"Know it?" Jiu Zui let out a short, bitter bark of laughter. "Kid, I lived with it. I fought back-to-back with it for years."
He swiped his hand over the wooden table.
A faint, glowing purple aura trailed from his fingertips, leaving behind a complex, glowing diagram etched in pure Qi right onto the wood.
Ji'an looked down at the diagram. It wasn't a standard meridian chart showing Qi gathering from the air into the dantian.
It was more like a chart of the digestive system. It showed energy entering through the stomach, being systematically broken down by the liver, purified by the spleen, circulated by the heart, and finally condensing into a multi-colored, perfectly balanced core of pure life-force.
