Entering the Ninth Rank in Three Days

Inside the bedroom.

Chen Mu carefully examined the Golden Jade Art placed on the table.

The content of the Golden Jade Art had two main parts. The first part was a breathing technique, requiring three long breaths and one short one, with the interval between each breath being as close to a perfect measure as possible.

The second part was standing meditation. Like all other Martial Dao techniques, it used standing meditation and breathing to align oneself with heaven and earth, as if becoming a part of nature. This way, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth would naturally enter the body with each breath, forming a cycle within.

As for the secondary parts, they included materials for medicinal baths and prescriptions. These could accelerate the body tempering process. As a concubine's son in the Xuanguo Estate, Chen Mu was also eligible to receive a portion each month.

"This is quite interesting..."

Chen Mu observed for a while, a thoughtful expression on his face.

The Golden Jade Art had a total of nine stances. Reaching the third stance meant entering the Ninth Rank, the sixth stance meant reaching the Eighth Rank, and mastering the final stance meant becoming a Seventh Rank Martial Artist!

For ordinary people, just the standing meditation step was very difficult.

Not to mention that most people needed many days of practice to be able to stand for a full day, even if they could, the perfection of the stance also determined the effectiveness of their cultivation.

Although the technique had detailed diagrams, even with a Martial Instructor personally teaching and guiding, it wasn't necessarily possible to achieve the most perfect stance. After all, everyone's bone structure was different, and the same stance would have subtle differences in detail. The more perfect the stance, the more it aligned with heaven and earth, and the better the cultivation effect!

But.

For Chen Mu, this step was too simple!

Martial Artists could only use their naked eyes, relying on vague so-called perception to vaguely judge their alignment, barely finding a most suitable state and maintaining it. However, Sorcerers possessed Spirit Sight, which allowed them to easily adjust all details to perfection!

Even an Eighth or Ninth Rank Sorcerer, unable to directly see spiritual energy, could still adjust their state to the optimal level just by relying on basic Spirit Sight.

This was already equivalent to those Martial Dao geniuses who possessed 'aptitude'!

As for the second part, breathing, it was the same.

Ordinary people would spend a long time just searching for the most suitable state, but Sorcerers could also use Spirit Sight to directly find and maintain the perfect state.

Chen Mu stepped back two paces.

After slowly closing his eyes, he directly activated Spirit Sight.

Spirit Sight with closed eyes was internal vision. His gaze could directly see the meridians within his body, and even his internal organs. Everything about his physical body was displayed with extreme clarity.

Then, Chen Mu controlled his body and, according to the description in the Golden Jade Art, assumed the first stance. Facing the sun, one hand was raised to his brow, the other behind his back, and his feet were spread shoulder-width apart.

After assuming the stance.

Chen Mu immediately saw that the original flow of the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth showed a slight disturbance. A very subtle amount of spiritual energy began to surge towards his body.

As he continuously adjusted the details of his body, the faint points of light nearby gradually showed greater flow disturbance, and more and more spiritual energy surged into his body.

"This is actually no different from a Sorcerer's Feng Shui arrangement. It's just that Martial Artists use their bodies as an object to change Feng Shui, occupying a specific position with a unique stance to influence the disturbance of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, making themselves a part of heaven and earth, and then absorbing spiritual energy to temper their bodies."

Chen Mu murmured in his heart.

This was basically completely consistent with the judgment he made when he observed Xiao Mei practicing martial arts before.

Sorcerers changed the flow of Feng Shui by altering the layout of houses and terrain, while the breathing and the so-called stances that connect with heaven and earth in Martial Dao cultivation were actually based on the same principle.

However, Martial Artists groped with their physical bodies. Even if countless experiences were accumulated into a technique, it was far less precise and accurate than a Sorcerer directly seeing it in the most intuitive way!

A moment later.

Chen Mu adjusted his body to an optimal posture, almost perfectly aligning with heaven and earth, seemingly having completely integrated into the environment. The surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth continuously surged into his body, refining his bones and skin.

"This should be the most perfect."

Chen Mu nodded inwardly.

His current state should be the most perfect. After careful observation, Chen Mu judged that maintaining this state for about a month would allow him to reach the Ninth Rank!

In his memory, his elder brother, Chen Wu, who had exceptional talent back then, also took a full month and a half to step into the Ninth Rank. And now, he already possessed that speed!

Moreover.

Chen Mu was a Sixth Rank Sorcerer, not the low ranks of Eighth or Ninth. What he could do was not just adjust himself to the most perfect state; that was merely a basic operation!

After Chen Mu manipulated his body to maintain the first posture of the Golden Jade Art, his soul power suddenly converged.

"Come!"

This wasn't words spoken by Chen Mu, but a long cry on the soul level, instantly disturbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth throughout the entire courtyard!

Within a radius of nearly a hundred meters, including the crisscrossing Spirit Veins underground, streams of spiritual energy began to whistle towards Chen Mu as the center, converging into patches of dazzling mist droplets.

On the other side.

In the side room.

Xiao Mei opened her eyes, a hint of confusion flashing in them.

She glanced towards Chen Mu's bedroom.

Is it Second Master?

Ordinary people couldn't see the flow of spiritual energy, not even Fourth Rank Martial Artists. Xiao Mei was naturally the same, but at such a close distance, as a Martial Artist who happened to be cultivating, she barely felt a slight unusual fluctuation. This kind of fluctuation was rare in the past.

If it were before, she probably wouldn't have thought of Chen Mu, but now she knew that Chen Mu had reached the Sorcerer realm, and he had just brought back a cultivation technique from the Martial Arts Academy.

Putting it together, it wasn't hard to guess what Chen Mu was doing.

As for the servants like Ren Yan who were working, they were completely unaware. They couldn't feel the ethereal spiritual energy at all, let alone react in any way.

In the bedroom.

Under Chen Mu's Spirit Sight, he clearly saw that a large amount of spiritual energy was being drawn by him and controlled within the range of the bedroom. Its richness was more than ten times that of the normal state!

With such rich spiritual energy, and using the most perfect posture and breathing technique to absorb it into his body and utilize it to refine his physical body, the progress was so fast that it was almost directly perceptible.

Ordinary Martial Artists needed years of accumulation to gradually improve their physical strength.

But here with Chen Mu, it was so fast that he could feel every cell in his body seemingly breathing desperately, trying their best to absorb spiritual energy, and transforming one after another!

Three days!

At this rate, he would reach the Ninth Rank in just three days!

"Hmm, this speed is acceptable."

"If it were a place where the spiritual energy itself is very rich, it might be even faster, but any faster, my body might not be able to withstand it."

Chen Mu murmured in his heart.

It was rumored that high-rank Sorcerers could reach the Ninth Rank in one day and the Eighth Rank in three days. This was likely something only Sorcerers above Fourth Rank could achieve. They could greatly increase the speed while also allocating a portion of their power to protect their physical body, preventing it from collapsing due to the intense impact of spiritual energy.

As for him, he temporarily couldn't spare more Soul Points to protect every cell in his body. He could only guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to converge and maintain this state.