Second Realm, Perfected Stage-Changes in the Golden Core World

Yang Wenqing's consciousness sank into his Spirit Sea, swept past the boundaries of the Golden Core World, scanned the Five-Yang Cauldron Convergence deep within his Purple Mansion Qi Sea, then fell silent after brushing the tips of his Spirit Veins.

His heartbeat slowed until it was almost imperceptible. The source qi within his chest, which sustained the workings of his physical body, rose and fell at a languid rhythm; a single breath lasted as long as ten breaths for an ordinary person.

Yet his consciousness remained exceptionally clear!

The last wisp of Five Yang Five Qi within him drifted in the deepest reaches of his Purple Mansion Qi Sea, coiling around the cauldron legs of the Five-Yang Cauldron Convergence. Over the past several months, he had tried countless times to refine it into Immortal Qi, but every attempt had ended in failure.

He had specifically sought advice from his grand martial uncle, who told him that this step required consciousness to merge into it. The records left behind by the sages contained only one sentence on the matter: "When the heart arrives, qi follows."

True arrival of the heart was not the arrival of will, but the arrival of understanding.

Once that thought settled, he abandoned his previous methods and no longer tried to forcibly refine that wisp of wandering Five Yang Five Qi with his Divine Sense.

He first constructed a completely open field deep within his Qi Sea, reducing the operating frequency of the Five-Element Cycle to a level that the wandering qi could bear. He then left a channel between the Five-Element Cycle and the wandering qi, guiding Immortal Qi into it.

When the first wisp of Immortal Qi approached, the balance between the Five Yang Five Qi and Immortal Qi in his Qi Sea and Spirit