At the core of the Yin-Yang Eye of Ice and Fire, where crimson and milky white spring waters meet, the energy is most violent and purest.
Jiang Zhen sat cross-legged to one side, with the bubbling Yangquan spring on his left and the extremely cold Hanquan spring on his right.
His eyes were closed, his face was solemn, and his aura was as deep and still as an abyss, which contrasted sharply with the violent energy outside.
At this moment, his energy and spirit were at their peak, and his goal was clear—to condense his second soul core, the Ice Soul Core, in his middle dantian!
He took a deep breath, and a pure white ice object exuding an ancient chill was taken out of his storage ring and floated in front of him.
It was the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow that we obtained earlier!
Without hesitation, Jiang Zhen enveloped the treasure of heaven and earth with his spiritual power, slowly absorbing the immense ice elemental energy it contained.
"boom--!"
It was as if ice water had been poured into boiling oil, and the extreme cold instantly exploded in his meridians!
He dared not be negligent, and circulated his cultivation technique with all his might, guiding this vast and extremely pure ancient ice marrow power to slowly converge towards his middle dantian along the path he had already deduced countless times.
The first thing he activated was the first soul core that had already condensed in his lower dantian—the Ultimate Water Soul Core.
The azure soul core slowly rotated, radiating a vast and gentle water elemental soul power.
This spiritual energy rose along the meridians and gently flowed into the middle dantian area.
Here, Jiang Zhen used his supreme spiritual power to precisely control and guide the water elemental soul power to no longer spread chaotically, but to begin to construct a complex, constantly spinning energy vortex prototype.
At the core of this vortex, there is no longer pure water, but rather a trace of the "true meaning of ice" that he comprehended from the Ten Thousand Years of Profound Ice Marrow and the power of the Bing Di .
The vortex spun slowly, emitting a faint icy blue glow, like a sleeping ice embryo waiting to be fully awakened.
At the same time, the power of the ten-thousand-year-old Mysterious Ice Marrow that surged into his body was carefully stripped and purified by Jiang Zhen, turning into the most primal torrent of extreme ice elements, like a glacier river bursting its banks, surging into the "ice embryo" in his middle dantian!
"Crack... Crack..."
The embryo, receiving such a massive influx of homologous energy, instantly became active, its rotation speed increasing dramatically! Its color also rapidly changed from pale blue to a deep ice blue, and even a translucent, icy hue!
An extreme chill capable of freezing the soul emanated from it, and began to take over, attempting to assimilate everything around it. Even the water element soul power that Jiang Zhen used to construct the embryo began to show signs of freezing and stiffening!
Now!
Jiang Zhen was highly focused, and his spiritual energy was surging within his sea of consciousness!
A portion of his spiritual power transformed into the sharpest carving knife, piercing fiercely into the stable water element soul core in his lower dantian!
"Buzz!"
The first soul core trembled violently, and a tearing pain came, as if a piece of the soul had been cut off!
But his will was as firm as iron, and he managed to stay calm!
Nearly one-third of the soul power essence was forcibly cut and peeled off from that complete water element soul core!
After this portion of soul power left his body, it did not dissipate. Instead, under his precise control, it transformed into a violently fluctuating energy body that emitted a warm blue light—this was the "Source of Water Fire" used to activate the balance of Yin and Yang!
The moment the seed of fire took shape, Jiang Zhen quickly guided it to his upper dantian, the sea of consciousness between his eyebrows, and temporarily nurtured and isolated it with his powerful spiritual energy to prevent it from coming into premature contact with the rapidly growing ice embryo below, which could cause an energy imbalance and an explosion.
At this moment, within the middle dantian, the ice embryo, having received the full infusion of the Ten Thousand Years of Profound Ice Marrow, has grown to a critical point.
No longer content with being restrained, it began to violently riot, its terrifying icy power frantically assaulting the mental barrier set up by Jiang Zhen, trying to completely freeze and dominate this area.
The "Water Source Fire Seed" suspended in the upper dantian, because it shares the same origin as the first soul core, emits a gentle and vibrant fluctuation that is completely different from the ice embryo below.
Jiang Zhen held his breath and concentrated, dividing his mental energy into two streams. One stream acted like the most precise tuner, subtly adjusting the energy fluctuation frequency of the "Source of Water Fire".
The other force, like a sturdy dam, firmly suppressed the riots of the ice embryo and guided its rotation frequency to stabilize.
This is an extremely dangerous and mentally exhausting process.
A thin layer of extremely beautiful yet dangerous ice-blue prisms began to involuntarily appear on his body surface.
These prisms are not decorations; each one represents a protective barrier he constructed with his mental power to isolate the cold air emitted when the internal ice core condenses.
"Thump..."
"Thump..."
"Thump..."
It felt as if a cold heart was being conceived and beating in the lower abdomen.
The fluctuations in the frozen embryo became stronger and more rapid.
"Buzz..."
"Buzz..."
"Buzz..."
The water source fire seed in the upper dantian, under its guidance and Jiang Zhen's deliberate adjustment, also began to vibrate in a resonant manner.
Under Jiang Zhen's all-out efforts to regulate, the frequencies between the two began to miraculously converge, gradually becoming... orderly and synchronized from the initial chaos!
Like two stars finding their orbits in the vast universe, their heartbeats begin to resonate!
This is the moment!
Jiang Zhen's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he no longer suppressed his emotions!
"melt!"
He let out a low shout in his heart!
He suddenly detonated the "Water Source Fire Seed" suspended in his upper dantian!
It was not a destructive explosion, but rather the transformation of all its energy, all its life force, and all its understanding of the "water" principle into a warm and powerful blue torrent, like the Milky Way pouring down from the heavens, flowing directly from the upper dantian into the middle dantian, rushing towards the violently pulsating, already formed core of the icy vortex!
"BOOM—!!!"
Ice and fire, cold and warmth, stillness and movement—two completely opposite yet fundamental forces collided in Jiang Zhen's middle dantian in a way that seemed to create the world from the very beginning!
"Crack!"
Jiang Zhen's first layer of mental prism barrier instantly cracked and shattered!
The immense impact shook his entire body violently, and blood spilled from the corner of his mouth again, but his eyes were both frantic and resolute as he desperately guarded his mental clarity, using his supreme will to control these two forces that were capable of tearing him to shreds!
At the core of the collision, there was neither annihilation nor repulsion.
Under the pull of that wondrous, synchronized frequency, on the initial structure of "water giving birth to ice," and with the self-sacrificing integration of the "source of water and spark"...
A miracle happened.
The frigid vortex of ice and the warm torrent of water did not cancel each other out; instead, they began to intertwine and merge in a strange way!
The icy blue extreme cold energy and the azure blue water energy, like two giant dragons chasing each other, begin to rotate and intertwine along a common axis!
Eventually, they stabilized, forming a beautiful, balanced, and powerful dual-color energy spiral of ice blue and azure!
The prototype of the second soul core—the Ultimate Ice Soul Core—is complete!
However, this is not the end!
Just as the Ice Soul Core began to stabilize, the First Water Element Soul Core, located in the lower dantian, seemed to be fatally attracted, or perhaps it had found its long-lost brother, and suddenly emitted a violent resonance!
"Buzz—!"
Without Jiang Zhen's deliberate guidance, the two soul cores spontaneously established a stable energy channel in a wonderful "yin-yang complementarity" manner!
The water-attribute soul power vortex in the lower dantian and the ice-attribute double-helix soul power vortex in the middle dantian began to rotate slowly in opposite directions, yet maintained a perfect balance and synchronization...