An Changcheng knocked An Ran on the head and said, "Don't look at me like I'm stupid. I told you to find your brother. He will take you to the Magicians' Guild."

An Ran stuck out her tongue and walked back to Youran Pavilion. After returning to Youran Pavilion, An Ran wanted to practice early, so she changed her clothes and went out of the city in light clothes.

As soon as she left the city, An Ran ran wildly in one direction. She remembered that there was a mountain here when she looked at the map.

After running for about an hour, An Ran saw the mountain. She rested for a while at the foot of the mountain and then began to climb. An hour later, An Ran climbed to the top of the mountain panting, and saw that the sun had risen halfway into the sky above the mountain.

An Ran found a relatively flat place on the top of the mountain and began to practice silently, slowly emitting the spiritual power in his body. The spiritual power was like a wave, slowly blending into the air. In An Ran's spiritual world, the world turned gray.

Gradually, An Ran realized that her spiritual power seemed to resonate with the elemental energy in the air. The world was no longer a monotonous gray. Slowly, color condensed from the air. Red, blue, green, and white formed a gorgeous painting in her world.

An Ran had read books before and knew that blue represented water, red fire, green wood, and white light. She sensed the magical elements, using her mental power to guide them into her body. As the magical elements repelled each other and occupied her meridians and dantian, An Ran gradually began to feel pain.

The pain gradually intensified as more elements An Ran guided into her body. An Ran felt the pain intensify, as if her tendons and veins were about to break. An Ran could not maintain her training posture and lay on the ground in pain, almost rolling around.

Xiao Ai looked at the situation from inside the space with a look of anxiety, and she kept shouting, "Sister, you have to hold on. This is because there are too many elements in your body. You need to use your mental power to guide them to merge. Hurry up, or the magic elements will destroy all your tendons and veins."

When An Ran heard Xiao Ai say this, she couldn't help cursing in her heart, but she still bit her tongue and tried hard to sit up cross-legged.

Perhaps because of the excessive pain, her mind raced. An Ran recalled what her teacher in her previous life had said when teaching her Tai Chi: "Do you know why different people, from ancient times to the present, have been able to gain different insights from the Tai Chi diagram? It's said that Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things... All of this is revealed in the Tai Chi diagram."

"Tai Chi explains the process of the universe from Wuji to Tai Chi, and then to the creation of all things. It is the state before the creation of heaven and earth, before the separation of yin and yang. The two principles are the yin and yang of Tai Chi."

"Two yin and yang give rise to four images, and four images give rise to the eight trigrams." This means that all things and phenomena in the vast universe contain both yin and yang, as well as the two aspects of appearance and interior. The relationship between these two aspects is both mutually opposed and interdependent, and is the root cause of the creation and destruction of things.

"The Way of Heaven and Earth creates all things with the two energies of Yin and Yang. All things carry Yin and embrace Yang, and the collision of these energies creates harmony. Heaven and earth, the sun and moon, thunder and lightning, wind and rain, the four seasons, the hours before midnight and the hours after noon, as well as male and female, hard and soft, movement and stillness, manifestation and restraint—everything is divided into Yin and Yang.

Being and non-being give rise to each other, difficulty and ease complement each other, length and shortness contrast, high and low lean towards each other, sounds harmonize with each other, and front and back follow each other. The principle of life is to nourish all bones and bones with the two energies of yin and yang. The meridians, bones and flesh, abdomen and back, five internal organs, six bowels, and even the seven harms and eight benefits—everything within the body is in harmony with the principles of yin and yang.

"The black and white of Tai Chi represent Yin and Yang, the two parts of Heaven and Earth. The boundary between the two represents the human part of the universe. The black dot within the white represents Yin within Yang, and the white dot within the black represents Yang within Yin. Tao gives birth to one, which is Wuji giving birth to Tai Chi; one gives birth to two, which is Tai Chi giving birth to Liang Yi. Yin and Yang give birth to each other, so each thing has its own Tai Chi. The interaction of Yin and Yang gives birth to all things. All things are constantly born according to this law, so change is endless."

An Ran suddenly remembered all this, and a flash of inspiration struck her. Yin and Yang coexisting? This must also be true for magical elements. Tai Chi only has two poles, Yin and Yang, but flowers with four petals aren't uncommon. She wondered what would happen if she reorganized the four elements into a four-colored Tai Chi diagram.

Thinking of this, An Ran stopped absorbing the magic elements, endured the pain, divided his mental power into countless parts, wrapped the magic elements, and then classified the magic elements bit by bit, and established the fusion of the magic elements bit by bit according to the shape of the Tai Chi diagram.

Concentrating his mental strength, An Ran guided the several magical elements to separate bit by bit, and then slowly merged the elements together bit by bit according to the imagined picture.

Success! Miraculously, the four elements stopped exploding, and even upon contact, they instantly separated. The four elements now orbited the central point in an orderly fashion. Slowly, the Tai Chi-shaped center began to expand automatically, each side absorbing the same element. The blue magic element leaped towards the group, the red light magic element excitedly returning to its formation. The white magic element pounced on a mass of white elements, and the green element also gracefully rushed towards the group.

"No explosion! That's great!" Watching the four elements within her body flow more and more orderly, An Ran excitedly controlled the four elements within her body to slowly circulate. When the elements within her body had been almost completely absorbed, An Ran radiated her mental energy to the surroundings, controlling the speed of absorbing the magical elements and slowly guiding them into her body. After watching the magical elements within her body gradually mature, An Ran accelerated the absorption of the magical elements.

After a while, when An Ran felt that he had absorbed most of the magic elements, he went down the mountain and went home.

When An Ran returned home, a noble young man dressed in dark brocade appeared at the gate of the An Mansion with his guards. The guard handed a visiting card to the guard at the gate. The guard saw the words "Didu Murong Mansion" on the visiting card and hurriedly said to the visitor, "Sir, please wait a moment. Let me go in and report." After saying that, he quickly turned and went into the mansion.

In the study of the An family, the head of the An family looked at the visiting card from the Murong family in the imperial capital. Although he didn't understand why the Murong family came to visit now, he hurriedly followed the housekeeper to the door to invite people in.

Arriving at the door, the head of the An family saw the young man at the door and looked him up and down. He couldn't help but guess which one of the Murong family this was. He said to the young man, "I wonder who you are?"

The man bowed to An Changcheng and said, "Uncle An, I am Murong Jin, the eldest son of the Murong Mansion."