Immortality Cultivation

Chapter 210: Yin-Yang Harmony Pill

At this moment, Fang Hao felt as if he had been thrown into a giant millstone. From all directions—up, down, left, right—came bone-chilling steel needles and red-hot branding irons, relentlessly grinding back and forth across his body and mind. Pain? That was a minor matter; at this point, he could barely feel pain anymore. It was just the cold—a cold so intense that ice crystals seemed to be forming within his bone marrow—followed by the heat—a heat so intense that his internal organs felt like they were being scorched. He was being tossed back and forth between the extremes of ice and fire.

His mind was in total Chaos. One moment, he saw that corner of Hundred Flowers Valley and the face of Princess Mu Yijing, with her cold, indescribable expression; the next, he saw his old home in the West Province, his parents, and his naive, sturdy younger brother, Little Bo; then, he saw the sinister, ruthless gaze of the old dog from the Sun Family in Heavenly Capital... Chaotic images and sounds flashed back and forth like a revolving lantern within his rapidly fading consciousness.

He knew he was nearing his limit. His Sea of Consciousness was like a piece of tattered cloth stretched to the breaking point, about to tear with a "rip" at any moment. The spiritual power in his Dantian had long since bottomed out, as dry as a riverbed that hadn’t seen rain in three years. Every part of his body ached, and he couldn’t move an inch. He was only hanging on by a single breath, relying solely on his unyielding stubbornness and the thought burning in his heart: "I cannot die here." He was just barely holding on.

Inside the Pill Furnace, the situation was even more disastrous. The mass of Chaos-colored medicinal liquid had almost taken form, but then it was rammed into by the "Nine Nether Profound Evil Qi," which charged in like a mad bull, throwing everything into disarray. The pitch-black Evil Qi, the golden-red Yang fire, the ice-blue Yin cold, and his own meager amount of Chaos Qi were all churned together, intertwined and inseparable, like a pot of burnt, eerily colored poisonous porridge, rolling, roaring, and colliding crazily inside the Pill Furnace! The bronze Pill Furnace creaked incessantly, and the cracks on its body grew more numerous by the second; it looked as if it were about to fall apart!

"Damn it... it’s going to explode..." This thought flashed through Fang Hao’s blurred consciousness. He was not reconciled to this! He had worked so hard to reach the Middle Golden Core Stage, and the Medicinal Pill was almost refined. He was just about to latch onto a Nascent Soul Great Expert and had a bright future ahead... Was he really going to die so inexplicably in this godforsaken corner of the mountains? To be blown up by the pill he was refining himself? That would be too frustrating!

No! He couldn’t give up! He bit the tip of his tongue hard, and the intense pain gave his spirit a slight boost! The Chaos Derivation Art! This foundational Cultivation Technique that he relied on to survive, at the moment he was about to run out of steam, seemed to sense its master’s desperate situation and began to circulate on its own at an extremely slow, yet exceptionally firm, pace!

This time, it was not an active activation, but a deeper level of circulation stemming from the instinct of life. At the core of the dim, seven-colored Golden Core in his Dantian, that imperceptible thread of true Chaos Origin Qi vibrated gently.

Immediately following this, a weak but incomparably pure warm current, seemingly containing the most primitive and all-encompassing power from the beginning of the world, surged from the deepest part of the Golden Core and flowed slowly throughout his body along his nearly exhausted Meridians. Wherever this warm current passed, the bone-chilling cold and the scorching pain seemed to ease just a little. More importantly, this warm current seemed to carry a peculiar power capable of soothing all agitation, causing his Sea of Consciousness, which was on the verge of collapse, to stabilize just a little.

It was the Chaos Origin! Although there was only a tiny thread, almost negligible, in this desperate situation, it was like a candle flame in the darkness, a straw to someone drowning!

This warm current of Chaos Origin finally followed his Divine Sense and quietly flowed into the bronze Pill Furnace that was about to explode.

A miracle occurred.

When this tiny thread of Chaos Origin came into contact with the violent, chaotic energy inside the Pill Furnace, which resembled an apocalyptic scene, it was as if a drop of clear water had been dripped into boiling oil, or as if a stabilizing needle had been thrown into raging waves! Although weak, it carried an indescribable Dao charm that transcended all attributes, possessing the power to encompass and harmonize everything.

Under the influence of this thread of Chaos Origin’s Dao charm, the Yin and Yang Evil Qi, which had originally been in fierce conflict and irreconcilable, suddenly froze for an instant! It was as if an invisible hand had gently smoothed out its jagged edges.

Now was the time! Fang Hao had a flash of inspiration. Seizing this fleeting opportunity, he used his last bit of Divine Sense and spiritual power to fully activate the Earth Core Flame Fire. It was no longer a violent burning, but transformed into the gentlest, purest fire of vitality, like a mother’s hand, gently enveloping that mass of energy which had calmed down slightly!

At the same time, relying on a faint, ethereal intuition, he began to guide, compress, and shape it according to the most core and profound "Yin and Yang complementing each other, Primordial Unity" pill condensation technique from the yin yang harmony pill Pill Formula!

This time, there was no violent resistance, no destructive conflict. Under the harmonization of the Chaos Origin and the nourishment of the Earth Core Flame Fire’s vitality, that complex mass of energy containing extreme Yang, extreme Yin, Evil Qi, vitality, and Chaos began to rotate, condense, and collapse slowly in a mysterious way!

The pitch-black Evil Qi was no longer violent, but transformed into the purest Yin-attribute energy, perfectly fusing with the Yin-cold power of the "snow soul lotus." The golden-red Yang fire also became docile, becoming indistinguishable from the Yang-masculine power of the "crimson phoenix feather." The aura of the Chaos Origin acted like the toughest thread, stringing and weaving everything together!

At this moment, the increasing number of cracks on the furnace walls strangely stopped spreading, as if soothed by this energy that was taking shape and contained a strange Dao charm.

Time passed, second by second. Under the nourishment of the Chaos Origin, Fang Hao’s consciousness barely maintained a sliver of clarity. Like the most meticulous craftsman, he used his last fire of life to carve this work of art about to be born—a Fusion of life and death, Yin and Yang, destruction and rebirth.

He did not know how much time had passed; perhaps it was an instant, perhaps a year.

Hum—!

A clear and long-lasting hum, as if coming from above the Nine Heavens, emanated from the bronze Pill Furnace! This sound was no longer the violent roar from before, but a ringing sound filled with vitality, Dao charm, and even a hint of joy!

Immediately after, the lid of the Pill Furnace "popped" open on its own!

Nine strange balls of light, Chaos in color, with black and white Qi slowly flowing on their surfaces and stars seemingly being born and dying within them, shot up into the sky from the furnace! As soon as the balls of light appeared, an indescribable, strange medicinal fragrance that made one’s Divine Soul feel comfortable, as if it could cleanse all filth and harmonize all conflicts, instantly permeated the entire valley! Under the nourishment of this medicinal fragrance, the withered plants in the valley actually visibly regained a trace of vitality!

The Medicinal Pill appeared, and natural phenomena were born! And there were nine of them! A full number of pills!

The "yin yang harmony pill" was formed! And it was a top-grade Spirit Pill that had incorporated the "Nine Nether Profound Evil Qi," was harmonized by the Chaos Origin, and had a quality far exceeding ordinary fourth-grade pills, even faintly touching the threshold of the fifth grade.