I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry..." Li Hanshan blushed. "This disciple didn't mean it, it's just... Master, this matter is out of control."

"you--"

"You want to enjoy yourself," the sect leader gritted his teeth, each word seemingly squeezed out from between his teeth, "but after I succeed, you can enjoy yourself as you please! Now, focus on yourself!"

"...Yes." Li Hanshan replied awkwardly, obediently calming himself down.

The hall was quiet for a moment. Only the low hum of the spirit-gathering array echoed in the empty hall, and fine beads of spiritual spring water condensed silently slid down the edge of the jade bed.

"...I'm sorry," he added softly.

Sect Leader: "..."

She took a deep breath, calming her surging blood, and closed her eyes again. But the blush, burning from her cheeks to her ears, lingered for a long time. In the thin light of the gauze curtains, the flush was like an untimely flower blooming suddenly in the depths of a cold pool, glaringly obvious. She knew it herself, but she couldn't suppress it.

-

Fourth day.

The formal assault has entered its most critical phase.

Li Hanshan dared not have any distracting thoughts. He calmed his mind, focused his Dao heart, and completely opened up the vast ocean of pure Yang energy within his body—in an instant, the pure Yang energy was no longer the gentle warm current of the previous three days, but transformed into a flood that burst forth, surging out and frantically pouring into the sect leader's body.

The sect leader trembled violently, but his heart was filled with ecstasy.

coming.

This is the true significance of the Pure Yang Sacred Body.

For the past three days, this scoundrel disciple had been suppressing, filtering, and gathering, only giving her a few wisps of water vapor rising from this vast ocean. But now that the flood has fully opened, every breath of pure yang energy flowing into her body is equivalent to an hour's worth of energy before.

Great tonic.

A truly potent tonic, enough to make all the Void Refinement Realm experts in the world fight tooth and nail for it!

The "cold moon" that had accumulated within her body for 1,800 years was completely ignited by this flood of pure yang. The yin and yang energies collided, merged, and sublimated between the two of them. The spirit-gathering array of the entire Jade Balance Palace shone like a small sun, and spiritual light flowed wildly through every corner of the palace.

"Master!" Li Hanshan hissed, "Now!"

The sect leader gritted his teeth, concentrated all his spiritual power, divine soul, and qi into one force, and rammed it against the door.

once.

twice.

Ten times.

The door trembled violently with each impact, the cracks on the door grew wider and wider, and the light behind the door grew brighter and brighter—the sect leader had even "seen" the scene behind the door, and saw the true Heavenly Dao that she had been pursuing for nearly two thousand years.

They were just one step away.

Just one last step away!

But at that moment, the force that had been ramming the door lost its momentum.

The sect leader's heart sank. She knew what that crucial difference was—not spiritual power, not comprehension, but "quality." The crack left in her Dao foundation during her first failure had finally bared its fangs at this critical juncture. As the tide of spiritual power crashed against that threshold, a wisp of it would inevitably leak out quietly through the crack.

The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant nest.

Even worse, she could feel the backlash from outside the door starting to flow along her aura and towards the body behind her.

The two cultivated together, their energies intertwined—he bore half of the backlash she suffered.

"Still... just a hair's breadth away." A desperate tremor ran through her voice. "Hanshan, stop! If we separate now, you still have time to back out—"

"Master."

Li Hanshan's voice suddenly rang in her ears. It was very steady, so steady that it didn't sound like someone being consumed by a backlash.

"As I said, you just need to keep moving forward."

"But the backlash is already—"

"Just a backlash." He even had the leisure to chuckle. "The beatings my disciple has endured have hurt far more than this."

The sect leader was taken aback.

Having reached this point, there was no way to advance or retreat. The backlash from their dual cultivation was already hanging over their heads, just one last straw away from breaking the camel's back.

At that very moment—

"Master."

Li Hanshan's voice suddenly rang in her ears. It was very steady, so steady that it didn't sound like someone being threatened by a backlash.

"Disciple, I will lend you another helping hand."

Before the sect leader could react, he felt something completely different slowly flowing in along with the connected energy.

That is not pure yang energy.

That is the origin.

The origin of the Pure Yang Sacred Body is the root of a cultivator's foundation and the seed of their life. Passing on a wisp of Pure Yang Qi is like scooping a ladle of water from a river; but passing on a wisp of the origin is like breaking off a piece from one's own Dao foundation and feeding it to someone else.

Great tonic.

The most taboo and insane method in ancient sexual cultivation techniques is nothing more than this, a true form of tonification.

The sect leader was initially startled, but then a surge of wild joy rushed to her head.

The origin of the Pure Yang Sacred Body!

If pure Yang energy is nourishment, then the essence of the Pure Yang Sacred Body is reshaping—something ten thousand times more precious than the Nine Revolutions Breakthrough Pill, a heaven-defying treasure capable of transforming a peak Void Refinement cultivator. The highest level of the ancient art of absorbing essence is to extract this very essence. Countless people spend their entire lives without even catching a glimpse of the Pure Yang Sacred Body, yet at this moment—a Pure Yang Sacred Body is actively breaking off its own essence and offering it to her.

With this wisp of origin filling the crack in her body, let alone mending her Dao foundation—that threshold to Dao Integration that had troubled her for nearly two thousand years—she would definitely cross it tonight!

The ecstasy lasted only a moment, before being overwhelmed by even greater shock and anger.

"No!" she exclaimed urgently, "Your very foundation is damaged—"

"Master," Li Hanshan interrupted her, his tone as relaxed as if he were commenting on the weather, "my foundation is very solid; breaking off a small piece won't cause any trouble."

"you--"

"Besides," his voice deepened, each word striking her ears, "when I was a furnace cauldron in the Northern Wilderness, I was given a second chance at life; when I was an undercover agent in the Immortal Alliance, I was deceived into giving up my life. This life of mine was never truly legitimate."

"Using it to pave a path for Master is the most righteous thing it has ever done in its life."

The sect leader's breath caught in her throat. She opened her mouth, as if to say something, but something seemed to be stuck in her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word. In her entire life, she had never been treated like this.

She wanted to say something more, but that wisp of essence, already irresistible, flowed slowly through their connected auras. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but it felt like something was stuck in her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word. In her entire life, she had never been treated like this.

The sect leader's eyes immediately welled up with tears!

"Stop talking nonsense."

Li Hanshan whispered:

"Catch it."