I Come to Teach You Cultivation-Chapter 46 - 2: The Beginning of Cultivation · 100 Days of Foundation Building
After confirming that breathing rhythm can indeed affect Life Essence Qi, Li Boyang quickly discovered a new problem.
That is, his situation is quite unique and cannot be used as a normal template for reference.
Even if the impact of the Nai Fu curse is excluded.
Li Boyang absorbed enough "Innate Qi" before he was born, and his development and potential far exceed that of normal humans.
From the perspective of the Celestial Eye between his eyebrows, the surging Life Essence Qi within Li Boyang was as intense and vigorous as a blazing fire.
In contrast, the Big Girl who has endured hunger for so long.
The Life Essence Qi within her is so weak, it’s like a flame that could extinguish at any moment.
Li Boyang only needs to adjust his breathing slightly to clearly notice changes in the flow of Life Essence Qi.
But the same breathing rhythm made the Life Essence Qi in the Big Girl’s body flow even weaker.
Helplessly, Li Boyang could only use the Big Girl herself as a template, teaching her hands-on how to regulate the Life Essence Qi within.
It started with diet.
One must eat fully and well, but without overeating out of greed.
In this process, Xiluo’s contributions are the most obvious.
The meat and herbs from mountain beasts provided the Big Girl, who was in her growth phase, with the best nutritional supplement.
Secondly, Li Boyang specifically changed the Big Girl’s routine and behavior pattern.
For naturally playful children, this is undoubtedly the most challenging step.
Fortunately, Li Boyang used a carrot-and-stick approach in training.
After passing the initial stage, the Life Essence Qi in the Big Girl’s body underwent a qualitative transformation.
When learning the second edition of the "Sports Type Life Energy Regulation Breathing Method," the Big Girl first genuinely felt the flow of Life Essence Qi within her.
The ever-growing Life Essence Qi could finally be clearly felt without Li Boyang’s hints and reminders.
The Big Girl celebrated this occurrence for nearly half a month.
Once one can feel the flow of Life Essence Qi, everything that follows occurs naturally.
With reference to the meridian and Alchemy Dao theories from a past life, combined with personal trial and error experiences.
Li Boyang taught the Big Girl to constrain the flowing Life Essence Qi within the meridians, rather than let it scatter meaninglessly outside the body.
Of course, it’s not that Li Boyang didn’t want to go straight to letting the Big Girl converge her Life Essence Qi into the Dantian.
But because Li Boyang was astonished to realize that not everyone is born with clear meridians like himself.
Everyone’s body inevitably has some flaws and weaknesses.
These flaws and weaknesses affect the transparency of the meridians—where there’s flow, there’s no pain; where there’s pain, there’s no flow.
It’s a simple common sense in traditional Chinese medicine, and in this world, it’s no different.
Therefore, to unblock those meridians in the Big Girl’s body, obstructed for various reasons.
Li Boyang employed a combination of exercise, dietary supplements, and nourishing therapies, custom-tailoring an exercise method that uses movement to alter breathing rhythms.
This process took about a year.
Finally, the Life Essence Qi in the Big Girl’s body flowed smoothly, barely forming the most basic Circulation of Heaven.
Since then, even without Li Boyang’s help, the Big Girl could convert her body’s blood and Qi into Life Essence Qi, then channel it into the Dantian through the meridian system.
From then on, the Big Girl began revealing her extraordinary side.
Unobstructed meridians mean immunity from a hundred diseases.
The Big Girl, once skin and bone, frail and often ill, grew stronger at a visible pace.
The various meats and herbs she consumed were converted into growth nutrients with remarkable efficiency.
Running up and down hills behind Li Boyang became the Big Girl’s daily routine during that period.
Wild beasts in the mountains encountering the Big Girl during that time.
Forget preying on her, they’d be lucky if they weren’t captured and beaten by her.
Cunning like a fox, swift like a leopard, mighty like a tiger, robust like an ox, ferocious like a bear...
This was the Big Girl, who completed the first stage of cultivation—a "Qi Cultivator" who could now skillfully bind Life Essence Qi within her body.
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"I call this ’Refining Essence and Qi,’ and this stage the ’Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment.’
"For beings like us who are Innate Divine, with abundant Innate Primordial Qi, we skip this stage at birth."
"But for ordinary people like the Big Girl to reach a level like us..."
"They must Return to the Origin, transforming from an Acquired Body back to an Innate Body."
Decisively ignoring the terms Li Boyang used that she couldn’t understand, Xiluo interpreted "Refining Essence and Qi" in her own way.
"Simply put, you’ve artificially created a ’Divine Ability User.’"
"Though this Divine Ability User lacks any Innate Divine Power, her physical qualities have indeed reached the level of a Spirit Monster."
As Xiluo whispered, she suddenly realized something off.
"Wait, wasn’t my question about something else?"
"This girl’s physical qualities now far exceed that of a Spirit Monster, almost comparable to mine?"
Ordinary Spirit Monsters may be stronger than beasts.
But they certainly can’t climb and leap, bounding between rooftops like the Big Girl, treating cliffs as nothing.
"So this is the content I added in the seventh edition of the breathing technique—how to correctly use Life Essence Qi."
Li Boyang, proud, shook his head; it was something he thought of suddenly in a flash of inspiration.
"Binding Life Essence Qi within the meridians can subtly strengthen one’s body, even slowing aging compared to ordinary people."
"But those are merely passive effects, and not an active use of Life Essence Qi."
"Unlike you and me, the Big Girl wasn’t born favored by the heavens, where our Primordial Qi actively responds to our thoughts, uncovering our unique Innate Divine Powers..."
"So, how is she supposed to actively use her Life Essence Qi?"
Pausing briefly, Li Boyang continued explaining to the contemplative Xiluo.
"The answer is consciously and actively controlling the flow of Life Essence Qi..."
"Then letting that Life Essence Qi break free from the confinement of meridians and return to the flesh."
"Life Essence Qi is originally derived from blood and flesh, a product of purifying Qi and blood energy."
"So having Life Essence Qi actively circulate through the flesh, substituting its effects for Qi and blood, can naturally greatly enhance physical strength and healing speed."
"Not only that, during the flow of Life Essence Qi, the Big Girl’s body surface will generate a special effect akin to ’Body-Protecting Gang Qi.’
As Li Boyang spoke, he raised his hand.
Invisible Body-Protecting Sword Qi covered his hand, demonstrating a sharpness able to cut steel and iron.
"This ’Body-Protecting Gang Qi’ isn’t as aggressively sharp as ’Body-Protecting Sword Qi,’"
"But it ensures she won’t die from a fall off a cliff."
"For you and me, this is an innate instinct."
"But for the Big Girl, this is a skill that requires hard training to learn."
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