The Five Elements Sect, the Blade Tower.
By now, the sky had gone completely dark. Stars like fine silver sand dotted the boundless curtain of night.
Mo Yun sat cross-legged, his hands forming the midnight-noon seal. His palms faced upward, stacked before his lower abdomen, his thumbs touching lightly as though embracing yin and yang.
Then he began visualizing himself according to the fundamental method recorded in the [Origin Returning Blade Canon].
Within his consciousness, an invisible carving blade seemed to trace out his muscles, bones, flesh, blood, and every acupoint throughout his body, stroke by stroke. Everything was so clear that even the path of each strand of true essence appeared in perfect detail.
Once he felt a weightless illusion that he was about to rise off the ground, Mo Yun slowly extended his right hand. He pressed his index and middle fingers together, condensed a strand of sharp true essence at their tips, and slashed hard across the space between his brows.
"Ssh!"
In an instant, a finger-long streak of golden light shone between Mo Yun's brows. Like a vertical eye slowly opening, it lent his entire presence an unfathomably mysterious air.
His expression steadied. He focused on the stars filling the sky, reaching out to sense them from afar through the secret method.
"Whoosh!"
An almost transparent figure, its entire body suffused with a pale golden glow, suddenly emerged from between Mo Yun's brows and soared upstream toward the endless starry sky.
The figure was identical to Mo Yun, from the contours of his features to the folds in his robes, like a soul stepping out of a mirror.
"So this is a primordial spirit?" Mo Yun murmured. He glanced down at his physical body sitting cross-legged below, then felt his current state-light as nothing, able to