Chapter 153

When Zhang Xiaohua saw He Tianshu's hesitant look, she found it funny, but more than that, she admired him. This Misty School was indeed a famous sect in the jianghu. The way they passed down orders and the way they obeyed was not just a little strict. He Tianshu didn't dare to practice it first just because the Sect Leader gave some instructions and didn't directly ask him to teach. This kind of execution made Zhang Xiaohua secretly praise him. This Misty School had stood tall in the jianghu for many years and didn't have an undeserved reputation.

Thus, Zhang Xiaohua's eyes turned and she said very seriously to He Tianshu, "Team Leader He, I think there is a very serious problem with this Ethereal Steps. I need you to help me solve it."

He Tianshu's eyes lit up and he said, "Tell me about it first."

Zhang Xiaohua waved the few pages in front of him and said, "I've been looking at it all afternoon, but I can't understand what's written here. I'm really confused.

I think it's better to ask Team Leader He to look at it properly and roughly tell me how to practice it. Once I've gotten the hang of it, I'll have more specific questions to ask. "

Zhang Xiaohua looked at He Tianshu again and handed over the few pages that had suppressed He Tianshu's emotions. She said, "What do you think?"

He Tianshu thought for a moment and gritted his teeth. He said, "What you say makes sense. This is a good question. If I wait until you understand it, the sun will have risen from the west. I'll prepare to answer your first question first. Let's talk about it after you've roughly looked through the steps."

When Zhang Xiaohua saw that He Tianshu accepted it, she clapped her hands together as if to dust them off. She said with a smile, "Then I'll have to trouble Team Leader He. However, there's one thing. When you teach me the steps in the future, you must be patient. Don't teach it like a fist technique."

He Tianshu first smiled and then glared at Zhang Xiaohua. He said, "You know your own situation. I hope you won't disappoint the Sect Leader's painstaking efforts."

Zhang Xiaohua curled her lips and said helplessly, "Alright, I admit that my talent is limited, but I'm still willing to use a hundred percent of my strength to practice this escaping step technique."

"Fleeing? Footwork?"

When He Tianshu heard this, he smiled bitterly and said, "The Three Divine Skills of the Misty School, you actually said that it's used to escape. Forget it, you should go back. It's getting late, don't sleep in my room anymore. I'll tell you when I have a rough understanding of it."

After saying that, he chased the guy who looked down on his divine power out of the house.

As Zhang Xiaohua walked, she was still unconvinced and said, "Isn't Qinggong used to escape?

My fist technique is average and I don't know any internal energy. If I can't beat him, why don't I rely on this footwork to escape? "

He Tianshu 'closed' his hearing, closed the door, and began to study the Ethereal Footwork.

When Zhang Xiaohua returned to her room, she casually picked up a book on herbs and started flipping through it. But no matter how she looked at it, she was unable to calm her heart. Involuntarily, she still took out the sky blue 《Carefree Heart Sutra》.

Flipping to the preface on the first page, she first skimmed through it, but she didn't find the word "Ethereal", nor the words "Insomnia" and "Forgetfulness". After she read it carefully, she had a plan in her heart. It turned out that this preface said that there was a spirit in heaven and earth. Heaven and earth Yuan Qi was the essence of this world. If she could draw this Yuan Qi into her body, she would be able to change her meridians and cleanse her marrow. Not only would it strengthen the body, it would also multiply her magical powers. If she succeeded, she might even be able to extend her life. This 《Carefree Heart Sutra》 was a technique for drawing Yuan Qi into the human body. It also taught the method of changing meridians and cleansing meridians.

Zhang Xiaohua closed the secret book and was secretly happy. She had searched high and low for it, only to find it by chance.

Wasn't this the martial arts secret manual that he had been yearning for day and night? Wasn't the Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi the same as his inner strength?

Wasn't this divine ability the power of inner strength?

That was something that was even more powerful than his pure strength. Naturally, it was incomparably powerful.

Suddenly, Zhang Xiaohua remembered that her second brother had once told her that when practicing neigong, she had to turn her palms to the sky and imagine that neigong would enter through her forehead.

He wondered if the Carefree Heart Sutra was also practiced in the same way.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly opened the secret manual and flipped to the first level of the cultivation method.

Sure enough, the first level of the cultivation method was written as follows. To attract the neigong into one's body, one had to first sense the Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi. Then, one had to use a special breathing method to open all the pores in one's body and attract the neigong into one's body. After that, it explained in detail how to sense the Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi, how to breathe, and how to open the pores. This way, the neigong would follow a special route to cleanse the meridians and finally store it in the middle dantian of one's body. At the end, it explained that if one could sense the Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi and was able to accumulate a certain amount of neigong in the middle dantian, it would mean that the first level of the cultivation method had been mastered. Then, one could proceed to the second level of cultivation.

Reading up to this point, Zhang Xiaohua stopped flipping through the pages. He knew that the process seemed very simple, but with Zhang Xiaohu's aptitude, he still had to practice for a long time. As for himself, he would increase his strength by three times first. As for the second level, he would talk about it later.

Just based on this point, Zhang Xiaohua was praiseworthy. Not only was he hardworking, but he was also willing to progress step by step and not do useless work.

Of course, knowing one's own limitations was even more praiseworthy.

After Zhang Xiaohua finished reading, he carefully savored it in his mind. Only then did he flip open the secret manual and read it again. When he realized that there was no mistake in his memory, he closed the manual and put it back into his clothes.

Zhang Xiaohua sat upright on the kang bed with a hesitant expression. Zhang Xiaohu had repeatedly warned him about the cultivation of this inner force cultivation method. If he did not have a master to guide him, he must not take the risk and try it himself. It was extremely easy for him to go berserk.

However, Zhang Xiaohua was the only one who could read this "Carefree Heart Sutra". There were so many people in the Misty School, but not a single one of them had learned this inner force cultivation method. Zhang Xiaohua could not possibly go to Ou Peng and ask him to take the time out of his busy schedule to give him pointers.

Thinking about how this delicacy was in his hands, he could not even open his mouth. The taste of it was simply unbearable. In the end, Zhang Xiaohua made up his mind. As the saying went, "Wealth comes from danger."

If he only wanted to be safe and secure, he could just stay in the Guozhuang House. Why did he have to come all the way to Ping Yang City?

Besides, Zhang Xiaohua could vaguely feel that this cultivation method was extraordinary. Even if He Tianshu really wanted to teach him other inner force cultivation methods now, Zhang Xiaohua might not be willing.

Moreover, this cultivation method had 63 levels. It should not be too dangerous for the most basic cultivation method.

Since he had made up his mind, Zhang Xiaohua could no longer suppress his impulses. He sat cross-legged on the kang bed and looked at his nose, then his heart. Following the method in the Heart Sutra, he tried the "nine shallow and one deep" breathing method. Yes, that was right. It was the special breathing method of the "nine shallow and one deep".

According to the records in the Heart Sutra, Zhang Xiaohua first breathed slightly hurriedly for three times, then paused for a moment. Then, he breathed rapidly for six times in a row. Finally, he inhaled deeply and made a short exhalation.

Although the Heart Sutra described these steps in detail, to be honest, the interval between each breath and the length of the breath could be discussed. If there was not a master beside him to give him pointers, who would know which was the correct one?

As such, Zhang Xiaohua could not follow the Heart Sutra's instructions even after breathing for a long time. He could not sense the Qi of Heaven and Earth around him.

Zhang Xiaohua could not help but laugh at himself. "If this is the way to cultivate inner strength, how could I possibly suffer from Qi Deviation?"

However, when he thought about it, other people poured their inner strength into their forehead, while he poured it into his pores. The method was different, so perhaps the result would be different. At worst, he would go wrong and burn his skin and fur.

Since there were distracting thoughts in his mind, the "nine shallow and one deep" breathing method was naturally disrupted. Zhang Xiaohua quickly gathered his thoughts and wholeheartedly focused on the "nine shallow and one deep" method.

It had to be said that there was one good thing about Zhang Xiaohua, and that was that he was very single-minded when doing things.

Not long after, it was as if he had really entered the state and was immersed in the special breathing rhythm. However, he did not feel any Qi of Heaven and Earth from beginning to end.

Zhang Xiaohua's cultivation was good, but in his excitement, he forgot about his own characteristics. Just as he closed his eyes and practiced the breathing technique he had just learned, midnight arrived.

Zhang Xiaohua fell asleep. Just like that, he fell asleep with his five hearts facing the sky. He fell asleep with nine shallow breaths and one deep breath.

In Zhang Xiaohua's sleep, which was filled with flickering lights, the flickering lights seemed to be breathing as well. They had different frequencies, and correspondingly, these frequencies also affected Zhang Xiaohua. His special breathing method slowly mutated. With the flickering lights, he constantly adjusted the speed and length of his breathing. Not long after, Zhang Xiaohua's breathing method was completely different from Zhang Xiaohua's own. It seemed to correspond with the flickering breathing method, forming a brand new "nine shallow and one deep" method.

At the moment when Zhang Xiaohua's unique breathing method was formed, Zhang Xiaohua seemed to have suddenly blended into an environment, an environment with flickering and frequency. In an instant, from the distant starry sky, countless stars seemed to be attracted by Zhang Xiaohua's frequency, or perhaps they were attracted by his breathing. The starlight passed through the endless starry sky, ignoring the roofs and other objects, and shone on Zhang Xiaohua who was sitting cross-legged.

And the starlight, although it was "light", was too thin to be seen when it reached Zhang Xiaohua's side. Although it was dense, it could not illuminate Zhang Xiaohua's figure like it usually could at night. At this time, Zhang Xiaohua was still hidden in the darkness, and under the special breathing and flickering lights, his figure seemed to be faintly blurred.

It was also at this moment that all the pores on Zhang Xiaohua's body opened up in an instant. They were like small mouths that greedily sucked in the surrounding starlight. The barely visible starlight swarmed over like tired birds returning to their nests.

The starlight entered Zhang Xiaohua's pores and stopped moving forward. After a while, more and more starlight entered his pores, and the amount of starlight outside his body was sucked in decreased. At this moment, the starlight all over his body suddenly moved. It was according to the method Zhang Xiaohua had seen in the "Carefree Heart Sutra", guiding the starlight to follow a specific path in his body. In an instant, the starlight in his pores was swept clean, and the starlight outside his body could be rapidly sucked in again.

The starlight that entered his body followed the circulation path in the Heart Sutra for a cycle. It did not enter Zhang Xiaohua's middle dantian, but continued to circulate. However, as it continued to circulate, the pores all over his body had an endless stream of starlight converging into it.

Logically speaking, although the starlight was barely visible, with endless starlight entering his body, there should be more and more starlight in his body. However, something strange happened. As the starlight that circulated in his body increased in quantity, it did not become thicker. Instead, it underwent a qualitative change in his body, forming something else. This thing was clearly purer than the starlight, and much smaller in size. It was the Qi of Heaven and Earth mentioned in the Heart Sutra.

Not only that, although the pure Qi of Heaven and Earth should have increased under the mutation of the endless starlight, under the constant flashing in Zhang Xiaohua's body, the Qi of Heaven and Earth seemed to be refined, becoming increasingly scarce. It was actually reduced by seventy to eighty percent.

In this way, although there was a lot of starlight around Zhang Xiaohua and it was constantly being absorbed into his pores, the amount that was converted into refined Qi of Heaven and Earth through his circulation was still inaudible.

While Zhang Xiaohua was still in a daze, the night passed.

When the morning sun in the east leaped over the horizon, Zhang Xiaohua opened his sleeping eyes. The flashing in his eyes was still as fleeting as before.

When Zhang Xiaohua woke up and saw that he was still in the same state, he could not help but smile bitterly. Had he been sitting like this for the entire night?

However, when he jumped off the kang bed, he did not feel any soreness in his limbs. On the contrary, he felt refreshed. It was more comfortable than lying on the kang bed. This caught Zhang Xiaohua off guard. He thought to himself, "Why don't I just sit and sleep like this in the future?"

The early bird gets the worm. Zhang Xiaohua diligently practiced his life-saving sword moves and the defensive Fist of the Big Dipper in the forest.

Today was destined to be an amazing day. Zhang Xiaohua, who woke up early, had just practiced his beloved Fist of the Big Dipper to the eighth time when that familiar flow came unexpectedly. This made Zhang Xiaohua's self-esteem, which had suffered a blow last night, feel a little comforted. Could this be the reward for practicing so hard for so long?

Had the Fist of the Big Dipper advanced?

Sure enough, in Zhang Xiaohua's anticipation, he practiced the second eight times. The flow still appeared on the eighth time. Zhang Xiaohua could finally confirm that his Fist of the Big Dipper had indeed improved.

However, if that was the case, Zhang Xiaohua could not help but look forward to it even more. Would the flow appear on time every time he practiced the Fist of the Big Dipper when he practiced it to the end?

Thinking of the eighteenth level of the Carefree Heart Sutra last night, Zhang Xiaohua also took the initiative to divide his Fist of the Big Dipper into nine levels. Of course, the one that appeared once after nine times was the first level, and the one that appeared once after each time was the ninth level.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaohua could not help but smile. This was really a good day.

Smelling the clear and fresh air, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly had an idea. Last night, his "nine shallow and one deep" breathing method did not work. Was it because the air at night was not fresh enough? Would it have a different effect in the morning when everything woke up?

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaohua immediately sat down in the forest. He thought of the breathing method last night and practiced the "nine shallow and one deep" method.

Speaking of which, it was strange. Now, Zhang Xiaohua said that he was thinking of the breathing method before he fell asleep last night. However, when he actually breathed, he was using the adjusted rhythm in his sleep. In fact, although these two rhythms were very different, with Zhang Xiaohua's level, he could not feel any difference. Even if you told him now, he might not believe it.

Speaking of which, it was also unusual. Generally speaking, this kind of breathing method that was passed down orally could not be described in words. One could only slowly figure out the secret under the guidance of the master. Normally, a talented and intelligent person would have to try countless times just to get the beginner's breathing method. Some would even need a few days to remember and truly master it. However, this Zhang Xiaohua was extremely proficient in it in just a few breaths.

He could not help but sigh. The protagonist was invincible!

Although Zhang Xiaohua did not know if his breathing method was correct, he faintly felt that his entire body suddenly had a clear feeling. It was as if there was an indescribable communication between his body and the outside. He was somewhat enlightened. Perhaps this was the opening of his pores?

However, he followed the method in the heart sutra to sense the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the outside world. It was still a blank. He did not discover a trace of it. What was going on?

After a long while, there was still no progress. Zhang Xiaohua stood up resentfully. He patted the dust off his body and walked out of the forest.

Although he felt a little regretful at this time, he was not troubled or impatient.

Nonsense. When Zhang Xiaohu practiced the inner force cultivation method, he had told him that the sense of Qi was not something that ordinary people could have. It would take a very long time for there to be progress. Zhang Xiaohu himself had spent a considerable amount of time to find the sense of Qi. Zhang Xiaohua was clear about his own aptitude. If he could find the Qi of Heaven and Earth today, Zhang Xiaohua would not dare to believe it.

Moreover, didn't he already "eat the worm" today? The progress of the Big Dipper Magical Fist had pointed out a path for him.

Suddenly, Zhang Xiaohua had a new idea. In the past, after practicing the Big Dipper Magical Fist eighty-one times, practicing it again would not have any effect. However, he did not know if there would be any surprises left for him now.

Unfortunately, he was not in the small house in the mountains right now. He still had things to do. It was already late. He Tianshu and the others wouldn't have finished breakfast, right?

Of course, He Tianshu and the others were not as gluttonous as Zhang Xiaohua. The breakfast on the table was not finished. However, He Tianshu's eyes were bloodshot. His absent-minded action of stuffing food into his mouth gave Zhang Xiaohua a big fright.

Seeing He Tianshu's excited expression, Zhang Xiaohua carefully asked: "Captain He, where did you go last night?"

"Oh, where did I go?

I didn't. I just stayed in the house. "He Tianshu said unconsciously.

Zhang Xiaohua said with concern: "It's good that you didn't go anywhere. I thought you would go out with Ma Jing."

"Go out with Ma Jing?" He Tianshu came to his senses and said: "Eh ~ what are you talking about?"

When he focused his eyes and saw that it was Zhang Xiaohua, his eyes couldn't help but light up. He grabbed Zhang Xiaohua's arm and said: "Zhang Xiaohua, why are you only here now?

Did you go practice your fist techniques again?

I say, can you be a little more promising and stop practicing those unorthodox fist techniques? "

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