Down Mount Zhongnan, Great Peace Daoist

[You resolved to cultivate the Innate Skill and the Heaven-Refining Hand.]

[Ever since you crossed the threshold of Grandmaster and first glimpsed the Innate Skill, Heaven and Earth had churned within you. The newborn innate true qi and the deep reserves forged by the Great Yellow Court held separate territories like rivers flowing apart, two utterly different powers locked in silent opposition.]

[Within your Inner Heaven and Earth, the two streams of true qi crouched like fierce, glaring-eyed tigers on a mountain, watching each other and growling without cease.]

[They could not merge!]

[Fortunately, you had entered the Innate Realm and could quietly resolve this discord within your Inner Heaven and Earth. Otherwise, your internal energy would long since have fallen into chaos, leaving endless trouble in its wake.]

[You had never expected it!]

[The Great Yellow Court, once prized in the Three Truths Sect as the gentlest companion through the early stages of cultivation, had become a stumbling block the moment you crossed the Innate Realm's threshold.]

[To grasp the true essence of the Innate Skill, you first had to tear down what you had built and begin anew, dispersing every last bit of the cultivation you had amassed through the Great Yellow Court.]

[An indescribable current stirred within you. The true qi refined through years of arduous practice in the Great Yellow Court now ebbed like a retreating tide, slowly dissipating.]

[Dispersing your cultivation!]

[In silence, your cultivation slipped from the Innate Realm and fell all the way to the Master Realm in no more than the time it took a stick of incense to burn.]

[Three hours later, when the final wisp of true qi escaped your Inner Heaven and Earth, you lost all your cultivation.]

[Nothing remained!]

[Yet without cultivation, you seemed more closely connected to