"Everything I've realized before was neither wrong nor right!"
"It wasn't incorrect to understand thunder and lightning from the perspective of charges, but charges are something humans have discovered and defined. However, mastering thunder and lightning, creating a Cultivation Method—these are things no one has ever done, or even thought of doing before. Using the 'known' to define and understand the 'unknown' seems reasonable, but it's a minor error that leads to a huge mistake, yielding minimal results!"
"Perhaps it is more appropriate to describe the positive and negative charges observed earlier as life energy and qi!"
"The earlier understandings always focused on the balance between positive and negative charges, but whether these charges are balanced isn't important. What matters is that positive and negative charges will always reach a stable balance. The key is that balance will always be achieved!"
"In other words..."
"Life energy and qi depend on each other, yet remain independent!"
"Life energy is endless, qi flows continuously!"
"Those struck by lightning multiple times probably had a deficiency in their life energy, attracting external thunder, but because their internal qi continued, their life energy was not entirely cut off!"
"Trying to master thunder and lightning shouldn't rely on external factors causing internal changes. How could the life energy and qi of heaven and earth be easily harnessed by humans? It would likely lead only to the loss of life energy and qi!"
"If the lightning in the sky is birthed by the natural world's life energy and qi, then within the human body, there are also life energy and qi. If one wants to emit thunder and lightning, it should naturally be born from one's own life energy and qi!"
Lin Beichen had never felt his thoughts so clear, not only comprehending all the issues that had troubled him before but also realizing an entirely new path!
But what followed...
Was a new problem!
"There is indeed life energy and qi in the human body, but how can they be perceived?"
Before Lin Beichen could ponder further.
Suddenly!
"Crack—!!!"
A deafening thunderclap echoed explosively.
It was the sound of that massive purple lightning just now!
Instantly!
His scalp tingled, and his entire body felt a tingling itch as if tiny electric currents coursed through him, not just on the surface but also within!
"The external life energy and qi have affected the internal life energy and qi!"
"But why do they affect each other?"
"Is everything in the world from the same origin??"
"..."
At the moment, Lin Beichen's enlightenment was at its peak, and his thoughts were running smoothly.
Though he grasped many elusive things in an instant, he also knew this was a crucial opportunity to perceive his internal life energy and qi. He hurriedly focused all his attention on his body.
"Where are they?"
"Where exactly are my life energy and qi??"
As he sensed the feeling on his body gradually fading, Lin Beichen still had no results. He was getting anxious, not wanting to miss such a great moment of enlightenment.
Just as the feeling on his body completely disappeared.
Suddenly!
A sensation appeared in his palm!
The feeling seemed related to the previous one, familiar yet strange, like a bright rose blooming in a barren land!
Lin Beichen's attention was unconsciously drawn to it.
At this moment, time seemed to freeze!
Everything fell into a state of stillness!
Silence enveloped all around!
The only moving thing...
Was a thin arc of electricity!
This arc seemed to break apart before his eyes, transforming into a black and a white wisp of smoke, darting in opposite directions within his body.
"This..."
Though Lin Beichen couldn't actually see the black and white wisps, he could feel them distinctly!
"They must be life energy and qi!"
"One black, one white... life energy, qi... yin and yang..."
"The balance of life energy and qi I've been exploring all along, is it actually the core concept of yin and yang harmony in traditional Chinese medicine?"
"Is life energy and qi just yin and yang?"
Lin Beichen reached a deeper level of enlightenment, his thoughts scattering widely. Thoughts he couldn't even comprehend surged into his mind!
"When chaos first opened, yin and yang were established, yin and yang interconnected, returning to chaos, this is reincarnation, chaos is the source of energy, as well as the endpoint!"
"Could it be..."
"Are they tracing back to chaos?"
"Is the place they're heading to chaos?"
"Is there chaos within the human body?"
"The Chaos Space I entered when I gained some enlightenment earlier might be the world's chaos? Just as the world has life energy and qi divided into yin and yang, the human body also does. If the world has chaos, then each person should be the same."
"To put it in scientific terms, people often say that the human body is like a microcosmic universe, with each cell possibly being like a universe. If you magnify it infinitely, you would see astonishing things. Conversely, if you shrink the universe, it would be like a single cell."
"Though this is merely a fantasy, the concept behind it isn't without logic, much like the Buddhist tenet of a grain of sand containing a Buddha land and a world within a flower."
"Each school has similar concepts, and what I'm trying to understand now is the microcosmic charge that can be born within the body."
"..."
His talent was displayed to the fullest!
Lin Beichen didn't have time to delve deeply, knowing all these thoughts were abstract metaphors and associations. Life energy and qi, yin and yang were all just analogies and descriptions, hard to describe clearly.
Many of the concepts had no concrete evidence to prove their existence or reliability.
But Lin Beichen had many inexplicable insights.
He quickly felt inside his body, trying to sense what might be called the microcosmic universe within his body.
The two wisps were still perceptible, but the so-called chaos... he couldn't feel it at all, as if it didn't exist!
"Chaos must exist!"
"The yin and yang qi will lead me to it!"
Lin Beichen had no other choice, nor did he want one, only to believe in his enlightenment.
He carefully traced the paths of the yin and yang qi coursing through his body.
Soon, he noticed...
They seemed to be traveling along the meridians within his body.
The meridians within the human body are countless in number!
Their combined routes are unimaginably complex!
Even with his innate talent...
It was a challenge to remember them all!
"Hmm?"
At this moment, Lin Beichen felt the yin and yang qi converging through different meridians, suddenly disappearing!
Simultaneously.
An inexplicable sensation arose at the convergence point of the yin and yang qi!
Swell!
Though the feeling was faint, almost imperceptible, it indeed existed!
But he could only feel this swelling; he still had no sense of the so-called chaos.
"Perhaps chaos doesn't exist within the human body?"
"No!"
"Chaos, like yin and yang, is formless and shapeless; not feeling it isn't necessarily a problem!"
"Also wrong!"
"Then why can I feel the formless and shapeless yin and yang?"
"..."
Lin Beichen forced himself to stop pondering this question.
Is this question important? Very much so!
But it's not the most important right now; the answer can be found later.
Right now, the most important thing is...
To verify what he just realized!
"Since it's a cycle of reincarnation, reversing death should give rise to new life!"
Lin Beichen knew that reversing death meant retracing the meridians the yin and yang qi had just traversed back once more.
But he wasn't sure how to do this or whether he could!
"Desperate measures!"
Lin Beichen focused his attention on the spot he felt the "swell," gathering all his strength there.
In the next instant!
The "swell" sensation disappeared.
Replaced by...
A feeling of cold and heat!
The reversal was successful!
"Did it... work?!"
He had merely held onto a "try-it-and-see" mindset, ready to find another way if it didn't work, but it succeeded effortlessly!
However, he didn't linger in excitement but seized the moment to focus on guiding the yin and yang qi to reverse along their previous paths.
Because...
There was something even more thrilling and exciting awaiting him!
Despite the countless, complex routes the yin and yang qi had traversed earlier, the process was swift. Within a breath, the qi returned to the point where the electric arc had first shattered and collided once more.
With this collision...
Frozen time shattered!
The world regained its sound!
Electric flash, thunder, rain unceasing!
All the illusory sensations vanished.
Everything experienced before was a fantasy of the subconscious.
Yin and yang qi, meridians—they don't actually exist. The body remains the same flesh; it was all Lin Beichen's imagination—a case of 'Illusion Becomes Reality'!
And now...
There was a faint crackling sound in Lin Beichen's palm.
"Dada... dada... dada..."
It was electricity!
A newly born spark of electricity!