Reversing Innate to Become Taiji

Taiji divided into yin and yang; only then did heaven and earth come into being, and only then were the myriad spirits born...

The foundation of heaven and earth, all things, and all living beings—everything tangible and intangible—lay within the transformations of yin and yang.

Hardness was yang, softness was yin; life was yang, death was yin. Men were yang, women were yin...

This was how Gao Xian had once understood the transformations of yin and yang. He knew his understanding was somewhat biased, but it was also the fundamental understanding of yin and yang held by most cultivators.

Only now, when the Yin-Yang Truth Awakening Scripture reached the Grandmaster realm, did countless essential truths of yin-yang transformations naturally emerge within Gao Xian's sea of consciousness, elevating his understanding of yin and yang to a higher realm.

Yin and yang were not fixed and unmoving, but constantly transforming into one another.

Hardness could become softness, life could turn to death, men could become women. Everything in the world flowed and changed; nothing remained eternally fixed.

Even the Blazing Sun, the bright moon, and the stars above the nine heavens were constantly changing.

By Gao Xian's understanding, yin-yang transformation was materialist dialectics: all things were universally connected, developing and changing according to their own laws.

Put more simply, all things were interconnected and ever-changing, and the inner workings of those connections and changes were their fundamental laws.

Of course, the Yin-Yang Truth Awakening Scripture did not merely offer a philosophical mode of thought. It taught Gao Xian the inner laws of yin-yang transformations, as well as all manner of techniques for altering yin and yang.

Gao Xian had always been a practical cultivator, and so were the cultivators of this world. All those abstruse and mystifying claims were merely theories; to