"Those who Refined the Void raised form and spirit to the profound heights and ascended."
"Those who United Body and Soul fused flesh and spirit to attain truth."
"The three calamities of Void Refinement: once the tribulations of wind, thunder, and fire have passed, essence, qi, and spirit attain splendid truth."
"The five trials of Body Integration: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth pass through the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, and the five elements become perfect and imperishable."
"The root of longevity, the foundation of the Great Dao, the origin of all things, the truth of imperishability."
The spiritual natures of wind, thunder, and fire gathered and scattered, transforming into lotus platforms of gold, silver, and lead that hovered three inches above his head.
The luxuriant, mist-veiled light of the Four Symbols formed a Dao Wheel of four-colored moon discs, hanging a foot behind his head.
When the faint Qingming spiritual resonance descended, piercing from the crown of his head down his spine and merging into his limbs and bones, when Jiang Sheng's meridians and acupoints, five viscera and six bowels, even his Purple Mansion and dantian all throbbed beneath that Qingming spiritual radiance, a sensation of decline and decay abruptly arose.
Wood qi returned to the origin, raising azure qi in the Eastern Sovereign. This was the beginning of flourishing and withering, the foundation of longevity.
Yet the balance of all things, the budding of yin and yang—longevity and agelessness, decay and senescence—were one body sharing the same root. As the azure qi of longevity emerged within Jiang Sheng, the qi of all things' decline and ruin also spread through him.
Sensing the aging, decaying aura within his body, Jiang Sheng frowned slightly and immediately circulated his mana to resist it.
He was, after all, a True