Chapter 114: Chapter 114 - The Golden Rain Aftermath and the Binary Void-Sun Method
The tribulation had ended but Radiant Sky Sect did not calm down.
In fact, after confirming that Su Bai was alive, the entire sect became even noisier.
The disciples who had been escorted away from the main peak training ground gathered in groups everywhere.
"Senior Brother Su survived the tribulation!"
"I heard the Heavenly Dao wanted to personally bless Senior Brother Su Bai, but Senior Brother was too humble and shared it with the sect."
By afternoon, one rumor had already spread across the sect like wildfire.
Senior Brother Su Bai was loved by the heavens.
By evening, the rumor had improved.
Senior Brother Su Bai was the Heavenly Dao’s favored child.
By nightfall, some outer disciples had quietly begun calling the incident the Heavenly Son Blessing Rain.
No one knew who started it.
But somehow, the name spread very quickly.
The Heavenly Son Blessing Rain.
It sounded grand.
It sounded auspicious.
It also made Su Bai, who was meditating on Clear Cloud Peak, feel a chill for reasons unrelated to his Black-Ice Core when he eventually heard it.
Fortunately, Su Bai was not present for most of the chaos.
After the tribulation ended, Lu Canghai, Li Xuanzong, the Peak Masters, and awakened ancestors all had too many matters to handle.
The main peak training ground had to be repaired.
The disciples had to be checked.
The ancestor coffins had to be politely returned or temporarily placed somewhere dignified.
The outside world had to be given an explanation.
A Golden Core tribulation that covered the main peak, healed half the sect, and summoned a forbidden tenth erasure bolt could not be hidden completely.
But it also could not be explained honestly.
That kind of thing required old monsters.
Su Bai trusted them very much in this aspect.
After all, if there was anything elders were good at, it was making simple things sound complicated and complicated things sound like sect secrets.
So Su Bai returned to Clear Cloud Peak alone. He left the excuse-making to the professionals.
Now, Clear Cloud Peak was quiet again.
He sat on the familiar flat stone on the courtyard.
Su Bai lowered his head and looked at his hands.
Golden Core Realm. He had really reached it.
It’s not an ordinary Golden Core, not even a slightly unusual Golden Core.
A Black-Ice Core with ten tribulation marks, a golden Yang sun, a welded crystal tree, an Ashen-Frost Blight Flame canopy, an asteroid belt of solid Qi needles, and a Void Ring that erased his aura.
Su Bai slowly exhaled.
Even thinking about it made him tired.
Then he closed his eyes and looked inward.
The Infinite Void Dantian had expanded.
At its center, the Black-Ice Core floated silently. Around the core, the solid Qi needle asteroid belt rotated. Millions of condensed Yin-Crystal needles orbited in silence, each one carrying sharp cold intent.
The crystalline tree was welded into the core like a sword stabbed through black ice. Its pale-grey Ashen-Frost Blight Flame canopy burned above. Its roots extended outward into the void, splitting into countless micro-threads that connected to Su Bai’s physical body.
The nine tribulation marks rested on the Black-Ice Core. Around all of them, the tenth mark circled silently. The Void Ring.
His aura remained hidden.
Su Bai carefully released a hair-thin strand of aura.
The air around Clear Cloud Peak immediately changed.
The temperature dropped. The leaves near him gained a faint layer of frost. At the same time, the stone beneath him warmed slightly, as if sunlight had been buried inside it.
A black-and-gold pressure appeared for the briefest instant.
Then Su Bai cut it off.
Everything returned to silence.
Su Bai opened his eyes.
He looked around.
’This Null State is useful.’
If he kept it active, even high-level cultivators could not sense his realm.
If he released his aura, even a tiny strand carried the combined pressure of extreme Yin and extreme Yang.
Su Bai nodded slowly.
Low profile had returned.
Although after today, whether anyone would believe he was low profile was another matter.
At that moment, something inside him shifted.
Su Bai’s consciousness moved toward the crystal root network.
The Dao-Devouring Blank Stele remained embedded on the now larger Crystalline Tree Spirit Root.
As Su Bai focused, the characters etched on the Stele slowly changed.
Su Bai stared.
[Binary Void-Sun Supreme Method.]
Su Bai went silent. Then the knowledge entered his mind.
His expression gradually changed when he realized it.
The Void-Sunflower Supreme Method... had evolved.
No. It had corrected itself.
Before, Su Bai had survived because of the Reversal Body.
The lethal Yang buildup had become part of his abnormal cultivation instead of killing him.
But now, after reaching Golden Core and forming a stable bridge between his pure Yang body and pure Yin spirit, the method no longer treated his Yang as a mistake.
It accepted it.
It divided the cultivation path into two states.
Void State.
Sun State.
The Void State operated through the Black-Ice Core. It refined spiritual power, Yin Qi, soul pressure, and the cold-forged needle belt inside his Dantian.
Then came the Sun State. This state operated through his physical body. It did not simply strengthen muscles. It treated his pure Yang body as the outer furnace of the Golden Core Engine. Every movement of flesh, bone, tendon, and blood could draw on the Yang half of the Macro-Taiji loop.
Instead of letting explosive Yang pressure scatter randomly, the method taught him how to compress it along specific physical routes.
If the Void State was cold spiritual precision, the Sun State was explosive physical release.
A punch would not merely be a punch. It could carry compressed Yang force that detonated at the point of impact.
The important part was control.
The Yang force could not be allowed to explode inside Su Bai. It had to be routed, compressed, and released outward at the exact moment of contact.
His Macro-Taiji Engine made that possible.
The Black-Ice Core stabilized the circulation.
Su Bai’s eyes slowly brightened.
The new method did not only cultivate Qi. It cultivated the body at the same time, more effectively this time.
When he refined spiritual power, the Black-Ice Core strengthened.
When the Black-Ice Core strengthened, the Yang sun burned steadier.
When the Yang sun burned steadier, the physical body received stronger circulation.
When the physical body grew stronger, it could handle more Yang release.
Then the Macro-Taiji loop became faster.
It was one cycle.
Qi cultivation and body cultivation were no longer separate for him.
They had become two faces of the same method.
Su Bai sat quietly for a long time.
Then his mouth slowly curved.
Before this, he had mostly fought like someone who preferred distance.
But now...
He imagined an enemy avoiding his Yin-Crystal needles and rushing close, thinking Su Bai was weak in melee.
Then Su Bai would punch them. With Sun State.
The image was very satisfying.
If they stayed far, they suffered. If they came close, they also suffered.
Su Bai’s smile became wider.
This was ridiculous. And he liked it.
...
Meanwhile, reports continued reaching Li Xuanzong.
The Heavenly Son Blessing Rain had changed the sect more than anyone first expected.
At first, elders only reported healed injuries and loosened bottlenecks.
That alone was already enormous.
Many outer disciples had reached the requirements for inner sect promotion.
But soon, stranger reports arrived.
Spirit roots had changed. Not all of them. But enough to shake the sect.
Some disciples with mixed five-element roots found one weak, impure branch of their spirit root had withered away, leaving behind a cleaner four-element root.
A few four-root disciples improved into three-root disciples.
Their spiritual absorption became smoother. Their Qi refinement became less chaotic. Their future paths widened.
The elders checked again and again, afraid they had made a mistake.
They had not.
The golden rain had not forcibly created heavenly talents. It had pruned impurities like trimming dead branches from an old bonsai tree, it removed useless weight from unstable mixed roots and allowed the remaining roots to breathe properly.
That was already a miracle.
Among them was Yan’er. Her mixed spirit root had improved into a cleaner four-root foundation.
Li Xuanzong held the jade slip and remained silent for a long time.
Then he ordered all results recorded carefully.
The Radiant Sky Sect had gained too much today.
But he knew, too much fortune could invite envy and too much noise could invite knives.
Peak Masters discussed how much information to hide.
The awakened ancestors returned to their coffins.
As for Su Bai, he remained on Clear Cloud Peak.
Soon, they would depart for the gathering.
Before today, Su Bai had still felt some tension about it.
After all, the gathering would contain geniuses from other forces, old monsters, hidden schemes, and unknown dangers.
Now, Su Bai thought about it calmly.
Then he smiled.
He had just been struck by destructive lightning, healing lightning, blessing rain, and heavenly erasure.
Compared to that, a gathering sounded almost relaxing.
