Chapter 18: Inner Landscape

"You did very well. Since your Qi-eating is full and you can build this Palace of Light, it shows that your thought power has reached the mark, so the next step is Qi circulation."

"I ask the Master for guidance."

Wen Sukong smiled and nodded, saying to Cheng Yunqi: "Now, restrain your thoughts, no matter what you see next, don't scatter your thoughts."

Cheng Yunqi said yes.

Master Yu Sukong stood on an isolated island in the dark world. She looked around and said to Cheng Yunqi, "This world is not like this. Next, you will see the true small heaven and earth of the human body."

Daoist Sukong pinched an incantation, with the hand seal as the core, and suddenly the light shone brightly. Cheng Yunqi was pierced by the strong light and had to close his eyes.

The name of the Palace of Light in front of the two was well-deserved.

After Cheng Yunqi adapted for a while, he slowly opened his eyes.

The scene in front of him almost made him forget to breathe.

Where the two were, purple light was misty, no longer pitch black.

And looking into the distance, it was even more colorful, like a galaxy in the sky.

Around the purple light group where the Palace of Light was located, there were many small light groups. On the left and right sides below, there was a green light group each. In front of the lower side were two gray light groups. Below the two gray light groups, silver light was intertwined. Below the silver light was a huge long yellow light group, like a high building.

Cheng Yunqi walked to the edge of the floating island he created and leaned over to look down. In the yellow light group was a more vast space. Five huge light groups occupied almost all his vision, divided into five colors: red, green, yellow, white, and black.

And outside these five light groups, there were countless tiny light groups and countless light paths connecting these light groups.

Cheng Yunqi looked at the distribution of the light groups and the direction of the light paths, and gradually understood,

"Is this my body?"

Those five-colored light groups clearly corresponded to the positions of the five internal organs, and the two green light groups, two gray light groups, and the silver light group around the Palace of Light were exactly the same as the positions of the ears, eyes, and nose.

And those tiny light groups and light paths connected into one piece, which was the shape of the body and limbs.

Daoist Sukong nodded, "These light groups are your Zhou Tian big acupoints, and the light paths are meridians."

She pointed to the light groups below and explained them one by one: "That is the ear acupoint, nose acupoint, and throat acupoint, which are the Wind Mansion, Thunder Mansion, and Cloud Mansion. In inner alchemy, these three acupoints are considered to be in harmony with celestial phenomena.

"That is the heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney, which are the Heart Mansion, Wood Mansion, Earth Mansion, Gold Mansion, and Water Mansion. These five acupoints correspond to the Five Elements of heaven and earth.

"That is the eye acupoint, which is also the Yin-Yang Great Hall, echoing the Yin-Yang of heaven and earth.

"As for where we are now, it is your spirit acupoint, called the Purple Palace, which is the world of thought and the source of thought power.

"However, because you have not opened any acupoints yet, these acupoints are only displayed in the form of chaotic light groups. When you open the acupoints, what you see will be another scene.

"I just used the 【Tongming Mantra】 to illuminate your inner-landscape small heaven and earth. Later, I will pass you the incantation, and in the future, you can use this method to look inside."

Cheng Yunqi thanked her.

Daoist Sukong flicked her finger and flicked out a golden light. The golden light manifested a pattern in front of the two, with many dots and lines connected by dots.

"Do you see it?"

Daoist Sukong asked.

Cheng Yunqi looked at the image and said: "It looks like the dots are acupoints and the lines are meridians. Is this the route for Qi circulation?"

Sukong nodded in praise, "This is the Zhou Tian Qi Circulation Map. Because it is similar to the star map, it is also called the Wandering Star Map. The Qi Circulation Map must not be passed on to outsiders. If others get it, they can pierce your Qi circulation acupoints during a fight, which will lead to magic power leakage at best, and Qi deviation at worst."

Cheng Yunqi nodded and remembered it.

"Now, you eat Qi with the Five-Character Mantra."

Cheng Yunqi understood. Using one mind for two purposes shouldn't be difficult for him. Sure enough, he only tried it once and succeeded. Part of his mind stayed in the inner landscape, and the other part was used to control his body. His body was still closing his eyes. He was about to get up, but heard Master Sukong in the inner landscape remind him with a smile,

"No need to get up, just imagine the movements in the inner landscape and keep the breathing frequency the same."

Cheng Yunqi didn't understand, but he did it anyway.

In the inner landscape, Cheng Yunqi stood with both feet apart, chest contained and back pulled, knees slightly bent, which was the posture of the 【He】 character mantra.

Imagining exhaling, he silently recited a 【He】 character, and his body also exhaled at the same time, then began to inhale.

Huh!

Cheng Yunqi was shocked. His body actually inhaled fire energy!

"The inner landscape and the outer body have always been one. Don't see them as two worlds," Daoist Sukong said with a smile. "Look, the Qi is coming."

In the inner landscape, Cheng Yunqi looked in the direction of Master Sukong's finger. Sure enough, a stream of fiery red Qi appeared out of thin air in the inner-landscape world and rushed into the throat acupoint Cloud Mansion.

"The spiritual energy eaten by breathing, whether it enters from the mouth or the nose, always enters the throat acupoint. The throat acupoint is the Cloud Mansion, also known as the Twelve-Story Building. Eating spiritual energy from the outside and taking oral saliva from the inside. Spiritual energy entering the body must pass through the throat acupoint. Later, when your magic power reaches a bottleneck, if you want to increase your magic power, you must open the Cloud Mansion and clear the Twelve-Story Building."

Cheng Yunqi nodded, watching the fire energy in the Cloud Mansion gradually dissipate, and said: "It's like this. The spiritual energy eaten before would first enter the five internal organs and then merge into the flesh and blood. Now, after eating, it will only gradually dissipate."

Sukong said with a smile, "If your internal organs and body were not already well-nourished, this Qi would be sucked away as soon as it entered the throat acupoint. How could you circulate Qi? Come with me!"

Sukong grabbed Cheng Yunqi's arm and suddenly flew off the floating island, bringing Cheng Yunqi to the Twelve-Story Building.

Only when he got close did he know how big the throat acupoint was. Cheng Yunqi looked at the yellow light group in front of him, which was more than a hundred feet!

"Do you know how to thread a needle?"

Master Yu Sukong asked.

Cheng Yunqi didn't understand what she meant.

"Now, you are the needle, and the spiritual energy is the thread. You have to stick the spiritual energy and let the spiritual energy wander with your thoughts. If the thought moves, the Qi moves; if the thought arrives, the Qi arrives.

"Now, you use your thoughts to lead the Qi and follow me."

Daoist Sukong said, and then flew away from the Twelve-Story Building first.

Cheng Yunqi connected his thoughts with the spiritual energy. He had built a Palace of Light in his mind out of thin air, so he was no longer a stranger to the use of thought power. Like a fisherman netting fish, like a woodcutter bundling firewood, like a raft on the river, and like a cultivator catching clouds on Mount Shouyin, Cheng Yunqi wrapped the spiritual energy with thought power and dragged it along.

At this time, Daoist Sukong's voice came from the front again, "Don't stop eating Qi!"

Cheng Yunqi understood and used one mind for two purposes again, while eating Qi with the 【He】 character mantra.

Rolling fire energy poured down from the top of the Twelve-Story Building like a flying waterfall. With the front leading and the back pouring, Cheng Yunqi found it much easier to drag the spiritual energy and followed Daoist Sukong closely.

Sukong was in front, teaching: "First knock on the door of the Heart Mansion, then turn to the Jiang Palace to worship, then go against the Ren Meridian, first walk through the navel, go down, pass the Yellow Court without entering, then turn to the Du Meridian, follow the energy, pass the Huiyin, Weilü, Mingmen, Dazhui, Yuzhen, go up to the Baihui, then pass the Purple Palace, send it back to the Twelve-Story Building, pass the building, and return to the Heart Mansion."

Just like this, Sukong was in front, and Cheng Yunqi dragged the spiritual energy behind, from top to bottom and then back, against the Ren and along the Du, passed the Twelve-Story Building twice, and finally stopped in front of the Heart Mansion door.

"This is called Qi circulating the Zhou Tian. What is left behind you is the magic power formed by the spiritual energy being refined and stained with your own essence and blood."

Stopping at the door of the Heart Mansion, Sukong said to Cheng Yunqi.

Cheng Yunqi looked back. The vast fire Qi torrent that first appeared in the Twelve-Story Building had disappeared, and what remained was a red mist like a gauze scarf.

Cheng Yunqi touched the red mist, which was like water but not water, like Qi but not Qi, warm.

After he let go, the red mist detached itself and circled around the Heart Mansion.

"Your Heart Mansion is not opened yet, so you cannot contain magic power. This magic power will dissipate in forty-nine days."

Daoist Sukong saw this and explained, then said:

"This Zhou Tian route is called the 'Fire-Phase Single-Phase Small Zhou Tian'. Besides fire, there are four phases of wood, water, gold, and earth. Outside the Five Elements, there are two phases of wind and thunder. Outside the single-phase Zhou Tian, there are two-phase Zhou Tians such as heart-kidney intersection, wind-thunder intersection, wind-fire companionship, etc. After two phases, it is the Five Elements rotation.

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But these are collectively called Small Zhou Tian. Outside the Small Zhou Tian, there is the Middle Zhou Tian. Running the Middle Zhou Tian also requires guiding Yin-Yang Gang Sha and opening the Huang Ting. Outside the Middle Zhou Tian, there is the Big Zhou Tian. Running the Big Zhou Tian requires operating the Primordial Spirit, reciprocating between the Jiang Palace, Huang Ting, and Purple Palace. Running one Zhou Tian, the spiritual energy swallowed is counted by rivers."

Cheng Yunqi found it difficult to imagine what the scene in the inner-landscape world would be like when running the Big Zhou Tian.

"In addition, when you cultivate the inner-landscape deity, the operation of these spiritual energies will naturally be done by the inner-landscape deity. By then, the accumulation of magic power will only be faster and more majestic."

Cheng Yunqi was even more yearning after hearing this.

"Now, I will teach you the "Zhou Tian Hundred Acupoints Inner Landscape Classic" and the "Yang Fire Yin Talisman True Form Map". The former is to analyze the innate attributes and acquired effects of the body's acupoints, and the latter is the Qi circulation map mainly based on the heart, kidney, and five internal organs. You can practice it yourself.

In addition, I will teach you the "Guangcheng Chixu Heart-Following Mantra", which contains forty-nine characters, one character per mantra. You should study it carefully. This is a magic mantra that points directly to the root. The power of the mantra is related to the caster's understanding of the mantra characters and the depth of their own magic power. If you can carefully comprehend it, you will naturally be able to use the mantra characters here to illuminate the inner landscape.

Alright, today I have taught you the method of looking inside, the method of Qi circulation, the theory of inner landscape, and Zhou. After you go back, comprehend them well. In addition, you can learn other Qi-eating techniques and magic mantras, and you can also start practicing treasure refining, alchemy, and other arts. When you think the time is right, you can report to the Foreign Affairs Academy and go down the mountain to travel. Opening the mansion as soon as possible is the most important thing."

After saying that, Daoist Sukong suddenly disappeared in Cheng Yunqi's inner-landscape world. Cheng Yunqi's thoughts also detached from the inner-landscape world and returned to his body. He opened his eyes and found that the Master's figure was no longer in the bamboo pavilion, but there were three jade slips in his arms.

"Stick the jade slip to your forehead and explore the contents with your thoughts. The key to the jade slip is the 'Fire-Phase Single-Phase Small Zhou Tian' route map just now. Remember, the law must not be passed on to outsiders."

Master Sukong's voice sounded in the bamboo forest.

Cheng Yunqi stood up and bowed, "Disciple remembers, thank you Master."

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Cheng Yunqi put away the three jade slips and returned to his residence.

He was quite emotional. After more than two hundred days of cultivation, he finally cultivated magic power. He couldn't wait to try it.

He first picked up the jade slip with the seven characters "Guangcheng Chixu Heart-Following Mantra" engraved on it. These seven characters were also Cloud Scripts, but fortunately, in these two hundred days, the young Daoist who went in and out of the Scripture Library all day had learned seven or eight out of ten Cloud Scripts."

He followed Master Sukong's reminder, stuck the jade slip to his forehead, and then closed his eyes. However, this time, without Daoist Sukong's 【Tongming Mantra】, his thoughts fell into the dark world again.

He didn't care, just felt it carefully. Sure enough, in a certain place in the dark world, he sensed some light.

He restrained his mind, condensed his thoughts, and rushed into that piece of light.

It was bright here, completely different from the dark nothingness just now. In a white mist, many bright spots were floating, some big, some small, with different colors.

Cheng Yunqi looked for a while and found that this was the Zhou Tian acupoint map of the human body.

He moved those bright spots with thought power, in the order of Cloud Mansion-Heart Mansion-Jiang Palace-Navel-Huang Ting-Huiyin-Weilü-Mingmen-Dazhui-Yuzhen-Baihui-Purple Palace-Cloud Mansion-Heart Mansion. After the last bright spot moved, the white mist dissipated.

After the white mist dissipated, golden characters appeared in this white nothingness, seven rows and seven columns, a total of forty-nine large characters, occupying all the space, and they were all Cloud Scripts.

Cheng Yunqi scanned them and recognized characters like: Ding (Fix), Xian (Appear), Ji (Fast), Feng (Seal), Jin (Forbid), Lie (Split), Sheng (Life), Yan (Drown), Fen (Burn), Zhen (Suppress), Zhuo (Attach), Bian (Change), Xian (Trap), Ying (Respond), San (Scatter), Yin (Hide)...

He wanted to try it. After some deliberation, he chose the 【Fen】 character, because the only magic power in his body now was fire-element magic power, so the possibility of success was greater.

He touched the 【Fen】 character with his thoughts. Suddenly, Cheng Yunqi's thoughts were pulled into a world of fire. Here, the ground was a sea of volcanic lava, and the sky was red clouds and flame rain, a scene of purgatory.

After Cheng Yunqi's thoughts entered, the fire clouds in the sky immediately rolled and formed, turning into a hand seal. It was a left hand, with the index finger pointing directly at himself, and the other four fingers folded in the palm.

"Burn!"

A syllable sounded in the purgatory, and the whole purgatory began to surge. Hearing this syllable, Cheng Yunqi felt that his thoughts were about to be burned into nothingness.

He hurriedly struggled to break free, retreated from the purgatory world back to the jade slip world, then back to the dark inner-landscape world, and finally back to the outside world.

Cheng Yunqi opened his eyes suddenly, the jade slip in his hand fell, and his forehead was full of sweat.

He picked up the jade slip and gasped for air, recalling the purgatory and the feeling of his thoughts being burned just now, still lingering in fear.

If it weren't for the nine months of building the palace and condensing intent, I'm afraid that just that one time, I would have lost consciousness.

He calmed down for a long time before he recovered, recalling the hand seal and syllable over and over again in his mind.

He stood up, looked around, didn't see anything suitable, and walked out of the room to pull a piece of wood from the belly of the alchemy furnace stove opposite.

He placed the wood in the middle of the courtyard, and he stood ten steps away, not daring to be too far. With both feet standing, he slowly raised his left hand, fingertips pointing to the sky, and bent back the other four fingers, leaving only the index finger.

Cheng Yunqi looked directly at the wooden stake, while his thoughts mobilized the only magic power around the Heart Mansion.

He dropped his hand, pointed directly at the wooden stake with his index finger, his thoughts led the magic power to his fingertips, and then out through his fingertips, falling on the wooden stake. At the same time, Cheng Yunqi recited the syllable in his mouth:

"Burn!"

As soon as the words fell, the wooden stake immediately ignited a raging fire, and the leaping fire light reflected in Cheng Yunqi's eyes, dyeing his pupils red.

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