The winds and clouds shifted.
Lu Feng and Chu Yunjing watched as though they had entered meditation, from the rising dawn glow all the way until dusk fell.
From early morning until night.
Only when night descended and stars glittered across the sky did they slowly awaken from that mysterious, unfathomable state.
The two exchanged a glance.
Each saw astonishment and delight in the other's eyes.
Still without speaking, they shifted from observing the sea of clouds to watching the stars filling this expanse of heaven and earth.
Just as when they had watched the clouds, once they settled their minds into meditation, they felt that the countless stars also seemed alive, containing endless profound mysteries.
The flickering brilliance of light and dark seemed to faintly contain the principle of substance and illusion intertwining;
The ever-circling star vortices and chains of stars seemed to draw the qi within their bodies into flowing along with them.
Yet likewise, they still could not clearly grasp that mysterious, obscure "heat flow" within their bodies.
It was only that, as they watched the clouds and gazed at the stars, the sensation grew increasingly distinct.
One day was thus, and every day was thus.
As if possessed, Lu Feng and Chu Yunjing stood motionless atop the stone slab on the mountain peak, watching the cloud sea by day and the stars by night for seven full days.
Li Mubai and Tian Xiaofeng had already been unable to sit still by the evening of the first day. Yet fearing that the two might truly be encountering some opportunity, they did not dare disturb them on their own and could only invite the Third Elder, Chu Santong, over.
Yet to their surprise, Chu Santong was likewise unable to make sense of Lu Feng and Chu Yunjing's condition.