Jiang Tian naturally had no idea about the uproarious discussions spreading through the sect.
He was in the Quiet Room, doing nothing but cultivating.
Though he possessed the two golden traits [Chaos Dao Body] and [World-Shocking Wisdom], which let him compress the qi in his body into liquid, it was more like a gradual process of water wearing through stone. It couldn't be accomplished overnight.
No matter how high his comprehension or how strong his constitution, he couldn't skip this step.
Besides, how difficult it was to compress qi depended heavily on its quality and where it was stored.
In his dantian, he could compress it without restraint. There was plenty of space and a wide margin for error; he could do whatever he liked.
But he certainly wouldn't dare try that in his five internal organs.
Moreover, each of the five kinds of top-grade qi in his body was like a stubborn donkey, refusing to budge when pulled and kicking back when driven.
Earth and wood were somewhat docile, but the other three—metal, fire, and water—were downright obstinate, each refusing to yield to the others.
Then he realized he could use the principle of elemental countering to compress them.
The reasoning was simple. Water countered fire, so he would draw Lunar Qi into his dantian, then channel in a little Solar Qi.
Water could extinguish fire to begin with, and the amount of Lunar Qi he drew into his dantian was greater than the Solar Qi.
Using Lunar Qi to suppress Solar Qi, he compressed the Solar Qi into liquid, then sent the now-liquefied Solar Qi back into his heart.
Water was countered by earth, and the same principle applied.
He repeated this process over and over, going round and round like pushing a millstone, grinding in one circle