After watching the pinnacle expert of the Human Dao vanish, He Yiming immediately turned around. He took a deep breath, his heart settling completely within that brief moment.

Through years of rigorous tempering, He Yiming’s control over his state of mind had reached an exceptionally high level.

Although he could already sense the immensely powerful Golden Divine Power before him, he felt no great excitement—far less than the exhilaration he experienced the first time he absorbed the Earthly Divine Power from the Tongtian Pagoda.

He stepped forward gently, once again lowering his head.

The environment here was profoundly strange. Merely standing on the mountain peak, one could not detect this concentrated, extreme manifestation of Golden Divine Power. However, upon coming to the edge of this cliff and looking down, one could clearly experience what the sharpness of Golden Power truly meant.

This power was undoubtedly the strongest Golden Divine Power He Yiming had ever encountered in his life.

The piercing sensation was akin to countless spears continuously stabbing into his body, causing an intense stinging pain throughout his frame.

The power of the Gold element was astonishingly potent and possessed such ferocious aggression.

What differentiated it most from the other elements was its tendency toward focus. This power did not give He Yiming the feeling of enveloping areas spanning hundreds of miles; in fact, if he moved even slightly further away, the divine power would be imperceptible. Yet, upon closing the distance and truly experiencing the force, one discovered its penetrating ability was far more terrifying than that of the other elements.

In truth, regarding elemental attributes, the Five Elements were largely comparable; no single element was inherently supreme.

However, the divine powers He Yiming had previously encountered were all expansive forms of divine force—like an open palm, whose force, once swung, could never match the power of a clenched fist.

Hesitating for a moment, He Yiming extended both hands flatly.

In his hands resided two opposing yet harmonizing forces: the power of the Light-Dark Union.

Though he desperately wished to utilize the Five Elements, his dantian was currently saturated with the power of the Light-Dark Union, rendering him incapable of summoning other elemental powers.

As the power of the Light-Dark Union began to spread, a flicker of hope shone in He Yiming’s eyes.

If, even in this environment brimming with aggressive Golden Power, he could not suppress the Light-Dark Union, then he himself had little confidence in absorbing the Golden Divine Power.

Powerful surges of Golden Divine Power continuously rose from beneath the cliff. Under the impact of this force, the skin on He Yiming’s arms began to undulate subtly, rippling like the surface of water disturbed by a gentle breeze.

This peculiar phenomenon was the Golden Power relentlessly bombarding his arms, using them as a battlefield to contend against the Light-Dark Union residing within He Yiming.

The power of Light and Dark was indeed immense; once merged, they compensated for each other’s shortcomings, complementing one another perfectly. Circles of dark power behaved like a massive black hole, slowly drawing in the Golden Divine Power. However, after absorption, the Dark Power was not transmitted directly into He Yiming’s Chaos Dantian; instead, it underwent a miraculous transformation, being released as Light Power.

In the next instant, the inherent exclusivity of the Light Power manifested to its maximum. Under its release, subtle halos of light began to bloom around his arms, and the Golden Divine Power, which had been causing a slight stinging sensation, gradually dissipated.

He Yiming’s expression was exceedingly strange. At this moment, he profoundly felt the might generated by the union of Light and Dark.

They could actually stand against true Divine Power.

In the past, when Franklin and Garfield joined forces to achieve a complete Light-Dark fusion, they unfortunately encountered not just any power, but the Heaven and Earth Might belonging to the Divine Dao.

Perhaps the strength of the Light-Dark Union was not inferior to genuine Divine Dao power, but regrettably, the two Western experts clearly lacked the requisite strength to withstand the Divine Dao. That is why they appeared so fragile under the Heaven and Earth Might.

Had their personal strength been sufficient, they absolutely could have repelled the Heaven and Earth Might beneath the force of the unified Light-Dark power.

He Yiming drew a deep breath, feeling immense pride in the Light-Dark Union he possessed. But this arrogance vanished completely in a mere moment, replaced by an expression mixing wry amusement and helplessness.

The stronger the Light-Dark Union became, the lower his chances of absorbing the Golden Divine Power would be.

If even the Golden Divine Power could not breach the containment of the Light-Dark Union, then his trip here would have been utterly in vain.

A thought crossed his mind, followed by a cold snort, and finally, he stepped forward.

He had been standing right on the precipice of the cliff; advancing one step meant moving beyond the edge, directly into the empty air.

A faint glow flickered across his body—the Divine Weapon light of the Five Elements Ring.

However, having lost the driving force of the Five Elements Power, the Divine Weapon light of the Five Elements Ring could now only execute minor supportive functions under mental command, unable to be used as his life-bound weapon for offense as before.

As He Yiming stood entirely suspended in the void, he involuntarily shivered.

At the cliff’s edge, he had already felt the peerless, sharp impact of the Golden Power. Now, he was standing directly within that force.

A massive surge of impact rushed toward the only anomaly in this stretch of space.

A faint metallic sheen began to manifest around He Yiming.

This was the precursor to a large-scale attack by the Golden Divine Power upon perceiving an obstruction in its path.

From the bottom of the cliff upward, nothing existed on this path save for the air, because everything else would be torn to shreds by the colossal Golden Divine Power at this moment.

For millennia, successive Sect Masters of the Tianchi Sect would meditate and remain stationed here, and only those recognized by these powerhouses were qualified to enter this death ground.

Now, He Yiming had undoubtedly earned that qualification and, without hesitation, stepped into the Golden Divine Power just like his predecessors.

Once entering this place, he was like an arrow loosed from a bow—there was no turning back.

Under the invasion of such enormous Golden Divine Power, if one could not grasp the essence of the Gold Divine Power and absorb it into the body, allowing the body to house it, then anyone foolish enough to enter would be shredded by the Golden Power, just like any other inanimate object.

From ancient times, those qualified to enter this place either succeeded and retreated safely or perished here.

Among the Five Elements, the Gold element was undeniably the sharpest and most merciless.

Life and death, at this moment, became starkly clear, seemingly right before his eyes, within arm's reach.

He Yiming inhaled deeply, sensing that even the air here was thick with a tangible, metallic force.

At this moment, a strange radiance enveloped him—this was the power of the Light-Dark Union, which spontaneously circulated even without He Yiming consciously maneuvering it.

The Dark Power constantly devoured, transforming somehow into Light Power. The Light Power constantly repelled, blocking every other elemental force that approached He Yiming from the outside.

This bizarre yet potent transformation was the true cycle of secrecy within the Light-Dark Union.

Under the impact of the boundless Golden Divine Power, He Yiming finally had the opportunity to truly experience the profound truth of this force.

This was the genuine opponent He Yiming faced after achieving mastery in the Light-Dark Union. Compared to this, the prior engagement with Ao Borui could only be described as child’s play.

Even while enveloped by the Golden Divine Power, the Light-Dark Union appeared even more tenacious, seemingly capable of enduring forever.

He Yiming smiled bitterly to himself. No wonder Ao Borui and the others immediately retreated upon hearing of the Light-Dark Union, refusing to engage him at any cost.

It turned out this power was indeed incomparably strong. Unless one possessed an overwhelming, Heaven and Earth Might capable of shattering the Light-Dark Union in one strike, it would be impossible to defeat this force.

Although He Yiming could now barely manipulate the Heaven and Earth Might, there was no way he could direct that power against himself...

If he were to attempt such a thing, he was certain he would be smashed into pulp long before the Five Elements Divine Power could even coalesce.

Sensing his predicament—stuck between advancing and retreating—a thought stirred within He Yiming, and he finally made his resolve.

The power within his dantian began to churn again. The other elemental powers, long sealed and surrounded by the Light-Dark Union, slowly began to rotate under He Yiming’s command.

With every rotation, resembling the cycle of the Five Elements, an even greater power was generated.

Here resided three Great Divine Weapons, embodying three distinct attributes of Divine Power.

Their power was equally immense. Although they were suppressed by the Light-Dark Union and beyond He Yiming’s immediate use, even the Light-Dark Union could not erode these potent forces.

This was the essence of the strength inherent in Divine Weapons and Divine Power; if they were ordinary elemental auras, they would have either been absorbed by the Dark Power or purified by the Light Power, leaving no trace behind.

Circle upon circle, with every rotation, the released power seemed to increase marginally.

To achieve the feat of the Nine Heavens using Divine Power in place of the Divine Weapon light was a technique unique to He Yiming. Precisely because of this, he could control them as easily as his own limbs.

Inside the dantian, this rotating force grew ever stronger, beginning to impact the colossal, mountain-like mass of the Light-Dark Union from within.