Chapter 1: Whose Scenery is Whose!

  As soon as Ye Xuan entered the first room, he saw the text carved on the stone wall of the room, which was shining with golden light. The first line was written in five large characters.

  "Twelfth Lock, Forging Qi!"

  "Temper your spirit?"

  Ye Xuan was puzzled in his heart.

  He had only heard of tempering the body, but had yet to hear of tempering the breath.

  "This is the secret technique left behind by Ben Ti, which can be said to be Ben Ti's strongest secret technique back then. It's called 'Twelve Locks Forging Qi'. Unfortunately, Ben Ti created this technique too late, so he couldn't bring out the full potential of Twelve Locks Forging Qi. Therefore, he set down rules, cultivating Twelve Locks Forging Qi, the lower the cultivation base, the better!" The old man in black said slowly.

  "Senior had me cultivate this Twelve Locks Forging Qi!" Ye Xuan asked.

  "Right!"

  The old man in black said: "You take a look at this stone wall first!"

  Ye Xuan nodded slightly.

  He immediately fixed his eyes on this stone wall.

  On this stone wall, the basics of the Twelve Locks' Forging Technique are recorded.

  Ye Xuan glanced over.

  More and more enchanted.

  ……

  After a little while.

  Gradually, he felt that the creator of these twelve locks was simply out of this world.

  However, it is profound and mysterious, and can actually be implemented!

  "Temper your spirit!"

  Ye Xuan took a deep breath.

  In short, it's about cultivating true energy.

  He had heard of exercising one's body, but never about exercising one's true energy, and these twelve locks were precisely for exercising one's energy!

  The more I read, the more shocking it is!

  "How is this possible!"

  Ye Xuan was slightly startled.

  "Locked by the Twelve Seals of True Energy, compressing, suppressing and tempering the True Energy. Letting the True Energy be locked by the Twelve Seals, only to burst forth with an even more formidable power than before when the seals are opened!"

  Ye Xuan's heart was stirred up with a thousand layers of shocking waves.

  This...

  Daydreaming!

  This is the same principle as tempering.

  In short.

  An ordinary martial artist, within one breath, can advance two zhang. This speed is his normal speed. However, if you take out a huge boulder and have him run while holding this huge boulder, within one breath, he can probably only advance less than one zhang.

  But...

  If you let this ordinary porter, keep running with a huge stone for an hour, two hours, and continue to grind him for five or ten days, even if he is carrying a huge stone, he can run two zhang (about 6 meters) in one breath.

  By then he was lifting boulders and running with them effortlessly.

  How fast can he run?

  It's probably several times faster than before.

  This is exercise.

  But is that the limit of the ordinary stance? Apparently not, if you give him a bigger boulder, the strongman's speed will still slow down while giving it a grind, and after taking down the boulder, his speed will soar again.

  And these twelve locks of forging Qi are exactly the same principle as those for forging the body!

  Who says only human bodies can be trained?

  Really good!

  By locking the true energy with the lock of true energy, it's as if a huge stone is pressed on the top of one's head, making people only able to barely support themselves, gasping for breath, greatly reduced in strength, and moving slowly. At first, they are not adapted, but when they get used to it, taking away the lock of true energy will make their true energy burst out with what kind of power?

  Stronger than before by two times, five times, ten times?

  Genius!

  Absolute genius.

  The person who can think of such a brilliant idea is absolutely a genius!

  Ye Xuan was amazed beyond words.

  The Twelve Locks and Forging Postures

  Its limit is to lock the true energy with the twelve-way true energy lock.

  When the Twelve True Qi Locks are locked, a strong Qi Sea Realm cultivator may not even be able to deal with an ordinary Consolidation Realm cultivator, because his true qi is being suppressed and refined by the Twelve True Qi Locks.

  But what if the seal of true energy is unlocked?

  That strong man in the boundary of the air sea, how much more formidable will he be?

  "Hiss..."

  Ye Xuan clenched his fists slightly.

  "How is that!" The old man in black saw Ye Xuan's expression change rapidly, and he was very pleased. He said, "The principle behind this, I suppose you should understand by now!"

  "Hmm!" Ye Xuan nodded slightly.

  "The old man in black robes said slowly: 'Since you have already understood, then make mental preparations!'"

  He smiled with a smirk when he said this.

  Ye Xuan can guess some things.

  The old man in black said, "Next, I will use this True Qi Lock and put it into your body. You must be prepared. When the True Qi Lock is first put into your body, it will be more painful than a huge stone being placed on an ordinary person's body, by countless times!"

  Ye Xuan said in a low voice: "Come on then!"

  He has no way out.

  "Let me tell you the truth, I just said it earlier, if you can't learn these twelve locks of Qi, the result is death. In fact, it has nothing to do with whether you can learn or not, but whether you can thoroughly merge the true Qi lock into your body. Every time a true Qi lock is merged, it's as difficult as ascending to heaven, extremely arduous. If you can't merge it, the result is death!"

  In the end, the old man in black's voice became much more severe.

  Ye Xuan gritted his teeth.

  Sweat drips from his forehead.

  Saying I'm not nervous is a lie.

  But...

  But he didn't complete his goal, how can he die!

  "Come on!"

  The old man in black robes glanced at Ye Xuan and with a wave of his sleeve, a palm-sized seal of true energy appeared out of thin air in his hand.

  This True Qi Lock is a seal composed of a mass of flowing energy.

  This airflow is not true energy, but another kind of energy, as for what kind of energy it is, Ye Xuan doesn't know.

  "Go!"

  The old man in black robes stretched out his hand and slapped it, this true energy lock suddenly rushed towards Ye Xuan's body, moving extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye, it collided with Ye Xuan's body.

  However, after this true energy lock collided with Ye Xuan's body, it was a strange and peculiar thing that merged into Ye Xuan's body.

  "Hmm!!!"

  Just as the True Qi Lock entered Ye Xuan's body.

  Ye Xuan's pupils suddenly contracted violently!!

  "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

  Drenched in sweat.

  Gasping for breath, yet breathing is difficult!

  Heart-wrenching, unbearable pain surges through the body.

  Wanted to use true energy to block, but when using true energy, it was found that there was only a small amount of true energy, and it didn't know what kind of thing suppressed it and couldn't be used!

  I don't know what kind of thing it is, but it's going to burst out of my body.

  It's like a huge mountain.

  Press him down.

  That lock of true energy locked his true energy.

  The old man in black robes shook his head and said, "In the past, I had also cultivated some body-refining techniques, although they were not very mature. It wasn't until I reached the Qi Sea realm that I began to use this True Energy Lock to merge it into my body. Even so, when merging, I almost failed. He is just a small guy in the Five Elements Realm, without any body-refining techniques, how can he endure such suffering! To completely merge the True Energy Lock into his body!"

  A faint sigh.

  It's difficult.

  He and Honoka share a mutual understanding, although she died once, but the Twelve Locks Forging Body technique, he is especially clear about it.

  It's really hard for this young man to merge into the True Qi Lock.

  I won't lose!

  "I lost..."

  "There's no chance of coming back again!"

  Suddenly another intense pain surged up in his heart.

  "Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

  Bite your teeth and stick to it!

  "We can't lose!"

  "I absolutely cannot lose!"

  Pain comes in waves, one after another!

  ……

  A whole day and night's time, don't know what kind of hard struggle it is.

  Breathing is urgent.

  Seems like everything has calmed down.

  The painful cry just now gradually disappeared.

  Ye Xuan collapsed onto the stone bed in the room, at this moment he was drenched in sweat, to the point where he didn't even have the energy to open his eyes. At this time, it seemed like breathing had become a luxury, but without any other choice, this too became a kind of enjoyment.

  "I..."

  "Did it succeed?"

  "I'm completely exhausted!"

  "It can't be that I'm going to die, can it?!"

  He still doesn't want to die.

  At this moment, the old man in black stood with his hands behind his back, standing still on the spot.

  "This young man actually succeeded!" The old man in black robes looked at the young man in front of him and said, "There were several times when he almost failed, but this young man gritted his teeth and persevered. He has an obsession in his mind and a will that cannot be defeated. There are not many people who have such an obsession during their youth!"

  "He probably still doesn't know he's succeeded!"

  The old man in black robes looked at Ye Xuan who was still subconsciously resisting.

  "It's useless to resist anymore. Congratulations, you've successfully merged with the first lock of True Qi. How does it feel?"

  Ye Xuan's lips moved, wanting to speak, but his whole body was overcome with a wave of weakness. Even lightly uttering a few words was difficult to bear. However, from his face, a faint smile appeared.

  Did it succeed?