87: Five Years of Creating the Method – The Chapter on the Evolution of the Taiyin Dao

Twelfth year of the lunar calendar, August.

Yu Xuzi returned to the Qingyuan Realm once again.

Cangqing Mountain.

This trip to the Fei Chen Realm not only saw the rampant disaster of demons and the descent of the Taiqing Young Lord, but also witnessed the battle between great powers above the Fifth-Rank Primordial Spirit Realm.

The harvest was also very considerable.

It could be said that he had squeezed dry the essence of the entire Fei Chen cultivation world.

"With the current Resources, Cultivating to the level of a Xuantai True Person should be no problem."

"Next, I should properly enter secluded meditation to Cultivate, and while I'm at it, create a method and refine techniques, and practice various skills."

The ultimate goal of plundering Resources is for the sake of Cultivation!

Only by being strong oneself can one have the confidence to deal with everything.

Yu Xuzi saw this point very clearly.

"Cangqing Mountain is still the best!"

"Master, I am back again."

Before the grave of Xuan Chengzi.

Yu Xuzi spoke many words to himself, and when the night grew deep, he used heaven and earth as his blanket and fell into a deep sleep.

Starting tomorrow, the secluded meditation officially begins!

...Inside the Yuxu Grotto-Heaven.

It had been several years since he obtained this grotto-heaven. The once magnificent halls here had long been completely dismantled by Yu Xuzi.

In their place, a brand new Yu Xu Palace was built.

Green bricks, jade pillars, and glazed tiles—it was ancient and elegant.

In the center of the main hall.

Yu Xuzi sat alone here, his brows tightly furrowed.

At this moment, hundreds of scrolls of Cultivation Techniques and classics were stacked like towers, surrounding him.

He was creating a method!

Yu Xuzi flicked his sleeves, and three more Jade Slips slowly unfolded, floating in mid-air.

"'Lihuo Qiantian Heart-Refining True Method,' taking the intensity of heavenly fire and the explosiveness of Lihuo, refining the body as a furnace and the heart as charcoal..."

Yu Xuzi recited in a low voice.

His fingertips outlined crimson runes in the air, and the temperature in the main hall suddenly rose, as if a rolling heatwave was sweeping through.

"The name is quite grand."

"Unfortunately, the yang energy is too excessive, while the yin energy is insufficient. With Yin and Yang out of balance, an ordinary person practicing it will surely have their future cut off, with no hope of a Dharma Image."

After pausing for several hours, he opened the second scroll.

"'Tianyin Guishui Mysterious Chapter True Method,' absorbing the Guishui of the Nine Netherworlds to refine the Heavenly Yin Cold Qi, transforming Qi into a sea, and the mysterious chapter comes naturally..."

"Too much yin and softness, no light at all."

The third scroll unfolded automatically.

"'Xuanhuang Thick Earth Burden-Bearing True Method,' inheriting the virtue of Kunyuan, bearing things without contention to benefit the mysterious method..."

"A turtle's Cultivation Technique; aside from defense, there is nothing noteworthy."

Scroll after scroll of Cultivation Techniques unfolded before Yu Xuzi.

Disassembling, analyzing, appreciating, reorganizing, and Fusion.

'Azure Wood Longevity Art' spoke of the cycle of vitality: "The virtue of wood is called benevolence; it sprouts in spring and grows in summer. Its Qi rises but does not become overbearing..."

'Taibai Gengjin Art' explained the method of sharp restraint: "The nature of metal is solemn and killing; it is harvested in autumn and stored in winter. Its quality is hard and firm, yet it can be soft and yielding..."

'Yin-Yang Harmonization True Method' attempted to reconcile the two poles: "One Yin and one Yang are called the Dao. Partial Yin or partial Yang is called a disease. Only through Yin and Yang Dual Cultivation can the truth of heaven and earth be found..."

The world's Cultivation Techniques each held to one extreme!

Either leaning towards yang and hardness, or emphasizing yin and softness, or specializing in one of the Five Elements, or being a jumbled mess without refinement.

If a Cultivator's attributes did not match and they forced their Cultivation, it was extremely easy for the Cultivation Technique to conflict with their own Physique, leading to twice the effort for half the result.

Or even Qi Deviation and sudden death on the spot.

However, Yu Xuzi's Five Elements talent was excellent, so he naturally had no fear!

...Two and a half years passed in the blink of an eye.

Fifteenth year of the lunar calendar, May.

The main hall was still silent.

Yu Xuzi's eyes were slightly closed, and the core meanings of hundreds of Cultivation Techniques were still frantically intertwining and clashing in his mind.

Until the constant dripping wore away the stone, and he suddenly had an epiphany.

A sigh broke the silence.

"The Great Dao should have been harmonious and inclusive; why has it been divided to this extent?"

"The Five Elements generate each other and also overcome each other; Yin and Yang are rooted in each other and also restrict each other."

"The problem is not the Cultivation Technique itself," Yu Xuzi suddenly opened his eyes, "but the vision of the Cultivator."

"To observe a hundred schools and create my own method, what I need is not Fusion, but derivation."

Yu Xuzi formed hand seals, and majestic Dharmic power rose from his Dantian, surging frantically and circulating endlessly through his Meridians.

"Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal..."

"Yet within generation there is overcoming, and within overcoming there is hidden generation."

"The Great Dao is simple, yet it derives into ten thousand forms."

"This is the natural principle of heaven and earth; why force them into one?"

Outside the grotto-heaven, the sky turned from dark to light, and from light to dark again.

Time once again passed quickly, but Yu Xuzi was completely unaware, having entered a state of deep meditation.

In the blink of an eye, another two and a half years had passed.

Seventeenth year of the lunar calendar, October.

Yu Xuzi's body suddenly burst with light.

That light was not a single color but flowed with five-colored radiance, mellow and translucent, with the five colors clearly distinct.

"I understand."

Yu Xuzi suddenly opened his eyes and whispered to himself, his voice echoing in the silent hall, "True Perfection is not about gathering the strengths of all schools, but about accommodating their differences."

His spirit became more and more excited.

He took out a blank Jade Slip, and his majestic and scorching Divine Sense instantly poured out, carving into the Jade Slip.

"In the beginning there was the Dao, and the Dao transformed into Yin and Yang; Yin and Yang rotate, and the Five Elements are born."

"Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth each hold their own nature; they generate and overcome each other in an endless cycle."

"A Cultivator who embodies this should be like the sea receiving a hundred rivers, not rejecting the smallest stream; like the earth bearing all things, not choosing between high and low."

"Dharmic power circulates, following nature; where the mind goes, all things are renewed."

The characters of Divine Sense flickered with golden light in the Jade Slip, gradually forming a complete general outline of a Cultivation Technique.

Yu Xuzi wrote faster and faster.

A smile finally appeared on his face, one that hadn't been seen for five years.

The method he created would accommodate the simultaneous operation of different Cultivation Techniques by establishing a more magnificent framework.

"Lunar derivation, with the Five Elements as the base;

Yin and Yang assisting each other, movement and stillness in harmony.

Metal's sharpness hidden in clumsiness, water's softness containing hardness;

Wood standing out in the forest, fire's brightness restrained within;

Earth's thickness bearing virtue, linked together in a cycle of generation.

Absorbing the righteous Qi of heaven and earth, accommodating the different flows of a hundred rivers;

Endlessly growing, circulating without ceasing.

The heart like a Void Realm, capable of containing all phenomena;

The mind like still water, reflecting the great universe..."

With every line of the Cultivation Technique mnemonic he wrote, the aura on his body grew thicker.

The Dharmic power within him no longer needed deliberate guidance; it circulated along a mysterious trajectory on its own, generating and overcoming itself, forming its own world.

At times, it split into the five colors of the Five Elements.

At times, it fused into a gray color that resembled Chaos.

Around the entire main hall, five different phenomena—frost freezing, plants growing, metal and stone clanging, water flowing, and flames flickering—appeared simultaneously, coexisting harmoniously in a magnificent spectacle.

When the last line of the mnemonic was set, all phenomena returned to peace.

Yu Xuzi opened his eyes.

In five years, he had succeeded.

He had created a new Cultivation Technique.

It was not a Cultivation method in the traditional sense, but more like finding a "Great Dao framework" that could accommodate all Cultivation Techniques.

Even though it currently only had a Qi Refining Chapter and a Dao Foundation Chapter.

It also hadn't led to the realization of any Heaven-Defying Spells or Divine Abilities; it could only be called a "Cultivation Technique Prototype."

In the future, it would still need to be understood, expanded, and continuously perfected.

But the status of this method was high enough!

With this method as the Foundation, Yu Xuzi could simultaneously run countless other methods in the future without worrying about Qi Deviation, circulating without ceasing and without any obstruction.

"This technique should not be known for its dominance, but for its inclusiveness."

He looked at the Jade Slip in his hand, which flickered with a gray, mysterious luster, and pondered for a moment.

"For now, I shall call you—the Grand Primordial Doctrine of the Lunar Derivation."

"Lunar represents the ultimate softness and inclusiveness, like the moon reflecting in ten thousand rivers; Derivation represents the deduction of the Great Dao, encompassing all things."

From now on, this Cultivation Technique would be further perfected according to his will, accommodating more changes and deriving infinite possibilities.

Third-Rank True Method!

Fourth-Rank True Scripture!

Fifth-Rank Dao Method!

Even Sixth-Rank Heavenly Scriptures and Seventh-Rank Immortal Scriptures were not the end.

Just then, the aura of Dharmic power within Yu Xuzi's body instantly began to skyrocket.

"To think I'm about to Breakthrough so soon."

A double blessing!

Yu Xuzi simply sat down cross-legged with a smile, and for the first time, he began to circulate the Grand Primordial Doctrine of the Lunar Derivation.