Chapter 45 Bloodline Longevity Technique

With these words, he turned his head and looked at Jiang Tingting and the others standing nearby.

Seeing that Fang Zheng had temporarily paused his conversation, Jiang Tingting hurried forward with a delighted expression, bowed respectfully, and called out, "Senior Human Sovereign! You have returned."

Gazing at the man in blue robes beside him, Jiang Tingting respectfully asked, "Senior Human Sovereign, may I ask how this senior should be addressed?"

Taiyin reached out and patted the man in blue on the shoulder, saying with a smile, "You may also call him the Holy Emperor."

Jiang Tingting looked puzzled. "The Holy Emperor?"

"Indeed. After my time, he is an outstanding descendant who inherited my will and continued to protect all living beings—the Solar Holy Emperor, who makes me immensely proud!"

"To distinguish him from me, you may simply call him the Solar Emperor."

Taiyin chuckled, giving the Solar Holy Emperor's shoulder a hearty slap, before gesturing toward Jiang Tingting and saying, "Solar, this is my successor, possessing the Taiyin physique just like me. Hurry up and give the junior a welcome gift!"

The Solar Holy Emperor looked Jiang Tingting up and down, nodded, and offered a gentle smile.

"Having just been resurrected, I have nothing of substance on me. I observe that your Yin qi is currently excessive, and your Taiyin origin is overly potent; yet isolated Yin cannot grow, and solitary Yang cannot be born—excessive Yin qi leads to inflexibility and easy breakage."

He glanced briefly at the blood pool nearby, which was exceptionally rich with the Qi of Taiyin, a trace of helpless humor flashing in his smile. He extended a finger and gently pressed it against Jiang Tingting's forehead. "In the future, you shall not lack the resources for cultivation. Therefore, I bestow upon you a wisp of Yang-harmonizing qi and the art of Yin-Yang reversal to help you harmonize and balance your state."

Immediately, that finger radiating divine light carved nine mysterious ancient characters glowing with solar essence onto Jiang Tingting's forehead, which slowly faded into her sea of consciousness.

A vast, peerless vitality—far surpassing all the Nine-Nether Underworld-Sun Shedding Bones Ginseng fused within the blood pool combined, containing the purest essence of life—continuously welled forth from the nine ancient characters, soothing the pressure her body suffered due to the overwhelming Taiyin origin.

Interwoven with Yang-harmonizing qi and Daoist principles, the nine sun-like ancient characters danced in a spiral with the nine moon-like ancient characters already existing within Jiang Tingting's sea of consciousness.

Yin and Yang blended together, transforming into a cocoon of light suffused with chaotic energy that enveloped her form, plunging her into a profound physical transformation.

If Jiang Tingting's original physique could be called the Taiyin Body, then following the resonance-driven enhancement that caused her origin to surge, coupled with this current harmonization and transformation, her physique could now arguably be called the Taiyin King Body—the sovereign among Taiyin physiques!

Following that, Taiyin turned around, his gaze falling upon Jiang Wen, who stood nearby with an excited expression, wanting to ask something. Taiyin interrupted him, saying, "The human race had Void and Hengyu, as well as descendants like you. Both the Solar and I feel deeply gratified."

"It is precisely because of your generation-after-generation of steadfast persistence and heritage, guarding all living beings, that a sliver of vitality has been preserved for the world amidst the dark turmoil."

Taiyin spoke gently, "You have done well, truly well."

"And now, leave the rest to us. Go and rest well first, recover your strength, and once the Emperors of all eras are resurrected, there will still be many tasks that require your efforts."

"Descendants like you, who harbor such deep compassion for all living beings, should not perish prematurely; you ought to continue shining brightly in the future."

Taiyin lightly raised his hand, and from the blood pool beside them—pregnant with boundless vitality—a streak of crimson radiance rose.

All the Emperor-level Dao laws contained within it were extracted and purified by him. Although this drastically plummeted the potency of the blood essence, it also prevented any overwhelming shock to those of lower cultivation realms.

Aside from the realm of supreme Dao laws, the massive Taiyin qi within the blood essence was also catalyzed into the Lesser Yin force, which contained the gentlest vitality.

Immediately, the stream of blood—teeming with endless Lesser Yin vitality and the pure Yang medicinal properties of the Nine-Nether Underworld-Sun Shedding Bones Ginseng—surged toward Jiang Wen, who was standing there hesitant and about to speak again. It transformed into bloody crystals that tightly enveloped him.

Over the coming days, the immense vitality contained within would be gently infused into Jiang Wen's body, extending his lifespan by at least eight thousand years and restoring him to his youth.

Were it not for other considerations, Taiyin could have even directly operated the Taiyin Rebirth Technique, utilizing that terrifyingly abundant blood essence to forcefully grant him an entirely new lifetime.

At this moment, aside from the five rigid and motionless dragons, only Jiang Family Patriarch Jiang Yifei remained standing blankly on the spot, looking somewhat at a loss.

He looked at his ancestor Jiang Wen, then glanced at his junior Jiang Tingting.

Both of them had fallen into a deep slumber after acquiring supreme fortuitous encounters, leaving only him alone, stared down intently by the two ancient Holy Emperors—the Taiyin Holy Emperor and the Solar Holy Emperor.

The lunar radiance in the Taiyin Holy Emperor's eyes shone brightly as he watched Jiang Yifei, exclaiming, "How wondrous! The blood of the ancestor has fully awakened within his body, making him almost identical to the ancestor."

The Solar Holy Emperor also sighed with emotion, "Indeed, how wondrous! Living within the thoughts of all living beings, living within the bloodline of descendants—a deviant method of longevity."

"I once attempted something similar in the past. Regrettably, my descendants fell victim to schemes, and the foundation I left behind was exhausted through successive dark turmoil; that past attempt ultimately failed to fully succeed."

Like the rising morning sun, a ray of divine light shot from the Solar Holy Emperor's pupils, peering into the deepest recesses of Jiang Yifei's bloodline and primordial spirit:

"Yet Hengyu and Void—these two human descendants—have walked even further than I did. If a peak Emperor's corpse were to be matched with them, it would be possible to live out an entirely new lifetime."

Taiyin sighed. "Yet, while a momentary return to life poses no problem, to ensure a brand-new lifetime is successfully lived out, the price required would be unimaginably tragic."

Shaking his head, he seemed to witness a horrific tragedy where the entire Jiang Family lay in pools of blood, all blood relatives having their blood drained and primordial spirits extracted, ultimately piecing together a single primordial spirit within a blood cocoon to inhabit a physical body.

Listening to the dialogue between the two human Holy Emperors, cold sweat gradually beaded on Jiang Yifei's forehead. Hesitantly, he asked, "Two Holy Emperor seniors, could it be that the Hengyu Great Emperor of my Jiang family has not truly perished yet?"

Taiyin shook his head. "No, he is already dead."

"It's just that... he hasn't died completely yet."

"Furthermore, he might come back to life very soon."

"What!" Jiang Yifei frantically racked his brains to decipher the meaning behind their words.

Although a vague guess had formed in his mind, he dared not be certain, and could only frantically brainstorm. "Could it be that my bloodline reversion was no accident, but a contingency left behind by the Hengyu Great Emperor?"

He pondered: "The bloodline of the Hengyu Great Emperor has reverted within me, making me almost identical to the ancestor. If the ancestor can be resurrected within my body, what will happen to me? Will I die?"

As he thought, the gentle smile of a woman surfaced in his mind, along with the infant cradled in her arms.

She was an ordinary Jiang family member who hadn't even embarked on the path of cultivation, and also the beloved wife of Jiang Yifei—the Patriarch of the Jiang family.

Jiang Yifei's expression turned pained. "If I die, what will happen to Caiyuan and Feng'er?"

His expression was conflicted, but gradually, it grew resolute. "If the ancestor truly needs me—not to protect all living beings, but simply to protect my beloved—I must become the sacrificial offering for the resurrection of the Hengyu Great Emperor!"

However, just as Jiang Yifei's face was wracked with internal conflict, the Solar and Taiyin Holy Emperors temporarily paid him no further heed. Instead, Taiyin pulled the Solar Holy Emperor down to sit with him, speaking earnestly to Fang Zheng nearby:

"Fang Zheng, thank you so, so much. The first step toward resurrecting the Emperors of all eras has succeeded."

"This one, known as the Solar Holy Emperor, attained the Dao three thousand years after my death..."

Taiyin gave the curious Fang Zheng a detailed, generalized introduction of the Solar Holy Emperor's deeds.

After a short while...

The Taiyin Holy Emperor resumed a solemn expression and said to Fang Zheng, "The situation facing the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is even worse than I previously anticipated. We must accelerate our progress."