The Four Eastern Florescence Methods, Fury Rising from the Depths

The Grand Unity Eastern Florescence Jade Book was the foundational legacy left by Elder Azure Emperor Ling Weiyang. As a text from the age of the Five Directions and Five Emperors, it bore both his unmistakable personal style and the cultivation style of the Primordial Era.

The specific cultivation practices it contained were divided into four methods: Spirit Visualization, Spirit Wandering, Spirit-Seeding, and Sainthood Refinement.

Spirit Visualization meant visualizing deities. It was among the most common cultivation methods of the Mystic Gate: envisioning various deities within one's body and turning their imagined existence into one's own reality, refining extraordinary power from deities that existed only in the void.

Spirit Wandering went a step further. The cultivator's soul absorbed the essence of heaven and earth, perceived the myriad changes in their laws, and developed all manner of divine abilities and spells.

Sainthood Refinement required communing with heaven and earth, following the subtleties of their laws, and finding a buffer between oneself and the world. The traditional struggle between heaven and man changed at this stage. Instead, the cultivator took the initiative to compromise and bring himself into harmony with heaven and earth. Yet the purpose of that harmony was to break free: first joining with heaven and earth, then returning to unity within oneself. Even now, Su Che struggled to make sense of its mysteries.

Perhaps only after seeing the traces of Ling Weiyang's projected image in Mysterious Capital Palace would he truly understand the changes involved.

The last method was Spirit-Seeding. According to the information Ling Weiyang had left in the jade tablet, it seemed to be a variation on a Divine Path technique.

To practice Spirit-Seeding, one first condensed one's power into a seed according to certain profound principles. One then planted that seed in a "believer." It grew