Wayfarer

Chapter 309: Yin Body, Again

The Divine Emperor shouted, "Who dares attack Xiao Nanfeng?"

She rapped on her bell, sending a golden soundwave emanating outwards and knocking aside all shadows in the vicinity.

The Spirit Emperor frowned. "You care for this lad quite a bit, don't you?"

With a wave of his hand, the Spirit Emperor sent a towering wave of flames at Xiao Nanfeng.

Xiao Nanfeng was about to defend with a treasure when the Divine Emperor stood before him and reached for the skies.

Her palm met the Spirit Emperor's own, forming a clash between two forces of elemental fire.

"Divine Emperor, are you that protective of him?" the Spirit Emperor thundered.

The Divine Emperor blocked the Spirit Emperor with a palm. With her other, she motioned her bell to enshroud Xiao Nanfeng.

"Something's wrong with you, Divine Emperor. You're going to give up your strongest defensive option just for this kid? You haven't fallen for him, have you?" the Spirit Emperor demanded, gaze frosty.

"What business is it of yours?" the Divine Emperor retorted.

"You're the woman I want. You belong only to me. Whoever catches your eye should die!" the Spirit Emperor bellowed, charging forward.

"Do you think this fragment of your will is strong enough for that? Even you can't achieve such a feat," the Divine Emperor replied coolly.

"Watch me, then!"

The two monarchs confronted one another, releasing bursts of flame of such incredible magnitude that the shadow cursed effigies were forced back.

"You didn't receive much cursed spiritual power in the peach orchard, did you?" the Spirit Emperor questioned.

"It's more than enough to deal with this fragment of your will!"

Flames blazed across heaven and earth. Dust peppered the air; winds howled. The skies themselves darkened, occluded by all the smoke and debris. Neither monarch could seem to gain the upper hand for the moment.

"Spirits, uncover the Divine Emperor's bell and kill Xiao Nanfeng!" the Spirit Emperor howled.

The shadows flocked toward the bell.

The Divine Emperor, held back by the Spirit Emperor, was unable to provide any further assistance. The two monarchs began to exercise more and more of their power as they fought, and the entire hall began to quake from the shockwaves they gave off.

The Divine Emperor's bell was an incredible artifact, one which easily withstood the attacks from all the shadows that were targeting Xiao Nanfeng.

Xiao Nanfeng sighed within the bell. "I'm still too weak, aren't I?"

He was frustrated that he wasn't able to help, but that didn't mean he would just sit back and do nothing. There was still something he could attempt.

He retrieved Cui Haisheng's storage treasure and overwhelmed its defenses with spiritual power, granting him access to what lay within. He immediately found quite a few Immortal relics, but he didn't claim them just yet. Rather, he retrieved a large seal, without any characters on it, glowing with golden light.

"Could this be the seal containing unclaimed fortune that Cui Haisheng was talking about?" Xiao Nanfeng wondered.

He attempted to draw the fortune within the seal into his body, but was unable to do so. He rummaged through the storage treasure to find a scroll, an imperial edict of the Tianshu Empire. The scroll stated, "By the grace of Heaven, Emperor Tianshu hereby decrees that this seal of fortune shall be bestowed upon the meritorious official..."

A blank space had been left on the imperial edict; Xiao Nanfeng understood what was going on immediately.

He dripped a drop of his own blood onto the blank space. As the edict absorbed it, the text transformed into "By the grace of Heaven, Emperor Tianshu hereby decrees that this seal of fortune shall be bestowed upon the meritorious official Xiao Nanfeng."

The edict glimmered with golden light, which the seal absorbed. As it shook, a vast quantity of fortune entered Xiao Nanfeng's body.

Xiao Nanfeng immediately closed his eyes and sat cross-legged in cultivation. He guided the fortune to clear away the karmic consequence against deeper analysis of scripture. In an instant, his understanding evolved by another layer.

At the same time, his cultivation of Body of Yin finally broke through its bottleneck.

Within Xiao Nanfeng's mindscape, vast quantities of starlight emanated from his stellar lake and shot up toward the full moon overhead, as did all the spiritual power within the lake.

The silver moon of Xiao Nanfeng's mindscape released resplendent silver light that even forced the black lotus and the superior yin pearl to retreat.

Once the majority of the spiritual power had been absorbed into the silver moon, it darkened as though in a lunar eclipse.

The black lotus and superior yin pearl hovered in the sky not far away.

The black lotus asked the superior yin pearl in text formed from black light, "There's something wrong with this silver moon of his. It's filled with cursed spiritual power. You've been staring at it incessantly. What's special about this moon?"

However, the superior yin pearl didn't respond. It waited, quiet and aloof, as the transformation continued.

After some time, something began to pound on the moon from within, as though just having been birthed from it. After about a thousand attacks, a tear opened up in the dark moon, revealing glowing silver light. An arm extended from the tear—the arm of Xiao Nanfeng's yin body.

The silver, translucent Xiao Nanfeng slowly clambered out from the moon. He took a deep breath. "Yin Body? Has my main body reached Yin Body, too?"

Just then, the superior yin pearl transformed into a beam of blinding light that shot straight into the tear that Xiao Nanfeng's yin body had made. Then, it vanished.

"What? What flew inside?!" Xiao Nanfeng's yin body exclaimed.

The silver moon behind him suddenly lit up with silver light, along with huge quantities of frost. It froze all the spiritual power that had yet to be consumed and was now falling from the skies.

Xiao Nanfeng's yin body exclaimed, "The superior yin pearl? It flew into my silver moon?!"

Xiao Nanfeng carefully scrutinized the silver moon hanging in his mindscape, but the superior yin pearl seemed to have vanished completely from sight. He was unable to find it at all.

"Senior Black Lotus, do you know what just happened?" Xiao Nanfeng asked.

The black lotus was silent for a moment before it replied, "You're in big trouble now."

"Ah?" Xiao Nanfeng didn't quite understand.

"Your silver moon was sinister to begin with, but it's only going to get worse with the superior yin pearl residing within it. However, it's still rather weak, and I suspect the superior yin pearl will help you strengthen your silver moon and improve your spiritual cultivation. It's going to ignore you for the time being, but once you grow stronger, it'll make its demands then. Either it'll try to take over your moon, or it'll request something from you. The former case will clearly lead to trouble, and the latter case can't be anything good, either. You might even die as a result."

Xiao Nanfeng stiffened and wondered to himself, "Is the black lotus trying to scare me?"

"However, with the superior yin pearl in your silver moon, whenever you activate your spiritual power, you'll be able to command some of the superior yin pearl's cursed spiritual power as well. It's beneficial to you in the short term."

Xiao Nanfeng: ...

Just as Xiao Nanfeng's yin body was considering what to do next, he felt some motion by his physical body.

Xiao Nanfeng's yin body sat cross-legged below the silver moon in his mindscape as he returned to his physical body and saw something falling from the skies.

"The Divine Emperor?!" Xiao Nanfeng reached out for her and grabbed her in his embrace, soft and warm and sweet-smelling.

The Divine Emperor sprayed out a mouthful of blood.

"You're badly injured. Was this the Spirit Emperor's doing?" Xiao Nanfeng's eyes sparked with anger.

The Divine Emperor's body was covered in burn wounds, and she seemed to have barely escaped from his clutches.

The Divine Emperor coughed particularly weakly. "I hurt the Spirit Emperor, too."

Just then, the Spirit Emperor thundered from outside, "Divine Emperor, I can give you time to consider our marriage slowly, but that kid has to die!"

"Dream on!" the Divine Emperor shouted back.

"Do you really think that I won't be able to deal with your bell? You're so weak that you can't manipulate it any longer, can you? Burn, blazing golden sun!" the Spirit Emperor commanded.

Incredible heat shot toward the Divine Emperor's bell, causing it to glow red-hot.

The Divine Emperor fretted, "I can't manipulate my bell right now. Once his flames seep through the bell, he'll be able to get inside!"

Just then, because of the blazing flames, small slits seemed to appear within the interior of the bell.

"I'll send you inside first!" the Spirit Emperor shouted from the outside.

"Understood!" the shadow cursed effigies replied.

They darted through those small, barely present slits into the Divine Emperor's bell.

"I've injured the Divine Emperor. She's very weak right now, and will not be a match for any of you. Kill that kid!" the Spirit Emperor commanded.

"Understood!"

Countless shadows shot toward Xiao Nanfeng.

"You dare?!" the Divine Emperor shouted.

However, she was simply too weak to deal with the shadows in her current state.

"Hold it!" she shouted.

One Immortal-realm shadow had flickered over to Xiao Nanfeng and grabbed him by the head. It was just about to pluck off his head when a silver moon emerged from Xiao Nanfeng's mindscape and appeared behind him. The moment it did so, chilling frost spread out around him and immediately froze the shadow around its head.

Xiao Nanfeng punched the frozen shadow with his fist, causing it to shatter into countless pieces.

"How can that be?!" the shadows exclaimed.

Xiao Nanfeng punched another Immortal-realm shadow, causing it to be frozen into an ice sculpture on contact with his fist. Then, he shattered it too.

"Has your main body reached Yin Body too?" the Divine Emperor exclaimed in surprise.

"It has! Divine Emperor, thanks to your protection, I was able to break through. It's my turn to protect you now. I'll pay back any damage you've suffered a hundredfold!"