This mysterious voice transmitted from the crowd of stone doors at the very center deep within the great hall.
Having entered the "Taiyuan Immortal Palace" for over a year, Fang Han searched for a way out at every moment, but never succeeded. However, he was already unfathomably familiar with all the scenery in this great hall.
Deep in the great hall, there were a total of three giant stone doors, closed. Countless talismans were painted on them. At a glance, it was obvious they were portals leading to important places, but Fang Han naturally dared not force his way in. Every time he only carefully let his thoughts wander outside, probing tentatively. With every probe, he could feel the terror of the power within, like heaven! Like earth! Like ocean! Like mountain! If he offended it even slightly, he would immediately trigger the enchantments inside and die a tragic death.
On both sides of the three giant main stone doors, there were numerous densely packed small doors.
Around the great hall, there were also many sealed portals.
Including the three giant portals, plus those small portals, there were a total of one thousand two hundred and ninety-six rooms.
"Yan" said that those three giant stone doors represented "one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things." The remaining stone doors represented the number of one origin, which also represented all things. When the ancient Taiyuan Immortal Venerable built this immortal palace, it contained profound meaning.
Touring the architectural style of this Taiyuan Immortal Palace, Fang Han indeed comprehended quite a few things, but these things were not enough for him to break through to the fourth realm of divine abilities, the "Yin-Yang Realm."
"Which senior is it, who also entered the Taiyuan Immortal Palace and was sealed within?"
Fang Han hurriedly cupped his hands, speaking respectfully toward the stone door that emitted the voice. Since the other party could transmit their voice out from the stone door, evidently their Dao arts were profound, then they could certainly hear his voice as well.
Sure enough, that voice was silent for a while before clear enunciation transmitted out: "Indeed, I am trapped inside this Mysterious Female Door. Within the Taiyuan Immortal Palace, the most wondrous and most powerful are these three Mysterious Female Doors. From the very beginning when you entered, I knew, yet I never expected you to have such a wondrous treasure as the World Tree on you. But your cultivation is too poor; barely possessing a Dao artifact is not enough."
"Who is the senior? Please inform me of your name, allowing this junior to pay respects."
Fang Han hurriedly said.
To think the other party had been secretly watching him for over a year, and he only just found out. But thinking about the other party's divine abilities, at the very least a Longevity Realm eternal colossus, it was nothing much.
"This person doesn't even recognize the Yellow Spring Diagram, definitely an old antique, no trivial matter." Yan communicated mentally with Fang Han: "The Yellow Spring Diagram was refined by the Yellow Spring Great Emperor six thousand years ago, successfully cultivated through bitter effort over three thousand years. It seems this guy predates the history of the Yellow Spring Diagram."
"How is that possible? One year in the Taiyuan Immortal Palace is one day outside. If six thousand years passed outside, a million years have passed here. Who can live that long?" Fang Han shook his head, "Even immortals cannot live a million years, this person couldn't possibly be an immortal."
"Definitely not an immortal, but experts of the Longevity Realm can alter the flow of their own time. Furthermore, perhaps the flow of time only applies within this great hall? Inside the three Mysterious Female Doors, the time might be the same as the outside world." Yan guessed.
"My name, even if I told you, you might not necessarily know. You are someone from the demonic sects, right? Cultivating the Green Emperor Wood Sovereign Art? This is a supreme divine ability, however, incorporating the spiritual qi of the World Tree into the Wood Sovereign Gang Qi elevates its quality by a notch; it is quite rare." The voice of the mysterious figure transmitted over.
Fang Han knew the other party was unwilling to say, and didn't force the question: "Senior is right, but this junior is not a person of a demonic sect, rather someone of the immortal dao, a disciple of the Yuhua Sect. I wonder if senior has heard of the Yuhua Sect?"
"Yuhua Sect… yes, there is this sect. But the Taiyi Sect was proportionally larger. Is the outside world still dominated exclusively by the Taiyi Sect now?" The mysterious person thought for a moment before speaking.
"The Taiyi Sect is exclusively dominant, and its influence grows ever larger." Fang Han mentioned the matter of the Taiyi Sect wanting to use merit to determine heavenly tribulations, and simultaneously talked a bit about the power distribution among the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao, the Seven Branches of the Demonic Path, and the Five Lineages of the Monster Way.
"Hmph? Using merit to determine heavenly tribulations! Does it truly regard itself as the heavens? Truly not knowing life from death." This mysterious figure snorted coldly, causing Fang Han to rejoice inwardly.
"Of course, I also strongly disagree with this." Fang Han followed the mysterious person's inclination and said: "I also entered this Taiyuan Immortal Palace because I was framed by the Taiyi Sect."
"Pity, what a pity." The mysterious figure suddenly sighed.
"I wonder what senior finds a pity?" Fang Han did not understand why this mysterious person suddenly sighed.
"I am sighing for you, trapped to death in this great hall of the Taiyuan Immortal Palace just like this. Do not look at how you obtained someone else's Golden Pill and feel extremely excited, thinking you can accomplish twenty-eight great divine abilities. But I saw with my own eyes the owner of that Golden Pill, some Fire Cloud Fairy, exhaust her lifespan year by year, finally dying in despair. Pity, you possess the seedling of the World Tree, your future achievements would be limitless, yet you will also die here. When your lifespan is about to run out, pain, despair, and terror will flood into your soul like a tide."
With just two sentences, the mysterious person described a sense of despair.
"You still have nine hundred years of lifespan; it seems long, but it is a snap of the fingers."
"Is it really impossible to get out of here?" Fang Han said calmly.
"If I could get out, I would have gotten out long ago, would it be my turn right now?" The tone of the mysterious figure held a measure of helplessness, "The Taiyuan Immortal Venerable is indeed worthy of being one of the few outstanding figures of the immemorial era, and the essential core of this immortal palace is an immortal artifact. Even if I have sky-reaching abilities, I cannot escape from the Mysterious Female Door. Had I been in the great hall, I might have been able to get out. However, your cultivation is too weak."
"The essential core of this immortal palace is an immortal artifact? Then why has no one come to snatch it?" Fang Han was shocked. Logically, the emergence of an immortal artifact would certainly face the contest of countless figures. No matter how formidable this immortal palace was, it could not withstand crazed cultivators.
"Of course people came to snatch it, but they all got trapped to death inside here."
"Never mind, since I cannot get out, then I will just cultivate." Fang Han sat down cross-legged again, circulating his magic power peacefully. The suddenly appeared mysterious figure was merely an interlude in his life; the most important thing in his life was still cultivation.
"Oh?" Seeing Fang Han perfectly calm and composed, the mysterious figure also clicked its tongue in wonder.
"You have cultivated the Wood Sovereign Gang Qi to grand completion, but because you progressed extremely rapidly, lacking a kind of arrogant tempering, there is a tremendous hindrance in comprehending the Dao of Yin and Yang of divine abilities. Furthermore, your previous Physical Body Realm was elevated by relying on pills, lacking an understanding of vitality. Anyway, I am idle and bored, so I will lend you a hand, letting you comprehend the Dao of Yin and Yang… Otherwise, relying on your own comprehension would take at least three sixty-year cycles or more. This is exactly the drawback of your prior over-rapid progression. Perhaps on your body lies the Dao of my escape."
A powerful sequence of thought swept out from that "Mysterious Female Door", rushing into Fang Han's mind without any prior warning.
"Yan" felt it the most deeply. When that powerful sequence of thought flew through the void, it almost relied on instinct to try and block it, but was completely too late to intercept.
Pfft!
Fang Han was cultivating when he suddenly felt that inconceivably terrifying thought envelop him, instantly entering his mind.
This powerful thought was a sword!
Its shape was an incomparably ancient "Sword of Dao" that seemed capable of cleaving apart the primordial chaos of heaven and earth. As soon as it flew into his mind, it slashed out of thin air.
Instantly, the ocean of condensed magic power, spirit, and gang qi in his mind was split into two halves in an instant.
It was as if his own body was instantly cleaved into two halves, but Fang Han felt absolutely no pain. Suddenly, he seemed to have comprehended something.
"Dividing yin and yang is not such a simple matter. It requires extremely strong spirit to sever the shackles. Your spirit is sharp enough, but it does not yet know how to slay! Let me ask you one sentence! With a sharp blade in hand, why not slaughter people?"
As this sword divided, the opponent's voice also transmitted over.
"With a sharp blade in hand? Why not slaughter people?" Listening to the opponent's interrogation, it was like a bolt of lightning tearing through the various perplexities in Fang Han's heart.
Subsequently, a sharp longsword also appeared in his mind, slashing at himself.
"The Dao of Yin and Yang, one divides into two!"
Relying on his sudden comprehension, Fang Han circulated his Wood Sovereign Gang Qi with full force. Green light shimmered all over his body, but one kind of green was emerald green, fresh and lush. While another kind of green was pale yellow, like tender buds.
The original Wood Sovereign Gang Qi divided into two. One kind displayed extremely intense masculinity and firmness, while the other displayed a feminine and soft aesthetic, gracefully swaying like willow branches in the spring breeze.
Both yin and yang gang qi were transformed from the Wood Sovereign Gang Qi.
That mysterious figure forcefully used thought as a sword to cleave apart the mind and divide the spirit. This method was equivalent to a "headfront warning", smashing aside the side-doors for Fang Han, allowing him to see the true fruit.
Of course, Fang Han was also a person of perceptive capability. Relying on this single "headfront warning", he attained understanding. He immediately comprehended the extreme transformation of yin and yang, the dual qi origin formula, gradually turning his massive gang qi from yin to yang, possessing two unique attributes. Furthermore, with yin and yang entangled together, it gradually brewed a trace of spirituality and wisdom.
The Wood Sovereign Gang Qi circulated unceasingly…
A month passed.
Three months passed…
Seven months passed…
A year passed…
A full more than a year passed. Fang Han remained completely motionless just like this, comprehending profound mysteries. The World Tree provided rolling origin qi for him, allowing his magic power to increase again.
Gradually, those two streams of yin and yang Wood Sovereign Gang Qi suddenly condensed again, undergoing a transformation, actually forming the models of a man and a woman. The man wore a green wooden robe and a nine-dragon crown, the woman wore a bud-yellow Daoist garment and a phoenix crown. However, their faces could not be seen clearly. Yet genuine majesty leaked out.
As soon as the forms of these two men and women condensed, Fang Han's magic power instantly increased, just like that time he consumed the Mad Demon Lifespan-Reducing Pill, climbing steadily, rolling in all directions.
The sound of galloping fiery horses resonated in the air.
The original galloping force of fifty thousand fiery horses fully elevated to one hundred thousand!
Stepping into the Yin-Yang Realm, Fang Han's magic power doubled, one hundred thousand galloping fiery horses.
"Good, Green Emperor spirituality, Wood Sovereign spirituality. The Dao of Yin and Yang is completed."