Martial Arts System Perfected, Acupoint Opening

A body movement class lasted the entirety of Si Hour, from ten in the morning until noon.

Senior Sister Hua spent an hour and a half combining theory with personal demonstrations to explain the entire Body Movement Manual, "Lotus Steps," then left half an hour for questions.

During the question period, Lin Lin asked Senior Sister Hua about several points that had confused him.

With this body movement class over, regardless of how the other fellow disciples had progressed, Lin Lin himself had at least completely grasped the theory behind Lotus Steps.

What remained was practical training—combining theory with practice until he thoroughly mastered this body movement technique.

When the second body movement class began tomorrow at Si Hour, Senior Sister Hua would personally guide everyone as they gradually practiced and mastered Lotus Steps.

After fifteen such classes, even disciples with the poorest talent would be able to thoroughly learn this body movement technique.

Once class ended, the afternoon was free time.

They could practice martial arts on their own or rest.

Under normal circumstances, Lin Lin would have gone home for a meal and then gone off to play with his friends.

But now, he had no such inclination at all.

After the body movement class ended, Lin Lin went home and ate.

After resting briefly, he eagerly began practicing the body movement technique, combining the theory he had learned that morning with actual practice.

At the small Martial Arts Arena outside his home, Lin Lin began practicing the footwork of Lotus Steps while circulating his inner breath to coordinate with it.

At first, he was very clumsy and kept making mistakes.

But as time passed, he gradually became more proficient.

Whenever he encountered a problem and noticed that his body movement proficiency had not risen, he took out the Body Movement Manual for Lotus Steps and compared his practice against the key points Senior Sister Hua had explained that morning, correcting himself and starting over until his body movement proficiency continued to improve.

For Lin Lin, who had now grasped the correct cultivation method, unless it was a martial art he could not comprehend at all, he could use the cultivation method he had summarized to make constant progress.

After an afternoon of hard practice, by the time the sky was darkening, Lin Lin had finally trained this body movement technique to the level of first glimpsing the gate, truly entering its threshold.

When he circulated the technique, Lin Lin could clearly feel that his movement speed had increased. Even his dynamic vision had improved.

On the Attribute Panel, Lin Lin's agility had increased significantly. Compared to the agility training from his daily sword practice, its effects were far greater.

That makes sense. If my body moves faster, my eyes naturally need greater dynamic vision to clearly see the surroundings.

I had no time to practice swordsmanship today because of body movement training. Tomorrow, I can try practicing body movement and swordsmanship together.

Lin Lin pondered as he settled on a cultivation plan.

Body movement techniques existed to complement swordsmanship and enhance a martial artist's overall combat power. Training swordsmanship and body movement together was basic training for any martial artist.

"Mother, Father isn't home again?"

At the dinner table, Lin Lin asked Zhang Fei in surprise.

When he had gotten up for Morning Martial Arts Practice, Lin Lin had seen Lin Yue once. But he had not seen him during lunch or now at dinner.

Lin Yue was a family-oriented man. Ordinarily, aside from social engagements, he should have eaten all three meals at home.

"Your father went to carry out a Sect Mission escorting valuable goods."

Zhang Fei briefly explained her husband's whereabouts but did not elaborate further.

Is he earning money to buy me Hundred Flowers Heart Clearing Pills?

Lin Lin fell silent.

In the past, Lin Yue had often traveled the martial world alongside his wife, Zhang Fei. Together, they had experienced blood and fire while completing all kinds of Sect Missions. Beyond earning silver for their livelihood, they had worked to save enough Sect Contribution to learn the sect's Superior Martial Arts.

Later, the couple had gotten their wish, learned the sect's Superior Martial Arts, and become Elders of Affairs. They used their savings to purchase land and property in the counties near Hundred Flowers Valley, settling down there.

Usually, aside from practicing martial arts themselves, they taught younger disciples in the sect and lived relatively leisurely, stable lives.

But now that Lin Lin had displayed astonishing talent in martial arts, his parents had decided to support his training with all their strength, allowing him to surpass them, his elders, in achievement.

Two Hundred Flowers Heart Clearing Pills every day—and perhaps an even greater dosage as Lin Lin's martial arts progressed.

Along with all kinds of food and medicine that replenished qi and blood, as well as the household's ordinary expenses, the income from the couple's former properties and the small amount they earned teaching younger disciples in the sect was clearly insufficient to keep the family's income and expenses balanced.

That was why Lin Yue had left his peaceful, leisurely life and returned to the dangerous martial world.

If Zhang Fei had not needed to stay close by to care for Lin Lin's daily needs, and to keep the parent-child bond they had only recently nurtured from growing distant, she likely would have ventured into the martial world with her husband once more.

Having understood this, Lin Lin said nothing more.

His parents did not need his worry, nor did they care how much they had given for their child. What they wanted was to see Lin Lin become even more outstanding.

All Lin Lin needed to do was continue working hard at this pace. That would be the best comfort and repayment he could give his parents.

Once he had achieved success in his studies, his parents would naturally no longer need to brave danger to earn money for him.

For the next period of time, Lin Lin's life settled into a regular yet busy rhythm.

Every morning, he attended Morning Martial Arts Practice, then went to the Hidden Scripture Pavilion to study martial arts. In the afternoon, he practiced the martial arts he had newly learned.

Having someone to guide him truly was much faster than groping his way through martial arts training alone.

In body movement class, with guidance from Senior Sister Hua, a True Inheritor Disciple, Lin Lin often did not even need to think when he encountered difficult questions; he could directly receive the right answer from her.

Under such circumstances, Lin Lin's body movement technique progressed rapidly.

As time passed, Lin Lin gradually mastered how to train Lotus Steps together with the sword technique Hundred Flowers in Disarray. His movement speed and reaction speed underwent a qualitative leap, while his swordsmanship grew increasingly nimble with the support of his body movement technique.

By the time the fifteen days of body movement classes ended, Lin Lin could already skillfully combine body movement and swordsmanship, and his combat strength had increased further.

After completing his study of body movement, Lin Lin did not slack off because of it. He immediately enrolled to learn a second martial art.

This time, he learned the Hardening Martial Art, Boulder Skill.

Boulder Skill was a martial art specifically used to temper one's sinews, bones, skin, and flesh, increasing a martial artist's bodily resilience and defensive ability.

It emphasized being as solid as a boulder, Immovable as a Mountain.

Through specific methods of circulating inner breath and medicinal tempering of the body, once one achieved minor success, one could even use all kinds of harsh natural environments to hone oneself and accelerate the technique's progress.

Although it lacked the powerful offensive force of swordsmanship, it could effectively strengthen the body's defenses and improve one's ability to survive.

On the Attribute Panel, this meant maximizing the training of both constitution and endurance.

The cultivation of Boulder Skill likewise took fifteen classes, half a month. Half a month later, Lin Lin successfully trained Boulder Skill to the level of minor success and began practicing his third martial art.

The third martial art Lin Lin chose to cultivate was the Hidden Weapons technique, Hundred Flowers Bloom.

This Hidden Weapons technique was also one of Hundred Flowers Valley's signature martial arts. Once used, it could send prepared Hidden Weapons flying out in an overwhelming, densely packed barrage, like blooming flowers forming a sea of blossoms, directly creating an ocean of Hidden Weapons that engulfed the enemy.

Generally speaking, this Hidden Weapons technique was cultivated only as an auxiliary skill. Yet there were also Hundred Flowers Valley disciples who loved Hidden Weapons, whose swordsmanship was merely average but who cultivated this technique to an extremely high realm and relied on it to roam the martial world unchallenged.

After completing his study of the Hidden Weapons technique Hundred Flowers Bloom, Lin Lin finally learned the Unarmed Martial Art, Azure Wave Palm.

Compared with the endlessly changing sword technique Hundred Flowers in Disarray, Azure Wave Palm emphasized only one word: weight.

With a single palm strike, palm force surged forth like turbulent waves over a jade-blue sea. Though it did not possess many changes of form, it could condense all of a martial artist's inner breath and strength into a heavy palm force and blast it outward with immense power.

Thus, Lin Lin's Martial Arts System was initially established.

He had swordsmanship for close combat, a body movement technique for dodging enemy attacks and pursuing enemies, a Hidden Weapons technique for attacking enemies at range, a hardening technique that increased his defense and survival ability, and an unarmed martial art for emergencies when he lost his weapon but still needed to fight.

This way, Lin Lin could handle any sudden situation encountered while traveling the martial world.

As long as Lin Lin cultivated tirelessly and trained every martial art he knew to the peak realm of perfection, he would have no shortcomings whatsoever.

While cultivating new martial arts, Lin Lin had not neglected his internal cultivation either.

Every day, he used up every last bit of his Meridian Durability without wasting any.

Without chores like laundry and cooking to delay him, he could devote all his time apart from rest to cultivation. With a top-tier Cultivation Secret Medicine like the Hundred Flowers Heart Clearing Pill as a supplement to aid his training, Lin Lin could recover quickly even after pushing his body to its limit.

For that very reason, Lin Lin's martial arts progressed rapidly, and his physique grew stronger at a speed beyond what others could imagine.

As his physique strengthened and the upper limit of his Meridian Durability increased, the number of times Lin Lin could cultivate internal arts also kept increasing. This caused his inner breath to grow faster and faster as well.

Under these circumstances, Lin Lin had thought he would need another three months to complete Meridian Unblocking. Unexpectedly, only two months had passed, and he had already nourished his meridians to the state of great accomplishment.

At this very moment, Lin Lin's internal cultivation finally broke through its critical point and climbed onto a new step.

Sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, Lin Lin could clearly sense the inner breath within his body, now beginning to take shape, rushing at high speed through his meridians.

Had it been two months ago, if he had dared to move his inner breath so quickly, he would certainly have battered his entire Meridian System into disarray and inflicted no small amount of damage.

But now, after two months of nourishment, the strength of his meridians had risen to another level.

Even with inner breath passing through them at such speed, it did not cause the Meridian System any impact at all.

The inner breath traveled through the Twelve Principal Meridians and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. After completing a Grand Circulation, Lin Lin finally adjusted it all to its peak state.

Then the inner breath gathered into a single current, which Lin Lin directed into the Tan Zhong Acupoint located in his chest.

Nourished and opened by the abundant inner breath, the Tan Zhong Acupoint was opened and connected, and a stream of inner breath remained within it.

In an instant, Lin Lin felt refreshed and clear-headed. His entire body seemed to become much lighter and stronger.

Opening his eyes to look at the Attribute Panel, he saw that the Tan Zhong Acupoint in the Meridian System had lit up.

And this represented Lin Lin's official entry into the third realm of Qi Refining.

Acupoint Opening!

Name: Lin Lin

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 13 years 101 days 17 hours 34 minutes 11 seconds

Qi and Blood: 134/4487

Inner Force: 11/2590

Mental Strength: 123/2340

Health: 99/100

Satiety: 16/100

Meridian Durability: 0/15

Constitution: 202

Inner Breath: 103

Strength: 289

Agility: 199

Endurance: 157

Total Meridians Level: Level 100.

Total Acupoints Level: 1

Skills:

Hundred Flowers in Disarray Category: Swordsmanship. Level: Ordinary Martial Arts. Perfection 1080/5000

Hundred Flowers True Qi Category: Internal Cultivation. Level: Ordinary Martial Arts. Perfection 138/5000

Hundred Flowers Bloom Category: Hidden Weapons. Level: Ordinary Martial Arts. Mastery 862/1000

Lotus Steps Category: Body Movement. Level: Ordinary Martial Arts. Miraculous Skill 1934/3000

Azure Wave Palm Category: Palm Technique. Level: Ordinary Martial Arts. Mastery 501/1000

Boulder Skill Category: Body Protection. Level: Ordinary Martial Arts. Miraculous Skill 458/3000

Sword Intent Category: Intent. Minor Success 233/500

Cooking Category: Life. First Glimpse of the Gate 39/100

After glancing at his Attribute Panel, Lin Lin saw changes so earth-shattering compared to two months ago that they could be called heaven-and-earth overturning.

Even his weakest attribute, inner breath, had now exceeded one hundred points.

What was more, Lin Lin's internal cultivation had now climbed to a higher level, officially reaching the Acupoint Opening Realm.

The Acupoint Opening Realm lit and opened the body's acupoints, developing the hidden treasures of human potential. It would be a realm where a martial artist's combat power soared by leaps and bounds.

Just as Lin Lin had only lit a single Tan Zhong Acupoint, yet it had already increased his maximum Inner Force by 300 points and raised all attributes by 5. And this was merely the initial lighting of an acupoint. If he continued nourishing and improving it, he would unlock even more powerful and terrifying human potential.

The human body had three hundred and sixty-five acupoints, along with numerous Hidden Acupoints.

If he could open every one of those acupoints and cultivate them all to great accomplishment, just what level would his strength reach? It was likely already a realm beyond ordinary imagination.

But opening and cultivating so many acupoints in the human body would probably be an exceedingly difficult task as well.

To open this single acupoint, Lin Lin had already exhausted nearly all the Inner Force in his body and would need no short amount of time to recover.

Opening the other acupoints later would consume an equal, or perhaps even greater, amount of Inner Force each time.

Opening all three hundred and sixty-five acupoints throughout his body would already be an immense undertaking.

As for nourishing and cultivating every one of them to the realm of great accomplishment, Lin Lin did not know whether he could achieve it within his lifetime.