Yin Body, Yang Soul—A Solar Sovereign Physique?

As Su Min withdrew from her Solar Sovereign Physique state, the overwhelming sensation vanished—leaving the cultivators of the Golden Core Avenue bewildered, unable to trace its origin.

Inside the Lunar Sovereign Secret Realm, silence reigned.

The earlier commotion had been too intense, startling even Su Min into instinctively retreating. The moment she broke contact, the radiant white light shattered like thin ice, and the resonant echoes of the Grand Dao faded into silence.

For a long moment, the two women simply stared at each other.

Especially Xie Yingying.

Her expression was… complicated. Dark eyes wide, lips slightly parted, her chest rising and falling just a fraction too fast. Something primal and unreadable flickered in her gaze—something that made Su Min feel abruptly, uncomfortably seen.

"What was that?" Xie Yingying finally managed, her voice uncharacteristically unsteady. "And how did you break the 'Yin and Yang Shall Never Meet' curse?"

Just moments ago, the moment her inheritance had fully settled, an irresistible impulse had seized her—a pull so visceral it overrode thought. She'd lunged at Su Min without thinking, their palms meeting not in violence, but in something far more unsettling. There had been no force behind it. Only need.

Su Min exhaled sharply. "Taiyang Qi. When I endured my tribulation, I was bathed in heavenly lightning for ten years. A wisp of it took root in me. Here, I… activated it fully." She flexed her fingers, as if testing the remnants of that power. "Become temporary Solar Sovereign Physique. But it's not the real thing—I can only hold it for minutes a day."

She didn't understand the look on Xie Yingying's face. To her, it had just been power—raw and overwhelming, yes, but ultimately just another tool. She hadn't felt the way the Grand Dao sang between them, hadn't tasted the centuries-old longing etched into the very fabric of their physiques. If she had, she might have recognized the hunger in Xie Yingying's eyes for what it was.

But the roar of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth was too scary. If she hadn't shut it down, the phenomenon would've rippled beyond the Golden Core Avenue.

Some long-sealed powerhouses might've even risked the Heaven-Man Five Decays to investigate. To hear the Dao in the morning and die at dusk—some would consider it worth it.

"Do you know the true nature of the Lunar Sovereign and Solar Sovereign?"

"Huh?"

Su Min blinked. In the game, physiques were just data entries—nothing like the real experience. All she knew was that they were stupidly strong and hit like trucks.

"Ugh, you—"

Seeing Su Min's blank look, Xie Yingying suppressed her rippling feeling. But it wasn't Su Min's fault that she was confused. Because this was also what she heard in the inheritance, compared with Su Min who was not loved by her uncle and grandmother and was sent away with a sealed ancient book.

It is obvious that what Xie Yingying obtained is more complete, and she even has many inherited memories. She knew the legends. Knew the weight of what had just passed between them. And that made it all the more unbearable.

"The Lunar Sovereign and Solar Sovereign Physiques are perfect opposites—the only two physiques in existence so diametrically opposed. Do you know why?"

"No."

Su Min answered without shame. How the hell would I know?

"You—!"

Xie Yingying rolled her eyes at Su Min's shameless ignorance.

"It's because both are incomplete. Only by merging can they supplement each other—and that supplementation can only manifest in the next generation. But that's impossible."

"Why?"

Su Min frowned. "Yin and Yang merging births Chaos—shouldn't that work?"

"Because the Heavenly Dao fears it—or rather, something fears it. According to my predecessor's research, an ancient, terrifying force paid an unimaginable price to cast a curse."

"A curse?"

"The saying 'Yin and Yang Shall Never Meet' doesn't just mean the two physiques are once-in-ten-millennia rarities. It means only one can exist per era. The next can only be born after the previous one perishes completely. Something is afraid—terrified—of what would happen if they met."

Xie Yingying's voice was laced with fury—until it suddenly morphed into shock as Su Min uttered two words:

"Chaos Physique."

"???"

Xie Yingying's face was a picture of confusion.

Su Min sighed. In the game, the only T0-tier physique was the Chaos Physique—a concept found only in datamined files, never officially released.

The developers had claimed:

"The Chaos Physique is too overpowered. We believe such a supreme physique should require special conditions and questlines to unlock—making it truly legendary. It will be introduced in the upcoming DLC: Whispers of Chaos."

Translation:

"We're working on it, shut up."

"Want to play Chaos Physique? Give us money."

But the DLC never came. According to the devs, the game was meant to have three to four massive expansions—the current Path of Immortality was just a sliver of the world.

So Su Min only knew fragments of the Chaos Physique's lore.

"The Chaos Physique—from what I've heard, it's a physique that encompasses all. My Five Elements Holy Body, your Lunar Sovereign Physique, even the Great Desolate Holy Body—they're all just components of the Chaos Physique."

Her knowledge was sparse, but the internal beta tests had leaked enough to cement its status as the ultimate physique.

"What's unreleased is always the strongest."

Hiss—

Xie Yingying inhaled sharply. Even this sliver of information was earth-shattering. Each of these physiques was once-in-an-era, many mutually incompatible. Yet the Chaos Physique could assimilate them all—and that wasn't even its true power.

"A physique like that… I've never even heard rumors of it."

But it explained the Dao resonance earlier—Yin and Yang merging to birth Chaos.

"The inheritance is settled. Let's go—there's nothing left here. Time to prepare for the Golden Core Heavenly Ranking."

Su Min turned to leave—then froze. Xie Yingying's fingers had closed around her wrist.

"Are you…" Xie Yingying's voice was rough, lower than usual. "Metamorph?"

Su Min's brain short-circuited. "The hell?"

She should've shaken her off. Should've snarled. But the way Xie Yingying stared at her—like she was a puzzle, a revelation, prey—rooted her in place.

"What do you mean?"

Xie Yingying stepped closer. Too close. "A person consists of body and soul. Men are Yang, women are Yin." Her free hand rose, hovering near Su Min's collarbone as if pulled by magnetism. "But you—Yin body, Yang soul. Otherwise, you could never have activated the Solar Sovereign Physique. Isn't that like tadpoles? Undergoing metamorphosis as they grow."

"..."

Su Min had no rebuttal.

Damn, she's got a point.

But since when did you study biology?!

Then Xie Yingying's thumb brushed the inside of her wrist.

A spark. A jolt.

Su Min recoiled as if scalded. "The fuck's wrong with you?!"

Xie Yingying didn't retreat. If anything, her gaze grew hungrier. "Want to… try it again?"

Oh.

The realization hit like a thunderclap. This wasn't just curiosity—it was gravitational. The Solar Sovereign physique called to the Lunar Sovereign like tide to moon, and Xie Yingying was drowning in it.

Su Min bared her teeth. "Piss off. I get three minutes a day. You think that's enough to—"

"—To what?" Xie Yingying interrupted, voice velvet-wrapped steel.

"To survive the way you look at me.", Su Min didn't say.

Instead, she wrenched free and shoved Xie Yingying back. "To cultivate, you lunatic. Now move. Before I move you."

The excuse rang hollow even in her own ears. Three minutes wasn't enough for proper cultivation—and she knew it. But this was her trump card, something to be used sparingly, strategically. Not wasted on… whatever this was.

Xie Yingying let her go—but the way her fingers lingered, the way her qi still churned, screamed one truth: This wasn't over.

"How long were we in seclusion?"

Xie Yingying's tone returned to its usual frostiness.

"About… twenty-eight years."

Su Min pulled out a tiny hourglass pinned to her waist—a seemingly decorative trinket.

[Unending Timer (High-tier Yellow Grade)]

A timekeeping artifact that never stops, powered by trace ambient spiritual energy.

A simple tool, crafted to withstand extreme environments.

"Twenty-eight years… The Golden Core Heavenly Ranking isn't far off. Time to consolidate our gains—you've reached late Golden Core too."

Xie Yingying nodded, eyeing Su Min. The realm's Yin-Yang energies had been mostly drained by them. At late Golden Core, one could attempt Core Shattering—but most waited until Great Perfection.

Think of it like:

Mid Golden Core: Capacity = 700

Late Golden Core: Capacity = 1000

Great Perfection: Filling that 1000 to the brim.

With her divine materials, Su Min could shatter her Core now—but that would eject her from the Golden Core Avenue. And appearing in the outside world as an early Nascent Soul cultivator would be way too conspicuous. Most Nascent Soul cultivators burned 100-200 years of lifespan just resisting the Heaven-Man Five Decays for a decade. Su Min wasn't in a hurry. With the Nascent Soul Pill, her odds would be even better.

"No one complains about being too safe."

"Step on it."

Su Min summoned her shield artifact, though it was too small for two. So she scooped Xie Yingying up in a princess carry—

And blinked out of existence.

Then—

Splash!

"Su Min. Where the hell did you hide this thing?!"

The shield had a flaw—it required pre-placing one end at the destination.

Su Min's "safe spot" had been…

"A dried-up well. I even made a stealth artifact to mask it."

"You call this a dried-up well?! Get your hand off my waist! It's disgusting in here—let's get out first!"

"Uh…"

Su Min chuckled awkwardly. Clearly, the well had changed over twenty-eight years. Soon, the two emerged—drenched and disheveled—before cleansing themselves with spiritual energy. As late Golden Core cultivators, purifying their clothes (which were treasure-grade anyway) was trivial.

Su Min also retrieved the two artifacts. Though niche, they were still valuable—despite the inflexible teleport conditions.

"The Lunar Sovereign Secret Realm has closed… You still have the Solar Sovereign Ancient Scripture, right? Otherwise, with only a few minutes of your time every day, you would not be able to develop your abilities."

"I do, but it's incomplete. Probably to avoid capacity conflicts—the Five Elements legacy is more important to me."

Su Min agreed. Whatever her true physique was, the Five Elements Holy Body offered the broadest growth.

As for the rest?

Well, the game had unreleased DLCs. Who knows what other physiques are out there?

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Anyway, I still stand on my opinions same like in the prev chapter. Before that, noted: it seems like this story is "narrated" by Su Min herself.. (In original novel most of narration is using "I" when narrating the story)

1) I believe that she in her original world is a person who doesn't care that much about "gender norm", or just very independent and strong woman. Coupled with the different perception and thoughts between "Ancient" and "Modern" woman also have role on this matter.

2) The "Player body" that also transmigrated with her also having important role in this matter. It can increase the possibility that she able to wield or have Solar Sovereign Body despite being a female.

3) "As for the eerie feeling of fate intertwining with Xie Yingyin"- It seems that her arrival (her transmigration) is detected by Yingying Elder's when they did Divination for Yingying. Sealing Xie Yingying on backwater place like Great Wei, and the Taiyin Secret Realm is too much of coincidence. 

If she hadn't sealed on Great Wei, she wouldn't met with Su Min. Without meeting with her, she can't get the "Taiyin Ancient Scripture" as it need alchemist+Nanming Lihuo+Eastern Azure Wood. Even if somehow she met with other people who wield Five Elements Holy Body, she still can't get the scripture as Taiyang Qi in the secret realm is not absorbed (If you read the previous chapter and early of this chapter- to get the Scripture, the balance of Yin-Yang harmony must be broken). Certainly normal "Flame body" can't absorb that much of Taiyang Qi.

In conclusion, she need Solar Sovereign Body to get the scripture. Meaning, her elder knew that there's high probability of "Solar Sovereign Body" holder will appear at Great Wei.

4) From what I knew, physique is divided by 2, innate and acquired, much like the Divine Abilities. Certainly "primordial" physique like Lunar and Solar Sovereign Body, are innate and it impossible for someone to acquire it. But both innate and acquired physique usually able to be "upgrade" such as in Su Min case. From "Blazing Sun Body" to "Flame-wood Holy Body" which is *part* of "Five Elements Holy Body".

5) The last is because the "world background" itself. Let's skip about the truth or false about this world first. Focus on the "background" itself (from Su Min knowledge). It based on game "Path of Immortality" where "Player" is the heroes that thrown into this world. Meaning that they have "Plot Armor", and "Boost of advantage" compared to locals. In Su Min case, beside her Immortality talent, her innate divine ability (Heavenly Dao Insight), her "Player" body, and her knowledge that she get from the "game". Her new body as in her "High Innate spiritual potential" and "Genius in epochs" - guaranteed by by Demon Queen- she also have Five Elements Holy Body. She also get her Solar Sovereign Body from her own soul potential. Boosted by her "Player" body the impossible become possible. She is the "Hero" of this world, isn't it normal to get that much boost and able to break the "curse"?