Sword from Songshan

Chapter 45: Twenty Years of Skill!
One month later…

Behind the mountain of Shengguan Peak, the sun sets in the west, and the afterglow shines on the pine and cypress forest. On the tortoise-shell-shaped bluestone in the forest, Lu Nanxing sits cross-legged with his five hearts facing the sky, and his whole body is coated with a layer of gold by the setting sun.

Huh~!

After a while, he let out a breath, slowly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

After practicing the Songyang Heart Method for a month, his Dantian, which was originally like an empty valley, has now accumulated a small amount of internal energy, like a small snake, sometimes coiling deep in the Dantian, and sometimes wandering through the meridians throughout the body.

"One year."

As for the amount of this internal force, Lu Nanxing estimated that it was about one year's worth.

People in the martial arts world practice internal skills and accumulate internal strength. The amount and strength of their skills are measured in units of time, roughly accurate to years.

For example, Wuyazi passed on his seventy years of skills to Xuzhu.

A person's life is but a hundred years, so seventy years of skill is already the pinnacle.

However, not everyone's inner strength is accumulated bit by bit over the years.

For example, Xu Zhu, first benefited from Wuyazi for seventy years, and then absorbed the internal strength of Tianshan Tonglao and Li Qiushui for more than one hundred years. Although he was only in his twenties, he already had two hundred years of internal strength!
For example, his good brother Duan Yu, relying on his Bei Ming magic skill, absorbs energy everywhere, and his internal energy is probably over a hundred already.

There were also the heroes Guo and Divine Condor in the late Song Dynasty, one drank snake blood and the other ate snake gall, and their internal strength also increased rapidly.

In addition, there are some people who practice special internal skills, and their internal strength increases very quickly. While others may gain strength year by year or even less than a year, they can gain strength in several years or even ten years.

"I really didn't expect that."

Lu Nanxing practiced for only one month, but his skills improved by one year, which even surprised himself.

As the basic internal skill of the Songshan School, the Songyang Heart Method is steady and strong. It is indeed a good internal skill, but it does not increase the speed of cultivation.

There are two reasons why Lu Nanxing's progress is so rapid.

One is a small wooden tripod.

Long before, Lu Nanxing had been thinking that the small wooden tripod would be of great help to his external skills training, allowing him to strengthen his finger strength in a short period of time and comprehend the broadsword version of Songshan swordsmanship.

Does the same apply to internal strength?

Now it turns out that it does apply.

When practicing internal energy, toxins will flow according to the route of practice, which means that the guiding effect is still there!
The Songyang Heart Method was stable in itself, and with the guidance of the small wooden tripod, Lu Nanxing's practice went very smoothly even without anyone watching over him.

In addition to guidance, the strengthening effect is still there.

The toxins flowed through the meridians, releasing stimulation, just like when he was practicing Eagle Claw Kung Fu, which rapidly increased his finger strength and greatly increased the speed of accumulating internal strength.

In other words, the small wooden tripod can speed up the cultivation of internal strength!

This is actually easy to understand. After all, throughout history, there have been many people who have improved their internal strength by refining poisons.

After confirming this, Lu Nanxing was excited for a long time.

As the saying goes, one force can defeat ten skills. If you have the advantage in internal strength, you will win as long as the gap in external skills is not too big.

Lu Nanxing estimated that the amplifying effect of the small wooden tripod was about three times.

In other words, he can gain three years of internal strength by practicing for one year!

By this calculation, if he had practiced hard for thirty years, wouldn't that mean he would have ninety years of internal strength? When a person reaches middle age, he can become the leader of the martial arts world!
Of course, these are things to follow.

Now, after practicing for one month, one can accumulate a year's internal strength. There is another important reason for this.

Second, the six different kinds of true qi in the body!
When they were treating his injuries, the Six Immortals of Taogu each injected a stream of true energy into Lu Nanxing's body.

The six people were crazy and mad, and Hu Zhi was so angry that he almost crippled Lu Nanxing. Fortunately, Xiao Mu Ding used poison to subdue the six streams of true qi, making them wander along the path and no longer rush around.

When Lu Nanxing was using his strength, if a certain amount of true energy happened to arrive, it could even help him fight the enemy, which could be considered a blessing in disguise.

But what was even more unexpected was that when Lu Nanxing practiced the Songyang Heart Method, he based it on the Spleen Meridian of the Foot Taiyin and the Heart Meridian of the Hand Shaoyin. When he was practicing, if the alien true qi flowed through these two meridians, it would actually be decomposed and integrated into Lu Nanxing's own internal strength.

In other words, in the process of practicing internal skills, he can absorb these six kinds of alien true qi!

It was because he absorbed some of the true qi left in his body by the Six Immortals of Taogu that he was able to accumulate a year's worth of internal strength within just one month!
"The Six Monsters really gave me a great gift."

Feeling the six kinds of alien qi flowing through his body, Lu Nanxing's eyes were burning.

Each of these six strands of true qi is about three to four years old. If all of them are absorbed, it will be twenty years of skill!

With twenty years of experience, looking at the entire martial arts world, even though he is still far from the top, he has already entered the ranks of masters!
But how to absorb these six kinds of alien true qi?
The martial arts world has been around for two thousand years, and during that time, various martial arts are as numerous as stars in the sky. Internal strength, as an important one among them, is also vast.

Although many internal skills have been lost with the passage of time, the number of internal skills remaining in the world today is still countless.

Some of these internal skills, in addition to simply accumulating internal energy, also provide additional buffs.

Some internal skills have additional attributes. A ready-made example is Zuo Lengchan's icy true qi, which has a yin-cold attribute.

Another example is the Nine Yang Divine Art, which has been lost but once dominated an era, and it has the most powerful and masculine attributes.

For example, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Power, one level is the power of a dragon and elephant, which is equivalent to the strength attribute.

In addition to these levels of magical skills, many ordinary internal skills actually have attributes.

For example, the Songyang Heart Method actually has masculine attributes, but it is not as outstanding as the Nine Yang Divine Art, so it is not taken seriously.

However, because of the small wooden tripod, Lu Nanxing can integrate the poison into his internal strength, which can be considered a good poison attribute.

In addition to attributes, some internal skills also have special effects.

Compared to accumulating internal strength, these internal skills are actually more like methods of using internal strength.

It is still Master Zhang's unique skill, the Great Shift of the Universe, which can not only take other people's martial arts and use them, but can even move the acupuncture points in the body!

A more recent example is the Huashan Sect's Zixia Magical Skill, which has an excellent healing effect, and is therefore known as 'the best of the Huashan Nine Skills, Zixia's the best'.

"There's some trouble..."

Lu Nanxing can absorb the alien true qi in his body, but this is not the effect of Songyang Heart Method.

The most important thing is the small wooden tripod.

Under normal circumstances, when foreign qi enters the body, it will either be consumed or excreted. Unless it is deliberately passed on, it is impossible to use it for one's own benefit.

The six kinds of strange true qi in Lu Nanxing's body were tamed by the small wooden tripod in advance, so it was possible to use them for his own benefit.

When these six strands of true energy travel along the cultivation path of Songyang Heart Method, it is like a truck full of sand, which will inevitably spill some sand as it bumps along the way.

But that’s all. If you want to completely absorb the six strands of true energy, how long will it take?
People are always greedy. Having this extra gain, Lu Nanxing is now asking for time.

However, objectively speaking, as time goes by, these six strands of true qi will inevitably be depleted, or later on, some of the true qi will be difficult to absorb.

What Lu Nanxing finally obtained was probably not even equivalent to twenty years of skills.

"How to do it……"

Lu Nanxing pondered in his heart, wondering if there was any way to absorb these six kinds of alien true qi as quickly and thoroughly as possible and use them completely for himself!
After a moment, he took out the meridian and acupoint map from his arms. Perhaps the answer was there.

(End of this chapter)