Dao Seeking Mountain. An ascetic force claiming their main objective is either the unification with, or the comprehension of the Dao. Living in the mountains in the south-eastern province, these Taoists mainly focuses on the concept of self, aiming to improve all facets of themselves, especially their knowledge and affinity with nature, casting aside all sorts of worldly desire in the process, their lifestyle completely different from that of the Valley of Harmony’s disciple.
Despite the extreme difference in their way of life though, these Taoists and the lost dual cultivators still have something in common, their interest towards harmony and the interaction between yin and yang.
While the dual cultivators capitalize on this fundamental concept by complementing the yin and yang energy from two existence in a process of uniting with each other, the Taoists uses it to comprehend the concept of action and reaction, the countless years of arduous research and study from great figures of this force creating a terrifying technique that serves as the very foundation of the Dao Seeking Mountain, the Yin-yang Overturn.
As Dao Xuanyuan pushed the attack using his left palm, the gigantic wave of fire turned its back towards him, now moving towards the one who created and send the very same attack, the flame wave appearing to be moving even faster than it did previously.
“He used it!! Senior brother used it!!”
“That’s the pride of our Dao Seeking Mountain!!! Senior brother is really strong!!”
“Hahahaha!!! That Su Tian should be surprised as well right!”
“No way he won’t, that looks like a trump card type of attack and senior brother is not even budging from it!!”
As the disciples of the Dao Seeking Mountain discusses excitedly while looking at the attack returning to the sender, the ones they’re talking about, Wu Xiaotian and Dao Xuanyuan, was clearly aware of how difficult it was for Dao Xuanyuan to deflect and return that attack, and the reason for that will be revealed once the attack obstructing the vision of the audience is cleared.
Swinging the blade sturdily, Wu Xiaotian severs the attack into two, the force from his attack completely dispersing the flame into the air around the two of them, forming a spherical torrent of flame surrounding the two of them.
“You’re still holding back, aren’t you?” Dao Xuanyuan asked as he look at the young man in front of him, smiling wryly as he watches him nod at his question, pretty much confirming the guess in his mind.
“How much?” he continues asking while infusing his qi in his burnt hands, twitching from the pain despite him not feeling it.
“A lot” hearing his question, Wu Xiaotian just answered while waving his left hand, the burns from Dao Xuanyuan’s hands completely disappearing, the skin completely recovering to a perfect state in just a matter of seconds.
“Holy… you have wood attribute qi as well?” looking at the green glow remaining on his hands, Dao Xuanyuan shouts in surprise while looking at the immortal-like young man with a stupefied look on his face, the absurdity of the fact that the young man appears to possess dual attribute qi still trying to sink in his mind.
“You scared?” after they fought for a while, Wu Xiaotian already has the general grasp of the Dao Xuanyuan’s character, clearly someone that has his own bottom line that he will always refuse to cross, a man with his own principles and sticks to it, and such character made it so that interaction with him becomes acceptable to Wu Xiaotian.
“Who the hell is scared? I’m just surprised! A little bit…” retorting at the statement, Dao Xuanyuan replied aggressively with an annoyed face, putting his right hand in the handle of his sword once again, drawing it once more and pointing it towards Wu Xiaotian.
“Since I can’t beat you with raw force, I’ll just stick to battle tactics and close quarter combat” Dao Xuanyuan stated as he dashed towards Wu Xiaotian once again, the sword and the blade clashing causing the wind in the surrounding to rage again, clearing the sphere of flame surrounding them, revealing their figures to the audience once more.
As they continue their clash, some of the more observant ones started noticing that the army representing Dao Xuanyuan’s intent is starting to get pushed back, the thing unnoticeable to normal eyes as the battle between the two still looks like it is in a stalemate, the two locked in the same position just standing in front of each other while they continue attacking each other.
“Hahaha, Su Tian, this is a really fun match, pity that I can’t keep up for much longer, so let’s end this in one move” creating a distance between the two of them, Dao Xuanyuan said while holding his sword up, wiping it with his free hand causing one side of it to turn completely white and the other completely black. As qi surges around the sword, they eventually turn into the same color, gradually getting absorbed by the sword.
“This is something that I made up all by myself as a way to express my disdain to the creator of my sect’s greatest technique…” he said while pointing the tip of his sword towards his opponent before he starts talking again, “call it a sort of mockery to their foresight for only creating this thing solely for defense without any offensive capability when its clearly derived from the concept of yin and yang”
“Did I hear it right?”
“Yeah, that seems to be the case”
“That genius from the Dao Seeking Mountain… created his own technique…”
While the audience is astounded with what Dao Xuanyuan just said, another set of voice starts sneering at them as if mocking people that just came out of a backwater place.
“Humph, isn’t it just a self-created technique, for all we know, it might not even measure up to a common technique that can be picked up by anyone!!”
“Yeah, just because someone can create something doesn’t mean it’s good”
“Hahahah, truly ignorant bunch”
While the people all around have the capability to argue, they just refused to do so as they saw the purple robes the mocking group wears, indicating their identity as disciples of the Purple Lightning Temple, making the ones discussing the self-created technique previously to just go on ignoring the remarks as if they’re just some flies in the air, their discussion continuing without any problem.
“I’ll match your strike, friend” seeing the determination in Dao Xuanyuan’s eyes, Wu Xiaotian also prepared an attack to go with, this time infusing soul power in his blade causing it to glow an ethereal white, the peculiar glow of the weapon making it look like its appearing and disappearing in the air.
“That’s more than what I could ask for” hearing the immortal-like young man’s reply, Dao Xuanyuan just show an accomplished smile as he tightens all the muscle in his body, thrusting the sword in his hand in a singular, swift and simple motion that looks so slow in the audiences’ eyes.
As the body of his opponent moves, Wu Xiaotian responded in kind, swinging the blade downwards, the simple movement appearing all terrifying as his body exudes an unbreakable confidence as if no one under, or even above the heavens is his match.
“Yin-yang Overturn: Pierce”
“Soul Art: Cleave”
Muttering simultaneously, their last words before the match end comes out of their mouth, completely aware that win or defeat, they already gained something extremely beneficial from this match.
