The mouthful of clear qi he had obtained from Tao Spring that day began to take effect.
Jiang Yang did not know how great a price others had to pay at this juncture, but he certainly had an easy time of it. He even had strength to spare to control the speed of its ascent.
That omnipresent lifting force made pushing his immortal foundation upward effortless. Of course, the abundant magic power supplied by his brimming qi sea was another great helping hand.
Divine powers were the fruit of an expansive dao foundation.
First, the immortal foundation was nurtured, then pushed out of the qi sea, through the three palaces, and into the rising sun. The rising sun was then lifted into the Great Void, where the cultivator passed through endless illusions, shed the mortal vessel, and became a True Person.
That was the path ordinary cultivators took, but not Jiang Yang.
He sought to cultivate both inner nature and life, with their boundless mysteries, resonating with heaven and earth to become one. Seeking the art was seeking the Dao; cultivating life was cultivating inner nature.
According to the Immortal Art, apart from the first step of raising the immortal foundation, the steps that followed were entirely different.
He needed to raise his immortal foundation into the rising sun, but did not need to push the rising sun into the Great Void. Instead, he would resonate with heaven and earth, turn his search back upon himself, and develop the wondrous essence. Once that essence settled upon him, it would become his divine power, and he would become a True Person.
For the Purple Mansion divine powers of the present age, one's entire nature and life were bound solely to the rising sun. Thus, cultivators could move freely through the Great