A Century of Family Tradition · The High-Level Green Snake Meditation Method is Taught!

The next day.

Qing Family Manor, main hall.

Breakfast was Bi Jing congee, personally simmered by Shen Wanqing, served with pickled jade cucumber strips from Liu Yunlan. It was light and refreshing.

Qing Mufeng ate one and a half bowls, then his grandmother insisted he have another half, leaving him burping from fullness.

"Eat more. Last night's medicinal bath depleted your vital energy; you need to replenish it," Liu Yunlan said righteously.

Qing Mufeng didn't dare to refuse his grandmother's good intentions and forced himself to finish the remaining half bowl.

As soon as he put down his bowl, Qing Zhengyue's voice came from the head seat.

"Feng'er, come with me to the study."

The old man got up and left without further explanation.

Qing Mufeng looked at his mother. Shen Wanqing nodded at him, and he hopped off his chair, following his grandfather.

Liu Yunlan called out from behind, "Don't teach him all morning. Feng'er is still young and can't sit still for that long!"

Qing Zhengyue waved his hand without looking back.

The study was on the east side of the manor, the place Qing Zhengyue frequented the most.

The room wasn't large, with three walls lined with bookshelves packed tightly with books.

Some books had yellowed, brittle pages, clearly over a hundred years old;

Others were well-preserved, added in recent years.

The desk was by the window, outside of which was a clump of green bamboo. When the wind blew, the bamboo leaves rustled.

Qing Zhengyue sat behind the desk and pointed to the floor in front of it.

"Sit."

Qing Mufeng sat cross-legged, his back straight, hands resting naturally on his knees.

The old man looked at his posture and nodded slightly.

"Did you sleep well last night?"

"Yes."

"Did you take the medicinal bath?"

"I did."

"Did you drink the medicinal soup your grandmother made for you?"

"I did."

After asking these three questions, Qing Zhengyue was silent for a moment, then took a thin booklet from the desk drawer.

The booklet's cover was dark blue cloth, its edges worn white, clearly having been flipped through countless times.

There was no title on the cover, only four characters written in tiny, small-script in the lower right corner.

Qing Family Secret.

Qing Mufeng's eyelids twitched.

Qing Zhengyue placed the booklet on the desk without opening it.

"Mufeng, do you know what the most important thing is for a soul master's cultivation?"

Qing Mufeng pretended to think, "Soul power?"

"Soul power is the fruit, not the cause," Qing Zhengyue shook his head. "For a soul master's cultivation, the most important thing is the meditation method."

The old man extended his right hand, palm up, and a wisp of green soul power condensed in his palm.

"The meditation method determines the speed at which you absorb soul power, the purity of your soul power, the capacity of your meridians, and even how far you can go."

He retracted his soul power and picked up the booklet.

"This meditation method is called the Green Snake Meditation Method."

Qing Mufeng's eyes flickered upon hearing the name, but he remained silent.

"The Green Snake Meditation Method was originally just an intermediate meditation method."

Qing Zhengyue's voice was unhurried. "When the Qing family ancestors obtained it from the Tiandou Empire's army, it was just an ordinary intermediate wood-attribute meditation method, theoretically only capable of cultivating to the Soul King realm."

"But for the past hundred years, generations of the Qing family have been modifying and improving it. Each family head would adjust and optimize it based on their own cultivation experience, supplementing it. By my generation, it has become a high-level meditation method."

The old man opened the booklet and pointed to the densely packed annotations.

"See, these red characters were added by my great-grandfather, blue by my grandfather, gray by me, and black by your father."

Qing Mufeng leaned closer to look.

The annotations were dense, and in some places, due to too many revisions, paper slips had been added to rewrite them.

Each modification represented the painstaking effort of several generations of the Qing family.

"Theoretically, it can be cultivated up to the level of a Soul Saint."

When Qing Zhengyue said this, there was a hint of regret in his tone: "This is already the limit for a high-level meditation method. Beyond level seventy-one, one must have a top-tier meditation method. While it is theoretically possible to awaken and cultivate using a high-level meditation method, the speed would be incredibly, incredibly slow."

"It is a pity that in the last hundred years, no one in the Qing Clan has reached level seventy or higher."

He looked at his own hands, which were already spotted with the marks of old age.

"In this life, reaching level sixty-six as a Soul Emperor is the highest achievement the Qing Clan has seen in a century. But that is where it ends. I am old, my meridians are aging, and my soul power growth is slowing down more and more. If I can reach level seventy in my remaining years, it would be a blessing from the heavens."

Qing Mufeng looked at the trace of unwillingness in his grandfather's eyes and remained silent.

There was an even more cruel truth that he did not speak aloud.

Whether it was the so-called top-tier meditation methods of the entire continent or even god-level ones, none were as formidable as the Mysterious Heaven Technique brought by Tang San.

"Mufeng, do you know why I had you absorb high-age soul rings despite your innate level twenty soul power?"

"To build a solid foundation and increase my soul power as quickly as possible," Qing Mufeng replied.

"Correct, but not entirely," Qing Zhengyue looked at him. "Building a solid foundation and increasing soul power quickly is to ensure you can go further. And to go further, besides a foundation, you also need a meditation method."

He stood up, walked to the window, and turned his back to his grandson.

"The Green Snake Meditation Method is a meditation method for snakes. And you, you are a dragon."

Qing Mufeng felt a jolt in his heart.

"Snakes and dragons are fundamentally of the same origin, but they exist on different levels."

"Although this meditation method is called the Green Snake Meditation Method, it is, after all, the most suitable one for wood-attribute soul masters to cultivate."

"You are an Azure Dragon, the Origin of Wood; your compatibility with this meditation method will only be higher than ours."

Qing Zhengyue turned around, his gaze burning as he looked at his grandson.

"I do not expect you to use it forever."

"But it can provide you with inspiration. When you find a higher-level meditation method in the future, or when you realize a meditation method that belongs to the dragon yourself, it will be your best reference."

The old man walked back and sat down again.

Qing Mufeng nodded earnestly.

"Now, sit cross-legged."

Qing Zhengyue's voice became serious: "I will inject my soul power into your meridians to guide you through the execution path of the Green Snake Meditation Method. Feel it carefully and memorize the position and direction of every node."

Qing Mufeng closed his eyes and regulated his breathing.

Qing Zhengyue extended his right hand and pressed it onto his grandson's crown.

A wisp of warm soul power slowly injected from the Baihui acupoint at the top of his head, spreading downward along his meridians.

"The first path segment: from the Baihui to the Tanzhong, following the Ren Meridian."

That wisp of soul power slowly descended along the Ren Meridian in the center of the body, passing through the brow and throat, finally stopping at the Tanzhong acupoint in the center of the chest.

Qing Mufeng focused all his attention on feeling the movement of that soul power, engraving it deeply into his mind.

"The second path segment: from the Tanzhong to the Dantian, branching into three."

The soul power split into three at the Tanzhong acupoint; one wisp continued downward along the Ren Meridian to the Dantian;

The other two wisps branched left and right, passing through the Dai Meridian to wrap around the lower back, then circling back to the Dantian via the Du Meridian.

"This is the core of the Green Snake Meditation Method."

Qing Zhengyue's voice echoed in his ears: "Wood-attribute soul power emphasizes endless vitality. Only by running three branches in parallel, circulating back and forth, can the life force within the meridians be stimulated to the greatest extent."