After resting for about half an hour and feeling some of his strength return, Xu Wuyi struggled to his feet.
He did not keep forcing himself to practice the Hundred Refinements Furnace. He understood the principle that too much was as bad as too little; both body and mind needed time to recover.
Instead, he began running through the Basic Body Tempering Method, which he had long since memorized by heart.
As those incomparably familiar movements unfolded and his qi and blood moved along that smooth, gentle route, Xu Wuyi actually felt a sense of "ease."
Compared with the difficulty and complexity of the Hundred Refinements Furnace, the Basic Body Tempering Method was practically as natural as breathing.
After his qi and blood had been refined, circulating through the familiar meridian pathways became smoother and more efficient as well. After each movement, the nourishing effect of his qi and blood was also noticeably stronger.
"So they complement each other..." Xu Wuyi thought aloud.
The foundation laid by the Hundred Refinements Furnace seemed able to feed back into the cultivation of other martial arts.
That was undoubtedly good news.
[Standard cultivation completed today: 1 time]
After the familiar prompt appeared, the proficiency that had been stuck at Minor Achievement (41.5%) for a long time, almost completely unmoving, flickered on the panel:
[Basic Body Tempering Method current realm: Minor Achievement (41.6%)]
Looking at the number that had moved on the panel, Xu Wuyi felt his spirits rise.
A progress increase of 0.1% seemed insignificant, but it was a step that broke through the bottleneck.
"Looks like choosing the Hundred Refinements Furnace was the right call," he murmured to himself.
"What it improves is the root, the soil. Once the soil is fertile, the trees growing from it can naturally draw in more