If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 544: The Way of Yi Yi
Without a teacher, Xiaoyu relied entirely on self-study.

After studying "Eight-Nine Profound Art" for two full years, a person finally understood the "general outline" at the beginning.

Two years passed, and she hadn't even practiced the first level of the technique.

Do you not like practicing, have no mood to practice, or have no time to practice?
It’s impossible to practice it at all!

How can I practice if I can’t even understand it?
What should I do if I don’t understand and no one is teaching me?
Xiaoyu had no choice but to choose the dumbest and least efficient, yet smartest and most effective method: reading Taoist scriptures and cultivating Taoist spirit.

In order to practice the Taoist "Changchun Gong", she read Taoist scriptures for nearly a month.

One month was not enough, but fortunately after her sword bone was destroyed, she awakened the wisdom of Kunpeng.

With Kunpeng's wisdom, he comprehended the Taoist scriptures, and his efficiency increased by hundreds of times, and he finally cultivated the first ray of Changchun internal force.

Having had experience in practicing the Changchun Gong, she now encountered a top Taoist secret book that she could not understand or practice, so she thought of the old method again.

Send her to read Taoist scriptures and cultivate Taoist spirit. The Taoist spirit belongs to her and will never be lost.

For two years, she focused on reciting Taoist scriptures and only studied the "Ancient Dragon's Secret Book of Divine Powers" when she was free or tired.

By today, she had accumulated a large amount of Taoist energy and could finally understand part of the general content of "Eight-Nine Profound Art".

The general outline first describes the essence of "cultivating immortals".

If one wants to cultivate the truth, one should carefully manage the "qi" in the body. The essence of refining qi is to practice the "benefiting and easy way".

The so-called "Way of Yi" "Yi" means to increase oneself, and "Yi" means to change one's form.

"Bajiu Xuan Gong" mainly talks about the "Yi" in the "Yi Zhi Dao".

And "eight, nine" seventy-two represents the seventy-two changes of Disha.

To sum up, the Eight-Nine Mysterious Arts is almost equivalent to the Seventy-Two Transformations.

This is consistent with Xiaoyu's impression and expectations.

Didn’t Wukong rely on his “Seventy-two Transformations” to fight on equal terms with Yang Jian, who practiced the “Eight-Nine Mysterious Arts”?

However, before traveling through time, Xiaoyu thought that Wukong only relied on his "Seventy-two Transformations" to fight Yang Jian and cause trouble in the Heavenly Palace.

Now she was quite sure that the "Seventy-two Transformations" was not even the fundamental method of Wukong's internal strength.

"Eight-Nine Profound Art" is not the fundamental method of Yang Jian's internal strength.

The Seventy-Two Transformations and the Eight-Nine Profound Arts can be one of the fundamental methods, but they cannot be the only fundamental method.

Just as the general outline says, the essence of Qi training is to practice the way that benefits the easy.

Xiao Yu's "Tai Chi Changchun Gong", the internal strength and body-building exercises of many martial artists, are the way to "benefit".

Benefit means to increase and supplement, to strengthen and enhance the spirit, body and vitality.

Only by following the path of “benefit” can the “volume” be increased and the essence become strong.

If there is only "easy" but no "benefit", it is just a change of form, but the essence of the power remains unchanged.

Therefore, Wukong must have practiced a powerful method of refining Qi.

If Xiaoyu had not only watched the TV series but also read the original novel, she would not have had the doubts she has now.

The fundamental method of Wukong was not the "Seventy-two Transformations" but the "Great Heavenly Immortal Secret"!
It’s just that the 72 transformations are too conspicuous, which is why they have become a symbol of Goku’s powerful strength.

Of course, the ways of benefit and change are indispensable. If you only have "benefit" but not "change", you cannot achieve immortality.

The only thing that will not change between heaven and earth is the truth that “heaven and earth are changing every moment.”

If you want to live forever, you must change with the world.

If you want to be immortal, you must take the initiative to master the process of change and use your own changes to adapt to the changes in the world.

Only "Benefit", at best he is a "strange person", he cannot be truly immortal, he is not an "immortal".

Before understanding the general outline of "Eight-Nine Profound Art", Xiao Yu always believed that Monkey King was invulnerable to swords and guns because he had a strong body.

The weapons of the heavenly soldiers and generals hit him on the forehead, sparks flew everywhere, and not even a knife mark was left.

If this isn't as hard as iron, then what is?
But Xiaoyu sometimes wonders, why is it that Monkey King is so tough, but he is poisoned by the Scorpion Demon's "Horse-Reversing Poison" and screams in pain?

After being stung by the scorpion's tail, the skull on Monkey King's forehead melted.

If he really is made of iron and steel, indestructible and extremely hard, then with the power and sharpness of the scorpion's tail, it should not be able to break even his oily skin!
No matter how toxic the poison of the horse-reversing stake is, we have to break the defense first and inject the poison, right?

Now that Xiaoyu has read the general outline of the Eight-Nine Profound Art, he understands it all at once.

She was wrong before, Monkey King's skin and flesh were not as hard as iron.

The reason why he appeared invulnerable to swords and guns in battle, and sparks flew when weapons hit him, was because of the "Yi" principle.

Monkey King's indestructibility comes from the changes of the five elements of qi in his body, rather than his physical hardness.

Only "just the right amount of change" will never be broken.

Whatever is immutable, no matter how solid it is, there is a way to break it.

All martial arts in the world are invincible, except for “change”.

For example, the enemy's attack at this time belongs to the "fire" in the five elements.

Monkey King resisted with his physical body, which changed into "water" attribute, directly resisting the "fire" attribute attack, and then took away the "wood" that produced the fire, making the "fire" become a fire without wood, and the "fire" extinguished itself.

After a change in attributes, the "fire" nature in the attack is completely eliminated, the attack naturally becomes ineffective, and the effect manifested is that of indestructibility.

Of course, the five elements mutual generation and mutual restraint model in this example is too simple and crude.

The Yi Dao recorded in "Bajiu Xuan Gong" is countless times more complicated than what is mentioned above. It is so complicated that it took Xiaoyu two years to barely understand a little bit.

I don’t know how many years it will take to fully understand it; if I want to master it completely, how much time and energy will it take?

This is what makes Monkey Brother so awesome.

It only took him a dozen years to master the seventy-two transformations.

After reciting Taoist scriptures for two years, Xiaoyu began to formally practice the "Eight-Nine Mysterious Arts" from the third year.

The first level of the Eight-Nine Profound Art, nine years of foundation building, and the body is easy to change.

From the inside to the outside, one year changes qi, two years changes blood, three years changes essence, four years changes veins, five years changes marrow, six years changes bones, seven years changes tendons, eight years changes hair, nine years changes shape, and the foundation is completed.

It sounds a bit like the "I Ching Bone Strengthening" in the immortal martial arts.

In fact, it is not a simple enhancement or evolution.

The "易" here means change.

Take "Yi Qi" as an example.

Yi Qi is the transformation of the "Qi" in the body into the origin of the Five Elements.

No matter how many attributes a person's true qi has, their roots are the yin and yang and the five elements.

It only took Xiaoyu three months to complete "Yi Qi".

In the center of her Dantian Qi Sea, a "Primordial Seed" condensed.

It is the "Yuanshi" in "Yuanshi Tianzun", not "Shichidai".

The meaning is clear, the beginning of everything.

With this primordial seed, Xiaoyu's true qi can be transformed into any attribute.

It's simply the "Little Wuxiang Gong" of the fairy world. No, it's even more powerful than the Little Wuxiang Gong.

Xiao Wuxiang Gong only simulates various martial arts, while Xiaoyu's true Qi can truly transform into any attributes, any true Qi of any martial arts that she is familiar with.

Of course, there are limits to change, and the Qi energy level of the object being imitated must not exceed her own Qi energy level.

Otherwise, only the breath will be similar but the same effect cannot be achieved.

For example, the evil spirit in Black King Kong’s body.

Xiao Yu was very familiar with the power of Black King Kong, but the energy level of Black King Kong's true energy was far inferior to hers. As soon as she thought about it, she was immediately filled with demonic energy.

All the true energy in the body was transformed into demonic energy, which was exactly the same as Black King Kong's demonic energy.

Even Black Kong himself can't tell what's real or fake, because this is the real thing.

Just by completing "Yi Qi", her strength more than doubled.

Previously, she had used various sword techniques, but she was unable to fully unleash the power of her own realm.

Because the internal force attributes do not match.

There is no doubt that in order to unleash the maximum power of "Five Thunder General Sword", it is best to practice the internal skills of "Five Thunder General Sword" itself, the internal skills of thunder attribute.

Xiao Yu taught Zhu Lingling the "Five Thunder General Sword", but did not teach her the "Tai Chi Changchun Gong" separately because it was not necessary. The "Five Thunder General Sword" has internal strength, sword moves, sword intentions, and main gods.

The five major elements of immortal martial arts, "mind, spirit, intention, energy and qi", only lack the heart formula, which is the most top-level immortal martial art.

But Xiaoyu himself uses the "Five Thunder General Sword", which only has sword moves, sword intent and main spirit, and his internal strength is still the "Tai Chi Changchun Gong".

Obviously, she could not fully unleash the true power of the Five Thunder General Sword.

Now that she has completed the "Yi Qi" process, her true Qi can be varied.

As long as it is the "Qi" that she is familiar with, she can transform it immediately and it will be no different from the original one.

Three months of "Yi Qi".

Nine months for "changing blood", eleven months for "changing semen", thirteen months for "changing pulse", and another three years have passed.

Xiaoyu has been in Jihe Water Palace for five years. She is now nineteen years old and has grown into a big girl.

Changing blood, changing essence, changing pulses, and changing qi are similar in that they are all changes, not simple "evolutionary" enhancements.

Qi turns into blood, blood turns into essence, essence turns into spirit, spirit turns into fluid (marrow fluid), and liquid turns into bones.

In essence, blood, essence, spirit, marrow, and bones are all "Qi".

Changing blood, changing essence, and changing pulses are all aimed at further deepening the changes of "Qi".

Of course, different realms will definitely bring different effects and changes.

For example, after mastering the "Easy Blood" skill, Xiaoyu would almost never bleed while being conscious.

Her blood can also change into the blood of different people and different creatures.

For example, she took the essence of the Azure Dragon's blood, and after in-depth research, her own blood could also turn into dragon blood.

"Grandma, what are you looking for, or who do you want to call over?"

On this day, seeing Xiaoyu pushing the door open and walking out, the lobster soldier guarding the palace gate immediately asked eagerly.

Xiaoyu now lives in a magnificent palace.

Only three months after arriving at the Ji River Water Palace, Black King Kong brought forty-nine river monsters to build a magnificent palace for his godmother, comparable in scale to the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City.

Such efficiency is possible thanks to the fact that over the past hundred years, the Black Turtle River God of Liusha River has regularly summoned his water monsters to help him expand the Water God's Palace.

Black King Kong and his demon grandchildren often go to the Water God's Palace to perform labor service, and are very familiar with this type of infrastructure projects.

They all form muscle memory.

Digging stones, shaping them into bricks, laying foundations, and building walls. They have done it too many times.

In the five years after the palace was repaired, Xiaoyu basically lived alone in the empty hall and practiced in silence.

It’s not that she never goes out, but every time she goes out, she always has something to tell someone.

So as soon as he saw her, the lobster spirit came over to ask.

"My retreat is over. I just came out for a walk today. You can continue to doze off." Xiaoyu said.

They said they were standing guard for Grandma Yu, but in fact the lobster spirit and the other guards on duty were sleeping at the gate.

The prawn did not go back to doze off.

When grandma finished her retreat and wanted to come out for a stroll, he did not serve her diligently but went to sleep at the door. How could he sleep?
"Grandma, where are you going? I'll lead the way for you."

"I'm free today, just walking around without any purpose."

Xiaoyu walked down the stairs while looking around.

At this time, the Jihe Water Palace had changed drastically.

The terrain is no longer an overgrown wasteland.

On both sides of the hall where she lived, there were eight slightly smaller houses, but not all of them were occupied.

In fact, water monsters don't like living on the shore very much.

There are eight large halls, one is a school and one is a dormitory.

In the past few years, Xiaoyu has also taken time to teach them to read and write.

Read Taoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures, Confucian classics, and learn the principles of being a human being. At this moment, the school is empty, with only a water snake spirit "Xiaolu" sitting at the door, holding a book, shaking her head and reciting aloud.

Judging from the voice, the person being read is still from the Book of Documents.

The remaining six buildings are warehouses, storing food, fodder, elixirs, wine, cloth, tables and chairs, and other sundries.

The cloth was woven by several banshees, and Xiaoyu taught them how to make the books and paper. They brewed the wine themselves, and it tasted pretty good. It was a spiritual wine.

There is a large open space in front of the house, which is as big as three football fields. It is a training ground for practicing military formations.

Next to the martial arts arena, a pond of more than 3,000 acres and two meters deep was dug.

There are quite a few river monsters playing in the pond at this moment.

Some were soaking in the water, lying flat and motionless, some were playing in the water, some were performing martial arts in the water, and some were fighting.

There are so few people in such a large training ground.

Further away are neatly laid out fields of crops.

The original plan was to reclaim only 2,000 acres, but now it has increased to 10,000 acres.

Most of the fields were planted with a plant named "Purple Seedling" by Xiaoyu.

It can grow as tall as a corn stalk and looks a bit like an enlarged lettuce.

The stems of the purple seedlings are not edible, so you should pick the large light purple leaves on them.

It can be harvested every six months. No fertilizer or watering is needed, just regular weeding.

The large leaves are rich in water spiritual power and are a bit astringent, so water monsters don’t particularly like to eat them, but there are indeed many benefits from eating them.

It is comparable to a Zhenyuan realm warrior taking "Qi-boosting Pills".

In the outside human world, purple seedlings are definitely at the level of spiritual herbs.

That is to say, the environment of Jihe Water Palace is special and rich in water spiritual power, so this kind of spiritual herbs can be grown on a large scale.

Purple seedlings are the staple food of water monsters.

In addition, there are "cereals" similar to corn and artificially grown moss.

The fish monster likes to eat moss the most, and Xiaoyu eats at least half a pound every day.

She was almost fasting, eating only moss and not rice.

The spiritual power contained in green moss far exceeds that of purple seedlings, and its taste and texture are particularly good.

The crisp and sweet taste with the fragrance of water spirit made the river monster unable to stop.

But the yield of moss is particularly low because it needs a special nutrient to grow: dragon urine and dragon feces!
Huanglong often defecates and urinates at the entrance of the cave, so there is lush moss on the platform at the entrance.

The yellow dragon has lived in the cave for who knows how many years, and there must be some "dragon energy" left in the fields, which can grow moss, but the yield is very low.

(End of this chapter)