The Heavenly Gang was a term used in astrology. Ancient cultivators believed that the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper did not consist of only seven stars, but were made up of one hundred and eight stars.
It was called the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper because their light shone so brightly that it eclipsed the radiance of the other stars, making them appear to be only seven stars from the outside. In truth, there were many more within.
The Heavenly Gang was the collective name for the stars in the regions where the three stars Yaoguang, Kaiyang, and Yuheng of the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper were located. The Heavenly Gang contained a total of thirty-six stars. The four stars Tianquan, Tianji, Tianxuan, and Tianshu contained seventy-two stars, known as the Baleful Intent.
Ancient cultivators regarded the Heavenly Gang stars as governing life. Many pills were named after the Heavenly Gang, such as the Heavenly Gang Nascent Soul Pill and the Heavenly Gang Spirit Stabilizing Pill. They were all pills that offered cultivators tremendous benefits.
Of course, many formations had also been created by imitating the movements of the Heavenly Gang stars. Those formations were usually endlessly varied, mysterious, and profound.
Ancient cultivators regarded the Baleful Intent stars as governing calamity, believing them to contain a savage and violent power.
But the Heavenly Gang and Baleful Intent stars did not possess only a single function. Within them, life and death alternated, and their transformations were unpredictable.
This Qian Yuan Heavenly Dipper Star Formation, preserved in ancient classics, was an extremely powerful formation of immense variation.
Qian Yuan inherently carried the meaning of the vitality of all things, while the Heavenly Gang governed life. If this formation of thirty-six enormous cauldrons was the Qian Yuan Heavenly Dipper Star