Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra

Biodata

Power Progression

The following progression records Tang Zhixue’s proficiency.

Background and Discovery

Luo Hongcai shared the mantra while survivors were searching for protection against the approaching Year Wraith. He had previously encountered it online and did not know whether it would work. Tang Zhixue memorized it, gained a recognized skill, and became the first survivor shown successfully activating its purification effect 12.

Tang Zhixue then explained the mantra’s meaning in the regional chat without requiring payment. Luo Hongcai was the first to succeed after this instruction, and successful practitioners helped answer others’ questions. Nevertheless, more than two hundred people had still failed to activate it when midnight arrived. Yuan Lexian later credited Tang Zhixue’s teaching with helping him learn it 13 33.

Abilities & Skills

Clear Qi Purification

The mantra draws clear qi from heaven and earth spiritual energy, gathers it around the reciter, and releases it outward to cleanse impurities 42.

• Environmental cleansing: Drives gray-black gas from soil and causes bizarre insects to flee 16.
• Air purification: Removes foul odors and turbid qi; at Master proficiency, it also reduces airborne dust and soot marks 42.
• Visible light: Produces golden or white light during activation. Tang Zhixue uses this light to see his path in darkness 12 41 42.
• Qi perception: At his Master breakthrough, Tang Zhixue can distinguish clear qi from turbid qi and perceive his surroundings within one meter despite having his eyes closed 42.

The survivors’ initial explanation attributed the mantra’s power to the Celestial Venerable and the Eight Directions’ Divine Might. Tang Zhixue later directly perceived its gathering and circulation of clear qi 12 42.

Shelter Purification

Reciting the mantra grants the Shelter Purification · Temporary, which dispels dark energy, harms evil entities, and purifies surrounding spiritual energy. The Shelter amplifies the mantra’s effectiveness 12 20 38.

• Renewal: Another successful recitation refreshes the temporary protection 19 46.
• No duration stacking: Repeated recitations cannot accumulate additional hours beyond the effect’s normal duration 20.
• Proficiency-dependent coverage: Higher proficiency pushes the Silent White Fog farther back. Tang Zhixue reports that upgrading his Shelter to level three did not itself expand the purification range 25 50.
• Protection can lapse: When Tang Zhixue neglects renewal, fog returns and the Shelter becomes vulnerable to supernatural erosion 19 37.
• Not permanent: Even the twelve-hour Master effect remains temporary, though Tang Zhixue considers it sufficient to cover his sleep 42.

Silent White Fog Dispersal

The mantra temporarily clears the Silent White Fog, allowing travel, resource gathering, and exploration of otherwise obscured terrain 18 19 22.

• Tang Zhixue maintains a narrow passage by repeatedly chanting while walking 18.
• During his early ruins exploration, cleared outdoor passages begin closing after approximately forty to fifty minutes—sooner than the Shelter’s one-hour effect 19.
• Clearing fog around a worksite improves visibility and gives him more time to notice approaching monsters 22.
• The mantra does not reverse the transformation of the strange plants and Thorned Strange Black Trees he encounters 18 20.

Supernatural Suppression

Purification can injure nearby uncanny beings, but the mantra is primarily an environmental technique rather than a direct attack 24 33.

• Renewing purification causes unseen entities outside the Shelter to scream and fall silent; later chanting drives other lurking beings away 24 42.
• The Year Wraith enters Tang Zhixue’s Shelter despite active purification 13.
• Junweng remains unharmed when Tang Zhixue disperses the surrounding fog. He turns to the Big Dipper Ghost-Slaying Incantation instead 33.
• A bloated-corpse creature withstands the Shelter’s purification and continues causing supernatural erosion. Destroying it requires the combined effects of chanting, Purification Golden-Pattern Iron, and Shelter amplification 38.

Crafting and Material Refinement

The mantra can cleanse materials and impart purification properties to them 38 45 46.

• Forging: Chanting during heating and hammering channels clear qi into Golden-Pattern Iron, forming white patterns and giving the metal power that affects supernatural creatures 38 42.
• Refinement limits: Some clear qi is absorbed during forging, but the circulating qi does not remain in the ingot indefinitely 42 43.
• Hide preparation: Expels blood, fat, grime, and other impurities from animal-hide fibers while cleansing the soaking water 45.
• Tanning limits: Purification does not replace the entire tanning process. Tang Zhixue still rubs the hides with wood ash, rolls them for stabilization, and later rinses and dries them 45 46 47.
• Passive item alteration: Prolonged exposure can mutate nearby objects, as demonstrated by an ordinary animal-fat oil lamp 46.

Body Cleansing During Forging

When Tang Zhixue combines chanting with rhythmic hammering, clear qi enters his body and carries away impurities while the hammer’s recoil tempers him 43 46.

• He develops a rhythm in which hammer strikes follow the mantra’s phrases 46.
• Clear qi flows into him with each breath, removing impurities and leaving pure vitality 46.
• This effect is documented during the combined forging practice, rather than ordinary recitation alone 43 46.

Resulting Items and Environmental Changes

• Purification Golden-Pattern Iron — First Tier: Golden-Pattern Iron altered by the mantra, bearing intertwined golden and white patterns. Its purification power can affect supernatural creatures; an ingot helps destroy the bloated-corpse creature attacking the Shelter 38.
• Spirit-Patterned Tiger Hide — First Tier: Produced through traditional tanning combined with the mantra. Tough and comfortable, with a weak purification effect that slowly dispels cold yin auras around its wearer 46.
• Spirit-Patterned Pig Hide — First Tier: A thick, tough boar hide offering resistance to piercing and cutting, suitable for footwear, belts, and armor components 46.
• Clear Radiance Oil Lamp — First Tier: An animal-fat lamp whose fat and wick absorb purification power after prolonged exposure. Its pale golden halo dispels darkness and weakly suppresses cold-yin eerie auras 46.
• Second-Tier Clear Spirit Tree / Clear Spirit Tree Wall: Multiple First-Tier Clear Spirit Trees grow together and mutate under the influence of the Purification Land. The resulting growth resists supernatural and evil encroachment of the second tier and below 41 48.

Learning and Practice

• Understanding matters: Tang Zhixue gains insights through repeated recitation and teaches others by explaining the text’s meaning 12 13.
• Recitation is not simply a speed exercise: His earliest recitations take twenty to thirty seconds, but become longer as his understanding deepens 12.
• Practical use supports training: Fog exploration requires frequent chanting, while combining the mantra with forging also increases his proficiency 27 46.
• Progress varies between practitioners: Xu Muqiu reports reciting it more than ten thousand times while still obtaining only mediocre effects. Tang Zhixue advises survivors to contemplate its meaning as well as practice 50.
• Tang Zhixue’s learning advantage is unresolved: He notices that the mantra continues progressing quickly even after reaching Master, but cannot determine whether this comes from the technique itself or his personal talent 46.