The Golden Core had nine tribulations; the Nascent Soul had the Three Calamities.
These were the "Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations" one had to undergo before Union with the Dao.
The Nascent Soul's Three Calamities were lightning, fire, and wind.
According to the Human Method of Wind Gathering described in the Sutra of Realizing Emptiness passed down by the Withered-Longevity Chan Monastery, declining wind actually existed within the wind that arose from nowhere when a great Fourth Realm cultivator underwent the wind disaster.
Even with Cheng Xinzhan's composure, this account left him utterly speechless.
Gather wind beside a Fourth Realm cultivator undergoing a disaster?
He immediately felt that the Heavenly Method of Wind Gathering was not so difficult after all.
The Heavenly Method of Wind Gathering clearly stated that wind must be gathered at the hour of the Rat during Cold Dew in late autumn, in a year of the earthly branch Rat.
A Rat year was a year when heaven and earth's Yin-Yang alternated and the spiritual cycle began anew. Cheng Xinzhan calculated on his fingers. It was currently the 456th year of Ming, a Fire Rat year-precisely a year of the earthly branch Rat!
He calculated the dates again. Today was the fifth day of the ninth month, and this year's Frost's Descent fell on the fifteenth. The fifteen-day span surrounding it ran from the eighth to the twenty-second. There was still time!
With four days left, he had to hurry and forge the Xin Metal net and lead-tin bottle.
Time waited for no one, and this coincidence was too good to miss. Cheng Xinzhan dared not delay a moment. He immediately rose and left his quarters, then departed the Sword Pavilion. Forging a net that covered a li would certainly cause a considerable stir; he could not