Gather the cinnabar, still the mercury; a sweep of true rosy clouds arrays itself in Supreme Clarity.
Rosy-Cloud Ascension Palace Breakthrough offers up essence; settle upon the cloud bed, where the immortal sprout grows full.
The peach of immortality ripens, golden liquid coils; elixir fire streams its radiance into the Crimson Capital.
Dragon and tiger join, lead and mercury appear; a fate embryo forms and dwells within the precious vessel.
The "Womb-Bearing Song" spoke of planting an immortal sprout to form a fate embryo. Cheng Xinzhan was still at the stage of "Rosy-Cloud Ascension Palace Breakthrough." His immortal sprout had yet to emerge, and his essence tiger had yet to form. Thus, even though his peach of immortality had ripened and his qi dragon had taken shape, he could not bring dragon and tiger together to form a fate embryo.
He had thought that beginning to cultivate a Fourth Realm method after his second wash already counted as preparing early. He had never expected Dan Washing to progress so quickly that planting the immortal sprout had become the thing holding him back.
This was something he had not foreseen.
Still, if he were asked to hurry up and "rise on rosy clouds" now, breaking through the palace to produce a sprout, he certainly would not agree. Haste made waste; an impatient mouth could not eat piping-hot tofu, nor could impatience form a sound, stable fetus.
Better to continue tempering and washing his golden core while waiting for the immortal sprout to develop.
Too many people in this world wanted to wash out their Elixir Qi as soon as possible and attempt the Fourth Realm, such as Elder Jingsi of Sword-Casting Mountain. There were also those who could not even wait for an elixir tribulation before attempting the Fourth Realm,