Qi and Blood Field

Day Twenty-Four.

At three in the morning, while everyone else was still asleep, Yang Ning appeared on the deck. By the time he finished a round of the Heavenly Stars Might, the sun had just risen.

This was Taiheng Heaven, at the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, where the sun rose extremely early.

"Seven-Day Breathing Technique!" As he circulated the Breathing Technique and drew in a deep breath, Yang Ning immediately felt his entire body grow scorching hot. The heat came quickly and faded quickly; afterward, he felt warm all over, as though he had taken a bath and steamed in a sauna.

He felt that he had probably absorbed something like the so-called Innate Purple Qi—a breath that only existed when the sun first rose—because this never happened at any other time.

As for whether the stuff was good or bad, Yang Ning leaned toward it being enormously beneficial to the human body. He had discovered it three days ago, and after absorbing it every day, his cultivation results over those three days had improved by nearly twenty percent compared to before.

It was as though he had given himself a cultivation buff.

Tomorrow, I can bring Ning Rong here to try it too! Yang Ning thought.

Just as he was preparing to continue practicing his fist techniques, Deep Blue gave a crisp "ding."

"Master, an anomalous energy has been detected forming within your body!"

"Hm?" Yang Ning froze, then asked, "Where?"

"At the heart!"

Yang Ning hurriedly sat cross-legged and focused his attention on his heart. Sure enough, he found an almost imperceptible warm current circling there.

Such weak energy might have been impossible for an ordinary person to sense at all. But both Deep Blue and Yang Ning himself possessed an extremely strong degree of control over his body, so Yang Ning had discovered it the instant it was born.

"How was this thing produced?" Yang Ning sensed the flow of energy and found that it was harmless to the body, but impossible to control. It was also constantly weakening, vanishing from his body in less than three minutes.

"It burst forth from your cells after you finished cultivating," Deep Blue explained.

"Then it should be Blood Qi!" Yang Ning understood at once.

Blood Qi was also known as Qi and Blood.

Breathing Techniques and combat forms could strengthen the body. Once the body had been strengthened to a certain degree, Blood Qi could be born. Blood Qi could be used to temper the body, and its birth meant advancing from the second stage of the physical body to the third.

There was no bang, nor any sudden leap in strength. It was simply a gradual, step-by-step process.

Yang Ning had asked Wei Daocheng before. Ordinary disciples generally produced Blood Qi after cultivating for four to six months, while some disciples with exceptional talent might produce it within two months of beginning cultivation.

But what about him?

From beginning cultivation to producing Blood Qi, he had taken only twenty-four days!

Of course, ordinary people would feel nothing when Blood Qi first emerged. Only after it had grown strong enough could it be sensed by the body. Yang Ning was an exception.

But even by ordinary standards, Yang Ning's cultivation speed still far surpassed that of normal people!

"Tsk. Sure enough, scientific methods are effective when applied to cultivation too!" Yang Ning did not think his talent was all that incredible. He believed more in the effects of scientific methodology, and his confidence in his own cultivation methods grew even firmer.

After all, scientific methodology was truth, and truth was a principle that held true across the four seas. Since it was truth, naturally it had to be upheld.

"Buzz!" Yang Ning swung his fists once more and began practicing the Heavenly Stars Might while sensing his body.

Half an hour later, another wisp of Blood Qi was born.

"Deep Blue, capture the Blood Qi!" Yang Ning immediately called out.

"Yes!" Unlike spiritual energy, which could not be observed, Blood Qi was produced within the body and could naturally be observed by Deep Blue.

Yang Ning immediately had Deep Blue take over his body to shower and eat breakfast, while he entered the Spirit Realm to begin researching the Blood Qi.

His previous life already possessed a mature set of methods for researching energy. Yang Ning could simply borrow them directly, so before he had even finished showering, the preliminary properties of Blood Qi had been studied.

First, Blood Qi was not energy that truly existed. Rather, it was an energy field generated in the muscles surrounding the blood vessels when blood flowed through them at high speed, much like the electromagnetic field generated around an electric current.

The birth of Blood Qi required two conditions: blood flowing at high speed, and sufficiently powerful muscles.

If the blood flowed too slowly, the Blood Qi would be too weak to sense.

If the muscles were too weak and lacked vitality, then even if Blood Qi was born, it could not be sensed.

That was why he had detected Blood Qi after punching. His blood flow was at its fastest immediately after exercise.

And the reason he had detected Blood Qi around his heart was that the heart muscles were innately powerful. Combined with the exercise his heart received from the Seven-Day Breathing Technique and Heavenly Stars Might, his heart muscles had been the first to meet the conditions for producing Blood Qi.

Since it was a field, Blood Qi should not be called Blood Qi or Qi and Blood. It should be called a Blood Field, or a Qi and Blood Field.

Like an electric field, the Qi and Blood Field also had several parameters describing it.

Field strength, Field Lines, and Field Force.

Since Blood Qi was produced by the flow of blood, the Qi-Blood Field was always generated around blood vessels and moved along fixed paths. In the Twelve Divine Forms, Blood Qi traveled along the Meridians.

"Hm?" Yang Ning suddenly thought of something and hurriedly compared the positions of the meridians in the cultivation manual with those of blood vessels.

Sure enough, the Meridians and blood vessels always ran parallel to each other. Blood vessels were divided into arteries and veins, while Meridians were divided into yin and yang. They corresponded perfectly!

No wonder Meridians could neither be seen nor touched. They were the trajectories along which a field moved, so of course they had no physical form!

"So that's how it is!" Yang Ning suddenly saw the light. Not only had he clarified the concept of Blood Qi, but he had also understood the principles behind the Meridians. From that moment onward, the mysterious cultivation concept of Blood Qi shed its veil of mystery before Yang Ning and became clear and visible.

"So body tempering means using the Qi and Blood Field to strengthen the body? That's right. A force field is a type of energy; naturally, it produces effects when acting upon cells." No one in his previous life had cultivated such a thing, so naturally no one had discovered it.

Thus, the principle behind how the Qi and Blood Field could temper every cell in the body was simple as well. Blood vessels spread throughout the entire body, so naturally they could reach deep into every single cell!

Blood Qi could not only strengthen oneself; it could also be used in battle. That involved the superposition of force fields. By superimposing fields from different positions, one could create fields of different directions and magnitudes.

Because of the complexity of blood vessels, the Qi-Blood Field, as something attached to those vessels, naturally possessed countless application techniques. By flexibly employing the superposition of Qi-Blood Fields, one could create moves such as spiraling force, qi blades, Sword Qi, and the like.

If the Qi and Blood Field became strong enough to spread beyond the body, that would be Blood Qi externalization. And if the Qi and Blood Field was sufficiently strong, creating a three-foot wall of qi would be no difficult feat.

"So, are internal force and the Qi and Blood Field the same thing? They should be. At the very least, every internal art effect I know can be simulated with a force field. In that case, can't I borrow martial arts from my previous life to apply the Qi-Blood Field?"

Several cultivation methods immediately came to Yang Ning's mind.

Lingbo Weibu, Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill.

This world was not safe. There was conflict within Ascension Academy as well, and quite a few people died before graduation.

Everyone knew the Twelve Divine Forms. So even if your techniques were more elaborate, others could still find ways to restrain you as long as they had enough people.

It was best to create some cultivation methods of his own. He might not need to use them, but he could not afford to lack them.

As for what methods to create, one would be for fleeing and one for defense.

The former meant he could still run if he could not win; the latter meant only the living could deal damage.

As for offense, he would create a Sword Drawing Technique. He had too many things to practice already, so there was no need to make his swordsmanship fancy and gaudy. It would be best if he could defeat an enemy in one move; if he could not, then he would find another opportunity to stab again.

"But the workload just shot through the roof!" Yang Ning sighed.

The total length of an adult's blood vessels was ninety-six thousand kilometers. The Meridians wrapped around the blood vessels and were the same length, but because they formed a loop, their complexity surpassed that of blood vessels by countless times.

The superposition of electric fields also involved innumerable mathematical and physical calculations. Fortunately, he had the Spirit Realm to assist him. Otherwise, creating a cultivation method from nothing would take a person decades of effort.

"Boom!" The entire cafeteria suddenly shook violently.

"Hm?" Yang Ning froze. I only made up my mind. There was no need for a heavenly omen, was there?

After wolfing down the food on his plate in a few bites, Yang Ning immediately stood and headed outside.

The hall had already become bustling, and some people were muttering things about an interception and Lin Tianheng.

"Someone intercepted the ship?" Yang Ning blinked. Had they eaten a bear's heart and leopard's gall?

This ship carried Ascension Academy's Foundation Establishment Immortal Seedlings. In his previous life, it would have been equivalent to a kindergarten school bus!

What did it mean to intercept a kindergarten school bus?

Yang Ning hurried out of the cafeteria. It would be far too suffocating to be beaten to death inside the cafeteria; even if he died, he wanted to die knowing exactly why.