Another ten years passed in such contemplation, yet the more Mu Bai comprehended the Celestial Person Evolution Grand Formation, the more he felt he was heading in the opposite direction. Though the truth seemed right before his eyes, he could never quite touch it.
Looking back over his life, Mu Bai had always possessed a tenacity that refused to admit defeat, believing that hard work could make up for insufficient talent.
"Heaven and earth are like a furnace, refining all things in the desire to form a pill. Who first began this undertaking...? To seize heaven's power and become a flying immortal, take the body as a furnace and refine the essence of heaven and earth: essence refining into qi, qi refining into spirit, spirit refining and returning to void, void refining and Dao Integration, until at last one attains Mahayana and ascends."
As he retraced the footsteps of his life, Mu Bai suddenly recalled this passage from the Flying Immortal Scripture, something akin to an overarching outline. Heaven and earth were themselves a furnace, and humans were what that furnace refined. This agreed with the view of heaven and earth as a prison.
"Essence refining into qi, qi refining into spirit, spirit refining and returning to void, void refining and Dao Integration, until at last one attains Mahayana and ascends."
These steps of cultivation in the Flying Immortal Scripture were also a process of continually strengthening a person, evolving oneself from an ant within the furnace into a pill of heaven and earth? That was the principle of a human standing equal to heaven, supporting heaven and earth with one's own body.
Following this thread of insight, Mu Bai spent another ten years contemplating within his own inner world.
"Until at last one attains Mahayana and ascends..."
Yet this