From the beginning of Blood Refining, through Bone Refining and Skin Refining, linking inside and out, burning with heartfire—only then was the Glass Body achieved.
You condensed heartfire through the method of visualizing the spirit platform, tempering your qi, blood, sinews, bones, skin, and membranes with your will until they became one glass-like whole. After two years and nine months of secluded cultivation, your Vajra Esoteric Art had entered the realm of perfection.
Your fleshly body had reached the pinnacle of Acquired Realm perfection, and you began exploring the acupoints throughout your body.
The Vajra Esoteric Art said: the human body possessed one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred acupoints, as numerous as the stars and the Milky Way, spread across the limbs and every bone.
By using one acupoint to command a hundred, and opening twelve hundred and ninety-six primary acupoints, one could transform into a Buddha Vajra, command the universe within one's body, and henceforth move without hindrance in all things.
You visualized the Vajra Wisdom King to temper your divine intent, searching tirelessly amid the brilliant stellar river that filled your limbs and bones.
After three months of study, you observed the paths through which the acupoints operated, but the fragmentary Vajra Body Forging Art came to an abrupt end.
Shen Yi showed a regretful expression.
During his secluded cultivation, he had nearly glimpsed the path of body refinement: condensing acupoints and breaking through into the Innate Realm.
Yet the esoteric art taught by the Fat and Thin Kongos stopped at the Acquired Realm. The method for opening acupoints was like a heavenly chasm shrouded in mist.
Unless he found the subsequent body-forging esoteric art, or another acupoint-refining external cultivation method from which he could draw inspiration.
Otherwise, he too would face the same predicament as with