Chapter 120 - Fusing the Seeds
This time, Su Ming made his preparations. To hide any heavenly phenomenon and Qi fluctuation from the outside powerhouses, he asked Bai Qingxian and Elder Bai for their help.
They had already strengthened the existing formations on the White Lotus Peak. Under Su Ming’s direction, they deployed a multi-layered concealment and containment barrier.
The runes of the arrays hummed with golden patterns, warping the space around Su Ming in a protective light.
Elder Bai Zhen, Bai Qingxian, Lin Yao, and Wang Tian stood at the four cardinal directions around the array, channeling their Qi to stabilize the glowing barriers. The air grew thick, pressing down on the mountain as the pressure began to build.
In the center of the array, Su Ming sat cross-legged. He closed his eyes, activating the Halo of Insight and the Eye of the Essence from his Twilight Nether Lantern.
His perception expanded instantly. Under the Halo of Insight, the conflicting nature of the Thunder Fire Seed and the Yin Seed became clear. With his Essence Sight active, he could trace the tiny structural changes and energy flow of both the seeds.
The two seeds were each stable on their own and that was the problem. Two opposing constructs, each locked in its own nature, each refusing to yield. He had seen the same principle during his Nascent Soul breakthrough.
He had to introduce a thread of Chaos Qi to dissolve that stability, which would open the window his Yin-Yang Origin Law needed.
He extracted threads of Chaos Qi from his Nascent Soul, guiding the grey Qi in between the seeds. Then he mobilized his Yin-Yang Qi, flooding his meridians to power the Yin-Yang Origin Law.
Without holding back, he pushed his Yin-Yang Origin Law to its extremes. Acceleration, Deceleration, and Fusion intertwined as the primary driving force. Guided by his Essence Sight, the law forced the Thunder Fire Seed and the Purified Yin Seed to yield their essences toward a singular point of collapse.
The moment they began to fuse under the Yin-Yang Origin Law’s pressure, he summoned his Mystical White Flames. In that instant, the void around him became a crucible, the twin seeds suspended in the air as their purified essences collapsed.
Step by step, the white flames coiled around the singularity. Guided by his Halo of Insight, he directed the flames to purify every trace of impurity, erasing it whole. Layer after layer, the impure husks of the seeds were rendered down, burned away in the flame, until only the purest of their essence remained.
The space and time laws of the seeds began to collapse into themselves. Su Ming felt his Void Dragon Soul power pour into the shifting construct, anchoring the chaotic spatial forces.
The struggle began immediately. The space inside the singularity began to expand violently, threatening to tear the nearby space apart.
Su Ming deployed his Sovereign Will to suppress the expansion, forcing the boundaries of space into submission.
The temporal laws within the core began to collapse in on themselves as he deployed his Dragon Will to force them to stabilize.
The forces still raged beyond his control. The Sovereign Will pushed the spatial expansion down, but the moment it held one boundary, another bulged outward. The Dragon Will steadied the collapsing temporal laws, but the moment it held them, they folded back inward.
The raw fire and lightning laws had no anchor to bind them. They crashed against each other in that singularity, sending shockwaves through the construct.
The physical strain was immense. Even with his Stage 6 body cultivation, holding raw physical power equal to an Avatar Formation powerhouse, Su Ming’s meridians roared under the massive pressure. Blood began to seep from his seven orifices, dripping onto his robes.
"Master!" Lin Yao and Wang Tian shouted, their faces pale as they saw him bleeding.
"Hold the barrier," Su Ming commanded, his voice strained but steady. "I can do it."
The strain grew too great for his physical body to manage. The precision required to balance the collapsing space and time was already beyond the limits of his physical senses.
With a surge of energy, Su Ming’s Nascent Soul emerged from his dantian.
The infant Nascent Soul, a glowing figure, sat cross-legged in front of him. It took over the fusion process directly, directing the White Flames to wrap around the seeds.
The white flame did not burn them but it melted their outer husks. Their rigid boundaries dissolved, returning the opposing elements into a fluid state of primal Wuji. Without their physical forms, the mutual rejection of fire, lightning, Yin and Yang, and space-time laws began to fade.
Primal void filled the space.
Guided by the Yin-Yang Origin Law, the fluid void began to spin. Su Ming mirrored the rotation. His Extreme Yang body and Extreme Yin soul acted as cosmic templates, dividing the spinning Qi into clear paths of light and dark.
To lock the elemental cycle, Su Ming drew in the leftover five-element essences from his body-tempering breakthrough. He did not use them to build physical elements. Instead, he treated the essences as invokable qualities, polarizing them into Yin and Yang states using his Yin Yang Origin Law.
He planted the wood essence first. It was the quality of growth. The green essence seeded itself at the core of the rotation, branching out like glowing veins to define the pathways of the newborn space.
The fire essence was planted next. It was the quality of warmth and illumination, establishing the active energy of the cycle.
The earth essence followed, the quality of grounding. It stabilized the core, balancing the shifting forces.
Then came the metal essence, the quality of containment. The starlight essence spun around the borders, hardening the spatial walls.
The water essence completed the cycle, the quality of connection. It flowed through the wood pathways, nourishing the entire structure.
The five element essences formed a generation cycle. Wood fed fire, fire created earth, earth bore metal, metal ran water, and water nourished wood. As the cycle began to spin, the essences locked into place, establishing the internal laws of the newborn world.
But the space was still empty. It lacked life.