From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"next."

Exhaling a breath of turbid air, Da Yu, through the circulation of Qi and the effect of the Nine Apertures Seal, forced the demonic Qi of heaven out of his body.

After confirming that Da Yu was unharmed, Jiang Liu nodded, withdrew the Heavenly Demonic Energy, and injected the Earthly Demonic Energy containing the flower imprint into Da Yu's body.

Repeating this process, in just three hours, Da Yu had completely replicated the natural energy information within the seven demonic energies. Of the nine acupoint talismans, apart from the central palace acupoint talisman, the other acupoint talismans corresponding to the eight trigrams had been forged into Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Gen, and Kun, with only Kan missing.

Among the eight demons, the one corresponding to the Kan position is not the water demon Basha, but the moon demon, Zhoulan.

Kan represents water, so why is it associated with the demon of the moon?

The 29th hexagram: The changing hexagram is Kan. The image says: A bright moon shines in the water, but you can only see its reflection and not its body. A foolish man tries to take the money, but he ends up with nothing.

Therefore, the character 坎 (kǎn) is interpreted as "moon" rather than water.

Moreover, Zhou Lan's appearance is tall and thin. Apart from his demonic appearance, he wears a red robe with purple trim, resembling that of a subject. He seems wise, but in reality, he is a fool. No matter how much he schemes and plots, in the end, it all comes to nothing.

Jiang Liu was slightly curious about the fact that Zhou Lan was the only demon with six limbs...

But let's get back to the main topic.

From the perspective of the Zhouqi Bureau, Earth is the "golden elixir" and its ecology is the sacred embryo. If the Yin and Yang are to be in harmony within the Zhouqi Bureau, the "water" of Kan must be the force of gravity!

Only the moon's gravity affects the movement of Earth's tides, most notably ocean tides, which occur twice a day and influence the marine ecosystem.

In addition to ocean tides, there are also solid tides and atmospheric tides. The former affects the slight deformation of the Earth's crust, while the latter adjusts the distribution of the atmosphere.

In theory, if we can use the principle of supplementing the innate with the acquired to actively adjust the gravitational motion of the moon, we can make the Earth, this "golden elixir," more perfectly round, and make the Earth's ecology, this "sacred embryo," more perfect.

Therefore—

For Da Yu to open up a lasting mental landscape, understanding the information about the moon's demonic energy is essential.

"Then let's hurry back and find the little devil dragon!"

The two girls thought they would encounter many new things in another space, but to their surprise, apart from the history books, two candles, and a few square pillars, what attracted their attention the most was the changes that would happen to their bodies when they experienced demonic energy in the future.

"Let me first take a look at this history book of time."

Jiang Liu was in no hurry. He walked up to the two-meter-tall, open book and discovered that it was written in Chinese characters! And modern simplified characters at that!

The handwriting was so elegant and vigorous, it had a strong artistic feel to it, which Jiang Liu praised repeatedly, but it also gave him a sense of familiarity.

He then turned forward thousands of pages, and the thickness of the history book remained the same on both sides, neither increasing nor decreasing; he turned backward tens of thousands of pages, and the thickness was the same as when he turned forward.

As Jiang Liu turned the pages, the font on the book kept changing, but the handwriting style remained consistent, from the original modern simplified Chinese characters - a variant of regular script, to regular script, running script, cursive script, clerical script, small seal script, large seal script, and bronze script. Before bronze script, there was oracle bone script.

Then came something resembling scribbles—

Engraved talisman!

This is a script that predates oracle bone script!

Jiang Liu could understand the inscriptions on the historical records. In modern terms, they were the various trigrams formed by the Pre-Heaven Bagua and the Post-Heaven Bagua, and he used them to explain the corresponding content.

However, each hexagram has multiple interpretations, combining the innate and acquired elements, resulting in sixty-four hexagrams. These sixty-four hexagrams then form the basis for sentences, paragraphs, and so on...

Therefore, in theory, it is impossible for someone who did not write it by hand to truly understand its original meaning.

But the river flow exceeded the theory!

Having cultivated to the state of perfect harmony, one can achieve inner peace and outer tranquility, with eyes that seem to bloom like lotus flowers. Upon observing the passage of time, even deeper information is revealed to Jiang Liu.

At that moment, a sudden change occurred.

A spark of pure and sincere inspiration in the river broke free from the ancestral aperture, allowing it to roam freely within the book and arrive at a chaotic land, where there was no distinction between up and down, left and right, or front and back.

Although he had broken away, he was still connected to Jiang Liu's consciousness, making him feel as if he had returned to the chaotic era.

"The years before the creation of heaven and earth?"

As Jiang Liu was pondering this, light burst forth from nothingness, initially forming a line, and then expanding upwards and downwards to both sides.

Subsequently, countless substances and energies erupted from it, shaking spacetime and creating trillions upon trillions of stars, their brilliance intertwined, just as the Weaver Girl, who had rested for countless years, awoke from her dream and shuttled among the stars, weaving a magnificent galaxy.

"Perhaps we could conduct an experiment..."

Observing the scene, relying on the sincere light, the river seemed to have some understanding. It poured its sincere light into the brilliance of the beginning of heaven and earth. After countless billions of years, it gathered into a sphere with the dust of the universe. Then, it was hit by a meteorite and formed a satellite as it rotated.

Subsequently, satellites accompanied the planet, resisting extraterrestrial meteorites and influencing the planet itself through their gravity, accelerating its evolution. With spiritual light and sincerity, they refined the planet into a golden elixir and evolved tectonic plates into a sacred embryo.

However, when using a planet as a body, if that pure and sincere spiritual light is to refine a golden core and holy embryo at the planet level, it cannot simply waste time; it must evolve living beings to provide assistance.

A wise person makes good use of external things, and the "Way of Heaven"—

Make good use of others!

This pure and sincere spiritual light originates from the river and is connected to his consciousness. It contains countless knowledge, but even a skilled cook cannot make a meal without rice. Moreover, with a body so large that it is on the scale of a planet, the time unit for unifying the operation of all matter and energy is also measured in billions of years.

Carbon-based molecules were Jiang Liu's ultimate choice in his subconscious!

Even so, carbon-based molecules still endured nearly 800 million years of "scorching heat" before evolving under harsh conditions to form the earliest single-celled life!

This is the beginning of life!

Hunyuanzi? Primordial Hunyuan Qi?

With only a spark of pure inspiration, and given that the river itself is in the present moment, it cannot create things out of thin air. It can only rely on the most primitive method, namely the rhythm of the planets, to subtly influence carbon-based molecules over time, making them increasingly complex.

Any single cell that survives to the end will evolve!

Three hundred million years passed in this way, and then the cyanobacteria began to photosynthesize, which caused the planet to produce a large amount of oxygen!

This is the fundamental substance upon which carbon-based life forms increasingly sophisticated energy and matter transformation processes through their physical bodies!

Then, 2.4 billion years ago, the planet entered a 300-million-year ice age...

After that, life underwent a long period of "scorching" and evolution, until eukaryotes emerged 1.6 billion years ago...

What followed was the darkness before dawn, when the entire planet was covered in ice and snow until 550 million years ago, when daybreak arrived!

In the Cambrian period, which humans have named after it, life experienced a great explosion!

Anomalocaris, trilobites, haikou fish, and other creatures all made their appearances, with plant life taking the lead in landing and beginning to change the terrestrial environment and regulate the ratio of atmospheric carbon dioxide, oxygen, and other gas molecules.

It just didn't last long.

About 440 million years ago, a gamma-ray burst struck the planet, causing the extinction of most life forms.

Of course—

Cultivating the Golden Elixir and Holy Embryo requires perseverance. One must not only subdue one's own inner demons but also face external crises.

With planets as the elixir and ecology as the sacred embryo, we must face an even broader environment, that is, the "test" of the universe.

Therefore!

Give life to time!

After that, life accumulated energy and erupted again, with primitive vertebrates appearing. This era was named the Ordovician Period by later generations of humans.

Following this is the Silurian period, when Lingguang Chicheng and Jiangliu wished to build a more complete ecosystem. In that case, the continent could not be unified; it needed to be separated and diversified.

In this era, marine transgressions occurred frequently, with the oceans rising and the land sinking, resulting in a diverse and uneven landscape on the Earth's surface. This formed the basis for the circulation of Qi throughout the universe, much like a developing fetus.

Following this was the Devonian period, when the first species with a heart, the jawed fish, was born.

The moment the heart beats and blood flows through the entire body, the most primal emotion—joy—is born!

Even beings without intelligence possess emotions in the true sense of the word at this moment!

Then came another mass extinction...

The main reason is that the river's evolution is accelerating, leading to increased mantle movement...

After that, during the Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic and other periods, vegetation flourished and animals grew larger and larger, ushering in the era of the "dragons"!

pity--

Dinosaurs do not meet the standards of the river.

Without him.

Biological evolution is passive! It is driven! In essence, if the environment is suitable and the species can reproduce and thrive, the "evolution" of the species will stop.

It's not that this species lacks evolutionary potential, but rather that once the environment becomes too comfortable, there's no need for further evolution.

Dinosaurs, unable to evolve "intelligence," were naturally unable to help the planet further manage its cyclical weather patterns.

and so.

The environment needs to change!

During the Cretaceous period, a river carried a meteorite that struck the planet, wiping out most of the dinosaurs and giving small mammals the opportunity to survive and thrive.

Until one night 5.5 million years ago, an Australopithecus, whose forests had disappeared and turned into grasslands, had not been able to find enough food to fill its stomach for several days.

It lived on a solitary fruit tree, about ten meters tall, on a vast grassland. However, due to climate change, this fruit tree could no longer bear enough fruit to feed the entire Australopithecus tribe. Moreover, the tree's leaves had long been eaten clean by the tribe, leaving not a single one.

"Gurgle!"

The night was quiet.

Stars, bright.

However, this Australopithecus was so hungry that it tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.

"Get down from the tree!"

"I can obtain a human body!"

"Then--"

"Join me and witness the vast universe!"

In an instant, the ancient ape seemed to hear a magnificent roar, but it wasn't the roar of an ancient ape; rather—

It didn't understand, but after looking again at the dazzling starry sky that could make it forget its anxiety, it actually had the idea of ​​wanting to grab the stars into its hands.

ridiculous!

A mere Australopithecus, struggling even to find enough to eat, inexplicably conceived the idea of ​​reaching for the stars!

But it was precisely this ridiculous and unattainable idea that made it look to the ground—first, it needed to be fed.

So, as if it had made up its mind, it carefully climbed down from the branch...

When its four paws first touched solid ground, the unfamiliar feeling made it extremely uncomfortable. It involuntarily looked around at the tall grass, examining this world that looked very familiar from the trees but was extremely strange from the ground.