Ceremonial Drinking

In the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness, hazy Natural Pure Qi curled and lingered, light and shadow rising and sinking in shifting patterns, as if countless mysteries were hidden within.

Chen Mobai sat upright on the meditation cushion, breathing in and out this Natural Pure Qi to cultivate. At the very center, the Jade Wutong formed from his Spiritual Sense received the nourishment of the pure qi, then began to grow inch by inch at an unprecedented speed.

The Phoenix Phantom perched on the wutong seemed to be cheering as well, constantly circling and dancing around the crown of the tree.

As time passed, the Jade Wutong's growth began to slow.

Chen Mobai observed the Phoenix Facing Sun Diagram throughout with the Heaven and Earth All Beings Crown's Inner View of Self and discovered that the progress, originally at 11%, had now become 23%.

After making a rough estimate, the remaining Natural Pure Qi would be enough for him to master the third layer, Ceremonial Drinking.

Chen Mobai sensed his own Purple Mansion and felt that he was still far from his limit. He could not help nodding, then opened his eyes and drank another three mouthfuls of Bamboo Sap, refining three tubes of Natural Pure Qi.

An even vaster, cool and clear qi surged upward, forming the phantom of a stalk of Pure Clean Bamboo in the sky above the Purple Mansion Sea of Consciousness. It tipped toward the Jade Wutong, and at once strands of pure qi fell.

Just like that, time passed day by day.

By the seventh day, Chen Mobai's face suddenly turned crystalline, suffused with a faint luster. A strand of pure and sacred qi bloomed from between his brows, faintly weaving into a great five-colored bird with wings like clouds hanging from the heavens.