"Just what is going on with the Cursed Heart? Can you explain now!?" Jacob inquired, despite the pain, he had been observing everything, and for the exact reason because of Immortika’s cryptic comment earlier.
Now, after witnessing the Cursed Heart at work and somehow provoking the Art of Nature, Jacob wanted answers, as he knew the Cursed Book was aware of this before it even happened.
"Hehehe, what happened was the Cursed Herat just saved you from killing yourself. No need to thank me." Immortika snickered playfully.
Jacob’s eyes flickered coldly as he didn’t believe in those words for a moment, and coldly said, "Are you still going to play your mind games?"
"Sigh...you need to loosen up a bit. Fine, I’ll tell you, and it wasn’t like I was trying to hide it from you. The thing is, now that you have created the Yin and Yang Magic Cores with Yin Ice and Yang Flame, you have naturally awakened the elements of Yin and Yang.
"Yin and Yang are commonly believed to be a fundamental concept of two opposite yet complementary and interdependent forces that are present in all things and in the universe as a whole. Yin is associated with qualities like darkness, femininity, passivity, and cold, while yang represents light, masculinity, activity, and warmth.
"The interplay and balance of these forces create harmony and equilibrium, with each force containing the seed of the other, and they also associate Yin and Yang with Evil and Good.
"This concept even exists in your previous life, and that sword art or martial arts that you’ve learned also followed the concept of Yin and Yang. However, let me ask you this, now that you have comprehended the first concept of both Yin and Yang, and with your magic cores fully manifested, do you believe in those words?" Immortika suddenly posed a question in a gleeful yet eerie tone.
Jacob’s eyes flickered as he already knew about those spiritual concepts related to Yin and Yang, and just as Immortika mentioned, his Deceptive Swords Style also followed the idea of Yin and Yang.
"No, the Yin element is just extremely frosty, and the Yang element is extremely infernal practically. Yet, the first concept of Yin is ’Formless’. It embodies passivity, potential, the undefined and unshaped, yet it should be associated with ice or cold.
"Furthermore, just now I got a deeper understanding of Yin’s first concept. Formless does not impose form; instead, it receives, contains, and preserves. It is probably the ’feminine’ concept of Yin that you previously mentioned, and the time when I acquired the Yin Ice, that allows creation to exist without collapsing.
"On the other hand, the first concept of Yang is ’Definite’, which represents the power of defining, shaping, and manifesting. It also embodied the Yang element’s concept of ’masculine’ and assertive, and also the Yang Flame’s nature of burning, transforming, and sculpting raw potential into defined reality. In contrast, it should be something related to fire.
"Now, for the element of balance, the Yin is like the canvas, and the Yang is the brush stroke, where Yin is still water, Yang is the flowing current, together Yin is potential without shape, and Yang is the force that gives shape to the potential.
"If I’m not wrong, this pairing creates the fundamental dialectic: the void and the spark, the womb and the seed, the glacier and the flame, which together establish the foundation of elemental creation, which you once mentioned!"
"Hahahaha~" Immortika suddenly burst into laughter upon hearing Jacob’s own understanding of the Yin and Yang, which made Jacob’s eyes compress with a hint of confusion.
After all, he knew his understanding of the Yin and Yang came to awaken the Yin and Yang elements and fully integrate the Yin Ice and the Yang Flame. Furthermore, the concept of elemental creation suddenly emerged within his mind the moment his cursed heart drew the energies of Yin Ice and Yang Flames within his Soul Star.
However, the elemental creation was just a concept, but for some reason, Jacob suddenly thought about it. As he explained his own understanding of the Yin and Yang, he just blurted it out without even thinking much.
"What is so funny?" But Immortika’s eerie laughter still irked him to no end as he coldly sought an explanation, not to mention Immortika still hadn’t made things clear about the Cursed Heart.
"Haha...I was laughing because I’m proud of you for almost figuring it out on your own. You are no longer that mortal of the Lower Plains and are already touching the concept of Gods.
"Nonetheless, you still have a long way to reach that point, and my role in all of this is to guide you in the right direction. As you said, the Yin and Yang bring balance, and without each other, they are nothing but concepts of imagination.
"However, when they truly merge, they bring creation. As for why the Cursed Heart activated and created a sphere of Yin and Yang within your Soul Start, it is because it was inevitable and always destined to happen!" Immortika cynically hinted as if wanting to see if Jacob could guess this on his own or not.
But Jacob really didn’t know what Immortika was talking about, and it was always like this, as he impatiently inquired, "Just get to the damn point. If I could guess your intentions, would I have been played by so many times?"
"Hehehe, now that was hurtful. I never put you in danger unless there were absolute benefits for you in them. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is Yin and Yang are related to the concept of Creation, now don’t tell me this didn’t remind you of a profession that can create living beings who possess free will?" Immortika stated gleefully.
At that moment, something instantly ticked in Jacob’s mind as his eyes flared violently as he blurted out, as a fog had been lifted from his mind, "Vitality Architect!
"The Vitality Architect can create life to a cellular level with free will, and Yin and Yang are the main components of creation, and you said my cursed heart was destined to absorb the Yin and Yang energies, which means it was always capable of this!
"To sum it up, the requirement to become the Vitality Architect is possessing the Yin and Yang energies!"