Great Void, Divine Altar.
Thunder churned, and dark clouds massed overhead.
Xu Xuan quietly studied the scroll of the Mystic Canon in his hands. Streaks of silver thunderlight flickered over it, but the scripture within was already quite familiar to him. [Thunder-Grasping Formation]
This was not the original, however, but a Dharma Method modified by the Mysterious Pivot Dao Lineage.
Naturally, Xu Xuan no longer intended to attain it through Yin-Yang. He had another idea.
"Not Yin-Yang, but the five phases."
Li Song had opened access to the records of most secret treasures in the national treasury. Anyone with military merits could seek something of corresponding value there. Xu Xuan had naturally exchanged his merits for the [Thunder-Grasping Formation], then spent the remainder searching painstakingly for anything related to the five phases, hoping to find some trace. There was nothing among the accumulated legacies associated with Surging Tribulation or Kunwei. Instead... he actually found traces among the things left behind by the Southern Li Dao Lineage. He slowly summoned a set of Spirit Artifacts: five jue wine vessels of bronze, each with an open mouth and deep belly, engraved with beast masks and divine cloud-and-thunder patterns. They were called the [Eastern Yi Divine Order Jue Bestowed by High Shang].
The Thunder Palace had declined with the fall of Yu, but its final destruction only came in early Zhou. The intervening Yin Dynasty should likewise have been governed by the Primordial Beginning Dao.
In the sacrifices at the Ancestral Temple, the honored raised vessels called jie, while the lowly raised jue. These five jue were wine vessels bestowed by the Yin king upon the clans of the Eastern Yi states to signify their submission. "Eastern Yi was where Yan Province stands today... the lands surrounding Great Tai Mountain."
Tiantuo spoke leisurely,