Chapter 150: Sun and Moon Primordial Chaos Art

"Are you Lu Sheng? The newly enfeoffed Prince of Jinyang?"

Just as he stepped out of the White Jade Pagoda and prepared to return to his residence, Lu Sheng's path was blocked by someone who demanded to verify his identity.

Looking at the young man clad in military armor with a gloomy expression, Lu Sheng frowned slightly and asked, "Who are you? Why are you blocking my way?"

"Who am I?" With a cold chuckle, the young officer replied, "I am Song Jiazheng, a captain of the Eagle-Soaring Guard."

"You must be familiar with this name, right?"

"Song Jiazheng?" Quickly searching his memory for information on this person, Lu Sheng nodded slightly. "So you are the young master of the Marquis of Xiangping. By blocking my path like this, are you looking to test martial arts?"

Sensing the aura of a Great Martial Master emanating from the other, Lu Sheng guessed his purpose. Presumably, this individual, ranked thirteenth on the Prodigy Roll, wanted to challenge him to elevate his own standing on the list.

"Naturally!" With an arrogant expression, Song Jiazheng said, "My martial arts were forged on the battlefield, far surpassing the flashy and superficial moves taught in the Martial Academy."

"Well, are you interested in a match with me? Right here in the western drill grounds!"

"Flashy and superficial!" Shaking his head with a mocking laugh, Lu Sheng replied, "If you have the guts, go say that at the Martial Academy."

"As for me, if you want to challenge me, you'll need to raise your strength quite a bit more!"

With that, Lu Sheng reached out his hand, intending to push him aside.

"You..."

Moving to block Lu Sheng, Song Jiazheng wanted to force him into a fight, but the moment he made contact with Lu Sheng, a boundless surge of force washed over him from the other.

Under this profound and mighty strength, not only was he unable to muster the slightest bit of force, but he could not even articulate a single word.

Therefore, he could only watch helplessly as Lu Sheng walked past him.

***

"Song Jiazheng, one of Tian Manyin's suitors? What a coincidence to run into him!"

Through Luo Liheng, Lu Sheng knew that Tian Manyin had numerous suitors, the most famous of whom was Song Jiazheng of the Xiangping Song clan.

Hailed as the "hope of the Xiangping Song clan" and the "foremost youth in the military," this young man had always pursued Tian Manyin relentlessly, given that she was both a descendant of founding heroes and a kinswoman of the current chancellor.

It stood to reason that his decision to intercept him before the White Jade Pagoda today was not without cause.

"Was this your doing?"

Pondering this in his heart, Lu Sheng strode swiftly all the way back to his estate.

"Oh! You're back!"

"Where have you been these past few days? Why has it been impossible to find you?"

As soon as he entered the house, Lu Sheng saw Tian Manyin greeting him at the door, acting entirely like the mistress of the manor.

Without answering her question, Lu Sheng walked onward, scanning the courtyard scenery. "The arrangement is not bad at all. It actually looks a bit like a prince's mansion!"

He walked straight into the study, and as Tian Manyin followed closely behind, he said, "I went to practice with my teacher. Didn't I tell you?"

"As for you, did you have someone track down that Song Jiazheng just to humiliate me?"

"Why would a man of the Eagle-Soaring Guard wear armor and flaunt his might near the White Jade Pagoda?"

"As to that, I wouldn't know!" Tian Manyin replied with a smiling shake of her head.

With that, she poured Lu Sheng a cup of tea and asked, "What were you doing at the White Jade Pagoda? Were you utilizing the vital energy within it to cultivate?"

Leaning close to his ear, she whispered softly, "Actually, given your current state, dual cultivation between the two of us would yield much faster progress!"

Clearly, she was not entirely ignorant of Lu Sheng's Profound Qi cultivation.

"With the inheritance of the Yin-Yang Scripture, our progress will be even faster," Lu Sheng said indifferently. "Later on, I will pass down a set of techniques to you, and you must cultivate according to it from now on."

"I can guarantee that after practicing it, you will break through to become a Great Martial Master in no time!"

"Really?" Tian Manyin's eyes lit up. "Then I shall wait and see."

Then, guessing aloud, she asked, "The technique you're giving me—could it be the Yin-Yang Primal Chaos Skill?"

"I heard that besides the Heavenly Primal Chaos Skill, you also created the Starry Primal Chaos Skill for the Yuezhou Luo clan, similarly integrating existing martial arts into the Primal Chaos Skill."

"However, the Yin-Yang arts originally stem from the Primal Chaos Skill itself. Is there any need to re-integrate them?"

"Of course there is!" Lu Sheng answered without a moment's hesitation, his tone resolute.

Yet, prompted by Tian Manyin's words, he also felt that merely merging the Yin-Yang arts and the Primal Chaos Skill—making her cultivation method more suited for dual cultivation with him—was indeed a bit too simplistic.

"Perhaps I can also comprehend the imprint of the Great Dao of Brilliance, and integrate the Bright Moon Primal Chaos Skill, the Setting Sun Primal Chaos Skill, and the Great Sun Primal Chaos Skill derived from them, calling it the Sun-Moon Primal Chaos Skill."

"In this way, not only will the power of the technique be greater, but it should also assist me in comprehending the Heart of the Brilliant Dao!"

His eyes brightening with a sudden thought, Lu Sheng felt a surge of joy. He pulled Tian Manyin over, planted a kiss on her, and laughed, "Go quickly and prepare the brush and ink; I am going to create a technique."

It seemed that creating a martial arts technique was as simple as eating and drinking to him.

Taken by surprise with the sudden assault, Tian Manyin touched her cheek, looking somewhat astonished. But upon hearing his instructions, her immense curiosity about how Lu Sheng created martial arts drove her to quickly ready the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, grinding ink by his side.

"The sun and the moon are two distinct attributes, which can be categorized as Yang and Yin respectively. Therefore, this technique must not only allow them to be practiced together, but also permit them to be cultivated separately as two distinct paths that generate and restrain one another, ultimately fusing into a single entity."

"In this way, when Tian Manyin and I engage in dual cultivation, there will be an even greater complementarity between us!"

Having finalized his plan in his mind, Lu Sheng quickly meditated upon the character for "Brilliance" (Ming) within the Ruyi talisman, absorbing the principles within it.

Although Lu Sheng did not enter the transcendent state of absolute clarity he had experienced during his previous creation, he now possessed the accumulated experience of creating over a hundred martial arts, coupled with the legacy of the Primal Chaos True Intent left behind by Emperor Jing. With these new insights into the Primal Chaos Skill, he successfully fused the Bright Moon Primal Chaos Skill, the Setting Sun Primal Chaos Skill, the Great Sun Primal Chaos Skill, and the Yin-Yang arts together, forging the Sun-Moon Primal Chaos Skill.

Just like the martial arts he had created before, this technique was similarly divided into four levels, reaching up to the ultimate Earth-tier at its peak.

***

"To think... it really is this easy!"

Watching dazedly from the side, Tian Manyin felt a shock so profound that it defied description.

Although she already knew that Lu Sheng had created martial arts such as the Heavenly Primal Chaos Skill and the Starry Primal Chaos Skill, hearing tales of it countless times could never compare to the shock of witnessing it with her own eyes.

"Is this... what a true peerless genius is?"

Dazedly staring at Lu Sheng, Tian Manyin—who usually considered herself a genius—finally understood the chasm between herself and a genius of another echelon.

The Lu Sheng before her was undoubtedly one of those legendary, peerless prodigies—

Such a person, provided they were not cut down midway, was almost destined to become a Grand Master!

"I must tell Master immediately!" The moment this thought arose in her mind, Tian Manyin quickly rejected it. "No, what if Master finds out and arranges for other sisters to come instead?"

"Although Lu Sheng has taken me as his secondary consort, I know very well that he holds no true lingering affection for me. What he desires is simply dual cultivation with me."

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have immediately questioned me about Song Jiazheng the moment he returned to the estate!"

Thinking this, Tian Manyin felt a pang of sorrow while a sudden sense of crisis gripped her, fearing that she, much like some of the sisters in the Yin-Yang Sect, would be discarded once her usefulness had been exhausted.