Chapter 085: Two Extreme Heavens of Ice and Fire

  In the center of a cemetery filled with an extremely cold aura, a blood-colored cocoon stood upright, emitting an eerie glow.

  In mid-air, a humanoid creature with fleshy wings fluttered about ceaselessly, taking out bottle after bottle of medicine and powder, pouring them down one by one. Above the graveyard, the strange creature's eerie laughter echoed from time to time, startling the white crows into flight.

  Such a scene is extremely eerie and makes one's hair stand on end.

  "Haha, Sun Yan, you're a mess now! Is your skin completely burned off? Does it feel great?"

  "Sun Yan, you piece of trash, just wait a bit and you'll experience an even more wonderful taste, your skin will be completely burned off, your muscles will be scorched bit by bit. But this is only the beginning."

  "Compared to the suffering I endured when I was remade, what you're going through now is child's play. It won't be until your entire skin and muscles are completely consumed by the blood worms, and they start burning your nerves and internal organs, that the real extreme pain will begin."

  "Sun Yan, you despicable wretch, a lowlife not even worth as much as a pig. To thoroughly crush you, I have endured hellish transformation. Now it's time for you to receive your punishment. I will make you understand that offending the Qian family will lead to eternal damnation and death without burial."

  "The suffering you're experiencing now is just the beginning. Once the Ice Fire Cocoon forms, your martial arts talent will be absorbed by me. Even in death, you'll only serve as nourishment for my use, hahaha..."

  In mid-air, Qian JULONG was pouring catalysts while chattering and laughing maniacally, being utterly reckless.

  In the dead of night, Qian JULONG finally came to a stop. He fluttered his flesh wings and hovered above the Blood Silkworm, silently observing the changes in the Blood Cocoon.

  The blood-colored cocoon had absorbed a large amount of catalyst, its surface had completely solidified, forming a metallic shell-like outer shell. A crimson glow flowed and changed constantly, the temperature of the entire cocoon was sometimes scorching hot, sometimes icy cold, extremely mysterious.

  After a moment, a thumping sound began to emerge, one big and one small, as if two hearts were beating non-stop. One grew louder and the other fainter.

  Qian Julong's face showed surprise, and he muttered: "It has been more than 6 hours, I didn't expect this trash to still not be dead, it really has a cockroach-like vitality."

  Right after that, his face revealed excitement and cruelty, "This is also good, such a tenacious vitality, such excellent martial arts talent, will eventually all be absorbed by me, it's really delightful."

  Slowly descending from mid-air, Qian JULONG walked to the blood-colored cocoon and gently stroked its surface. His voice was strange and eerie, like a beast's howl: "Sun Yan, even if you die, you can only be nourishment for my body. This is the fate of an inferior being like you."

  ……

  Inside the blood cocoon, Sun Yan was indeed suffering inhuman pain, but it wasn't what Qian Jiu Long had expected. The blood silkworm's secretion hadn't burned his skin.

  But what Sun Yan was experiencing at this time was precisely the feeling of being caught between ice and fire.

  A scorching sensation penetrated through the skin, directly into the limbs and bones of the whole body. Sun Wen felt that every part of his body was in pain, from the skin to the muscles, then to the blood vessels, and finally to the internal organs, all were suffering from the intense burning pain of being scorched by fierce flames.

  It was just this kind of pain that Sun Yan could still endure, but in this burning sensation, there was also a thread of icy coldness mixed with the scorching pain, as if it would freeze his whole body.

  The intense heat and icy cold blended together, pushing the pain to its limits, piercing through to the heart.

  Grandma, at this rate, even if I'm completely unscathed, I'll still be tortured to death.

  Sun Yun cursed in his heart, he wanted to roll his eyes and faint, but the chill that pierced his bones kept stimulating his nerves, keeping him clear-headed.

  Outside the cocoon, Qian Jiu Long's voice came from time to time, word by word, whipping Sun Yan's heart, making him feel inexplicably indignant in his extremely clear thoughts.

  The heart is like a clear mirror, yet it also bursts with rage and surges up to the crown!

  This is an extremely strange state, but Sun Yan was precisely in this state, his heart was calm and clear, yet the flames of anger were spreading continuously in his chest.

  Unbeknownst to him, the primordial energy in his dantian had been completely depleted. Sun Yan secretly lamented that without the inner yuan to protect his body's surface, he would be unable to escape the fate of being devoured by the Blood Silkworms once again.

  Mmm!

  The silkworm's bodily fluids stuck to his body, Sun Yan was now like an empty shell, all the strength and vitality in his body had been exhausted, even his mind was empty.

  His entire body endured the pain of ice and fire invading his body, which intensified several times over, causing Sun Yan's eyes to suddenly open wide, his eyeballs almost bulging out, the muscles on his face twitching constantly, and the arteries in his neck bulging violently.

  At this moment, a magical scene appeared before his eyes. Within an inch of Sun Yan's face, a mist slowly formed, gradually condensing into a red bead, crimson like blood and bright as fire.

  Next, under the red bead, a white mist slowly gathered, and after a moment, it condensed into a white bead, crystal clear like snow, azure blue like ice.

  These two pearls, once formed, seemed inexplicably drawn to each other, as if wanting to merge into one.

  However, no matter how hard the two red and white pearls tried, they found it difficult to merge with each other. As soon as they got close, they would bounce off with a "ding" sound, repeating this process over and over again, still unable to fulfill their wish.

  This scene was extremely strange. Sun Yan observed carefully, concentrating his attention, hoping to use this to distract himself and alleviate the endless pain he was currently suffering.

  The red and white pearls have gone through countless attempts, but ultimately cannot be as they wish. They pull away from each other, swirling around without stopping, as if searching for a way to merge with each other.

  Seeing this scene, Sun Yan smiled inexplicably in his heart. "Ice and fire are like yin and yang, they have always been opposed to each other, how can they be combined together? The Ice Fire Silkworm Heart wants to form, it seems that it is not possible, it's good, Qian JULONG's son's proud plan has fallen through."

  Just as he was thinking, the two red and white pearls moved again. This time, they didn't choose to collide and merge directly, but instead revolved around each other, their speed getting faster and faster, and the distance between them getting closer and closer.

  In an instant, a strange scene appeared before Sun Yan's eyes. A circular pattern with red and white alternating colors emerged, each color occupying half of the circle. The distance between the two colors was getting closer and closer.

  When the two beads were about to collide, they suddenly stopped and froze in the center of the pattern, forming a pair of diagram eyes.

  A dull thud echoed out, as if a heart was beating continuously. The red and white pearls shook simultaneously, slowly, bit by bit, starting to merge.

  "Unbelievable... it's actually merged! Ice and fire, they've really combined seamlessly!"

  Sun Yan's eyes widened in shock, staring at the scene in disbelief. At this moment, he completely forgot about the pain he was suffering from and fell into a wonderful state.

  The mind is clear and empty, the brain is like a vast sunny sky, with flashes of enlightenment passing through the heart.

  "Ice and fire, originally completely opposing and restraining each other, yet why can they merge so perfectly?"

  "I see, I understand. Ice belongs to yin, fire belongs to yang, between yin and yang, they both oppose and restrict each other, yet also mutually root and use each other."

  "Ice and fire blend together, just like yin and yang in balance. When reaching a balanced point, they can perfectly merge into one."

  The scene in his mind changed, and Sun Yan seemed to return to that night at the 38th martial arts arena. The strange phenomenon of Jiuyang hanging in mid-air reappeared, with nine suns suspended in the sky, and all living things were scorched. Immediately following, the scene changed again, and he found himself in a world of ice and snow, with everything frozen for thousands of miles, and his breath condensed into frost.

  Two strange phenomena alternated and repeated, Sun Yan only felt that his body and soul were suffering from the double pain of ice and fire at the same time. However, in this boundless suffering, he also felt a thread of inexplicable and transcendent pleasure.

  In an instant, Sun Yans thoughts suddenly cleared up, as if he had been enlightened, and everything that was stuck was completely smoothed out.

  "So it was, so it was, I understand now, I completely understand..."

  "Heaven has yin and yang, earth also has yin and yang... Movement and stillness call to each other, above and below are adjacent, yin and yang intersect, then change is born. That's right, this is the subtlety of ice and fire blending together."

  When one thought is understood, all thoughts are clear.

  In the empty and quiet lower abdomen, a vital energy suddenly sprouted, then like a vast river, gushing out endlessly. In an instant, all the internal yuan in the body was fully restored, spreading to the four limbs and hundred bones.

  His entire body's inner yuan grew increasingly dense, and in the blink of an eye, it burst forth to the surface, circulating ceaselessly between his skin's pores. Sun Yan's skin regained its luster, sparkling like jade, exuding a peculiar charm.

  Buzz!

  A crisp sound, Sun Yan's hands trembled, the skin on his palms slightly indented, and the light of yuan force continuously emerged. The yuan force in his body instantly surged towards the indentation on his palm. In an instant, two clusters of yuan force light surrounded his palm, like two small stars, and then slowly disappeared.

  Explode meat dot star!

  The key to the third-level martial boundary lies in reopening a yuan force channel at 16 joints on both sides, including the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, hands, and feet, allowing the internal yuan to circulate more quickly and the yuan force to become even more refined.

  Under the tempering of ice and fire, Sun Yan finally broke through to the third level of martial arts, becoming a third-level warrior.

  The primordial energy inside his body surged ceaselessly, and Sun Yan's entire skin shone with a radiant glow of primordial energy. The whole person seemed like a perfect sculpture, full of masculine beauty.

  At this time, Sun Yan did not feel any joy. He was in a state of emptiness, as if he were asleep but not asleep, awake but not awake, and even the beating of his heart slowly disappeared.

  Only in the depths of his mind, a clear tranquility was maintained, constantly changing the two strange phenomena encountered at No. 38 Martial Arts Arena.

  "Yin and Yang are the division of one into two. The opposing yet complementary principles of Yin and Yang regulate each other, root in each other, and utilize each other. When one is exhausted, the other flourishes; when Yang reaches its extreme, it becomes Yin, and when Yin reaches its extreme, it becomes Yang."

  "What is utmost yang? It is the extreme of yin."

  "What is extreme yin? It is the disappearance of yang."

  "The true meaning of flame is the extreme yang that moves heaven, and when yang obtains yin's transformation, changes are endless; the true meaning of frost is the extreme yin that hides in the earth, and when yin obtains yang's assistance, springs are endless."

  ……

  At dawn, the blood sacs in the cemetery all faded away, and the outer shell presented a dull gray color.

  Inside the cocoon, however, a strand of red and white light shot out, a pulsating sound echoed through the night, and then slowly returned to calm.

  Seeing this, Qian JULONG looked up at the sky and laughed wildly, extremely pleased with himself. "The Ice Fire Silkworm Heart has finally taken shape! As long as I swallow this thing, I will definitely become the pride of this generation, dominating the world, invincible wherever I go!"

  He raised his hand, and Qian JULONG's fingernails suddenly grew longer, turning into sharp claws, slashing towards the already faded cocoon shell. He laughed loudly: "Sun Yan, you can still become my nutrient before you die, it's really cheap for you. Haha, you can rest assured to go to hell, your two beloved women, Shui Lian Qing and Feng Ling Xue, I will play with them well in the future, and you can also smile in the nine springs."

  Splendid!

  The cocoon burst open from top to bottom, a fist shot out with a loud crash and smashed into Qian Julong's left cheek, bursting his left eye.

  "Xian Qing and Ling Xue, are their names something you, as a grandson, can call?"

  In the cocoon, a young man with black hair fluttering, eyes gleaming brightly, like a god of death who had just descended from the underworld, stepped out with his perfect physique.