Heaven-Defying Yin-Yang Cultivation Art

With a deafening crack, a bolt of lightning split the sky. Thunder rumbled and echoed through the heavens.

The wind howled, lightning flashed, and torrential rain swept across the land.

The world was plunged into darkness, as if the end of the world had come.

At that moment, on Mount Qingyun, a young man sat cross-legged atop a boulder. Though buffeted by wind and rain, he remained as still as a mountain.

The young man's name was Yang Fan, a disciple of the Qingyun Sect.

Yang Fan's eyes were tightly shut, his brows furrowed and his face pale. Beads of sweat the size of beans ran down his cheeks as his body trembled nonstop, as though he were enduring tremendous pain.

Yang Fan was currently cultivating a technique called the Yin-Yang Art.

The Yin-Yang Art was the Qingyun Sect's ultimate secret technique, cultivated only by successive sect leaders and a handful of core disciples.

Yang Fan was one of them.

The Yin-Yang Art had nine levels. Each required absorbing the yin and yang energies of heaven and earth to temper the body and bring it into balance.

At that moment, Yang Fan was attempting to break through the bottleneck of the first level of the Yin-Yang Art.

He silently recited the technique's mantra, circulating it with all his might as he absorbed the yin and yang energies of heaven and earth.

Yin energy entered his body, its bone-chilling cold seeming to freeze his blood.

Yang energy entered his body, its blazing heat seeming to burn him to ashes.

The two energies collided endlessly inside Yang Fan. They repelled and attracted each other, forming whirlwinds of energy that coursed through his meridians.

Under the energies' impact, Yang Fan's meridians expanded and contracted repeatedly, enduring tremendous pressure.

Yang Fan gritted his teeth, circulating the technique with all his might and guiding the yin and yang energies through his body.