Returning to the True Martial Peak Small Courtyard.
Chen Qing sat cross-legged on a cattail mat and took the dark yellow scroll from his robes.
He slowly unfolded it, his gaze falling upon its surface.
The scroll was not covered in densely packed writing, but in diagrams of Qi and Blood circulation painted with some dark-red spiritual ink, supplemented by only a few lines of ancient Yun Kingdom seal-script annotations.
At the center of the diagram was the phantom image of a giant whale stirring the vast sea. The meridians and blood vessels throughout its body were clearly marked in lines of different colors, showing the paths and nodes of Qi and Blood circulation, as well as the rhythm of tidal rises and falls.
"So this is the general outline Qi and Blood diagram of the Vast Whale Overturning Sea Technique..."
Chen Qing studied it intently, his divine sense slowly sinking into it.
Unlike the supremely yang and rigid Dragon Elephant Prajna Vajra Body, the Qi and Blood circulation diagram of the Vast Whale Overturning Sea Technique displayed an entirely different conception.
It was like an endless ocean—calm on the surface, yet with surging undercurrents beneath; able to contain a hundred rivers, able to overturn heaven and earth.
When circulating through a heavenly cycle, Qi and Blood did not simply charge forward with brute force. Instead, it rose and fell like the tides, constantly tempering the resilience of the meridians and expanding the capacity of Qi and Blood amid those undulations.
The more Chen Qing looked, the more astonished—and delighted—he became.
These two techniques, one yang and one yin, one rigid and one supple, one emphasizing explosive bursts and the other stored momentum, appeared to run in opposite directions. Yet if he could find the point where they aligned, their