Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 93 Internal Qi
The quiet house.

Call ~
suck~
Accompanied by Chen Ku sitting cross-legged on the kang, breathing slowly and evenly.

The sea of ​​heart is in turmoil.

The two new changes in the change chart all showed different colors, with words flowing down like curtains.

[The demon talisman changes! Change! ]

[Demon Talisman: A Taoist priest of peace uses the blood of the Wood Tai Sui demon, the power of the spirit, and a spell to pray to the gods of Huang Tian on the altar. He obtains supernatural powers and places them on the talisman paper. The talisman is a magical talisman with the ability to fuse, reproduce, possess, strengthen soldiers, calm the mind, and regenerate flesh and blood.]

[Demon Talisman Transformation·Change Shape]

[Transfiguration part: Tai Sui Fu Dan (blessing strong soldiers)]

See the ability that comes from this shapeshifting part.

Chen Ku probably understood that this was the "power of blessing" that the spirit used to bless the peach wood sword so that it could fight head-on with his blood sword.

An ordinary peach wood sword can be compared with the blood knife that can cut through gold and split stones.

"But I wonder, if I add this power of strengthening soldiers to my iron and dragon stick, how much can the quality of my stick be improved?"

It's a pity that the stick has to be repaired. It will probably take two or three days. We will know then.

Immediately.

The colors of the changing diagram of the demon woman Ling'e above the sea of ​​heart also lit up the area between the eyebrows.

【Ling'e Transformation】

[Ling'e: A Heian Dao monk, female, 27 years old, in the early stage of internal energy, with a sense of energy, practicing Heian Dao's special methods, with average bone strength, mastering Heian Dao's secret methods and seven martial arts.]

[Ling'e Transformation·Change Shape]

[Transfiguration part: Intention (powerful soul)]

Suddenly,

Chen Ku felt that his spiritual strength seemed to have increased significantly out of thin air.

What is the spirit, soul and intention? It is probably the spiritual power of the mind.

For example, he is now in the peak stage of Hua Jin, 'the combination of intention and strength', and what he is training is his own spiritual will. Only when his spiritual will is strong can he use it to influence the movement of his own 'blood', thereby generating 'internal energy'.

now.

There is a lot more spiritual power added by Ling'e.

Chen Ku felt as if his original state and spirit were a full bucket in the Huajin realm, and the spiritual power of his mind was the water in the bucket...

Now, there is half more water in the bucket and it is overflowing.

The result is.

As soon as Chen Ku closed his eyes, he could clearly hear the sound of blood flowing throughout his body.

In the blood vessels of every part of the body, blood is like a never-ending stream, pumped out from the heart, circulated, and then returned to the heart.

During this process, blood is like a great array of life that continuously circulates in the body.

"My mental strength has increased significantly. I can feel the blood flowing. When the blood flows, the Qi is generated. Isn't this the sign that the blood can be moved and the Qi can be generated in the "Eternal Youth Classic - Internal Qi Chapter"?"

Chen Ku always thought that he couldn't generate internal energy quickly. It was because the essence of the food he ate was still accumulating. Until one day, when it accumulated enough, internal energy would appear naturally.

Only now do I understand.

That is certainly a solution, but it is too long.

In fact, as long as the mind is strong enough, one can move essence and blood at any time, circulate qi from the blood, and then replenish it from the outside, and then move blood to generate qi, forming a cycle of continuous replenishment and continuous strengthening.

"This... is enough to break through to the inner energy. Let me try!"

Immediately, Chen Ku focused his mind, felt the flow of blood in his body, and tried to use his mind to make the blood in his body move according to the secret method of moving blood in the "Internal Qi Chapter".

This exercise.

There was an immediate change in Chen Ku's appearance.

I saw that his face was flushed with blood, and then it turned pale and bloodless...

This is the external manifestation of blood and qi being moved by him and circulating in various parts of the body.

In fact, ordinary people also have such experiences. When they are nervous or very angry, their faces will turn red, and when they are exhausted, their faces will turn pale.

But that's all the result of body instinct.

It is not like the natural and free movement of blood and energy by warriors using secret methods. Once the spirit becomes strong, one can let the blood and energy flow to any direction he wants.

Thus, a night passed.

Chen Ku spent the entire night moving blood and energy until the moment the sun rose, and finally...

The precious herbs, medicinal materials, and tonic energy he had taken, melted into his blood, and finally flowed through his blood...

A special aura emerged.

It's like what.

The Qi formed by the essence of water and grain was originally evenly distributed in the blood, like the blending of milk and water. At this time, the blood was moved and the Qi was refined out of the blood, forming a pure "Qi".

"Qi Sensation!"

Chen Ku felt the faint internal energy, this was the feeling of energy:

"I feel the existence of inner energy. I have entered the inner energy realm!"

When Chen Ku felt that wisp of internal energy flowing through his blood vessels along with his blood, it was more flexible than physical strength.

At the same time, he felt that his physical strength had completely entered a new stage under the flow of this trace of internal energy.

"We all talk about strength and power. Ordinary people call it strength, which is mainly based on force. But after entering the internal energy realm, this name is changed to 'qi force'. Using qi to move force can increase the strength of the whole body several times... Let me see, under the power of the four symbols, how much strength can I generate by moving qi?"

Chen Ku searched around the house.

He discovered that there were quite a few small stone locks weighing more than 100 pounds in the house, which he had bought during his strength training phase. They could be added to the big stone locks. They were made of pine steel rock, which is unique in this world. It has a high density and weighs more than 100 pounds, just the size of a watermelon.

He casually lowered his head and picked one up, his eyes flashing like lightning, and he mixed that strand of internal energy with the power of the four symbols of the marten, all of which were added to his fingers, and swung up the hundred-jin stone lock.

At this moment, he could clearly feel that his internal energy had merged with the power of the four symbols to form a new force called "qi power".

It feels like shaking a light plastic bag.

Then, it was replaced with a white jade sculpture with golden eyes.

He jumped onto the roof and looked at the stinking ditch several miles away. It was empty and deserted, so he gathered all his "strength" and threw the stone lock in that direction.

call! !

The moment the stone lock slipped out of his hand, Changkong was like releasing a bow. The speed and force of the stone lock thrown out made a series of explosive sounds.

Fly five miles away! !

The explosion created a large pit about four or five meters wide, with dust flying everywhere, as if it had been hit by a cannonball.

Chen Ku was surprised.

"I was able to throw a stone weighing more than 100 kilograms so far with just my arm strength. I feel that after my pure strength became 'energy', every aspect of my life improved. It's like a carp leaping over a dragon's gate."

Especially with his 100-mile vision, the accuracy is improved. With this skill, there is no problem in saying that the humanoid catapult is a good thing. It seems that if the objects thrown out are a little harder, he can even attack the city.

From four or five miles away, he could throw a hundred-pound artillery shell and destroy the stone walls of an ordinary county town. He was basically a human cannon.

But just after Chen Ku happily stepped into the internal energy, his strength turned into energy, and he felt like he had the strength of two or three more elephants, and had the strength of six or seven elephants.

Just a wisp of energy can amplify his strength by half. If...

Just thinking about it.

Then he felt that the thin wisp of internal energy in his body had dissipated.

"Hmm? Is this the feeling of Qi? I can only feel and extract a thin strand of internal Qi, which is gone after use... No wonder there are three more levels: sufficient Qi, strong Qi, and full Qi!"

Chen Ku knew, just by listening to the name, that full energy must not be like it is now. Just by simply moving the energy, the energy was exhausted.

"Replenishing Qi is just like replenishing physical strength. It also requires a huge amount of essence to be replenished before it can be transformed into blood essence. I read the description of 'Qi Fullness' in the chapter on Internal Qi. When the internal Qi is fully developed, the Qi fills the whole body. Qi strength is the same as physical strength, with no difference. At that time, it is the peak state of the internal Qi realm."

He sighed, saying that he had just entered the threshold of martial arts training and there was still a long way to go.

"I need to continue to supply the precious herbs. This is the 'food' that the Inner Qi realm needs most. Now that I have the sense of Qi, the supply speed of the precious herbs is probably the speed at which my Inner Qi accumulates." Chen Ku calculated in his mind:
“An ordinary precious herb, worth a hundred taels, can probably save an ordinary martial artist two or three months of effort. But Master Yang said that for an ordinary person to practice Qi, from feeling Qi to being full of Qi, without eating precious herbs, and accumulating Qi purely from the essence of grains, would take at least ten years.

By this calculation, if I want to accumulate enough internal energy in a short period of time, I need at least 50 or 60 common precious herbs like tiger head ginseng and ox horn bamboo shoots. This is completely a waste of money, unless I can find "high-quality precious herbs" with higher medicinal value than these common precious herbs.
Just like the 'Nine-Leaf Sheep Fat Poria' and 'Hundred-Year-Old Purple Polygonatum' that I have handled in Yaowang Hall, these are high-quality precious herbs, and each one is equivalent to the essence of more than ten or twenty ordinary precious herbs.

Or maybe there are finished pills, like this one."

Chen Ku took out two "Huoqi Pills" from a box in the yard. These were found on Huang Gun.

Among the inner energy realm elixirs of Yaowang Hall, "Huoqi Pill" is considered a mid-grade elixir, and each pill is worth the price of a precious herb.

All disciples and ordinary masters of Yaowang Hall can use their wages to pay for one Vitality Pill every month, which is worth about one hundred taels of silver, and use it for cultivation.

Yaowang Hall does not distribute elixirs for cultivation to its disciples, it only gives them wages.

Chen Ku is a disciple now. Instead of having no salary as an apprentice, he can now receive a regular salary of one hundred taels every month.

After all, Yaowangtang is a business, and disciples and masters are just employees.

Paying a salary is enough. Unless you become a shopkeeper, a master chef, or a master with some special and indispensable talents, you will be eligible to share dividends and participate in the distribution of certain important resources.

But the bulk of the profits still remain in the hands of the bosses behind the scenes.

Just like the workers on the fishing boats in the previous life.

During a trip out to sea, the captain gives a fixed salary and the workers also provide a fixed amount of effort. However, whether the fish caught is worth tens of millions or hundreds of thousands, it has nothing to do with the workers; the profit belongs only to the owner.

It does not mean becoming a fisherman for the ship boss. In the future, the captain will control the fish that the workers on the ship eat. Even if you are the head of a small department, the captain will not provide you with grouper and tuna if you want to eat them every day. He is his own son, not a worker.

If I give you a salary, why don't you buy it yourself?
Who would eat such precious things every meal?

……

At this moment, looking at the two pills in his hand, Chen Ku had already identified them based on the vitality pills sold in the hall. They were real medicines. Before, he couldn't take them because he didn't have the internal energy. Now...

He swallowed it with a gulp.

A powerful medicinal force spread into the blood, accelerating the blood circulation. After a while, with the help of Chen Ku's qi, a little strength was restored.

"It seems that the next step in my cultivation is to either spend money on buying elixirs and precious herbs, or..."

Chen Ku pulled out the marten from between his eyebrows and said to it:
"It depends on you to go deeper into Liangjie Mountain and try your luck to see if you can find high-quality precious herbs, or... top-quality precious herbs."

After releasing the marten, it means that the first picture will take a long time and cannot be easily replaced.

Only two pictures remain.

Next, he needs to keep using Ling'e Bian for a long time. The extra mental power can allow him to 'transport blood and energy' faster and practice faster.

The third picture...

"Golden Eyes Hundred Miles Away... Blood Sword... Weapons Blessed by Magical Talismans... And Feng Guang's Sword Technique..."

Chen Ku calculated the changes in his mind and sighed:

"Although it can be replaced, there is a cooldown period after all. Within a day, a change frame can only be replaced a maximum of four times within 24 hours... There are only three change frame grids, which is still too few."

"Unless, we can once again 'transform into a fetus' and fuse together."

Looking at the requirements of the golden-eyed white jade sculpture to be integrated into the flower marten.

[Deducing the result of this fetal transformation and refining, due to the transformation of the golden-eyed white jade sculpture, there is only the level of changing shape, and the abnormal-shaped parts are very few.

Therefore, the efficiency of tire refining is affected.

If you force the fetal transformation and physical refinement, there is only a 1% chance of success.

At the same time, a 'first level peak demon evil spirit' or 'human internal energy peak level evil spirit' is required as firewood before the body can be refined. 】

In other words, the transformation into a fetus and the refinement of the body cannot be achieved out of thin air. It requires the level of transformation itself to be at least complete, and then added with a high-level evil spirit.

Even a skilled cook cannot cook without rice. Only with the foundation of high-level energy and evil spirit can the formation of 'high-level new exotic beasts' be laid.

"To open the fourth map, I also need a peak demonic aura of the first level... The best result would be to sneak attack a Ping An Dao demon at the peak of the internal energy level. With my current strength..."

suddenly.

Chen Ku thought of the four seals he had obtained from the Xu family's inheritance.

Because he has no mental method or internal strength.

Therefore, one must have reached the inner energy realm to use the first move "Mountain Roaring and Sea Tsunami Seal".

Chen Ku felt the palm print of the first style in his memory.

Experimentally, you need to stimulate that weak internal energy in your body and try to see if you can release it.

The Xu family's Mountain-supporting Palm is a unique martial art with a greater origin than the Violent Ape's Thousand-pound Stick. It also relies mainly on great strength and has a similar use to the Violent Ape's Thousand-pound Stick.

Chen Ku was thinking...

If, while performing the Chaotian Yike, he activated the 'Mountain Roaring and Sea Tsunami Seal' of the Mountain Supporting Palm, he could add the power of the palm and the stick together and strike out together.

In that case, maybe I could try a sneak attack...

However, when Chen Kucun had this idea in mind and tried to mobilize that strand of internal energy to form the 'Mountain Roaring and Sea Tsunami Seal', he felt it was not enough after only completing half of the Qi circulation route.

"I don't have enough energy. This strand of internal energy hasn't even reached halfway along the route of the Mountain Roaring Sea Seal. It's like carrying a heavy load and it's hard to support. Or maybe my energy is too little... This palm seal is definitely not enough to be performed at the Qi-sensing level. I'm afraid I need to be at least in the middle stage of the internal energy to have enough energy to perform it."

Chen Ku exhaled and sighed:

"I'll buy some medicine and practice first, and see if I can get the recipe. Then I can make the medicine myself!"

He had only been an apprentice for two days, but he was already in a hurry to ask for the recipe. His purpose was too strong. Even if his master could accept it, it would inevitably arouse suspicion among the other shopkeepers, as that was the lifeblood of Yaowang Hall.

One precious herb could be sold for a hundred taels of silver at most. With the help of the pill recipes and medicine prescriptions of the Medicine King Hall, and some other medicinal materials as auxiliary, a dozen or even dozens of pills could be made.

But after the pill is made, it can be sold for more than one hundred taels.

In other words, a precious herb worth one hundred taels can be transformed into several thousand taels in the Medicine King Hall.

This is like some anti-cancer drugs in the past. The raw materials for a box of medicine are not expensive, and the research and development process is not too complicated. So what is expensive?
It's a secret recipe and patent!

"Although it's a luxury to eat elixirs and precious herbs every day, I still have to do it."

Chen Kuo was determined:

"If I can't turn the money I earn into my own real strength, then what's the point of earning so much money? Wouldn't it be like others hoarding guns while I hoard money? I would be the warehouse of other people's money."

Thinking this way, I gave myself a reason not to feel any pain.

He pinched his nose and went out to spend three thousand taels to buy thirty ordinary precious herbs, including various kinds of precious herbs.

The reason why I bought precious herbs instead of elixirs is that there is a little trick behind it.

During the first two days of apprenticeship, the prescription for Dan is too conspicuous.

It will be fine after a while.

By the time……

He certainly couldn't use up all of the thirty-plus precious herbs he had. If he refined them himself, he might be able to make some pills and possibly make his money back!

He hid the thirty precious herbs secretly in the underground cellar of his courtyard where no one knew about it, and then returned to Medicine King Hall. He was just about to tell his two masters the good news of his breakthrough in internal energy.

However, he was told by the apprentice in the lobby that two people had been looking for him for a long time.

After a while, Wu Guixian came over, with a slightly happy look on his face, and said, "Boss, I have found the courtyard you asked me to find for your family of four in the inner city. According to your requirements, the price is between two and three thousand taels. There is a courtyard with two entrances. It used to be a house that ran a rouge shop. Now it is no longer occupied and is for sale. I went to see it. The furniture and decorations inside are all good. The asking price is two thousand five hundred taels. All other household items are given away. The price can definitely be negotiated further. Do you want to go and have a look when you are free?"

Just as Chen Ku was about to speak, he heard another familiar voice laughing, "Junior Brother Chen, I'm afraid you are not free today. I am going to have a banquet at the Perfume Pavilion today, so you must come. It's the same group as last time. We have fewer people this time, so you can come and sit with me."

Then Jiang Shaoyou came to the lobby with a rosy face.

Wu Gui sensibly took a step back and let Jiang Shaoyou speak first.

"Oh?"

Chen Ku asked curiously:

"Brother Jiang is going to hold a banquet. What's the big happy event?"

Jiang Shaoyou's face was flushed with excitement, and he said, "I have achieved a breakthrough to the inner energy! Before I turn 20 next summer, isn't this a good thing? It means that I am eligible to participate in the martial arts examination in the spring of next year, isn't this a good thing?"

"Senior brother has also broken through to the internal energy level?" Chen Ku was surprised.

Jiang Shaoyou was stunned:
"also?"

(End of this chapter)