Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction

The sky gradually darkened. Jiang Jinyi sat on her brother's bed for ages, still digesting the fact that her stinking little brother had been promoted to a rare animal!

Then she pouted and said unhappily, "You all kept something like this from me. I'm not happy!" and other childish things.

Meanwhile, Jiang Wangxuan and Big Fat Fish kept analyzing his sister's bloodline. Jiang Jinyi had been born with a Spirit Aperture, so it was quite possible that the Jiang Household bloodline had awakened in her as well.

Taking a more pessimistic view, it was also possible that the Spirit Aperture in Jiang Jinyi had been awakened by the Jiang Household bloodline!

"Master, judging from the data we've observed so far, it seems Jinyi simply struck it lucky and was born with a Spirit Aperture?"

Only after hearing Big Fat Fish say that did Jiang Wangxuan breathe a sigh of relief. Big Fat Fish, who had entered the Foundation Establishment era, was quite reliable.

The Jiang Household ancestor he had "met" in the Jinping Mountain secret realm had revealed quite a bit about the Jiang Household bloodline! It seemed that, before that ancestor's time, even if the Jiang Household hadn't produced a Spirit Aperture child in every generation, a new one had still appeared every generation or two!

It was both a gift from the Black Tide and a curse of the bloodline. That mysterious "True Explanation of Shedding Wood, Crossing Tribulations, and Transforming into Spirit" had come from the bloodline itself!

"Come on, Jinyi, close your eyes and focus your mind!"

Jiang Wangxuan coaxed his sister as though she were a child, holding out two fingers as a current of clear, soothing Grand Yin Spiritual Qi flowed straight toward the center of Jinyi's brow!

Jiang Jinyi's body tensed. She felt the Grand Yin Spiritual Qi move swiftly through her body from the center of her brow before finally gathering in her Qi Sea.

The Dui Marsh Metal Essence she had cultivated with the "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction" "comfortably" swallowed the Grand Yin spiritual essence that had descended from above!

A tingling, numbing sensation of comfort nearly made Jinyi hum aloud. Only now and then, a dark presence flashed past, only to be covered by the Grand Yin Spiritual Qi again.

"Master, I just released a trace of the Black Tide's presence, and Jinyi didn't show any bloodline reaction. Your sister is very lucky. She's safe!"

Only after Big Fat Fish had ruled out the last possibility did the great stone weighing on Jiang Wangxuan's heart finally fall. Then, thinking that he was already here anyway, he tried to help his sister optimize her Cultivation Method!

"Jinyi, try to circulate the 'Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction' with the Grand Yin Spiritual Qi."

As her brother's voice reached her from her Rising Yang Mansion, Jiang Jinyi entered a state of cultivation within a few breaths. The Dui Marsh Metal Essence in her Qi Sea began refining the Law Power carried through the six cycles in her body!

Big Fat Fish finally embarked on her first expedition beyond the walls. The "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction" was a sixth-grade Cultivation Method of the [Dui Metal] Dao lineage, used to forge the Immortal Foundation "Exquisite Heart."

Relying solely on Big Fat Fish's computing power to analyze a Cultivation Method the hard way was tedious, wasn't it? The fast track was to enter a cultivator's body directly and monitor the Cultivation Method's circulation around the clock, without a blind spot!

Back then, Big Fat Fish had used this very method to continually optimize the "Autumn Moon Frost Osmanthus Qi Condensation Method." Now that she was in the Foundation Establishment era, she would surely far surpass her former self!

Come on, Big Fat Fish, let me see what you've got! Jiang Wangxuan mischievously fed Big Fat Fish motivational pep talk!

With her head stuffed full of her master's pep talk, Big Fat Fish brought out a hundred percent of her strength and began analyzing the "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction" at full speed.

Dui Marsh Metal Essence: Dui is the marsh, situated in the west. Within the marsh lies the sharpness of metal. Gather Qi through the aperture heart to obtain the pure, lustrous metal of Dui White, and condense it into metal essence!

That short passage summed up the essence of this sixth-grade Cultivation Method at the Qi Refining Stage, but Jiang Wangxuan sensed something amiss about the Cultivation Method!

The grade of the Dui Marsh Metal Essence was that of extremely pure Dui Metal "Qi." In other words, Big Fat Fish's purification function had no use whatsoever on this Cultivation Method.

Could it be that the "Dui White Pure Metal Sha" Jinyi had used when breaking through to Qi Refinement had played an enormous role?

No, a strand of spiritual Qi couldn't possibly have such a great effect. Otherwise, such spiritual Qi would never circulate on the market; the great Xuantian would lock it away as a supreme Dao secret.

Jiang Wangxuan immediately dismissed the possibility. Continually purifying true essence to bring it closer to the true nature of its Dao lineage might be an approach somewhat dependent on his own example, but the idea was sound!

This was the practical application of the Qi Ingestion approach-nourishing one's nature and seeking the true-to the Purple Mansion Golden Core Dao. Since he had successfully walked this path himself, and with the most profound [Grand Yin] Dao lineage at that, how could his first attempt with the [Dui Metal] Dao lineage have run straight into a wall?

Neither Jiang Wangxuan nor Big Fat Fish had ever imagined that the "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction" could directly refine the purest Dui Metal Qi!

However, as Jiang Wangxuan's Grand Yin Spiritual Qi continued circulating through the Cultivation Method alongside the Dui Marsh Metal Essence, he discovered another problem with it!

The Dui Marsh Metal Essence, condensed from pure Dui Metal Qi, was actually a clumsy "dead thing"! This true essence displayed none of the marvels befitting its station!

After all, once he had completely purified the Frost Osmanthus Moon Essence into Luminous White Moonlight, it had allowed him to unleash the third-grade Moon-Worshipping Spirit-Calming Benediction while still at the Qi Refining Stage. That had also been his greatest source of confidence when he dared to attempt Foundation Establishment.

The Dui Marsh Metal Essence, on the other hand, was just like ordinary Metal Virtue true essence, aside from its quality being nearly equal to the Luminous White Moonlight he had once cultivated. It was like normal "fuel" for casting spells.

Compared with other Cultivation Methods, Dui Marsh Metal Essence was still more substantial and enduring, enough to be called abundant true essence, but that was nowhere near what this true essence should have been capable of!

"Master, I found the problem with this Cultivation Method! Look, isn't its circulation route deliberately suppressing the path through the Baihui acupoint?"

Jiang Wangxuan's mind stirred. Following Big Fat Fish's hint, he examined his sister's meridians, and sure enough, it was just as she had said.

The Grand Yin Spiritual Qi he was feeding in showed a clear tendency to flow toward the Baihui acupoint, but the Dui Marsh Metal Essence pulled his Spiritual Qi around it instead.

Baihui connects to the spirit and illuminates the eye apertures below!

Those words immediately appeared in Jiang Wangxuan's mind, and Big Fat Fish quickly filled in the route the "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction" should have taken!

Then Jiang Wangxuan stared, dumbstruck, at the plainly suicidal Cultivation Method Big Fat Fish had given him. Dui Metal surged into Baihui and converged at Jingming, the Qi of metal Sha cutting straight through the brain!

So that was it. Jiang Wangxuan finally understood why the "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction" was so difficult to cultivate.

The "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Formula" was not suited to cultivators below the Purple Mansion realm. A Dui Metal cultivator should cultivate the "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Formula" only after attaining their first Divine Ability, using a Purple Mansion body.

That was why the Cultivation Method [Huaqi] had imparted to Jinyi was missing precisely the section of the Method Formula in which Dui Metal surged into Baihui and converged at Jingming!

The "Dui Metal Aperture Heart Qi Gathering Instruction" should have included a most essential eye Technique. That was the key to bringing out the marvels of Dui Marsh Metal Essence!

At that point in their deduction, Jiang Wangxuan suddenly recalled his own Grand Yin fate, and the words his eldest senior brother had spoken in his ear: "Jinyi is your own sister. Do you think your Grand Yin fate won't involve her?"

So this was where that fate came to bear?

Jiang Wangxuan and Big Fat Fish arrived at a corresponding solution almost simultaneously! He would use his Moon-Worshipping Spirit-Calming Benediction, led by the phase of his waxing crescent moon, to carry the Dui Marsh Metal Essence straight through her brain!

Jiang Wangxuan himself couldn't clearly explain the principle behind it, and Big Fat Fish merely believed it was the only way. It was a keen intuition: only that waxing crescent moon could help Jinyi break through the Cultivation Method's restrictions while she was at the Qi Refining Stage!

In other words, this was something no other Grand Yin Immortal Foundation could accomplish, not even the "Autumn Moon Osmanthus"!

Only the "Immortal Moon Township" could!

Fear rose in Jiang Wangxuan's heart once again. Could it be that [Huaqi] imparted that Cultivation Method to Jinyi because of me?

How could He have calculated that I would forge the "Immortal Moon Township" rather than the "Autumn Moon Osmanthus" Immortal Foundation?

"Big Fat Fish, tell me, if I started over, would things still turn out as they have now?"

Big Fat Fish also fell into confusion at this point, spinning in circles. "If you started over, Master, there's a ninety-nine percent chance you would die trying to break through to Foundation Establishment. That crimson waxing crescent moon was actually your lethal tribulation. If we hadn't subdued the Black Tide beforehand, none of this could even be discussed!"

"Perhaps if you listened to Fang Lin and went to Jixia, you could avoid it!"

Jiang Wangxuan snorted. "I suspect there's no avoiding it at all. Could that lethal tribulation have been aimed not at me, but at the 'Autumn Moon Osmanthus' Immortal Foundation?"

Without dwelling on the matter any further, Jiang Wangxuan stopped feeding in Grand Yin Spiritual Qi. A long while later, Jinyi woke leisurely, as though she had just had a very sweet dream!

Outside the window, the night was "bright," the moonlight clear as if washed. She saw her brother leaning against the windowsill with his arms folded, seemingly lost in thought. Moonlight fell quietly upon him, and a silvery-white radiance shone on his body!

His newly awakened sister gazed at her brother, who looked like an immortal banished beneath the moon, and every so often found herself staring in a daze.

Jinyi relaxed her waist and stomach and leaned back on her brother's bed, sitting with her legs tucked like a duck. Then she stretched out a little foot, letting its shadow in the moonlight fall neatly across her brother's silhouette.

"Brother, look! Isn't this fun?"

Jiang Wangxuan came back to himself and looked at his sister, curled up under the covers with a little foot sticking out and swinging about in the moonlight. She looked just like she had as a child playing their little game of stepping on shadows!

He suddenly asked softly, "Jinyi, what do you think of your life now?"

His sister tilted her head, strands of hair falling along her cheek. "It's wonderful. The me of the past could never have imagined living like this. Even though I knew quite early on that I could come to Lüyu to go to school, it still feels like a dream!"

"Especially with my own brother becoming the Lineage's ancestor. It feels completely unreal!"

The girl pressed her legs together, bent forward, and hugged her knees, resting her face on them as she gazed blankly at her brother. "But as long as you're here, Brother, I feel like everything is right. Hehe!"

Watching his sister giggle foolishly for no apparent reason, Jiang Wangxuan lowered his eyes, somewhat downcast. "Jinyi, if I had a choice, I wouldn't have chosen the path I'm on now."

A lonely chill spread from her brother throughout the entire courtyard, and the smile on his sister's face froze at once.

"The [Grand Yin] Dao lineage is even more dangerous than I imagined, beyond anything I previously imagined. If I had a choice, I wouldn't choose [Grand Yin]!"

"Little sister, as word of my successful Foundation Establishment spreads, your life will soon undergo another tremendous change. So I want to ask you once more: do you regret the decision you made?"

This was the first time Jiang Jinyi had seen such a lost, helpless look on her brother's face. Only now did Jinyi realize that her brother, whom she had once regarded as a god, could be just like her, his eyes revealing deep unease!

And fear!