Chapter 1170: The True Ability of the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit

“Bluff!”

Simaing’s Dao heart was firm, unwavering in the face of verbal provocation. Countless snow mountain giants rose from the ground, knelt before him, and submitted. Then, the earth grew countless flexible stone pillars, as agile as octopus tentacles.

Jiuzhongxian knocked down a snow mountain giant with one punch, but immediately after, immortal gold lifeforms hidden inside the snow mountain giant’s head ambushed him.

The snow mountain giants were merely a decoy; the true tactic was the immortal gold lifeforms concealed within!

These immortal gold materials had not been refined, so they lacked the power of immortal artifacts. However, immortal gold is renowned for its durability. Even Yingtianxian used immortal gold to forge his body, which speaks volumes about its incredible hardness.

Jiuzhongxian’s punch struck an immortal gold lifeform’s face, leaving only an indentation, causing no substantial damage!

Jiuzhongxian intended to leap into the air, but a section of a tree branch, like a tentacle, emerged from the ground and wrapped around his ankle. This was a colossal ancient tree that had been frozen in the permafrost for countless ages, now brought to life by Simaing.

Beneath the extreme north, countless corpses lay buried, all within Simaing’s power to bring to life.

Although Jiuzhongxian immediately broke free from the tree branch, it gave the immortal gold lifeforms an opening.

Three to five immortal gold lifeforms swarmed him, pinning down Jiuzhongxian’s limbs, while another sat on his chest and repeatedly punched his face. Each punch was powerful enough to kill a Tribulation Transcendence stage cultivator.

Jiuzhongxian immediately transformed into a flame lifeform, tangible yet insubstantial, passing through the immortal gold lifeforms.

“Refine!”

Jiuzhongxian roared, and his immortal flame enveloped the immortal gold lifeforms. His immortal flame was best suited for refining immortal gold; in ancient times, Yingtianxian would borrow his flame when forging immortal artifacts.

In an instant, the immortal gold lifeforms were refined into a liquid mass.

Whoosh—

A ball of liquid shot out from the flames, lunging at Jiuzhongxian.

Even in liquid form, the immortal gold lifeforms were still animated by Simaing and would obey his commands to attack Jiuzhongxian with every means possible.

Jiuzhongxian retreated rapidly. If the immortal gold lifeforms were to surround him and solidify, they would form an airtight immortal gold cage, which would be quite troublesome.

At the same time, before Simaing could animate his immortal flame, Jiuzhongxian automatically extinguished the immortal flame used to refine the immortal gold lifeforms.

Simaing clicked his tongue. As expected of an ancient True Immortal, his reactions were incredibly swift.

Once liquefied, the immortal gold lifeforms became shapeshifters, extending infinitely, and forming a very thin liquid that adhered to the headless snow mountain giants.

The immortal gold solidified, forming a layer of armor over the snow mountain giants, granting them the power to contend with Jiuzhongxian.

The snow mountain giants pounded their chests, resembling headless great apes.

Simaing then took out some Profound Ice, which he had controlled and not yet used up from Jiuzhongxian’s previous transformations during their fight.

The Profound Ice also possessed life; they deformed into ice spears according to Simaing’s will, becoming weapons for the snow mountain giants.

Armored and weaponized, the snow mountain giants swarmed forward, rushing towards Jiuzhongxian. The ice spears posed a substantial threat to Jiuzhongxian’s flame form.

The Profound Ice spears pierced through Jiuzhongxian’s body, temporarily causing him to gain a physical form. Countless snow mountain giants seized this opportunity, pinning Jiuzhongxian to the ground and pummeling him. A vortex appeared in the earth, sucking Jiuzhongxian in.

Subsequently, the ground heaved and cracked, fissures emitting flames. Immediately afterward, flames soared into the sky, blasting apart countless snow mountain giants like a volcanic eruption – a doomsday scene never before witnessed in the extreme north.

Facing Jiuzhongxian’s fury, Simaing remained unmoved, continuing to command the snow mountain giants to attack Jiuzhongxian.

Jiuzhongxian floated in the air, seething with rage.

Suddenly, a phantom chessboard appeared on the ground, immensely vast, with each snow mountain giant occupying a single square.

What was he planning to do?

Simaing became alert. The ancient texts had never mentioned Jiuzhongxian possessing such a move!

“All things in the world can be divided into black and white.”

“Snow mountains are objects of Yin attribute.”

Jiuzhongxian’s voice boomed, as if he were talking to himself. Apart from Immortal Fairy and Senior Sister, no one understood what Jiuzhongxian meant.

As Jiuzhongxian’s words fell, a very inconspicuous black chess piece appeared above the head of a snow mountain giant.

Jiuzhongxian held a white chess piece between his index and middle fingers.

The white piece descended, overlapping with the black piece above the snow mountain giant’s head. Black and white collided, mutually dissolving.

The two-colored chess pieces vanished, and astonishingly, the snow mountain giant also disappeared into thin air.

“Where there is Yin, there must be Yang in the world. Yin and Yang generate each other, and they also counteract each other.”

Simaing stumbled backward, finally understanding what Jiuzhongxian had done.

Yin and Yang generate and counteract each other. Snow mountain giants, being objects of Yin attribute, when encountering an equal amount of Yang attribute, would result in a collision of Yin and Yang, causing both to vanish!

“No, snow mountain giants are objects of the Five Elements. How can they be categorized by Yin and Yang?” Simaing still had one point he couldn't grasp.

Jiuzhongxian burst into laughter, slowly approaching Simaing.

“Dao fruits represent rules. Before the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit appeared, there was no definitive conclusion on whether things in the world were categorized by the Five Elements or by Yin and Yang.”

“But since my Yin-Yang Dao Fruit has appeared, all things in the world are now categorized by Yin and Yang. The Five Elements categorization is merely a more detailed subdivision based on the Yin-Yang categorization!”

In other words, this was a rule established by the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit!

Jiuzhongxian understood. Simaing did not control a "control" Dao Fruit. He couldn’t simultaneously control so many snow mountain giants for precise attacks. Instead, he possessed a Dao Fruit of "animation" or "enlightenment."

However, in front of him, none of that mattered.

Simaing’s face turned pale. Originally, he believed he could animate all things, including immortal fire and Profound Ice, and thus restrain Jiuzhongxian.

However, the reality was starkly different. Jiuzhongxian’s ability to define Yin and Yang and cause their mutual annihilation was what truly restrained him!

“I’d like to see how many things you can annihilate!”

Simaing activated his "enlightenment" Dao Fruit. The earth shook, causing the residents of Muxue City to sway and stumble, thinking it was an earthquake.

The high-level cultivators’ faces turned pale; this was definitely more than just an earthquake!

The entire extreme north was in turmoil. The first change appeared around Simaing.

The ground beneath his feet bulged, not transforming into giants or other objects, but into an earth sphere covered in ice and snow.

Muxue City was also on this earth sphere!

This earth sphere was incredibly vast; standing on it, one couldn't even perceive its curvature!

The people of Muxue City didn't know what this earth sphere signified, and even high-level cultivators had a vague understanding of this concept. Lu Yang, however, knew it all too well.

Currently, the six continents were refined from planets. Simaing was giving life to the earth, restoring it to its most primitive planetary form!

Simaing could use these planets to collide with Jiuzhongxian at any moment.

“What if they are planets?” Jiuzhongxian scoffed. In ancient battles, shattering stars was commonplace. What threat could a few planets pose?

He could even use Yin-Yang neutralization to make these planets disappear.

“No, there are still people on the planets!” Jiuzhongxian’s true personality exclaimed. Simaing was threatening to use the lives of the extreme north as leverage.

“So what!” Jiuzhongxian’s other personality remained unmoved. Jiuzhongxian’s true personality feared precisely this kind of situation.

“Let me control the body!” Jiuzhongxian’s true personality snatched back control of his body.

Simaing sneered, eager to see what other moves Jiuzhongxian had up his sleeve!

Jiuzhongxian took two deep breaths. It had been a long time since he had used this move.

“Ultimate Yin Extreme Cold!”

Jiuzhongxian unleashed his Ultimate Yin domain. The already frigid extreme north plummeted to a temperature never before seen in history.

Absolute zero!

The world seemed to freeze at this moment. All living beings in the extreme north halted. The extreme north itself stopped transforming into planets. The entire extreme north was enveloped in absolute zero. Under absolute zero, no object could move, creating a result similar to time stopping!

“See? What did I tell you? Controlling immortal fire and such are merely the surface abilities of the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit. These are the true capabilities.”