Chapter 321 A New Path to Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation

The verification results of the Wan Jian main control scaled-down sample disk have sparked a restructuring of demand for high-end materials on the lunar surface on Earth.

The second batch of selected substrates and array disk prototypes has just been shipped back to the Guanghan base. The production lines on the moon are still running all night. Another issue that was temporarily postponed by mining and smelting has finally been put back on the table—that is, the lunar cold pressure that has been deposited in the permanent shadow area on the far side of the moon for billions of years.

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Kunlun, the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds.

This massive, heavy floating city hovered above the stratosphere, silently overlooking the azure homeworld below, which was enveloped in layers of psionic matrix.

Gu Qing stood before the precipice at the edge of the Heavenly Palace. The extreme gale-force winds high in the sky were silently shredded a foot away from his body. He made no unnecessary movements; his dark eyes revealed an inhuman, absolute calm and coldness.

Deep within his field of vision, a massive stream of system data was refreshing at a waterfall-like speed. From the establishment of the Great Sun Spirit-Attracting Array on the Tranquil Sea Plain to the casting of the Taiyi Furnace, the pace of advancement of Earth's cultivation industry was terrifyingly fast.

"Progress overflow is at the normal theoretical threshold of 410 percent." Gu Qing pulled up a set of cold, contrasting curves in his mind.

He knew very well that this almost mythical industrial leap was not simply due to the number of geniuses gathered on Earth. The path to exploring the extreme physical laws of the universe should have been paved with devastating failures, base collapses, and the sacrifice of tens of thousands of people.

But they had it too easy.

Because there is an invisible hand that has been firmly gripping the sights of civilization.

"When the Taiyi Furnace at the Guanghan Base was first ignited, the micro-fusion pressure of liquid helium-3 almost broke through the tungsten steel inner wall. If the array resonance frequency had not been lowered by 0.02 microseconds, there would already be a new crater with a diameter of 10 kilometers on the far side of the moon."

People attribute all of this to the explosion of scientific knowledge on cultivating immortality, breakthroughs in materials, and the prosperity of human fortune.

But Gu Qing knew that he was merely subtly manipulating the strings of probability behind the scenes. Like a ruthless yet patient operator, he left a glimmer of hope in a dead end, preventing civilization from suffering a precipitous stagnation in its early stages.

"System, execute cognitive intervention." Gu Qing withdrew his gaze and coldly issued the command, "Reduce the weight of worldly perceptions of my personal situation and the intervention of the 'Kunlun Sect' entity. Lower it by another 20%."

[Command confirmed. Causality masking activated, cognitive impairment in progress...]

There was no abrupt erasure of memories, nor any ostentatious manifestation of miracles.

Under the invisible operation of the system, a subtle shift in perception began to spread across the globe. From the top management in the joint control room to the engineers in the heavy machinery workshop, the concrete memories of "Kunlun" in their minds began to fade naturally, like ink spreading in water.

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Meanwhile, at the Guanghan Base, 380,000 kilometers away.

Humanity is using its ambition to try to unlock a forbidden power that has never been truly touched even in Earth's time.

Deep in the Aitken Basin.

This is the Moon's permanently shadowed region. Due to the towering craters blocking its view, it has never seen a ray of starlight for billions of years. In the deathly stillness of the vacuum, an extremely pure, frigid pressure has accumulated.

Three heavy-duty titanium steel drilling rigs slowly advanced in the darkness. The blinding, cold white searchlights shone on the pitch-black rock, the light seemingly swallowed up by the surrounding deep cold.

"The second array eye is physically anchored. However, the temperature is too low, and the environmental parameters are approaching the danger threshold. The normal true essence conduction rate has dropped by sixty percent." In the communication channel, the engineer's voice was trembling noticeably.

Li Xiang, the new generation research group leader of the Array Academy, was standing inside a fully enclosed hover command vehicle. He was wearing extremely heavy [Xuanwu-III] cold-resistant armor and staring intently at the thermal imaging and spiritual pressure feedback screen in front of him.

The Guanghan Base has already intercepted the Extreme Yang True Fire on the sunny side using the [Great Sun Spirit-Attracting Array]. However, this planet is extremely fragmented; isolated Yang cannot produce life. The Yin energy in the shadowy region on the far side of the moon, considered a "fatal threat," is the final piece of the puzzle to complete the entire lunar cultivation industry chain.

"Everyone, operate your true energy at full capacity and hold firm against the cold-resistant array patterns! Prepare to activate the [Taiyin Spirit Locking Array]!" Li Xiang gritted his teeth and gave the order.

At the bottom of the pitch-black pit, thirty-six heavy alloy magic pillars, engraved with high-level spirit-gathering and temperature-locking array patterns, were slammed into the lunar crust amidst the roar of hydraulic mechanical arms.

"Formation loop closed! Initiate absorption!"

Om-!

This wasn't a roar of igniting energy, but an extremely muffled, collapsing sound, as if even dimensions were freezing. The Yin-Yang frost, accumulated over billions of years, was forcibly gathered by the formation. This frost wasn't just low temperature; it was an extremely domineering rule of annihilation.

Almost the instant the formation was activated, a sudden change occurred.

Click click click—!

Terrifying ice cracks instantly spread across the special isolation glass of the command vehicle. Simultaneously, the temperature monitors on the armor surfaces of all the engineering monks working outdoors emitted extremely sharp overload alarms.

"The concentration of Taiyin cold pressure exceeds the theoretical calculation value by 300%! The flow of the spirit-locking array is not smooth, and the base shows signs of lattice freezing cracks!" the observer roared in horror.

The power of Yin was too overwhelming. It directly crushed the "perfect circuit" that the array masters had conjured up on paper. At this rate, in at most ten seconds, the terrifying backlash of cold pressure would instantly freeze everyone present into lifeless microscopic ice sculptures.

Above the Kunlun Heavenly Palace.

Gu Qing watched this scene quietly. He did not immediately step in to analyze the underlying logic of the formation as he usually did, but instead watched the mortals struggling in the extreme cold, trying to cut the pipelines.

Until the critical value representing the collapse of the formation is exceeded in the last second.

Gu Qing lowered his eyes slightly, and a wisp of divine thought crossed the sea of ​​stars, touching the bedrock of the seventh node of the Spirit Locking Array in an extremely slight and imperceptible way.

This slight external physical vibration caused the thirty-six pillars of Dharma, which were on the verge of breaking, to undergo an extremely strange "resonance shift." The violent Yin cold pressure struck this shift point, like a flood rushing into an extremely intricate floodgate, forcibly twisting the violent straight impact into a gentle spiral vortex.

"Pressure...the pressure has stabilized!" 380,000 kilometers away, the observer shouted incredulously, "The redundant loop of the seventh array is perfectly positioned at the resonance dead zone! The diversion pipeline is clear!"

Li Xiang took a deep breath, his body instantly soaked with cold sweat. He clenched his fists tightly, thinking that the team's extreme pressure resistance design had come into play at the last moment.

"Stabilize the seal! Mechanical arm, push in the zero-degree collection box!" Li Xiang, who had just escaped death, roared as he gave the order.

At the center of the spiral vortex, the extremely violent Yin cold pressure was forcibly squeezed and collapsed. In this deathly silent vacuum, there was no white vapor, only a high-energy fluid with a deep, dark blue color, which fell extremely slowly, like heavy metals such as lead and mercury, drop by drop, into a specially made dark black collection box.

Five hours of high-risk work.

When the heavy gate of the collection box sealed shut with an airtight seal, everyone collapsed inside the command vehicle, utterly exhausted. Inside the box lay the first batch of liquid Yin energy extracted by the cultivation civilization.

Forty-eight hours later, in the Earth Joint Control Room.

Inside the explosion-proof isolation chamber, a drop of "Extreme Yang Spirit Liquid" emitting a dark golden light and a drop of "Taiyin Liquid Spirit Matter" emitting a ghostly blue light were respectively suspended in an absolute magnetic confinement tray.

Wang Mingyuan, Lin Feng, and the Dean of the Array Court stared intently at the two industrial samples that represented the most extreme forces in the universe.

"The Academy of Sciences has completed the energy compatibility calculations." Lin Feng looked at the data panel, his voice cold and hard yet tinged with fervor. "These two forces simply cannot coexist in Earth's natural world. But the Moon, an extreme celestial body tidally locked, provides the perfect furnace."

The dean stepped forward, leaning on his cane, his eyes sharp as knives: "This is not a simple collection of materials; this is an entirely new approach."

Earth's environment is too mild; cultivators can only absorb spiritual energy filtered by the atmosphere in a methodical way. But on the moon, everything is different.

"The cultivators at the Guanghan Base may completely abandon traditional breathing techniques."

The old dean presented the "Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Plan," which had just completed its physical modeling.

"On the sunny side, we can set up an Extreme Yang Slow-Release Array. We can dismantle the Extreme Yang load intercepted by the Great Sun Spirit-Attracting Array layer by layer, filtering out the most violent high-energy part, and only retaining the part that the cultivator's body can withstand, to nourish the blood and temper the bones and muscles."

"On this side of the permanent shadow zone, the [Taiyin Guiding Array] will be established. The annihilation nature of the Taiyin cold pressure will be stripped away, leaving behind relatively stable cold-attribute spiritual matter, which cultivators can slowly refine after their shift ends, to settle their true essence, stabilize their divine sense, and broaden their meridians."

The old dean raised his head and his gaze swept over everyone present.

"The moon will not only be a mining site in the future, but also a place with the most extreme and optimal conditions for cultivation. The extreme yang and yin resources that are impossible to obtain on Earth can be incorporated into a systematic, controllable, and allocable cultivation sequence here."

This is certainly not the vulgar "dual cultivation" filled with lustful connotations found in old-fashioned fantasy legends.

This is a new branch of Yin-Yang dual cultivation that the industrial cultivation civilization has forcibly created under extreme external conditions, relying on array buffers, work zone rotation, and resource dilution.

It's neither about swallowing fire directly nor about enduring the icy pressure.

Instead, the power of the two polar celestial bodies, which was originally enough to kill, is reduced to a threshold that cultivators can withstand, and then gradually incorporated into the long-term tempering of the physical body, meridians, and soul.

"This system is still dangerous, but the danger has been brought under control," the old dean said slowly. "It's not meant for people to risk their lives, but rather to provide an extra training boost to those stationed on the moon. Whoever can stay on the moon long-term will be the first to access this new path."

After listening, Wang Mingyuan remained silent for a few seconds before setting the tone.

"Classify it as top secret." His tone showed no hesitation. "Start by selecting people from the core lunar cultivators for a trial. The Extreme Yang Slow-Release Array, the Taiyin Flow Guiding Array, and the corresponding rotation training standards will all be developed as separate projects."

"From today onward, the moon will no longer be just our mine, energy station, and outpost."

"It will also be a testing ground for the new cultivation system of the cultivation civilization."

Kunlun, the Heavenly Palace on the Clouds.

Gu Qing listened quietly to the discussions and resolutions coming from the internal channel.

As cognition fades, his traces in the secular world are becoming increasingly faint. Humans no longer subconsciously wait for some kind of guidance from above, but instead begin to dissect problems, define boundaries, and establish paths for themselves.

Gu Qing gazed at the distant, cold moon, and a faint smile finally appeared in her eyes.

He said softly, "That's more like it."