Though this world was a great age of cultivation, with a hundred schools contending and a hundred flowers of cultivation methods blooming, the Great Zhou Heavenly Circuit followed either the eight extraordinary meridians or the twelve main meridians.
With all his extensive reading, Xuanming had yet to encounter a Great Zhou Heavenly Circuit that accommodated both. Even if such methods existed, they were probably few and far between, to say nothing of his own, which not only united the main and extraordinary meridians but also had the Primordial Unity Qi Formula supporting it.
Precisely because of this, the moment his Great Zhou Heavenly Circuit reached perfection, it shone like a finely carved piece of beautiful jade, revealing its distinction. The eight extraordinary meridians and twelve main meridians connected from top to bottom, forming one great two principles cycle.
The eight extraordinary meridians followed Yin and Yang, while the twelve main meridians carried Yin and Yang, and each contained its own lesser Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang governed stillness; at the utmost stillness, movement arose, and movement gave birth to Yang. Beginning at the Ren Meridian, it circulated through the extraordinary meridians before entering the main meridians. Yin and Yang governed movement; at the utmost movement, it returned to stillness, and stillness gave birth to Yin, returning from the main meridians to the Ren Meridian.
Stillness drove movement, the small drove the large, and each nourished the other in turn. Large and small generated one another, movement and stillness united, Yin and Yang transformed into each other, and the two principles encompassed them all. An internal cycle sprang into being within the Heavenly Circuit, endlessly renewing itself like the turning sun and moon, the movement of the Stars, and the succession of the four seasons.
Now, even when Xuanming did