As a wisp of the Dao resonance of innate Taiqing Dao qi was born, the compression of his Life-Origin Qi abruptly accelerated.
Another three months passed.
Within Lin Yun's cinnabar field, the five-colored cloud had vanished, replaced by a soybean-sized pill that shimmered with five colors yet radiated a hazy, clear light.
This was a taiqing one-qi origin pill embryo.
Next came a hundred days of nurturing the embryo, consolidating its foundations and making the final preparations for core formation.
Time slipped past like a white steed flashing through a gap, and the hundred days were over in the blink of an eye.
Lin Yun remained seated cross-legged, lost in a state where both self and world were forgotten.
Within his cinnabar field, the taiqing one-qi origin pill embryo was still only the size of a soybean, still shimmered with five colors, and still radiated a hazy, clear light.
Yet compared with when the pill embryo had first formed a hundred days earlier, it had undergone a change as vast as the overturning of heaven and earth.
"One qi divides into yin and yang; yin and yang transform into the five elements; the five elements give rise to myriad qi; myriad qi return to Taiqing." Lin Yun suddenly opened his half-closed eyes. A gleam flashed through them as he recited the words with a smile.
He had now completed the most important step in bringing the Five Elements Dao Lineage under the governing principles of the Daoist Orthodox School's orthodox methods.
The taiqing one-qi pill embryo trembled slightly. A trace of golden light flashed across its surface, then disappeared, leaving it to continue radiating its clear light.
Having completed the most important step of core formation, Lin Yun turned his attention to the liquid five-colored true essence beneath the pill