Before long, the Iceflame Soul Core had nearly exhausted all of its contained power. The drained soul power had been converted into a large pile of Red Jade Revival Ginseng and Orange Jade Blood-Replenishing Ginseng.
Facing the blazing sun, still maintaining isolation between the Iceflame Soul Core and the outside world, Muyang circulated his soul power, separating fire-attribute power from it.
Then, with his body-forging supreme art, Solar Refinement Body, running, his qi and blood surged. As the separated fire power combined with his blood energy, it formed a crimson-golden energy that poured into his chest's middle dantian.
This golden-red energy paused slightly within the middle dantian before quietly beginning to rotate.
The Iceflame Soul Core's rotation direction was clockwise. After that brief pause, the golden-red energy condensed into a needle-sized crystalline point, rotating counterclockwise — completely opposite to the Iceflame core.
At this initial stage, the golden-red crystal rotated slowly. Muyang did not rush to pour in massive fire power and blood energy. Instead, he slightly relaxed his spiritual isolation on the Iceflame core.
To completely isolate the Iceflame core from the outside world would indeed allow the Sun Soul Core to condense smoothly.
But if he truly did that, Muyang would suffer for it.
Because the Iceflame Soul Core and the yet-to-be-formed Sun Soul Core spun in opposing directions. Once the Sun Core took shape, the conflict generated would absolutely not be something Muyang could endure.
Therefore, the best — indeed the only — way was to slightly loosen the Iceflame core's isolation, allowing the now "weakened" Iceflame core to adapt to the not-yet-formed Sun Soul Core, shifting from rejection toward acceptance.
It was for this reason that Muyang had first drained the Iceflame core of power, leaving it weakened, so that under his control it could better adapt to the nascent Sun Soul Core.
By finding the balance point between the two, as the Sun Soul Core gradually formed, he could continue to ease restrictions, ultimately enabling the Iceflame and Sun Cores — despite their opposite rotations — to stably coexist without external interference.
Otherwise, if they failed to maintain stability, what he condensed in the middle dantian would not be a complementary Sun Soul Core, but a massive trigger bomb ready to explode at the slightest lapse.
Time ticked by. Muyang was in no hurry.
Each time the golden-red condensed soul power within his middle dantian grew, he would relax his restraint on the Iceflame core accordingly, keeping the two in balance.
For ordinary soul masters, condensing a yin-yang complementary second soul core this way was impossible.
First, their spiritual power would need to be overwhelmingly strong, ensuring continuous control over the first soul core.
Second, throughout the condensation process, the soul master needed to maintain extreme mental focus, consuming tremendous spiritual power. And to exert such fine control over an existing soul core only compounded that burden.
But Muyang was different. Before beginning, he had mass-produced Red Jade Revival Ginseng. Whenever his spiritual power was depleted, he simply consumed one to replenish it continuously.
Because he could endlessly restore his spiritual strength, coupled with his robust foundation capable of enduring the prolonged conflict between Iceflame and Sun cores, Muyang could afford to "take his time."
As time passed, the golden-red solidified soul power in the middle dantian grew larger, spinning counterclockwise ever faster. The conflict he bore only intensified.
Gradually, faint streaks of crimson blood seeped out through the skin of his body.
Yet whenever the accumulated damage became excessive, blue-gold light full of life essence would flare from his right leg.
The hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone skill: Wildfire Burns Without End, Spring Wind Brings New Life!
With that life-rich blue-gold light flashing, Muyang's body instantly healed, as if the tearing force from the two cores had never harmed him.
So long as the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone's healing surpassed the tearing damage, and as long as Muyang could withstand the pain, then the condensation of the Sun Soul Core would not fail.
Moreover, the soul bone's healing wasn't even his greatest trump card. His true ace lay in the Silver Jade Undying Ginseng, which granted near-immortality.
At his current slow and steady pace, the destructive effect caused by maintaining balance between the two cores was still well within the Silver Jade Undying Ginseng's range of protection.
The only concern was whether he had enough of them in number.
After all, while the Silver Jade Undying Ginseng's effect was miraculous, its duration was not long. With sufficient soul power, each could only maintain the state of undying for half an hour.
Half an hour? Yes, precisely half an hour.
His eighth soul skill, Silver Jade Undying Ginseng, normally granted just a quarter-hour of undying effect.
But since the ginseng itself was of sufficiently high year level, it could be preserved permanently. When creating them, Muyang had always done so under the blessing of his martial soul's true form, the Purple Jade Mysterious Yellow Ginseng.
One of that form's effects was doubling all ginseng efficacy. With this enhancement, the Silver Jade Undying Ginseng's undying duration rose from one quarter-hour to two — a full half hour.
Two hours passed in the blink of an eye. Within the middle dantian, the counterclockwise golden-red solid soul power had accumulated to its limit.
Next, Muyang needed to transform this solid power into the Sun Soul Core itself, ensuring it could balance with the Iceflame Soul Core in the lower dantian.
But Muyang didn't rush to make the transformation. Instead, he pulled out a Silver Jade Undying Ginseng and swallowed it.
Perhaps because he had been patient throughout the entire condensation process, taking one step at a time, he had never needed to use the Silver Jade Undying Ginseng up until now. The Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone's "Spring Wind Brings New Life" alone had been enough to counteract the tearing damage.
But now, the final stage had arrived — the most dangerous stage of condensing a yin-yang complementary soul core. Muyang no longer cared about wasting a precious card.
After all, he had only one life. Better to chew the safeguard first.
Even if it were wasted, he could afford it.
Yes, the Silver Jade Undying Ginseng was a supreme life-saving treasure. But for Muyang himself, the cost was not high.
Beyond the cooldown interval of the soul skill, all it required was some soul power — and if he wanted the longest undying duration, one Purple Jade Mysterious Yellow Ginseng as a catalyst.
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