Chapter 3: Reorganization
Starlight crossed a hundred li of sky and pressed down, bringing with it that tyrannical intent of "laid to rest in the earth." Yu Ci could not resist it and was forcibly crushed beneath the soil. All breathing and metabolism ceased, and he became like a dead man. Yet his mind remained clear and pure, neither anxious nor impatient, fearless and unafraid, abiding within the Inner Void.
The Inner Void no longer resembled its former landscape; indeed, it could no longer be called "void." There was only a mass of dense, chaotic qi rolling endlessly. The moonlit mountains and forests, the little lake and fish-dragon, had all melted into it, their former shapes nowhere to be seen.
This had been caused when the black tide of terror burned through his spirit essence and battered the Inner Void. Though the black tide had now retreated, it could not recover in a short time. Yu Ci had no intention of restoring it for the moment. He understood clearly that although this chaos was even more disordered than when the black tide had struck, it contained vigorous vitality, nurturing something within.
By grasping the workings of life and death amid life and death, and banishing the great terror of mortality, Yu Ci had now entered the legendary realm of "divine and enlightened." Mysteries and principles he had never understood before now shone brightly before him; once one point was understood, a hundred became clear.
"Using the True Dragon Form Qi to condense a mind-image truly left a fatal flaw."
Borrowing external power was never the proper path. If he had personally realized and formed the image, merging it with his body and spirit, he should not have been deceived by the Ten Directions Hell Shaking Ghosts and Gods Method. Before,