Father God used his divine powers to turn the Spirit Veins into dust and scatter it across Blue Star. From then on, the Human Race entered the Spiritual Energy Era.
August 1, Qin Era Year 51.
Global spiritual energy levels rose to their limit, and previously stalled experimental projects entered a renewed race.
After the Star War ended, some Immortal Race prisoners were brought back to Blue Star and locked away in prison.
Researchers conducted extensive studies on the Immortal Race's physique. Humans could not begin refining qi and cultivating immortality directly as the Immortal Race did.
This conclusion led many researchers to abandon their experiments. They believed it was a matter of racial talent, and that perhaps humans simply could not cultivate.
In the end, Ying Zheng's younger brother, Ying Si, stepped forward once again and began research based on the human physique.
The human body primarily had twelve meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, with a total of 720 acupoints distributed along them.
What if spiritual energy could be used to strengthen the acupoints in the order they lay along the meridians?
Once every acupoint on a meridian had been strengthened, what if the meridian itself was strengthened next?
Once all 720 acupoints, eight extraordinary meridians, and twelve meridians throughout the body had been strengthened, just how powerful would the human body become?
After extensive research and development, Ying Si became increasingly convinced that this path was viable.
He began running repeated simulations with the Human Race's supercomputers, hoping to create a cultivation method for humanity.
This continued until August 1, Qin Era Year 52.
Perhaps fate had its own design in the unseen depths. On this day, exactly one year later, the entire method was finally worked out.
After repeated experimental simulations, every final result confirmed its feasibility!
The entire laboratory erupted!
Ying Si had stepped forward once again in a time of hardship, becoming a hero of the Human Race whose name was destined to endure in the annals of history.
Ying Si rubbed his lower back. Although he had regained his youth and his physique had been strengthened, work this intense still left his shoulders and back aching.
The entire method had been created around the human physique. First, one would open the fifty-two acupoints along the Ren and Du Meridians. After opening both meridians, a human would possess 2,600 jin of strength.
Each acupoint opened along the Ren and Du Meridians would add fifty jin of strength.
This was the foundation of foundations. According to the projections, once humans met this requirement, they could choose to continue strengthening the remaining acupoints and meridians until every meridian and acupoint in their bodies had been strengthened.
Once the Ren and Du Meridians were opened, the human body would gain the ability to store and use spiritual energy.
The Ren Meridian contained one particularly important acupoint-the Shenque Acupoint.
It was what humans commonly called the navel, the location of the dantian.
It could be strengthened without limit, storing spiritual energy there like an energy warehouse within the body. When that energy needed to be released, humans could release it at will.
This allowed spiritual energy to circulate freely through the Ren and Du Meridians, a process also known as the lesser celestial circuit.
Once humans achieved the lesser celestial circuit, they could practice cultivation methods from different systems!
According to the projections, humans should be able to choose other paths of cultivation.
Yes, that was right!
After opening the Ren and Du Meridians, humans could learn how the Immortal Race used spiritual energy and begin cultivating toward realms such as Qi Refining and Golden Core.
They could also learn magic, absorbing the natural magical elements between heaven and earth to practice magic!
Once humans opened the Ren and Du Meridians, it was as though they had acquired a simulator. They could absorb various forms of energy into their acupoints and store the excess in the Shenque Acupoint.
They could guide the energy stored in the Shenque Acupoint to force open other acupoints, allowing humans to grow stronger and stronger.
Other cultivation systems had not yet been tested, but they should also be feasible.
Practicing magic meant, I won't absorb spiritual energy anymore!
They would absorb the magical elements between heaven and earth and store them in the Shenque Acupoint, gradually filling their other acupoints with magical elements before casting them outward. That was how magic was released.
After cultivating the Ren and Du Meridians, they could cultivate the twelve Spirit Veins and the remaining 668 acupoints throughout their bodies to strengthen themselves.
This was called the greater celestial circuit.
Training the lesser celestial circuit could be called the cornerstone upon which humans practiced any cultivation method.
Only after opening the Ren and Du Meridians and completing the lesser celestial circuit could humans cultivate.
After achieving the most basic lesser celestial circuit, the more acupoints they opened, the greater their aptitude for cultivation would become.
The title of genius would depend on who had opened more acupoints. At the same level, someone who could store and use more energy would naturally be stronger and cultivate faster.
Since these included 108 vital acupoints and thirty-six lethal acupoints, dangers lurked at every turn. They should not be rashly forced open.
Moreover, the improvements gained from opening other acupoints would not necessarily all be strength. For example, acupoints in the legs increased speed, those in the brain increased intelligence, and those around the eyes improved vision.
After opening the Ren and Du Meridians, cultivators could freely combine different areas of strengthening to shape their cultivation path.
In other words, if they wanted to strengthen their heads first, they could cultivate the acupoints in their heads. The same principle applied if they wanted to strengthen their legs instead.
Just like that, a complete theoretical system of human cultivation was created. [The author made this up. It's fantasy-don't believe it!]
The book placed on Ying Zheng's desk contained the entirety of this theoretical knowledge of cultivation.
After reading it, both great generals believed it was feasible, and the group began discussing cultivation once again.
Their discussion continued deep into the night, until they finally reached the following decisions:
① Turn the cultivation of the Ren and Du Meridians and the lesser celestial circuit into humanity's foundational cultivation method, [Great Qin Lesser Celestial Circuit Body-Training Technique], abbreviated as [Great Qin Body-Training Technique].
② Select one company from the army to begin cultivating. If the method proved feasible, gradually introduce it throughout the military.
③ Compile the problems encountered and make improvements, refining and creating the simplest possible cultivation method.
④ Once no problems remained, begin promoting it nationwide.
⑤ Send officers to every school to teach and guide students, selecting cultivation geniuses.
For the time being, Ying Zheng and the others settled on these decisions. If the method truly proved feasible, cultivation would become one of humanity's most important paths to advancement.
The entire human society would undergo a change that overturned heaven and earth.
The next day.
The Qin Kingdom selected elite Warriors from its military, allowing them to volunteer for special training.
After multiple rounds of selection, thirty-six Warriors were finally chosen. Under Ying Si's technical guidance, they began training in the [Great Qin Body-Training Technique].
The first step, of course, was to memorize every acupoint and the meridian circulation chart.
This was no laughing matter. A mistake in memorization could, at best, leave their mouths and eyes crooked and severely damage their vital energy. At worst, it could paralyze their entire bodies or even kill them on the spot.
After memorizing every acupoint, they faced the second test: using their minds to guide spiritual energy along the prescribed route.
They would guide spiritual energy downward from Shenque, through the Perineum, Coccyx Palace, Life Gate, Spine Clamp, Great Vertebra, Jade Pillow, and Hundred Convergences, then into the Mud Pill Palace. From there, it would descend through the Hall of Impression, cross the Magpie Bridge, pass through the Chest Center and Dove Tail, and finally enter Shenque, returning to the Qi Sea dantian to complete one full lesser celestial circuit.
The first step in any endeavor was the hardest, and the greatest difficulty lay in the first acupoint-the Shenque Acupoint.
The circuit began at the Shenque Acupoint and ended there as well. It was the warehouse that stored spiritual energy; only when it could retain that energy would they truly have succeeded.
They constantly used their minds to guide spiritual energy through the celestial circuit along the prescribed route within their bodies.
They continued until they could clearly sense the process of spiritual energy circulating through their meridians and acupoints.
They also had to remember how it felt when spiritual energy lingered at each acupoint.
The Warriors trained diligently every day, and vast quantities of data were recorded.
Every day, they also underwent tests on various instruments to determine the limits of their physical strength.
After a month of training, one Warrior finally succeeded!
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