"The Four Symbols—Azure Dragon, Mysterious Turtle, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger—represent the spiritual energy of the four directions: wood, water, fire, metal..."
Chen Yi silently recited the mnemonic of the Four Symbols Technique, guiding the True Essence within his body through the Twelve Main Meridians and the Conception and Governor Vessels in a grand circulation.
His Cultivation Base had now reached the completion of the Seventh Rank. The True Essence within him had transformed from vapor into liquid, far surpassing before in both quality and quantity.
Thus, when True Essence surged through his meridians, he could faintly hear the rumbling roar of rivers rushing onward.
At this moment, as those sounds intertwined, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured back like overturned rivers, flowing in from every limb and bone into his meridians and Qi Sea.
After the Four Symbols Technique had completed four grand circulations.
Chen Yi felt his consciousness drift from his Dantian and danzhong Qi Sea, rising along the Conception and Governor Vessels until it finally stopped at the Yintang point between his brows.
At once, he felt his consciousness land upon a sea of clouds without any substance.
In a daze, he saw one phantom after another emerge from that dim gray sea of clouds, each occupying one of the four directions.
He could vaguely make out the phantoms of the four divine beasts—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Mysterious Turtle.
"Draw the spiritual energy of the four directions into the Qi Sea, open four Divine Seats..."
The Four Symbols Technique's mnemonic suddenly surfaced in his mind.
Chen Yi suddenly realized—merging it into the Qi Sea meant not only the Dantian and danzhong, but also the Yintang Qi Sea.
Only by opening the Yintang Qi Sea could he establish the four Divine Seats.
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