Research into the Qualitative Transformation of Qi and Blood

[Age 16: After switching to the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists, seven Shaolin warrior monks at Dan Jin Perfection successfully broke through to the Gang Force realm. When the Emperor Jiaqing learned of this, he became convinced that you were the reincarnation of Buddha. He bestowed upon you the title of Dharma Master Who Protects the Nation, along with a hundred thousand taels of gold and ten thousand-year-old ginseng roots. You shut your ears to everything beyond your window and devoted yourself to researching the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood, hoping to make up for the flaws in the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists!]

[Age 17: The Great Qing Dynasty stole the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists without your permission. Thirty-nine Dan Jin Perfection experts loyal to the Great Qing Dynasty broke through to become Gang Force national martial arts grandmasters, solidifying the dynasty's rule!]

[Age 18: Sect leaders from all manner of schools and factions came to you one after another, bearing precious treasures and seeking the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists. You turned practically no one away!]

[Age 20: The Emperor Jiaqing passed away, and the Emperor Daoguang succeeded him. Three Gang Force national martial arts grandmasters hostile to the Great Qing Dynasty attempted to infiltrate the imperial palace and steal the Imperial Seal of the Realm, hoping to damage the dynasty's fortune. However, the five Gang Force national martial arts grandmasters guarding the palace drove them back!]

[Age 26: The number of Gang Force national martial arts grandmasters serving the Great Qing Dynasty had increased greatly, so the dynasty sought to force the various schools and factions into submission. However, people of the martial world were unwilling to accept control by nature. Seventy-two Gang Force national martial arts grandmasters traveled to the capital together, frightening the Emperor Daoguang into hastily sending people to negotiate peace!]

[Age 30: You incorporated the Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic's qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood into the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists, creating the Heavenly Gang Muscle-Changing Thirty-Six Fists. However, the Shaolin monks felt that you were painting legs on a snake. The value of the Heavenly Gang Thirty-Six Fists lay in skipping the process of qualitatively transforming Qi and Blood, greatly reducing the difficulty of breaking through to Gang Force. By adding that process, the Heavenly Gang Muscle-Changing Thirty-Six Fists increased the difficulty of breaking through to Gang Force, turning something that had stood in a class of its own into something indistinguishable from the crowd. You fell into thought!]

[Age 31: You had reached the limit of Dan Jin Perfection and could break through to the Gang Force realm whenever you wished. Instead, you were in no hurry to break through the bottleneck and began to ponder the principles behind the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood!]

[Age 36: The Muscle-Tendon Changing Classic's qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood brought only about a ten percent improvement, while ancient texts described it in terms such as rivers of Qi and Blood, wolf-smoke signals of Qi and Blood, and Qi and Blood like mercury... You became so absorbed in researching the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood that you could not tear yourself away!]

[Age 40: The First Opium War broke out. The Great Qing Dynasty dispatched thirty Gang Force national martial arts grandmasters, who wiped out Britain's ocean-going fleet!]

[Age 46: Your research had made no progress for a long time, and you could not help recalling knowledge from Earth. Dinosaurs in the Jurassic period had been enormous, while modern animals were much smaller. Supposedly, this was the result of differences in oxygen levels. You suspected that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had been abundant in High Antiquity but was now extremely thin, which had reduced the degree of qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood. But you had no idea whatsoever what Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was!]

[Age 51: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rose in rebellion. A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering battle erupted between seventy-three Gang Force national martial arts grandmasters loyal to the Manchu Qing court and fifty-eight who were hostile to the Manchu Qing. Since both sides had reservations, they ultimately chose to stop fighting and make peace!]

[Age 56: You felt that present-day martial artists had already adapted to an environment with thin Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and would not study the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood at all, so you locked away all the research materials from after Patriarch Bodhidharma's time. You believed that as Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi declined, the degree of qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood would decline with it, and that the ancients living through those changes must have studied the matter. You therefore focused all your efforts on ancient texts!]

[Age 61: Empress Dowager Cixi launched the Xinyou Coup, executing the eight ministers entrusted with the late emperor's will and establishing her rule from behind the curtain. To consolidate her political position, Empress Dowager Cixi invited you to the capital to chant scriptures and pray for blessings. You were so absorbed in researching the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood that you could not tear yourself away, and you paid Empress Dowager Cixi no attention whatsoever!]

[Age 66: You discovered that the decline of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had taken place during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The cultivation methods of the Hundred Schools of Thought each differed, quite possibly because their founders had started with different ideas while researching the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood, causing their lines of research to gradually diverge!]

[Age 73: Empress Dowager Cixi rolled up the curtain and returned power to the emperor, declaring that she wished to visit Shaolin Temple in person to worship Buddha and seek scriptures. You were so absorbed in researching the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood that you could not tear yourself away, and you paid Empress Dowager Cixi no attention whatsoever. When Empress Dowager Cixi received no response, she felt she had pressed a warm face against a cold backside and swore that she never wanted to hear any news about you again!]

[Age 76: You discovered that during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, there had been a very unusual group of people. They came from the Hundred Schools of Thought, yet shared a common name-fangshi!]

[Age 86: Upon further research, you discovered that the fangshi's original purpose in refining pills had actually been to install a Nine-Revolution Golden Pill in the Dantian. The emperors, generals, and ministers of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods had all held the fangshi in high regard, and there had to be a reason for it. Not every person in power could have been an ignorant fool, and not every fangshi could have been a skilled swindler. The golden pills refined by the fangshi must have had effects sufficient to convince emperors, generals, and ministers!]

[Age 96: You became so absorbed in the art of pill refinement that you could not tear yourself away. Long-term exposure to lead and mercury left you with a degree of heavy metal poisoning!]

[Age 106: You spent a fortune inviting renowned Alchemists of the martial world to consult them on the techniques for refining golden pills!]

[Age 116: Your pill-refining skills had reached the point of pure mastery, but you had not discovered the key to the qualitative transformation of Qi and Blood!]

[Age 126: You used your knowledge of chemistry and physics from Earth to improve the art of pill refinement. Your pill-refining skills had reached a transcendent level!]

[Age 136: As you gazed at a kitchen knife, understanding suddenly dawned on you. Fragile iron ore could be processed to obtain hard iron ingots. Those ingots could be forged at high temperatures to remove impurities, refined a hundred times into steel. What would happen if Qi and Blood were tempered?]

[Age 146: You refined a golden pill capable of containing Qi and Blood. You infused it with Qi and Blood and placed it in a Pill Furnace to calcine. The Qi and Blood within the golden pill underwent a qualitative transformation. You were wild with joy: you had finally discovered a method for qualitatively transforming Qi and Blood. You guessed that the legendary Nine-Revolution Golden Pill was meant to transform Qi and Blood nine times!]

[Age 149: You mastered the technique for making a Three-Transmutation Golden Elixir. You were not satisfied, but your lifespan had already reached its limit, leaving you no choice but to break through to Gang Force!]

[Age 150: You discovered that the Qi and Blood of the Gang Force realm was a grade stronger than that of the Dan Jin realm, and that the difficulty of qualitatively transforming it had increased countless times over!]

[Age 151: You shared your discovery with Shaolin Temple. The current abbot volunteered to be your test subject. You felt that it would not be a bad thing for the abbot to remain in the Dan Jin realm forever, since he could retain all the authority of the abbot forever, so you readily agreed!]

[Age 156: You mastered the technique for making a Four-Transmutation Golden Elixir!]

[Age 166: You mastered the technique for making a Five-Transmutation Golden Elixir!]

[Age 186: You mastered the technique for making a Six-Revolution Golden Pill!]

[Age 206: Your pill-refining skills had been at a standstill for a long time, and you finally realized that the Six-Revolution Golden Pill was your limit. Without experiencing the changes in Qi and Blood firsthand, you could not make suitable adjustments to the golden pill. Even the slightest error would cause all your efforts to fail at the final hurdle!]

[Age 226: You diligently studied all kinds of subjects, and your technique for making a Six-Revolution Golden Pill had approached perfection!]

[Age 246: You made the technique for the Six-Revolution Golden Pill public. Countries around the world raced to study it, but progress was painfully slow!]

[Age 266: You heard that the Dragon Soaring Company had developed the technique for making a Seven-Transmutation Golden Elixir, and you were immensely excited. Later, you discovered that the Dragon Soaring Company was nothing but a fraud. It had merely fabricated video effects of a Seven-Transmutation Golden Elixir being refined, using them to swindle thirty billion in investment!]

[Age 286: You sadly discovered that experts too absorbed in national martial arts to tear themselves away had no interest in research, while researchers too absorbed in their work to tear themselves away could only dabble in national martial arts. Science went left, metaphysics went right. Sixty years had passed, yet there had still been no breakthrough in your Six-Revolution Golden Pill technique!]

[Age 299: Your lifespan reached its limit, and you died peacefully of old age with regrets!]

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