So... the Thirty-Three Realms Divine Ecstasy Art seemed difficult yet easy, easy yet truly difficult! Though an art for nurturing health, it required two people to cultivate together, excavating the secrets of her body to nourish them both.
Its method of cultivation was easier than martial arts involving fists and feet. It had none of their countless unpredictable variations or frameworks of moves. Back and forth, it involved only that single motion, performed slowly or swiftly. Yet using that one motion to reach soul-dissolving heights of exquisite perfection was exceedingly difficult.
Only when bodies and hearts harmonized, affection aligned, and every supporting element came together, carrying body, heart, flesh, and intent into the clouds, could one first ascend to the first heavenly realm and comprehend the art within the stele. Ordinary bedroom intimacy, pleasure confined to the flesh, stopped at the surface and could hardly penetrate its mysteries.
Dozens of wooden cabins stood around the stele, each furnished with fragrant beds and soft bedding. The Flower Cage Sect's elders had no shortage of companions. Yin Jiudu had hinted that the Thirty-Three Realms Divine Ecstasy Art involved sensual pleasure. Quite a few elders had tried bringing their Flower Consorts inside, reciting the scripture together and joining their bodies to comprehend it.
But they fell several measures short and failed to grasp its true essence. Even if they gained something, it was merely superficial. This martial art was extremely difficult to master. During the Flesh Divinity Sect's heyday, experts had attempted it too. They knew the cultivation method yet could not succeed, entirely because "ascending the heights" was so difficult. It was like a mortal body learning to leap with lightness techniques: leaping straight up to Azure Cloud Heaven, the first heaven of the Blue-Heavens Long Dream Tower, remained almost impossibly difficult.