In truth, although Shen Changchuan had never cultivated any qigong mental art, on his way here, he had already read through the entire Flowing Water Art.
This Flowing Water Art, gifted by Zhang San's wife, was no profound qigong method.
In Shen Changchuan's view, it could only be considered ordinary within the martial world.
Yet it was precisely this manual
that gave Shen Changchuan his first glimpse of the supernatural powers of this world, and allowed him to understand the essence of qigong mental arts in this world's martial realm!
Unlike a cultivation world, the qigong mental arts of this world cultivated only the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, using them to connect to the dantian and form a minor circulation, refining essence into qi.
As for the Twelve Primary Meridians, perhaps because of the human body in this world—or perhaps because the world's primordial qi differed—they could not form a circulation.
And with only the Eight Extraordinary Meridians in use, this qigong system required one to open acupoints and resonate one's own body with the world's primordial qi, thereby wielding power beyond the mundane!
Though he had not cultivated this art, Shen Changchuan had already grasped its fundamentals.
This was hardly strange.
All along, Shen Changchuan had been unable to find his way into this world's path of qigong, but this was not because his talent, comprehension, or foundation was lacking.
It was entirely because he faced a completely different world, along with a supernatural power system utterly unlike that of the main world!
Standing outside the gate and facing towering walls, there was naturally no way in.
And so, when the Flowing Water Art—a genuine qigong mental art—appeared before him, it was like a door appearing in those towering walls, and through that door, Shen Changchuan stepped into a new