Life-Shortening Enhancement

Life-Shortening Enhancement

Acupuncture was the most direct method developed through traditional Chinese medicine.

Although Huang Ji could place needles with precision, he still found it far too inconvenient.

Some Hidden Acupoints were located in bizarre places—for instance, somewhere inside the middle of his back. If he tried to needle himself, he simply could not reach them.

Other Hidden Acupoints lay in the gaps between vital organs or bones, beyond the reach of acupuncture.

What was more, some acupoints were extremely fragile and only needed the slightest stimulation. Even with the gentlest touch, holding a needle by hand still applied too much force.

"This Hidden Meridian shall be called the Divine Gate Meridian for now. It is the source of the Twelve Principal Meridians and governs the movement of neurotransmitters."

"Among the Divine Gate Meridian's acupoints, there are only two I can needle. One controls the blood supply system, while the other stimulates growth hormone."

Huang Ji felt somewhat regretful. He had already identified forty-two acupoints on the Divine Gate Meridian and understood the purpose of each, but most of those feedback points were unsuitable for acupuncture.

"Let's try these two first."

He took off his clothes, brought out the stainless steel filiform needles he had bought, and precisely inserted them into Yunmen, Zhongfu, Tianchi, Huagai, Yutang, and several other acupoints.

These were merely primers, used as support.

Once he was ready, Huang Ji swiftly drove a needle into his lung, avoiding every blood vessel and striking the Hidden Acupoint that controlled blood supply. After giving it the slightest stimulation, he quickly pulled the needle out.

In an instant, his heart began pounding harder and harder.

A suffocating sensation swept over Huang Ji, and he hurriedly took deep breaths.

Yet the suffocation remained. His lung capacity was limited, and he could no longer draw in any more air.

Amid that suffocating feeling, Huang Ji kept his body steady and took a small step backward.

Four needles of varying lengths had already been set into the wall behind him. As he backed into position, they precisely pierced the four acupoints on his back: Jianyu, Lingtai, Taodao, and Xuanshu.

"Hiss—" His alveoli rapidly expanded. The sensation of being unable to inhale any more after reaching his limit seemed to have been shattered.

The tightness in his chest vanished. His breathing muscles seemed to open wide, and a crisp, refreshing sensation rapidly spread through him.

At the same time, he kept staring at an acupoint in his upper abdomen that was constantly drifting about.

It was a strange Hidden Acupoint that controlled growth hormone, changing every moment.

Huang Ji held a filiform needle and moved it over his abdomen, continually tracking it!

Suddenly, the Hidden Acupoint stopped moving. Huang Ji reacted at once and stabbed out!

His heart immediately pounded even more violently. Huang Ji felt heat surge through his entire body, as though his fat were burning away!

"Hah!" Huang Ji let out a long breath.

"Inhale—"

"Exhale..."

He continued taking deep breaths. The sensation of vast amounts of oxygen flowing into his body was incredibly pleasant.

Huang Ji's abdomen slowly contracted and expanded, while his hands and feet began to tingle.

He knew that his body was growing at an accelerated rate, and his lungs were expanding as well.

Huang Ji had never found breathing so wonderful and comfortable. An hour later, he unknowingly fell asleep while sitting cross-legged on the floor.

When he woke up, it was already the next morning.

"My mind feels so clear." Huang Ji checked his information.

He knew that the human developmental stage, which had almost passed him by, had miraculously continued within him!

His heart and lungs were noticeably larger than before.

"But... my lifespan has actually dropped drastically..."

"Is it toxins?"

"My liver and kidneys were unable to grow. It is like cleansing the marrow and purging impurities, except after the cleansing, all the filth remains in the body... Damn it, there are several acupoints I can't reach."

"My knowledge still isn't sufficient. There must be a way to control the nodes without acupuncture."

Huang Ji was not discouraged. He continued studying basic anatomy, biology, and medicine.

At first, his learning speed was quite slow. It took him roughly a day to finish a single book.

But after repeating this for ten days, his foundational knowledge had grown richer, and he gradually became faster.

During that time, he also frequently experimented on himself, pondering methods to control acupoints.

Through occasional needling with Golden Needles, he grew five centimeters in just ten days, reaching 183 centimeters.

According to his self-observation information, his heart was twice the size of an ordinary person's. His upper lungs could transport more than thirteen milliliters of oxygen per minute, while his lower lungs could transport more than ninety milliliters. Both were over twice that of an ordinary person.

This was the result of stimulating growth hormone and directing blood supply. Through the ** of the blood supply system, combined with the normal acupoints of the Twelve Principal Meridians and Eight Extraordinary Meridians for guidance and support, he could concentrate a massive blood supply on a particular organ.

While delivering nutrients, it strengthened the organ's functions. With growth hormone as an additional aid, the internal organs could grow extremely quickly.

With his Information Sense ability to identify and correct flaws, the moment the flow of growth hormone or blood supply went wrong, he could immediately detect and correct it.

As Huang Ji gradually became more practiced, he was already able to precisely strengthen his heart and lungs.

To provide his body with enough nutrients each day, Huang Ji had to eat twelve eggs, two jin of carrots, and several pieces of fruit.

Unfortunately, his lifespan continued to decline.

"Even if I never suffer any accidental injuries, I can only live another forty-five years..."

To strengthen his heart and lung functions, Huang Ji had sacrificed thirty years of his life. His body had originally possessed a lifespan of ninety-one years, but now it had only sixty-one left.

"This is the price of direct enhancement. As expected, I cannot be too hasty. The human body is a complex, complete, orderly system. Tug one hair, and the entire body moves!"

"I still need to find a method of preserving health and develop my body as a whole, in every aspect."

Huang Ji stopped while he was ahead and ceased making use of the Hidden Acupoints.

Although his heart and lungs had become powerful, the burden on his liver had increased, and his other organs were all struggling under the strain.

If he continued strengthening himself like this, he might directly trigger a terminal illness.

"I still need to study. My knowledge level is not enough."

He picked up his books, left the apartment, went to his private rented room, and turned on his computer.

Huang Ji directly posted a question on a forum: "How can one stimulate the acupoints throughout the body without acupuncture?"

After waiting for a while, someone replied, "Practice martial arts!"

Huang Ji immediately searched for martial arts and brought up a huge amount of content.

After reading for a while, he typed, "Does Inner Energy really exist? Isn't that just something from novels?"

"Novels are novels, but true Internal Energy does exist. It is just not as exaggerated as in fiction, though it still has effects," the other person said.

Huang Ji's eyes lit up. However, because of what he had encountered when he first went online, he constantly reminded himself to discern the truth of information on the internet.

"Can you do it? How do you practice?" Huang Ji asked. At the same time, he traced the source and logged into the other person's blog and cloud storage account.

The other person had no idea and replied, "It mainly involves stance training combined with breathing methods. Through breathing exercises, you draw in pure qi, nourish and blend it with acquired qi, gradually filling the body's life energy and exercising the internal organs. Do not disbelieve it. As long as you persist, stand in an open area every night, assume the following posture, keep your head upright and spirit empty, and breathe through your abdomen..."

He sent a lengthy explanation, complete with pictures and text.

After Huang Ji finished reading, he replied, "Why does it have to be at night?"

The other person said, "You are drawing upon the essence of the stars, so of course it must be at night. You probably think it sounds absurd, but it is true. The stars in the sky emit light every moment, and this stance training is precisely about opening the body and accepting energy..."

"I don't disbelieve you, but... are there no stars during the day?" Huang Ji asked.

"..." The other person fell silent for a moment, seemingly still working through the logic.

That was right. Whether day or night, the stars were beyond the sky.

"Don't be argumentative. The effect is simply better at night. I once trained under a famous master for ten years, and now I can clearly feel warm qi spreading upward from the soles of my feet..."

"What do you do for a living?" Huang Ji asked.

The other person replied, "I am in business. I practice martial arts for health."

"Then why did you say you were a civil servant last year?" Huang Ji asked.

"..." The other person fell silent for a moment before saying, "I quit my job. I am in business now."

"But you are only twenty years old," Huang Ji said.

After a long while, the other person stopped replying.

Huang Ji checked and saw that the account had been deleted.

"..." Huang Ji shook his head and gave up on the idea of seeking help from others.

However, he found many interesting articles in that person's online space.

The man had been deeply interested in martial arts and had collected them himself. There were martial arts theories from major real-world schools, key principles of boxing techniques, methods for preserving health, and methods for cultivating qi from both internal and external martial arts.

His cloud storage contained more than a hundred martial arts manuals!

Most came with pictures and even videos, and the moves and routines of various boxing styles were explained in detail.

Huang Ji had originally planned to close it, but the more he read, the more absorbed he became.

To be honest, it seemed fairly reasonable.

Some of the boxing manuals also mentioned several obscure and vital weak points of the human body, and they had actually gotten them right.

No one understood the body's vital weak points better than Huang Ji.

"Unfortunately, Qigong is probably fake. If it all truly worked, how could he have collected so much of it so easily?"

"Qi is far too mystical. If it refers to the body's Bioelectricity, that would be somewhat more plausible... But in that case, there would be no need to practice it, because all living beings carry electricity. Every activity and support of life relies on electromagnetism and heat."

Just as he was thinking this, Huang Ji suddenly felt that he had understood some more unknown information.

"Huh?"

Huang Ji looked inward at himself and discovered millions upon millions of electrical pathways crisscrossing throughout the human body.

If all those energy transmissions were marked in blue, then the human body would be an organism formed from countless branching blue lines.

Previously, this had been unknown information, but at this moment, Huang Ji already possessed the concepts needed to understand it.