Innate Breathing Technique

Meng Qingshan's mind followed his intent. After circulating a Small Heavenly Circuit through his body, he finally opened his eyes.

[You guided True Qi through the Ren and Du Meridians to complete a Small Heavenly Circuit. Innate Breathing Technique gained 10 points of cultivation!]

[Because you opened the Ren and Du Meridians, your cultivation of Innate Breathing Technique progressed rapidly, granting an additional 10 points of cultivation!]

Looking at the blue notification, a trace of delight appeared on Meng Qingshan's face.

Although he knew that Innate Breathing Technique was the prerequisite technique for Ling Shu Atlas and was certainly extraordinary, he had not expected it to be so profound.

The route taken by True Qi while cultivating Innate Breathing Technique was completely different from that of conventional internal cultivation methods.

Traditional internal cultivation methods usually began from the Dantian Origin, with True Qi circulating repeatedly through the Twelve Meridians.

Innate Breathing Technique, however, took a completely different path.

Its True Qi could originate from the acupoints throughout the body. Its primary cultivation focused on the Ren and Du Meridians, while the True Qi circulated endlessly through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. It did not conflict with Long Wind Heart Method in the slightest.

In fact, this could already be seen from the earlier passages recorded on the silk scroll of Innate Breathing Technique:

Ling Shu Atlas was not a cultivation technique centered on Inner Breath, but a martial art that refined essence into qi and strengthened the body through qi.

In other words, this technique did not follow the normal path of cultivating internal arts. Instead, it used one's existing cultivation as a foundation and converted the character's original attributes.

According to the official setting of Wulin Qixia Zhuan, Ling Shu Atlas was essentially a technique that tempered Physique and Strength with Inner Breath and Chi Force.

Put more simply, when players cultivated this martial art, they would convert the character's internal-art attributes into external-art attributes according to a set ratio. For example, 2 points of Inner Breath could be converted into 1 point of Physique...

The overbearing aspect of cultivating this technique was that even if one's Inner Breath attribute fell, it could be cultivated back without affecting one's foundation.

In other words, as long as someone cultivating this martial art had enough time to practice internal arts, they could sooner or later stack their Physique attribute to a frightening level.

Now that Meng Qingshan's Ren and Du Meridians were open, cultivating the internal art Innate Breathing Technique naturally came as easily as water flowing along its course.

At that thought, Meng Qingshan could not help sighing again. "No wonder that Kid Li Yufeng became a peerless expert in such a short time. With a Mysterious Encounter like that to help him, it would be harder not to soar than to take flight."

Meng Qingshan had just acquired a new internal cultivation method and was brimming with enthusiasm. He immediately closed his eyes, and the Attribute Panel for Innate Breathing Technique appeared before him.

Meng Qingshan glanced at the progress bar and immediately saw that cultivating this internal art to the first level required 345 points of cultivation!

He had gained 20 points of cultivation from meditating and practicing Internal Cultivation earlier. In other words, he now only needed to infuse another 325 points of cultivation to raise this internal art to the first level.

Previously, Meng Qingshan had gained 1,700 points of cultivation from killing the Three Evils of Guyang;

He had gained another 21,000 points of cultivation from the Lingxi Points at the Twenty-Four Beam Moon-Reflection Bridge;

The two Red Scale Tails he had eaten today had yielded another 700 points of cultivation;

Adding the scattered gains of more than 200 points he had picked up along the way,

his Character Panel's Cultivation Bar now held a total of 25,630 points of cultivation.

Almost without hesitation, Meng Qingshan infused 325 points of cultivation into Innate Breathing Technique.

As a flash of blue light swept across the cultivation bar of Innate Breathing Technique,

Meng Qingshan suddenly felt two streams of True Qi surge within his body, one cold and one hot.

The hot stream quietly arose from the various acupoints along the Ren Meridian, eventually converging at the "Mingmen Acupoint" into a scorching current;

the cold stream, meanwhile, originated from the Du Meridian and eventually flowed into the "Qihai Acupoint," bringing with it a crisp, chilling sensation.

One of the two streams of True Qi rose from below like flames surging skyward; the other descended from above like a cold spring welling up.

They intertwined and circulated within Meng Qingshan's body. They seemed to exist independently, without interfering with one another, yet also appeared to originate from a single source, impossible to distinguish.

Meng Qingshan kept his eyes tightly shut, sensing the wondrous changes of the two streams of True Qi within his body.

At that moment, after this internal art broke through to the first level, Meng Qingshan's body also underwent subtle changes.

His skin became smooth as jade, faintly revealing a pale azure hue.

However, these changes were not obvious. It was likely that even Meng Qingshan himself could not necessarily detect them.

He opened his eyes and immediately saw the notification announcing the internal art breakthrough before him:

[The path of the Martial Dao is like rowing upstream: if you do not advance, you retreat. Through perseverance, diligent practice, and arduous training, you cultivated Innate Breathing Technique to the first level. Inner Breath +2, Chi Force +2, Insight +1, Physique +1.]

Seeing the breakthrough notification, Meng Qingshan secretly marveled. As expected of an orange-grade technique, Innate Breathing Technique had already granted 6 attribute points at merely the first level. He wondered what special effect this heart method would possess once he cultivated it to the sixth level!

There were no days or nights in the cavern.

After this round of cultivation, an entire day had passed before he realized it.

By now, Meng Qingshan's stomach was already rumbling loudly with hunger, and he was famished.

Thus, he returned to the stone chamber, removed his clothes, and leaped into the clear pool.