Chapter 388: Sudden Tidings of Disaster, an Earth-Shattering Upheaval (5.3K words, please support with monthly votes~)
When ten thousand miles of frozen sea thawed, jade pendants chimed in uneven cadence.
A fleeting life was like water beneath the ice, flowing day and night, unknown to anyone.
The east wind thawed the ice. Along the coast of Iron-Raft Mountain, the sea ice melted and broke into round discs three or four feet across, like crystalline lotus leaves. These icy lotus leaves surged with the waves, colliding with one another before shattering into smaller pieces. Their sweet, jade-pendant chimes reminded people that another year had passed and spring had come.
Time was actually like the sea's hidden currents, never stopping for a moment. When one did not deliberately look or think about it, it was as though a layer of ice had sealed the sea, making its passage difficult to perceive. Only when a particular moment arrived-when the sea ice thawed, for instance, and chimed like jade pendants-did people belatedly realize that another stretch of time had quietly slipped away.
So it was for mortals, and all the more so for cultivators.
Within the Inner Landscape World, in the Yellow Court Palace.
The Golden Core was a lamp, and Elixir Qi was smoke.
Cheng Xinzhan kept his intent exceedingly light, almost nonexistent, and slowly inhaled. As he gently drew in his breath, the Yellow Court Palace gradually contracted, driving the Elixir Qi upward in billowing surges like a bellows. When he exhaled, his entire body relaxed, the magical power circulating through his body returned to the Yellow Court Palace, and the Yellow Court slowly expanded.
Use intent, not force; let the elixir field serve as heart and lungs. This was the method of "Fetal Breathing" so esteemed in the Internal