Don't Follow Blindly

"It actually works!"

"Was the Eye Health Exercises I did before incorrect?"

"Only the original version can be recognized by the panel?"

Chen Jue looked at the newly popped-up panel notification, his heart racing with excitement.

He had previously assumed that this attribute panel would only trigger skill options for relatively obscure sports.

He never expected that even something like [Eye Health Exercises], which focuses on massaging acupoints, could be activated.

By that logic, could the martial arts techniques, traditional boxing stances, the overhyped qigong, or even cultivation manuals found online also work?

"Others can't see their training progress, but I can!"

"Turning seemingly useless skills into real abilities—perhaps that is the greatest function of this attribute panel!" Chen Jue's imagination ran wild, and his focus was no longer limited to [Eye Health Exercises].

He specifically went to search for various tutorials that were touted as miraculous online, such as the Eight-Section Golden Body Exercises, Inner Strength Eight-Section Brocade, Five Animal Frolics, and the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic, and practiced them all.

After a round of tossing and turning, drenched in sweat, Chen Jue was baffled again.

"Still unable to activate the skill..."

"Could it be that the versions online are incorrect?"

Feeling his throat parched, Chen Jue went to get his water bottle, gulped down a few mouthfuls, and sat down to ponder.

The reason he was able to master the [Eye Health Exercises] was that he had found the original 8-section Liu-style version online.

This 8-section Liu-style version of the Eye Health Exercises is the source of all [Eye Health Exercises] currently on the market. It was a set of exercises summarized by Director Liu of the Capital Medical College Sports Research Group, who referenced traditional Chinese medicine massage techniques and combined them with clinical trials and his own personal experience with his children's and his own myopia.

There are 8 sections in total, and the movements are very simple to learn, much like the [Twelve Taiji Forms] Chen Jue had learned previously.

The information found online also included corresponding massage techniques, an eye acupoint chart, and a video of Director Liu himself demonstrating the moves, featuring a retro style and impressively low resolution.

It was precisely because of this original creator's tutorial that Chen Jue was able to use self-study to practice and master the [Eye Health Exercises] correctly.

As for those high-sounding techniques covering Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, they have been so widely circulated online, modified, trimmed, and simplified that it is now difficult to find the original versions.

As for the so-called "qi sensation" mentioned in the tutorials, it was all described in vague, confusing terms that were extremely hard to understand.

Seeing this, Chen Jue became vigilant.

He suspected that for many of the tutorial versions found online, the instructional guidance for certain movements had to be taken with a grain of salt.

If one were to encounter someone with ill intentions, it was entirely possible they had added their own "secret ingredients" to the mix!

After all, in the old days, master practitioners would intentionally hold back a few tricks when teaching apprentices, fearing that once the apprentice was fully taught, the master would starve.

As this passed down from generation to generation, few people truly received the authentic teachings.

Some apprentices who practiced incorrectly, eager for quick success and trying to make a living in the world, would even fabricate, imagine, and add their own things to the techniques.

The result of this is that people with real kung fu are now as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

When these things spread to the internet, with no way to verify them, a bunch of curious netizens just follow along and practice blindly.

Sure enough, after browsing through qigong chat groups and martial arts forums online, Chen Jue found that many old posts featured enthusiastic senior netizens advising beginners to find a master with real skills nearby to guide them.

As the saying goes, "The master leads you through the door, but the cultivation depends on the individual."

Without a good master to lead the way, it is easy to practice incorrectly and end up causing more harm than good.

Chen Jue's current situation is that he has a powerful attribute panel but no good master to lead him through the door.

Unless he is willing to test every single one of the massive number of manuals and tutorials online until he finds a skill that can be recorded by the panel, allowing for movement correction through the system.

Doing so would be like looking for a needle in a haystack—the effort would outweigh the gains.

It would be better to find a master with real skills nearby!

"Where would I find a master around here?"

"Wait... wouldn't finding a young, pretty 'little master' be even better?"

Chen Jue's thoughts shifted, he smirked, and then opened Wu Fang's WeChat to send a message asking for guidance.

He planned to start by finding some entry-level methods from Wu Fang, who was both a practitioner and a high school physical education teacher.

Presumably fed up with the harassment during the day, Wu Fang did not reply to the message immediately.

According to Chen Jue's deduction, her daily routine was very regular; she went to the park to practice early in the morning and had to teach during the day, so she had likely turned off her phone and gone to bed by now.

Checking the time, it wasn't even 10 o'clock yet.

Chen Jue began to practice the [Eye Health Exercises] that had just been solidified onto his panel.

These Eye Health Exercises consist of 8 sections, and completing one set of the original version takes nearly 10 minutes.

It was not at all comparable to the 4-section simplified version Chen Jue learned as a child.

After finishing one set of exercises, Chen Jue felt a warmth around his eye sockets and a cool, refreshing sensation inside his eyeballs.

"So our entire generation has been practicing it wrong all this time!" Chen Jue complained wildly in his heart and began the exercises again.

After practicing for about 30 minutes and cycling through the set 3 times, the proficiency level kept jumping up by +1, +1.

Afterward, a prompt popped up on the panel once again:

[Ding~]

[Completed one session of Eye Health Exercises meeting the requirements. The internal carotid arteries, ophthalmic arteries, and optic nerves near the eye sockets were stimulated by pressure, accelerating blood flow to the eyeballs and promoting the metabolism of visual cells. Your visual ability has been improved by an extremely minute amount.]

[Constitution attribute +0.01]

[Friendly reminder: This set of movements exerts pressure on the blood vessels of the eyes. Frequent use can easily cause vascular damage; please arrange your exercise duration reasonably.]

Is 30 minutes about the limit?

Chen Jue muttered to himself, recalling the experience he had heard from technicians like Nana and Xiao Mo while getting a spa treatment at Jingtanghui.

Massage as a form of entertainment and relaxation is not a case of "the longer, the better."

Everyone has a different constitution and different sensitivity thresholds, so the optimal duration certainly varies.

General clubs—ahem—bath centers usually set a "clock" at 45 minutes or one hour, while longer full-body massages are 90 minutes.

Beyond that time, continuing to press won't yield much effect. It might even easily cause muscle fatigue or result in injuries.

Since these [Eye Health Exercises] are essentially acupoint massages, and the blood vessels and muscles of the eyes are even more fragile, it is only natural that there would be a time limit, as all paths lead to the same destination.

Chen Jue spent that night in a state of excitement, having a dream full of profound meaning.

When he woke up the next day, he didn't go to the park.

Instead, he took the elevator to the top floor of the talent apartment. Counting the time until 6:00 AM, a bright orange-red morning sun tinged with a hint of blue slowly rose over the city skyline in the east.

He tried staring at it for about three minutes until his eyes couldn't take it anymore. He closed his eyes and began performing the [Eye Health Exercises] facing the rising sun.

As the saying goes, the plan for the day lies in the morning.

The 30 minutes of closed-eye massage made Chen Jue feel a burning sensation in his eye sockets. His vision behind his closed eyelids was flushed with a reddish glow—that was the sunlight penetrating his lids—and his eyeballs felt a sense of relaxation he had never experienced before.

This feeling was incredibly wondrous, just like returning to his elementary school days, doing morning exercises on the playground while basking in the sun.

It was very novel and very comfortable.

Not only was his whole body feeling warm, but his eyes had also been relaxed and released.

By the time the 30-minute [Eye Health Exercises] ended, a series of prompts had already popped up on the panel.

Not only had his [Constitution] increased by 0.01, but even a small point of free attribute had jumped out.

"That's 0.07 now. A few more points and I can merge the skill slots!" Chen Jue grinned.

When he opened his eyes to look at the world again, everything he saw was a lush, vibrant green.

This was a normal phenomenon after facing the sun with closed eyes, as the eyes had been under red light for a long time, creating an illusion on the retina.

After blinking a few times, it returned to normal within a few seconds.

He put his glasses back on and took a look, and Chen Jue was delighted!

He discovered that his glasses, which he hadn't updated in two years and had become somewhat blurry due to under-correction, had actually become clear again.

Although it hadn't reached the level of a normal person's 5.0 vision, looking at slightly distant objects was no longer as blurry or double-imaged.

"I've only been practicing for two days, and my prescription has dropped by at least 50 degrees!"

"Even the astigmatism has been corrected a bit!"

"These [Eye Health Exercises] are truly the GOAT!"

First update~

Went to the hospital again today; my cold is causing throat inflammation. Still asking for votes.

PS: You really shouldn't follow random things online; it's best to find a reliable teacher. Pianfeng once practiced the Microcosmic Orbit and the San Ti Stance of Xingyi Quan and ran into problems—speaking from personal experience.