The night is deep, and the surroundings are quiet.
Moonlight shines through the window and spills onto the ground, like a pool of clear lake.
The quiet room is filled with cigarette smoke, and the fragrance of the incense is faintly present, filling the mind with an incredible sense of tranquility.
Chen Yun, who has just bathed and changed his clothes, is seated cross-legged on a poupan. He is adjusting his physical condition in the hopes of reaching its best, thereby accelerating the coagulation of Golden Dantian to achieve immortality.
He did not immediately refine the celestial essence but first recalled the "Internal Elixir Formula of Master Chen" in his mind.
Chen Yun secretly thought, "My own internal alchemical art, if ordinary people want to practice it, they must first harmonize their five organs with food. One must not be hungry and one must not be full. The heart should be calm and reach the state of emptiness before entering the path. One should bathe and clean up at the end of second watch and the beginning of third watch. Calm the mind and enter the room. Burn incense, sit cross-legged, close your eyes and maintain your spirit, wait for the breath to enter and exit in order to adjust them evenly. Use your tongue to reverse roll it and close both passages of breath."
Thinking of this, he began to review the first cycle of the skill.
Chen Yun sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, focused his spirit, waited for his breath to even out, and first rolled his tongue back to close the two orifices at the root of his tongue to stop breathing.
As the skill operated, he felt two streams of energy from the two yang channels in the left and right side of his mouth rushing up to his two temples; then entering the top of his head, feeling the two energies intertwining.
If ordinary people begin to cultivate this method, it would be considered one cycle of qi circulation. After each cycle, one must open their eyes slightly and wait before closing them again to repeat the previous method. When the qi reaches the Mudan Palace at the top of the head, one should stop. In this way, one should perform three cycles every night.
Chen Yun had long surpassed this stage, so there was no need for all that trouble.
He continued with the next level of cultivation, gradually feeling the qi flowing from the Mudan Palace into his brain, then along his throat, penetrating through the Jiajin Channel, threading the tail vertebrae, and finally penetrating the Dantian and inverting the heart.
A warm and comfortable warmth surges in the chest.
"This is a sign of the true essence descending."
Chen Yun continued to operate the skill, feeling the qi stagnating in the heart. The heart felt warm and slightly moved. This warm qi then rose from the heart, passed through the throat, entered the underside of the tongue.
He felt a slight bitterness in his mouth, indicating that the qi of the gallbladder was rising and that yin and yang were being harmonized.
Suddenly, Chen Yun felt his body growing larger, his spirit exhilarated, as if the houses, the sun and the moon, the rivers and mountains were all within himself.
He reached out to support the table in front of him. In the next moment, he saw a bright light in his heart, like the sun setting in his lower Dantian.
Chen Yun did not immediately open his eyes, but instead gradually consolidated his mind, then allowed his limbs to relax again and opened his eyes.
"The first turn is fine; we can start refining the celestial essence now."
After resting for a moment, Chen Yun began to operate the "layer and a half" skill.
He sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and clapped his teeth nine times. When his spirit was tranquil and his inner qi was harmonized, he performed the technique of closing the breath.
One breath consists of one inhale and one exhale, with each closure lasting for eight or nine breaths.
Chen Yun operated the skill strictly according to the method. After each closure, he slowly opened his eyes, restored his breath, and then performed the technique of closing the breath again as before.
At this moment, the fire within his body was fully fueled, and the celestial essence was being refined bit by bit.
Chen Yun felt that his heart was warm, his limbs comfortable, and his mind and spirit stirred.
A large amount of elixir qi slowly emerged, like a warm flow entering the lower Dantian.
Chen Yun practiced at a relaxed pace, with no thoughts interfering at all.
