Da Zaojun

Chapter 216 The Five Elements are the yolk, Yin and Yang are the white

Song Wuji knew that this giant tortoise possessed the power of water movement and had mastered "Tai Chi" based on the movement and stillness of water, which is the true meaning of a vortex similar to the movement of water in Tai Chi.

Although the real Tai Chi is not like that, but rather a weather phenomenon, a change in celestial phenomena, representing the flow of the twenty-four solar terms and seventy-two climatic periods, this thing is just so unsolvable.

Being able to comprehend the interplay of movement and stillness, Xuanwu's current state is merely "stillness." If it were to move, it would likely be more devastating than a mountain collapse.

In addition, the Xuanming True Water is extremely heavy and frozen, with two layers of true meaning, making it truly impossible to subdue it for the time being.

Song Wuji then used the fire technique, Bing fire and Ding fire, which are also Yin and Yang fires. However, when this fire was refined, it not only failed to destroy Taiji, but was instead absorbed by Taiji, achieving a state of "harmony between water and fire". The tortoise shell, which is fond of Yang, absorbed this Yang fire energy into its body.

Song Wuji then stopped moving around and stared intently at Taiji, using his talent for stealing to extract some of its true meaning: "This Xuanwu True Spirit is much more troublesome than Tengshe or Baihu. No wonder that among the five spirits, only Xuanwu has the highest status in the mythological system and has become the True Martial of the North."

Song Wuji grasped the dynamic skills extremely quickly, but when it came to understanding the static skills, although he vaguely knew that Tai Chi was about yin and yang fish chasing each other, he could hardly comprehend the true essence, only grasping a little bit of the surface.

"By consuming the Five Elements Primordial Soup, one can unite the five elements and become the Primordial Ancestor. The most crucial element for harmonization is probably not the five elements, but rather the Taiji dynamic and static Dao embodied by the Xuanwu."

Xuanwu belongs to the element of water in the Five Elements theory, and Taoism is fond of water, believing that water is the softest and most yin thing in the world, and that it is like water, which benefits all things without striving.

The true dragon also benefits from the five virtues of water.

Xuanwu takes the movement and stillness of water as the basis of change, transforming it into Taiji, which can even be derived into "Yi Yan", thus the Four Symbols, Eight Trigrams... inheriting the changes of the universe.

Song Wuji didn't know how long he had been staring at Xuanwu like that, like a turtle staring at a green bean, with big eyes staring at small eyes.

I finally grasped some of the true meaning of Yin and Yang.

[True Martial Turtle-Snake Coil]

"Pan" means to coil or intertwine. This is a technique that imitates the intertwining of the Xuanwu tortoise and snake, emphasizing that essence and spirit are inseparable, and essence and spirit are united to nourish internal energy.

Instead of refining essence into qi, it combines essence and spirit, nature and life, and spirit and mind into one, which is "the tortoise and snake coiled together, nature and life firm." By breathing in and out yin and yang in this way, naturally, with both essence and spirit growing stronger, one can cultivate the true qi of Taoism.

It is a cultivation method that is easy to learn but slow to master, yet the true energy is extremely pure.

This was the first time Song Wuji had comprehended a martial arts technique.

After Song Wuji comprehended the technique, Xuanwu showed a surprised expression and reluctantly acknowledged Song Wuji, allowing him to pass the test.

It transformed into a stream of water-based true spirit law imbued with the true meaning of Tai Chi and entered Song Wuji's body.

This allowed Song Wuji to comprehend another divine power.

[Gas Prohibition]
By using the changes of Yin and Yang to set up barriers, one can create arrays that can activate the earth's veins and water veins.

It can be used to build temples and to set up formations, using the changes of Yin and Yang to guide the changes of the universe.

Within the Xuanming True Water, which resembled black mercury, seedlings grew vigorously, and in an instant, they grew into vines, which were twisted together like hemp ropes.

Then, the spirit of a green snake evolved into a green dragon, and then from a green dragon into a green dragon, carrying the wood energy of the Eastern Hua Jia Yi. In an instant, all the earth, metal, and water that were there before became its nourishment.

This dragon.

It is not a wooden dragon.

It is a dragon of qi, a dragon of celestial phenomena.

On the second day of the second lunar month, people raise their heads in spring; on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, dragons soar in the sky; and on the winter solstice, dragons lie hidden in the abyss.

Life is fleeting, like the life of grass and trees in autumn.

Countless seas of flowers and fragrant grasses, ever-changing, withering and flourishing, life and death.

The four seasons cycle here.

The aura exhaled by the Azure Dragon carried a subtle sense of the passage of time, and Song Wuji felt his own lifespan being depleted. Yet, looking at the celestial dragon high above, he had no means to subdue it, only a deep sense of awe.

but……

This illusion emphasizes comprehension rather than supernatural transformations, evolving step by step from technique to law, and from law to the Tao.

Song Wuji could easily break through the Illusionary Realm of the Soaring Serpent; this was a technique.

The White Tiger Illusion: Know yourself and know your enemy, this is the way.

As for the Xuanwu Illusionary Realm, one already needs to comprehend Yin and Yang, which is to hear the Dao.

But what happens after you hear the Dao?

How can we use it? How can we prove it?
The transformation of Yin and Yang is the unifying principle of all things.

Song Wuji began to observe the changes in the solar terms and formulate a calendar. For each calendar he completed, a nail was placed to pin down the Azure Dragon in the sky.

Continue until the beginning and end are connected, forming a circle.

For some reason, Song Wuji thought of Laozi's green ox.

In some legends, Laozi's green ox can also be a green dragon.

The ring on its nose, the Vajra Beak, is such a primordial circle.

[Circular Qi Gathering]
Song Wuji comprehended something completely different from the Turtle-Snake Coil. It was also a cultivation method, but it was not a life cultivation method that combined essence and spirit; rather, it was a cultivation method that simply cultivated true qi.

There is no need to refine essence into qi, but rather to gather the qi of the whole body and transform it into one qi. This one qi can then guide the qi of the whole body.

However, compared to the Turtle-Snake Coil, it is less complete, with only a relatively basic breathing method. For a more comprehensive and complete method, the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Breathing Method is needed.

However, this breathing technique perfectly matched the "dragon". Song Wuji transformed into a fire dragon, and the fire dragon used this method of gathering qi throughout the body to merge into the huge azure dragon, displaying the changes of qi throughout the body through changes of hot and cold.

As the temperature fluctuated, the giant green vine burst into flames, and the enormous ring that had immobilized the Azure Dragon transformed into the True Spirit Law of Wood, penetrating Song Wuji's body and becoming a divine power.

[Cute]
This is a method of observing subtle changes in the surroundings to know the omens of the development of all things, similar to divination, but with less of the supernatural elements and more like "big data analysis".

This is the essence of the saying "to know autumn is coming from a single leaf."

It has some connection to the sprouting of plants, but not much. However, it can indeed sense changes in life energy and make decisions accordingly. It can play an auxiliary role in farming, beast taming, alchemy, and weapon crafting.

Wood was burned to start a fire, and on the towering tree, a phoenix nest was born at some unknown time, from which a Vermilion Bird, representing the energy of fire, was born.

The Vermilion Bird represents separation and the sun, but it is not the Golden Crow. The flames symbolize "light and prosperity".

This is also the final link in the five-element generating cycle.

Having obtained the energy left over from the first four elements of Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood, the Vermilion Bird undoubtedly displayed its most brilliant and dazzling energy.

He possesses the power of rebirth from the ashes, representing the sun, rising in the east and setting in the west, representing the endless cycle of light, civilization, and vitality.

The Vermilion Bird Fire is not a violent fire, but a unity of the five elements' energies; it is the fire of vitality, the fire of civilization, the fire of light, the fire of enlightenment, and the fire of wisdom.

The Vermilion Bird went straight for Song Wuji, swallowed him, and then turned into an egg.

And Song Wuji is the chicken in this egg.

The Five Elements are represented by the egg yolk, and Yin and Yang by the egg white.

(End of this chapter)