Chapter 70: Refining Essence and Transforming Qi (Part 1)

  Xiao Ziyang sat on the training platform, looking worried, as if he had encountered a very tricky problem.

  Xiao Ziyang was indeed very worried.

  In these six months, he made rapid progress. Now his strength in both arms exceeded 10,000 catties, unprecedented and shocking; everything seemed so perfect, revenge was imminent, but just as he was about to start cultivating the seventh chapter, something went wrong!

  Six days ago in the morning, Xiao Ziyang got up and felt full of energy, as if his vigorous vitality was about to burst out of his body.

  Xiao Ziyang didn't pay much attention to it, as he had this feeling every morning when he woke up, only today it was particularly strong. He started his daily cultivation as usual.

  The cruel training that had exhausted him to the point of death in the past seemed to be insufficient to release his excessively full energy, and after training, the feeling of being full of energy throughout his body not only did not dissipate but became even stronger.

  This excessive energy made him feel annoyed and restless.

  After taking the medicinal soup and soaking in the medicinal bath at night, he actually had a nosebleed. A faint golden color seeped out of the nasal blood. This finally triggered Xiao Ziyang's vigilance.

  Xiao Ziyang carefully read through the "Zi Yu Sheng Yan" secret manual and discovered that these phenomena would only appear after reaching the ninth chapter, when the Zi Yu Xing Ti technique was fully mastered and the qi and blood were full.

  According to his past cultivation experience, "Zi Yu Sheng Yan" should have a greater effect as it progresses, with each additional three chapters bringing about a qualitative improvement.

  He had only cultivated up to the sixth chapter and already had this phenomenon of overflowing energy, was it because he didn't have a Chaotic Spiritual Root? Or did he not need to cultivate all nine chapters to use the final Storage Technique to bring out his internal power? Xiao Ziyang thought the first possibility was more likely.

  Xiao Ziyang stopped his cultivation, sitting like this every day. Looking at the Fenyu Lake, he pondered over this issue repeatedly, and his hesitation made his expression somewhat bitter.

  Suddenly, Xiao Ziyang's eyes became extremely sharp, and he slapped his palm on the giant stone under him, splashing the gravel, and the whole person bounced up.

  He steeled himself and for the sake of revenge, even if there was only a glimmer of hope, it was worth risking his life.

  Xiao Ziyang instructed the mountain dwellers that without his summons, no one was allowed to go up to the practice platform to disturb him.

  He sat at the top of the mountain, forming a tower with his body, embracing a determination to die and began to meditate according to the method in the secret book.

  The result was beyond his expectation. Almost as soon as he started to mobilize the stored-up energy, a surge of hot air flowed into the dan tian from all over his body, and the dan tian sucked it in greedily like a bottomless pit, until after an incense stick's worth of time the bones and muscles no longer produced any heat.

  A large amount of hot air enters the dantian, but only condenses into a pigeon egg-sized energy ball.

  Joy filled Xiao Ziyang's heart. He suddenly jumped up. If it were in the past, this jump would have been enough to jump three zhang high, and the powerful landing would have left footprints on the stone beneath his feet. This time, however, Xiao Ziyang not only failed to jump up but instead went limp in both legs and fell to the ground.

  Xiao Ziyang was not surprised but delighted, this is exactly the phenomenon recorded in the secret book. After using the storage method to convert the gas and blood into internal force, the body will become extremely weak, and the golden color in the blood will disappear.

  Xiao Ziyang pulled out a dagger from his pant leg, made a cut on his arm, and fresh blood immediately gushed out. Indeed, the faint golden color he had seen in his nosebleed that day had disappeared.

  Xiao Ziyang stumbled back to the wooden hut, tore off a piece of cloth and roughly bandaged his wound, sat cross-legged on the tatami mat, and according to the secret book, guided the internal force from the dantian to the meridians, repeatedly washing and cleansing his body.

  At first, due to excessive excitement, the internal force actually went wrong in the meridian, Xiao Ziyang was almost frightened to death. He hurriedly gathered his mind and guided the internal force back on track. As a result, as soon as he moved his thoughts, the internal force listened extremely well and returned to the meridian he had expected. The meridian that had gone wrong was intact and undamaged, completely without the evil consequences of walking the wrong way in the legend.

  After the internal force returned to the dantian, it actually shrunk by two-thirds. However, the feeling of weakness in the body completely disappeared.

  Xiao Ziyang excitedly jumped up from the couch and danced around the room.

  After his excitement had passed, he began to introspect and observe the tiny bit of internal energy that had just been produced, which was only the size of a small thumb.

  This small, crimson internal energy was slowly rotating in the center of the dantian. If one concentrated their spirit and observed carefully, they would discover that within the crimson internal energy, a faint, pale purple color was subtly visible.

  Xiao Ziyang manipulated the small internal force sphere with his mind, following the "Smoke Wave Sword Method", a palm strike was executed along the trajectory of the left hand chopping empty palm, and a palm print was printed out.

  This palm was just Xiao Ziyang's excitement in his heart, and he did it randomly without thinking about the effect. Although he had guessed the Smoke Wave Swordsmanship countless times before, he hadn't really practiced it because he didn't have the inner strength, and the Splitting Void Palm was an extremely difficult superior martial art to cultivate.

  Generally speaking, internal energy disperses once it leaves the body. No matter how profound a person's internal energy is, without special secret techniques, it is absolutely impossible for the internal energy expelled from the body to harm targets more than three feet away.

  The mysterious techniques that can hurt people from dozens to hundreds of feet away are the legendary Split Air Palm, Sword Energy, and Sword Edge. These secret techniques are the untransmitted secrets of the six major thousand-year-old sects, and even within these sects, they are not taught to anyone except for extremely core disciples.

  Yanbo Swordsmanship as the masterpiece of the world's number one master, naturally records the methods of Pi Kong Palm, sword energy and sword edge operation.

  The operation method of splitting the air palm is extremely complex, requiring the practitioner to divide a very thick internal force into three parts when operating it to the elbow position, and then advance along three extremely complex trajectories. This not only requires the practitioner to remember the operation route with precision, but also requires the practitioner to cultivate the internal force with unparalleled purity, use it at will, and have the skill of using one mind for three purposes.

  Finally, there is the most difficult point: these qigong routes are not in the meridians. Once the internal force leaves the meridian, it becomes extremely difficult to control, and beginners often get injured by their own internal force, damaging muscles and tendons, or even fracturing arm bones.

  Xiao Ziyang relied on his sturdy physique and shallow inner strength, trying to strike out with a palm. He only felt the awkwardness of using one mind for three purposes. When his inner strength deviated from the meridian, he didn't feel any difficulty, and his control over his inner strength was extremely smooth, it could be said that his energy followed his will. This is a phenomenon that can only occur when one's inner strength is refined to its purest point!

  The effect of this palm left Xiao Ziyang stunned. The palm force pierced through the wooden wall, and on a giant stone more than ten feet away in the backyard, it left a clear palm print that was half an inch deep.

  Xiao Ziyang looked at the palm print on the stone and then looked at his own hand, unable to speak for a while.

  He was stunned for a moment, raised his palm again and hit it against the courtyard wall, but this time he failed.

  After all, it was just the beginning of learning and practicing, and there were many coincidental factors in the previous success. However, the control of internal energy, as well as its movement outside the meridians, was just as smooth as last time, without giving him any difficulty at all.