Mysterious mirror hanging high

Chapter 976 No Thoughts, No Feelings, Yin and Yang in Balance

Deep within the dantian, without warning, two subtle yet distinct strands of "qi" suddenly emerged.

One is extremely strong and yang, while the other is extremely yin and soft.

As soon as they appeared, they spontaneously followed a mysterious trajectory, slowly swirling in the dantian without interfering with each other, and faintly outlining a vague Tai Chi double fish shape.

"Is this the Yin and Yang energies?"

Jing Yu looked inward at himself and a thought stirred within him: "If I simply harmonize the two and bring them into balance, I can generate endless power and refine my magical strength?"

He tried to guide the two strands of energy with his divine thoughts, hoping to bring them closer and merge.

Unexpectedly, the moment the thought arose, the two originally gentle, swirling energies suddenly stopped, and then, like startled fish, they became agitated!

Yang energy surged left and right, while Yin energy rushed in all directions... The two streams of energy clashed and repelled each other within his dantian, failing to merge and instead causing ripples in the originally calm dantian, resulting in a faint feeling of distension and pain.

Jing Yu was startled and quickly gathered her mind, using even stronger divine sense to suppress and guide the energy.

However, the more he suppressed it, the more fiercely the two energies resisted. In just a few breaths, the originally blurry Tai Chi diagram completely collapsed. The two energies intertwined and tore at each other, showing signs of going out of control and exploding. Even the blood and qi in his body began to churn slightly.

"Not good!" Jing Yu thought to himself, and decisively stopped practicing his cultivation. He silently used the Mirror of Destiny Observation Technique to forcefully calm the restlessness in his dantian with his strong foundation.

After a long while, the two strange energies slowly dissipated, and his dantian returned to calm. However, the brief conflict just now had caused fine beads of sweat to seep from his forehead, and his mental energy was greatly depleted.

He opened his eyes, his gaze filled with surprise and uncertainty, and looked at Guo Tingshu, who was holding a cup of spiritual tea and looking at him with concern.

"Fellow Daoist Bai Yuan, are you...are you alright?"

Seeing that his face was slightly pale, Guo Tingshu quickly said, "I told you long ago, this technique cannot be practiced by others, as it is very easy to go wrong."

Jing Yu regulated her breathing, but her mind was racing.

Having cultivated himself for so long, he has accumulated a wealth of experience, and after a moment's thought, he grasped the key to it.

This Yin-Yang Classic may seem simple, but it actually contains profound mysteries.

Its essence lies not in "controlling" or "manipulating" the yin and yang energies, but in "adapting" and "letting go".

When practicing this technique, one must completely empty one's mind, without any thoughts, attachments, or clinging, as if in a state of primordial chaos, allowing the yin and yang energies to naturally generate, flow, and converge according to their inherent nature.

The slightest thought of deliberately guiding, calculating, or balancing will immediately disrupt the delicate natural balance, causing a backlash from the two energies.

In other words, this cultivation method has absolutely nothing to do with whether the practitioner is intelligent, strong or weak, or deep or shallow; on the contrary, the more meticulous, calculating, and determined a person is, the more difficult it is for them to enter that state of complete "non-action."

On the contrary, those who are simple-minded, almost unassuming, or even "dull-witted" are more likely to understand the true meaning of this practice because they have fewer scheming thoughts and distractions.

Thinking of this, Jing Yu's gaze towards Guo Tingshu became extremely complicated.

The young man before me had only reached the third stage of his Nascent Soul cultivation, and his aptitude was mediocre. However, because of his pure mind and single-mindedness, he inadvertently met the most fundamental and difficult requirements of the Yin-Yang Scripture, thus achieving such an astonishing speed of cultivation.

This is hardly the case of being "dull-witted," but rather "wise in disguise," or rather, the "chosen one" unique to this strange technique!

But Jing Yu did not give up. Instead, she took a moment to calm the restless spiritual energy within her body and then instantly activated the [Quiet Mind] state!

This state of mind was created by Daoist Chengxu over a long period of time and reached perfection at the end of the era. It has been opened and one can immediately enter the ethereal state of "fasting of mind and sitting in oblivion, with inner and outer stillness." All thoughts in the mind are cleared in an instant, reaching a true state of no thought and no desire.

The moment the tranquil state of mind opened, Jing Yu's mind became introspective, and her spiritual platform was as still as an ancient well.

All previous doubts, calculations, curiosity, and that last bit of competitive spirit were wiped away as if by an invisible hand, leaving only a void of emptiness and clarity.

He relied on a sliver of bodily instinct to automatically activate the Yin-Yang Scripture, slowly drawing upon the abundant spiritual energy within the surrounding water palace.

This time, the dantian and dantian remained calm.

Those two wisps of energy, one supremely strong and the other supremely gentle and the other supremely yin, quietly re-emerged.

They seemed to have been born from nothingness, without any of the previous restlessness and rejection, just quietly floating, like the first wisp of clarity and turbidity separating at the beginning of chaos.

Jing Yu's mind was in a peculiar state of "contemplation".

He "saw" them, but had no intention of interfering; he perceived the differences in their nature, but had no intention of reconciling them.

It's like a mirror reflecting an object; let nature take its course.

A miraculous change occurred.

There was no deliberate fusion, no forced balance.

Within the yang, a point of yin quietly sprouts, while within the yin, a wisp of yang naturally grows. The boundary where the two touch begins to blur and diffuse, like ink drops falling into a clear pond.

Gradually, a clear and stable Tai Chi Yin-Yang diagram began to slowly rotate in the center of Jing Yu's dantian.

The black and white fish are connected end to end. The eye of the yang fish contains a hint of yin, while the eye of the yin fish contains a trace of pure yang. They flow endlessly, perfectly harmonious and free.

As this natural Tai Chi diagram rotated, Jing Yu's speed of absorbing spiritual energy suddenly increased to a new level, but it was not a violent plunder, but a long and profound natural absorption and release.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth that he inhaled was refined and solidified by the slowly rotating yin-yang vortex, turning into drops of true essence that silently flowed into his already vast ocean of magical power.

What's even more amazing is that this process not only refines the newly absorbed spiritual energy, but also gradually pulls and polishes the original magical power within his body, removing the dross and retaining the essence, making it subtly more agile and profound.

A gentle and continuous sense of improvement replaced the stagnation and crisis that came with forcibly exercising.

After an unknown amount of time, Jing Yu naturally withdrew from that empty and mysterious state.

He slowly opened his eyes, his gaze clear and bright. His aura was more concentrated and restrained than before, and there was a faint trace of the Daoist charm of Yin and Yang in harmony and unity flowing through him before disappearing.

He looked down at his palm, clenched his fist slightly, and could clearly feel that his magical power had become more harmonious and powerful than ever before.

"Great technique!"

Only then did a sliver of joy appear in Jing Yu's heart, and he exclaimed inwardly:

"This cultivation method, called the Yin-Yang Scripture, is profound and subtle, and is by no means inferior to Daoist cultivation methods such as the Bitter Crossing Scripture and the Spirit Nourishing Technique. In fact, it may even surpass them."

"The most wonderful thing is that this scripture can be used as a fundamental cultivation method to cultivate the foundation of the Dao, and it can also be used as an auxiliary secret method to help with cultivation. Even if I only use it as an auxiliary method, it is enough to greatly increase my cultivation speed!"