Chapter 77: The Essence of Tai Bai

  From then on, Wang Chan's every breath could mobilize the operation of all internal organs throughout his body, with 84,000 pores opening and closing in unison, inhaling and exhaling as one.

  With his eyes closed, he explored the inside of his body with his mind, feeling the subtlety. Wang Chan could now clearly see the clusters of meridians and blood vessels, organs, and fascia inside his body. With a slight movement, his entire person was like a large lead ball, moving in circles as he pleased. His skin was filled with a heavy, sinking sensation, like being filled with mercury.

  Listen carefully, and the sound of Qi flowing is like a gentle stream in the mountains, with a soft gurgling sound.

  At the same time, in his mind, for the first time in his life, he vividly visualized the eight extraordinary meridians and twelve regular meridians. On each meridian, there were acupoints like a string of pearls, seemingly complex but with their own subtleties, densely packed in rows and columns, like the stars in the sky, one by one corresponding to each other.

  Since practicing the Heaven and Earth Root Stance, Wang Chan had already opened up the Ren and Du meridians, and eight or nine out of ten of his body's meridians were successfully unblocked by his internal true energy. At this time, he only tried to exert a slight force, stirring his dantian, and instantly, wherever his internal true energy reached, the acupoints and apertures lit up like lanterns one after another. The large intestine and small intestine, as well as the five organs and six viscera, made rumbling sounds like frogs croaking or cows bellowing.

  After reaching this point, it's actually possible to freely mobilize the power of the five internal organs, and circulate life energy, compared to before, it's flexible by countless times.

  Then, Wang Chan felt his lungs again, took a deep breath, and suddenly saw two white lights flashing in the left and right chests, moving in and out of the large and small alveoli. He concentrated his mind, calmed his breath, and connected it to the Dan Tian. A faint purple gas gradually emerged and entered the heart and lungs. The two white lights rang out, rushed into the entrance of the nose, and instantly turned into two thin white gases, shrinking and expanding like a spiritual snake spitting out its tongue.

  "The five organs have the heart as the central fire, the lungs govern metal. The Taoist teachings of refining medicine and seeking elixirs are actually all about using heart fire to refine and cultivate, only then can one achieve success. I, however, combined the techniques of the Sword Immortal, using fire to refine metal, eliminating the dross and preserving the essence, obtaining these two lung energies, which are truly the pure energy of Tai Bai. When stored within the body, it is said to greatly benefit and strengthen, when released, it becomes the legendary sword energy, capable of cutting through all strong and unyielding things in the world, far sharper than any divine sword or sharp blade."

  Feeling the subtle changes born from within his five internal organs, he merely moved his body slightly, and the true energy inside him followed suit, circulating on its own, from inside to outside, from outside to inside, all becoming one. In this instant, Wang Chan immediately knew that his fist technique had finally entered a brand new realm tonight.

  "Changing the blood and washing the marrow" is only a thin line away from "changing tendons and forging bones", but between them lies a vast difference, like heaven and earth, or a chasm of a thousand miles. Only when he broke through this layer of window paper did Wang Chan truly enter the highest realm of fist method and martial arts.

  If nothing unexpected happens, he will continue to cultivate like this. He has integrated the Taoist qigong technique into his martial arts fist method. Within the next three years, he should be able to break through this step of kung fu and condense the inner elixir, reversing his innate nature.

  At that time, the elixir is formed and completed. In Taoism, it is called a human immortal; in Buddhism, it is called an Arhat. One obtains an indestructible diamond body, with no outflows and complete penetration. The six lines appear, and radiant light shoots out in all directions. The external kidneys do not rise, the yang passageway closes, and living to be 170 or 180 years old is quite normal.

  And the two white essence energies that had just condensed between his two lungs were also extremely precious, an unexpected joy. If he continued to nourish them for a long time, these two essence energies would become more and more powerful. Compared to the original method of relying on the five internal organs to move the giant toad energy to spit out a mouthful of air to harm people, the power of these two white essence energies was unknown how much greater.

  And the essence is his own, it's part of his body. As long as the essence is sufficient, he can use it at any time, like an arm and finger, extremely flexible, without considering other aspects. Even if Wang Chan suddenly wants to try practicing sword flying one day, with these two Taibai essences in hand, he will be a hundred times easier than others. Just find a good sword embryo, combine it with the Taibai essence, and after warming up for a hundred days, you can immediately practice a real "sword".

  It's just that the sword immortal's kung fu is an external path, cultivating external objects. Although it becomes extremely powerful after practice, it doesn't cultivate one's own name and surname, and doesn't match Wang Chan's personal pursuit. Therefore, although Wang Chan accidentally practiced out these two Taibai essences, he didn't want to disperse his thoughts and spend a lot of time refining a flying sword.

  Throughout the ages, many Taoist hermits have hidden themselves in deep mountains to cultivate a flying sword. They were busy collecting and refining medicine, analyzing the five elements, seeking the essence, practicing internal energy, and sitting in meditation. Some even used their own blood to irrigate their swords, taking an evil path. Yet not one of them was able to achieve what Wang Zhen did: without cultivating sword techniques, he coincidentally refined the golden energy of both lungs and condensed the Tai Bai essential energy.

  And this is also the result of Wang Chan's practice since childhood, for more than 20 years, without a single day of slackness, practicing month after month, from outside to inside, first mastering the skin, hair, tendons and bones, and then from inside to outside, tempering the tendons and bones, and communicating with the meridians. Now, guided by the Taoist school described in the three volumes of Huang Ting Jing, it has reached a state of effortless understanding and mastery through long-term accumulation and sudden enlightenment.

  When he was in Ha City, after Wang Chan's tendons and bones were fully formed, he had the idea of completely leaving the circle of right and wrong, returning to his own Guandi Temple, calming his mind, following the Taoist method of building a foundation for a hundred days, tempering himself, changing his blood and washing his marrow.

  But the world is unpredictable, and right and wrong are often unclear. The matter of Zhou Lin has been settled, but instead, I have become entangled with the Hongmen Society, and after ninety-nine battles to the death, I still haven't had a chance to return to Tiger Head Ridge to focus on my boxing training. This too is a case of worldly karma, where the connections are unclear, and who is right or wrong has become less important.

  It's like one foot has already stepped into the mud pit, and if you don't move forward or think of a way to get out, you can only let the mud pit swallow you up. The more you walk forward, the farther away you are from the road you came from, and wanting to go back is impossible in a short period of time.

  He arrived at the previous session and had a martial arts competition with Tang Niu, but was calculated by Lin Yuanfang. Wang Chan acted impulsively, relying solely on his intuition, and killed Tang Niu, which led to a large number of special police and armed police surrounding him with long and short guns. This made him realize that this world is truly dominated by firearms. If the legendary realm of martial arts does not exist, then it would be impossible to surpass guns and cannons. After that, Wang Chan also had his first strong fantasy and yearning for the realm after the innate realm of martial arts, but this was still not enough to make him break through his constraints and enlighten his mind.

  Then, Leiting suddenly appeared, first saving him from the "water and fire", blocking a disaster. Later, he revealed his identity as a national security agent, using his power to coerce Wang Chan into handing over the Tian Gang stone in exchange for safety. This also allowed Wang Chan to see the cruelty of the outside world more deeply. It also made him use cunning for the first time in his life, using internal explosive techniques to subdue Leiting, and from being a mountain man who didn't understand much, he began to gradually adapt to the "trend".

  The Taoist says, "Follow the heaven and be true to benevolence, go against the heaven and become an immortal." Wang Chan alone cannot resist the entire "state machine", so he can only start by doing what people do. The trend is going, the tide is coming, people may not change their aspirations in their hearts, but they cannot help but follow it. A person may only be able to sharpen his true edge after experiencing too many setbacks and hardships.

  Although these days of leaving Tiger Head Ridge were not long, they also made Wang Chan feel deeply in his heart and understood many words that the old man had told him before he died.

  Practicing boxing is like being a person, everything has its own principles. Wang Chan had a good habit since he was young, that is, every time after practicing boxing, he would seriously think about his shortcomings, what he saw with his eyes and what he thought in his heart could all be integrated into his boxing spirit. When fighting with others, it's even more so, he didn't have any specific style or sect, his mind was open and free, without any constraints, so he could learn from the strengths of various schools.

  Tang Niu and Lei Feng's boxing skills are not valued by Wang Chan, but the kung fu they represent is indeed a true and practical skill that has been tempered through thousands of hammerings. Whether it is the Bagua Palm School or some methods from the Wudang Internal Fist, they can all be used as reference materials for Wang Chan to enrich himself.

  Especially the precious martial arts secret books lent to him by Lei Ting, each book is a secret that has not been passed down from various families and schools. Any one of them would have caused a bloody storm in the past, attracting countless people to rob them, but only in modern society, where fist methods are no longer popular, can these things appear in a heap, being casually flipped through, which was very helpful for Wang Chan.

  There is also the three-volume "Huangting Jing" personally annotated by Wang Chongyang, which directly points to the great Tao and is a secret of the mysterious gate. It is the true transmission of the Taoist family for thousands of years, which has been kept secret from outsiders. The various descriptions in it had an overwhelming influence on Wang Zhen.

  In the past, Wang Zhen only knew that the fist method of martial arts had reached the stage of "bao yuan jie dan" (embracing the origin and forming the elixir), reversing the pre-heavenly, which was the ultimate goal. It seemed that none of the ancient or modern masters of boxing had been able to go further and explore another path.

  However, the predecessors of Taoism refined their energy and nurtured their lives, not seeking external objects, but only through what they had learned themselves to achieve longevity and long-term vision. The various schools of thought have been personally verified by generations of high-ranking officials over several decades, evolving one after another, compared with the connotation of boxing martial arts, it is unknown how much richer.

  Especially in the Taoist school, the description of the realm after the innate is even more involved in the mysterious and incomprehensible spiritual world. In modern terms, it is pure idealism, which made Wang Chan see a glimmer of light in the confusion that would lead to the future.

  Just like Monk Zhang drew a dragon on the wall, but he didn't draw its eyes. He said: "As soon as I dot them, it will fly away." Everyone thought this was absurd, but later someone tried dotting the eyes of one of the dragons, and indeed thunder and lightning burst forth from the wall, and a dragon rode the clouds up to heaven, flying away by itself.

  When there is no road ahead, don't wander alone or turn back, what's important is that you create a path for yourself.

  What others have not done does not mean you can't do it, the key is that you dare to do it.

  When boxing reaches its highest level, relying solely on hard training is no longer a significant improvement.

  The most important thing in the changes is the practitioner's heart and intention.

  Boxing practiced a thousand times, ten thousand times, without getting the middle essence, that is the metaphysical framework, can only perform, cannot kill the enemy.

  The thirteen taibao horizontal smelting kung fu is the skill of killing and harming people from ancient battle arrays, every move and every style are the most lethal, abandoning all fancy moves, it is a specialized technique for taking lives.

  But Wang Chongyang's three-volume "Huangting Jing" actually describes the true way of nurturing life, aiming at longevity, and refining Qi is just a means.

  Wang Chan's previous learning only emphasized killing and injuring, with a focus on the number of moves in his fist techniques. As soon as he moved, he would hurt people, and his mental state was also biased towards this. Although it was pure, it was somewhat one-sided, so he couldn't enter the realm of changing blood and washing marrow for a long time. He was only short of that one layer of enlightenment in terms of his mental state.

  But today he was secretly calculated by Shao Nanhua, suffered a serious injury for the first time, after the pain subsided, suddenly realized his past mistakes, and immediately had an epiphany, water flowing into the canal, broke through that layer of window paper, and reached the point of changing blood and washing marrow.

  "Finally abandoned everything and took a step forward, but somehow it feels like I'm even farther away from my goal."

  Standing by the window, being caressed by the night breeze, Wang Chan felt relieved and understood everything, but couldn't feel even a little bit of joy again.

  Life has a limit, but knowledge has no limit! Wang Chan is already 27 or 28 years old now. Even if he can successfully form the inner elixir in two or three years and reverse his innate nature to live up to 178 years old, there will only be over a hundred years left. If he cannot find the ultimate path of fist during his lifetime, then this life is also considered a waste.

  Those who walk a hundred miles and ninety are the same; those who have not reached their goal are all alike, with little difference.

  Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, Wang Zhen let his mind wander freely, not paying attention to anything else, closing his eyes and focusing on the faint breathing between his mouth and nose. The whole person seemed to have fallen into a state of confusion and chaos, as if time and space had disappeared, leaving only the slow breathing continuing.

  After who knows how long, boom! Boom! Boom!

  There was a sudden knock at the door in the room.

  His eyebrows slightly furrowed, Wang Chan's body trembled and he finally came to. He slowly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air from his chest, gradually sensing the internal organs, meridians, blood flow, and tendons within his body. Every change and movement seemed clear in his mind, each one clearly reflected deep within his brain.

  Every inch of his body was perfectly unified, no longer like before, where skin, muscles, blood and internal organs were separate. Wang Chan felt that even his breathing had become much fresher, although he was still in the midst of a bustling city, the air he breathed in was purer than that on Tiger Head Mountain.

  This is when a person starts to change their blood and marrow, the body's function undergoes an earth-shattering transformation.

  Refine your breath to achieve softness, climb high without trembling, enter water without getting wet, and enter fire without feeling heat. The ancient true man!!!

  He stretched his body lightly and took a step forward, King Chan arrived at the door of the house more than ten steps away. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Lei Feng, who was two meters tall, standing in front of the door with a red face, his huge fist raised in mid-air, ready to knock on the door again.

  "Wang Chan, you've finally come out. If you didn't show up, I wouldn't be able to hold on anymore. Do you know that you've caused a huge mess? Lin Yuan Shan was secretly restrained by you and after returning home, many internal family experts were invited to resolve the issue but none of them succeeded. The Lin family has sent people looking for you over twenty times, all of whom I turned back. Today is already the third day, if you don't come out, I'm afraid they'll even mobilize the army."

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