Alex was terrified for a reason he couldn't understand. But he knew he wasn't alone as Godslayer's terrified shouts came at the same time.
"GUARD YOUR SPIRIT!" Godslayer shouted in his mind. "DON'T LET IT GET INTO YOUR SPIRITUAL SEA!"
Alex didn't understand what was happening, but he quickly took his spiritual energy and placed it around his Spiritual sea. And for better or worse, did the same thing with his Soul Space as well.
He thought of doing the same to his dantian as well, just in case, but it was too late.
The trickle of sunrays turned into a blast, and the full force of the sun hit Alex like they never had.
Yang.
Glorious, burning, raging Yang.
Yang like he had never felt before washed through him, burning away all remnants of Yin that were around him and in him.
During the travel up the mountain, a bit of his Yin had gathered up in his dantian. But with just a second of the rays of sunrise hitting him, they were all gone.
And either to his fear or surprise, the Yin that was part of his Qi now was gone too. All that was left was Yang Qi, and it burned brilliantly in his dantian.
The sunrise itself was magnificent and it lasted nearly a minute before the entire sun was out of the horizon, but the wave of Yang was there for no more than 3 seconds.
And those 3 seconds were enough to leave him gasping.
Alex was holding himself up with his hands behind him on the ground, ragged gasps trying to suck in what air there was at the peak. He didn't have enough focus on the matter at hand to realize that there was no air for him to breathe.
They had told him it would be like drops of water to a red hot iron and they weren't lying. In fact, they had underplayed the severity of the situation. The yang that had hit him just now was most certainly as strong, if not stronger than the one he got from the fruit.
Shouts of cheers came from all around Alex, but he was too busy trying to focus on himself and see what was wrong.
And there was quite a bit of wrong here.
Many years ago, after Alex had eaten the Nine Yang Divine Tree's fruit, his body had gone through an evolution where he had attained the Sun God's Celestial Yang body. However, that had come with a drawback of filling his body with Yang, causing him to heat up, and affecting his everyday life.
And the main cause of it had been the Yang source that still remained in his body like a beacon of light.
The situation was dealt with when he finally found the Yin bead and took it within him to work in tandem with the source, to not only give Yang but Yin as well, causing harmony throughout his Qi, making him stronger.
What would be regular Qi for others was instead a mixture of intense Yin and Yang that controlled each other.
That was why when the Yin had become slightly stronger after healing the young girl with the Moon Goddess's body, the Yin had taken to filling his dantian slowly as it overpowered the source.
However, right now when the wave of intense Yang went through him, it had undone all of that. The Yin half of his Qi was gone, and only Yang remained. Not only that, even the Yin bead seemed to be hiding in fear, and the Yang source took over their balance, slowly causing his entire body to be filled with Yang.
Alex burned with it.
It was bad.
"Are you alright?" Godslayer asked from his mind.
"I'm fine, I think," Alex said. "I might have to leave this place so my Yin can return. I can't think of any other way right now."
"You're not alright," Godslayer said. "I can sense Yang even in your Spiritual sea. What is going on? This is dangerous."
Alex was taken aback and quickly checked. He was still properly protecting his Spiritual sea, but it could stop his own body from interfering as much as he could stop his mind from giving his heart the orders to beat.
"Control your Yang," Godslayer said.
Alex nodded and started doing so. Controlling Yang was not easy, but it was something he could do. Thanks to having Supreme Yang Spiritual root, he could somewhat control the Yang Qi, and that had to be more than enough for now.
Alex took the Yang Qi around him and his body and slowly pushed it down. It was a little difficult, but not so much that it caused a problem. Even as he pushed it all back into his dantian or at least far enough from his Spiritual sea, he could already begin to feel the return of Yin in his body.
It was a bucket in front of a vast ocean, but it was coming back.
"Good thing you closed your mind swiftly," Godslayer said when he felt the burden in the spiritual realm lessened. "Had I not let you know in time, or had you not done it in time, all of the Shadow aura I've been holding on to would've been destroyed at once."
Alex gave a start at those words. He hadn't even thought about the Shadow aura. Hurriedly, he checked the Blood God's Manual where he had been keeping the Death aura, and felt better once he realized it was still there.
It was a good thing he had blocked off the Soul Space too. Although with the size of his Soul Space, it would've been surprising if the strong Yang had found it.
Things calmed down, but it was only calm in comparison to what had happened in the instant of sunrise. He still had raging Yang in his body, and whether it was for good or not, for the first time in what felt like forever, he could feel pure Yang.
Yang to him was always together with Yin, so learning about it had been difficult. But now that he was once again free to feel just Yang, he studied it and soon found himself getting lost in what Yang was.
Time passed and no one came to disturb him. Everyone recognized that he was in a half-trance, learning a few things. It was late at night when Alex came to his regular senses and frowned.
'I need more,' he thought. A good portion of the Yin he had lost had returned, which had made learning about Yang difficult once more.
He looked around and found his elders there, along with a few other people, but the King had left. He had his job to do, but he had left a few of his people behind with Alex.
Alex let them know he was alright, but that he would be spending a day or two more in this place.
Unable to refuse, they left Alex to do as he pleased.
Alex prepared whatever he could to the best of his ability and waited as the sky on the horizon once more brightened slowly.
The intense sunrise would come once again.
