Turbid World: Martial Arts Master of the Republic of China Era, I Cultivate Immortality!

"Thank goodness I'm not an orphan!"

Lying on the bed, Zhao Zheng felt fortunate. He thought that if he were an orphan, he might not have been able to use this Guicang talent.

Although the requirements clearly stated that it could only be anchored to the time when the parents were still alive, he felt that orphans could not use this Guicang talent, and he just had an intuition.

"Using the talent...wait, I thought there wouldn't be any skill points this time!"

Looking at the skill points on the panel that had increased from 0 to 1, and the message from the "Life's Many Faces" painting that "the inclusion standard has not been met and the skill points have been converted," Zhao Zheng understood that the increase in skill points would only occur after he regained consciousness or finished painting.

"This must have been brought by Jiang Moying..."

Zhao Zheng pondered in his heart, not thinking about how to allocate these skill points, but silently chanting in his mind to use the talent Gui Cang.

He needs to save this file!

The moment Zhao Zheng finished speaking, his vision immediately unfolded a series of scenes resembling a traditional Chinese ink painting depicting the myriad aspects of life.

Each image is thoughtfully accompanied by a date!

In each scene, Zhao Zheng's parents are also present, until the scene abruptly ends on the ninth day of the sixth month of the first year.

That is, the day Zhao Zheng came into this world more than a month ago to replace the original body that had drowned, he frowned slightly.

"That's fine, it saves me from putting myself in a difficult position..."

Although the original body that Zhao Zheng replaced could be considered a kind of identical entity, he felt that the original body was ultimately different from him.

Having finished his thoughts, Zhao Zheng also chose his save point: the first day he came to this world, which was June 9th, the day the original owner of this body accidentally drowned.

Seeing that the Guicang talent had turned completely black, Zhao Zheng knew that this meant the Guicang talent had taken effect and the save point selection had been successful.

"Not bad, half a life for one life, a win!"

Zhao Zheng was satisfied, feeling that good people are rewarded and that heaven would not let him down. He then looked at the newly added skill points.

With a silent "No rush," Zhao Zheng began to introspect, his consciousness focusing on the Taiji diagram formed by Yin-Yang magic power within his dantian, looking at his greatest gain this time.

Upon just one glance at the four symbols forged this time, a series of question marks immediately appeared in Zhao Zheng's mind.

"???"

Zhao Zheng stared blankly at the four elements—metal, wood, water, and fire—that occupied the four cardinal directions of the Tai Chi diagram.

That is, the manifestation of the four symbols of Taiyin, Taiyang, Shaoyin, and Shaoyang. The first thing that catches the eye is the Azure Dragon, which represents Shaoyang.

What came into Zhao Zheng's view was a mechanical black dragon, its body entirely black, its alloy scales intertwined like rotten branches, its joints embedded with energy-absorbing valves that devoured life, and its breath spewing forth a surging, decaying mist that devoured all life.

The black dragon's tail spines are spiraling strangler drills, and its entire body is surrounded by a putrid, greenish-black mist, exuding an aura of devouring all life.

"This...this is the Azure Dragon?"

Okay, cyan is the same as black...

But is this... really a Azure Dragon...?

Zhao Zheng remained silent for a moment with a strange look in his eyes, then turned his head and said, "Gongshu has misled me," looking in the direction of Zhuque.

The first thing Zhao Zheng saw was a blood-red sun that devoured all darkness, or rather, the Vermilion Bird corresponding to the sun.

The Vermilion Bird, resembling a crimson sun, flapped its alloy wings, which looked as if they had been stained with blood, and the wings were like thousands of layers of light blades.

The tips of the Vermilion Bird's wings spewed out blinding, world-destroying rays of light. Wherever the light passed, space dissolved and the void cracked. Dazzling blood-red beams of light also burst forth from the feathers.

Leaving aside the power of the beam of light, Zhao Zheng stared expressionlessly at the miniature blood-red sun embedded in the mechanical chest of the Vermilion Bird, a sun radiating a world-destroying light that could incinerate everything.

"Gongshu misled me..."

Zhao Zheng spoke again, turned around, and looked at the white tiger, which also had a mechanical style, with a blank expression. The white tiger was made of bright white alloy and its body was covered with sharp armor.

With each breath, the white tiger exhaled golden mists that dissolved all spiritual energy; its claws were high-frequency vibrating shattering pincers; and its tail resembled a long, segmented, hinged whip.

The tiger's tail was inlaid with a blazing white blade, and the whole thing gave people a sense of destruction that could melt away the spiritual energy of all things.

"Wood devours the life force of all living things, metal consumes the spiritual essence of all things, fire incinerates the three realms and six paths... the next one is the destroyer of the world..."

Zhao Zheng looked to the north, where he saw a black, mechanical-style alloy tortoise, its body covered with faceted plates and its joints gleaming with a chilling light.

The mechanical snake head on the turtle's back spewed out a chilling black light that seemed to freeze everything, while black water that exuded an aura of annihilation and could overturn the heavens and earth kept gushing out from the gaps in the turtle's shell.

The eerie black water exuded an aura of eternal stillness and annihilation, where life ceased wherever it passed, and all things returned to nothingness.

Alright, this water is truly world-destroying!

"I know that even if two people practice the same technique, their final results will be different, but... this difference is a little too big, isn't it..."

Zhao Zheng frowned as he looked at the four symbols that had been derived from his unrestricted version of the Sun and Moon Everlasting Observation Technique. He said this mainly as an introduction.

【Sun and Moon - Everlasting Observation Method (Breaking Limits)】

[Introduction: The state of extreme activity and stillness in the elderly is called Taiyang and Taiyin. The state of initial activity and stillness in the young is called Shaoyin and Shaoyang...]

He knew that he would later cultivate Lesser Yin and Lesser Yang to forge the four elements of metal, wood, water, and fire, which are the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise before him.

But once he actually mastered it, Zhao Zheng felt that the technique was wrong; the Four Symbols weren't like this, and the style was off.

"That's not right either. If the cultivation method were truly incorrect, I wouldn't have been able to practice it, let alone forge the Innate Yin-Yang Dao Body..."

Zhao Zheng frowned deeply. After thinking for a while, he could only blame it all on Gongshu. It was all that old man Gongshu's fault.

"When we get back, we'll have that old man work on the Great Wall!"

Zhao Zheng muttered to himself, his gaze falling on the intersection of the Tai Chi symbol beneath his feet, which was also the location of Yin and Yang.

"It's missing some soil... but that's not quite right..."

Zhao Zheng raised an eyebrow, and the Taoist scriptures he had read immediately came to mind with a sentence written in the "Zhouyi Zhengyi".

"The Two Forms give rise to the Four Symbols, referring to metal, wood, water, and fire, which are inherent in heaven and earth, hence the saying 'The Two Forms give rise to the Four Symbols'... Earth is divided into the four seasons, and also has distinctions within the earth, hence it is only referred to as the Four Symbols..."

There are many interpretations of this statement, but Zhao Zheng has his own understanding. He interprets it as the four symbols being the four children of Yin and Yang.

Moreover, these are children who separated from their families at birth due to personality clashes, and Liangyi's mother cannot bear to see her children have conflicts.

So, in order to prevent her four children from having conflicts and to keep them connected, the Mother of Yin and Yang gave birth to another child, who was responsible for balancing the earth element of the four elements.

"I lack nothing now!"

Zhao, the Holy Lord, grinned. Almost simultaneously, yin and yang pulsated beneath his feet, and a dark yellow mechanical Qilin, formed by the fusion of yin and yang, appeared.

The Qilin's body is forged from layers of interlocking pivotal armor plates, with black and white colors representing Yin and Yang running through its head and tail.

It does not devour life, burn the heavens, destroy rhythm, or seal water; it only uses the power of the Earth element (戊己土) sitting in the center to suppress the imbalance of the four elements, gather the remaining power of world destruction, and govern the power of the four elements.

"Qilin is a good child..."

Zhao Zheng spoke, then let out a soft exclamation and looked at the suddenly changed constitution section on the Life's Many Faces panel.

The original innate Yin-Yang Daoist body, represented by the character "Kite," twisted and disappeared, replaced by a constitution that also began with the innate Yin-Yang principle.

[Innate Yin-Yang Five Elements Daoist Body Holy Embryo: 10%]