Now that the Five Brocade Cloud Diagram Grand Formation within the middle dantian had taken shape, Vast Righteous Qi immediately arose from outside Xiao Hua's body and even from the void, surging mightily into the middle dantian. Meanwhile, the true qi from before likewise passed through the Five Brocade Cloud Diagram again and flowed in reverse into the grand formation!
"Excellent!" Jade Slip Xiao Hua clapped his hands again. "This way, this poor Daoist will no longer need to read books to distinguish Vast Righteous Qi!"
"Fellow Immortal is wrong again!" Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua had originally been about to activate the silk handkerchief in his hand, but upon hearing Jade Slip Xiao Hua's words, he stopped and shook his head. "Vast Righteous Qi is unlike Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is the spirit of Heaven and Earth, the origin of Heaven and Earth, and naturally carries the gathered beauty of Heaven and Earth. Yet this Vast Righteous Qi reveals the human heart and human nature. If Fellow Immortal does not read books, then this Vast Righteous Qi will be dead. How could a stagnant pool compare to a clear spring? Ancient books, volume after volume, are streams upon streams; casting off the old and bringing forth the new, with living waters flowing ever onward—nothing could describe it better!"
"Yes, this poor Daoist has been taught!" Jade Slip Xiao Hua was completely convinced. The Confucian path was far from so simple. He had merely touched upon the threshold of Five Qi Ascending to the Origin, and truly had no idea what mysteries lay beyond that threshold.
Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua raised his hand again, and five silk handkerchiefs fell into the grand formation. Immediately afterward, the Execution Stage truly emerged. Confucian cultivator Xiao Hua landed