There was no feigned calmness in Emerald Green's voice.

It was truly composed.

Mingxi let out a long sigh.

After soothing Mingxi, Emerald Green began to try absorbing the two energy tides surging into its body.

The moment Emerald Green sensed the two forces of life and death within its body, the very texture of the air changed.

This sea of flowers seemed to perceive its uniqueness.

The strange sea of flowers stretching to the horizon beneath its feet closed up in an instant, then bloomed open again in the blink of an eye.

"!!!"

Mingxi's eyes widened like a big-eyed monster.

(；OдO)

The brilliant sea of flowers had completely changed its appearance.

One half was a deep green so vibrant it seemed to drip emerald, every petal burning with life, radiating a vigorous vitality that threatened to burst one; the other half was a bone-deep, somber gray-ink, with icy white swirling around the petal edges, deathly still, a temperature that seemed capable of freezing the soul.

Even stranger, these two colors, green and gray, were not distinctly separate, but rather interpenetrated and intertwined, forming a breathtaking spectacle.

"Hmm..."

Mingxi's face paled slightly, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

Just standing at the edge of the sea of flowers, she could feel two completely opposite forces, like an invisible tide, attempting to surge into her body, making her dizzy.

This feeling of extreme power Impact was comparable to when the Origin of Life and Destruction entered her body back then.

She was only standing outside the sea of flowers and was already so impacted; what about Emerald Green, who was currently in the midst of the sea of flowers?

"Emerald Green?"

Mingxi furrowed her brows, somewhat unsure whether she should continue to let Emerald Green take such a risk.

What it was enduring at this moment was hundreds, even thousands, of times more severe than what Mingxi could perceive!

The dense vitality was not a gentle nourishment, but a furious, uncontrolled torrent of energy, scrambling to bore into its pores, trying to split its meridians, making its flesh and bones grow wildly until they collapsed;

At the same time, the death qi, like a parasitic growth, invaded along its breath, attempting to freeze its blood and erode its vitality, as if to instantly turn it into withered bones.

Two extreme yet mutually restraining forces raged within its body like runaway wild horses.

Instantly, a destructive storm was unleashed.

Excruciating pain came from all its limbs and bones, and the boundary between life and death was repeatedly torn and blurred within its body.

Had it «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» been a human or another Transcendent creature, it would have already exploded in extreme pain and chaos, or been swallowed by the death qi, becoming a part of the sea of flowers.

But Emerald Green's eyes were exceptionally calm.

It neither panicked nor forcibly resisted.

Its subconscious told it that this would be its greatest opportunity to break through itself.

"I cannot retreat!"

It told itself this in its heart, and also conveyed it to the worried Mingxi.

Excruciating pain, like a tsunami, battered its will, but its consciousness was like a reef rooted deep in the sea, unmoving.

It closed its eyes, letting the violent vitality and the deathly silent energy collide and intertwine within its body.

Mingxi, standing outside the sea of flowers, could only watch, wait, and suffer anxiously.

She truly experienced the feeling of an ant on a hot pan.

"Life is death, and death is also life..."

Emerald Green murmured in its heart; this was not some profound philosophy, but its most direct feeling at this moment.

This sea of flowers was, in itself, the ultimate manifestation of life and death; they seemed opposite, yet coexisted strangely.

Just then, deep within its body, something seemed to be stirred.

In the places washed by that overwhelming vitality, an ancient and warm pulsation awakened.

That was a rhythm of the same origin as the growth of All Things Grow and the withering of plants, as if it was born to embrace all of this.

The Child of Nature characteristic, stimulated by an excess of vitality, activated without warning!

On its left side, flowers and green leaves, like a giant bird spreading its wings, grew wantonly and unrestrainedly towards the sky, beautiful and magnificent, like the most exquisite and luxurious ultimate garden in the world!

Almost at the same time, facing the death qi that could freeze the soul, another silent corner within its body also resonated.

That was a serene power connected to ending, rest, and returning to dust, calmly accepting all dissolution.

The Child of Death characteristic, also activated simultaneously under the catalysis of this extreme death qi!

On its right side, gray-white bone pillars twisted upwards, like a burial ground in hell, swallowing all light and emitting a suffocating aura of annihilation, echoing the flower and leaf wings on the left.

"Holy crap!"

The scurrying ant, Mingxi, was once again stunned.

Was this a special effect she could see without paying?

At this moment, the two characteristics, one representing the ultimate bloom of life and the other symbolizing the absolute stillness of ending.

They should have been two irreconcilable extremes, but now, within Emerald Green's body, they were forcibly pushed together by an equal amount of life and death force.

Emerald Green could clearly "see" the Emerald Green light brought by the Child of Nature and the gray-black light brought by the Child of Death colliding violently in the center of its chest, yet due to some miraculous balance, neither could completely devour the other.

It did not try to guide them to merge or separate, but simply maintained that absolute calm, observing the miracle happening within its own body.

Its composure seemed to become a vessel, giving these two forces a temporary space to coexist.

The collision grew more intense, and under extreme compression, the green vitality and black death qi actually began to show faint signs of merging.

Green was no longer purely life, tinged with a hint of the profoundness of annihilation.

Black was no longer purely death, revealing a glimmer of revival.

This was an unprecedented change.

At this moment, it did not know, nor did Mingxi know.

Life and death, in absolute opposition and balance, were giving birth to a brand new, special existence that transcended both.

In a place they could not see, at Emerald Green's heart, its originally beating flesh-and-blood heart was being enveloped and reshaped by an invisible force.

Emerald Green's body floated up, carrying those massive green wings and gray bones.

Its chest pounded violently, and the intertwining Emerald Green and gray-ink light surged madly; flesh, pulse, and bones flickered with these lights.

Each pulsation attempted to harmonize the surging energy within its body; its heart was no longer a pure flesh-and-blood organ, but a strange core formed by an equal amount of intertwined and rotating life and death qi, currently merging.

The moment its heart began to mutate, Mingxi's expression changed dramatically.

She could no longer feel the contract power between her and Emerald Green! It was as if their contract had been forcibly severed.

“......”

Thump!

Thump-thump!

Mingxi's heart was already racing!

"What's going on?!"

Mingxi wanted to go berserk.

She was drenched in sweat.

"Master, Jinlan Asura should be forming a second energy core! And it's an energy core based entirely on life and death qi!

That is the legendary Ashura God Foundation.

Do you know what this means?"