26: Chapter 26 The Yin-Yang Array is activated, Senior Sister, it will hurt a little bit.

Gu Yi let out a light chuckle in the depths of his heart that only he could hear.

He perfectly concealed this trace of amusement in his deep eyes. He slowly raised his hands, his slender, powerful fingers dancing in front of his chest, forming one complex and ancient hand sign after another.

"Senior Sister, guard your heart, the Formation... is starting!"

Following the low, soft shout he uttered, the advanced yin-yang harmonization array disk placed on the flat jade ground fully awakened.

Two extremely pure beams of light, one black and one white, shot up from the base of the Formation Plate. They intertwined and swirled amidst the mist in the air at the bottom of Guhan Cliff, eventually forming a huge phantom of a Taiji symbol, like an inverted, multicolored glazed bowl, tightly enclosing both Gu Yi and Senior Sister Mu Qingxue within.

The moment the Formation barrier fully took shape, the howling of the mountain wind outside, the surging of the water, and even the faint, suppressed sound of ripples at the bottom of the hot spring in the distance were all forcibly cut off.

In this narrow and enclosed world of light and shadow, only two distinct types of Origin Qi remained, clashing violently.

Gu Yi sat cross-legged on the Yang array eye emitting a white halo, and the Primordial Limitless Creation Immortal Body within his body operated without any reservation, booming to life.

A scorching aura, extremely rigid and Yang, seemingly capable of melting everything in the world, gushed out from his entire body. This aura was incomparably domineering, yet under the precise constraints of the Advanced Formation, it transformed into wisps of pale golden light, spreading toward the black area opposite him.

Senior Sister Mu Qingxue, sitting on the Yin array eye, was tightly closing her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling like a butterfly in the wind.

Under the intense stimulation of Gu Yi's Pure Yang Qi, the Origin of her Extreme Yin Sword Body, hidden in the deepest parts of her Meridians, awakened spontaneously like a ten-thousand-year glacier that had received a fatal provocation.

A visible ice-blue frost spread rapidly across the jade ground where she sat cross-legged.

Even though she had already shed all her outer dharma robes and protective gear, wearing only a thin, moon-white silk bodice, her exposed snow-white skin did not show any shivers of fear from the cold; instead, it exuded an extreme, bone-chilling cold that repelled others.

The extreme cold and extreme heat collided in the air less than half a foot between them, stirring up circles of visible spatial ripples.

"Senior Sister, stretch out your hands and place your palms against mine."

Gu Yi's voice pierced through the roar of the Qi collision inside the Formation, transmitting steadily and unquestioningly into Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's ears. "Release your spiritual platform, do not resist my True Qi. Next, as the Qi converges and breaks the ice, it will hurt a little, please endure it for a moment."

Senior Sister Mu Qingxue did not speak.

In that powerful obsession of "sacrificing everything to save Revered Master," she forcibly suppressed all the shame, defensiveness, and instinctive vigilance of a Sword Cultivator in her heart. She extremely obediently raised her pair of slender, jade-like hands and slowly reached them forward.

Gu Yi met those hands that seemed to have no temperature, pushing his palms out flat, and they adhered seamlessly to Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's palms.

"Hiss—"

The moment their skin touched, Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's beautiful willow-leaf eyebrows instantly twisted together in pain, and a cry of pain she couldn't suppress escaped her lips.

Gu Yi's Pure Yang Qi rushed violently into her Meridians through the Laogong acupoints in her palms.

That feeling was like taking a red-hot iron just removed from a furnace and thrusting it into an ice cave that had remained frozen for ten thousand years. The originally calmly flowing Extreme Yin True Qi, under the forced intervention of this domineering external force, began to roll, boil, and bite crazily.

The excruciating pain, as if her Meridians were being torn apart, spread along her arms to her entire body, as if countless little flaming knives were cutting at her flesh.

Senior Sister Mu Qingxue bit her lower lip hard, with such force that a trace of bright red blood seeped from the corner of her mouth. That beautiful, icy face instantly lost all color, becoming as pale as paper.

But even though she was trembling uncontrollably from the pain, she did not try to pull her hand back, nor did she mobilize the Origin in her Dantian to fight back. She was like a martyr enduring the torture of Heavenly Lightning, using all her willpower to accept that scorching Yang Qi that was causing her such agonizing pain.

Gu Yi looked at her fragile appearance that made one feel pity, a flicker of compassion crossing his deep eyes.

This cold Senior Sister, who was like an emotional idiot, had truly achieved the extreme in terms of respecting her Revered Master.

However, pity was pity, but Gu Yi's movements did not show the slightest hesitation or softness.

He knew clearly that this was the inevitable ice-breaking stage of the Yin-Yang Formation's convergence. If he did not completely shatter the impregnable Extreme Yin barrier within her, the subsequent grand drama in the name of "healing" could not be performed.

He split off a wisp of his Immortal Body Origin to protect Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's heart Meridians while softening his voice to the extreme, comforting her with a mesmerizing gentleness: "Senior Sister, guard your heart, do not lose consciousness. The most difficult moment is about to pass. Think of Revered Master; as long as your Extreme Yin Qi can flow smoothly, Revered Master will be saved."

"Revered Master..."

Hearing these two words, Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's consciousness, which had been somewhat scattered by the excruciating pain, condensed a trace of clarity once again.

Her body, which had been tensed to the limit, relaxed miraculously for a moment under Gu Yi's soft comfort and the support of the belief in her heart.

Just at this moment when a gap appeared in her tense nerves, a dark light of success flashed deep in Gu Yi's eyes.

"It's not enough! Senior Sister, the Extreme Yin Origin in your body is hidden too deep; it cannot be fully drawn out by just relying on the meridian flow of palm-to-palm contact. If this power cannot be erupted all at once to establish a cycle, Revered Master will not be able to hold on!"

Gu Yi's voice suddenly rose, his tone filled with anxiety and decisiveness.

Without giving Senior Sister Mu Qingxue any time to think, ask, or refuse, Gu Yi suddenly withdrew his palms, reached his arms forward, and precisely clasped Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's slender waist, which was not even a handful and had not an ounce of excess flesh.

His arms suddenly tightened with force.

Senior Sister Mu Qingxue felt the world spin, and her whole body was pulled forward by an irresistible force, crashing directly into a broad, scorching embrace filled with a strong masculine scent.

The distance between the two returned to zero at this moment.

Through that moon-white silk bodice, which was already soaked through by sweat and water vapor and was effectively useless, Senior Sister Mu Qingxue could clearly feel the powerful heartbeat in Gu Yi's chest, as well as the terrifying high temperature emitted by that Creation Immortal Body, which was enough to melt her entire being.

This sudden, zero-distance intimate contact caused Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's brain to completely crash after a brief moment of intense pain.

"Junior Brother Gu! You... Presumptuous..."

She instinctively wanted to struggle, wanting to use her hands to press against Gu Yi's chest and push him away.

Gu Yi's arms were like two iron cages, imprisoning her tightly in his embrace, unable to move a single inch.

As their bodies came into close contact over a large area, the true core attribute of the yin-yang harmonization array disk—hidden behind the "healing"—the powerful Qi guidance and emotional catalysis effect, was finally revealed and erupted fully.

The two Origins of Yin and Yang found the most perfect vent in this seamless contact. A strange, volcanic sense of pleasure erupted from where their skin touched, mixed with the Formation's pervasive catalytic power, sweeping through Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's entire body like a devastating tsunami.

The excruciating pain of being cut by flaming knives was washed away clean in this instant.

Replacing it was a kind of extreme pleasure that made her feel extremely strange, extremely fearful, yet from the depths of her Soul, she felt a desire to demand more, completely unable to extricate herself.

The faint strength of resistance she had just mustered crumbled into mud under the impact of this overwhelming sensory frenzy.

"Senior Sister, for Revered Master's life, I offend you."

Gu Yi lowered his head, his scorching breath spraying entirely onto Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's long neck and earlobes, which were already red enough to drip blood.

He did not leave this Senior Sister, who was as pure as paper, any room to retreat or think.

The light inside the Formation became increasingly brilliant and dazzling, the frantically swirling black and white Qi turning into an impenetrable cocoon of light, completely swallowing their entangled figures.

The wind and snow outside and the ice cold at the bottom of the cliff were all far away at this moment.

Senior Sister Mu Qingxue felt as if she had transformed into a lone boat drifting in a storm.

The strict precepts she had adhered to for over twenty years and her proud, cold Sword Heart were ruthlessly stripped away, crushed, and finally melted into a pool of spring water under Gu Yi's domineering, unreasonable, yet fatally gentle offensive.

Violent gasps and rapid heartbeats intertwined into an indescribable movement.

This completely exceeded the cognitive limits of this "emotional idiot." Her brain turned into a complete blank, unable to think at all whether this was still healing.

All she could do was follow her body's most primitive instinct, like a helpless deer drowning in a storm and nearing desperation, holding tightly onto the only man before her who could bring her a sense of safety and redemption.

Her long, rounded legs had unknowingly wrapped around him, and her ten long, fair fingers clutched tightly at the muscles of Gu Yi's back, leaving behind tiny scratch marks.

That last remaining moon-white silk bodice had long since been cast out of the core area of the Formation amidst the interlacing light and shadow, lying quietly on the edge of the cold jade.

In this deep mutual complement of water and milk, the golden inner core in Senior Sister Mu Qingxue's Dantian, which had originally been polished to a flawless roundness, began to show fine cracks on its surface.

The cracks expanded rapidly, revealing blinding ice-blue divine light.

A crisp cracking sound, which could only be heard through Soul resonance, boomed deep in her Dantian.

The Golden Core shattered, and the vast spiritual power like the sea collapsed and gathered crazily, finally condensing in the center of the Dantian into a miniature Nascent Soul figure that looked seven parts similar to Senior Sister Mu Qingxue and emitted a glistening halo all over its body.

Breaking the Core to form the Nascent Soul!

In this absurd yet logical "self-sacrifice for healing," Senior Sister Mu Qingxue crossed the chasm that countless Cultivators might not be able to step over even after sitting in meditation for a hundred years, directly joining the ranks of Nascent Soul Stage powerhouses.

As the mastermind of this grand drama, Gu Yi also received unimaginable, generous feedback.

The unreservedness of the Extreme Yin Sword Body was like injecting the most ferocious heavenly supplement into his Creation Immortal Body. His cultivation barrier, which had been stuck at the Golden Core Middle Stage, was instantly broken through as if it were made of paper, and his True Qi Foundation began to soar crazily at a shocking speed.

Golden Core Late Stage!

Golden Core Stage Peak!

It climbed all the way to the limit, just half a step away from the Nascent Soul Stage, before this surging cultivation momentum finally subsided, solidifying his Foundation like a ten-thousand-year rock.

At the same time, deep in Gu Yi's Sea of Consciousness, the System's crisp notification sound exploded crazily like a string of firecrackers.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully completing the first Extreme Yin fusion and completely taking down the core Luck daughter (Senior Sister Mu Qingxue)]

[Villain Value + 2000 points!]

[Unique reward mechanism activated, fixing to draw three random top-tier rewards...]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the strange item: Daluo Sword Embryo! (Note: Can carry thousands of Sword Intents in the world, and when nurtured to the extreme, it can cut through the shackles of the Heavenly Dao, a supreme Sword Dao holy object)]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Formation: Nine Heavens Profound Evil Sword Array Diagram! (Note: An ancient top-tier killing Formation, when used in conjunction with the Sword Embryo, its power is unparalleled, only obtainable by those with great Luck)]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Talisman: Space-Breaking Ten Thousand Mile Divine Talisman! (Note: Ignores any spatial blockade and Formation Restrictions, an absolute life-saving trump card that can cross ten thousand miles of territory the moment it is activated)]

A series of reward panels flashing with dazzling golden light spread out slowly in Gu Yi's mind.

Feeling the terrifying True Qi in his body that was almost overflowing, and then scanning those three top-tier rewards in the System space that could plunge the entire Central Province cultivation world into a bloodbath, the corner of Gu Yi's mouth, immersed in the gentle embrace, could no longer hold back a look of smug satisfaction.

I don't know how much time had passed.

The brilliant light inside the Formation light screen finally began to dim gradually.

After completing its mission, the advanced yin-yang harmonization array disk exhausted its last bit of Origin energy, silently turning into a pile of gray powder that had lost its luster.

The violent energy storm completely subsided, and the bottom of Guhan Cliff returned to a death-like silence.

Gu Yi maintained the embracing posture, sitting quietly on the moist jade.

In his arms.

That cold Senior Sister Mu Qingxue, who was once high and above within the Xuantian Sect and regarded by countless male Cultivators as an untouchable ice lotus, was currently like a puddle of melted spring mud, lying limply on his chest without reservation or strength.

Her waterfall-like black hair was scattered messily on Gu Yi's arms and smooth back, and her whole body exuded a charming pink hue unique to the aftermath of a violent climax.

After this extreme experience that struck directly at the Soul, her mind was still a chaotic blank that could not think.

She could not feel the powerful might brought about by her Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage, and even the original intention of stepping into this Formation to "heal Revered Master" was forgotten behind her for the moment.

She just relied on an instinct close to rebirth, burying her scorching cheeks deeply into Gu Yi's neck, her hands still tightly hugging his neck, like a deer that had completely shed all defenses, obedient, quiet, and filled with a deep attachment that belonged only to Gu Yi.