Testing and the Meditation Chamber

Sitting upright within the "meditation chamber," Tang Yuyang assumed a breathing meditation posture, gathered his essence and guarded the One, with his five centers facing heaven. He guided that trace of "warmth" around him, carefully restraining the familiar route of his basic universal internal-energy enhancement, and instead circulated his power through the heavenly cycle according to a specific new method.

Not long ago, he had only just barely survived his fourth mission—helping an old Native American man escape across a wilderness while armed foreign prospectors hunted him down.

Following the advice given by the experts at that previous base, the young man had exchanged for an entirely new entry from the Main God, and had now been transferred to a new classified location—

To take part in an extremely highly classified project!

Although he had some prior "foundation" and had crossed the hurdle of sensing qi within his body and generating internal energy ahead of time,

now that he had left behind the familiar experience directly provided by the Main God during his first exchange—experience that had even been deeply imprinted upon his mind and body—and was walking the path on his own, he finally understood just how difficult cultivation truly was when starting from nothing!

Even though a trace of regret had risen in his heart, and his face could not help taking on the same expression as that old Native American chief, Kuye—an expression of pure misery—there was no longer any turning back.

"Focus the spirit and tap the teeth. Sit upright and regulate the breath. Close the eyes and preserve the thought. Observe the Dipper as before. Press the tongue against the upper palate to form a golden bridge. The five viscera release five streams of five-colored essence, descending by the bridge. The spirit arrives within the