Innate Five-Element Dao Body

He did not know how much time had passed when, amid that dim, unfathomable stillness, a thought arose unbidden in Lin Yun's mind.

The time has come.

Lin Yun hesitated no longer. With a thought, a diagram appeared naturally in his mind.

It depicted a naked man sitting cross-legged in meditation. Every meridian in his body was clearly visible, and five-colored lines flowed out of the void and into his body along those meridians.

They then traveled throughout his body along the meridians, sometimes forward, sometimes backward, linking his bones and muscles.

Finally, the five-colored lines converged at his Cinnabar Field through the meridians, joining end to end to form a five-colored ring.

The five-colored ring then circulated repeatedly along the conception and governing vessels, shrinking ever smaller until it became a tiny five-colored sphere. It leaped into his brain along the conception vessel, then sprang out through his forehead and vanished into a patch of void three inches before it.

This was the 365th True-Form Diagram of the White Yang Diagram, which Lin Yun had comprehended based on his own circumstances and the environment of the Mortal Realm-the Diagram of the Evolution of the Innate and Acquired Five-Element Dao Body!

As Lin Yun visualized it, the primordial qi of heaven and earth surrounding his body began pouring into him.

Since the most active primordial qi of heaven and earth in the Mortal Realm consisted of the various types belonging to the five elements, these made up the bulk of what entered Lin Yun's body.

Jia wood qi, Yi wood qi, Bing fire qi, Ding fire qi, Wu earth qi, Ji earth qi... all manner of five-element primordial qi gathered within him.

Using the Taiqing Daoist Orthodox School Qi-Discerning Method, Lin Yun carefully selected the innate five-element qi and drew it into his meridians, while directing the acquired five-element primordial qi into his bones and muscles. The process was slow, but he was in no hurry.

While carefully distinguishing and selecting the five-element primordial qi, he began circulating the innate five-element primordial qi already drawn into his meridians. It gradually gathered in his Cinnabar Field, where it mingled with his white yang true qi and was refined.

It then began circulating along the conception and governing vessels, constantly exchanging qi with the acquired five-element primordial qi in his bones and muscles.

And so Lin Yun cultivated, slowly but steadfastly.

While Lin Yun devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation, the slaughter in the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land gradually reached its peak.

Disciples of the Seven Sects fought and killed one another without cease, and the stench of blood filled every corner of the forbidden land's outer reaches.

Only with the arrival of the third day did the killing temporarily subside.

But that morning, when the Heavenly Gate Fort disciple entrusted with the Moon-Yang Treasure Pearl cast a spell to disperse the mist over the Ring Mountain Range, tension rose within the forbidden land once more.

None of this seemed to have anything to do with Lin Yun. His cultivation of the White Yang Diagram had reached a critical moment, and his physique had already begun quietly transforming.

Having entered the Ring Mountain Range directly through Formless Sword Escape, however, Lin Yun knew nothing of the terrain where he was, nor even his precise location within the range. Thus, he had no way of knowing what was happening overhead.

Roughly a hundred feet above Lin Yun's head lay an underground space three hundred feet high. Above that stood an enormous, ancient-looking Greenstone Hall. Though the hall was immense, its entrance was pitifully small, allowing only two people to pass side by side.

The hall stood right in the middle of a small basin.

Just as the transformation of Lin Yun's physique reached its critical stage, a group of white-robed disciples from the Covering Moon Sect appeared on a small hill at the edge of the basin above him.

Their leader was a girl who looked fifteen or sixteen, with delicate, innocent features and an adorably naive expression.

Aside from her, most of the Covering Moon Sect disciples were paired off, one man and one woman, making up some eight or nine couples of cultivators.

"Is this the place? Well done. You'll be rewarded once we return to the sect." The girl lifted her small face and praised a beautiful young married woman beside her with the air of an old veteran.

Overwhelmed by the unexpected favor, the woman hurriedly replied with a respectful expression, "Thank you for your praise, Patriarch! We disciples were only doing our duty."

This girl was none other than Nangong Wan, a Core Formation cultivator of the Covering Moon Sect.

Under Nangong Wan's leadership, the Covering Moon Sect disciples entered the Greenstone Hall.

In a stone chamber more than four hundred feet beneath the Greenstone Hall.

Lin Yun had finally reached the most critical step of his cultivation.

After several days of absorbing and refining innate and acquired five-element primordial qi, Lin Yun had used this vast, pure supply, together with the white yang true qi he had painstakingly cultivated, to cleanse and refine his cultivation body to its utmost limit.

He needed only one final qualitative transformation to return from the acquired to the innate, embody the principles of the five elements' mutual generation and restraint, and attain an innate five-element Dao body.

Within Lin Yun's Cinnabar Field, a strand of life-bound vital essence refined to its utmost limit quietly appeared, gleaming in five colors. Silently employing his profound art, he slowly pushed it along the conception vessel toward the ancestral aperture between his brows.

After an unknown length of time, the five-colored life-bound vital essence finally entered the ancestral aperture.

Despite his tranquil expression, Lin Yun could no longer keep the corners of his mouth from lifting.

But it was not over yet. After rolling nine times within the ancestral aperture, the life-bound vital essence took on the aura of his soul. Lin Yun's expression settled once more, becoming exceedingly solemn.

After lingering in the ancestral aperture for another moment, the life-bound vital essence abruptly surged upward, rushed straight out of the aperture, and came to rest three inches before the point between Lin Yun's brows.

Before even a trace of that mass of life-bound vital essence could dissipate, a flash of lightning suddenly flickered three inches before Lin Yun's brow, as though something had opened.

"Profound Aperture, open!"

Lin Yun gave a low shout.

Seizing that flash of lightning, he drove his life-bound vital essence forward in one unstoppable push. An instant later, it vanished without a trace.

Not the slightest worry appeared on Lin Yun's face. Instead, a hint of wild joy emerged.

He knew that his mysterious pass aperture had opened!

At the same time, a thunderous boom rang through Lin Yun's mind. The purple mansion within his brain abruptly opened, and a thread of his soul followed the soul aura upon his life-bound vital essence, instantly establishing a connection with the Profound Aperture.

Following that connection, it quietly appeared within the Profound Aperture and abruptly collided with the life-bound primordial qi that had already entered. This was what was meant by, "One meeting of golden wind and jade dew surpasses countless encounters in the mortal world."

The Profound Aperture instantly blazed with light, like a great sun newly risen. The stone chamber around Lin Yun likewise lit up, as though radiance had blossomed within an empty room.

This was precisely the manifestation of "the first stirring of yang" within the Profound Aperture in Daoist Orthodox School cultivation. Reaching this stage meant he had established the finest foundation the Daoist Orthodox School could offer.

As the first stirring of yang arose within the Profound Aperture, Lin Yun's cultivation body also began its most crucial transformation.

The acquired returned to the innate. With the principles of the five elements' mutual generation and restraint brought to this point, his innate five-element Dao body was complete!

Once his innate Dao body was complete, Lin Yun hesitated no longer. The thread of his soul merged into his life-bound vital essence silently returned to the purple mansion, while the life-bound vital essence followed the connection between the Profound Aperture and his physical body,

merging into his flesh.

Lin Yun reckoned their next meeting would come when he formed his Golden Core.

Meanwhile, the white yang true qi in Lin Yun's Cinnabar Field had already condensed into a pool of liquid true essence, like a shallow pool of five-colored immortal elixir.

Lin Yun opened his eyes, and a gleam flashed through them.

Sensing his body's affinity with the spiritual qi around him, Lin Yun smiled freely. Although spiritual roots had never mattered much to him, having them or not, and having good ones or poor ones, were two different matters.

If he had to describe his spiritual roots now, they would be a five-element heavenly spiritual root!

Moreover, the mysterious pass aperture he had opened was constantly one with heaven and earth. Gathering and refining qi had therefore become even easier, and his control over the surrounding primordial qi of heaven and earth had grown more practiced as well.

At that thought, Lin Yun's expression shifted. The spiritual qi within several hundred feet instantly poured into the Profound Aperture, where it was refined into drops of liquid true essence. These then quietly fell into his Cinnabar Field and merged with the true essence already there.

"Ha!" Sensing the abundant magical power within him, Lin Yun chuckled.

At the same moment, in the underground space a hundred feet above Lin Yun's head, Nangong Wan, who had been sealed inside by the Covering Moon Sect disciples using the Little Sumeru Forbidden Technique, was locked in combat with a second-stage Ink Flood Dragon. Suddenly sensing some of the surrounding spiritual qi dissipate, her expression changed, and she was nearly struck by the Ink Flood Dragon. With no time to ponder it, she continued her fierce struggle against the beast.