"Qi (Awakening Level)"
"Description: A mysterious energy profound beyond measure, possessing both healing and damaging abilities. At the current stage (Awakening Level), you cannot control the direction of qi and can only let it follow its natural course."
"Effect: Wherever qi travels, your bodily functions will rapidly recover, wounds will slowly heal, and the muscle density, blood flow intensity, bone hardness, and other attributes of the corresponding areas will receive a temporary boost."
"Is this qi?"
Roger spread his hands, sensing the strange feeling.
His right palm itched.
It felt as though someone was repeatedly teasing it with a feather duster.
Before long.
That unfathomably mysterious "qi" left his palm, surged toward his chest, and sank downward along his lower abdomen.
"This feeling... Ouch, no, hmm... it's rather interesting."
At first.
Roger was still somewhat unaccustomed to it.
But gradually, he learned to coexist with qi.
Although he still couldn't fully control its direction, deliberately guiding it still had some effect.
Roger consciously gathered the qi back into his palm.
But he failed soon afterward.
That mass of qi vanished.
"So qi is gradually depleted in the process of circulating it."
The basic knowledge of a Martial Artist told Roger.
The "qi" of this world was not born from some so-called dantian.
Instead, it was produced in certain fixed parts of the body.
The process by which those parts gave birth to "qi" from nothing.
Within the Martial Artist system, this was called "Aperture Opening."
The first qi was born in the palms.
These were the first and second apertures.
Next came the soles of the feet and the armpits.
These were the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth.
The seventh aperture was located in the mysterious area between the mouth and nose, and it was extremely difficult to open.