Ling Qing began studying the Spirit Restraint and Transformation Method.
At that moment, he had his eyes closed as he studied the Spirit Restraint Method displayed on the panel projected before him.
As a fundamental method, the Spirit Restraint Method was meant to strengthen a cultivator's thoughts, enabling them to sense, guide, and restrain the spirits of heaven and earth.
Thus, the method was divided into four techniques: Spirit Sensing, Spirit Guiding, Spirit Restraining, and Spirit Containing.
As the name suggested, spirits,
referred to the natural laws governing the changes in the world.
Sensing moved the heart.
Spirit Sensing meant receiving the natural laws of heaven and earth with one's heart, then sensing them as spirits.
Guiding originally meant drawing a bow; by extension, it meant pulling.
Spirit Guiding meant using the power of the mind to move and lead nature's spirits, prying at the authority of heaven and earth so they could be wielded at will.
Restraint meant stopping, binding, and limiting.
Spirit Restraining meant imprisoning and fixing nature's spirits—or even the authority bestowed upon them by heaven and earth—as if they were living beings.
Containing meant taking in, accommodating, and making something part of oneself.
Spirit Containing meant gathering the imprisoned spirits and their authority within a vessel, using the object as their carrier.
If one only restrained the natural spirits one had comprehended and contained them within one's mind, it was a method of cultivation. If one also restrained the authority of heaven and earth and contained it within a vessel, it was a method of application.
Sensing, guiding, restraining, containing—these were the four techniques of Spirit Restraint.
This was both a method of cultivation that progressed step by step, each stage interlocking with the next, and a set of techniques that could be separated out and