Limitless Ascension: Strength Amid Adversity – Chapter 356

“Me?”

Everyone turned to look at him with strange expressions.

“Ji Bro, come on, don’t add to the chaos at a time like this!” Lin Duxiu said with a frown.

The main issue was that Ji Baxiao was usually all over the place, and apart from his fondness for making lewd jokes, he hadn’t shown much in the way of real skill.

So when Ji Baxiao claimed he had a solution, everyone instinctively thought it was unreliable.

With a mischievous smile, Ji Baxiao said, “Just watch! I’ll show you how to solve this crisis!”

He sounded confident—very confident.

Then—

Under the skeptical gazes of the crowd,

Ji Baxiao focused his energy, quickly forming seals with his hands, as a swirling aura of Yin-Yang energy began to envelop him—black and white, a truly extraordinary sight.

“This is our Sacred Ground’s ultimate technique, the Yin-Yang Divine Arts, isn’t it?” The Yin-Yang Lord recognized it and was quite perplexed.

The Yin-Yang Divine Arts was a form of Daoist magic that mixed offense and defense, able to weaken the power of enemies’ attacks and transform into a lethal weapon.

But counting on this technique to suppress the mad state of Li Wujie? That was just absurd!

“Not quite, not quite.”

With a sly smile, Ji Baxiao said, “Lord, you wouldn’t have guessed. This is my newly refined Yin-Yang Divine Arts. Its main function is to disturb the opponent’s mind from a distance!”

“What’s Yin-Yang? Female is Yin, male is Yang. The combination of Yin and Yang is akin to the union of male and female!”

“To put it simply, I can forcibly implant images of that union into someone else’s mind, and the trigger is super simple—they just need to look at my Yin-Yang diagram.”

“If you doubt me, just take a look!”

Saying this, Ji Baxiao raised his hand and manifested a Yin-Yang diagram before him, pointing it at the Yin-Yang Lord.

“Ridiculous! How could the Sacred Ground’s Yin-Yang Divine Arts possibly…?”

The Yin-Yang Lord frowned and glanced at the black-and-white enveloped Yin-Yang diagram.

Boom!

It felt like his brain was about to explode as countless colorful images flooded in.

In those images, the female protagonists were cold, cute, pure—everything one could desire, wearing a variety of outfits to satisfy every taste and need.

And the male protagonists were all his own self!

It felt like he was watching a series of heart-pounding and thirst-inducing performances!

“Hiss~~~~”

The Yin-Yang Lord’s eyes widened, his breath became heavy and rapid, and his whole body shook uncontrollably as he seemed to experience some indescribable scenes.

“Lord, you believe me now, don’t you?”

Ji Baxiao said proudly, “This is the result of my relentless research into the Yin-Yang Dao, painstakingly refined!”

After that, he moved the Yin-Yang diagram away, and the Yin-Yang Lord gradually relaxed, his gaze filled with profound shock as his head buzzed.

What the hell?

Such an unfathomable Yin-Yang Dao was twisted by you into some seedy business about male and female unions? Is this the best your mind can come up with?!

I can’t believe this…

“Ji Baxiao, you scoundrel!”

The Yin-Yang Lord shouted, his face red, “The ultimate technique of our Sacred Ground has been degraded into something so shameless by you? Do you even think of the predecessors of the Sacred Ground?”

Ji Baxiao stood tall and justified, “Lord, I’m just keeping up with the times! This is standing on the shoulders of giants; with my refined Yin-Yang Divine Arts, you not only have offense and defense but can also disturb the opponent’s mind! What a groundbreaking breakthrough!”

“But why does it have to be those shameful images? Can’t we create something else? If news of this gets out, our Sacred Ground’s reputation will be ruined!”

The Yin-Yang Lord exclaimed in agitation.

“You don’t understand! As they say, passion is the sharpest weapon; it’s the best method to confuse the enemy’s mind. Weren’t you also enjoying it just now?” Ji Baxiao shrugged.

“Nonsense! I wasn’t!”

The Yin-Yang Lord shouted loudly, seemingly trying to cover up his inner turmoil.

“Lord, why are you bleeding from your nose?”

Ji Baxiao said in surprise.

The Yin-Yang Lord froze, touched his nose, and indeed felt a little blood flowing out. Thinking of the various colorful images he had just seen, he felt inexplicably excited, almost wanting to… cough cough!

“Is it really that exaggerated?” Lin Duxiu asked suspiciously.

“Come take a look!”

Ji Baxiao gestured.

In the next second, the Yin-Yang diagram met Lin Duxiu’s gaze.

Lin Duxiu first froze, then his face turned bright red like a ripe apple, his skin flushed all over, and smoke even started rising from his head.

He gulped, his gaze becoming infatuated as he mumbled, “Qin Fairy, this isn’t right…”

Ji Baxiao: “???”

You, my friend, think you know someone—yet you don’t truly know them!

This new Yin-Yang Divine Arts of his could also make those affected automatically fantasize their desired mating partner.

So, the ones in the know would get it.

Swish!

The effects of the Yin-Yang diagram faded.

Lin Duxiu stood there as if waking from a dream, a confused expression on his face, seemingly unable to let go, his eyes filled with reminiscence.

“Heh heh, how do you feel?” Ji Baxiao said with a devilish grin.

Lin Duxiu snapped back to reality, exclaiming with shame, “This move of yours is simply shameless! So despicable! So vulgar!”

“Hey, hey, hey, you’re calling me out after making you feel so good? What’s that attitude?!”

Ji Baxiao retorted, discontented.

After saying this, he felt like something was off.

The Great Mushroom King was near tears, saying, “For heaven’s sake, if you guys have a way, just use it already. I can’t hold on much longer…”

As soon as he finished speaking,

The weakened protective shield was instantly sliced open with a sword!

With a loud bang, energy surged, stirring up clouds of dust in the Yin-Yang Sacred Ground.

“Kill!”

Li Wujie’s wild black hair danced in the wind, his eyes blood-red and terrifying, his face twisted and fierce, fangs bared, brandishing the demonic energy-enveloped sword as he quickly closed in.

The terrifying killing intent filled every inch of space, causing all cultivators to turn pale and feel like their guts were being torn apart.

“Now’s the time!”

Ji Baxiao leaped up, forming the Yin-Yang diagram with both hands, pointing it at the bloodthirsty Li Wujie and shouted,

“Bro, I’ve got something amazing to show you!”

Li Wujie happened to see Ji Baxiao and the fully manifested Yin-Yang diagram.

Boom!

In an instant,

Countless arousing images surged into Li Wujie’s mind, the scenes were truly unbearable to look at, with every kind of method and pose imaginable.

Li Wujie, whose mind was previously filled with thoughts of slaughter, found those thoughts being forcibly pushed aside.

Holding his sword, he stood there like a statue, the blood-red hue in his eyes slowly fading.

If we compare the raging mad state of Li Wujie to a roaring fire, then Ji Baxiao’s technique was like dumping a pile of ice cubes into that fire, forcibly cooling it down.

Notably, although Li Wujie had calmed down, the madness in his blood still had an effect.

It wasn’t that the madness bloodline ceased to function after being hit with the technique.

You need to know, the madness bloodline didn’t make people go insane but vastly enhanced their strength.

As for going mad, that was just a side effect!

Under Ji Baxiao’s strange ploy, Li Wujie’s head was no longer filled with slaughter thoughts, now replaced with an array of romantic images…

Desires also surged forth!

Li Wujie gritted his teeth, his eyes flashing with suspicion. “Second Bro, what did you do to me?!”

“Why is my head filled with all these strange things?”

“Haha, success!” Ji Baxiao retracted the Yin-Yang diagram, waving excitedly, “Big Bro, come down! I’ll explain it to you properly!”

“Alright.”

Li Wujie sheathed his sword cleanly, casually lifting the madness state, and placed a new hat atop his head.

“Oh right, where’s that dog?” He suddenly remembered something and began looking around.

“Don’t bother looking; that filthy moron has already been killed by you!” Ji Baxiao said.

“Really?” Li Wujie frowned, racking his brains to remember, but right now his head was flooded with junk, and he couldn’t recall it for the life of him…

“Li Shixiong, it’s wonderful that you’re back to normal,” the Great Mushroom King said, still trembling, his face pale.

“Sorry, I forgot a lot of what happened earlier. If it caused any trouble, I apologize to you all!”

Li Wujie realized he must have used the madness bloodline directly to defeat the enemy, causing him to go berserk afterwards.

“Actually, it can’t all be blamed on you,” the Great Mushroom King consoled.

“Li Daoyou, you owe your recovery to Ji Bro’s methods,” Lin Duxiu said, looking oddly at Ji Baxiao.

“What’s there to say? It was my big bro who transformed like that for my sake, so it’s only natural for me to assist. Thankfully it was a close call, what a relief!” Ji Baxiao said with a smile.

“Quick, tell me how you did it!”

Li Wujie’s eyes lit up, showing keen interest.

To his surprise, this little brother of his actually had some unexpected talent.

Then—

Ji Baxiao briefly recounted the events.

Li Wujie was dumbfounded, looking Ji Baxiao up and down as if seeing him in a new light.

So all those strange images in my head were forcefully crammed in by you?

Not gonna lie, it was kind of thrilling!

“So, how should we put it? In the end, I turned the tide!” Ji Baxiao crossed his arms, confidently lifting his head, striking a pose as if waiting for compliments.

“Yes, yes, truly eye-opening!” Lin Duxiu replied with a stiff smile.

The Yin-Yang Lord was rendered speechless.

He didn’t know how to evaluate Ji Baxiao’s actions.

Admittedly, he was impressed by such a whimsical idea, yet he still found it hard to accept that the Sacred Ground’s Yin-Yang Divine Arts had been revamped in such a way.

It was simply too vulgar!!

But…

It surprisingly worked well!

This made the Yin-Yang Lord doubt whether his own dedicated research into the Yin-Yang Dao was the wrong path.

Perhaps Ji Baxiao’s unconventional approach was the true ultimate mystery of the Yin-Yang Dao?

Thinking of the colorful images he had seen earlier, the Yin-Yang Lord felt a strange impulse to bleed from his nose.

This kind of temptation—how many people in the world could resist?

Just as Ji Baxiao was reveling in his triumph, a large hand patted his shoulder. He turned to find the Yin-Yang Lord with a serious face,

“Lord, you…”

“Uh, that…”

The Yin-Yang Lord’s expression was slightly unnatural, “That modified Yin-Yang Divine Arts of yours, could you please…