Eternal Life: Starting from Immortality
Chapter 12

Internal Energy

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Three days later.

In a wide river, with a splash, Fang Xuan's figure emerged from the water.

"Finally shook them off, hehe, no matter how cunning you are, you still have to drink my foot-washing water," Fang Xuan said smugly.

After ditching Baili Qu'e, Fang Xuan immediately fled wildly. Baili Qu'e and Yan Zangfeng naturally wouldn't let Fang Xuan escape and followed closely behind.

Although Fang Xuan didn't cultivate internal energy with the internal energy cultivation methods of this world, his physical body had reached the Divine Strength Realm. His blood and qi were abundant, his muscles and bones were strong, and his endurance was unmatched. He ran wildly all the way.

Although Baili Qu'e had profound cultivation and chased him for three days and three nights, his endurance was still no match for Fang Xuan's powerful physical body. Finally, Fang Xuan jumped into a large river to escape his pursuit.

After climbing out of the water, he found some dead branches to make a fire and took off his clothes to dry them. He himself sat by the fire and carefully studied the jade slip.

In the Magic Sword Life and Death Chess world, there were many martial arts manuals: Thousand Mile Thunder Whip, Overlord Fist, Seven Stringed Zither Sounds, Clone Demon Shadow, Majestic Dragon Divine Palm...

However, the most powerful ones were only a few. One was Guan Yutian's Innate Gang Qi.

This martial art was profound and vast, with excellent defense. It could use one's own true qi as a guide to mobilize the natural energy of heaven and earth, forming an offensive and defensive gang qi shield with one's own internal energy, reaching the realm of invulnerability. In the plot, even when He Lianba and Sword Revered joined forces, they couldn't gain any advantage, showing its dominance.

Unfortunately, it had a very fatal flaw: every full moon night, one's martial arts would be completely lost.

There was also the extremely dominant "A Sword Separated by Lifetimes". Once cultivated, it was like a demonic beast, unstoppable in the world. It was a long-lost ultimate technique in the martial arts world. Unfortunately, it also had great flaws. In the plot, even if Yan Zangfeng cultivated to the fourth form of the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art, he couldn't block the power of this move. However, its flaw was that as the number of times increased, the person would go berserk, and if not controlled well, it was very easy to explode and die.

There was also the Sun Shooting Arrow Technique displayed by Arrow Hermit at the end. In the drama, Ren Qianxing obtained the Heart Sword and Magic Sword combined, but still couldn't block Arrow Hermit's Sun Shooting Arrow. Four arrows made Ren Qianxing achieve great enlightenment.

However, this set of arrow techniques required the Sun Shooting Bow and Sun Shooting Sword to be used together.

Finally, there was the ultimate technique of Chess Saint Sword Ancestor, the Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art.

This martial art was originally the ultimate technique of Sword Ancestor. Later, Baili Qu'e passed it to Yan Zangfeng. Yan Zangfeng also completed his transformation with this set of martial arts. It was divided into four forms: Wrath of the Wind God, Wrath of the Fire God, Wrath of the Thunder God, and Wrath of the Lightning God. Simply put, it was wind, fire, thunder, and lightning. The power would deepen with each form cultivated, especially when cultivating to the fourth form, Wrath of the Lightning God, which was very terrifying. The whole body emitted a beast-like light, and once the momentum was released, no one could stop it.

Although he finally lost to Ren Qianxing's "A Sword Separated by Lifetimes", it was only the person who lost, not the martial art. Otherwise, Chess Saint Sword Ancestor would not have become the number one in the world back then.

What Fang Xuan valued was not the power of the "Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art", but the understanding of heaven and earth it carried. After all, no matter how powerful it was, it could still be broken by A Sword Separated by Lifetimes.

In the original plot, Yan Zangfeng was just a mediocre third-rate martial artist at the beginning, but with the cultivation of the "Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art", he was able to leap to become a top master in the martial arts world. There must be a great secret in this.

As he continued to study, Fang Xuan also constantly deduced the secret of the "Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art".

After killing this clone of Ren Qianxing, his own foundation greatly increased. This was not only reflected in his muscles, bones, blood, and qi, but also in his wisdom and comprehension. Many things that he couldn't comprehend before could now even be inferred by analogy.

After a while, Fang Xuan put down the jade slip in his hand and praised, "As expected of what Sword Ancestor passed down back then, the martial art is indeed profound. It can actually use the internal energy of the human body to attract the power of heaven and earth. The most important thing is that every time you cultivate, you will forcibly intercept a part of the power of heaven and earth and keep it in your body, increasing your true qi. No wonder Yan Zangfeng was able to become a top master from an unknown nobody in the martial arts world in a short period of time."

Fang Xuan was even more ecstatic in his heart. Wasn't this exactly what he needed?

The cultivation of the Tenth Level of Body Refinement, the first seven realms were cultivating the physical body, and the latter three realms involved the power of the spirit.

Because he couldn't sense the power of heaven and earth yet, the training of the physical body relied more on elixirs, spiritual materials, etc. for nourishment, mainly obtaining energy through eating.

And now, the "Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art" could actually forcibly intercept the power of heaven and earth. If used to nourish the physical body, wouldn't the effect be better than Essence Pills?

The biggest difficulty in cultivating the "Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art" was comprehension. Baili Qu'e, as a direct descendant of Sword Ancestor, only cultivated Wrath of the Wind God and Wrath of the Fire God.

However, for Fang Xuan, who had already obtained Ren Qianxing's foundation, his comprehension greatly increased, allowing him to infer by analogy.

This desolate wilderness was empty and uninhabited, most suitable for cultivation. Moreover, it was close to a large river and forest, with water when thirsty and fish when hungry. Fang Xuan naturally wanted to cultivate for a while.

For three full days, Fang Xuan was immersed in the comprehension of the "Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art". A faint energy gathered in his dantian and meridians.

Internal energy.

Fang Xuan actually cultivated internal energy according to the incantations of the "Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art". However, it was not a big surprise. As the most top-notch martial arts manual in this world, it would be strange if he couldn't cultivate internal energy.

However, the Eternal Life Great World had always been about tempering the physical body, and then pushing the physical body to the extreme, so that the spirit in one's mind could be transformed into magic power and achieve the Mystic Divine Realm.

In the Eternal Life world, the most important thing was the physical body, and divine abilities were also generated by the brain.

The Daoist school believed that the brain was the upper dantian of a person, the most mysterious and unpredictable, called the Purple Mansion. However, now he had actually opened the lower dantian and cultivated internal energy. He didn't know if it was good or bad.

"No matter what, I will still focus on the cultivation system of the Eternal Life world. The physical body and magic power are my foundation. As for internal energy, it is just a means to display the 'Heaven's Will Four Symbols Art'," Fang Xuan said.

However, Fang Xuan still subconsciously circulated the internal energy in his dantian to perform the Pine Crane Longevity Fist.

The Pine Crane Longevity Fist was a boxing technique created by the cultivators of the Yuhua Sect by observing immortal cranes. Between movement and stillness, it could not only temper the physical body but also nourish life and prolong life, being flexible and powerful between movement and stillness.

With the addition of true qi, Fang Xuan found that the power of this boxing technique had increased significantly, with faster speed and stronger lethality.

Between each punch and kick, it was as if there was truly an immortal crane dancing in the air. Coupled with Fang Xuan's immense strength of five horses, if he really encountered an enemy, he could shatter all their bones.

With this thought, Fang Xuan stood up. In these three days, he had already thoroughly understood Wrath of the Wind God. It was time to experience it.

He clasped his hands in front of his chest, and the true qi in his dantian circulated in a special and strange way in his meridians.

In an instant, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a green light flashed in his pupils.

Wrath of the Wind God.

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