Chapter 13: Morning Welcomes Purple Qi, Evening Guides Red Clouds | Red Heart Survey [Translation]

Red Heart Survey [Translation] - Updated on April 7, 2025

The sun finally sank in the west, and the entire earth entered the night with a sigh.

Inside the Tongtian Palace, that little earthworm finally swam through its long journey, spitting out a round and full Dao Yuan.

The time when the morning sun rises and the time when the evening sun sets are the best times for cultivation in a day. The sun is warm but not fierce, mild but not harmful, especially for novice cultivators, it can protect the Dao Meridian very well. In the past, there were not a few examples of people who cultivated at noon, only to have their heart fire stirred by the true fire of the sun, burning their bodies and destroying their meridians.

This is the so-called morning reception of purple Qi, evening guidance of red clouds.

Even with Jiang Wang’s physique of martial arts since childhood, he felt that the power of his Qi and blood had been squeezed to a certain critical point, and any further would damage his vitality. The earthworm in the Tongtian Palace also looked a little wilted.

Of course, at this critical point, the body will not feel weak. The Dao Yuan nurtured in the Tongtian Palace, like tiny hearts, are pumping power all the time.

All of this made Jiang Wang deeply realize the teachings he received in class, from the power of Qi and blood to the birth of Dao Yuan, this is a sublimation of power, the premise of human transcendence.

It is said that real martial arts cultivators do not nurture Dao Yuan, but purely hone their physique and temper their Qi and blood, which is another path.

In today’s world, feudal lords rise together, sects stand in great numbers, a hundred schools of thought contend, and the Great Dao is endless. It can be said to be a prosperous age of cultivation, but for Jiang Wang in the State of Zhuang, he has no other choice.

Jiang Wang carefully manipulated the Dao Yuan to move within the Tongtian Palace, to fill the Zhou Tian Star Array diagram that he had already known by heart. This process is not easy. This is because the spiritual power of a person, like the power of Qi and blood, has its limits at a certain stage.

For cultivators like Jiang Wang who have just embarked on the path of transcendence, moving Dao Yuan twice a day is the limit, and more will lead to mental fatigue, and in severe cases, may even damage their sanity.

Jiang Wang knew very well that the foundation-laying array diagram he had chosen took a long time, so he especially did not dare to delay, walking on thin ice. Any slight mistake would require starting over.

And he did not give himself time to start over.

There are only two chances a day to arrange the array points, he can’t miss a single one! Even if the Zhou Tian Star Array diagram is much more complicated and difficult than the Gui Yuan Array.

Assuming that someone is cultivating at the same time as Jiang Wang, and he chooses the Gui Yuan Array diagram as the foundation, then on the basis of perfect arrangement of array points, he is destined to be much faster than Jiang Wang.

Jiang Wang didn’t know if his choice was right, but since he had made a choice, there was no reason to turn back. He can only move forward, and can only do his best to do the best.

Fortunately, he did a good job. When today’s last Chongmai cultivation ended, dozens of Dao Yuan had already been suspended in the Tongtian Palace, each one full, like mature rice in the autumn rice fields, exuding the taste of harvest. These will all be his resources for “reaching the sky.”

But for Jiang Wang, he still had an important thing to do.

At this time, the dormitory was empty. Ling He and Du Yefu had both gone on missions, and having joined the inner sect, they were naturally more eager for the Kai Mai Dan.

And Jiang Wang’s mind sank, and he had entered the Taixu Illusion.

Today is July 15th, the challenge day of the month. If nothing unexpected happens, today he will usher in the challenge of the Qingyu Altar Master. He will smoothly… be demoted.

It is still the familiar scene, the great starry sky.

Jiang Wang sat cross-legged, silently watching the sundial phantom, waiting for the moment when the challenge came.

He wanted to see the strength of the real strong in this world. Although he had “heard” such fierce confrontations in Huanzhen Temple, he had never seen it with his own eyes after all. Dong A’s shot that time, the opponent had no resistance at all.

Sitting cross-legged in this starry sky, he felt that his heart was also empty.

When mankind first looked up at the starry sky, history began its charge. Compared to the vast galaxy, everything in the world is so small and illusory.

I don’t know how long it took, five black characters appeared on the sundial phantom – Challenger Abstains.

Jiang Wang felt a sense of relief in his heart, but also some inexplicable regret.

He has retained the merit points produced by the Dongzhen Void Blessed Land this month, but that may only be because of the powerful deterrence of the previous Blessed Land master. That fiery figure named Zuo Guanglie!

Most people who enter the Taixu Illusion will conceal their current identities, and no one knows what kind of prestige they have in the Taixu Illusion except themselves. So few people know that the master of Dongzhen Void in the Taixu Illusion is the current Great Chu Tianjiao Zuo Guanglie. Now, even fewer people will know. Even if someone had made accurate speculations based on the fighting style before, they must now be completely overturned.

Because generally speaking, when a person in the real world dies, their identity in the Taixu Illusion will also disappear. However, Zuo Guanglie forcibly urged the power of Zhu Rong’s true body, almost burning through time and space, and because of a strong obsession, various reasons were mixed together, resulting in an accident. This caused the Taixu Illusion to fail to recover the Void Key in time, and it was imprinted by Jiang Wang. He also inherited everything Zuo Guanglie had in the Taixu Illusion because of this.

Blessed Land Twenty-three, Dongzhen Void! This month’s merit points produced: 1850 points.

“Yandao Stage.” Jiang Wang muttered in his heart.

A green bamboo table appeared out of thin air in front of him, but it did not appear abrupt at all. It was as natural as crops growing from the ground, although the process was ignored.

There was nothing else on the bamboo table, only an open jade book, which was blank at the moment.

Jiang Wang already had an experience. He only needs to visualize the exercises he wants to deduce, and then invest the corresponding merit points, and the deduced exercises will be presented on the jade book. The previous foundation-laying array diagram, the Zhou Tian Star Array, was obtained by deducing the Gui Yuan Array.

Now that the foundation-laying array diagram is not complete, the Dao vortex has not been born, and the Dao Yuan is used one less at a time. Deducing Dao techniques is naturally unrealistic. Even Jiang Wang himself has only simulated it in his heart, and has never really practiced Dao techniques. After all, in the early stage of cultivation, Dao Yuan is too precious.

But it can’t be said that the merit points should be idle and left for later. It must be known that the path of cultivation is like sailing against the current, and if you don’t advance, you will retreat. No one knows which will come first, tomorrow or accidents, so it is the right way to make yourself extremely strong at every stage.

Jiang Wang thought for a while, and among the few sword techniques he was best at, he chose a sword technique with a fierce style to deduce.

And the choice to consume the merit points was, 1850 points!

The entire atmosphere of the State of Zhuang is one of valuing Dao techniques and despising martial arts. But Jiang Wang has no choice at this stage, and he dare not use even the strongest Dao techniques without a solid foundation.

And since he chose to strengthen his sword techniques, he would do his best and spare no effort.

Many words instantly appeared on the jade book on the green bamboo table. It was the ordinary sword technique that Jiang Wang learned from the outer sect of the Maple Forest City Taoist Academy, which had no advantages other than being fierce. But at this moment, the number of merit points on the sundial phantom was constantly decreasing, and the words on the jade book on the green bamboo table began to change frantically.

Jiang Wang stared intently, and those words actually seemed to evolve into figures, drawing their swords and dancing. The faster they danced, the more they seemed to blend into a ball in the end.

Jiang Wang couldn’t help but squint his eyes, and even had the illusion of being stabbed by the sharp edge!

When he blinked and looked again, the words on the jade book had calmed down, and what appeared in front of him was an abstruse sword technique that he had never seen before, and even could not have imagined!

When he was in the outer sect, Jiang Wang was recognized as the number one in sword techniques. But at this moment, when he read this sword technique, he suddenly felt that what he had practiced before was all peasant work, only suitable for farming!

The number of merit points on the sundial phantom had been cleared, but Jiang Wang let out a satisfied sigh.

Everything is worth it!

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