The Yin-Yang Harmony Technique allowed dual cultivation to facilitate a fusion and convergence of True Yuan between both partners, transforming their True Yuan in revolutionary ways. Even Divine Sense could be shared in the same manner.
As Su Yan experienced the kind of ecstasy that made her want to scream, she felt waves of profound and mysterious energy flowing over from Yang Kai's spiritual soul.
Every insight Yang Kai held regarding the Heavenly Dao and martial cultivation was being shared with her in that moment.
Su Yan dared not be careless. She opened her heart and soul to receive it all, storing every revelation deep within the recesses of her spirit.
Yang Kai's soul benefited greatly as well. Although Su Yan's insights held limited use for him personally, this intimate fusion made him acutely aware that his spiritual soul was rapidly growing more resilient, and his Divine Sense had become far more condensed and refined.
Within the ice chamber, their two souls intertwined while the True Yuan inside their bodies involuntarily surged forth, merging and flowing through each other along the circulation pathways of the Yin-Yang Harmony Technique.
With each circulation cycle, the True Yuan grew a fraction more pure.
This session of dual cultivation granted both of them benefits beyond imagination.
Suddenly, behind Yang Kai, the phantom of a colossal dragon materialized. At the same time, across Su Yan's body, the spectral form of an ice phoenix began to glide and weave.
The two phantoms absorbed their True Yuan, and their sizes expanded rapidly. In mere moments, they had grown to fill the entire ice chamber.
A piercing dragon roar rang out, accompanied by the clear, resonant cry of a phoenix. Across the Three Thousand Glacier World, everything trembled. The icicles hanging beneath the glacial peaks crumbled to powder in an instant, and chunks of ice rumbled downward in cascading sheets.
Boom! Boom! Two terrifying surges of energy—diametrically opposed in nature—erupted from deep within the glacier and rocketed straight into the sky.
From Ice Master Qingya at the very top of the Ice Sect down to the lowliest ordinary disciple, everyone was startled. Their faces drained of color as they burst from the ice mountains where they resided.
Qian Yue was equally shocked. She had been sitting in meditation within her own ice mountain. Sensing these extraordinary energy fluctuations, she rushed out immediately to see what was happening.
What she saw made her breath catch. The other three elders of the sect were already hovering in midair, their expressions grim as they stared upward at the sky. Their gazes trembled.
Even Ice Master Qingya wore a grave expression.
"Sect Master!" Qian Yue hurried over to them and called out, but received no reply. Following their line of sight, her beautiful eyes contracted sharply.
High in the sky, a golden dragon stretching over a hundred zhang long blazed with radiant light like a roaring inferno, its massive form coiling and swirling magnificently. The spectacle was vast and otherworldly. Beside the dragon, an enormous ice phoenix of breathtaking beauty—its entire body translucent and shimmering in pure ice-blue hues—spread its wings and danced through the air.
A dragon and a phoenix, chasing and frolicking with each other, creating a spectacle of tremendous grandeur.
From both the dragon and the phoenix, everyone could feel an oppressive heat and an biting cold. Neither the searing warmth nor the frigid chill could be taken lightly by anyone present.
What shocked Qingya and the others the most was that emanating from the golden dragon and the ice phoenix were two auras that felt disturbingly familiar.
They were the auras of Yang Kai and Su Yan!
Just as everyone stood frozen in astonishment, the dragon and phoenix suddenly altered their trajectory and flew directly toward where Qingya and her group stood.
Several Holy Void realm elders' expressions changed dramatically. They each gathered their True Yuan and quietly braced themselves.
The golden dragon and ice phoenix came to a halt about a hundred zhang in front of them, the golden dragon in the lead and the ice phoenix behind. The pair were intimately close, like a married couple.
The golden dragon's two eyes—each as large as a gong—fixed upon them, regarding Qingya and her group with open curiosity. A distinctly human quality radiated from those ancient gaze, and everyone involuntarily tensed up. Looking into those eyes, they felt an overwhelming sense of their own insignificance, as though they could be obliterated at any moment.
Qian Yue in particular felt that when the golden dragon looked at her, it carried a strong and unmistakable warning.
Qingya furrowed her brow and circulated her True Yuan to resist the oppressive aura emanating from the dragon and phoenix. She ventured cautiously, "Yang Kai?"
In the golden dragon's eyes, a flicker of surprise appeared. It abruptly wheeled around and departed swiftly, the ice phoenix following close behind.
Amid the resonant dragon roar and the clear phoenix cry, the pair drew further and further away until they vanished entirely.
Only after they had departed did everyone in the Ice Sect finally release the breaths they hadn't realized they were holding. The cold wind swept past, and only then did they discover their backs were drenched in cold sweat.
Gazing at the spot where the dragon and phoenix had disappeared, Qingya fell into contemplation.
She could sense that they hadn't simply left for good. Rather, it seemed they had taken a fancy to roaming about this glacier world on a whim.
Sure enough, before long, rumbling sounds echoed from the distance—undoubtedly caused by that dragon and phoenix pair.
Qingya shook her head with a wry smile and waved her hand. "Everyone, go back. There's nothing more to worry about."
"Sect Master, could that brat really have produced something like this?" Qian Hao's brow was tightly knitted as he asked uncertainly. When the dragon and phoenix had first appeared, they had indeed been above the ice mountain where Yang Kai and Su Yan were located. But with the cultivation of these two juniors, how could they possibly have generated such an enormous spectacle?
"Probably," Qingya said with a faint smile. "They'll come back."
"They'll come back?" Qian Hao's expression shifted.
"Didn't you notice? Those two children's souls and consciousness were within the dragon and phoenix. Those phantoms were manifestations conjured from all the True Yuan they had gathered and refined together. Their physical bodies are still here in our Ice Sect. Where else could they go?"