Chapter 21:yin and yang

Yi Nuo had received enlightenment in the laws of Heaven and Earth. She was known in front of her master, the ancestress of the Liushangong Sect, Yang Shi Yun. Technically she did not have the Ou family name, because they were her relatives by mother's side.

"Please, forgive me for my late coming I came into an opportunity that helped my cultivation sky rock." Yi Nuo said bowing respectfully.

"There is no problem my disciple, but I am curious, what kind of opportunity had you found that allowed you to jump all the way from the demigod realm to the Earth Tribulation Realm?" Yang Shi Yun asked.

"Ahem. Dual cultivation."Yi Nuo said the last two words so fast that mortal would not even be able to understand, but it was obviously not a problem for a Dao Cultivator.

"So you found someone with a yang body? You decided to due dual cultivation with him. Are you sure about this decision? I have already told you of how people with this body act like jerks, some even make it with newborns. Ugh! " Yang Shi Yun said.

"Jadhiel is not like that." Yi Nuo said."Master, you have no idea of how much work it took for me to court him. Not that I am complaining; I really did enjoy it a lot..."Yi Nuo said.

"You courted him?"Yang Shi Yun asked surprised.

"Yes."

"But how is your relationship with his other mistress? No one bullied you right? If so your master can give them a piece of her mind to them..." Yang Shi Yun said padding Yi Nuo had. Her disciple was practically a daughter to her.

"No one bullied me. In fact, my boyfriend did not have any mistress." Yi Nuo said.

"Are you sure? Is he not hiding it from you?" Yang Shi Yun asked.

"No. I already made a thorough background check. He only had a girlfriend before, but she apparently is now dead." Yi Nuo said.

"How was passing the tribulations?"Yang Shi Yun asked.

"Well, I passed them during the dual cultivation. I did not even notice I passed through them, I only found out that I was at the Earth Tribulation Stage VIII, because my boyfriend warned me that I had already broken through a lot and that we should stop for me to stabilize my cultivation." Yi Nuo answered truthfully.

"How could you be so distracted to not hold down the tribulations? I warned you of how dangerous a tribulation was."Yang Shi Yun said.

"Sorry, master."Yi Nuo said bowing."But it was so good, I could not even pay attention. Remembering that moment better, now I see something...My boyfriend seemed to have released something that nullified the tribulation effect and turned it into nutrients to me. I think he passed through tribulations too, but I seemed to release this energy too." Yi Nuo said.

"Perfect harmony. Oh, heavens. My disciple, your relationship seemed to be really blessed by the heavens. You and your boyfriend seemed to have achieved perfect harmony, a state that only comes to be when dual cultivation partners are in perfect balance with each other. It would normally appear in couples that have been dual cultivating faithfully with each other for millennia." Yang Shi Yun said lively.

"Oh, master, I also gained enlightenment in the laws of Heaven and Earth." Yi Nuo said.

"Calm down. Let your master digest the information properly. All these surprises would totally screw with this poor old woman's health."Yang Shi Yun said.

"Master, your health is fine and you are a cultivator at the peak of cultivation your health is not that poor."

"Not the true peak my disciple, when you reach my cultivation level you will truly understand that there is a heaven above the heavens. Our sect for example may seem great in the eyes of people from the mortal continent, but we are only a small sect in the grand scheme of things. Now, changing the subject, now that your cultivation progressed so fast. You can now compete in the Human Alliance Tournament."

"Oh, yes. I thought I would have to pass a long time until I could participate in it. It is all thanks to Jadhiel."

The Human Alliance Tournament happened in the human region on the Immortal Plains, which were close to the legendary Green Sea. The Green Sea was the center of the immortal continent a closed sea, and the region with the densest amount of divine qi in the world, a lake filled with immortal seaweed herb and of which immortal herbs grow around it.

The region is known as the immortal disputed land, three factions dispute the control over the region for a long time, and several wars, tournaments, and competitions had already been done to redraw the map of the region.

One of the factions was the human faction where all normal or righteous human sects stood. The other was the evil faction, which was formed by the vampires, incubus/succubus, Nephilim, and some human evil sect(the weakest in this alliance). The last one was the southern alliance formed by the Elfs, Basajaun, Andaros, and Asura species.

This was the weakest of them all because all these species mostly live in their respective continents where divine qi and immortal herb were not much rarer than the Immortal Continent. So there were not that many practitioners from this species in the Immortal Continent, they can only have a number weight when joined together.

Their presence was there to guarantee each species could put some weight on the matters of the Immortal Continent. Each species however have the one they have closer ties with. Andaros and Asura were closer to the human faction, while Basajaun and Elfs were closer to the evil faction.

The tournament had three categories: inner disciple, outer elder, and inner elder. The categories are made based on the Humans sects close to the Green Sea, which was the strongest. Inner disciples accepted competitors under their fifty years and at the God Realm. Outer elders accept competitors under their hundred and at the Earth Tribulation Realm. Inner elders accept competitors under their two hundred years and at the Heaven Tribulation Realm.

Yi Nuo sent a message to inform Jadhiel that she would be busy learning from her master for a while.

Meanwhile, Jadhiel was reflecting on the law of Yin, as he recorded even single detail about his passionate night with Yi Nuo. Thinking about yin, stimulated his physic so his understanding of yang was also increasing sharply. After a week, he reached the peak of understanding about the two laws.

He passed two weeks increasing the cultivation of two Red Homunculus Pills to reach his level. He used the dual cultivation technique with the pills, to allow them to pass more easily to the Earth Tribulations Stages. He later ate the two pills, and the two laws merged with him.

The law of Yin made him more handsome, while the law of Yang gave him a sort of masculine charm and made his 'big brother' even bigger. Think we're different this time, however. His mind drifted off to some other place.

He could now he the immensity of the Heavens. It was like knowing one side of the going. The father-of-laws showed itself to him.

He could see in an ever-changing immenseness several famiĺiar laws, like the law of fire, of sun, of light, of mountains, movements, swordsmanship, spearmanship, archery, luck, and so on. He stood beyond and as the origin of all those. The yang. Much beyond the yang vitality, he was a side of the coins, which was reality. Jahdiel, however, was able to see much more than he should have. 'Was there a fissure?'

And his mind wandered, he let himself look into the other side of the coin. His vision was less clear. He saw a moon and a Darkess Cold Plain Inert Shielding of Misfortune. There were several other terms to describe that strange thing, but they did not come to his mind. He was able to look into one more place of interest before his consciousness was pushed back. He saw a formation, and he saw space and time.

'I need to go back, but why does this place seem familiar?'Jadhiel asked himself.

With this enlightenment his cultivation reach its peak, he was now close to his last Earth Tribulation. It was like the Liushangong Sect was a desert and it was coming to a fierce sand storm, like a dune the size of a mountain was coming to kill Jahdiel.

'Now, I know why it's called the strongest and most dangerous Earth Tribulation. Earth came burning trying to tear apart Jadhiel but to no avail. Jadhiel was thankfully his body cultivation had also increased sharply in his dual cultivation, and it was now in the Seventh Realm Stage IX. The earth took forms all, which attacked Jadhiel all at once.

There was an earth-like flame, that seems like burning dust; yang and ying earth; the earth that broke the sound barrier; wet earth; a very strong earth shield; pure earth; earth like heaven, earth like weight, earth like death; earth like plains, earth like mountains, earth like volcanoes, earth like rivers and seas, earth like moons, earth, an earth like vacuum; earth like formations, earth like misfortune, and so own.

Each one seemed like a counter for one of Jadhiel's laws some were imperfect, as some laws did not have a perfect counter. Jadhiel endured. When the tribulation ended and he was about half dead, Jadhiel was about to click on the revenge button. But his cultivation soon reached the peak and he recovered, he felt he could break through two more stages, but the Heavenly Tribulation was holding him back.

He clicked on the revenge button and got a bit of divine earth essence, it was useless to him. He decided to feed it to his soul. His soul physic was now halfway from improving. His soul was not that hungry though, so there was a bit left, which he would give to his pet.

'Now the next tribulations.'Jadhiel thought.

So he passed the first heavenly tribulation, the attack was not inferior to the Earth tribulation in raw power, but it was a less precise one, and Jadhiel had also gotten stronger so he passed it with no struggle. He reached the peak and passed his next tribulation, reached the peak again, and passed another one, and another. 'The improvement in the soul physic really made a difference.' Jadhiel thought. He was now at the Heaven Tribulation Stage V. His body cultivation was now at the Eighth Realm Stage V.