That night, to Lu Qing, had been nothing more than a casual gesture.
As for how much fortune those departing birds and beasts could gain from it, Lu Qing did not know either.
After he recited that passage of cultivation method, the temple, which had originally seemed desolate and lonely, lost some of its chilly gloom.
After a night of meditation, the sky outside gradually began to clear.
Gray-blue clouds rippled apart, revealing the clear radiance of dawn. A thread of nearly imperceptible purple appeared in the sky.
It happened to shine through the main gate and into the temple.
There should originally have been gilded Buddha statues inside this temple, but such gold-painted sculptures had been left here for years and were far too conspicuous. They had long since been taken away by someone unknown.
Even the altar table for worshipping gods and Buddhas had vanished. Otherwise, aside from its exterior, the entire temple would have contained nothing at all. Even the incense stand was gone, much less any other objects.
Thus, Lu Qing alone bathed in those faint threads of purple.
Within the Purple Radiance was also a thread of Boundless Vastness Qi, the purest power drawn from the Great Sun Essence. Lu Qing breathed in and out for a while, and with every inhalation and exhalation, a peculiar rhythm gradually began to move in time with the sounds of his breath and heartbeat.
Only when his sleeves fluttered without wind, and the light beyond the heavens finally leaped free of the boundless mountains' obstruction, did the youth seated at the center cease his breathing exercise as well.
At harmony with nature.
Lu Qing rose to his feet and felt an emptiness throughout his body. Some of his lingering ailments had faded further.
He walked out through the