482: Yao Delong, who faced the challenge head-on

The ultimate restraint! Walking the Grand Dao alone is the true path! How can I... let my eyes be blinded by that single drop of shortcut's sweet spring!

She suddenly raised her head, picked up the jade-white record book beside her seat, and a sliver of icy-bright Divine Sense condensed at her fingertip to probe inside!

In this gap where her mind wavered and her choices fluctuated—

Tap... tap... tap...!

The sound of steady, firm footsteps echoed as someone crossed the thousand-year-old Iron Maple Spirit Wood threshold outside the hall and stepped onto the Ice-crystal Glazed Tiles!

Every step of that rhythm landed on the weakest point of Leng Yuekui's Divine Soul and will!

Yao Delong came to a firm halt!

A majestic and thick Aura instantly rippled out from his entire body!

No explanation was needed!

That domineering and mellow vitality was like ten-thousand-year divine gold that had just been forged!

That golden-red rosy glow pulsed like the unbearable pressure of a divine spirit restrained within a dark solar core!

"Disciple Yao Delong pays his respects to Revered Master!" A steady voice, sounding like the clashing of metal, rang out.

Leng Yuekui's fingertips subconsciously tightened as an indescribable surge of complex emotions swept over her like a storm—astonishment!

There was also a trace of desolation from being left far behind by some invisible barrier, which turned into an icy rejection that refused to dwell on why she had been surpassed!

"Rise." Her voice was even more bone-chillingly clear than the Ten-thousand-year Cold Jade Screen in the corner of the hall:

"Your Dao power surges like a shattered galaxy, and your Realm is as solid as a diamond axe splitting the sky... Your cultivation has skyrocketed during this seclusion; do you have some fortuitous encounter to report to the sect?"

Every word was as hard as several small poles, piercing into the marrow like freezing snow!

Yao Delong felt that the glazed ice surface of the entire hall seemed to have dropped several more degrees in temperature.

Even the green bricks beneath his feet began to emit visible specks of flying frost!

Revered Master... is very displeased.

His gaze lowered slightly, but deep within his eyes, a resolute thought burned like a fire scorching an icy plain:

What he lacked most now were yin yang points! If he didn't act today, when would he!

"Reporting to Revered Master..." He calmly took another step forward, his voice not loud, but it pulsed through the hall like a rhythmic hammer:

"Disciple has not come this time to report a fortuitous encounter. Rather..."

He suddenly raised his head! His gaze was like a glowing iron rod, piercing toward the cold figure sitting at the high desk on the immortal platform:

"Recently, while practicing my Cultivation Technique, I encountered a barrier of the Heavenly Dao!"

"My mind is confused by it, and my progress is tormented and stagnant... It even concerns the boundaries of my future path... This confusion is like a knot, impossible to unravel despite much thought! I beg Revered Master for guidance... to enlighten me!"

He clenched his fists and bowed deeply!

His posture was respectful, but his Aura was as sharp as a heavenly blade about to be unsheathed to battle a true dragon!

"...A barrier of the Heavenly Dao?"

Leng Yuekui's brows suddenly knitted together with a layer of golden frost, and her Divine Thought instantly swept across Yao Delong's entire body!

"The technique you practice is indeed fierce and profound! Although there are rotating mysteries hidden within it,"

"its Origin is extremely varied and requires great perseverance... Could it be a conflict of Cultivation Techniques?"

"Or perhaps an abnormality in your Dao Embryo Divine Ability? Explain in detail!"

She had always been focused and obsessed with the supreme Grand Dao. Hearing that her Disciple was seriously troubled by the Dao,

she suddenly suppressed her inner troubles, and her mind was completely drawn in!

Yao Delong slowly straightened his back!

With a gaze as resolute as eternal profound ice, he looked up into his Revered Master's lonely and clear eyes!

"Revered Master sees everything clearly!"

Yao Delong suddenly raised his head, the golden-red divine light deep in his eyes rising like a dark sun, meeting that lonely, cold bolt of lightning without flinching!

His voice was decisive, each word shattering the cold silence in the hall:

"What I am confused by, trapped by, and suffering to advance in... is precisely the power of the Yin Origin!"

"Regarding the first level of the Rosy Seal Yin Yang Art, 'Cloud Rosy Illusion,' I am confident I have mastered seventy percent of the essence of the Solar Flame Dao!"

"Golden Rosy Burning the Sky, Red Refinement Spirit Refining, Radiant Light Dispelling Evil!"

He took a step forward, and the solid Cold Glaze Gold Stone beneath his feet actually cracked like a spiderweb with a 'crack'!

His domineering and solar-fierce Aura rose steadily, like a molten lake in the earth's core about to erupt!

"But solitary Yang cannot grow, and ten thousand fires burning the sky are rootless! I am completely baffled by the subtle point where Yin reaches its extreme and transforms, where soft water nourishes all things! It is like blind men feeling an elephant; I am merely wasting time!"

"Yin Origin?"

Leng Yuekui's ice-soul-like Phoenix eyes narrowed imperceptibly.

Although the Rosy Seal Yin Yang Art he practiced belonged to the Yin and Yang lineage, its Origin was far more brilliant and domineering than usual.

Yin Origin... Could it share the same source as the Nine Nether Profound Yin True Scripture that she practiced?

She was about to explain the Foundation and Profound Truth of the Profound Yin True Explanation—

"Revered Master, wait!"

Yao Delong cut her off and stepped forward, his voice carrying a sharpness that could pierce through barriers!

"The Profound Yin Foundation and its operational essentials recorded in the True Inheritance Treasure Book are already deeply ingrained in my heart! What I lack is not knowledge, but reality!"

His gaze was like a torch, piercing straight into Leng Yuekui's heart:

"What I lack is that sliver of... momentary inspiration from truly merging with the Yin Extreme Origin and experiencing its pulsing flow!"

His voice suddenly dropped, carrying a transparency that saw through everything and an indescribable warmth:

"But the Grand Dao is like an abyss! Yin and Yang exist within one's heart!"

"To obtain true water, one must draw from the water's source! This cannot be achieved by chanting scriptures behind closed doors!"

Leng Yuekui's mind was shaken violently! In an instant, countless thoughts surged!

This little bastard... He can actually see through the secrets of my fluctuating Aura as clearly as a fire?!

"What... do you intend?"

Her fair hand inside her sleeve suddenly clenched. A tension she hadn't even realized and a hint of slight anger at being seen through spread.

Could he dare... A brilliant sharpness erupted in Yao Delong's eyes!

He knew that victory or defeat depended on this one gamble!

"By a stroke of luck, I once obtained a fragmented Yin and Yang Secret Volume from an ancient desolate ruin!"

His speaking speed increased, but his voice was as heavy and concentrated as a beating drum:

"Its core essence is to Lead the Dragon and Draw Spirit, using the mutual attraction of Yin and Yang to replenish and prove the Divine Dao..."

Leng Yuekui felt as if she had been struck by lightning! Her body subconsciously leaned back slightly!

This was the source that forced her to sink, yet strangely allowed her to gain benefits far exceeding expectations and break through her Realm this time!

Yao Delong's voice echoed in the hall like an ancient sacrificial text, each word knocking against Leng Yuekui's wavering Dao Heart barriers:

"By borrowing that supreme power, one can cleanse old wounds, melt away barriers, and stimulate the prototype of a Dao Fruit!"

His gaze was like molten gold piercing through ice, firmly locking onto her cold, slightly narrowed pupils:

"My cultivation has progressed so much! My Foundation is ten times more stable and perfect than before!"

"Even for Revered Master's current Void Refining Early Stage Peak Realm... what is missing to take that final step and break through the Void Refinement Mid-stage barrier... is nothing more than a bit of sufficiently pure and majestic external creative force that shares the same source to push you through!"

"I dare to assert!" Yao Delong said decisively, taking a step closer:

"If we perform this Dao once more and activate the secret power, I am absolutely certain I can help Revered Master break through to the Void Refinement Mid-stage!"

"And the Perfection bottleneck of the first level of the Rosy Seal Yin Yang Art that has troubled me for so long... will also be naturally resolved!"

Boom!

Leng Yuekui's Sea of Consciousness seemed to explode!

Void Refinement Mid-stage!

That was the barrier she had sought for months and suffered through seclusion for, yet still felt was distant!

Absolute certainty?!

Her reason was frantically roaring the cold commandments of etiquette, status, and the Revered Master-Disciple relationship!

But her body... the deepest part of her Root Source, which had been soaked in Yin and Yang power and ignited by Yao Delong's Chaos rosy light,

was like a deep-sea whale hungry for billions of years catching the scent of Divine Realm spiritual blood!

Every acupoint and every strand of icy magical power was greedily trembling and neighing!

That temptation... was a hundred times more intense than any interrogation of the Dao Heart!

"...Impossible!!" She suddenly waved her sleeve, and ice crystals swirled!

But that rebuke seemed so weak and hollow.

Her fingertips were even trembling slightly within her sleeve.

Beneath the coldness she tried her best to suppress in her eyes was a thoroughly ignited tidal wave!