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Chapter 879: Chapter 173: The Hegemony of Yin and Yang (Start of the month, extra update for some monthly votes to push the ranks!)

The Wang Clan of the South has divine arts, dominating ghosts and deities with their mastery over yin and yang.

Within the Wang Clan, only those who are proficient in yin-yang arrays and capable of commanding spirit arts could be considered true descendants of the Wang Clan. Upon reaching a certain realm, they would even be called Yin-Yang Masters.

However, the path to cultivating yin-yang divine arts has extremely high barriers, and the first among them is the ability to see the filth unseen by others, otherwise known as the yin-yang eye commonly spoken of by mortals.

The yin-yang eye can be obtained through acquired cultivation, but it would waste a great amount of time and neglect the golden years of youth. If one considers a length of a hundred years, a decade or so might not seem too long, but the actual experience can feel profoundly different.

Disciples of the Wang Clan born with the yin-yang eye usually achieve greater feats than those who cultivated it later. This is not just a matter of awakening the yin-yang eye sooner or later, but also because of the invincible belief that yin-yang masters with innate yin-yang eyes have been nurturing since childhood.

Just imagine, both are teenagers, but one is already a young genius Yin-Yang Master capable of commanding ghosts to contend with the Fierce Realm, while the other has just opened his yin-yang eye and is taking his first tentative steps as a prospective Yin-Yang Master.

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The mental gap between the two must be enormous, and for the latter to catch up to the former’s achievements would require an extraordinarily resilient will.

To prevent the average disciples of the Wang Clan from losing heart, the Wang Clan had no choice but to separate those born with the yin-yang eye from those who acquired it through cultivation, and only then did the situation begin to improve somewhat.

Wang Chan was a favored child of heaven born with the yin-yang eye. Naturally, from a young age, he was the Yin-Yang Master in whom the family placed great hopes, training in yin-yang divine arts under his father since childhood.

The first step in cultivating yin-yang divine arts was to learn how to interact with spirit ghosts. Therefore, in his youth, Wang Chan trained his body in a quiet room engraved with a highly yin array, where a fierce ghost was trapped, keeping him company day and night.

One day, while Wang Chan was training, the extremely yin array in the quiet room suddenly failed, and the freed malicious ghost lunged at him. The young Wang Chan was stunned; his mind went blank as if he had fallen into an abyss.

Three days later, Wang Chan awoke, but he could not remember anything from those three days. He was told that his father sensed the array in the quiet room was shattered, and when he arrived, he only found him unconscious.

He later heard that his father executed a room full of concubines and slaughtered an entire family of extended relatives.

Subsequently, he heard people saying that the evil ghost, which had broken free in the quiet room, had been torn to pieces by the time the head of the family arrived.

And at that time in the quiet room, there was only Wang Chan, who had been training his body.

To subdue a fierce ghost at the age of five, even if it was a spirit weakened by the array, was an extremely remarkable achievement.

Everyone praised Wang Chan as a natural-born Yin-Yang Master, but only he knew that he was completely terrified at the time and could not recall anything after the fierce ghost pounced on him.

The only person who knew the complete truth of that incident was someone named Wang Ying.

A person who mysteriously appeared inside his body.

That year, Wang Chan was five years old, and Wang Ying was eight. He told Wang Chan to call him “big brother.”

Wang Ying was irascible and powerful, and somewhat greedy. Although he had a bad temper, he was wholeheartedly protective of Wang Chan and often advised him, “Eat more, for only with a strong body can you be fearless of ghosts and monsters.”

Like a true big brother, no, even more attentive than a real big brother, not only did Wang Ying protect him with all his heart, but he also knew about Wang Chan’s fear of ghosts, and Wang Chan also understood that when the spirit ghost broke free and lunged at him, when he was consumed by fear and lost his senses, it was someone else who took over the control of his body, and with a mere trace of spiritual power, tore apart that extremely weakened and starving spirit ghost.

Unfortunately, as Wang Chan grew stronger day by day, Wang Ying remained perpetually frozen at the age of eight.

This self-proclaimed brother awakened Wang Chan’s distant memories, also softening his gaze.

Striving to live is human nature, and all the more so for a child of only eight. No matter how strong he might be, he was still just a child.

Waving his hand, he opened the grand gates of the Soul Palace, leading Wang Ying into a scene of indulgence. Wang Chan spoke indifferently, “Of course, I don’t wish for your death. Have something to eat to calm your nerves, and in a few days, I’ll take you to Zhongzhou’s Divine Kitchen Tower.”

As soon as he heard there was food, Wang Ying’s spirits lifted. He hopped into the wine pool, splashing wine everywhere, and picking up a big bone club, he started gnawing on it eagerly.

Meanwhile, in the various buildings of the Soul Palace, spiritual apparitions that looked extremely similar to Wang Chan lifted the corners of their mouths in a slight smile.

After comforting Wang Ying and absorbing his spirits back into his body, Wang Chan bent down to help up the nearly shattered Corpse Refiner, clicking his tongue in wonder, “A mere twenty-year-old, even if he possesses the Two Ambiguity Innate Qi’s body, it’s unbelievable that he could inflict such damage on this replacement body. Even if he had trained straight from the womb, he couldn’t possibly possess such bodily strength or such expertise in physical techniques. I’m becoming more and more interested in this person!”

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“No need, it’s just a game, there’s no need for such fanfare. Let him and me have a good time playing!”@@novelbin@@

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“Tonight? We don’t need to continue tonight; it would be so boring if he died all at once.”

“Ahahaha, ahahahahaha!”

Wang Chan waved his hand, retracting the Divine Array’s imprint and pushed open the doors of Yunxiang Building, striding towards the brothel he agreed to meet old Xu Ying in.

In the Sect Head’s residence of Lanshan City, Tang Luo looked up at the dissipating moonlight in the courtyard ruins and sighed in relief. He quickly sat down cross-legged to redraw the Divine Array.

On a cliff many miles away, old Xu Ying set down his now empty wine jug and sighed deeply.

This was supposed to be the best time to increase one’s cultivation, but this member of the Xu Clan, preoccupied with concern for his young cousin, could not concentrate on his practice. Relying on his sharp sixth sense, he had found a cliff that overlooked the Sect Head’s front courtyard and had become a spectator.

When he saw the corpse creature shoot Black Light from its chest, penetrating the giant’s torso, he almost couldn’t help but rush down. Even his Tongming Sword Body felt a shiver at the rich aura of death emitted, yet Tang Luo managed to withstand it, even scaring off the corpse creature.

This extreme vitality made even him click his tongue in amazement, muttering, “Does such a terrifying genius truly exist in this world?”

The clash between powerful warriors could not be hidden from others, let alone a giant’s battle that had flattened half of an ancient residence.

Almost as soon as the conflict had begun, representatives from the Martial Hall and the clan’s representatives had shifted from a distant watching stance to being ready to provide support at any moment. If Tang Luo had not maintained an absolute advantage, there would have been reinforcements arriving from teams such as the Transcendent Squad, or even the Martial Ancestor Squad.

After all, adhering to rules and fair fighting is considered important, of course, but only if there’s a good chance of winning. The Sect Head of Lanshan City certainly wouldn’t let Tang Luo suffer a loss in his own territory.