She saw that at the very bottom of the system panel, a line of small text she had never seen before had appeared at some point.
[Spirit Gathering Image Derivation]
Jiang Yuechu raised an eyebrow.
Spirit Gathering Image Derivation?
She tried sinking her mind into it.
[Extract the essence of myriad Demons, gather the spiritual charm of heaven and earth, derive the Inner Scenery, and condense it into a chart.]
Hiss— Jiang Yuechu could not help but gasp.
Although this explanation consisted of only two short sentences, the implications within caused the Grand Princess's heart to race wildly.
The so-called Mountain Gazing requires first observing the Inner Scenery to establish the mountain in one's heart.
Even a figure like You Wujiang was trapped at this stage, his mind clouded with thick fog, unable to glimpse the true form.
But now...
"Tsk..." Jiang Yuechu smacked her lips.
As expected.
The System had never let her down.
She composed her mind and casually summoned a passing officer.
Seeing that it was Her Highness calling, how could the officer dare to be negligent? He immediately trotted over and bowed.
"What are your orders, Your Highness?"
"Find me a quiet room."
"Yes!"
The officer hurriedly led Jiang Yuechu to a secluded courtyard in the back office.
Once the door was shut tight and she confirmed no one was around, Jiang Yuechu sat cross-legged, adjusted her breathing, and cast aside distracting thoughts.
"Hoo..." She exhaled a breath of stale air.
[Consume Dao Cultivation to derive the Inner Scenery?]
"Yes." Jiang Yuechu silently thought.
Boom—!!!
With that thought, her Dao Cultivation flowed away rapidly.
One thousand years.
Three thousand years.
Five thousand years.
Ten thousand years...
Until...
A full nineteen thousand two hundred years of Dao Cultivation evaporated in an instant!
In a trance, Jiang Yuechu felt the world go black before her eyes.
When she opened them again, she was no longer in the mortal world.
All around was Chaos, with no heaven or earth, no light or darkness.
There was only a blank scroll of unknown length and width, slowly unfurling within this Chaos.
Whoosh— The scroll spread out, spanning the Void Realm.
Within the Chaos, a great wind suddenly arose.
Where the wind passed, ink began to stain the blank scroll.
First, a stroke of heavy ink, like Pangu splitting the heavens, slashed down fiercely!
The ink dripped and instantly transformed into a towering mountain, rising from the ground and piercing the clouds.
The mountain was precipitous with jagged rocks, like a coiled dragon and a crouching tiger.
Immediately after, the brush moved like a dragon and snake, the ink rhythm flowing.
Between the mountains, ten thousand ravines were outlined, deep and bottomless.
Ancient pine and cypress trees grew stubbornly from the crevices in the rocks, their twisted branches like iron and their needles like canopies.
"Roar—!!!" With a tiger's roar, a Striped Fierce Tiger leaped out from the depths of the ink.
This tiger was majestic and awe-inspiring, with the character 'King' on its forehead.
It stood on its hind legs, carrying a large saber at its waist, and even held a remnant book in its paws.
It took a step and landed steadily on the highest peak, looking down upon all living things.
Following closely behind, "Awoo—" a shrill wolf howl rang out.
A giant wolf with a green face and fangs stood on the side of an isolated peak, howling at the sky.
It seemed as if it wanted to swallow the crescent moon hanging in the corner of the scroll into its belly.
Rumble— Immediately after, the earth shook.
A colossal figure pushed aside the clouds and mist.
It was a pitch-black giant bear, draped in a bright red kasaya with prayer beads around its neck.
It sat cross-legged in front of an ancient cave on the mountainside, its palms pressed together.
Although it had the appearance of a Demon, it looked solemn and dignified.
Splash— In the mountain stream, blood mist permeated.
Suddenly, a black-haired wild boar was seen rolling in a mud pit; every snort it made spewed out a sky full of filthy earth, turning into miasma that blotted out the sky and sun.
As each of these Demons entered the painting, the originally dead ink landscape instantly came alive.
The sound of wind, the sighing of pines, the roaring of beasts, the sound of flowing water.
Each sound reached her ears.
It was a magnificent sight.
As the final stroke fell, golden light erupted from the scroll.
great desolation four fierce beasts suppressing mountain chart.
Jiang Yuechu stood before the scroll, her mind stirred.
So that was it...
This was condensing the Demon scrolls she had collected into a single chart.
With this chart! Enter Mountain Gazing!
No longer hesitating, she moved her mind.
"Fusion!"
Deep within the Qi Sea, golden light exploded, and lotus petals flew everywhere.
The Dao Lotus, which had long since bloomed with nine petals, now turned into golden fluorescent light filling the sky.
The next instant, the golden fluorescent powder, guided by a force, gathered toward a certain point like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.
As these bits of spiritual charm merged, the scroll retracted and materialized into a solid object.
This mountain was entirely crimson-black, with jagged rocks and Evil Qi soaring into the sky.
Between the mountainsides, clouds and mist swirled, and one could vaguely see the figures of Demons galloping and shadowy Demonic figures.
Thud!
The great mountain descended, steadily suppressing the center of the Qi Sea.
The moment this great mountain fell, the Qi Sea fell silent.
Mountain Gazing... Complete!!!
Jiang Yuechu opened her eyes abruptly.
An unprecedented and terrifying power surged continuously from the great mountain in her Dantian into her body.
It was different from the flow of True Qi during the previous Zhonglian Realm.
At this moment, every movement she made carried the great power of Moving Mountains and Filling Seas.
[Talents: Yin Method Heaven Bestowal, Filthy Earth Golden Body, Ten Thousand Jun Strength, Wolf Travels a Thousand Li, Tiger Fiend Blood Boil, Flesh and Blood Demon Armor, have been fused]
[Four Perils Manifestation · Desolate God Body: The Tiger governs slaughter and weaponry, the Wolf Travels a Thousand Li without a trace, the Bear shakes ten thousand jun of mountains, the Pig controls the Filthy Earth Golden Body; taking the essence of the four perils to forge the Demonic Body of the Great Desolation.]
"Hoo..." Jiang Yuechu exhaled a long breath of stale air and was about to get up to test her new abilities.
Suddenly, the panel in her mind trembled again.
A line of small text slowly appeared.
[Insufficient Demon scrolls, unable to continue derivation]
Jiang Yuechu's body stiffened.
She frowned slightly.
Insufficient?
Her gaze fell upon the newly derived "great desolation four fierce beasts suppressing mountain chart".
Although these four Demons each possessed Divine Abilities, they were, in the final analysis, all barbaric beings.
The crimson-black mountain that condensed from them also had Evil Qi soaring to the heavens and was incomparably heavy.
It perfectly matched what You Wujiang had said.
Qi and blood like a Dragon, the Physical Body becoming holy.
This was... Yang Mountain!
Jiang Yuechu was lost in thought.
Since the System had automatically selected these four Demons to derive the Yang Mountain Inner Scenery, then the remaining Demons that had already been maxed out...
The White Ape Duke and the White Flood Dragon, although their Physical Bodies were also not bad, their abilities mostly lay in arts and Divine Abilities.
If divided according to Yin and Yang, they should belong to the Yin Mountain lineage.
"So that's it..." A glint flashed in Jiang Yuechu's eyes.
The remaining two Demons were not yet enough to support a Yin Mountain Inner Scenery.
In other words, the material was insufficient.
As long as she collected more Demons skilled in arts, maxed them out to Heavenly Accomplishment...
Then... by expending Dao Cultivation again to perform Spirit Gathering Image Derivation, wouldn't she be able to possess both Yin and Yang Mountains in this Qi Sea simultaneously?!
When people cultivate, they can only choose one path between Yin and Yang.
After all, one only has one heart and one mountain.
But she was different.
She had a cheat.
"If I cultivate both Yin and Yang..." Jiang Yuechu licked her lips, happy in her heart.
Left hand Moving Mountains and Filling Seas, right hand Physical Body becoming holy.
Invincible in close combat, unsolvable in long-range attacks.
Her stats were simply maxed out!
Her mind settled.
Jiang Yuechu sank back into the depths of her Sea of Consciousness.
The panel appeared.
[host: Jiang Yuechu]
[Realm: Mountain Gazing Initial Stage]
[Dao Cultivation: 15,029 years]
Her gaze moved down, landing on the [Collected Demons] column.
[Collected Demons: great desolation four fierce beasts suppressing mountain chart (Tiger Mountain God, Mythical Ape, Green-Faced Gentleman, Black Mountain Bear Lord) White Ape Duke (Heavenly Accomplishment) White Flood Dragon Jiao Xu (Heavenly Accomplishment) Black Flood Dragon Jiao Chun (Shadow Copy) Silver Bone Demon Venerable (Shadow Copy)]
She still had over 15,000 years of Dao Cultivation...
She had originally thought about pushing "Myriad Demon Swallowing Heaven" further.
After all, this Cultivation Technique was her foundation for survival; the higher the swallowing efficiency, the faster the snowball effect would be.
But right now, her Realm had been pulled up too fast, and her steps were too big.
Several great Demons were still at the Shadow Copy Realm.
Her foundation was truly a bit thin.
Forget it.
"Let's upgrade the Demons first."