Killing Intent Fluctuation
"Is this me?" After taking a shower at the hotel, Liu Qi looked at his "washed-away" self in the mirror, and a strong sense of unfamiliarity welled up in his heart.
Although the nose and face are still the same, they look completely different now.
"Only five days!" Liu Qi pinched his face in disbelief. After performing a lot of American cartoon-style acting, he finally believed that he looked completely different from before.
The stubble on his chin might be part of the reason, but he prefers to attribute it to a kind of "temperament".
"My choice was right!" Liu Qi felt joy in his heart, but he was surprised to find that he was not as ecstatic as he had imagined. It was not that he was not happy about this change as he had imagined, but rather that he was indeed happy, but he no longer showed it as rashly as before.
"Is this what cultivating the mind is? I've just been on the move all along." Liu Qi didn't quite understand this change in mindset, so he simply stopped thinking about it and returned to the bedside. He thought that touching the bed again after so long would make him fall asleep immediately, but now, lying in bed, he felt like there was something he hadn't done yet.
After a moment, he sat up somewhat helplessly, assumed a five-point-up-the-sky posture, and began to meditate silently, circulating his True Qi.
The cultivation method he is currently practicing is the simple and unadorned "Basic Internal Energy". According to his master, it is the simplest Internal Force condensation technique. If the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Circuit method is to obtain the Qi Sensation, then the Basic Internal Energy is the necessary step to condense this Qi Sensation into True Qi.
Although he had asked why he didn't just learn advanced techniques, he understood after his master tossed him a manual called "Xiantian Qiankun Gong".
I can't understand it at all!
If you don't understand the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, don't know the Hetu and Luoshu, don't understand the changes of Yin and Yang, and don't know the rotation of the Five Elements, you simply can't handle this kind of advanced stuff.
However, his question wasn't entirely fruitless—
From then on, he had two extra hours of academic classes every day.
As he sat in quiet contemplation, the jumbled thoughts gradually calmed down. Although Liu Qi couldn't yet achieve true Entering Stillness, he had gradually learned how to eliminate distracting thoughts during his five days of living in the open.
Just as he was getting into the swing of things and began to circulate his Qi Sensation and condense his True Qi, a strong sense of unease stopped him from doing so.
"What's going on? Did I mess up my practice?" A look of worry appeared on Liu Qi's face. He quickly stopped meditating and was about to get up to find his master when he suddenly felt a strong sense of fear—
"Die!"
A crimson character, seemingly occupying the entire world, crashed into his mind like a shooting star. At that moment, Liu Qi's thoughts froze completely, every cell in his body began to tremble, and that terrifying feeling filled his entire mind, leaving only a blank in his consciousness.
His brain completely shut down, and his vision and hearing also disappeared without a trace. All that remained was that intense "Blood Text" that made his whole body stiff.
However, this feeling came and went quickly. The suffocating sensation, like being a tiny insect trapped in amber, slowly disappeared after a brief pause. Consciousness gradually returned to Liu Qi's limbs and bones, and this feeling of rebirth inexplicably moved him.
He grasped the beauty of life.
This might be a breakthrough in his State of Mind, or a sublimation of his self-awareness. He didn't quite understand, but as a writer who had read countless works, he naturally connected this momentary insight with the epiphanies of those protagonists.
Knowing how rare such enlightenment was, he immediately sat cross-legged and entered into cultivation once more. This time, however, his mind was unusually calm...
"It's done! My idea was right after all! The Tidal Force of the Orca Pillow is indeed a special kind of fluctuation!" Next to Liu Qi, Feng Xue sat on the sofa with a smile on his face. On the table in front of him was a broken teacup and tea that was almost spilled all over the coffee table.
These days of fishing and sword practice by the river have given him a considerable understanding of the Tidal Force of the Orca Pillow, especially the "sword energy" that is not solid, and even somewhat loose in appearance, yet capable of separating the river water, which has become the focus of his research.
After repeated trial and error, he finally grasped the principle of wave motion while taking a shower, thanks to the collision and ripples of countless water droplets, which allowed his research to achieve a significant breakthrough.
"By using fluctuations, loose Internal Force can be maintained in a certain form, thus enabling it to bear more will. Moreover, as long as it vibrates at a specific frequency, its power is no less than that of the condensed True Qi of the Mindless Divine Power. However, in this way, it is difficult to give rise to intelligence, and in the end, it can only bear will, but cannot reach the Law Has Spirit..."
Feng Xue jotted down her insights in her small notebook, trying to understand the difference between "Mindless Divine Power" and "Killing Intent Fluctuation".
Yes, the Killing Intent Fluctuation. For Feng Xue, killing intent was his most concentrated and intense will at present, and only killing intent could be so easily instilled into other things.
Although this is essentially a pretty good martial art, it is only a stage in Feng Xue's pursuit of carrying her personal will. After all, the killing intent is extreme enough to be sufficiently condensed, but to inject a complete self-awareness into it requires a much higher level of skill.
She reached out and tapped lightly on the coffee table. Ripples began to spread across the splashed water, which then gathered towards Feng Xue's fingertips in a way that defied the laws of physics—no, it shouldn't be called gathering, but rather like being pushed towards them.
The faint ripples created "waves" on the small streams of water. Tiny drops of liquid flowed across the changing surface, eventually gathering at Feng Xue's fingertips. Less than one-tenth of the teacup's total capacity was filled, but the tea, like a slime, gradually condensed into a water ball the size of her fingertip.
Ripples constantly spread across the water sphere, pushing the water upwards and maintaining its spherical shape.
Feng Xue stretched out his finger, and the water ball seemed to come alive, rolling upwards along his fingertip. However, no matter how precise his movements were, water was constantly being lost during the process.
As Feng Xue narrowed her eyes and infused her killing intent into the water sphere, it exploded into countless droplets with a "pop."
"The fluctuations aren't subtle enough, making it difficult to maintain a stable output, and the intensity isn't quite there either. Even with water as a medium, it's hard to stabilize. While it's not bad as a means of killing, I don't lack killing moves of this caliber..."
Feng Xue kept fiddling with the water in the kettle in various ways, but finally shook her head.
"The water flow is too low; it's definitely more convenient to conduct experiments by the river..."
Thinking of this, Feng Xue immediately got up, but then looked towards the next room with a hint of surprise—
"You've actually Entering Stillness? Then I'll give you a day off..."
"Even if they capture or even kill him" is an extreme statement; it doesn't mean they actually want to kill the protagonist.
This is similar to saying things like "Even if you are the best in the world," "Even if you can earn hundreds of millions," or "Even if you are the most handsome man in the universe," etc. You are not the best in the world, you don't have the ability to earn hundreds of millions, and you are not the most handsome man in the universe, but that doesn't stop you from using exaggerated methods to give extreme examples in order to prove your point of view.
Seriously, don't make me explain this kind of elementary school Chinese Language content!