A triangle was the most stable structure among polygons.
Da Shun had no such clear geometric definition, but it had a wealth of experience to draw upon.
Cloud Sea Heavenly Palace.
The heavenly palaces were Divine Powers, and the cloud sea was the Qi Sea. Ordinary True Image cultivators had no heart fire, so their cloud sea had exactly three heavenly palaces as its supporting points. However those three points were arranged, they could never form a three-dimensional shape.
Four was an entirely different matter.
With just a few strokes, the Dragon Elephant Martial Saint had drawn the heavenly palaces as a triangular base, with the heart fire forming the apex of a triangular pyramid.
Across the three ordinary True Image stages, the Qi Sea's limits followed a ratio of one to four to sixteen. Liang Qu had originally thought his heart fire would add a sixty-four to that sequence, but looking at the triangular pyramid in the booklet, perhaps it could reach seventy, or even exceed it! The sheer leap made his heart pound, even though he had yet to condense his second Dragon Court.
With such a vast Qi Sea powering his Divine Powers, his reserves would be inexhaustible!
An enormous windfall! The heart fire he had gained on this trip to Datong Prefecture was worth no less than the Original Life Buddha he had squeezed out of himself. Setting aside the growth in character from the Six Demons Trial, its value in combat alone was even greater.
It had hurt, certainly, but he had chosen the road himself.
Without that blow from Zhang Longxiang, Liang Qu had no idea whether he would ever have comprehended this peculiar thing in his lifetime. He flipped back to the booklet's first two pages, memorized the method for "sealing" the heart