The first layer is called "Arhat Phantom", which is the core foundation of the entire Cultivation Method.
The method requires the opening of ninety-nine and eighty-one special meridian nodes in the body. These nodes are different from the conventional twelve regular meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, but are an independent circuit. When actuating, these eighty-one nodes must be activated one by one in a specific order. There are strict requirements for the speed, weight, and rhythm of the spiritual power. If it is half a minute faster or half a minute slower, the entire spiritual power circuit will collapse in an instant.
After training, it will be divided into three realms.
When it first formed, a faint outline about the same height as a human appeared behind him. It only had a human shape and could not move, let alone attack.
When it is small, it can condense a Arhat Phantom behind it, with a clear outline, able to attack simultaneously with the main body, and possessing 60% of the power of the main body. As long as the spiritual power is not exhausted, the shadow will not dissipate.
When it is completed, up to eighteen Arhat Phantom can be gathered behind it at the same time. The eighteen phantoms will punch simultaneously with the main body. One punch is like eighteen people punching at the same time. It can focus the fire on one person or cover an area. One person is a military formation of eighteen people.
Qin Tiexin restores the state to the best, first try to use the power of Qi and Blood to activate it.
Fire of Life beats in the ventricle, and a stream of pure Qi and Blood is pumped out from the ventricle, activating one by one along the order of the eighty-one special nodes. The power of Qi and Blood passes smoothly through the first node, and barely passes through the second node, but when it reaches the third node, it starts to open Loss began to appear, and each node was weakened by one point. When all eighty-one nodes were activated, the remaining power of Qi and Blood was no longer enough to condense into a physical shadow outside the body. The shadow he condensed behind him was still the same, blurry and thin. It lasted less than ten breaths before it began to shake, and dispersed after a slight movement.
Qin Tiexin was not discouraged. He rested for a moment and replaced the spiritual liquid in Dantian to activate it.
The spiritual power turns into Spiritual Qi and flows along the same eighty-one nodes. The flow of Spiritual Qi is much gentler than that of Qi and Blood, and the loss in the meridian nodes is also much smaller. After passing through the eighty-one nodes, nearly half of the spiritual power is still available for concentration.
The phantom he condensed behind him was much more stable than when Qi and Blood was activated, and its duration was several times longer. However, Qin Tiexin's spiritual power was less than that of Qi and Blood, so the condensed phantom was smaller. It was much shorter, less than five feet. Qin Tiexin tried to control the shadow that was less than five feet. The shadow followed him and punched the wall. It was bounced back by the formation pattern, leaving only a shallow mark on the stone door. After spending so much spiritual power, the damage was really not high.
Qin Tiexin tried back and forth several times. The outline of the phantom driven by Qi and Blood's power was complete but unstable, while the outline of the phantom driven by spiritual power was stable but weak. Neither path worked on either side.
He sat cross-legged on the ground, tapping his knees unconsciously with his fingers, thinking in his mind. Do we really have to wait until Late Qi and Blood Realm before trying again?
Suddenly, an idea came to me.
Since a single power is not enough, can we use the power of Qi and Blood and spiritual power to stimulate it together?
Thinking simply, doing it is another matter entirely. Qin Tiexin mobilized the power and spiritual power of Qi and Blood at the same time, and the two forces collided at the entrance of the first meridian node. The power of Qi and Blood was fiery and fierce, while the spiritual power was warm and condensed. As soon as the two met, there was a strong repulsive reaction, and the meridian wall at the node was shaken and buzzed.
If he hadn't reacted quickly and immediately withdrew both powers at the same time, this move would have been enough to injure the meridians.
Qi and Blood and spiritual power cannot go hand in hand.
Qin Tiexin was silent for a while, and then a bolder idea came to his mind.
If they cannot run in parallel, can one party be allowed to enhance the other?
He closed his eyes again and first mobilized the spiritual liquid in Dantian, but did not directly push the spiritual power to the meridian nodes. Instead, he slowly guided this spiritual power to the ventricle, approaching the Fire of Life that was beating steadily.
Spiritual power is used to activate spells. The power of Qi and Blood is produced by tempering Fire of Life with Essence Blood. If spiritual power can add strength to Fire of Life like firewood, wouldn't the power of Qi and Blood produced by Fire of Life be even stronger?
The moment the first ray of spiritual power touched Fire of Life, an accident happened.
The white-gold bead at the bottom of Dantian, which had been quiet and calm, suddenly started to rotate in the opposite direction. Different from the uniform clockwise rotation when practicing Primordial Unity Instruction before, the white bead It was rotating at high speed in the counterclockwise direction. A reverse vortex appeared in the center of the spiritual liquid pool. The spiritual liquid was extracted and atomized twice as fast as usual, turning into a large amount of Spiritual Qi and rushing towards the ventricle along the meridians.
This is a flow of spiritual power that far exceeds the limit of his active invocation, but after being transformed by the platinum cyclone, it is extremely docile, without any sense of violence. Instead, it is like a tamed river, flowing steadily into the heart chamber.
Fire of Life suddenly jumped up under the water of Spiritual Qi, and the flames expanded a lot. The color of Flame changed from dark gold to bright gold with a multicolored halo. The temperature in the heart suddenly rose, but it was not burning, but a warm and vital warmth.
Qin Tiexin felt that his Qi and Blood power, spurred by this colorful Fire of Life, spurted out from the ventricle at an unprecedented speed and intensity.
He did not dare to delay, and immediately guided this skyrocketing power of Qi and Blood to rush into the first node of the eighty-one meridian nodes.
Passed. The second node. The third node.
The nodes that originally needed to be carefully advanced layer by layer, now faced with this torrent of Qi and Blood wrapped in a colorful halo, were like gates washed open by the flood, incredibly smooth.
The eighty-first node passes. The power of Qi and Blood pours out from the last node and condenses and takes shape behind Qin Tiexin.
Spiritual Qi in the secret room was stirred by an invisible force and retreated in all directions. Behind Qin Tiexin, a Arhat Phantom that was half a head taller than himself slowly emerged. The shadow was translucent light gold, from the top of his head to the outline of his feet. It's clear, without a trace of blur. The ring scar is clearly distinguishable on the bald head, the shoulders are broad, the arms are thick, the muscles on the chest are clear, a simple monk's robe belt is tied around the waist, and the bare feet are stepping on the black stone slab. Although the face does not have specific facial features, the overall outline is already a complete and real human shape.
Qin Tiexin turned to look at the Arhat Phantom behind him, slowly raised his left hand and made a fist.
Arhat Phantom also raised his left arm and made a fist. The movement was smooth and there was no delay.
Qin Tiexin took two steps forward, and the shadow followed him in sync, with the same stride and the same rhythm. He turned around, and the shadow also turned around. He suddenly hit Arhat Fist, Arhat Phantom His left fist and his left fist were thrown out at the same time, and the punch wind superimposed and hit the reinforcement pattern on the opposite wall. The pattern lit up a dazzling golden light that was more dazzling than any previous test, and the entire wall spread out a circle of golden ripples from the center of the impact.
Qin Tiexin closed his fist and punched another Prajna Palm. Xu Ying's left palm was pushed out simultaneously with his left palm, and the two palm winds merged into a wider and thicker shock wave in the air.
The broken black stone slabs on the ground were picked up by the wind of the palm, turned several times in the air, hit the wall and shattered into powder, and then slowly recovered under the influence of the formations in the secret room.
After closing his palm, Qin Tiexin looked down at his left hand, and then looked up at the quietly floating Arhat Phantom behind him.
It's done.