Xiao Hong left, beaming with joy as she carried the pills away. The quiet room settled once more into its deep stillness.
Xia Dong sat cross-legged on his meditation cushion, but, unlike usual, he didn't immediately close his eyes to meditate and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The weary look Xiao Hong had worn a moment ago stirred a faint ripple in his heart.
He knew that even with the nourishment of immortal pills, an ordinary person would gain little without a superior cultivation method to strengthen the body, circulate qi and blood, and digest the medicine's potency.
Since Xiao Hong can't set foot on the immortal path, I might as well teach her a martial art that can steadily improve her constitution, Xia Dong thought.
His thoughts raced, gradually forming a clear plan.
He would create an extremely basic martial art that struck straight at the human body's foundations, one best suited to ordinary people who had missed the age for martial arts and had no training at all.
With his current mastery of the immortal cultivation technique, the Evergreen Qi-Circulation Art, Xia Dong had the advantage of a commanding perspective. Devising a worldly martial art was as easy as it would be for a scholar who fully understood advanced mathematics such as calculus to turn back and derive addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and basic arithmetic formulas for elementary school.
Not only could he do it with ease, he could see right through to the heart of the matter.
First, he broke down the Five Animals Health Fist that the Linyuan Prefecture authorities had promoted among the people over the years. Then he looked back to the Crane Stance he had practiced day and night when he first embarked on cultivation.
The Five-Animal Boxing's agility and