togophonebook Chapter 99, 5 Xing Jin
Chapter 99, 5 Xing Jin
Chapter 99 Five Elements Strength
The crowd agreed and obediently lined up to enter.
Before entering, each person flicks their sleeve; they are all experts, and their strength is precisely controlled. Then each person hands a hundred-tael silver note to the two "door gods".
Even Pei Xiaqi, Jin Xiangyu, and Yan Nanxing were not exempt from this rule; after all, that was all the money a gatekeeper martial arts master could make.
Yang Silang naturally followed the crowd.
Having entered the tower before, he knew the way well and went up to the third floor. He entered a room with a sign that read "Bingzi". The room was empty. There was a bookshelf in the corner with dozens of tattered books. A futon was placed on the floor, and a long painting hung on the wall, almost filling the entire wall.
It's more accurate to call this a pagoda than a collection of individual cubicles. Each room has scrolls hanging inside, and there are few bookshelves with stacks of books, because the martial arts of the Mercury Blood Realm mostly use demon skin as paper, on which visualization diagrams are drawn to pass on their complex essence.
In addition, each roof has a large circular crystal that reflects all the scenes inside. This is the Tower's Inspection Crystal, which is said to be a kind of stone spirit that faithfully records all the sounds and images that happen.
If anyone violates the rules, Tianjing will make a note of it and will never show favoritism or turn a blind eye.
inside the house.
The scroll hanging on the wall in front of Yang Silang almost took up the entire wall. It depicted a faceless, naked person with many red dots on their body.
This is precisely the visualization diagram of the Five Elements Power in the Mercury Blood Secret Manual!
Yang Silang had been here once and knew the rules, so with a snap of his fingers, he became the Steel-Dirty Grand Martial Master, having complete control over every part of his body.
Immediately, a few drops of bright red blood flew from his fingertips and fell into the scroll.
A few drops of blood fell onto the canvas, and the scroll immediately trembled violently, creating ripples on the canvas that seemed to shake the entire wall. Moments later, the blood was completely absorbed.
"belch----"
A sound like a full stomach could be heard coming from inside the scroll.
Yang Silang pretended not to hear.
This visualization was originally made from the skin of a mirage demon. Mirage demons are skilled at creating illusions. Their skin was peeled off, and its properties were used to vividly recreate a scene and record a story, making it the most suitable material.
Martial arts performances are also a kind of scene recreation!
Now that the Lip Demon's skin has drunk its fill of blood, it immediately undergoes a change.
The faceless figure in the scroll, whose face was originally completely clean and blank, gradually revealed facial features, and was exactly the same as Yang Silang.
In addition, his body became as transparent as crystal, but the red spots on his skin became even more vivid; under his skin, his internal organs, bones and even the surging blood were revealed one by one.
"Though the ancients were ancient, they were certainly not stupid at all—" Yang Silang muttered to himself.
The person who came up with the idea of using the skin of a lip demon to record the visualization diagrams of cultivation techniques is a genius. Now, the circulation of true qi, the manipulation of qi and blood, and the flow of qi and blood through acupoints can all be clearly seen.
He observed carefully.
He then kept the figure in the painting in a standing posture with both feet slightly apart.
A pale blue stream of energy surged from the dantian, circulating qi and blood in accordance with the order of the five elements, passing through the liver (wood), heart (fire), spleen (earth), lungs (metal), and kidneys (water).
At the same time, large amounts of text appear in the blank spaces on the scroll, providing simultaneous explanations.
The first step involves circulating Qi through the five internal organs, drawing upon the generative function of the liver, the warming function of the heart, the transformative function of the spleen, the descending function of the lungs, and the storing function of the kidneys. This stimulates the Qi and blood throughout the body, making the whole body feel warm, lively, and dynamic.
Once the body is in optimal condition, the figure in the painting changes posture, placing both hands, one yin and one yang, as if holding an empty ball in front of the abdomen. The abdomen rises and falls, accompanied by the sound of toads chirping, thus stimulating the flow of true energy through the meridians and acupoints.
The pale blue true energy stimulates the blood and qi to become active, and the vigorous blood and qi, in turn, make the true energy nearly twice as strong.
Then the true qi splits into five small snakes, which respectively explore the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian, Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian, Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, and Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian. After passing through the meridians and acupoints, it returns to the dantian. At this time, the true qi also has the meaning of generating, warming, transforming, descending, and storing. Its volume is significantly larger than before, and its color is also more dazzling.
This is a complete demonstration of the five elements' energy circulating throughout the body.
Yang Silang gasped in shock.
He now understood that Pei Xiaqi was not exaggerating at all.
No wonder the Five Elements Force is so difficult to learn. The difficulty is several times that of ordinary martial arts. Others only need to overcome one or two difficulties, but here you have to overcome five!
Putting aside the complexity of the five meridians and numerous acupoints, and how difficult it is to master them all, just consider the final step of circulating true qi through the five meridians and gathering it together. Even if all the previous steps are correct, if you go to the wrong acupoint at the end, it will all be for nothing.
After thinking it over, Yang Silang decided to practice almost without hesitation.
For men with special abilities, it's not about facing difficulties head-on, but about overcoming obstacles.
The fact that the founding emperor attached such importance to this martial art suggests that it must be something extraordinary. It is impossible for someone who controls the resources of a country and mobilizes the most intelligent martial artists in the world to create a worthless martial art.
At this moment, the scroll dimmed, and the figure in the painting changed from Yang Silang's appearance to a blank face.
"You glutton!"
Yang Silang cursed under his breath and fed a few more drops of blood to the scroll.
Sure enough, the roll was open for business again immediately.
This time, the visualization demonstration is not so difficult. Just let the true qi come out of the dantian and pass through the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian to complete one cycle.
Then, the five meridians—the Pericardium Meridian of Hand-Jueyin, the Spleen Meridian of Foot-Taiyin, the Lung Meridian of Hand-Taiyin, and the Kidney Meridian of Foot-Shaoyin—passed through in turn, without all five meridians running together.
Follow the instructions on the side.
Beginners can open one meridian in a few days and five meridians in half a month. Once they are proficient, they can first run two meridians together until they are proficient in any two meridians, then three, four, and so on until all five meridians are as natural as the body. Only then can they be considered to have truly entered the field. After that, it is a matter of perseverance and hard work. Over time, water dripping on stone will eventually wear it down.
Some martial artists are born with a balance of the five elements, making it easy for them to learn. However, if one of the five elements is too strong or mismatched, it becomes very difficult to learn. Therefore, one should act according to one's ability. If something is impossible, there is no need to waste time on this technique.
Once the true qi in the dantian is cultivated to the point where it accumulates like water in a pool, and the qi and blood throughout the body are renewed once a month, and any part of the skin can be pierced by the true qi as fine as a cow's hair, then the Mercury Blood Realm is achieved.
Yang Silang sat cross-legged on the futon, head bowed in deep thought. His mind raced, and he had memorized all the routes of true qi and changes in blood and qi in the visualization he had just seen.
It's fortunate that we have the mirage skin, this divine artifact.
If it were Long Yiyan, Qi Rubai, and Tong Renyuan to teach him, not to mention the things they don't know, they would probably talk until their throats were dry and still not be able to explain the mysteries of the circulation of true qi and blood.
Explaining it a hundred times is not as effective as seeing the flow of Qi and blood once with your own eyes.
After a while.
Yang Silang stood up, his eyes bright and alert. He had already memorized all the details; in other words, he had memorized them first, and his body would take care of the rest later.
There is still time left.
He then hurried to the bookshelf next to him to look through the dozens of books. These were the cultivation notes of people from Jiangdong Province who had entered this room throughout the ages, and they could also be used as a reference.
Open any book at random and take a quick look; you'll find the handwriting of more than a dozen people. The handwriting is faint, and judging from the dates, the earliest ones can even be traced back to the time of the Taizu Emperor.
"Grand Ancestor, I am a dull student. It has been a year and I have not even entered the gate of enlightenment, nor can I follow the five paths simultaneously. I am ashamed!"
"God, I'm stuck on the last three vital points, why can't I get past them!"
Of the hundred or so candidates who passed the imperial examinations during the reign of Emperor Taizu, only a dozen or so succeeded. The longest recorded attempt took ten years and still didn't succeed.
It was probably during the early years of the dynasty when Emperor Taizu was at the height of his prestige. So, when these candidates failed the imperial examinations, they all blamed themselves and complained, and no one dared to blame Emperor Taizu.
Yang Silang quickly flipped through the books at the back.
With the passing of the founding emperor, the throne went through many changes, and as time went by, those who came after could not master it. Their tone shifted from resentment to sarcasm, saying that this skill was simply not meant for humans to learn.
Occasionally, someone will succeed in mastering it, and the advice they leave behind is simple: as long as you don't die from practicing, practice until you drop dead.
There is a book from about a hundred years ago, but several pages have been torn out. It should be the record of the Grandmaster of Golden Marrow who was labeled a traitor and whose records were erased.
In the more than 500 years since the Shun Dynasty, these books record only a few dozen people who have mastered the Five Elements Power. Even if we include those who succeeded but were not recorded, the number would still be no more than a hundred.
However, considering the large number of people practicing Taizu Changquan, the success rate is pitifully low. Moreover, many people mastered it during Taizu's reign, but as time went on, the notoriety of this technique became more apparent, and fewer people sought out the opportunity to suffer, so naturally even fewer people mastered it.
Therefore, the last person in this province to have mastered it has to be traced back a hundred years.
He skimmed through the records, complaining that there were too many unspoken criticisms and ignoring them, while finding little insightful advice.
There are only a few pieces of experience to share.
Most people have no problem cultivating a single lineage, but cultivating two lineages simultaneously becomes difficult, and each subsequent cultivation of three or four lineages increases the difficulty exponentially.
If you make a mistake, it could damage five vital organs.
Therefore, almost everyone records that the most time-consuming part is waiting for the injury to heal. Once he has recovered, the meridian walking technique that he had practiced so well may have become rusty, and he will have to practice it all over again.
In addition, the elixirs recorded in the records that strengthen true qi and nourish the meridians have changed several times. The two most popular elixirs today are Qi-Guiding Pill and Meridian-Tuo Powder.
These two kinds of precious medicines cost a total of two hundred taels of silver per dose, and each dose lasts for one month. If one gets injured, one will need to spend more silver on medicine for injuries, which means several hundred taels will be spent again.
Yang Silang clicked his tongue in amazement. What a waste of gold and silver to fight for mercury and blood!
Day after day, people throw silver into the pot, but don't even hear a sound. No wonder most people give up the idea of practicing this method.
Time flies.
As the bell tolled, an hour had passed.
Yang Silang rubbed his eyes, got up from the prayer mat, and left the Martial Arts Tower.
Outside the tower.
He traveled with Pei Buqi.
Pei Buqi asked him what he thought of the Five Elements Force.
Yang Silang thought for a long time and only said one word: difficult. He didn't say the rest. Although it was difficult, he was confident that he could cultivate.
With the power to restore youth, he has several times more opportunities to try and fail than others.
Moreover, once you get the hang of it, the inscription system has the blessing of permanent proof. He will only practice less due to his own laziness, but he will never become rusty or forget and practice incorrectly.
For others, this is a gamble on a slim chance; for him, as long as he passes the entry barrier and is accepted into the system, there is absolutely no reason why he cannot master it, it's just a matter of how many years it takes.
Putting aside everything else, his lifespan is certainly long enough.
He has enough patience to master this skill; after all, he is only seventeen years old, and youth is his greatest asset.
>