Creating a Secret Qi Nurturing Technique: Imagination Method

Two months passed in the blink of an eye.

With the examination dividing the ranks, the halls Yun Ye needed to attend were completely different.

The main course, Qi Nurturing Hall, not only moved to a larger space, but the students also changed, increasing to over fifty.

This time, he was lucky enough to be assigned to the same Qi Nurturing Hall as Wang Yao, which was also Grade C Qi Nurturing Hall, but with the prefix of Second Examination.

With the closer proximity, Yun Ye and Wang Yao could do more together, often competing in Tiger Fist and discussing Qi Nurturing Technique, hoping to accelerate their cultivation through these methods.

Unfortunately, relying solely on themselves yielded minimal results, far inferior to guidance from a renowned teacher.

However, with the increase in the number of students in the Qi Nurturing Hall, these teachers had their own biases and did not pay extra attention to Yun Ye and Wang Yao, providing guidance perfunctorily, which was of little significance.

Meanwhile, those true geniuses, or even the wealthy, received individual guidance and improved rapidly, further widening the gap.

This was still under the circumstances where Yun Ye and Wang Yao were not targeted. Those geniuses who refused to yield were simply not guided by these stakeholders, or even deliberately given wrong instructions, which was extremely terrifying...

Over the past two months, Yun Ye's Qi Nurturing Technique had greatly improved, advancing from Foundation Establishment Initial Stage to Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. At this rate, he would probably achieve Small Success in Qi Nurturing in a year or two, gaining the opportunity to awaken his Spirit Root.

But he also discovered a problem.

Main course: Qi Nurturing Technique.

Subsidiary course: Tiger Fist.

Secondary courses: Demon Knowledge, Cultivation Knowledge.

The learning load at the Prominent Learning Hall Second Examination stage was very heavy, already beginning to exceed Yun Ye's capacity.

As the time spent on cultivating Qi Nurturing Technique increased, the other aspects would fall behind.

Three meals a day of Grade D Superior Food meant that he had to practice Qi Nurturing Technique at least fifteen times.

This was no small number, taking up three hours of Yun Ye's time.

In reality, Yun Ye not only ate Grade D Superior Food for three meals a day, but also had a portion of Grade C.

Throughout the day, he spent at least four hours practicing Qi Nurturing Technique.

In addition, with Tiger Fist and various knowledge to master, Yun Ye's time was beginning to be insufficient.

"Is there any way to improve the efficiency of Qi Nurturing Technique..."

Yun Ye pondered.

The Qi Nurturing Hall specialized in teaching Qi Nurturing Technique.

The higher the level of mastery, the better the effect. Generally speaking, the degree of mastery is divided into five levels: Entry Level, Skilled, Small Success, Great Success, and Perfection.

Currently, he was only at the Skilled level, theoretically with a lot of room for improvement.

But this was only in theory.

Those who had focused on a certain skill for more than ten years understood that learning something is fastest in the early stages, and the slower it becomes later on, requiring a lot of gradual effort, or even getting stuck altogether.

Although Qi Nurturing Technique was not very complicated, it took Yun Ye a month to reach Entry Level and a year to become Skilled.

To enter the Small Success stage, it would probably take at least five years of gradual improvement, engraving this skill into his bones.

But such a long time obviously cannot solve Yun Ye's predicament.

Qi Nurturing Technique, without a doubt, also has levels.

Just like the internal energy in martial arts novels, the effects of peerless divine skills and ordinary martial arts are vastly different.

And Yu Yu, as the teacher of Qi Nurturing Technique, also mentioned other Qi Nurturing Techniques.

If the Qi Nurturing Technique taught by the government is basic, then the stronger Qi Nurturing Technique is a secret art.

All families' Secret Qi Nurturing Techniques are developed little by little on the basis of Qi Nurturing Technique.

In essence, it is still the same technique, but it is easier to learn and easier to reach a higher realm.

It is equivalent to organizing the original scattered knowledge into a knowledge tree, improving learning efficiency.

In other words, no matter what Qi Nurturing Technique, proficiency is universal.

As long as you get it, you can probably get started immediately.

It is precisely this universality that makes the secret art extremely valuable, and basically no one will let the secret art flow out.

Yu Yu, as the teaching teacher of Qi Nurturing Technique, actually also mastered the secret art, and that is why he was chosen as the teaching teacher.

In theory, if he teaches without reservation, then students who can't learn the Secret Qi Nurturing Technique can also improve quickly.

But Yu Yu is a member of a noble family and cannot wholeheartedly teach a commoner. After a year, Yun Ye's Qi Nurturing Technique has only just mastered the "Skilled" realm.

Yun Ye felt that the road of Prominent Learning Hall was impassable. If he wanted to get the secret art, he could only go through other methods.

Or, study it himself.

And both of these paths are almost impossible.

With this world's conservatism towards secret methods, Yun Ye cannot buy the secret art with money. He can only **** it by force, or make great contributions to the noble family or the government, and be granted it by them.

Yun Ye has no strength, and he is only just beginning to cultivate, so it is impossible to make contributions.

And the second way, studying it himself, is even more difficult.

White Stone Town has existed for at least hundreds of years, and has gone through more than a dozen generations, but there are still only a few well-known families.

Obviously, this is not something that can be completed in a few generations, even if the talent is extremely high, it is rare.

But after thinking about it, Yun Ye felt that he seemed to only have self-study. His time was the least valuable. If one life doesn't work, there is still a second life. It is king to accumulate a little bit.

The thought runs through.

Yun Ye was completely relieved, no longer thinking about how to get more points in the exam, but focused on learning various knowledge.

And at this time, Yun Ye realized the role of the various secondary classes in Prominent Learning Hall.

The secondary class is a place to directly teach practical skills.

There are teachings on herbal classification, ore refining, and even medical skills and musical instruments, but these things are not for Spirit Root Revivalists at all, so no one pays attention to them.

Yun Ye found that those who attended the secondary class were basically fifteen or sixteen years old, which surprised Yun Ye. Isn't this age the sprint stage? Why are they still here?

But on second thought, perhaps it is precisely at the final stage that they know that they have no hope of reviving their Spirit Root, so they come to learn these practical skills in order to make a living and not come in vain?

And after Yun Ye quietly inquired about the actual situation, it quickly became clear.

It turned out that the students in the sub-class were not just cultivators, and in fact, the vast majority of learners were ordinary people without aptitude. They were apprentices in the government's logistics department...

One could also say they were servants by hereditary.

Their lives consisted of learning skills, then serving the government and cultivators, and finally, having children to repeat the cycle.

Yun Ye was already used to it, silently blending in and absorbing the various kinds of knowledge he needed.

To study the Qi Nurturing Technique, one must first understand its operating principle.

In this world, almost everyone knows what it is, but not why it is. No one has specifically researched it, relying entirely on flashes of genius to make improvements.

But in Yun Ye's case, the situation was obviously different. His creativity was insufficient to forge a new path.

However, systematically analyzing existing things still allowed him to discover things that most people couldn't.

That was the role of the incantation.

The Qi Nurturing Technique must be used with an incantation. Although reciting it silently was fine, it was absolutely essential.

The content of the incantation generally described Qi being extracted from the whole body, gathering in the chest, lingering for a long time, and ultimately preserving life energy to gradually strengthen the body.

This sounded a bit like... hypnosis? Self-suggestion?

Intrigued, Yun Ye immediately began to experiment.

First, he didn't think about the incantation and simply practiced the Qi Nurturing Technique once.

Unlike the Qi Nurturing Technique with the incantation, the simple movements only made Yun Ye sweat profusely, and almost no Qi was extracted.

This was the Qi Nurturing Technique that hadn't even reached Entry Level, and like past experiences, it had no effect.

Then, Yun Ye practiced the normal Qi Nurturing Technique again.

However, unlike a complete practice, Yun Ye carefully felt the changes in his body when silently reciting the incantation this time.

As a result, because of distraction, the effect of the Qi Nurturing Technique was greatly reduced, only nurturing about 40% of the Qi compared to normal.

Finally, Yun Ye did not chant the incantation, but directly imagined the Qi being extracted and practiced the movements.

And the result was very interesting. This time, the Qi Nurturing Technique was not without effect, but the effect was greatly reduced, only about 10% efficiency, which was even lower than the distracted effect when chanting the incantation.

After that, Yun Ye repeatedly practiced the Qi Nurturing Technique through Imagination Method, and the result that shocked him was that with proficiency, the efficiency of cultivation rapidly increased, quickly reaching 80% of the normal cultivation effect, and there was even room for improvement.

This situation further enriched Yun Ye's understanding of "cultivation."

In Yun Ye's feeling, cultivating the Qi Nurturing Technique through Imagination Method was actually more difficult than silently reciting the incantation.

And directly reciting the incantation was even simpler than silently reciting it.

The reason why he could quickly reach the level of normal incantation cultivation through Imagination Method was that he had firmly remembered the movements, which were extremely Skilled, and he could put all his mind on imagination.

But if it was a beginner, even without other movements, it would be difficult to imagine a real object in their mind.

Imagination Method wasn't just about thinking about it roughly, it required a very real understanding of the Qi sensation, understanding the feeling of Qi being extracted, which required long-term practice to improve.

And once completed, the benefits indeed far exceeded Yun Ye's imagination.

The 100% threshold was quickly crossed.

It was just a prototype, but after Yun Ye's month of improvements, the effect actually reached 150%!

Yun Ye vaguely felt that the so-called Secret Qi Nurturing Technique was actually about going from simple to difficult, constructing a more three-dimensional and clearer cultivation process, instead of always using that set of auxiliary incantations.

If one didn't grasp this point, the Qi Nurturing Technique would probably forever remain at a low level, difficult to achieve Great Success, let alone Perfection.

Compared to the exploration of the Imagination Method, Yun Ye couldn't start with the body refining movements. His accumulation was not enough for him to improve the movements.

Basically, any random change would cause the efficiency of the entire Qi Nurturing Technique to plummet. Simply trying all possibilities was a complete waste of time.

Modifying the movements would have to wait until he had a sufficient understanding of the cultivation system of this world.

The teachers in the Prominent Learning Hall all had the ability to modify the Qi Nurturing Technique movements. When they gave guidance, they would modify the movements according to individual circumstances. If it was just one or two, it could be said that they were exceptionally talented.

But if everyone had this ability, then it was probably some kind of common knowledge, it's just that Yun Ye's level was not high enough to understand.