One divination a day, a trainee celestial master

Upon realizing that the aloof "millet grain" in his dantian was actually the [Guardian of Oneness Dao Seed], which countless cultivators dreamed of and even had to sacrifice half of their master's life to condense, Jiang Shou couldn't sit still any longer.

He pushed open the door of the storeroom and headed straight for the main hall.

Upon entering the main hall, Jiang Shou knelt down before the statue of the Three Pure Ones without saying a word and kowtowed three times.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

After kowtowing, he looked up and saw that the incense on the offering table from that morning was almost burned out. He quickly took out the box of "Huazi" cigarettes that he had bought at great expense from the cabinet and lit them for the ancestral master.

He raised it high above his head, muttering devoutly, "Grandmaster above, spirit of the old man in heaven! Your disciple Jiang Shou was truly blind to the value of a gem, almost throwing away our Shouyi Temple's Heavenly Path as rotten wood, and mistaking a peerless spiritual treasure for a kidney stone..."

"Your disciple is handsome but inexperienced, please forgive me! I will remember this kindness and will definitely arrange the finest incense offerings for you on the first and fifteenth of each month!"

After a sincere confession and a round of flattery, Jiang Shou stood up, refreshed, and dusted off his knees.

As soon as he turned around, he saw the orange cat, Fat Tiger, dozing on the threshold of the main hall.

At this moment, Jiang Shou's image of Fat Tiger had completely changed. This was no longer a fat cat who freeloaded; he was clearly a hidden master, secretly guiding him from the shadows!

"Gian-senpai!"

Jiang Shou smiled broadly and leaned closer, speaking in a high-pitched voice. He squatted by the threshold, looking at Fatty Tiger's fluffy, chubby body, and couldn't contain his gratitude. He reached out his hands, wanting to give him a hug.

"Thank you so much, senior..."

"Whoosh—!"

Before Jiang Shou could finish speaking, he saw a blurry orange afterimage flash before his eyes.

Fast! Too fast! Even though Jiang Shou's dynamic vision is now far superior to before, he can still only catch a faint distortion of the air.

When he looked closely, Fatty Tiger had already covered a distance of four or five meters in mid-air and landed steadily on the offering table in front of the Three Pure Ones.

It looked down at Jiang Shou, its amber cat eyes revealing undisguised disdain, and even bared its teeth at Jiang Shou as a warning.

Jiang Shou held up his hands, which were frozen in mid-air, and his eyes twitched.

"Senior Fat Tiger, don't be so formal. I just wanted to express my gratitude, I didn't mean any harm." Jiang Shou awkwardly withdrew his hand.

Looking at Fat Tiger, who still looked wary and whose whole body seemed to say "Don't touch me," Jiang Shou said, "Alright, alright, I'll fry some fish for you tonight." Seeing that Fat Tiger was really not giving him any face, Jiang Shou didn't dare to forcefully pet this mythical beast that could only create "invisible walls."

His most important task now is to hurry back and study the "Inner Landscape Chapter" that leads to the path to immortality!

……

Back in the side room.

Although the Taoist temple was empty, Jiang Shou still bolted the door and sat cross-legged on the hard bed.

He solemnly placed the book "The Supreme One's Preservation: Inner Landscape" with its strangely blue paper on his lap, took a deep breath, and forced himself to calm his excited heartbeat.

Opening the ancient book, Jiang Shou skipped the harsh and dangerous "prerequisites" and went straight to the cultivation formula in the main text.

"The first step in the mental technique: Focus your mind on the dantian."

Jiang Shou closed his eyes and, following the instructions in the book, blocked out all external noise. His mind, like an invisible beam of light, slowly converged inward, sinking all the way down to the depths of his dantian below his lower abdomen.

The inner space of the dantian is a deep and silent darkness, like the night sky.

In the center of that endless darkness, only a tiny, pale golden dot, the size of a grain of rice, floated silently. Its edges shimmered with a strange bluish hue, like an ancient star sealed in the void.

The second step of the mental cultivation method: Warm the true seed with intention.

Jiang Shou slowed his breathing and began to practice breathing exercises at the special frequency recorded in the "Inner Landscape Chapter".

"Three long and one short, the breath is as still as water..."

As his breathing gradually became deeper and more rhythmic, a faint breath began to flow slowly within his body. Gradually, Jiang Shou felt a faint warmth rising around his dantian.

The warmth wasn't intense, but it was continuous. It was as if they were being drawn by some mysterious force, gradually moving closer to the sealed "Tao Seed" in the dantian.

The moment the warm intention touches the seed of the Tao.

"Buzz..."

The deathly darkness surrounding the Dao Seed suddenly rippled with a faint wave, like a pebble being thrown into a calm, mirror-like surface of water.

Jiang Shou held his breath and continued to deepen the rhythm of his breathing.

As the mind and intention were continuously nurtured, the [Guard the One · Seed of the Dao] finally seemed to be awakened!

"Buzz!" The Dao Seed suddenly flickered and lit up!

The light, though faint, was pure and flawless. Faint cyan ripples, centered on the Dao Seed, slowly spread out within the dark dantian space.

Immediately afterwards, the seed began to slowly rotate!

With each rotation, a subtle, pure warm current would emanate from the surface of the Dao Seed.

These warm currents did not dissipate, but instead spread outwards along the barrier of the dantian, flowing into the meridians within Jiang Shou's body.

As the Dao Seed rotated, the dantian was like a small lamp being lit. The light gradually expanded, and at this moment, the meridians inside Jiang Shou's body seemed to transform into illuminated "light channels."

"Follow the mental technique closely, don't stop!"

Jiang Shouqiang suppressed the joy in his heart and guided the warm current to rise slowly along the Ren meridian in the center of his chest and abdomen.

Where the warm current passes, the meridians feel as if they have been parched for a long time and have received sweet rain, with a pleasant, tingling sensation.

However, as this warm current climbed higher and was about to reach the Tanzhong acupoint in the chest, it suddenly seemed to hit an invisible dam and got stuck!

"Ugh!" Jiang Shou's expression changed. He felt a tightness in his chest, as if a large rock was pressing down on it, and his breathing stopped for a moment. The warm current that had been flowing smoothly through his body was now accumulating in his chest, and it seemed that he could no longer suppress it!

"Oh no! The flow of Qi is blocked!"

Jiang Shou felt a chill run down his spine, and a layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead. He quickly forced himself to calm down and frantically recalled the coping formulas from the "Inner Landscape Chapter" in his mind.

"If your qi is stagnant in your chest, do not force it. Calm your mind and let your breath flow gently, like a thread..."

Jiang Shou gritted his teeth and quickly regulated his breathing, which was somewhat disordered due to the pain. He stopped trying to force the warm current with his mind and instead slowed his breathing, like unraveling a cocoon, slowly dissolving the knot in his chest.

It took a full five minutes before the suffocating feeling in my chest gradually eased.

"Charge!"

With Jiang Shou's last deep breath, the blocked warm current finally broke through the shackles and passed smoothly through his chest!

Immediately afterwards, a warm current flowed over the top of the head, down the Du meridian along the back like a warm waterfall, slowly descending. It surged forward unimpeded, finally returning smoothly to the dantian below the lower abdomen!

"boom!!"

Just as the warm currents met and returned to his dantian, a roar that only he could hear erupted from Jiang Shou's body.

The first microcosmic orbit circulation was successfully completed!

A slight tremor ran through his dantian, and the [Guardian of Oneness - Dao Seed] floating in the center brightened slightly, and its rotation speed also increased!

Azure-gold light intertwined within the dantian, and as the Dao Seed rotated, a tiny "airflow vortex" actually formed in the dantian space!

"Tick-tock".

At the center of the vortex, a tiny yet solid wisp of energy overflowed from the seed of Dao.

"This is……?!"

Jiang Shou felt that familiar energy fluctuation, and his whole body trembled with excitement.

"True essence!!! It really is true essence!!!"

Yes, this is the true energy he completely exhausted yesterday in the hospital's intensive care unit!