Circulatory Star Chart

After bringing the panda family back to the Dao field, Jiang Yun released them into the bamboo forest, letting them frolic and play. The forest was filled with spiritual bamboo grown from the main body's divided seedlings, which sent the family into a frenzy of excitement. They claimed the place as their own territory and patrolled it daily.

As his fortune gradually improved, Jiang Yun continued to collect quite a few Acquired Spiritual Roots and Congenital Spiritual Materials while tending to the earth veins. What pleased him most was discovering a congenital mid-grade Water Spirit Pearl and a congenital low-grade tea tree at two separate earth vein nodes.

The Water Spirit Pearl and the Earth Spirit Pearl he had obtained earlier were two pieces of the same set of spiritual treasures. The pearl contained abundant water-element spiritual energy, and by wielding it, he could generate various divine waters. It was endlessly useful for both combat and cultivation, but most importantly, the Water Spirit Pearl could produce a drop of Three Lights Divine Water every hundred years.

Legend had it that Three Lights Divine Water was formed by merging Sunlight Divine Water, Moonlight Divine Water, and Starlight Divine Water. Used separately, they could corrode bones and dissolve souls, but combined, they could revive the dead, regrow flesh, and restore vitality.

The tea tree was congenital, though only low-grade, but its auxiliary effects were not to be underestimated.

Every hundred years, it grew three thousand leaves. A single leaf could help a cultivator calm their mind and enter a meditative state. The first time it was consumed, it could induce an epiphany, granting thirty days of enlightenment. With long-term use, one's innate comprehension would gradually improve.

Jiang Yun planted it behind the bamboo hut, and the towering tea tree cast its shade over the dwelling. With the spiritual root nearby, not only did the Dao field's spiritual energy grow denser, but sitting in the bamboo hut to cultivate under the root's blessing allowed him to easily enter a meditative state, dispelling inner demons and warding off external intrusions.

Several more decades passed. One day, Jiang Yun finally finished repairing and grooming the last earth vein node. When everything was complete, he channeled his own mana into the node, communicating with the array patterns to activate the newly set Earth Vein Spirit Infusion Array. Suddenly, the array generated a tremendous suction force, drawing endless earth energy into the formation. It converted into a vast surge of spiritual power that flowed through the earth veins like blood from a heart to the limbs. When all the nodes were linked and connected by the spiritual power flow, every earth vein seemed to come alive, extraordinarily vibrant. An Earth Vein Network had formed, making the veins more stable and heavy, difficult for external forces to shake.

With all the work wrapped up after so many busy years, Jiang Yun decided to rest for a few months.

In his spare time, he took some bamboo stalks of moderate thickness and made a recliner. After his daily meditation and cultivation, he would place the chair in the bamboo sea, cuddle the little panda cub, and rock back and forth. Listening to the wind rustle and the bamboo leaves rub together, it felt like floating in a vast ocean. Beside the rocking chair, the two adult pandas lay on their backs, munching on carefully selected tender bamboo shoots.

It had been three months since the panda family moved into the Dao field. Through Jiang Yun's frequent feeding, petting, and other interactions, they had grown much closer.

To make communication easier, Jiang Yun gave each of the three pandas a name.

The two adults—the male, tall and mighty, loved to wander around and would serve as the Dao field's guardian beast, so he was named "Gao Shou"! The female, though also large, had a charmingly naive demeanor, lazy yet clever, so he called her "Ling Xi"! The little one, chubby and round, playful and energetic, soft and adorable, was named "Huang Bao," meaning it was the treasure of his Dao field's bamboo forest.

To properly train the three pandas, Jiang Yun examined their aptitudes and found that they carried a trace of Fierce Beast Bloodline within them. They were likely a race born from the union of some ancient fierce beast and spiritual beast. The Heavenly Karma hidden in that bloodline had been suppressing their souls, keeping their intelligence sealed and preventing them from awakening their spiritual beast bloodline inheritance.

Jiang Yun took out the Merit Power he had accumulated, split off a small portion, and infused it into each of the three pandas, cleansing the Heavenly Karma from their Fierce Beast Bloodline.

When the karma was completely purged, the pandas' intelligence blossomed. The spiritual energy from all the food they had eaten since birth, hidden in their bodies, began circulating according to the cultivation methods inherited in their bloodline. In an instant, Gao Shou and Ling Xi refined the horizontal bone in their throats, their souls transformed into Primordial Spirits, and they achieved Heavenly Immortal. Huang Bao also smoothly reached Earth Immortal.

However, the two beasts chose not to transform into an Innate Dao Body, remaining in their animal forms. Though they had gained intelligence, their long-standing habits were hard to change. As for Huang Bao, still young and immature, despite the surge in intelligence, it only cared about playing and paid no attention to anything else.

"Gao Shou, Ling Xi, now that your intelligence has awakened, how about becoming the guardian spirit beasts of my Spirit Bamboo Valley in this Dao field?" Jiang Yun said to the two awakened beasts.

"We are deeply grateful to the Immortal Venerable for using Merit Power to cleanse the fierce beast karma from us, allowing us to awaken our intelligence. We are willing to guard the mountain and protect the Dao field for the Immortal Venerable!" the two beasts replied hastily.

"Hmm... From now on, address me as True Person. My Dao name is Yun Yazhi."

"Yes, True Person."

Having settled Gao Shou and Ling Xi, Jiang Yun glanced at Huang Bao, who was playing by snapping bamboo, and spoke again: "Huang Bao's mind is not yet mature. When the time is right, I will take it in as my attendant."

"Thank you, True Person!" the two beasts said in unison.

With these trivial matters arranged, Jiang Yun felt he had rested enough.

The next day, he sat cross-legged on a cushion in the bamboo hut and took out the Dao Derivation Disk from his Primordial Spirit.

Back when he first obtained this strange treasure, he had been very interested in the Star Dou Formation Diagram on the reverse side of the disk. But there had always been external distractions, leaving him no mind or energy to deal with it.

Now, with everything settled, he could calmly study this formation diagram.

Jiang Yun tried channeling his mana into the Star Dou Formation Diagram. As the mana flowed in continuously, the diagram seemed to activate, with stars lighting up one by one.

With a thought, he increased the mana output, and the stars lit up much faster. When the last star was illuminated, the diagram came alive. The star map detached from the bronze disk and floated in midair, transforming into three hundred and sixty-five brilliant light points that enveloped him. The moment his Spiritual Sense was forcibly dragged into the vast Sea of Stars, he saw his bones turn transparent as crystal under the starlight, and the clogged spiritual energy nodes in his meridians corresponded to the dim star of Tianshi.

"So that's it!" Enlightenment exploded in his Sea of Consciousness. The microcosm of the human body and the Lesser Heavenly Cycle of the stars could indeed be mapped to each other. These three hundred and sixty-five stars must correspond to the three hundred and sixty-five acupoints in the human body.

His Spiritual Sense wandered through the Sea of Stars. The trajectories of the stars' movements and the distribution of the Heavenly Stars were all clearly presented before Jiang Yun.

He focused his mind and quietly comprehended the laws of star movement he saw. The Northern Dipper, the Southern Dipper, the Twenty-Eight Mansions—one star map after another was broken down and recombined. Until at some point, all the star maps converged into a single formation diagram composed of three hundred and sixty-five stars...

After all the changes of the formation diagram were demonstrated, Jiang Yun's Spiritual Sense returned to his body.

He withdrew the mana he had input into the Dao Derivation Disk, and the three hundred and sixty-five light points around him returned to the bronze disk, reverting to the Star Dou Formation Diagram.

This session of comprehension gave him insight into the connection between the Heavenly Stars and the microcosm of the human body, and he also gained a Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation. This formation was a simplified version of the Greater Heavenly Star Array. The original Greater Heavenly Star Array used three hundred and sixty-five Archaic Main Stars as its core, supplemented by 129,600 Secondary Stars. It could channel starlight for teleportation, attack, and defense, and could even drive the stars themselves to attack, with immense power.

The Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation only required three hundred and sixty-five array eyes to set up. Its power was reduced, and it couldn't achieve starlight teleportation, but it was quite effective for channeling starlight spiritual energy and setting up defensive formations.

Thinking this over, Jiang Yun set about integrating the Twelve Yuan Chen Guardian Array into the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, upgrading the Dao field's guardian formation. At the same time, through the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation, he could channel the Star Spiritual Energy from the heavens, then convert it into spiritual energy via the Spirit Plant Conversion Array, enhancing the Dao field's spiritual energy.