He directed his thoughts inward and examined the Upper Mystery Acupoint within his body.
Inside the acupoint, thirty-six streams of Sun-Aspect Qi radiated brilliant light, like divine essences of flowing fire, shimmering and resplendent.
Then, with a sudden pulse,
the thirty-six streams of Sun-Aspect Qi formed a great Sacred Embryo, full and substantial, suspended at the center of the Upper Mystery Acupoint. It resembled a blazing sun descended into the mortal world, suffused with golden rays and fiery blossoms, dazzlingly vivid.
Chen Heng focused his mind and probed it, finding something dimly visible within the Sacred Embryo.
It had a small head and broad shell, webbing between its fingers and toes, short claws, scales, and a slender tail-
This sight
at last meant that the Tortoise Aspect had formed!
Of all things that brought the ceaseless workings of the world to fruition, none surpassed yarrow stalks and tortoise shells.
Thus, the sages took the divine things of heaven and earth as their models; they emulated the transformations of heaven and earth. Heaven displayed its signs, revealing fortune and misfortune, and the sages patterned themselves upon them!
At this moment,
though he wished to make the Tortoise Aspect break free of the Sacred Embryo, fully manifest in the world, and occupy the Upper Mystery Acupoint, an invisible obstruction kept disrupting his efforts.
After silently examining it,
he learned that because the snake manifestation in the Taiyuan Acupoint had yet to take form, the Tortoise Aspect could not reveal its substance and break through the embryonic membrane imprisoning it.
This was precisely what was meant by lone yin being unable to give birth, and solitary yang being unable to grow.
Chen Heng merely smiled and paid it no further attention.
And although the Tortoise Aspect had yet to take complete form,
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