"Finally, after three hundred years of reincarnation, with low talent relying on hard work, I have now opened the Origin Light!" a man of elegant stature exclaimed, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
His body shone brightly, bringing light to a world of darkness.
Four different light sources, like suns in the starry sky, surrounded him.
One was emerald green, like an ancient forest deep in the mountains. Strong vitality overflew from the light, vitalising the aged body of the man, reverting to his youth.
The second was azure blue, like the surface of a lake. It was calm yet deep, encompassing a world within.
When the blue light hit the man's body, his empty spiritual sea was replenished, gushing towards the middle dantian that was opened by the Origin Light.
A third light, resembling a ink on a piece of paper, held a spot firmly in front of the man's eyes. They brightened, all the wear over the years disappearing, reaching a state of absolute clarity.
Finally, there was a purple light. It was bright yet deep, its light forming a whole cocoon of purple light around the man.
"Purple? But I've only formed three spiritual inspirations… oh, this must be the fourth automatically formed, stemming from my life's experiences…
Although I've cultivated for a long time, generally, I avoided all risk, only moving from one market to another, until I've finally reached this Azure Cloud Nine Islands Immortal City…"
Just as he thought about it, the purple light suddenly enlarged and consumed all three at once!
Fu Xian was shocked – no matter what, his experience was mediocre.
While he had worked hard for countless years to form these inspirations, especially the inspiration of talismans, which he had formed back then in the qi refining stage, it still seemed weird that his experience, which was uneventful, could consume all three of his other inspirations!
His thoughts were chaotic, but he didn't pause or hesitate. At this moment, the inspiration was beyond his control and he could only calm his mind and await the final result.
The purple light whirred and became huge, until finally sinking slowly.
It took the form of his largest and most important inspiration, his talisman!
On the frontside of the talisman, in the colour of cyan, ancient symbols formed stroke by stroke, as if there was an invisible brush hovering in front of the talisman.
There was a large symbol of a purple-black tree on the backside, its roots encompassing the lower hall of the talisman, the branches stretching across the upper half.
Between the roots and branches, there was a small space:
As they say "The heavenly dao controls 49 laws, leaving 1 out". This small space had the spirit of the heavenly dao.
When the last stroke finished, Fu Xian received accompanying information:
Reincarnation of the Soul, Connected through the Talisman!
At the same time, Fu Xian also learned of the name of his aspect at this moment:
Split-Soul Reincarnation Talisman!
The ability was as simple as the name.
Split your soul and lay it into the heart of the talisman.
A second talisman will then form, carrying the soul, leaving the body, falling into the endless river of reincarnation!
Fu Xian was confused and shocked at the same time – but it only took him a moment to understand the reason for this situation.
In his life, any inspiration could be gained by other people, and his experience was common.
So, what made him stand out?
He had escaped the purification of reincarnation.
His soul was the same, not refined nor erased, he had the innate ability to sneak across the path of reincarnation somehow.
Initially, it might have been an accident, but now his ability, this coincidence or accident, had changed from passive to active!
Delight and elation spread across his face, making him want to scream.
Barely containing his thoughts, he communicated with the talisman by thought.
The talisman seemed to understand and followed, slowly approaching to him.
Finally, it sank into the space in front of his chest, disappearing mysteriously.
"The lower dantian balances the body, the middle dantian carries the spiritual power, and the upper dantian protects the soul.
In the higher first stage (Qi Refining and Foundation Building are two lower stages one higher stage: Refining Essence into Qi), spiritual power is housed in the lower dantian.
But, the lower dantian is where the essence of the body should grow, enhancing the regulation of the body. The body's essence mainly strengthens the bodies of cultivators, specifically hardening and enlarging the meridians where spiritual power flows through.
Secondary benefits are immunity to poison and general higher efficiency of the organs.
Once the origin light passed through the lower dantian to the middle dantian, it opens the passage and lights up the cave.
Now my origin light innate aspect has entered in the middle dantian, so it's time for me to move my spiritual power!"
As he said so, he calmed down and concentrated on his dantian.
The spiritual power, heavy liquid with a metallic sheen, like mercury, slowly rose.
The passage between the one dantian to another is thin and cultivation is difficult, the light only opened it, but the essence of the lower dantian is required to widen and stabilize it.
His bodies' essence, gathered over three hundred years, slowly gathered from all over his body flowing through his blood veins towards the lower dantian and upwards the passage to the middle dantian, widening and strengthening it.
Days and weeks passed in this process. If a cultivator doesn't have a strong foundation, they will have to delay this process, which will greatly weaken their body. Although it has no major influence on the current realm, if they wish to improve further, they will have to reach a certain standard in soul, spirit and essence.
Some cultivators who delay it for too long even lose the chance to advance, being stuck at this stage forever.
Fu Xian's foundation was deep and in just three months, he completed the process, after which over a third of his essence remained.
This essence fell back to the lower dantian, spreading across the walls, covering it wholly and hardening it, stabilising it slowly.
All spiritual power gathered from the outside had to pass this point, filtered and purified, until it could walk through the passage to the middle dantian. Which is why it had to be extremely robust.
For this reason, people call the three dantians "Lower Gate, Middle Sea, Upper Altar".
When the spiritual power was fully moved, it filled around 1% of the space of the whole middle dantian.
After the spiritual power had entered the middle dantian, it only filled 1% of its space. As the proper storage space, the middle dantian was huge and filling it wasn't a requirement to advance further, which is why most people stopped at around 90%.
In the centre of this huge space, the origin light was hovering all above, shining purple light towards the heavy liquid spiritual power, slowly softening it.
As Fu Xian looked at this purple light, he exclaimed in surprise "No scripture said the origin light would soften the spiritual power… is this my own unique lights doing?
Although for others, it might seem like I'm softening it and making the spiritual power lose density to fill the spiritual lake, in fact, this method makes it easier for me to use the spiritual power.
I was already worried… my cultivation art [Evergreen Lake] is of a high grade and has a very high quality and purity of spiritual power… if all my spiritual power was converted into the mercury-like state, then casting spells would be tedious.
But I wonder, my talisman, origin light… what else do you hide?"