Speaking of the arts of Qihuang, one inevitably had to speak of the human body. Although Zhang Xiaohua cultivated the immortal path and tempered his meridians, he had never truly had the opportunity to systematically study immortal cultivation knowledge. In truth, even the immortal path had only conducted outstanding research into the meridians of the human body; it possessed no exceedingly detailed understanding of the body as a whole.
Of course, immortal cultivation techniques were as brilliant and countless as the stars in the Star River, and many were body-tempering methods. Yet, like qi-refining methods, these body-tempering arts only concerned themselves with how to forge the body into something powerful and tough. They never clearly explained the functions of organs such as the heart, lungs, and liver, nor how they should be regulated. Naturally, they also never carefully studied the characteristics and illnesses of ordinary human bodies.
After careful study and learning, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly discovered one day that the things within the human body felt remarkably familiar. Upon thinking it over, were they not subtly aligned with the Heavenly Way he contemplated every day? Once this thought arose, the more Zhang Xiaohua researched, the more traces of the Heavenly Way he found within. Could it be that the human body also contained a miniature reflection of the Heavenly Way?
Zhang Xiaohua found it somewhat unbelievable.
What surprised him even more were the concepts of the Five Elements and the theories of yin and yang in the study of the human body. These were not things Zhang Xiaohua had comprehended from the Heavenly Way himself. Yet when he used them in reverse to compare against the outline of the Heavenly Way in his mind, he actually found corresponding content within it. In an extremely short time, Zhang Xiaohua's comprehension of