Chapter Six The Only Choice

  In the secret room, Qin Yu galloped through the flowers and browsed at will, scanning ten lines with one glance. The twenty-eight external skill secret books were all scanned by Qin Yu in just an hour.

  "Grandpa Lian was right, this external skill cultivation seems really tough." Qin Yu's small face scrunched up in a frown.

  After reading twenty-eight secret books, Qin Yu had a certain understanding of external skill cultivation. External skill cultivation is to use various methods to make the physical strength stronger, which is continuous training, exceeding the extreme point of fatigue, and constantly surpassing the limit.

  Neigong cultivation is just absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and there is no pain during cultivation. On the contrary, after cultivation, one feels refreshed and energized. Wàigōng, on the other hand, is about pushing the body to its limits, making it endure the greatest possible tempering, which is extremely painful and difficult. These are fundamentally two opposing methods of cultivation.

  External skills are bitter, laborious, and cannot become a congenital master. Generally, only ordinary people without any background would choose to cultivate external skills, while the true aristocratic children usually cultivate internal skills. But what about Qin Yu?

  There are sixty-eight top-notch internal skill techniques, each one is extremely difficult to obtain, but can he practice them?

  "Let's take a look at the internal skill and mental method. Although my dantian is quite unusual, maybe there's an internal skill and mental method that can be cultivated." Qin Yu had a glimmer of hope and opened the secret book with high expectations, but he was stunned as soon as he looked at it.

  Shenting, Baihui, Fengchi, Qimen... Sanjiao Hand Shaoyang Meridian, Hand Taiyin Meridian, Kidney Foot Shaoyang Meridian...

  "Th...". Qin Yu was stunned.

  He has read many books and heard these terms, but the key is... he knows Fengchi acupoint, but doesn't know where Fengchi acupoint is located on the human body. Although there are images in those books, they are just rough diagrams with only a few lines.

  This internal skill can't be practiced randomly, if the breath enters the wrong path, it's life-threatening.

  "It seems that I should go to the study room and carefully read some books about meridians first, at least understand the acupoints." Qin Yu's small face only had a hint of helplessness, and then he put away these books and left the secret room.

  Six days later.

  Qin Yu re-entered the secret room.

  "Haha, this time I'm full of confidence. Let's try out these 68 books one by one and see which one can be cultivated." Qin Yu's face was filled with excitement, after all, he was just an eight-year-old child who often dreamed of being a master.

  For six days, Qin Yu studied the meridian acupoints to fully understand them. To make it easier for him to comprehend, he even had a wooden dummy made by the servants of Yunwu Mountain Villa and had Old Man Weng Xian, a medical expert from Yunwu Mountain Villa, clearly mark all the meridian acupoints on it.

  Combining books and wooden men, and frequently asking Old Man Weng for guidance, Qin Yu finally felt confident enough to start cultivating his inner energy.

  "Which one should I cultivate first? This one, then. 'Water Classic Notes'." Qin Yu muttered to himself as he randomly picked a secret book. This "Water Classic Notes" was quite famous hundreds of years ago, but now there were hardly anyone who knew about this top-level cultivation method.

  Qin Yu sat down cross-legged and began to cultivate according to the cultivation method.

  The first step in cultivating internal energy is to have a sense of qi, being able to feel the extremely small amount of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy that one absorbs. In fact, people living in the world are constantly unconsciously absorbing heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, but because the amount is too small, it can't be felt at all.

  Cultivation is conscious absorption, absorbing as much as possible.

  An hour later, Qin Yu's heart was also in disarray and he could no longer hold on.

  "Qi sensation, qi sensation, even Grandfather said that those with good innate talent would have a qi sensation as soon as they started cultivating. I've been cultivating for an entire incense stick's worth of time, how come I don't have the slightest bit of qi sensation?" Qin Yu's face was full of helplessness, his legs were numb from sitting cross-legged for so long.

  Qin Yu got up and exercised for a while before resuming his meditation on "Waterway Classic".

  ……

  Two days later.

  Qin Yu had finished his breakfast and continued to cultivate. Qin Yu was very stubborn, he kept cultivating the first chapter of "Shui Jing Zhu", in fact, it didn't make much difference which internal skill manual he used, as long as he could feel the Qi.

  Stubbornness.

  Qin Yu sat cross-legged again, and his mind began to imagine the flow of air in the meridians, after which Qin Yu didn't think about anything else, his mind was completely empty, and he continued like this...

  Suddenly——

  Qin Yu felt a very weak airflow slowly flowing inside his body, after more than two days of persistence, he finally succeeded at this moment. In an instant, Qin Yu's heart was filled with excitement, and the calmness in his heart and the emptiness in his mind disappeared. At the same time, Qin Yu could no longer feel the airflow.

  "Calm, calm." Qin Yu muttered to himself, and then once again entered the state described in "Shui Jing Zhu" a moment ago. After a while, Qin Yu indeed felt a faint flow of energy inside his body again.

  At this moment, Qin Yu followed the method of "Water Classic Note" and began to let the air flow in the meridians run a small cycle. As it flowed, Qin Yu felt more and more clearly about the air flow. After running a small cycle, Qin Yu was about to control this spiritual energy into the dantian.

  According to the secret recipe, the airflow enters the dantian and will quietly accumulate in the dantian.

  But...

  "What's going on? Can't my dantian really accumulate internal energy?" Qin Yu was stunned, he found that the spiritual energy that had gone through the small heavenly cycle and dispersed in the dantian had dissipated again, returning to nature, and the dantian was still empty.

  "It seems that Uncle Feng was right from the start, my dantian is different from others and I'm fundamentally unable to accumulate internal energy. Cultivating internal skills, internal energy is all stored in the dantian, but my dantian can't store it, what's the point of continuing to cultivate?" Qin Yu finally understood at this moment.

  Although there are countless methods of internal skill cultivation in the world, each is different. However, there is one point that is the same.

  The internal energy absorbed and transformed through cultivation is all stored in the Qihai acupoint, which is within the Dantian. If even the Dantian cannot accumulate internal energy, what's the point of continuing to cultivate?

  Suddenly, Qin Yu casually discovered that golden "Ancestral Dragon Manual", among these inner strength books, the only book written on golden paper was particularly eye-catching, so Qin Yu reached out and took this "Ancestral Dragon Manual".

  "The Ancestral Dragon Manual" is very thin, only three pages, but the characters on the golden paper are very small, and there is quite a bit of content on the three pages of golden paper.

  Qin Yu tried to cultivate according to the "Zu Long Jue" incantation, and in an instant, Qin Yu felt a flow of energy inside his body. This "Zu Long Jue" was indeed powerful, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth much more than before, and the speed of circulation around the heavenly orbit was extremely fast. When Qin Yu tried to store the internal force in his dantian, the same situation occurred again.

  The lower abdomen is like a funnel, and as much internal force as there is will leak out, and it is impossible to accumulate.

  Qin Yu's face seemed to be smiling bitterly, as if helpless.

  Then he couldn't help but laugh: "Alas, it seems I won't be able to slack off anymore. I still want to find a way to cultivate my inner strength, but this dantian is like a funnel, and as much internal energy as I put in, that's how much will leak out. How can I cultivate my inner strength?"

  Qin Yu's face seemed completely unaffected.

  In fact, Qin Yu had long been prepared for failure. After all, the one who said he couldn't cultivate internal energy was Feng Yuzi, one of the three top immortals of the Chu royal court. The possibility of such a person's words being wrong was too low.

  "From today on, I'll cultivate my external skills with all my might!" Qin Yu's eyes sparkled as he gazed at the 28 secret books of external skills. He smiled, "In the entire Dragon Continent, no one has ever reached the Xiantian realm through external skills. Let me be the first person to achieve it!"

  Qin Yu was after all just an eight-year-old child and still had a child's temperament.

  Relying on external skills to reach the congenital realm is indeed unprecedented, but just how formidable are those external skill masters who have reached the congenital realm? This is a mystery.

  ……

  Two days later, in the morning, in Qin Yu's study.

  Qin Yu held a book, quietly reading. Beside him stood two massive bookshelves, which at a glance contained at least over a thousand volumes of various books. 'Little Black' was also wandering around the study, not disturbing its young master.

  "Your Highness, there are eight external martial arts experts who have arrived. They are led by the Deputy General Manager of the Wang Fu and claim to be here for Your Highness to select an external martial arts teacher." A servant walked up to the door of the study room and said respectfully.

  Qin Yu's eyes lit up instantly, and he immediately put down the book in his hand, feeling a wave of excitement. He had discussed this matter with Lian Yan earlier, and Lian Yan had passed on the message to the people in the Wang Fu. Qin De, the King of Zhen Dong, knew about this matter and specially arranged for several top masters from the military camp as well as several external masters from the three counties of the Eastern Domain to come together.

  "After waiting for two days, it finally arrived. Kan An, hurry up and lead the way!" Qin Yu excitedly commanded his servant at once.

  "Yes." Kang An immediately led the way respectfully in front, while Qin Yu walked out of the study and headed towards the West Garden.

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