Chapter 1 The Thunderous Beginning

Rumble!!

Dragon-like lightning exploded atop Wangquan Mountain, the momentary flash piercing the darkness, followed by rolling thunder and fire scattering in all directions, as if heaven and earth were collapsing!

Yan Kuangtu stood with his hands behind his back, qi currents swirling around him, the thunder not touching his protective罡qi.

The Yin Spirit leaving the body wasn't about directly charging into the thunder to be refined, but about drawing down the thunder, using various methods to avoid a direct strike, and then using the Yin Spirit and divine weapon to guide the yang and harmonious energy of the thunder to cleanse the soul.

It wasn't like in the storybooks, where one directly ascends to the sky to undergo tribulation like a person.

Thunder is extremely yang and harmonious; a single strike would annihilate myriad souls. No one's soul could directly face the power of thunder, not even with the achievement of Taiyin Wuji!

"This is tribulation..."

The young Yan Kaiyu hid behind his grand-uncle, watching the cold iron platform ten zhang away, where thunder and fire filled the air, without blinking an eye.

The power of thunder was so tyrannical!

Even under the protection of his grand-uncle’s罡qi, he felt a slight numbness all over his body, and the onrushing yang and harmonious energy made his muscles and bones feel weak.

This was the power of heaven and earth!

The young man was mesmerized, staring straight at the Dao platform intertwined with streaks of lightning.

Amidst the interweaving thunder and fire, the Daoist's white robe fluttered, and the罡qi around his body hummed and vibrated, like a struck bronze bell.

Surrounded by the thunder strikes, the Daoist's five hearts faced the sky, his aura serene.

A speck of golden light seeped out from between his eyebrows, becoming deeper and brighter!

And as the golden light appeared, the surrounding thunder and fire rolled and vibrated even more violently!

"Such a Yin Spirit, extraordinary..."

Yan Kuangtu's long eyebrows twitched:

"I wonder which path this Daoist brother will take. It seems to be the path of the sun..."

Ordinary Divine Meridians taking this step would inevitably use a divine weapon first to attract thunder and fire to cleanse the soul, but for the Wangquan Daoist to directly release his Yin Soul like this, he must be aiming for the path of the Taiyang Wuji.

But in the next moment, his gaze shook.

Buzz, buzz, buzz~~

A melodious humming sound, like a bell, resounded loudly amidst the rolling thunder.

Suddenly, a scorching light burst out from the thunder and fire, illuminating the haze and shining brilliantly in the sky.

"The Daoist priest is glowing!"

Yan Kaiyu's eyes widened.

The source of the light was the Wangquan Daoist, whose body, illuminated by this pure light, was as clear as crystal, like the most perfect work of art in the world.

Suddenly, a pure beam of light, like a celestial sword, illuminated half the sky!

In an instant, the entire Wangquan Mountain peak was a tapestry of black and white, light and darkness coexisting in the vast sky.

Those on and off the mountain were all shocked.

The black and white intertwined sky could be seen from a hundred miles away, truly like a celestial being undergoing tribulation as described in storybooks!

Whoosh!

An Qisheng, with lightning flashing around him, suddenly opened his eyes.

At this moment, his gaze was infinitely scorching, like a rolling, burning sun, captivating the soul.

Half a year of quiet meditation in dreams, while tempering his physical body, he had been constantly contemplating the principles of yin and yang, the meaning of Taiji, and finally gained something.

In both his past and present lives, he had read through countless Daoist scriptures, almost like a half-Daoist himself. His fist techniques, his scattered hand techniques, his martial arts, all adhered to the essence of Daoism from both lives.

Taiji, he naturally understood.

Taiji, first appearing in Zhuangzi and later in the Book of Changes, had been perfected under the interpretation of generations of outstanding talents, and was already a complete theory.

There were even grandmasters who combined the principles of their predecessors and applied them to create a millennium-unbeaten legacy, Wudang Mountain!

Possessing the dream-entering method, he gained the essence of Taiji from two lifetimes.

Standing on the shoulders of the sages of both lives, he could naturally see further and gain more.

Without the interpretations of the sages of the past, he would never have been able to understand what Taiji was.

Tai, meaning great, and ji, referring to the end, the limit. When things reach their limit, they change, and change leads to transformation, so the source of change is Taiji!

Taiji gives birth to two forms, and the two forms become Taiji!

With a thought, the strand of golden light between his eyebrows suddenly bloomed like a lotus flower!

Then, under the gaze of Yan Kuangtu and his grandson,

Within the golden lotus flower, it seemed as if a golden figure with an indistinguishable face stood holding a spear.

The Yin Spirit completely left the body!

Crackle~

Lightning suddenly intensified.

Another bolt of lightning fell from the sky amidst the roaring, like a dragon-snake dividing black and white, rumbling down.

"The pivot of movement and stillness, the mother of yin and yang, born from Wuji, is Taiji..."

A chant-like roar echoed in the night sky where thunderous serpents danced.

"This is..."

Yan Kuangtu's body shook, as if he had seen something incredible.

He grabbed the young man, and with a surge of his body, he had already shot hundreds of zhang into the sky, far away from the peak of Wangquan Mountain.

He gazed intently.

He saw that above the mountain peak, beneath the long sky, the night sky interwoven with light and darkness suddenly changed after this long roar.

The light moved slowly, driving the darkness to flow.

The dark thunderclouds and the Wangquan Daoist, who was bursting with light, became like two black and white points in an instant.

And those dragon-snake-like streaks of lightning roamed and struck between the darkness and the light.

Darkness and light, thunder and lightning, surrounded and outlined each other, forming a huge picture, a pattern that was ancient and vicissitudinous, yet contained endless profound principles.

"This is the Taiji Diagram?"

Yan Kuangtu's pupils shrank.

He had naturally heard of Pang Wanyang's conversation with An Qisheng, but he was skeptical.

Walking the paths of both yin and yang at the same time, how could that be possible?

But at this moment, he suddenly understood somewhat.

The achievements of all Divine Meridians throughout history were achieved by choosing one of Taiyin and Taiyang, even those legendary figures who forged Heavenly Person Divine Weapons were the same.

It wasn't that no one had thought of walking the paths of Taiyin and Taiyang together, but all had failed.

The fusion of yin and yang seemed to lack a crucial opportunity.

So that even the most amazing and talented people could not succeed.

But now, seeing this Taiji Diagram, his heart suddenly began to beat.

"If Wangquan Daoist succeeds..."

Yan Kuangtu looked up at the sky, his expression changing: "Then he would truly be a pioneering generation of Grandmaster!"

He murmured to himself, and even with his unruly nature, seeing someone who was unprecedented and dared to open up a new path for all beings, he couldn't help but feel awe.

Pioneers are always the most awe-inspiring people.

Boom!

Rumble!

Streaks of lightning exploded in his mind.

An Qisheng, whose body was erupting with brilliant light, his long hair flying, the specks of light in his body shining like stars and moons.

After seeing the Gods, the acupoint spirits were no longer a secret to him, and had become nodes supporting his body.

His method of cross-training was the interweaving of acupoints and meridians.

In the small courtyard, An Qisheng sat with his five hearts facing the sky, his罡qi cross-training fully activated, bravely attracting streaks of lightning.

When ordinary qi meridians advanced to Divine Meridians, they would make full preparations and then attract the lightning one by one. Only after each lightning strike had completely dissipated would they attract the next one.

Because even罡qi with great achievement in qi meridians could not possibly face the continuous strikes of lightning.

But An Qisheng was naturally different. Although his true qi was not deep, it was purer than ordinary qi meridians, and his cross-training method and physical strength surpassed all Divine Meridians in the world!

Even natural异种 like the Cold蛟 could not compare to him!

But even so, under the bombardment of streaks of lightning, his physical body was still trembling, and the muscles and bones all over his body, every tiny inch, were vibrating and shaking.

The entire small courtyard was even more of a mess, filled with the aura of thunder and fire.

"True Yin and True Yang..."

An Qisheng sat cross-legged in the thunder and fire, his expression peaceful, his spirit infinitely sublimated, sensing the nodes in his soul.

The human soul is formless and intangible, and can be said to be extremely small or infinitely large.

Searching for True Yin and True Yang in the soul is like searching for two specific stars in the universe, and the difficulty can be imagined.

The reason why Divine Meridians in this world must take the path of 'Yin Spirit Leaving the Body' and cleanse the soul with thunder is because this process is too long.

Without it, it would take hundreds or even thousands of years to find and ignite True Yin and True Yang in the soul.

If acupoints are the gods of the body, then True Yin and True Yang are the gods of the soul!

Searching is naturally not easy, but he, with all the gods of his body lit up, had an incomparable advantage in finding True Yin and True Yang.

"The ultimate Dao is not troublesome, but to preserve the truth, the Niwan Palace has gods in all its joints..."

An Qisheng murmured in his heart.

The soul and the body released light together, and in the interweaving of thunder and lightning, the 'gods' emitted streaks of light, becoming extremely active.

Being in the thunder and fire, all the 'gods' were extremely active, and this naturally included the 'gods' in the soul!

His mind extremely tense, enduring the lightning roaming around his body and the electric shock-like pain in his soul, An Qisheng constantly searched for the True Yin and True Yang in his Yin Spirit.

Boom!

He didn't know how long it had been.

Perhaps it was a moment, or perhaps a very long time had passed.

An Qisheng's gaze suddenly lit up, and his Yin Spirit shone brightly!

He saw the little man sitting cross-legged on the golden lotus before his eyebrows suddenly tremble and burst into countless streamers.

Under the extreme pain, the streamers flowed back, and under the invisible qi of heaven and earth, a black and white Taiji Diagram gradually evolved!

In the Taiji Diagram, two points of light slowly lit up.

True Yin and True Yang were ignited at the same time!

Even though he had tried it countless times in his dreams, at this moment of true achievement, a ripple still appeared in An Qisheng's heart.

Behind this seemingly natural and effortless scene was his accumulation from millions of times of being struck by lightning in his dreams.

Buzz~

The illusory miniature Taiji Diagram was bathed in the crisscrossing currents.

Like a slowly rotating millstone, it annihilated the currents bit by bit, and at the same time, the Taiji Diagram was also annihilated bit by bit, and absorbed the yang and harmonious vitality in the thunder to strengthen itself.

Movement generates yang, stillness generates yin, and when stillness reaches its limit, it returns to movement. Movement and stillness are mutually rooted, and yin and yang are mutually principled.

In An Qisheng's perception, yin and yang flowed in the Taiji, mutually consumed and mutually generated, naturally and balanced.

For a long, long time, or perhaps just a moment.

The miniature black and white Taiji Diagram disappeared into his eyebrows and resided in the Niwan Palace.

Boom!

An Qisheng's body shook, as if a group of dragons had a leader, as if a great country had a king, as if heaven and earth had a master!

Essence, qi, and spirit, at this moment, all reached an indescribable level!

With just a tremor of his body, the raging currents, howling winds, and boiling罡qi around him all calmed down.

The Divine Meridian was complete!