Boiling Mountains and Rivers in a Half-Sheng Cauldron, Meeting the Beautiful Married Woman Again

"Good!"

"I've decided. It's you."

The records in that ancient classic, Essential Guide to Tending the Field, slowly surfaced in his mind.

"The iron ox plows the field to plant golden coins."

"The child carving stone strings them through."

The acupoints throughout the human body and the twelve meridians, together with the method of circulation and the best time to cultivate, were all explained one by one.

A true immortal secret manual, detailed to the extreme.

First, one needed to sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. When each acupoint was filled with nine streams of spiritual energy, the first heavenly ladder would be perfected.

The second heavenly ladder required breaking open the major acupoints and meridians throughout the body, allowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to pour endlessly inside, washing through the meridians and clearing the acupoints.

This process was meant to temper the sinews and bones, making them tough as iron, as if one had undergone a marrow-washing and bone-cleansing, causing a complete rebirth.

Four lines of verse revealed the mystery.

"So-called scriptures may fill ten thousand scrolls, yet they are not equal to one true saying."

Yu Ke recalled all the acupoints in the human body, and his divine sense sank into them.

He moved the spiritual energy through the microcosmic orbit, passing through the three carts of the microcosmic orbit and the little river cart, the macrocosmic orbit and the great river cart, the returning-to-void purple river cart, beginning with the ox cart microcosmic orbit.

A majestic surge of spiritual energy was like a general charging into enemy lines, leading the unending torrent of spiritual energy behind it as it raced through Yu Ke's meridians.

"Microcosmic orbit, open for me!"

Charging the acupoints!

Chiseling through the passes!

Driving qi and blood, connecting the acupoint mansions.

Every bit of spiritual energy that flowed brought agonizing pain with it.

Yu Ke only felt as though needles were stabbing every inch of his body. He clenched his teeth desperately and balled his hands into fists.

Sweat poured down him!

His chest trembled uncontrollably, rising and falling unevenly.

Yu Ke's body seemed to have become a vast battlefield, with spiritual energy "campaigning" within it.

Where the meridians operated, where the flowing mechanism ran, a brilliant golden line gradually formed, piercing through his entire body.

"If you meet an immortal who personally points out the formula, seize the Big Dipper's wheel of the heavens."

Yu Ke silently recited it in his heart.

The first cycle of spiritual energy was right within it!

He clenched his teeth even harder.

This breath!

He could not exhale it, absolutely could not exhale it!

Once he exhaled, all previous effort would be wasted.

He remembered being an ox and horse in his last life, and now he had lived again for another lifetime!

And he had even encountered a great age of cultivation. A true man ought to roam the nine heavens.

"I'm going to cultivate immortality."

An incomparably intense conviction burst forth, allowing him to remain clear-headed.

Yu Ke pressed his tongue against his upper palate, also called holding up heaven with the hand. His Governing and Conception Vessels linked their breaths because his tongue touched his upper palate.

As a powerful wave of spiritual energy ran through his whole body,

he seemed to feel himself merge into one with the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

Yu Ke's eyes suddenly opened, shining with dazzling light.

"Spin for me!"

At this moment!

It could not be broken, must not be broken.

Two strands of Mediating Mother Qi flowed along with the spiritual energy, still carrying lingering force.

Yu Ke wanted to break through several acupoints throughout his body in one go and make the spiritual energy complete a microcosmic orbit.

The method recorded in Essential Guide to Tending the Field.

"A world is hidden inside a single grain of millet."

"Mountains and rivers are boiled inside a half-sheng cauldron."

Every acupoint was like a seed, a treasure mountain, like a grotto-heaven, a world.

From this, one could see!

The patriarch who wrote this line had a spirit grand enough to shake the ancient and dazzle the present.

The body was like a cauldron, scorching and refining mountains and rivers!

At this moment, he needed to nourish qi, scattering qi into the many great acupoints and acupoint mansions.

Spiritual energy cycled twice through the microcosmic orbit.

The pores all over Yu Ke's body opened wide, absorbing threadlike strands of spiritual energy into his dantian.

At his dantian, wisps of spiritual energy steamed up once more.

Looking inward!

Many acupoints were like crystalline, translucent treasure mountains, radiating pearly brilliance.

After the microcosmic orbit had cycled three times, the spiritual energy quietly changed.

"Refine essence into qi, refine qi into spirit; lead refines mercury, mercury becomes the cinnabar fruit complete."

Spiritual energy, spiritual qi, spiritual liquid, spiritual essence.

The transformation between four different states was also a necessary path to stepping into a higher realm.

The final spiritual essence was a state that spiritual energy could only transform into after Foundation Establishment.

Only when one stepped through the gate of Foundation Establishment could one be called a traveler on the path of cultivation!

After the ninth microcosmic orbit cycle, the spiritual energy became spiritual qi, then became spiritual liquid.

"Scatter!"

The acupoints were like mountains, the sinews and meridians in the sky, the spiritual energy like clouds on the horizon.

It was like!

An autumn rain surging with vigorous momentum.

It fell grandly among the mountains.

All the flush on Yu Ke's body receded.

He sat cross-legged!

When he opened his eyes again, spiritual energy had been refined into his body, and the many acupoint treasure mountains released an intoxicating radiance once more.

A long-lost look of joy finally appeared on Yu Ke's face.

He had finally opened the microcosmic orbit connecting the lower dantian to the upper dantian, which meant he had already stepped into the great success stage of the second heavenly ladder.

However!

Yu Ke knew that he was still some distance from the perfected realm, because there were still two hundred and eighty-four acupoints that had yet to be incorporated into the cycle.

Only when all seven hundred and twenty acupoints were incorporated into the circulation throughout his body could he reach the perfected realm of the second heavenly ladder.

Unfortunately!

The two strands of Mediating Mother Qi that Yu Ke currently possessed had already been completely consumed, so his plan to assault the perfected realm could only be set aside for now, waiting for the next opportunity.

If there were no Mediating Mother Qi!

Next, he could only rely on water-grinding effort to continue cultivating.

Thinking back, his predecessor had spent a full four years before opening all his acupoints and attempting to use the moment of Foundation Establishment to break open the "Divine Heaven Acupoint."

The result was ashes to ashes!

This lesson made Yu Ke deeply realize that the path of cultivation could not be rushed. One had to advance steadily and strike solidly.

He took it as a warning!

It was just like a beautiful woman with a graceful figure, even wearing an interesting outfit, but one still could not be impatient, or else major problems would arise.

There had to be insurance... a backup move.

Yu Ke nodded. Foundation Establishment had to be planned slowly!

In the realm of the second heavenly ladder, there were three kinds of miraculous divine abnormalities:

[Gold Muscle and Jade Meridians]

[Copper Skin and Iron Bones]

[Mercury Blood and Silver Marrow]

The original body had possessed one of them, [Gold Muscle and Jade Meridians], but after the failed Foundation Establishment later, it had all been destroyed.

If he could possess them all, it would mean the realm of the second heavenly ladder had already stabilized.

Then Foundation Establishment would be practically in the bag.

Foundation Establishment also had ranks one through nine, and above ninth rank there was even Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment. He would have to consider all of that in the future.

Fortunately!

He could cultivate now, and he had also escaped the possibility of sudden death.

Thinking of this, Yu Ke could not stop the smile at the corners of his mouth.

At this moment!

Yu Ke sniffed, and a smell drifted over.

"Ugh!"

He nearly vomited and could not help saying,

"Who shit their pants?"

Yu Ke came back to his senses, and when he looked at his own arms, they were covered in foul-smelling reddish-brown sludge.

The smell was simply something else!

It had more kick than opening a jar of several-decades-old pickled cabbage.

It had been the same last time, but the smell had not been this strong.

All the stagnant blood in his meridians had been expelled, along with some waste residue.

Looking inward, everything was clear and bright.

He hurriedly rushed into the bathroom. Among the outer sect, all four courtyards were equipped with bathrooms.

A round of scrubbing and washing!

He felt refreshed and clear-headed.

At this time, the noon sun also shone in.

It was rather bright and beautiful.

On the seventh day since he transmigrated, he had solved the original body's cultivation problem, and there were still more than two months until the assessment.

The great success stage of the second heavenly ladder was still not stable enough!

Most clan disciples like Yu Ke were at the perfected second heavenly ladder.

It seemed he still had to keep cultivating to perfection.

With that said, he walked out the door, grabbed a large bowl, filled it with spiritual rice, and prepared to cook.

"I'm hungry."

He pushed open the door, only to see!

At the doorway was a beautiful sight.

Yu Ke's eyes narrowed slightly.

He had run into the beautiful married woman from last time again.

Her purple long dress was rather tight-fitting.

It made her curves look astonishing, especially exaggerated.

From the back!

That shape was pear, peach.

He should cook first. He could look again later.

What was strange was!

After the beautiful married woman noticed him, she walked straight toward him.