Chapter 37: Rapid Progress

As Chen Chong issued his command, his mind became a vast emptiness, and the Main God Light Sphere, radiant like the rising sun, instantly emerged. At the same time, streams of mysterious and profound information rapidly flowed out:

Picture after picture of human body diagrams marked with points and lines, sentence after sentence of easy-to-understand key mnemonics, along with a large number of images and some ancient, low whispers from unknown origins, as if containing wisdom that could enlighten the soul and illuminate the heart…

In an instant, a massive amount of information about the Ultimate Infinite Qigong surged and churned in Chen Chong’s heart like a great river and sea!

Chen Chong sat motionless like a statue, for a long, long time.

At that moment, his heart was completely immersed in the door to a new world that the Main God had opened for him, unable to pull himself away.

This A-grade Ultimate Infinite Qigong was not, as he had imagined, just a mystical and incomprehensible cultivation mnemonic left for him to figure out on his own. Instead, after the Main God’s translation, it was a detailed cultivation method built on a trinity of plain-text explanations, precise human body qi-flow diagrams, and the cultivation insights of plot characters!

The introductory stage of this technique required the practitioner, with sufficient Essence, Qi, and Spirit, to use unique postures and movements, combined with a special meditation method to sense blood and qi, Refining Essence into Qi, cultivating a sense of qi within the body, and gradually strengthening this sensation until it circulated through thirty-six full cycles throughout the body, forming a strand of genuine ancient martial True Qi that condensed without dispersing. This was considered the entry point!

Further advancement involved the practitioner’s spirit gradually strengthening, then using a large intake of external nutrients to bolster their True Qi. Ultimately, driven by powerful spirit and willpower meditation, they would control the body’s True Qi to circulate at high speed along specific routes, establishing a unique cycle, thereby triggering true electrical power and reaching the initial stage of this technique: Current Push!

According to the descriptions in the Ultimate Infinite Qigong, upon reaching the Current Push stage, the practitioner’s physique would undergo a metamorphosis, granting them unparalleled immense strength. A casual strike while True Qi circulated would carry a force of ten thousand jin, which meant tons of terrifying power!

Chen Chong’s heart surged with emotion, and he repeatedly recited and pondered the introductory chapter of the Ultimate Infinite Qigong in his mind.

As for the subsequent advanced stage of generating magnetism from electricity, the Magnetic Field Rotation, Chen Chong had enough self-awareness not to reach for what was beyond his grasp and did not pay it excessive attention.

“Alright!”

After a while, Chen Chong suddenly opened his eyes and let out a long breath:

“Time waits for no one, let’s start now!”

The entire two-story building was empty; the laborers were all risking their lives at Blood General’s factory and had not returned. This Ultimate Infinite Qigong had a very low cultivation threshold at the initial stage, without any overly mysterious or vague, hard-to-understand concepts. It was the perfect time to try cultivating it.

Immediately, Chen Chong took a deep breath, exhaled, and quickly calmed his excited state of mind. Then, a human body diagram—depicting a figure sitting cross-legged with palms facing the sky—clearly surfaced in his mind, as if it had been directly engraved into his brain.

Chen Chong adjusted his posture bit by bit according to the image in his mind. Once he was certain his posture was perfectly accurate, he began controlling his breathing rhythm. Following the meditation method’s instructions, he expelled distracting thoughts, returned all his consciousness to emptiness, permeated it throughout his body, to sense and capture that mysterious feeling of qi.

Unexpectedly for Chen Chong himself, as his breathing steadied, his thoughts seemed to drift in the void, almost forgetting the existence of “I”. In just over ten minutes, he had entered the empty-mind meditative state described in the Ultimate Infinite Qigong. The speed was astonishingly fast!

What was even more surprising was that, after maintaining this posture and entering the meditative state for only about twenty minutes, he faintly perceived what seemed to be a weak heat flow inside his body, sometimes gathering, sometimes dispersing, concentrated in his abdomen, radiating heat like a small furnace.

“Being able to sense qi so quickly is definitely linked to the Ultra Divine Water. But the abnormality I sensed in my abdomen just now… could it be because of the Senzu Bean?”

The heat flow in his abdomen, like a small furnace, represented Life Essence Qi according to the theories of Ultimate Infinite Qigong. After much thought, Chen Chong could only connect it to the Senzu Bean, which could sustain him without hunger for ten days.

Wait, is this the qi sensation? Did I get the qi sensation this quickly?

Startled, Chen Chong abruptly opened his eyes. His mind instantly fell out of the empty meditative state. He looked at his own palms with surprise and delight, somewhat incredulous. A thought he himself could hardly believe flashed through his mind:

“Could I be a cultivation genius with top-tier talent?”

According to the notes in the Ultimate Infinite Qigong, what he had faintly perceived was clearly the most initial state of True Qi, Life Essence Qi! Under normal circumstances, an ordinary person without any foundation would need at least ten days to half a month of attempts to possibly master the meditation method, calm their mind, and sense the qi. Yet Chen Chong, from successfully meditating to sensing the qi sensation, took less than half an hour in total. It was smooth and rapid to an almost bizarre degree!

“Could it be… because of the Ultra Divine Water?”

In his disbelief, Chen Chong instantly recalled this crucial factor that had helped him escape the base. The description of the Ultra Divine Water was that it stimulated the body’s own potential, with effects varying by race. Under the influence of the Ultra Divine Water, Chen Chong’s strength, reaction speed, perception, and more had all reached the limits of an ordinary person. He originally thought that was all the effects of the Ultra Divine Water. Now, it seemed there was more to it; his learning ability, body control, and the mental willpower that had been baptized by the Ultra Divine Water’s deadly poison might all have been significantly enhanced—just that Chen Chong himself hadn’t realized it!

What Chen Chong didn’t know himself was that the initial stage cultivation of Ultimate Infinite Qigong was dominated by spirit and willpower. His own willpower had already been tempered to be extremely tenacious and powerful in the Experimental Base. Coupled with the magical effects of the Ultra Divine Water, he did not need to follow the step-by-step, gradual process ordinary people required to sense qi. Instead, he directly completed this first step naturally, saving a huge amount of time.

As his speculation grew in his heart, Chen Chong’s joy also increased. If things were really as he thought, and his subsequent cultivation could progress at this current pace, then he would undoubtedly be able to master the power to protect himself more quickly in this Crimson Territory, surrounded by wolves and tigers!

A flash of excited light shone in Chen Chong’s eyes. He then took a deep breath, forcefully expelled his distracting thoughts, and once again entered that state of emptiness.

Although he had easily sensed the qi, to truly enter the introductory stage, he still needed to use meditation to control this weak qi sensation, gradually nourishing and strengthening it until it condensed without dispersing, circulated throughout his entire body, completed the full body cycle, and gave birth to true “Ultimate True Qi”.

He still had a long way to go.