Seven Star Heavenly Robe, Nine-Five Thunder Roar (Part Two)

Freed from the dead demon's restraints, Yu Ci's mind suddenly eased. His absorption of the Essence Profound Truth naturally returned to its proper course. He felt yang energy billowing and life force flowing, like tender shoots breaking through the soil and green bamboo thrusting up joint by joint atop a barren mountain—within moments, lush green filled the eye, brimming with vitality and flourishing luxuriantly.

The Black Tortoise contained the methods of Dark Nether, its intent centered on concealment and gathering. Yet when concealment reached its utmost, extreme yin gave birth to yang, and growth would begin. Like winter yielding to spring, thunder roaring at the Awakening of Insects, and all things reviving, it perfectly accorded with the Azure Dragon True Intent.

Had he not heard: "Yin and yang gave rise to endless cycles; a single thunderclap transformed all things"?

Yu Ci then heard that rolling thunder, shaking his limbs and bones. Even his Dan Dao foundation trembled. If the shockwaves were water, then they had already washed his entire body clean once over.

Previously, when he projected the Life and Death Profound Mechanism into the Three Enclosures, the Perfection True Meaning thus formed had preliminarily stabilized the foundation that Buddhist light had catalyzed into seeming hollow. Now that the thunder sounded, another cleansing came from within to without. Strengthening the foundation and securing the root went without saying.

For the past year, what he had sought was to stabilize his foundation and withstand the demon tribulation. With this reversal of momentum, he had turned from defense to offense. Upon that solidified foundation, the dead demon shuddered in terror. Though it could not be swept away entirely, he vaguely sensed the source of its veins and threads. Yet when he wished to pin it down further, heavenly secrets obscured it, making