Chapter 29

The female warrior was still hesitating about whether to launch a surprise attack from behind, but a surge of primordial tide had already erupted over the small lake ahead.

Without a second thought, the female warrior turned and fled.

In an instant, the light silk on her body spread out like a dragonfly, gliding along the ground to a distance of several dozen yards, reaching the edge of the forest.

When she turned to look back, she saw that Shang Xia had not only not followed her out but was instead holding a string cage and walking calmly into the depths of the surging primordial tide.

"Truly, he brings his own doom upon himself!"

The female warrior cursed angrily, but she felt a great sense of loss.

"It's just a pity that the mutated rain swallow has cost the family a chance to improve our bloodline!"

The female warrior looked at the figure that had been swallowed by the primordial tide, her expression complex.

"Strangely, there has never been a precedent for a mutated rain swallow in the Two Realms War Zone to be captured alive. How did he manage to do it?"

"If there is indeed some unknown secret, the family will have to reassess its relationship with the Mystic Peak!"

Thinking of this, the female warrior's mood became even heavier.

...

At this moment, Shang Xia, whom the female warrior thought was courting death, was struggling to move forward under the impact of the primordial tide.

He had not yet felt the extraordinary loss of control that Brother Tian Mengzi had mentioned, but he had already deeply felt the rapid evaporation of his internal essence.

If he could not find the Clear and Turbid Land in time, he would likely die from the depletion of his internal essence before long.

Indeed, when Tian Mengzi mentioned that the simultaneous appearance of the sun and moon would be accompanied by a surge of the primordial tide, Shang Xia had already suspected that this was the Clear and Turbid Land he was looking for, and the moment when the heavenly spirit might appear.

The reason was simple. Shang Xia had the memories of his previous world and had always suspected that the "convergence of clear and turbid" displayed on the Four Directions Stele referred to the convergence of yin and yang.

Even the so-called "Ultimate Martial Realm" or "Two Poles Realm" was more aptly called the "Yin-Yang Realm" in Shang Xia's view.

However, after the extraordinary martial cultivators of this world entered the second realm, they only specialized in one path. Calling it the "Yin-Yang Realm" seemed to encompass too broad a range.

As for "yin and yang," what could be more representative than the "moon" and the "sun"?

Without a doubt, with Shang Xia's limited traditional knowledge from his previous life, he could only apply it in a rigid manner, but coincidences often happened.

The simultaneous brilliance of the sun and moon, and the surge of the primordial tide, appeared before Shang Xia's eyes.

However, when the primordial tide was about to erupt, Shang Xia inevitably hesitated.

The reason was simple. Everyone would be terrified by the appearance of the primordial tide. Even with the memories of his previous world, Shang Xia could not help but feel fear when facing such a manifestation of heavenly power.

Not everyone could face life and death head-on, even if they knew that great opportunities lay hidden within.

Therefore, his first reaction was to flee and avoid danger, at least to see what was happening before making a move.

However, it was a stroke of bad luck that the female warrior chose this moment to take advantage of the situation, blocking his path and reigniting his adventurous thoughts.

Shang Xia continued to move forward. Under the impact of the primordial tide, he even felt his skin being assimilated, as if he might merge with the primordial tide if he continued.

But by this point, it was too late for Shang Xia to turn back. He could only grit his teeth and search for the three-foot-wide isolation zone formed by the gentle current in the center of the small lake, as he remembered from his memories.

The ice and fire spectacle formed by the small lake under the sun and moon was still vivid in his mind. The strange isolation zone in the middle of the lake seemed to be the "convergence of clear and turbid" he was looking for.

At least, there was no other place that looked more like it!

Just as Shang Xia was lost in thought, he suddenly felt a lightness, as if he had stepped into a new realm.

"Shang Xia, it's time to go home!"

A voice that could resonate with the heavens and earth seemed to be urging him.

"Go home? Go home?"

Shang Xia looked puzzled. Go home? To which home?

"Where do you come from? Have you forgotten? Forgotten?"

The voice, which had originally come from the distant sky, suddenly seemed to be right by his ear, even turning into countless different voices, though noisy, all urging him to go home quickly.

Shang Xia's head ached as if countless needles were piercing his brain.

Memories began to flash in his mind, but each time, two images appeared.

In each pair of images, the same person appeared, with the same face and age, but with different clothing, family, and background.

As the two images kept flashing, they revealed the growth trajectories of two people.

Numerous doubts began to arise in his mind.

Who am I?

Which one am I?

...

Shang Xia felt his soul being torn into two different individuals, constantly arguing, fighting, and even annihilating each other...

Shang Xia felt his head about to explode, but the two images kept flashing, repeatedly showing the different growth histories of the two Shang Xias.

Shang Xia had already stopped moving in the primordial tide. His expression was changing dramatically, sometimes fierce, sometimes bewildered, sometimes clutching his head and howling, and sometimes looking as if he wanted to tear his head apart...

Shang Xia's aura was fluctuating, his clothes drenched in sweat, and his internal essence was rapidly depleting...

All of this indicated that Shang Xia was on the verge of losing control!

However, at this moment, a bolt of lightning struck in both of the memory images.

The distorted, intersecting lightning split the sky and shattered the memory images.

A Four Directions Stele descended from the sky, suppressing all the memory fragments, but it also seemed to fuse the memories and make subsequent memories appear on the stele—

In the secret chamber of the Mystic Peak Academy, Shang Xia, who was in seclusion, was suddenly awakened by the lightning, opening his eyes with a hint of confusion...

In the primordial tide, Shang Xia, who was in a state of confusion, also opened his eyes, his gaze clearer than ever!

So this is why the primordial tide can cause extraordinary martial cultivators to lose control!

I see!

But it's not enough!

At this moment, Shang Xia, weakened by the massive loss of internal essence, was more determined in spirit and will than ever!

My path is my way, and no one can replace or interfere with it!

I am who I am, the one and only me!

The impact of the primordial tide seemed to become even more intense, but it could not stop Shang Xia's resolve to move forward!

Golden-red lightning split the chaos in front of him. Shang Xia took a step forward, and the chaos before his eyes transformed instantly, the ice and fire spectacle reappeared, and Shang Xia stood on the shore of the small lake!

The rippling lake water lapped against the shore, splashing and wetting Shang Xia's shoes.

The sun and moon were overhead, shining as if only for Shang Xia.

The ice and fire spectacle was on either side, and Shang Xia's feet were on the three-foot-wide water isolation zone that separated the two phenomena!

Shang Xia took a deep breath, pulled out a jade bottle from his chest, and removed the stopper. Inside was a powder mixed with granules.

This was the extraordinary medicine for the Ultimate Martial Realm, the Clear and Turbid Powder, formulated by the Shang family's alchemists and personally participated in by Shang Xia.

Although the Mystic Peak Academy had promised to provide all the extraordinary materials for Shang Xia's Ultimate Martial Realm extraordinary medicine and had already rewarded him with the main ingredient of the Clear and Turbid Powder,

how could Shang Xia reveal the complete formula derived from the Four Directions Stele, which was tailored to himself?

Not only the Mystic Peak Academy, but even the family's alchemists did not receive the complete formula from Shang Xia.

Instead, under the guidance of the family's alchemists, he had privately processed several secondary, auxiliary, and guiding ingredients, and then handed them over to the alchemists to formulate the complete advanced medicine.

After entering the Two Realms War Zone, Shang Xia kept the medicine with him, just in case, and it indeed waited for the right opportunity.

Without hesitation, Shang Xia poured the entire bottle of Clear and Turbid Powder into his mouth.

As soon as the medicine entered his mouth, a cool and a warm breath arose, then flowed down his throat like sand into his abdomen.

Shang Xia did not have time to savor the taste of the advanced medicine. Suddenly, he felt two breaths in his abdomen, one warm rising, the other cool descending.

These two breaths were just the beginning. Compared to Shang Xia's internal essence, even after being greatly depleted, they were far inferior.

However, the presence of these two breaths could mobilize all the internal essence in his body to take sides.

One part rose to merge with the warm breath, and the other part sank to merge with the cool breath.

As this process continued, the two breaths began to expand in his body, gradually repelling and conflicting with each other.

Shang Xia was momentarily at a loss.

He realized he had miscalculated!

Taking the advanced medicine was originally just a trigger to open the path to advancement, like a spark that could ignite a prairie fire, but it would take time and could not be achieved instantly.

Moreover, Shang Xia had already consumed a lot of internal essence while traversing the primordial tide.

Choosing to take the Clear and Turbid Powder at this moment, he did not have to worry about the repelling breaths caused by the medicine triggering a large-scale conflict of internal essence, leading to a loss of control.

But Shang Xia had not anticipated the three-foot-wide water isolation zone under his feet.

With the sun and moon overhead, the essence of the sun and moon converged in this three-foot-wide lake.

By taking the Clear and Turbid Powder here, Shang Xia not only separated his internal essence but also continuously drew the essence of the sun and moon from the lake.

He was about to be torn apart by the two repelling internal essences!

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The scheduled upload time needs to be reset after modification, otherwise, it will remain in the draft box. I always forget this point, sorry. The evening chapter will still be at 7:30 PM.

Also, there are still many drafts, so don't worry!