Chapter 22 – The Crazy Method (2/2)
Thus, for all cultivators, clearing away the congested stuff in their meridians should be their first and foremost task.
Two hours passed!
Four hours passed!
Finally, half a day had passed…
Qinghan opened his sparkling eyes, and jumped high in the air. He made a variety of gestures by stretching out his arms and legs, ensuring that his body had fully recovered.
“I’m ok now! I have spent only one and a half day, yet the severe injuries have all disappeared!” Qinghan fixed his eyes on the ring, as he was smiling with joyfulness.
Grabbing the dagger on the ground, he sliced the head of the dead saber-toothed tiger open. Soon, an orange-colored magic crystal was revealed. He quickly tucked the crystal into his bag and spurted away.
By following his memory, he returned to a certain brook. Here, he stripped off his ragged and blood-stained clothes and jumped into the river to enjoy a nice bath. After a while, he swam back to the riverbank. He was rather afraid that the smell of the blood in his clothes would draw the attention of some high-ranked demonic beasts. So, instead of picking up his old clothes, which he had taken off several minutes ago, he rummaged through his bag and took a set of new clothes out, which he had previously bought in Wild City.
“That’s it!”
After his bath, Qinghan scurried to a big tree, which he believed to be a safe place to stay. This tree was roughly ten meters tall and it stood alone, without any other trees nearby. Yesterday, Qinghan had also carefully checked the tree on which he had rested. At first he had not found any nearby beasts. However, during the night, the saber-toothed tiger had sneakily attacked him from an adjacent tree, which branches were almost connected with the tree he had been on.
“As the saying goes: A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit. If I committed the same mistake twice, I would be as foolish as a pig. This tree is separated from the others, so it should be safe.”
“Alright, now it’s finally time to start cultivating!”
After taking some grains, Qinghan sat on one of the branches, crossed legged and close-eyed. He was thrilled to use his newly-found method.
“Ok… Calm down, calm down!”
He kept telling himself to be peaceful while cultivating. Yet, his heartbeat was jumping like a rabbit inside his chest. That was because, right now, he was going to try out a risky and unprecedented method in cultivation.
Qinghan was so eager to prove to the others that he wasn’t the piece of garbage they thought he was. He was determined to break the rules and create his own method – to rush away the congested stuff in his meridians with countless amounts of Battle Qi.
Not to dissolve, or erode, but to flush it away with the sheer force of the flooding Battle Qi.
The Realm of the Warrior, the Realm of the Soldier, the Realm of the Elite, the Realm of the Commander and the Realm of the General, these five realms were generally considered the first five realms in cultivation. Every breakthrough made in these realms would require Battle Qi. By dissolving, or eroding the stuff in the meridians, the Battle Qi would finally be able to be stored in the meridians.
Once the stuff that jammed the Nine-meridian Heavenly Circuit was cleared, the Battle Qi would be able to freely circulate within these nine small meridians, which was also an indication of leaving the realm of the elite and stepping into the Realm of the Commander. Afterwards, if one continued to cultivate, the Battle Qi would be condensed inside the Dantian and circulate through all the meridians in the body, forming the Grand Heavenly Circuit, which was a sign of having reached the Realm of the General.
For those “geniuses” with less congested stuff, it was an easy job to cultivate through these first five realms. Meanwhile, for those “pieces of garbage” with excessive stuff in their meridians, it was as unattainable as jumping up into the heavens. Many mediocre cultivators would stagnate somewhere within these first five realms.
Qinghan, obviously, belonged to the latter. He had been lingering in the Realm of the Elite for years now and couldn’t find a way out. Ironically, Qingkuang, who had only spent half a month to clear up one meridian, was labeled as a genius. The gap between half a month and several years was unbelievably huge. No wonder that his father, Ye Dao, had written in his account of experience that, talent was a prerequisite for cultivation.
Although there was a myriad of methods in cultivation, the methods for the first five realms were largely similar. It was only luck that made a difference here.
Meridians!
It was considered to be the most important, yet most vulnerable part of the body. A cultivator should take extra caution in clearing up the stuff congested in their meridians. Now, Qinghan was actually planning to let his Battle Qi flood into these vulnerable meridians to quickly clear them. This was obviously a rather dangerous plan - the force created by the running Battle Qi would probably burst his meridians. If that happened, Qinghan was supposed to… Die!