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Having returned to the belly of Shiping Mountain and said farewell to Jiang Liyan, Wei Dongliu went to check on Guo Jin's condition.
At that moment, Guo Jin was sitting upright on the stone bed, adopting the Five Hearts Facing the Sky position for Qi Refinement, breathing in and out slowly, opening up his Qi Sea.
The Cadaverous Yin Needle given to him by Jiang Liyan lay wrapped in black cloth on the stone table beside him and seemed untouched since he had returned.
The thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum that Wei Dongliu had left him before descending the mountain had been partially consumed, with the remainder sitting untouched in a pot—such aged Polygonum was particularly resistant to hunger and excellent for Fasting.
The "Dispersing Demons and Invoking Spirits, Dividing the Clear from the Turbid Scripture" from Tai Yi the Mysterious True Person also contained methods for Fasting and Qi Refinement.