Further insights into the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Fiends: Who was worshiping the Yellow God?

When the time was right, heaven and earth lent their strength; when fortune arrived, all things moved in concert.

Floating Cloud Mountain and the Truth-Seeking Abbey had reaped such a bountiful harvest because they had seized the favorable timing, terrain, and unity of purpose amid the Taiping turmoil.

Xuanming saw this clearly.

Gathering his thoughts and withdrawing his gaze, he turned his attention to himself. Over the past fortnight, besides observing Floating Cloud Mountain's ascension and delving from outward appearances into the principles of the earth and vitality, Xuanming had also been digesting what he had gained from studying the Jade Scripture of the Central Yellow Court.

His seclusion of nearly a year had yielded abundant fruit.

First, he had perfected the Primordial Unity Qi Formula, deriving a Spirit Refining cultivation method from the scripture. Although it ended at the Yang Spirit section, and he still had no idea how to achieve three flowers gathered at the crown, he was already satisfied.

Unlike during Qi Refining, when he had numerous accounts of cultivation insights and methods to consult and could draw on the strengths of many schools, great Spirit Refining cultivators were scarce. Even across the Three Divine Dynasties, their numbers could be counted, and most were in the Yin Spirit Realm. He had only a single account of Divine cultivation insights at hand, with no other references.

Under such circumstances, developing his cultivation method as far as the Yang Spirit section was already a rare achievement. Xuanming would not need to worry about cultivation methods for some time, and he had also devised the Spirit Refining section of the Circumferential Spirit-Nourishing Art.

The human body had three hundred and sixty primary acupoints and three hundred and sixty auxiliary acupoints. The Spirit Refining section progressed from easy to difficult, chiefly