Innate Breathing Technique

With a thought, Meng Qingshan circulated the true qi within his body for a minor heavenly cycle before opening his eyes.

[You guided true qi through the Ren and Du Meridians to complete a minor heavenly cycle; Innate Breathing Technique gained 10 Cultivation!]

[As you've opened the Ren and Du Meridians, your progress in cultivating Innate Breathing Technique is exceptionally rapid, granting an additional 10 Cultivation!]

Seeing the blue notification messages, a hint of joy appeared on Meng Qingshan's face.

Although he knew that the Innate Breathing Technique was a prerequisite for the Ling Shu Atlas and was bound to be extraordinary, he truly hadn't anticipated how profound the Innate Breathing Technique would be.

The route for true qi circulation when cultivating the Innate Breathing Technique was vastly different from conventional internal cultivation techniques.

Traditional internal cultivation techniques usually began at the Dantian Origin, with true qi circulating repeatedly through the twelve main meridians.

However, the Innate Breathing Technique took a different approach.

Its true qi could originate from various acupoints in the body, primarily cultivating the Ren and Du Meridians. The circulation of true qi within the extraordinary meridians was endless, and it didn't conflict with the Long Wind Heart Method at all.

In fact, from what was stated in the preceding text on the Innate Breathing Technique's silk scroll:

The Ling Shu Atlas was not a cultivation technique focused on Inner Breath, but rather a martial art that refined essence into qi and used qi to strengthen the physique.

In other words, this cultivation technique didn't follow the normal path of cultivating internal martial arts. Instead, it used one's original Cultivation as a foundation to replace the character's original attributes.

In the official setting of Wulin Qixia Zhuan, the Ling Shu Atlas was actually a cultivation technique that used Inner Breath and Chi Force to temper the Physique and Strength.

To put it more simply, when players cultivated this martial art, they would convert the character's Internal Martial Arts attributes into External Martial Arts attributes at a certain ratio. For example, 2 points of Inner Breath would be converted into 1 point of Physique...

The domineering aspect of cultivating this martial art was that if Inner Breath attributes decreased, they could be cultivated back, and it wouldn't affect the foundation.

This meant that as long as a person cultivating this martial art had enough time to cultivate Internal Martial Arts, they could eventually stack their Physique attributes to a terrifying level.

Now that Meng Qingshan's Ren and Du Meridians were open, cultivating the Innate Breathing Technique, an internal martial art, was naturally a natural progression.

At this, Meng Qingshan couldn't help but sigh again, "No wonder that kid Li Yufeng became a peerless expert in such a short time. With such a fortuitous encounter to assist him, it's hard not to soar."

Meng Qingshan had just obtained a new internal cultivation technique and was in high spirits. He immediately closed his eyes, and the attribute panel for the Innate Breathing Technique appeared before him.

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

He had already gained 20 points of Cultivation from his meditation earlier, meaning he only needed to infuse another 325 points of Cultivation to bring this internal martial art to the first level.

Previously, Meng Qingshan had gained 1700 points of Cultivation by killing the 'Three Evils of Guyang';

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

The two Red Scale Tails he ate today had yielded another 700 points of Cultivation;

Coupled with the more than two hundred scattered gains along the way, His character panel's Cultivation column now totaled 25,630 points of Cultivation.

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

As a blue light flashed across the Cultivation column of the Innate Breathing Technique.

Meng Qingshan felt two streams of true qi, one cold and one hot, surge within his body.

The hot stream of true qi quietly generated from the acupoints along the Ren Meridian, eventually converging at the "Mingmen Acupoint" into a scorching flow;

The cold stream of true qi originated from the Du Meridian, finally flowing to the "Qihai Acupoint," bringing a clear and cold sensation.

These two streams of true qi, one rising from bottom to top like a blazing fire, the other descending from top to bottom like a gushing cold spring.

They intertwined and circulated within Meng Qingshan's body, appearing to be independent and unhindered, yet also seeming to originate from the same source, inseparable.

Meng Qingshan closed his eyes tightly, sensing the wondrous changes of these two streams of true qi within him.

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

His skin became smooth as jade, with a faint hint of light green.

However, these changes were not obvious; it was estimated that even Meng Qingshan himself might not have noticed them.

He opened his eyes and immediately saw the notification message for the breakthrough of his internal martial art:

[The path of martial arts is like sailing against the current; to not advance is to fall behind. You persevered and practiced diligently, cultivating Innate Breathing Technique to the first level, gaining Inner Breath +2, Chi Force +2, Insight +1, Physique +1.]

Seeing this breakthrough notification, Meng Qingshan inwardly marveled. As expected of an orange-grade cultivation technique, the Innate Breathing Technique provided a total of 6 attribute bonuses at just the first level. He wondered what its internal martial arts effects would be upon reaching the sixth level!

There is no sun or moon in the cave.

After this period of cultivation, time had unknowingly passed, with a full day gone by.

At this moment, Meng Qingshan's stomach was already growling loudly from hunger.

So, he turned back to the stone chamber, took off his clothes, and leaped into the clear pool.