Chapter 1186: Chapter 1185: Extreme Northern Lands Abundant in Schizophrenia

"I never expected the Nine-layered Immortal Venerable to really take action."

The Yin Yang Qi covered the sky like a dark curtain, and the Snow Emperor sighed softly. After all, Xue Shilou would sooner or later become the next Snow Emperor; some things could be told to him now without harm.

"Actually, there are two reasons why the Nine-layered Immortal Venerable has never left the wordless white jade token."

Upon hearing this, Meng Jingzhou couldn’t bother to pay attention to the fight in the sky anymore and hurried over to listen, dragging a small stool to the doorway.

The Snow Emperor gave Meng Jingzhou a cold glance. Following the direction indicated by the Snow Emperor, Meng Jingzhou saw no one behind him.

"There’s no one behind me, Your Excellency. It’s just us here," said Meng Jingzhou, his face reading "I am an honest child."

"I’m looking at you!" the Snow Emperor shouted, irate. You’re an outsider, why would you come over to eavesdrop on matters concerning the Snow Emperor lineage?

Ah? Was I not supposed to listen?

Seeing the Snow Emperor angered, those like Murong Grandpa and Huo Huashen, who’d also come over with a door plank, sulkily left.

"I am really one of our own." Meng Jingzhou took a book titled "Chaotic Qi, Yin and Yang, Three Talents, Four Symbols, Five Elements, Six Harmonies, Seven Luminaries, Eight Desolates, Nine Earths, Ten Heavens, Only I Am Venerated Immortal Technique" from his Identity Jade. This was the Nine-layered Immortal’s cultivation method, also known as the "Digital Immortal Skill."

His self-created Only I Am Venerated Fist was based on the Digital Immortal Skill. Technically, the Nine-layered Immortal could be considered his mentor.

"The Nine-layered Immortal Venerable’s Immortal Technique?"

The Snow Emperor was surprised; this truly was one of their own.

"Lord Snow Emperor, Fellow Daoist Meng is truly trustworthy; he would never speak a word of this to others," Xue Shilou said.

Resigned, the Snow Emperor sighed, "One reason the Venerable Immortal does not leave the white jade token is that he is avoiding an unspeakable and unknowable entity. The Immortal Venerable has always been secretive about this entity, and I, too, know nothing of it."

"The second reason is that the Immortal Venerable suffered an accident in Ancient Times, resulting in the emergence of a second personality."

"This second personality is extremely belligerent and prone to losing rationality. The Immortal Venerable fears that if his second personality takes control, it would lead to catastrophe, so he dares not leave the white jade token."

"So, it was a second personality," Lu Yang, who flew back just in time, overheard the Snow Emperor and resolved Fairy Eternity’s doubts.

Thinking about it, the Extreme Northern Lands seemed to make it easy for those he knew to have dual personalities. Xue Shilou before, Su Yuan after, and now there emerged another Nine-layered Immortal.

The Snow Emperor looked at Lu Yang, who had arrived, with a complex expression. He did not fuss over the eavesdropped conversation. If it were him facing The Controller, he would have been caught by now. Whereas Lu Yang managed to hold his own against The Controller with ease.

"The Venerable Immortal has always wanted to resolve his dual personalities issue. Hence, actually, having a dual personality is one of the conditions to become the Snow Emperor. It requires one to have had a dual personality once and then only one left, in hoping for us, generation after generation of Snow Emperors, to learn from the experience."

"...You people of the Snow Emperor lineage really do have your quirks."

In the entire Muxue City, only the Tiger Roar Martial Arts Hall had a relaxed atmosphere. The people of Muxue City were anxious about the battle between the two Immortals; a fight of this level was beyond their comprehension, impossible for them to understand.

The city lords who had come to watch knew even more, and thus, felt even more fear. Immortal beings meant mastery over certain rules; Fairies existed on a plane entirely separate from mortals, each gesture capable of altering the heavens.

They wanted to turn and run, but then they thought they would never witness another Immortal Battle in their lifetimes, so they couldn’t bring themselves to flee.

"Immortal Jiuchong, one of the Four Ancient Immortals, really has made an appearance," The Controller fought off his enemies with a Bone Staff, growing more and more excited as he fought.

Initially, when Yang Kongdong had sent him a message about Lu Yang carrying clues of the Four Ancient Immortals, he had been skeptical, suspecting that Yang Kongdong was simply fearful that The Controller would not come without such a lure, and Lu Yang’s steadfast denial made him doubtful.

Now, there was no need for doubt—Lu Yang indeed had a lead to the Four Ancient Immortals!

No, this could no longer be called just a clue. The Four Ancient Immortals they had been searching for so ardently had truly manifested!

Nowadays, day and night were one, with the day embodied by the Sun and night by the Moon; people of the world had never witnessed such a spectacle where both coexist. But there, Immortal Jiuchong stood, holding the Sun and Moon, his feet set upon the Tai Chi Diagram. In his presence, day and night, Yin and Yang, merged in stark harmony.

Upon seeing this scene, Chi Sect Leader and Elder Liu Zhen of the Yaoyang Sect couldn’t help but tremble and knelt to worship Immortal Jiuchong in the void; their sect had always esteemed the Sun as the most magnificent entity in the world.

Be it their previous ritual of sending people to the Sun or their current dedication to researching solar energy to propagate the grandeur of the Sun, it was all in honor of this belief.

And yet, the power of the Sun was but one aspect of Immortal Jiuchong’s Yin-Yang Dao Fruit.

If he proclaimed that what he held now was the true Sun, then it was indeed the true Sun!

The sky split into two at the will of Immortal Jiuchong—one side extreme Yang, and the other extreme Yin—a realm of both ice and fire.

Ancient legends spoke of the awe of the world at the event of Ten Suns hanging in the sky, but those ten suns were but ten Golden Crows—unworthy of comparison with the Sun manifested by Immortal Jiuchong.

"Go!"

Immortal Jiuchong hurled a fireball, which illuminated brilliantly. The Controller, single-handedly forming a spell, executed an Immortal Method which existed only during the Great Qian Period and was not recorded by later generations.

"Heavenly Gang Shield!"

Thirty-six Heavenly Gangs transformed into thirty-six layers of Vajra Cover in front of The Controller. However, faced with the Sun, these shields were like rice paper—easily torn apart, and the intense flames surged directly toward The Controller.

The Controller vigorously wielded his Bone Staff to deflect the fireball, which, upon falling a thousand miles away, exploded, creating an unfathomably deep pit. A long while later the gust of the explosion roared in, followed by the sound of its impact.

Direct contact with the fireball had singed and melted the skull atop the Bone Staff, but in the next moment, the skull miraculously restored itself.

The Bone Staff, refined from his own bones after The Controller became an Immortal, was his Life-bound Magical Treasure, made of Immortal Bone, possessed of tremendous self-healing powers.

However, what The Controller had not anticipated was that Immortal Jiuchong lay behind the fireball, and after it had been deflected, what followed was a sneering Jiuchong.

Immortal Jiuchong split his body in two—one half Yang and the other Yin—each representing the most extreme forces in the world. As he struck out with both fists, it signified the meeting of Yin and Yang, resulting in a terrifying spatial collapse.

The Controller conjured mist to blur Immortal Jiuchong’s vision and seized the moment to escape, transforming his Bone Staff into armor.

The skull of the Bone Staff affixed itself onto The Controller’s head as a helmet, the spinal column extended to clasp onto his back as a backplate, and the rib sections locked onto his chest as a breastplate; in an instant, The Controller was fully armed, ready for close combat with Immortal Jiuchong.

But he knew this alone was not enough—he needed to either capture or kill Immortal Jiuchong to free up the position held by the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit.

He couldn’t accomplish this alone, so he quietly crushed the Emperor’s Token to summon the help of Mid-heaven Emperor Lord in battle.

As the Emperor’s Token shattered, a spatial vortex emerged, and Mid-heaven Emperor Lord stepped out, only to hastily retract as if he had discovered something, causing the spatial vortex to vanish without a trace, leaving both Immortal Jiuchong and The Controller confused.

At the peak of the highest snow mountain outside Muxue City, a graceful figure leaned back in the Emperor’s Chair, watching the Immortal Battle within the city. At the moment the spatial vortex disappeared, she let out a soft sigh,

"Was it because I allowed some emotional Fluctuation when I saw Mid-heaven Emperor Lord, and he sensed my presence?"