Before long, Li Bufan became immersed in cultivating the Ten Thousand Year Ice Coffin. This secret art used one's own Vital Energy to draw upon the Vital Energy of heaven and earth, forming an ice coffin. In subsequent use, one guided it with Spiritual Sense, allowing the ice coffin to both protect the soul and body, while also trapping people and locking down enemies.
Advance to attack, retreat to defend—everything lay within a single thought. He savored every word and every sentence in the technique, pondering them over and over. He also rehearsed the secret art's circulation route countless times in his mind.
After deliberating for a long while and simulating this secret art hundreds, even thousands of times in his mind, he began to practice it.
Li Bufan closed his eyes and sat cross-legged in the courtyard, forming seals with both hands. True qi surged through his body, flowing from the Dantian Qi Sea through his meridians and acupoints before finally drawing upon heaven and earth. Step by step, it circulated slowly according to the Ten Thousand Year Ice Coffin's technique route.
He had already comprehended the True Meaning of Water and possessed a profound understanding of water's nature. Moreover, he had previously cultivated Hundred Rivers Return to Sea intensively, granting him control over the Vital Energy of heaven and earth far beyond that of ordinary people.
Thus, while he could not say that cultivating the Ten Thousand Year Ice Coffin came as easily as taking something from his hand, it could certainly be called smooth sailing without a single obstruction.
Ice and water fundamentally shared the same origin. Ice was merely water formed under low temperatures, so the True Meaning of Water, combined with the water true qi refined by the Five Elements Heaven Skill, complemented the chill