Chapter 4. Cheongniwa (1)

After unblocking her Yang Linking Vessel, Dokgo Ryeong thought her body would improve.

In reality, it was quite the opposite.

‘…I’m so sleepy I could die.’

Now that yang energy had begun flowing through a body that had been as good as dead until now, she actually felt tired more often.

For now, she still hadn’t chosen a cultivation method.

As Eun Gwan-yeong carried her on her back, Dokgo Ryeong tried circulating yang energy again and again to find out how much of it she could use.

But the yin energy in her lower dantian was so unruly that the slightest use of yang energy made it rise up and devour it.

In general, yin energy was associated with women, night, water among the Five Elements, and death,

while yang energy was associated with men, daytime, fire among the Five Elements, and life.

The more yang energy someone had, the more vitality they tended to possess. But the moment Dokgo Ryeong moved even a little of it, the yin energy in her lower dantian devoured it with abandon, leaving her even more exhausted...