Yi Yang sat cross-legged on the prayer mat, the beast-hide booklet spread open on his knees.
The divine art, the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Seal, comprised nine styles in all.
Awakening of Insects Style, Spring Thunder Style, Thunderclap Style, Thunder Prison Style, Thousand Thunder Style, Ten Thousand Thunder Style, Thunder Tribulation Style, Thunder Emperor Style, and Nine Heavens Style.
Yi Yang first flipped past the last eight pages and looked only at the art's first style, the Awakening of Insects Style.
This move emphasized "the first stir of spring thunder, startling all creation."
According to the beast hide's account, this first style did not focus on killing; it served as an introduction of sorts.
It awakened the lightning affinity within the body and established a connection with the thunderclouds in the highest heavens, allowing the practitioner to draw power directly from the sky when using the subsequent eight styles.
It sounded simple, but practicing it was another matter entirely.
Following the illustrations, Yi Yang formed the Awakening of Insects Seal with both hands before his chest.
His thumbs pressed against the bases of his ring fingers, while his other three fingers crossed and braced against one another, leaving an inch of space between his palms.
Within his Dantian's qi sea, the embryonic Dharma Body that looked twenty years old opened its eyes. Emerald-green true qi surged outward through his meridians, traveling upward straight toward his arms.
The problem lay precisely in his arms.
The Nine Heavens Thunderclap Seal followed neither the Twelve Principal Meridians nor the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. It required true qi to charge through the Shoulder Well acupoints and slam directly into several blind-ended hidden meridians along the inner arms, then use the power of qi and blood to press inward from outside. The two forces collided head-on within