"I wield the heavens in my palm; the morning firmament clashes, birthing wind and thunder. Within it, seek to follow the blade; before the rain, wild winds split stone asunder. If raging fire should meet the force of water, thunder comes first, then water—have no doubt..." I silently recited the incantation for Cleaving Wind Palm that Xianli had given me, and of course felt a surge of gratitude. As it turned out, this simple incantation already contained the laws by which the elemental spiritual roots of the Two-Forms Heaven and Earth mutually generated and restrained one another. The mobilization of these elements was founded upon one's own spiritual roots: first giving birth, then urging, then regulating, and finally following, until the power of the original wood-element Spirit Vein was used as a spark to ignite the power of heaven and earth and unleash it with a thunderous blast. This was the foundation of how the Two-Forms Heaven and Earth technique operated.
Now that I looked back at the grand spell incantation Lingyi had given me earlier, the line "As for yin and yang, numbers may reach ten; extrapolate them, and they may reach a hundred" actually described this very principle: using the few to drive the many, and using even more to derive the infinite, until the numbers became incalculable and endless!
After Xianli recited the incantation for Cleaving Wind Palm once, I immediately solved the concept that had perplexed me before and that I had been unable to apply in reality. All six spiritual roots served as foundations for ignition and sources for transmitting power, while the power of heaven and earth acted as an auxiliary engine that converted the operation into reality. The speed of ignition depended on the number of one's spiritual roots and the amount of