The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 1222

Chapter 1222: Chapter 1219: Opportunity Chapter 1222: Chapter 1219: Opportunity “`

If it had been just once, Shen Luo might have managed, but ultimately, he was still bound by a mortal body. Under the near primordial wash of Pure Yang Power, his physical form was already on the brink of collapse.

The left half of his body was pitch black, covered by bone armor, while his right half resembled a dried radish, wrinkled and parched, bearing countless microscopic cracks across the dehydrated skin.

It seemed that a mere whisper of breeze would be enough to crumble his right side into dust, scattering it between Heaven and Earth.

Meanwhile, his left side stood aloof like an onlooker, coldly waiting for the right half to disintegrate.

Inside Shen Luo's Sea of Knowledge, a blazing sun also hung high, unleashing fierce scorching waves.

The once surging Sea of Knowledge had dried up under the intense evaporation of the Sun.

His Divine Soul, in the form of a tiny figure, sat cross-legged on the cracked ground of the Sea of Knowledge, the black Demonic Qi that enveloped it also seemed unable to withstand the baking heat, dissipating significantly.

The face of the Divine Soul miniature was also covered with cracked lines, a grim image of the ordeal.

In a daze, Shen Luo recalled a line from the general principles of the Huangting Technique, “When Yin and Yang clash, the Dao is obstructed; when Yin and Yang aid each other, all laws merge into one.”

This line served as an introduction to the Art of the Seventy-Two Transformations, stating that the essence of the Transformation Art lies in the intercommunication of Yin and Yang, ever-changing and indefinite.

At this moment, though Yin and Yang Qi coexisted beneath him, they remained in a standoff, unable to move freely or merge harmoniously.

Shen Luo no longer entertained hopes of achieving harmony between Yin and Yang; he only wished to draw upon the primal Yin Qi within the Yin Fish to counter the Pure Yang Power scorching him like the heat of high summer.

With this thought, Shen Luo mustered all his strength in an attempt to stimulate the circulation of the Demonic Qi within his body, to draw forth the primal Yin Qi.

But at this moment, the Demonic Qi having taken over half his body, had assumed a dominant position and was no longer the temporary guest it once was. Despite his attempts to draw it out, it remained utterly unmoved.

Shen Luo felt his mouth parched, his eyes heavy, and his divine soul nearly depleted.

It seemed he was now powerless to turn the tide.

Just as his consciousness teetered on the brink of slumber, and his body on the verge of collapse, his arm trembled inadvertently.

A flicker of light sparked from the Linlang Ring on his arm, and a set of Black Demon Armor spontaneously materialized, enveloping him.

Shen Luo's vision went dark, and he lost consciousness completely.

Yet at that moment, something eerie occurred.

The newly adorned Black Demon Armor suddenly gleamed with light, seemingly intent on protecting Shen Luo, and began to absorb the Demonic Qi within his body.

Instantly, streams of Demonic Qi were drawn from within Shen Luo, absorbed into the armor.

This movement of Demonic Qi, now disturbed, began to resist the absorption by the armor and continued its assault into Shen Luo's body.

This activity also provoked a reaction from the Yin Fish beneath him–the primal Yin Qi began to flow incessantly into his body, compensating for the loss of Demonic Qi.

Following this change, the Yin-Yang fishes beneath Shen Luo finally began to shift, rotating together in a cycle of head to tail.

At last, the Yin-Yang Qi started to intermingle as if the world below now embraced the rotation of seasons.

Engulfed by this force, Shen Luo experienced the interplay of cold and warmth, the clash of seasons.

As the flow of Yin Qi surged, driving back much of the excessive Yang Power, his parched and cracked skin was baptized by the cold Qi, much like ice melting at the onset of spring, gradually regaining moisture.

Though the process might sound enchanting, the infusion of extreme cold into extreme heat resulted in a transition that brought about excruciating pain.

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Under the assault of excruciating pain, Shen Luo, who had already lost consciousness, screamed in agonizing torment as he regained awareness, only to be astonished to find that the right side of his body had miraculously healed to its original state.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived; the primordial Yin Qi and Yang Qi that had been mobilized to oppose each other were now using Shen Luo's body as a battlefield, engaging in an endless war.

Just now, a cold Yin chill swept through, quickly followed by the scorching sun hanging high, making him feel as if he were trapped in Infinite Hell, perpetually enduring the torture of both bone-chilling cold and searing heat.

At the same time, the Demonic Qi did not stop its invasion either, though each time it was repelled by the primordial Yang Qi.

In an endless sea of agony, Shen Luo's Divine Sense slowly began to recover.

Wave after wave of pain so intense it no longer allowed him to lose consciousness, he was forced to experience the endless torment.

Bearing an indescribable pain, Shen Luo began to harness the vigorous Yang Qi incessantly flooding into his body to break through the bottleneck of his Huangting Technique and advance toward the Fifth Layer.

Time flashed by, and forty-nine days passed.

Fu Donglai had been waiting outside the Yin-Yang Dual Qi Bottle for a full forty-nine days. Though the Soul-scattering Nails had been completely removed from his body, his mental state was even worse than before.

He looked exhausted, his eyes full of blood silk, his heart increasingly consumed by regret and anxiety.

In a few more two-hour periods, it would be time to unseal the Yin-Yang Dual Qi Bottle.

As for whether Shen Luo could survive, he had almost arrived at an answer in his heart. There was only one Bright Spirit Stone Monkey in the world, and Shen Luo's mortal flesh and blood, even with a sturdy constitution of three Souls and seven Spirits, could not possibly survive.

Yet he couldn't let go of that sliver of hope.

At the same time, inside the Yin-Yang Dual Qi Bottle.

A tremendous black and white storm raged inside the space of the bottle, with a black and a white whirlwind furiously ravaging everything, seemingly stirring up endless fierce winds, but actually containing the cold Yin and vigorous Yang Qi, their power immense.

And at the eye of the storm, a silhouetted figure sat cross-legged in the center, none other than Shen Luo.

He wore a tattered Black Armor on his body, his hands crossed in front of him, channeling the Huangting Technique.

Inside him, Chiyou's Demonic Qi and the Pure Yang Power crisscrossed, establishing his flesh and blood as the base and his meridians as the Dao, charging and battling each other relentlessly.

Shen Luo's physical body had been lashed back and forth by the two forces and was on the verge of collapse; at this moment, it was solely the delicate balance between the two that maintained a thread of life for him.

Should either side gain even a slight advantage, this fragile balance would be utterly shattered, leading to the moment when Shen Luo's body would dissolve, and his soul would scatter.

Of course, Shen Luo was not the type to sit around waiting for death. If he truly wanted to give up, he would not have endured forty-nine days of continuous torment; he was waiting for an opportunity, one that would break the balance without leading to his death.

Just then, his eyes suddenly opened, and a glint of golden light flashed through them.

The opportunity had arrived.

In an instant, a bottleneck within Shen Luo “cracked” open.

In that moment, his cultivation of the Huangting Divine Power broke through the four-layer bottleneck, officially stepping into the Five Layers.

Simultaneously, his right side began to radiate Golden Light, and the phantom images of two golden giant elephants and two golden giant dragons appeared behind him.

In a flash, the Pure Yang Qi surged forth, and the original balance shattered at this moment.