A Small Feng Shui Aura

Therefore, a truly complete feng shui aura had to be in a state that could either remain stable or expand.

And to make the local feng shui aura self-sustaining in this A-shaped terrain, I need to investigate the source of clear qi.

These past few days, Wang An had been observing the conditions under which mountain forest clear qi arose in the forests around him.

In the end, he discovered that clear qi was actually formed through the combination of mountain forest water qi and Living Being Qi.

What was combination?

Multiple things joined and transformed to bring forth something new.

Unlike the Qi Refining skill of Wang An's Qi Refiner class, which refined qi of the same kind together, this was the mutual generation of different kinds.

Mountain forest water qi flowed down from the surrounding heaven and earth toward the forests on the ground, where it combined with Living Being Qi to form mountain forest clear qi, which could nourish all things and every kind of living being.

But after observing this Living Being Qi, Wang An discovered that he could not gather it. Each strand of Living Being Qi belonged to the living beings that had given rise to it, and it was usually constrained by the local living beings and could not flow.

To gather this kind of qi, he would need to use some method to kill or sever the connection to every living being associated with that strand of Living Being Qi, without causing the qi to change into another kind.

For now, however, as Wang An understood it, no such method existed.

Once every living being linked to a strand of Living Being Qi died in rapid succession, the strand would also change in nature.

It was like a monitor of the condition of every living being in an area. Even an abnormality in a small number of living beings would trigger a response from the monitor, let alone death.

Wang An thought this as he made his way through the mountain forest.

Perhaps there's another way.

He looked at the lush grass and trees and the insects and birds chirping merrily.

From Wang An's perspective, every individual living being capable of surviving on its own had a fine thread condensed behind it. The threads converged into a vast net that covered the entire land; tugging on one strand would set the whole thing in motion. This was Living Being Qi.

Cultivate a higher-level Living Being Qi from the existing one, then gather and refine the original and replace it with the higher-level qi.

During this process of renewal and replacement, the original Living Being Qi could be kept from changing in nature to the greatest extent possible.

But cultivating a higher-level Living Being Qi is still far beyond me.

Living Being Qi was formed through the combination of water qi, wood qi, and earth qi through some complex process. At least, that was true of the Living Being Qi Wang An had observed.

The so-called water qi, wood qi, and earth qi were actually broad categories. Qi from different sources possessed different properties.

Taking the water qi Wang An had observed these past few days as an example, it could be divided into sea water qi, river water qi, lake water qi, rainwater qi, mountain forest water qi, and so on.

The same was true of the other five elements and yin and yang.

However, with Wang An's current abilities, he still could not carefully distinguish and understand the properties and functions of heaven and earth qi from different sources within the same broad category.

With his current methods, he could only understand their properties and functions by gathering and refining qi of the same kind into mystic qi, making it manifest a physical form.

Now that Wang An knew clear qi came from water qi and forest qi, he could find a way to increase the efficiency and speed at which water qi and Living Being Qi combined, thereby accelerating the replenishment of clear qi throughout the ecosystem and keeping the entire feng shui aura operating steadily.

Because Living Being Qi came from every living being in the ecosystem, the amount it could support was limited by the local terrain and the effects of human activity.

So in the end, he came back to the starting point: increasing the speed and quantity of water qi flowing among living beings. This would increase the rate at which the entire area supplied clear qi, making the feng shui aura self-sustaining.

But achieving self-sustenance was not the feng shui aura's complete form. After all, the Class Change Stones were still involved throughout the process.

Only through continuous modification, expansion, and maintenance, so that the entire feng shui aura could still function normally after the Class Change Stones were removed, could a complete feng shui aura be considered successfully established.

At the top of the villa district where Wang An lived, at the spot where he had established the clear qi convergence node,

there was a small dam that served as a water storage point. At the lower opening of the A-shaped terrain, water flowed out of the dam and down into a lake, then flowed out of the lake and into the distant Shawu River.

Having figured out the course of this water vein, Wang An could reduce the number of Class Change Stones gathering clear qi and add structures to obstruct the outward flow of water qi.

He could then guide it toward the surrounding mountain forests, allowing the water qi to enter the circulation of the entire local aura.

This would essentially achieve a self-sustaining state and already count as a small feng shui aura, although it would not reach the level of a large heaven and earth feng shui aura, which could stir the magnetic field of heaven and earth and block artificial signals from outside.

But Wang An's calculations showed that after operating like this for around twenty years, the feng shui aura would continue expanding outward until it covered the entire forest park. It might then become a large heaven and earth feng shui aura, thereby stirring the magnetic field of heaven and earth.

Having calculated this far, Wang An had a question.

How did the large heaven and earth feng shui auras in those restricted zones form in such a short time?

Perhaps certain meteorites fell on special nodes, activating the feng shui aura of the entire area.

But according to the official reports so far, electromagnetic interference exists in almost every confirmed area where twenty or more meteorites landed.

Why can most meteorites activate the feng shui aura in the areas where they land? There may be some more thought-provoking questions behind this.

Wang An put aside these speculations, which were still rather distant from him, and began organizing his research into feng shui auras over the past few days.

His research into the feng shui aura had begun with the Class Change Stones' effect on the paths of heaven and earth qi, proceeded to an understanding of how to construct a local aura, then to the self-sustenance of a small feng shui aura, followed by a complete feng shui aura, and finally a large heaven and earth feng shui aura.

Wang An's current research had reached the stage of the small feng shui aura. As for how to ensure that the feng shui aura could still operate after the Class Change Stones were removed, the true point to focus on might lie in the principles governing each kind of heaven and earth qi within the feng shui aura.

On April 30, after days of experimentation and modification, Wang An had essentially finished setting up this small feng shui aura.

Early in the morning, deep within the dam, in a place where no one else was present,

a young man with clear, handsome features, a resolute face, and an upright bearing sat cross-legged.

As he gathered the final strand of clear qi into his body, Wang An completed the gathering and refinement of 108 li of mountain forest clear qi in only four or five days.

In Wang An's lower dantian, the 108 strands of clear qi drifted like a breeze above the entire lake of essence qi. They were also like a veil as thin as a cicada's wing, now touching the clouds of true qi, now circulating around the two strands of Innate Mystic Qi.

Wang An used the Qi Refining skill again. The mountain forest clear qi, like an invisible breeze, was kneaded together and converged inward, constantly mingling and circulating with the misty true qi. Gradually, it revealed traces of physical form, yet still seemed intangible and without a shadow.

When the last faint lines appeared, a strand of information returned to Wang An's mind.

[Innate Grand Pure Spirit Water Essence-Nourishing Mystic Qi] Its form is like a clear mountain breeze; it nurtures the pure and spirited among all living things, nourishes essence, and manifests a wondrous method.

Wondrous method: Savor the mystic qi and the grand pure spirit water to nurture essence and cultivate one's nature.