In mid-March, behind Flamefire Hall.
Ding Songyan lay on a stretcher bed covered with white cloth, wearing only a short tunic and Calf-Nose Trousers.
After briefly telling his master about his trip to Yuejiang Prefecture and warning the sect to be wary of Ji Hanyi, Ding Songyan returned to life in his mountain residence, only going down to Flat Lake Town with his senior sister every few days to unwind.
He had maintained a pace of creating fifteen to eighteen unusual apertures each month and had completed all ninety-four a few days earlier. Next came organ dressing.
Organ dressing in the Hundun Scripture consisted of six organs in three groups. The first required installing the inhuman organ "Limitless," which had only one unusual aperture. The second involved simultaneously installing "Yin" and "Yang," which formed the inhuman organ "Supreme Ultimate," with four unusual apertures in total. The third was the inhuman organ "Dao and Virtue," composed of "Heaven," "Earth," and "Man," with nine unusual apertures. All three had to be installed together, or the various forms of qi might fall out of balance, risking cultivation deviation.
Since different methods followed very different sequences for opening orifices and organ dressing in the Dayan Realm, the division into its four minor stages-early, middle, late, and full attainment-was rather muddled. Full attainment was straightforward: completing all opening orifices, organ dressing, and meridian condensation qualified. The others each had their own standards. In the Xiaoming Sect, for instance, everything before the first organ dressing counted as the early stage of the Dayan Realm. The first and second organ dressings belonged to the middle stage, and completing the third marked entry into the late stage.
By that reckoning, Ding Songyan's personal cultivation progress currently belonged to the early stage of the Dayan Realm, but that was