Meditation Methods, Breathing Methods, and Internal Cultivation Techniques

"Tonight's meeting ends here. Meeting adjourned."

The attendees on both sides of the long table gradually departed. Before long, only Meng Xinghe and a woman wearing a hood and mask remained.

"Xinghe, long time no see."

Qian Renxue removed her mask and looked at Meng Xinghe, seated at the head of the table, with a radiant smile.

"Long time no see. You've become even more beautiful than before," Meng Xinghe said with a smile.

At his words, Qian Renxue's smile bloomed even more brilliantly across her exquisite face. "Thank you. Then tell me, how am I more beautiful than before?"

"Confidence is the pinnacle," Meng Xinghe said. "I see a beauty of confidence in you that wasn't there before."

"Confidence? Oh, yes, confidence." Qian Renxue removed her hood, and her long golden hair cascaded down like a waterfall. She rose and walked toward the head of the table, placing one hand on the high-backed chair and the other on the tabletop. With her palm supporting her chin, she brought her red lips close to Meng Xinghe's ear and whispered, "Xinghe, since I'm so confident, tell me—which of us is more beautiful, me or the Silver Dragon King?"

Meng Xinghe's sky-blue eyes reflected Qian Renxue's stunning face, framed by golden hair and golden eyes. At the same time, Gu Yuena's peerless face, with its white hair and violet eyes, surfaced in his mind.

After comparing them, the corners of his lips lifted slightly. "Each has her own merits."

He was not comparing the current Gu Yuena, but Gu Yuena, the Silver Dragon King, as she had looked when she transformed into a human before rebuilding her cultivation.

Beauty was both a subjective and an objective thing.

Subjective beauty was simply the saying, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Objective beauty, meanwhile, was beauty as a fact—an objective reality in itself.

Objectively speaking, Qian Renxue and Gu Yuena were both absolute beauties. Neither of their appearances struck any of his aesthetic sore spots, and each possessed her own distinct beauty.

"Each has her own merits?"

Qian Renxue murmured with her red lips, her breath fragrant as orchids. "But in my eyes, you're the most beautiful person in the world."

Before the warmth by his ear had faded, Qian Renxue's figure vanished from the space, leaving Meng Xinghe sitting alone at the head of the table.

So, Qian Renxue had just flirted with him?

And she had been utterly shameless about it—flirting with him and then immediately running away without the slightest hesitation.

Sure enough, the old saying was right: boys had to protect themselves when they went out.

The next day, Class One, Soul Master Theory class.

"Soul Power is the foundation of a Soul Master. Now, can someone answer this: what cultivation methods can Soul Masters use to increase their Soul Power Level?"

Wu Changkong stood at the lectern and swept his gaze across the classroom.

Perhaps because the question was too simple, no one raised a hand. He had no choice but to call on a student.

"Xie Xie, you answer."

Seeing that the teacher had picked him, Xie Xie stood and confidently gave the answers he knew. "The methods Soul Masters use to raise their Soul Power Level are meditation methods and internal cultivation techniques."

"Mm, not bad." Wu Changkong nodded approvingly, then changed the subject. "What else?"

"There's... more?" Xie Xie's expression immediately turned stunned.

Seeing his expression, Wu Changkong knew that Xie Xie had no idea. He told him to sit down first, then looked at the rest of the class.

Xie Xie's family background was already among the best in Class One. If even he did not know, then perhaps only Meng Xinghe and Gu Yuena in the entire class knew.

However...

Wu Changkong looked at the two of them spacing out by the window in the back row and immediately abandoned the thought of making them answer. He gave the final answer himself. "There are three cultivation methods for Soul Masters to increase their Soul Power Level. Besides the meditation methods and internal cultivation techniques Xie Xie just mentioned, there is another cultivation method called a breathing method."

Having said that, he began teaching the lesson.

Meditation methods were the oldest and most common of the three cultivation methods.

They originated in the ancient era of Soul Masters, appearing almost at the same time as the human profession of Soul Master, and had been passed down to the present day.

Over countless years, all kinds of powerful meditation methods had emerged one after another.

For example, Spirit Hall's Angel Meditation Method of the angel lineage, the Holy Spirit Cult's Heavenly God Meditation Method, and the Spirit Pagoda's Qiangu Clan's Coiling Dragon Meditation Method...

In addition, the basic meditation method most widely circulated in the Soul Master world had also advanced with the times. Like the broadcast calisthenics ordinary people learned in school, it was constantly updated with new versions.

For Soul Masters cultivating the same basic meditation method, if their talent was equal, their cultivation speed would become faster and faster as the meditation method was updated.

Internal cultivation techniques were the most powerful and rarest of the three cultivation methods.

There were only two internal cultivation techniques in the entire Douluo Federation: the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill and the Holy Spirit Cult's Great Light Heavenly God Scripture.

Internal cultivation techniques were a cultivation method completely different from meditation methods.

As everyone knew, Soul Power cultivated through meditation methods possessed no inherent attribute. A Soul Master's own Soul Power also had no attribute; only after combining with a martial soul would it display the corresponding attribute.

But internal cultivation techniques were different. The Soul Power they cultivated came with attributes, and different internal cultivation techniques cultivated Soul Power with different attributes.

The Soul Power cultivated through the Tang Sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill was balanced and peaceful in nature. It possessed a certain healing effect and had a long, steady aura, making it suitable for all Soul Masters.

The Soul Power cultivated through the Holy Spirit Cult's Great Light Heavenly God Scripture was bright and sacred in nature. It possessed purification, healing, evil-breaking, and all other effects associated with light and sacred attributes, making it suitable for Soul Masters with light or sacred attributes.

Finally, there were breathing methods, a particularly special cultivation method.

That was because a breathing method could be both a cultivation method and a cultivation realm.

When a Soul Master's realm reached a certain level, they could absorb the primordial energy of heaven and earth from the air through the body's natural breathing and convert it into Soul Power.

The highest realm of a breathing method was known as "body breathing"—every pore of the body could breathe like the mouth and nose.

At the same time, breathing methods were divided into active and passive forms.

Active meant that a Soul Master consciously absorbed the primordial energy of heaven and earth through breathing and converted it into Soul Power. Passive meant that, without any deliberate effort from the Soul Master, the body naturally absorbed the primordial energy of heaven and earth through breathing and converted it into Soul Power.

The latter's absorption and conversion efficiency was far inferior to the former's, but its advantage was that it operated continuously twenty-four hours a day. It was a passive skill; as long as you were alive, the breathing method would not stop operating.

Aside from Soul Masters naturally reaching the realm of breathing methods, it could also be cultivated through artificial means. However, only the Holy Spirit Cult possessed such a method in the entire Douluo Federation. It was called—the Heavenly God Breathing Method!

The Holy Spirit Cult was also the only faction to possess a meditation method, a breathing method, and an internal cultivation technique at the same time.

"Teacher," Tang Wulin raised his hand and asked after hearing this, "how did the Holy Spirit Cult manage to possess all three major cultivation methods?"

"That's a good question, Tang Wulin," Wu Changkong said. "It is because several wise research scholars appeared in the Holy Spirit Cult throughout its history."

"The Heavenly God Meditation Method, the Heavenly God Breathing Method, the Great Light Heavenly God Scripture, and even numerous supreme battle techniques all came from the hands of those research scholars."