Chapter 597 - 595: Secrets of Yin and Yang

Once the Yin-Yang Fish Soup was served,

all the experts in the meditation chambers drank their soup and began to comprehend the Secrets of Yin and Yang.

Of course...

Some experts believed it shouldn’t be drunk all at once. They planned to drink it in several sittings to slowly savor its essence. Long Chan, Long Jingtian, Yang Qiong, and Bing Qianchi were among them.

Long Jingtian stared at the nine bowls of Yin-Yang Fish Soup before him and mused, ’His Majesty said that each bowl of Yin-Yang Fish Soup can support ten days of comprehension. These nine bowls are enough to sustain me for three months. I’ll take my time. Hopefully, I can grasp the Secrets of Yin and Yang in one go.’

Picking up the first bowl of Yin-Yang Fish Soup, a trace of hatred appeared in Long Jingtian’s eyes.

’First place gets to enjoy ten bowls of soup all to themselves. One extra bowl means a greater hope of comprehending the Secrets of Yin and Yang. Unfortunately, first place was stolen by Jiang Chen.’

Long Jingtian snorted coldly, his gaze venomous. ’Jiang Chen, don’t celebrate too early. The day the Celestial Secret Banquet ends will be the day I take your worthless life!’

He then gulped down the first bowl of Yin-Yang Fish Soup and entered a state of deep meditative comprehension.

Any expert would choose to enter deep seclusion after drinking the soup to focus without distractions. Besides, this was the Celestial Secret Pavilion’s Celestial Lake Tour Boat; they weren’t worried about anything happening to their soup.

And indeed, no accidents had ever occurred at past Celestial Secret Banquets.

But this time...

’Hehe, as expected, some idiot decided to save his soup to drink slowly. Long Jingtian, you’re dead set on killing Jiang Chen, which means you’re making an enemy of me. I really want to squash you with my claw. But your life belongs to Jiang Chen, so today, I’ll just take your soup!’ In the darkness, the Black Emperor’s figure slowly materialized, and with a swipe of his claw...

The remaining eight bowls of soup all landed in the Black Emperor’s paws.

The Black Emperor was about to leave when he paused. His eyes darted around, and then, with his two fleshy wings clasped behind his back, he strolled leisurely over to the empty bowls. A moment later, each of the eight bowls was filled with a murky, foul-smelling yellow liquid.

The Black Emperor then proceeded to the next meditation chamber...

He was incredibly fast, appearing and disappearing without a trace. A few double-hours later, the Black Emperor returned to Jiang Chen’s meditation chamber.

The Black Emperor glanced at Jiang Chen, who was in seclusion, grinned, and flew directly onto his shoulder. He pried open Jiang Chen’s mouth. "Jiang Chen, you’d better thank me for this! I’m pouring over fifty bowls of soup down your throat. If you still can’t comprehend the Secrets of Yin and Yang after this, all my good intentions will have gone to waste!"

GLUG! GLUG! GLUG!

A total of fifty-six bowls of soup were poured into Jiang Chen’s mouth.

The black and white light emanating from Jiang Chen grew stronger and stronger.

Bathed in the black and white light, Jiang Chen felt that the previously vague Secrets of Yin and Yang in his mind were suddenly becoming crystal clear. ’What’s going on? So this is the true essence of the Secrets of Yin and Yang? The path I was on before was wrong... Hahaha, so this is how it’s done! This is great...!’

Time flew by.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the experts who had only drunk one bowl of Yin-Yang Fish Soup all woke up and began to consume their second bowl.

「Inside Long Jingtian’s meditation chamber.」

He opened his eyes, his face filled with urgency. ’I was so close to sensing the Secrets of Yin and Yang! No, I have to drink the second bowl, quickly!’

GULP!

He downed the bowl, but there was no reaction. Instead, his mouth was filled with a foul, reeking odor.

’Huh? Did the taste change because it was left out for too long? Whatever, I’ll just keep meditating!’

A moment later, Long Jingtian’s eyes snapped open in frustration. ’How could this be? I can’t sense the Secrets of Yin and Yang at all anymore! Was it not enough?’

Without a second look, he consecutively downed three more bowls.

The only result was a wave of nausea and dry heaving; there was no other effect.

’What the hell is going on? Did the soup really go bad from sitting out too long?’ Long Jingtian looked at the remaining five bowls in disbelief. At that glance, his face turned green.

"Wh-what is this? Why is this urine?! Where’s my soup? No... don’t tell me I just drank urine? Bleargh..."

Long Jingtian trembled all over, collapsing to the floor and vomiting uncontrollably.

He splattered vomit all over the floor.

Long Jingtian felt like he was about to vomit up his own stomach. His face, ashen with rage, contorted. "What the hell happened? How did my perfectly good soup turn into urine?"

Just then, Long Jingtian suddenly heard an enraged roar from the adjacent meditation chamber—Long Chan’s chamber.

"What happened?"

Long Jingtian scrambled out of his chamber.

He saw Long Chan, his face ashen, leaning against a wall and vomiting violently. Soon after, more chamber doors burst open, and Yang Qiong and Bing Qianchi rushed out.

The expressions on their faces were all equally grim.

Long Jingtian swallowed hard, a terrible thought occurring to him. The corner of his eye twitched as he looked at the others. "Don’t tell me... your soup also turned into... *that*?"

"Yours too?"

"Fuck, what the hell is going on?"

"How the fuck should I know? I drank two bowls of piss too...!"

Hearing that last word, the group’s faces turned shades of green and white. After a moment, they all grabbed the wall for support, and a series of overlapping sounds echoed down the hallway...

"BLEARGH!"

"BLEARGH! BLEAARGH!"

"Don’t let me find out who did this, or I’ll tear them to a million pieces... Bleargh..."

...

「Meanwhile.」

In Jiang Chen’s meditation chamber, the Black Emperor sneezed. His small head cocked, looking around in confusion. ’What was that? Is someone cursing me?’

"Hm?"

The Black Emperor’s expression suddenly froze.

He looked toward Jiang Chen and saw the light of Yin and Yang around him suddenly retract, converging entirely into his body. A powerful ripple of energy emanated from him.

Above Jiang Chen’s head, a Tai Chi Diagram was slowly taking shape.

’Is that the Secrets of Yin and Yang? Jiang Chen succeeded?’ The Black Emperor shot upright, his face ecstatic.

That Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram grew brighter and more dazzling.

The moment the Tai Chi Diagram fully formed was the moment Jiang Chen mastered the Secrets of Yin and Yang. And just as he mastered them, the Chaos Bloodline within him began to surge violently.

BOOM!

The Tai Chi Diagram shot into Jiang Chen’s body, where it was directly absorbed by his Chaos Bloodline, merging with it completely!

The Chaos Bloodline.

It embraced all things, a Sea of All Rivers.

Only by continuously comprehending different Martial Dao Origins and refining them into the bloodline could its power be enhanced. Before this, Jiang Chen had mastered seven great Mystical Techniques: Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind; Light; Darkness; and Time!

Now, with the addition of the Secrets of Yin and Yang, a total of eight great Mystical Techniques were integrated into his Chaos Bloodline.

This caused the power of Jiang Chen’s bloodline to surge once again.

Jiang Chen’s eyes snapped open, a sharp glint flashing within them. He flipped his hand, produced the True Dragon Blood Ginseng, and swallowed it in one gulp. ’After I refine this True Dragon Blood Ginseng, I should be able to completely refine the Void Realm Heart. Long Jingtian, the day the Celestial Secret Banquet ends will be the day your head hits the floor!’