What was this feeling?
Was it the... primordial qi mentioned in the internal alchemy classics? Doubt stirred in Chen Jue's mind.
This was also the first time since awakening his panel that he had encountered a pregnant woman with a belly as large as Sister-in-law Biao's, and he had unexpectedly sensed that extremely faint feeling of "positive radiation."
As for the "primordial qi" that came to Chen Jue's mind, it was an extremely abstract concept mentioned by Taoist predecessors. After making some progress in his cultivation and reading widely through the Taoist writings and internal alchemy classics in the group's files, it was the only concept his wandering, branching thoughts could find that came closest to this situation.
What was primordial qi?
Taoist classics called it the fundamental element that constituted heaven, earth, and all things.
Zhang Boduan of the Northern Song dynasty, also known as Perfected Ziyang, whom Quanzhen Dao revered as the founding patriarch of its Southern Lineage, had written a Taoist alchemical classic called the Wuzhen Pian during his lifetime. It contained this passage: "Wu and ji, dwelling in their own places, generate the number five; when the three houses meet, an infant forms. The infant is the One containing true qi; after ten months, the fetus reaches completion and enters the foundation of Entering Sainthood."
This passage mentioned "true qi," a term equivalent to "primordial qi."
As for the rest, Chen Jue had originally thought that the descriptions of "forming an infant," "the fetus reaching completion," and "the foundation of sagehood" expressed a principle similar to the line in the martial arts classics: "Embracing the Elixir and Sitting on the Hips, forming the Holy Embryo; building the foundation for a hundred days and passing the threshold of renewing the blood."
Both described the process of mobilizing