!

"All things in the world can be divided into black and white."

"Snow mountains are yin-attributed entities."

Jiu Chong Xian's voice boomed, as if muttering to himself; besides the Immortal Fairy and the senior sister, no one understood what he meant.

As Jiu Chong Xian's words faded, a barely noticeable black chess piece appeared atop each snow mountain giant's head.

Jiu Chong Xian overlapped his index and middle fingers, holding a white chess piece.

The white piece fell, overlapping the black piece on the snow mountain giant's head; black and white collided, mutually annihilating.

The black and white pieces vanished, and the snow mountain giants themselves disappeared into thin air.

"Where there is yin, there must be yang; yin and yang generate each other, yet also mutually restrain."

Si Ming stumbled backward, finally comprehending what Jiu Chong Xian had done.

Yin and yang generate and restrain each other; snow mountain giants are yin-attributed entities, and when encountering an equal amount of yang-attributed entities, their collision causes both to vanish!

"No, snow mountain giants are five-phase entities—how can they be divided by yin and yang!" Si Ming still couldn't grasp it.

Jiu Chong Xian burst into laughter, stepping closer to Si Ming.

"The Dao fruit represents rules; before the emergence of the Yin-Yang Dao fruit, it was undecided whether worldly things were divided by the five phases or by yin and yang."

"But since my Yin-Yang Dao fruit has appeared, all things in the world are now divided by yin and yang; the five-phase division is merely a finer subdivision based on the yin-yang foundation!"

In other words, this is the rule established by the Yin-Yang Dao fruit!

Jiu Chong Xian understood: Si Ming did not control the Dao fruit itself—he could not possibly simultaneously command so many snow mountain giants for precise attacks—but rather bestowed life and awakened spirits, akin to a Dao fruit.

However, before him, it was all irrelevant.

Si Ming's face turned pale; originally he could awaken all things, even immortal fire and Xuan Bing, believing himself to counter Jiu Chong Xian,

yet the facts were vastly different—Jiu Chong Xian decreed yin-yang entities, causing their mutual annihilation, which was actually a counter to himself!

"I'd like to see how much you can annihilate!"

Si Ming activated the Awakening Spirit Dao fruit; the earth trembled, the citizens of Mu Xue City stumbled left and right, mistaking it for an earthquake.

Those high-level cultivators' faces turned pale—this was absolutely not as simple as an earthquake!

The entire far north was in turmoil, with the first changes appearing around Si Ming.

The ground beneath his feet rose, not transforming into giants or the like, but into a soil ball covered in ice and snow.

Mu Xue City was also upon this soil ball!

This soil ball was immeasurably vast; standing on it, one could not even perceive its curvature!

The people of Mu Xue City did not know what this soil ball signified, and even those high-level cultivators found the concept vague, but Lu Yang understood it all too well.

Now the six continents are all forged from planets, and Si Ming has given the earth life, restoring it to its most primitive planetary form!

Si Ming can at any time use these planets to strike Immortal Jiu Chong.

"What of the planets!" Immortal Jiu Chong sneered; in ancient battles, shattering stars was commonplace—what threat could these few planets pose?

He can even make these planets vanish by balancing yin and yang against each other.

"No, there are still people on the planets!" the true personality of Immortal Jiu Chong cried out; Si Ming intends to threaten with the life of the far north.

"So what!" another personality of Immortal Jiu Chong remained unmoved; the true personality fears precisely this situation arising.

"Let me take control of the body!" the true personality of Immortal Jiu Chong seized control of the body.

Si Ming sneered; let's see what other tricks Immortal Jiu Chong still has!

Immortal Jiu Chong drew two deep breaths; it has been a long time since he last used this move.

"Ultimate Yin, Extreme Cold!"

Immortal Jiu Chong unleashed the Ultimate Yin domain; the temperature of the already frigid far north dropped again and again, falling to a degree never before seen in history.

Absolute zero!

The world seemed to freeze at this moment; all living beings in the far north were frozen in place, the far north itself ceased transforming into planets, the entire far north was enveloped by absolute zero, under which no object can move, producing an effect akin to time stopping!

"See? I told you—controlling celestial fire and such are merely superficial abilities of the Yin-Yang Dao fruit; these are the true powers."