After purple, there are the legendary silver and gold colors, but these last two colors haven’t appeared in countless years. In today’s mortal realm, people seriously doubt whether those legendary figures ever truly made the Heaven-bestowed Divine Stone emit these two lights, suspecting it’s just an exaggeration rather than actual history.

David Brooks exhausted all his strength, but only saw a faint flash of red light pass over the Heaven-bestowed Divine Stone.

He let go of the stone in disappointment, feeling even more dejected.

“Is there any way to improve my aptitude?” he muttered to himself. One’s aptitude is the foundation of a cultivator, determined at birth. It’s not entirely unchangeable, but to improve it, at the very least, some innate divine objects are required.

Although the The Brooks Family dominates Qidong County, obtaining an innate divine object is nothing short of a pipe dream.

“Sigh…” David Brooks sighed, flopping onto his bed, suddenly lacking even the motivation to cultivate the “Dual Polarity Divine Demon Body.”

He drifted off to sleep in this muddled state. The next morning, after he got up, John Brooks came in with a cheerful grin to report, “Young master, Edward Brooks and Grace White have come to kowtow and ask for wedding money.”

David Brooks paused before remembering that three days ago, there was indeed such a happy event in the The Brooks Family: Edward Brooks from the carriage house and Grace White from the kitchen had tied the knot.

The The Brooks Family certainly encouraged such things, as it strengthened the cohesion among the household servants.

As per tradition, the newlyweds would first seek a wedding gift from the master, then from James Brooks, and then from David Brooks. David Brooks nodded, “Let them in.”

Soon, the couple entered and knelt down with a loud thud. “Thank you, young master, for your blessing!”

David Brooks looked speechlessly at the handsome Edward Brooks and the burly, broad-shouldered, strong-armed Grace White kneeling side by side. The scene instantly triggered some terrifying memories for him.

No, even if my aptitude is poor, I must work hard at cultivation. The The Brooks Family has plenty of money; I can always pile up resources to improve myself, at least enough to protect myself. Otherwise, I can’t even control my own chastity!

He gave them a big red envelope, three times what he had originally prepared, then looked at Edward Brooks with sympathy and let the newlyweds leave.

After that, he didn’t leave his room for several days, completing nine minor achievements in one go, and finally achieving a major breakthrough.

When the ninth minor achievement was completed, David Brooks felt as if some “law” within his body had reached a state of perfection, and everything fell into place.

He let out a long breath, which condensed before him into a misty Taiji symbol—yin within yang, yang hidden within yin—before slowly dissipating.

When he opened his eyes, they had completely transformed into two extremes. His left eye was pure gold, his right eye pitch black. But upon close inspection, one could still see a tiny speck of black within the golden iris, and a minuscule spot of gold within the black iris.

“So that’s how it is!” he smiled slightly. He had already anticipated that only after achieving a major breakthrough in the “Dual Polarity Divine Demon Body” would its miraculous qualities truly manifest.

“It’s the dual birth of yin and yang!” he shouted in a low voice. The golden light in his left eye flowed out like liquid gold, flooding his entire body. At this moment, David Brooks was blazing with masculine energy, radiant like the great sun.

Then, with a thought, his body suddenly shifted from yang to yin. A speck of black blossomed within the golden light, quickly dyeing all the gold black.

At this moment, David Brooks was enveloped in utter silence and extinction, without a sound.

In these two extreme states, David Brooks seemed like two completely different people, or like one person existing on two different planes.

No matter which state, for a youth who had not yet achieved enlightenment, his body was already extremely powerful.

In terms of strength alone, he now possessed the power of nine cauldrons—even some cultivators at the Yuanqi stage couldn’t match him in this regard.

Overjoyed, David Brooks suddenly shuddered all over and exclaimed, “Doesn’t this mean I can cultivate both academy and sect classics at the same time?!”

Chapter 007 Innate Spirit Peach (Part 1)

In the mortal realm, there were originally only sects and no academies. Ever since the hundred clans of the mortal realm began to emerge from the great wilderness, sects, under the guidance of immortals, continuously created new cultivation methods, refined all kinds of magical treasures and pills, and step by step pushed back the dangers within the wilderness, establishing a brilliant civilization.

However, with the establishment of the hundred clans’ dynasties, conflicts between the court and the sects erupted repeatedly. Although cultivators were the foundation of the dynasty’s military strength, those bound to sects always made the dynasty uneasy.

Moreover, a series of “strange” incidents throughout history proved that the vast majority of cultivators still remained loyal to their sects and could not “serve the lord with the lord’s salary.”

Thus, the great dynasties of the mortal realm had long been striving to find replacements for sect cultivators.

But this process was extremely difficult. Almost every cultivation classic originated from the sects. Even if these sects perished over the long course of history, their classics still remained sectarian in origin.

The dynasties were not resigned to this. They mobilized vast resources and kept searching, until finally, seven thousand years ago, they unearthed an ancient ruin from beyond the bounds of civilization. Judging by the scale of this ruin, its civilization was in no way inferior to the mortal realm of that era—perhaps even greater.