Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 227: Stealing Heaven Sword Formation
If you want to leverage more of the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth in a collective way, you must first understand how the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth is absorbed and utilized by the human body.

Many people who practice martial arts have only a vague understanding of this, or are even completely confused.

Believe that everything will happen naturally.

Even in the low-level martial arts world, the vast majority of warriors have never touched the threshold of refining the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth. They have always been just tempering their own Qi and blood, and absorbing nutrients from food and medicinal herbs.

But Qiu Chuji was different. He had a successful soul and a bird's-eye view, and he had a deep understanding of the key points involved.

When practicing cultivation by absorbing the vital energy of heaven and earth, the physical body is primarily strengthened first. However, in order to absorb the vital energy of heaven and earth, it is the spiritual belief that needs to be mobilized.

Therefore, cultivating inner strength requires concentration and calmness, and most people need a long period of training and familiarity before they can barely get started.

Most of the martial arts that can cultivate inner strength during exercise also have a 'calming' quality, and they also require training and habit to gradually find the key points, rather than a simple process where you can use it directly after learning it.

The reason behind this is that if a person is used to running, then while running he can also achieve a state of tranquility and concentration where he is completely detached from the world.

Its essential purpose is the same as sitting in a quiet place and meditating, regulating your breathing.

It is said that one can refine essence into qi, and refine qi into spirit. However, in order to absorb the essence of heaven and earth into the body, one still needs mental coordination. Essence, qi and spirit are complementary to each other and cannot be separated from the beginning.

Based on this, the so-called dragon energy and dragon veins are composed partly of the recognition and identification of all living beings in a certain form of society. These spirits are condensed in the sky, gathering a large amount of the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth, wandering ownerlessly between heaven and earth.

Once this social form is completely dissolved, the primordial Qi condensed between heaven and earth by this spirit will also begin to disintegrate in massive quantities until only one in a hundred remains.

What Qiu Chuji called "cutting the dragon vein" before was to interfere with the operation of social laws with personal behavior, robbing this part of the Yuan Qi stored between heaven and earth for private use, and then taking it for personal use.

Although it was very refreshing, it also created a great cause and effect relationship with the heaven and earth.

If he dies in this world in the future, the cycle of life and death will continue on its own. Needless to say, there is no cause and effect.

But if you plan to live forever or run away with the money, you will be incurring a huge debt and will get into trouble sooner or later if you don't pay it back.

Of course, when the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth and spiritual aspirations gather together and become entangled, they will also combine with various natural rules to produce various changes and extend more mysteries.

If Qiu Chuji wanted to emulate this, he had to find a martial art of willpower that could be effective on a group basis, unify the originally disunited spirits, and use the spiritual energy of collective resonance to pry open the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth and bring out the vaster power within heaven and earth.

What one person cannot do, a group of people can do.

Qiu Chuji walked to the top of the mountain alone and sat under a tree to deduce the entity within the small world. He used the innate diagram to help screen possibilities, speed up the process, and first eliminate those boundless delusions that were wild but had no basis.

As for the various existing military formations, sword formations, etc., they are not applicable! They can only be used as reference.

Although they also use the power and spirit of the group to tie up a part of the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth, and transform it into the formation for use by people, it is too messy. It can be used roughly when it is manifested on the outside, but trying to forcibly absorb it into the body is seeking death.

"Military formations, sword formations, or Qimen Dunjia formations all make use of variables and numbers."

"But since it is a collective formation used for cultivation and to pry open the primordial energy of heaven and earth, what is needed is not change, but a unified unchanging state."

Qiu Chuji deduced quickly, his eyes shining as brightly as stars.

After spending three days and three nights, I finally compiled the complete first version of the "Heaven-Stealing Sword Formation".

This set of sword formations is divided into four aspects: sword techniques, mantras, mental methods, and primary and secondary yin and yang changes. The first is the sword technique, which is a 'routine' of dynamic exercises to calm the mind. Through collective practice of this sword technique, one can enter a state of emptiness and clarity more quickly.

Then comes the mantra, which is used to stabilize emotions. Under the guidance of the mantra, everyone can quickly mobilize their spirits and achieve resonance.

The Heart Law uses the human body as a link and one's own skills as converters to carry out the first wave of conversion on the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth summoned into the sword formation, so as to purify it simply.

The final change of yin and yang is that different veins are divided in the sword formation. The Yin veins are responsible for training Qi, while the Yang veins are responsible for gathering Qi. The two change and transfer, which is equivalent to protecting each other.

This also prevents the enemy from getting close to you during group practice, seeing through your tricks, and attacking one of them, which would affect the group and cause everyone to be defeated together.

The so-called conversion of the yin and yang meridians help each other, which is like the healing chapter in the Nine Yin Scriptures. Guo Jing and Huang Rong hid in a secret room and practiced palm to palm. Even if they prepared food and water in advance, it was far from enough to keep up with the consumption. The important thing was to extract energy from the heaven and earth to replenish themselves.

The reason why the two need to practice together is that one helps to purify, while the other can absorb and practice steadily.

The Jade Maiden Heart Sutra has the same effect, forcibly intercepting the vital energy of heaven and earth for cultivation. It is highly unlikely that one person can simultaneously focus on guiding the true energy and distract himself to purify the vital energy of heaven and earth. This requires the cooperation of two people, who can assist each other's brains.

When Qiu Chuji found Ma Yu with this version of the "Heaven-stealing Sword Formation" and asked him to arrange his disciples to practice according to it, Ma Yu was stunned by Qiu Chuji's handwriting.

Although Ma Yu's martial arts skills are average, his internal strength is the strongest among the Seven Quanzhen Masters... Of course, the current Qiu Chuji is not included.

Not only that, Ma Yu was also very proficient in Taoist alchemy and various theories. When he saw Qiu Chuji's "Stealing Heaven Sword Formation", he was completely astounded.

If this sword formation is modified a little, it can completely turn hundreds of disciples into tools, letting them help pry and collect the heaven and earth's primordial qi, purify and transform it, and supply it to one person for cultivation. As long as the recipient in the formation can absorb it, it can really be achieved in a short period of time with the help of this sword formation. Increase the power.

"If I, Quanzhen, possess such a sword formation, it might be a disaster rather than a blessing!" Ma Yu rubbed his fingers against the thin pages of paper in his hand. He was greatly shocked and at the same time, he fell into great entanglement.

If this method of stealing the secrets of heaven is used well, it can be enough to quickly add a large number of masters to the Quanzhen Sect and establish a thousand-year foundation.

In the future, Quanzhen Sect will not only be the number one sect in the world for a while, but will replace Shaolin and completely become the thousand-year leader of the righteous path and the undisputed helmsman of the martial arts world.

But at the same time, once the news spreads, Quanzhen Sect will become a target coveted by martial artists all over the world.

Even the various imperial courts would take action upon hearing the news.

All countries and dynasties did not take people from the martial arts world seriously. Firstly, the success rate was not high. Secondly, ordinary martial artists were no match for the army and the threat they posed was limited.

Everyone knows that people in the martial arts world have high combat power and their individual strength advantage is very obvious. Has no one ever imagined organizing them into an army and then conquering the world?

Of course some people have thought about it, but it is not realistic.

The saying that people in the martial arts world are unrestrained is all false. The key is that the success rate is low, and the training of each master requires a lot of resources, some of which are non-renewable.

Often, the forces of various countries can only be cultivated in small quantities and used in key places, such as guarding the royal family, gathering intelligence, controlling the world, etc.

The army was too large, and ordinary soldiers were asked to practice real martial arts when they couldn't even get enough meat, rice, or flour, let alone various medicinal materials. How could they practice martial arts? What the hell!

If a hundred people train for three months, seventy or eighty of them will die.

Even in the martial arts sects in the mountains, if they were not rich in industry, basically not everyone would practice martial arts. Most of them would be outer disciples who only learned rudimentary boxing and kicking. The inner elites who could inherit the internal skills were always a minority.

In the past, Qiu Chuji harmed many small animals in the mountains in order to practice martial arts.

But if this method can be popularized in the army, then no matter which army obtains it, it will be able to quickly improve its combat effectiveness and gain an overwhelming advantage in the quality of its soldiers, because the infusion of the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth replaces the consumption of food and medicine.

Even if they have not become masters, a team of 3,000 people, each of whom has reached the third-rate standard in the martial arts world, is a terrifying force.

In the era of cold weapons, the deterrent power of such a team was enough to make people tremble with fear.

Soldiers with inner strength can wear thicker armor, hold heavier weapons, and after being armed to the teeth, they can rush into the army formation and be like a torrent of destruction.

Ma Yu seemed to have thought of all the terrible consequences and possibilities. He shuddered and handed the paper back to Qiu Chuji: "Master sealed up the Nine Yin Manual and did not pass it on to us Quanzhen disciples because he did not want to cause trouble and lead to further turmoil in the martial arts world."

"Now that you have used this Heaven-stealing Sword Formation, the Nine Yin Manual... is nothing."

"It's better to put it away quickly and save it for later."

Ma Yu sighed in his heart and his face was bitter.

At this moment, he felt the pain of being in the treasure house but leaving empty-handed.

"Brother is considering this!"

"I was not careful enough!" Qiu Chuji did not insist. He really wanted to strengthen the Quanzhen Sect in this world, but there was no need to rush.

You have to take one step at a time; if you take big steps, you'll easily end up talking nonsense.

Of course, the Heaven-Stealing Sword Formation can never be shelved. Just because it is unusable in the current time and space does not mean that the other Quanzhen Sect in the time and space it originally belonged to is unusable.

The Quanzhen Sect, which has become the state religion of the new dynasty and is highly tied to the entire country, needs something like the Heaven-stealing Sword Formation to help its disciples to further their training and make the strength level of all the disciples of the Quanzhen Sect much higher than the collective level of the entire martial arts world.

In a flash, the main body escaped from the small world, took the newly deduced Heaven-stealing Sword Formation, and went to Chongyang Palace to look for another Ma Yu.

In front of Qiu Chuji, the older version of Ma Yu hesitated again and again and asked: "Can this sword formation... be practiced and used on a small scale?"

"Junior brother, if we keep it a secret..."

"Brother, do you want to limit the practice to just our fellow disciples?" Qiu Chuji asked.

Ma Yu nodded, then shook his head: "We can also find a few suitable ones among the next generation of disciples to focus on training."

Qiu Chuji said, "Then I have to think of a way to revise it. The current version is not effective enough without enough people. It's better for me to meditate and practice by myself."

(End of this chapter)