Cultivation in the Outer Three Yuan focused primarily on visualization.
The Earthly Yuan Art required one to visualize the Yongquan Acupoint forming a spiritual abyss, with twelve peaks within that abyss, each of which had to be manifested one by one.
One could not directly visualize all twelve peaks; they had to be visualized peak by peak.
This required immense Spiritual Power.
Compared to the Heavenly Sword Secret Scripture, visualizing the spiritual abyss consumed Spiritual Power like the difference between a vast ocean and a lake.
Having only just begun, he truly could not observe a spirit peak while also visualizing the Heavenly Sword Secret Scripture.
He felt that once he had entered the basics, he would likely be able to divide his mind between two visualizations.
The Ancestral Aperture supplied Spiritual Power in an unceasing stream, enough to let him visualize both at once.
Time flowed away amid his visualization, and the road flashed past amid his visualization.
By dusk the next day, they arrived at Heavenly Sword Peak.
Not long after he returned to his small courtyard, someone knocked on the gate outside.
Chu Zhiyuan stepped forward and pulled open the courtyard gate.
Li Hongzhao stood outside in fiery red robes, smiling sweetly, beautiful and dazzling.
She looked at Chu Zhiyuan with a smug smile. "I heard you've rendered great merit again?"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled. "Third Turn?"
Li Hongzhao giggled. "Just luck, just luck."
She had not expected it to be so fast, far faster than she had imagined.
Had Chu Zhiyuan not been ahead of her, she would have felt uneasy and wanted to slow down.
Chu Zhiyuan gestured.
The two entered the pavilion in his small courtyard.
Without standing on ceremony, she set tea to boil on a little red-clay stove and leisurely admired the flowers