I am Jinshan Youxia

Of course, I still don't have a very good view of the other party's future.

Once you enter the martial arts world, you have to act like one. Do you really think the local tycoons from Henan are made of clay? Once they come down the mountain, they'll probably face attacks from martial arts practitioners. Shaolin Temple won't care about a hunter who learned rudimentary skills by donating money, and it's even less likely that they'll spend manpower and resources to protect him.

The future looks bleak.

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Everything is indeed developing as Xu Qing predicted.

Two days later, Zhang Chengyi met with the abbot again. The abbot first pointed out the good deeds he had done, but did not blame him. He patiently advised him not to commit more killings. Seeing that he showed no remorse, the abbot sighed and then took the money and did the job.

That evening, he met the monk Huifang, who was in charge of transmitting his skills to him. The two barely spoke, and Xuqing, who was leading the way, hesitated to speak.

Under his command, Zhang Chengyi sat cross-legged on the couch with his palms facing upwards. Then Huifang reached out and pressed his Baihui acupoint on the top of his head. A thin wisp of heat flowed into his head and then flowed along certain specific meridians into his body, beginning to move around rhythmically. Wherever it went, a tingling or itchy sensation would be felt.

As the heat rushed in, he felt dizzy and his body was burning hot. Just as he was about to faint, he simply logged out of his body and returned to the perspective of the world outside. He saw that the data that could be increased or decreased in his body had been expanded to include [Internal Force], and he chuckled.

Before long, Monk Huifang withdrew his palm, sweating profusely. Even though he had imparted some basic internal energy, his energy was greatly depleted. He looked at Zhang Chengyi, whose eyes were half-closed and half-open, with some doubt.

Those who receive the power usually either faint or endure the pain, but this person only felt pain for a short while before becoming expressionless and unable to move.

Has the pain made you stupid?

"All done?" Zhang Chengyi asked casually as he logged back into his body data.

Huifang stood up, left a booklet behind, and left without a word, her face cold.

After the elders left, Xu Qing said, "Benefactor, please descend the mountain before noon tomorrow."

"Okay." Zhang Chengyi knew why the other person had that expression. No monk would be happy to accept that their Buddhist sect could be bribed with money, but that was the truth.

How can a person live a life without desires and wants? And for such a large sect to operate, money is indispensable.

Chapter 5 Plus!

"By the way, what's the name of my cultivation technique?"

Zhang Chengyi asked with great interest.

“Nameless,” Xu Qing replied. “It is merely an internal energy cultivation method casually created by a senior master, primarily for health preservation and longevity. Its internal energy is balanced and harmonious, making it very suitable for beginners like you.”

Health preservation and longevity?

Okay, as long as it's available.

Zhang Chengyi accepted it readily. He picked up the booklet, flipped through it casually, and asked, "For example, if my internal strength suddenly increased dozens or hundreds of times, would my body explode?"

In the novel, after Duan Yu absorbed so much internal energy, he felt like his chest was about to explode. What if something went wrong if he added more later?

"Uh," Xu Qing was stumped by this question. You are a novice who has received the power transfer and will most likely only practice it for fun in the future. Why would you consider increasing your internal strength by a hundred times?

Isn't this just needless worry?

He suppressed a laugh, thought for a moment, and said, "This nameless mental cultivation method contains a method for guiding qi back to emptiness, which can store internal energy in the internal organs, so the amount of internal energy is not a problem."

It takes more than twenty years of cultivation to reach the point where one must guide the Qi back to emptiness. He said this with more of a joking tone than a genuine statement.

Of course, since the Shaolin Temple had received the money, they wouldn't tamper with the martial arts techniques.

I think this term was mentioned in the novel *Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils*...

Thanks to his exceptional memory gained from not being human, Zhang Chengyi recalled the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" that he had read in his previous life. Indeed, Duan Yu had also guided his internal energy to a state of emptiness, storing all his internal strength within his five internal organs.

The book also specifically mentions that the internal organs of the human body are the five viscera and six bowels, which can store internal energy. After Duan Yu stored his internal energy in his inner palace, he felt light and floaty, as if he were about to fly into the air.

"Thank you." He thanked them, then remembered that having internal energy and knowing how to use it were two completely different things in the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils," and quickly asked, "How do I use my internal energy?"

Duan Yu's meridians, which he hadn't practiced, were easily suppressed by Kumārajīva's acupoint strikes. No matter how strong one's internal energy is, it cannot be dispersed throughout the limbs and bones at will, otherwise, like Duan Yu, one will feel as if the energy is about to burst. However, after guiding the Qi back to emptiness, using internal energy requires going through the meridians, making it easy for someone to suppress one's acupoints.

Sigh, it seems that having internal strength alone isn't enough.

If I have to spend time learning martial arts and weaponry, that would be a real pain. Should I start planning the Six Meridians Divine Sword?

But isn't it a bit strange for a hero to try and steal from a good person?

He was somewhat embarrassed.

Xu Qing shook his head inwardly. He really knew nothing about martial arts, yet he still wanted to learn. It was hard to give a proper evaluation. But out of consideration for their relationship, he patiently explained, "The book in your hand contains simple methods for using internal energy and cultivating meridians."

With the opponent's limited internal strength, they probably wouldn't even be able to maintain sharp hearing and vision after channeling their energy; that's far too little.

Moreover, Shaolin Temple's martial arts emphasize both body and application. Body refers to internal strength, while application refers to the methods of using it. This is true for the Seventy-Two Arts, and even more so for other martial arts. This nameless health cultivation method left by the senior monks involves applying techniques throughout the body to nourish it.

The advantage is that you can train more meridians, but the disadvantage is that your internal energy has little destructive power, and you will achieve less and less results when practicing other fist, foot and weapon skills.

The abbot's intention in passing on this martial arts technique to Zhang Chengyi was quite clear: he did not want Zhang to use Shaolin's martial arts for fighting and killing.

Anyway, you didn't specify any particular mental cultivation method, right?

There are probably only twenty or thirty of these kinds of mental cultivation techniques in the entire martial arts world, if not hundreds or thousands. Once they are passed down, it takes at least several decades to master them. They are the most basic and rudimentary mental cultivation techniques. Their only advantage is that they were created casually by Shaolin monks, and some of their meridian circulation methods are unique.

But... if we go down the mountain tomorrow, is there really a future?

Xu Qing said, "Tomorrow, I will escort you to Dengfeng County at the foot of the mountain. If you have any questions, feel free to come to the next door to find me."

After saying that, seeing that the other party did not ask any other strange questions, he got up and left.

【very good】

Seeing that he was alone in the room, Zhang Chengyi rubbed his hands together, opened the booklet, and began to read it carefully.

The writing and drawing above are very straightforward, without any beating around the bush. The Shaolin Temple genuinely intended to pass on its martial arts techniques.

The first half of the book is about how internal energy circulates and how to cultivate the meridians. The lines are drawn very clearly. In order to make it easy for a novice like him to understand, the first page is a diagram of the human meridian system.

He wasn't a real 'human,' but rather a 'genius' modder from the Kingsoft Game Ranger. His ability to memorize things was unmatched by humans. Taking a screenshot was equivalent to memorizing it. His comprehension ability aside, his memorization ability was absolutely unparalleled.

After memorizing the human meridian diagram, he slowly circulated his internal energy throughout his body to familiarize himself with it, and then decisively accessed the body's data.

The negative states of [Internal Injury], [Hunger], and [Fatigue] have disappeared. Under [Constitution], there is now an [Internal Force] stat. He uses the current amount of internal force in his body as one and then tries to adjust it to two.

What was originally just a wisp of heat instantly expanded to twice its original size, as if it had always been that much.

His ability to adjust data is absolute; he can forcibly skip any conditions and directly set something to a different quantity, whether more or less.

Zhang Chengyi circulated his internal energy again, and after getting used to it, he doubled the amount.

Perhaps because his initial internal energy was too low, he didn't feel much difference when he doubled it. Then he became bolder and directly increased it to ten, since he could always reduce it back if there were any problems.

After increasing it to ten, his internal energy increased fivefold. He immediately felt a bit bloated, with hot air swirling around, but he quickly gathered it back and suppressed it to continue circulating.

The internal energy in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils isn't something you can use immediately. You need to connect your mind and qi, and then train your meridians. For details, just look at the part where Duan Yu's Six Meridian Divine Sword works intermittently. This is especially true for Shaolin Temple's martial arts.

That's why it's called a mental cultivation method, like the Shaolin mental cultivation method.

But this is a bit off with Zhang Chengyi, because he has no heart at all.

Literally, he has no heart. He controls this body by logging in, so his perspective is naturally detached. To use a more idealistic term, he is "free and unfettered".

Others can only be used if they are compatible, but he forces them to work, regardless of whether they are compatible or not!

The cost is that the power he unleashes will be greatly reduced. The mental cultivation method he practices is originally a health preservation method, and his mind and qi are not in harmony. When he exerts ten parts of his strength to unleash his power, it is at most about four or five parts less than that of others.

But there are advantages too; at least you can use internal energy in a simple and direct way.

Such a small benefit would be a catastrophe for any martial arts practitioner, but it was nothing to Zhang Chengyi.

Give me ten times more, ten times more per minute! If others see this, they'll think I can't afford it!

After figuring it out, he viciously embarked on his own path of increasing strength through a cycle of adding points, familiarizing himself with the skills, and then adding more points.

Chapter 6 Am I awesome?

two thousand.

As the title suggests, Zhang Chengyi's internal strength ultimately settled at two thousand.

Two thousand times the internal strength of the beginner's health cultivation method, which is equivalent to many years of practice, cannot be increased any further, which proves that the body has reached its limit and there is no way to continue to increase it.

Even if one is unwilling, internal energy can still exert some effect. Forced melons are never sweet, but they can quench thirst.

As long as he's happy, that's all that matters.

When his internal energy reached 100, he experienced a feeling of his chest and abdomen swelling, similar to the feeling Duan Yu experienced in the novel, but much easier, since his internal energy was entirely his own, while Duan Yu's was obtained through a combination of online shopping and other means.

After a simple process of guiding the Qi back to its original state, everything returned to calm.

Adding it to five hundred will give you sharp hearing and eyesight, and agile hands and feet. When your internal energy reaches this point, even if you instinctively strengthen your body according to your will, you can take a step that is three zhang (approximately 10 meters) long, and with a little effort, you can jump and touch a beam several meters high.

The maximum value of Constitution has increased from 2.2 to 4, almost doubling, after maxing out Constitution as well.

Even without mastering palm or finger techniques, and with only a fraction of their power applied, they could extinguish a candle several feet away with a single flick of their wrist.

The candlesticks were also smashed.

This isn't the ability to project internal force; it's simply air being flung out by finger force amplified by internal force.

He didn't test the destructive power, since it's never good to break anything.

When the energy reaches 1000, the body feels as light as if it's about to fly. By circulating internal energy and lightly touching the ground, the whole person glides out until it touches the wall. The energy is far from exhausted. Roughly calculated, it can glide for at least several tens of meters. Circulating energy to the fullest on the mountain, what difference is there between that and flying?

The problem is that he doesn't know how to release his true energy. Just like Duan Yu when he first saw the Six Meridians Divine Sword, when he tried to channel his energy to his fingertips or palms, he only felt swelling and discomfort. He couldn't release it, let alone operate it outside his body.

Any martial art that releases internal energy externally is considered a supreme skill. His nameless health cultivation method doesn't even include martial arts involving fists, feet, palms, or fingers, let alone martial arts that release internal energy externally.

Otherwise, he would at least create a three-foot-high air wall to play with.

However, at this point, it's just a simple accumulation of internal energy. When it exceeds 870 times, any additional internal energy can only remain in the internal organs. The internal energy that has settled in the body cannot be used at the same time, nor can it further strengthen the body.

The same principle applies to 1,500 and 2,000. When you reach 2,000, even the body's ability to withstand internal force reaches its limit.

He felt that it might be partly due to physical limitations, and partly because the mental cultivation method he had learned could only control his internal energy up to a maximum of 800 times, and he couldn't control it any higher.

Reaching the human body's limit of two thousand, the only advantage is that internal energy is not only stored in the internal organs, but also fills the external meridians. Unlike others who need to circulate their internal energy to draw out true energy from their internal organs, he continuously consumes and strengthens his body with every move he makes.

Incidentally, the negative status effect of [nearsightedness] disappeared, but [hair loss] and [athlete's foot] remained. He also didn't become more handsome because of his unprecedentedly strong internal energy. If this body were really handsome, his wife wouldn't have run away back then.

Well, the idea that all top-tier martial arts masters are handsome is just wishful thinking on the part of ordinary people.

Who knows, there might be some unparalleled master who hasn't yet emerged from seclusion, suffering from hair loss and athlete's foot.

For the first time, his status bar displayed a positive status: "Longevity." The effect was somewhat useless for him right now, but something was better than nothing, and he might need it in the future.

Getting back to the point, with his internal strength so high, even if he knew nothing about martial arts, his physical attributes, enhanced by his internal strength alone, would be unparalleled. His only fear was poison.