Secrets of the Body

The next morning, Minghui got up early.

After briefly stretching his limbs and eating breakfast, he began studying the Body Sect's secret manual, Secrets of the Body, under his teacher Du Busi's guidance.

"An encyclopedia of the human body!"

That was Minghui's heartfelt assessment.

It contained detailed records of the human body's structure, including the five viscera and six bowels, skeletal distribution, the paths of blood vessels and meridians, and more.

It had everything.

There were even detailed sketches, which deeply shocked him and made him slightly uncomfortable. Someone had definitely performed dissections before, while he had never encountered anything like that.

Using this as a foundation, the Body Sect had also developed a top-tier Meditation Method, complete with a set of muscle and meridian-guiding stretches. One first performed the stretches to stimulate the activity of the body's organs and tissues and accelerate blood circulation, then calmed the mind to meditate, allowing one's cultivation state to reach its peak.

With long-term practice, it not only strengthened the body but also opened the meridians and excavated the human body's potential to the greatest extent.

As for cultivation speed, it was faster than his family's method anyway!

"It probably wasn't any worse than Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill." Minghui sighed inwardly. As expected of a Sect specializing in the study of the human body. Even in Tang San's previous world, perhaps no one had analyzed the human body to such an extent.

And this was the Body Sect's foundation.

With such a foundation, developing this kind of cultivation method was only natural in his eyes.

This was a group of people playing with science, dedicated to cultivating immortality through science!

Beyond that, Secrets of the Body also recorded information on all known Body Martial Souls, along with their corresponding Second Awakening methods.

And that was his afternoon training program.

The principle was simple. In short, it was stimulation training.

After testing, they found that Minghui's Pineal Gland Body Martial Soul could not only allow him to see the spirit domain but also grant him powerful spiritual perception. His First Soul Skill, which allowed him to simulate objects from his mind within a certain range, was built upon this foundation.

Range represented distance.

Only where he could sense something could he simulate an illusion there.

Therefore, his stimulation training also targeted his spiritual perception.

Spiritual pressure trained his spiritual strength and sharpened his sense of danger. Evasion training cultivated spatial perception and enhanced dynamic perception. Actual combat trained real-time perception, further strengthened danger perception, tempered the body, stimulated his other senses, and comprehensively improved him.

As for what actual combat meant?

Close the doors and release the Soul Beasts!

His adrenaline instantly shot through the roof. It was simple and brutal.

And that was not all. As Du Busi had told him before, the body was the foundation of everything. Any Body Martial Soul required a strong body to unleash its full power. Thus, the Body Sect had also developed a unique body-tempering method.

It was refined to the point of targeting every bone and every muscle, just as a Body Martial Soul could manifest in any part of the human body.

With all those programs individually tailored and arranged in sequence, nearly his entire day was filled.

As for archery practice, it was thoughtfully scheduled for the morning.

At night, he cultivated Soul Power and practiced his Simulation Soul Skill. Whenever the moon rose, he cultivated Sùyuè's Eye.

After absorbing his first Soul Ring, the deterioration of his internal organs had eased considerably, and he could endure a certain level of training. Still, to be safe, although Du Busi's training plan was tightly packed, its intensity was kept within a controlled range. The Soul Beasts initially released for him were only ten-year-level ones. But considering that he was only six years old and still a sickly child—

This intensity was already quite high.

After that, once the time was right, he would undergo the final awakening ceremony to help his Martial Soul break through its shackles and complete its Second Awakening. As for what the ceremony entailed, Du Busi did not say. He only said that knowing in advance could easily unsettle his state of mind and produce the opposite effect.

Minghui had nothing to say about that, so he could only focus on completing his current training.

Then, after only a few days of training, Minghui was thoroughly convinced—heart, mind, and body—and could not help but sigh.

"The Body Sect's research and development of the human body truly deserved to be the greatest on the continent. Even Mu En of Shrek Academy would have to concede defeat."

In the original story, Ma Xiaotao had mentioned that the Body Sect's overall strength exceeded Shrek Academy's. Shrek Academy was the continent's foremost Soul Master institution, gathering the continent's elite and possessing profound foundations.

Yet even so, its overall strength was inferior.

If it was not because its teaching ability was lacking, then the Body Sect must have possessed some other unique advantage.

After experiencing it himself, he believed that when it came to cultivating Body Martial Souls, Shrek Academy was far inferior in every respect, whether in teaching or anything else!

After all, while Shrek Academy still had new students running with weights, his training here had already been refined down to working every individual muscle.

That was what professionalism meant!

The two were not even on the same level.

"The result of countless predecessors devoting themselves to a single field was not something an academy like Shrek, which embraced a broad, multi-disciplinary approach, could match."

"It wasn't that Shrek Academy lacked foundations or ability. It lacked an almost fanatical focus."

The longer he trained and the more carefully he compared the two, the more clearly Minghui understood the difference.

But none of that mattered now.

Cultivate diligently! That was his only thought at the moment. Having transmigrated into this world and awakened Twin Martial Souls, he was unwilling to simply settle for the status quo.

He still wanted to take revenge on Tang San for that explosion someday!

Half a month later, Princess Vina returned from the Heavenly Soul Imperial Family to continue cultivating in the Sect.

"What? The Sect Leader went out and brought back a Personal Disciple?" She was greatly surprised upon hearing the news from her friend Long Aotian.

After all, even she, who possessed Twin Martial Souls, had not been accepted by the Sect Leader as a Personal Disciple.

"Yes. Teacher said he's Radiant Plume Douluo's son. His name is Minghui, and like you, he possesses Twin Martial Souls," Long Aotian said bluntly.

He preferred using his fists, so he had apprenticed himself to an elder who had spent many years studying fist and foot techniques rather than becoming the Sect Leader's disciple.

"Twin Martial Souls." Vina murmured inwardly before asking, "Brother Aotian, what are his Martial Souls?"

"The Pineal Gland and the Radiant Plume Divine Bow," Long Aotian replied.

Born into the Azure Family, which had passed down the Azure Luan Martial Soul for generations, yet awakening a Body Martial Soul—this was clearly unusual. He had long guessed that Minghui might possess Twin Martial Souls. The only thing he had not expected was that the other Martial Soul would be the Radiant Plume Divine Bow, Radiant Plume Douluo's Martial Soul.

For someone over seventy to still have a child, he had honestly been quite astonished when he first heard the news.

As for why Minghui had been sent to the Body Sect, the flaw inherent to a Martial Soul like the Radiant Plume Divine Bow was no secret within the Body Sect.

"No wonder!" Vina murmured. Cultivating the Body Martial Soul first could indeed avoid the hidden danger brought by a Martial Soul like the Radiant Plume Divine Bow.

"A Spirit Attribute Martial Soul enhancing an assault-type Martial Soul truly was a perfect combination."

"No wonder even the Sect Leader was tempted," she said with feeling.

Long Aotian nodded slightly, Battle Will flickering in his eyes. "I'm looking forward to seeing him grow stronger in the future."

"Teacher said that Junior Disciple Minghui's Body Martial Soul provides an immense boost to spiritual perception. If he could fully develop it, it would restrain most close-combat abilities."

"And Junior Disciple Minghui possesses Twin Martial Souls. Once he became a Titled Douluo and attached all his Soul Rings, his physical strength would not lose out to any Soul Master skilled in close combat. Even without using his Second Martial Soul, he would still rise among the continent's top powerhouses."

"To battle such a powerhouse would absolutely be one of life's greatest pleasures!"

Vina smiled and nodded. In her eyes, Long Aotian was a true martial fanatic, pure and focused.

Though they were both still young, the pride bursting from his bones did not lose to that of any adult. That was also why they had become friends.

Who said women were inferior to men? Even as a girl, she could serve the country and its people just like Father Emperor.

Because she had awakened Twin Martial Souls, Father Emperor had always held high expectations for her, and she had always worked hard to avoid disappointing him.

"Brother Aotian, do you know where Junior Disciple Minghui is now?" Vina asked with a smile.

As a member of the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial family, she naturally needed to approach and befriend a genius with Twin Martial Souls on behalf of the Empire.

"He should be cultivating," Long Aotian said, his eyes growing even more fervent, with a hint of excitement.

"According to Teacher, the Sect Leader arranged an extremely packed training plan for Junior Disciple Minghui. These past few days, Junior Disciple Minghui has cultivated diligently without a word of complaint."

Excellent!

Only someone like that could become my opponent in the future!

"I see." Princess Vina nodded lightly. "Then I'll visit Junior Disciple Minghui once he has some free time."

"Also, there's something else." As if recalling something, Long Aotian immediately continued.

"In a month, the Sect will hold a gathering. All disciples will need to attend."

At this point, his expression turned solemn. "It is said to be related to gods. Teacher said that from now on, our Body Sect will also have its own faith."

"Gods?" Princess Vina was stunned.

"I don't know the details either. Teacher didn't say," Long Aotian replied, shaking his head.

"Alright, Junior Sister Vina, it's getting late. I should go cultivate too. We can talk again next time if there's anything!"

With that, he waved his hand and hurriedly turned to leave.

Vina remained where she stood, unable to recover for a long while.

PS: This chapter skipped over the daily cultivation routine.