The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 71: Mountains and Cranes, Floating and Sinking, Light and Heavy

In the cave, the fire was dim, with only firewood left.

Xu Xingchen lay on his side on the stone bed, his face cast into shadow and his brows slightly furrowed.

He could feel that he was dreaming.
Sometimes it turns into a mountain, heavy and vast, suppressing the four poles; sometimes it turns into a crane, light and flying, soaring in all directions.
His body kept switching between the mountains and the cranes, and his perspective also shifted back and forth.

Even in dreams, the heaviness of the mountains and the lightness of the cranes are still so deep in my bones and so impressive.

In fact, he could empathize with her more and feel her emotions more deeply than when he was awake.

Mountain.Crane.
Heavy.Light.
Sink. Float.
Repeating it over and over again, the feeling became deeper and more obvious. For a moment, it seemed as if he had really turned into an immovable mountain, or a carefree crane.
Xu Xingchen suddenly woke up from his sleep, recalling the lingering scene in his dream and feeling the internal force stirring in his body. A flash of inspiration came to his mind and a wonderful idea was born.

He immediately sat cross-legged, his mind following the body's instincts, consciously or unconsciously driving the inner strength that was ready to flow naturally.

His mind was highly focused, carefully feeling the direction that the internal force wanted to move when it passed through each meridian intersection, and then gently pushed and guided it.
Step by step, the internal force moved very slowly, so slowly that sometimes it would stay at a fork in the road and hesitate for a long time, so slowly that Xu Xingchen needed to carefully distinguish for a long time before he could identify the correct direction to move forward from its instinctive hesitation.

Xu Xingchen was doing two things at once. On the one hand, he tried his best to maintain the afterglow of the dream in his mind, especially the feeling of the wonderful artistic conception between the mountains and cranes, heavy and light, sinking and floating; on the other hand, he was carefully identifying the meridian paths that his internal force wanted to move forward under the drive of that artistic conception, and carefully guiding it forward.

Every step must be taken as if walking on thin ice, and one must be extremely cautious and not allow for the slightest carelessness!

This is something that requires enough patience, a calm mind, and a strong enough spirit to accomplish.

Fortunately, Xu Xingchen possesses all three.

He seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Time passes little by little
The bonfire was completely reduced to ashes.
Outside in the night sky, the stars are moving and the bright moon is setting in the west.
When the sun rose and the sunlight illuminated the world, Xu Xingchen finally grasped the last tail of the lingering artistic conception in his mind, and formed a complete closed loop of internal force in the meridians and internal organs, synthesizing the first tiny wisp of true qi.

Buzz~~~!

A sound like a huge bell appeared in Xu Xingchen's mind.

That is the cheer that comes from the body's instinct, and that is the congratulatory sound generated by the subconscious mind.

At this moment, Xu Xingchen suddenly understood and felt that this newborn true energy was the most suitable force for his body and the most compatible with his spiritual will.

The newly generated true energy, like a tiny spirit snake, coiled and moved back and forth in his dantian. It was sometimes light and agile, and sometimes heavy and steady, depending on his thoughts.

Floating and sinking.
Light and heavy.
Two completely different characteristics appear at the same time in a strand of true qi, just like the two opposites of Tai Chi, which can coexist and transform into each other. It is mysterious and wonderful, and extremely strange.

Xu Xingchen felt the characteristics of the new true qi, and his heart was filled with endless joy.

Although he has been studying hard these days without sleep or food, he has been facing many difficulties and has made little progress in achieving the two goals he set at the beginning.

His future enemies were too powerful, so powerful that he would often feel heavy pressure.

(This guy is so arrogant that he has consciously positioned his opponents at the level of Ren Woxing and Dongfang Bubai.)

In order to restrain the ghostly speed of the Exorcism Sword Technique (Sunflower Manual), he pondered the mysterious charm of the sword technique day and night, wanting to enhance the power of "The First Sword of Mount Hua".

However, no matter how many times he tried, as the complicated sword moves were reduced, the power of the sword technique would also weaken, and he could not find a way to enhance the charm of the sword technique.
The Star-Absorbing Technique was strange and terrifying, and he could only think of three ways to deal with it.

The first method is to cultivate one's inner strength to an extremely pure level, until one can use it at will and control it with ease. This will make it so that the Star Absorbing Technique will be unable to absorb anything and will not take effect.
The second method is to use Zuo Lengchan's Ice Qi to make Ren Woxing's meridians blocked after absorbing it.
The third method is to fight against the vortex force generated by the Star Absorbing Technique. This is more difficult.
these days
In terms of swordsmanship, there are goals, but they are difficult to put into practice!

In terms of martial arts, even though he has the three magical skills in hand and his understanding of the internal force in Dantian and the five qi in the chest is increasing day by day, he still has no clue and no direction when it comes to creating a new martial art!

If it weren't for his strong character, fearlessness of failure, and the presence of several fellow students who came to entertain and keep him company, if it were anyone else, that spirit would have probably faded long ago.

Maybe what you think about during the day you dream about at night.

Last night's dream, which was connected to the situation where the internal force in Dantian was ready to move, gave Xu Xingchen a flash of inspiration. He thought of using the charm of dreams to mobilize the internal force and find a way out for himself, and he immediately stood up to execute it.

The result was unexpectedly successful!

Feeling the subtle true energy in his dantian that was completely different from his internal strength, Xu Xingchen confirmed again and again and found that he was not dreaming. He suddenly opened his eyes and burst into laughter.

He slapped the stone bed with both palms, his body floated up, and his feet landed on the ground.

He grabbed the long sword, walked out of the cave quickly, and danced with the sword in the clearing in the forest. The sword flashed, sometimes swift and sharp, sometimes as gentle as the wind. He waved for half an hour, and finally cut off a dead tree as thick as a bowl, and then put the sword back into the sheath.

Watching the dead wood slowly fall to the ground, Xu Xingchen smiled and said, "Great, there's new firewood!"

After venting his anger just now, his mood finally calmed down a little, and he finally had the mind to recall the feeling when he used that strand of true energy just now.

That strand of true energy was too tiny, but it already revealed extraordinary effects.

When the true energy is added to the circulating internal force, his sword can become lighter and faster, or heavier and stronger.

Even his body movements have changed significantly, he can move at any speed, any weight, and any speed as he wishes.
He had a feeling that when all his internal energy was transformed into this new kind of true energy, his lightness skill would have a great breakthrough, even faster than when he was practicing the Crane's Lie in the Nine Skies magic skill.

"In this world, the first person to cultivate inner strength may have relied on external training."

"But the first person who cultivated true qi should be like me last night, using the spirit and thoughts as the guide to guide the internal force and the five qi in the chest to form a preliminary combination."

"Otherwise, I really can't figure out how the first person who cultivated true qi could do this."

After picking up some firewood, Xu Xingchen returned to the cave and rekindled the bonfire while thinking in his mind.

In the next few days, without any senior brothers coming to disturb him, Xu Xingchen began to transform all the internal force in his Dantian into true Qi.

This process was longer than he expected.

Every time a practice was completed and every strand of true qi was born, it seemed to produce some tiny adjustments to his body, making his body more adaptable to the flow of this new true qi.

When the internal force was converted into true energy to one quarter, Xu Xingchen even felt a little uneasy because of this fine-tuning. His height was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This extremely obvious change made him slow down the transformation!

One day, the third brother Liang Fa came up the mountain with a food box. When he saw Xu Xingchen, he was surprised and asked in a daze, "Little brother, have you grown taller again?"

Xu Xingchen smiled helplessly: "Yes, I am sixteen years old this year, and my body has begun to grow again!"

"." Third brother Liang Fa stared at the younger brother for a long while, extremely speechless.

After entering the cave and putting down the food box, Liang Fa waited until Xu Xingchen had eaten and drunk his fill. Then he asked his junior brother to teach him martial arts again.

Since being instructed by the younger junior brother, several senior brothers have made rapid progress in martial arts. As a result, those who have tasted the sweetness have come more frequently.

Xu Xingchen also did his best to give advice and improve the combat effectiveness of several people in order to cope with the increasingly dangerous situation in the future.

It’s a pity that although he wanted to give guidance, several senior brothers were limited by their talents. Each time he only explained a few sentences, and several senior brothers had to go back and think for a long time before they could understand the whole thing.

Really powerless!
In the following days, several senior brothers took turns to deliver meals. When everyone saw Xu Xingchen for the first time, they were all surprised and the first thing they said was: "Junior brother, you have grown taller again."

Xu Xingchen could only respond with a helpless smile every time: "Yes, I'm starting to grow again!"

It took a month to transform the internal force into true qi.

It didn't have to take so long, but he deliberately slowed down the conversion to be cautious.

This day, late at night
Xu Xingchen sat cross-legged on the stone bed, practicing his final internal energy transformation into true Qi!
When all his internal energy was transformed into true energy, his body suddenly shook violently, and his bones began to crackle and explode.
The sound may not seem loud to outsiders, but in his own ears, it is like thunder, shaking the earth!
First, the bones of all sizes in his hands, feet, and limbs began to explode, and then the joints of the entire spine joined in the explosion. In the end, he even felt his own skull crackling, shaking his entire head to the point of feeling dizzy and confused.

This is the body making the final overall fine-tuning
In Xu Xingchen's heart, the sound of thunder was like the creation of the world. By the time it was over, no one knew how much time had passed.

In fact, only a dozen breaths of time had passed in the outside world.

When he opened his eyes again, a gleam of light as solid as substance flashed in his eyes.

In the cave, only the bonfire was left with a faint glow and the light was dim, making it almost impossible to see anything.

But when Xu Xingchen glanced at it, he could still see the texture on the stone wall opposite clearly, as if it were daytime.

Apart from that, he felt as if a heavy shackle had been lifted off his body. He felt extremely light and happy.

He even felt his body, changing from light to heavy with his breathing, becoming extremely mysterious.
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