World's No. 1 Swordsman-Chapter 400: Martial Siblings

Yaoyun, who had always remained calm, felt her heart tighten slightly the moment she sensed the disorder and chaos in the aura inside the palace.

She was well aware that Mu Wanxuan was simply trying to form her Nascent Soul and that the palace spirit would certainly save her life if she were ever in mortal danger. Nevertheless, she still prepared to intervene. After all, as far as she knew, Mu Wanxuan was the only reincarnation of a Heavenly Court immortal. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Inside the palace, Mu Wanxuan hovered cross-legged on a meditation cushion. Her long hair spread out as streams of yin-yang qi wove through her, making her Dao Body look like a transparent jade statue.

At her Heavenly Abode, a faint phantasm wrapped in wisps of blood-red baleful qi slowly descended in her upper dantian. At her qi sea, a gray aura of unknown origin had appeared and was spreading endlessly in her lower dantian, plunging her qi sea into further chaos.

At that moment, she needed balance the most.

Her Dao was not about controlling water and fire, or yin and yang. It was about mastering the balance between them.

Before her Primordial Soul reached her qi sea, she had to stabilize the yin-yang qi in her body and then form a Nascent Soul aligned with the Dao of Balanced Yin and Yang. However, she seemed to have lost control of her yin-yang qi. The gray aura rapidly devoured the Yin-Yang Enchanted Power in her qi sea. Yin and yang began to fuse as well.

The yin-yang qi clashed and merged. Most of it was rammed out of her, but a small portion fused into a chaotic aura!

Yaoyun couldn't tell if Mu Wanxuan had deliberately done this or if this was beyond her control. However, she knew it was dangerous. One mistake was all it would take for the chaotic aura to consume Mu Wanxuan.

As far as Yaoyun knew, a Heavenly Abode Realm cultivator shouldn't have any form of chaos in them. In that inconceivable event, though, chaos had appeared in Mu Wanxuan's qi sea.

Her disc-like Golden Core had vanished, and a swirling mass of gray aura had taken its place. Yin and yang had also fallen into disorder and returned to chaos. She seemed to have lost control of her yin-yang qi, yet everything was happening too slowly, as though it was all going according to her plan.

Yaoyun couldn't decide whether to intervene. After all, she had no idea how Mu Wanxuan intended to form her Nascent Soul.

Within the Platform of Immortal Dreams, the flickering candle flame still played scene after scene. Wang Sheng, who had unexpectedly been sleeping for four to five months, was missing his senior sister's crucial breakthrough.

Inside the palace of Mu Wanxuan's seclusion, hidden restrictions that had never shown themselves before began to light up one by one.

The chaotic yin-yang qi couldn't damage them. Still, for a mere Nascent Soul Realm breakthrough to activate even a fraction of the restrictions, which were meant to defend against immortal power, was an extraordinary sight rarely seen even in ten thousand years.

Wang Sheng's swift entry into the Platform of Immortal Dreams, which had only mildly surprised Yaoyun, could be credited to a bit of wit and his breadth of thought and philosophy. Meanwhile, the changes that Mu Wanxuan was undergoing during her breakthrough struck her with direct and overwhelming force.

Are these martial siblings... really trying to defy the heavens?

Mu Wanxuan's Primordial Soul descended faster, seemingly intending to crash straight into her qi sea. The chaotic aura inside her swelled rapidly in response.

When Mu Wanxuan's Primordial Soul left her Heavenly Abode, Yaoyun immediately realized that Mu Wanxuan had conquered her heart devil's illusion—the first barrier of forming a Nascent Soul.

Heart devils were certainly dangerous for most cultivators with impure hearts or twisted minds.

However, not even Yaoyun—a Heavenly Court princess who had studied under great immortals, followed the Queen Mother of the West since childhood, and once reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm—could comprehend what happened next.

The faster Mu Wanxuan's Primordial Soul fell, the faster the chaotic aura expanded. It was as though they were racing for the slightest instant, a contest that defied all common reason.

Mu Wanxuan barely prevailed. Before the chaos consumed her entire qi sea, her Primordial Soul plummeted like a comet and crashed into it.

The chaotic aura didn't tear apart her fragile Primordial Soul. Instead, the chaotic aura condensed into a gray sphere, tightly wrapping around her Primordial Soul.

Streams of yin-yang qi then surged back into her body and formed meteors that struck and the chaos, breaking apart nearly half of it.

Her tiny Primordial Soul raised its left hand and pressed its right hand down. The yin-yang qi that had poured into the chaos converged in its palms before the chaos could consume them, instantly creating two Tai Chi diagrams.

Her Primordial Soul flared. With Tai Chi diagrams in its hands, it cleaved wildly at the chaotic aura, which had just begun to reform. Split apart, it gave birth to new yin-yang qi.

She opened heaven and earth and divided yin and yang?

A mere Heavenly Abode Realm cultivator forming a Nascent Soul had created a scene that embodied the truth of the Great Dao. Though the process was infinitely simpler than truly dividing yin and yang, it still had the same Dao.

Mu Wanxuan's cultivation was still low. In Yaoyun's eyes, she was only a novice who had just stepped onto the path of cultivation. Nevertheless, the uproar she caused in forming her Nascent Soul showed that she could soar unimaginably high one day.

Standing on the hilt of Spiritless, Yaoyun's gaze mixed with relief and bitterness.

Within Mu Wanxuan, her Primordial Soul began merging with the Tai Chi diagrams. It absorbed yin-yang qi and moved on to the final step of her breakthrough: forming her Nascent Soul.

She was in little danger now.

Mu Wanxuan slowed the process intentionally, taking time to sense the mysteries of the Dao of Balanced Yin and Yang. Two hours later, the chaotic yin-yang qi in the great palace turned orderly. Yin and yang intertwined into vortices that circled her Dao Body, forming two gigantic yin-yang koi.

She wove intricate hand signs, blending the immortal arts she had learned into her own Dao. The giant yin-yang koi evolved further. First, a black and white sword phantasm emerged. Two lifelike azure dragons then flew out from within. The immortal arts far surpassed the ones in the Yin-Yang Secret Scroll, which she had practiced before.

Several hours later, the palace quieted down again. The yin-yang qi dissipated, replaced by pure non-elemental primal qi streaming out from every corner.

Mu Wanxuan gazed outside the palace. Softly, she asked Yaoyun, "Junior Brother?"

Yaoyun answered, "He has entered the Platform of Immortal Dreams to seek his own fated opportunity. Hua Qing... are you truly just Hua Qing reincarnated?"

Mu Wanxuan blinked in confusion. She then smiled faintly, pointed at her chest, and whispered, "Mu Wan..."

Unfortunately, she still couldn't utter her full name. The moment she reached the Heavenly Abode Realm, she should have been able to mend her speech disorder gradually even if her reincarnated soul was incomplete.

However, she was already at the Nascent Soul Realm, yet she still couldn't fully say her own name. It was either because her soul was just a fragment when she reincarnated or due to the trauma that she had gotten from the ghost stories that her master had once used to frighten and provoke her.

"Continue your seclusion. I'll check if your junior brother is about to awaken," Yaoyun said.

Mu Wanxuan nodded gently and looked at her gratefully. She then felt her spirit refreshed, as though she had returned to her carefree years on the Wudang Mountains when primal qi first resurged.

Having finally stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm, she was now only one realm away from catching up to her junior brother! She would continue her seclusion, surpass him, and reclaim her dignity as his senior sister!

She thought of her junior brother emerging to find her already at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. Finding the imagined expression on his face priceless, she couldn't help but laugh. It would surely be amusing.

Casting aside stray thoughts, she quickly comprehended the Dao, explored the changes in her Dao of Balanced Yin and Yang, and steadily improved her cultivation.

Outside the palace, Yaoyun flew away slowly on Spiritless, lost in thought.

She considered how long it would take for the martial siblings to reach the ranks of true experts if they continued cultivating in the Small Immortal Realm. However, she soon dismissed the thought since they were in the Realm of Exiled Immortals.

Never mind reaching the Golden Immortal Realm, even attaining immortality here required tens of thousands of years of cultivation. A year here was also a thousand years in the starry heavens outside. She simply could not wait.

Soon, Yaoyun unknowingly reached the Platform of Immortal Dreams. With Spiritless hovering quietly in the air, she stood on its tip and watched the candle flame closely.

It seemed slightly larger than when she had last left.

If my memory serves me right, that means he's made a noticeable breakthrough in cultivation.

Having just witnessed Mu Wanxuan form her Nascent Soul, Yaoyun felt little interest in such minor fluctuations. She was about to return to Spiritless to cultivate when the candle flame suddenly shuddered and crackled faintly. The lotus petals surrounding the Platform of Immortal Dreams trembled.

When it stopped, the flame inside had clearly grown by nearly a third.