Chapter 37: Internal Energy Reversal
After a long time, Shopkeeper Xia still didn’t dare to try it.
“Great Hero Ji, please carry on.”
Ji Qing heard this and also released the hilt, slowly disappearing from everyone’s sight step by step.
Shopkeeper Xia’s expression was grave as he said in a deep voice: “If Ji Qing draws sword, A Fei, can you block him?”
The one-armed flying swordsman shook his head: “He’s not bluffing. If he wants to kill you, I can’t stop him!”
Shopkeeper Xia fell silent.
The one-armed flying swordsman was already the strongest martial artist in her hands.
“A Fei, in a one-on-one life-and-death decisive battle, how confident are you in defeating Ji Qing?”
“No confidence! At our cultivation realm, who is superior can only be known by personally fighting. But once we fight, it will definitely be a life-and-death decisive battle with no chance of luck. If you insist on killing Ji Qing, I can chase after him now!”
The one-armed flying swordsman said seriously.
His life was saved by Shopkeeper Xia.
If Shopkeeper Xia needed it, he could return his life to Shopkeeper Xia at any time!
Shopkeeper Xia shook her head and said: “It’s not time to go all out yet… Let’s go back. Shopkeeper Yu will restrain herself!”
This was internal “competition” within Listen to the Wind Tower. Shopkeeper Xia was very clear that the struggle between them must maintain fighting without breaking.
Otherwise, both she and Shopkeeper Yu would be in deep trouble!
Three days later, Ji Qing returned to An Yang City.
He went straight to Listen to the Wind Tower and met Shopkeeper Yu.
“Task completed? Good, you helped me a lot this time. This is the second-rate internal energy art you wanted.”
Shopkeeper Yu handed Ji Qing a second-rate internal energy art.
Ji Qing put it away.
“Shopkeeper Yu, Shopkeeper Xia in Tong City said she could restore my intelligence. Is that true?”
Ji Qing asked.
Shopkeeper Yu nodded and said: “As long as the branches of Listen to the Wind Tower pay some price, they can remove some people’s intelligence and also restore some people’s intelligence. If Shopkeeper Xia really wants to restore it, it’s not a big problem.”
“However, the struggles between branches of Listen to the Wind Tower are all fighting without breaking. Shopkeeper Xia is just putting on a show to threaten. She won’t pay a big price to restore your intelligence.”
On this point, Shopkeeper Yu’s tone was firm and very confident.
Ji Qing stared into Shopkeeper Yu’s eyes and said coldly: “No matter how you compete within Listen to the Wind Tower, the agreement between you and me was very clear: you would ensure Listen to the Wind Tower removes all my intelligence.”
“If my intelligence is restored, I will kill you and destroy the An Yang City Listen to the Wind Tower!”
After Ji Qing finished speaking, he turned and left.
Shopkeeper Yu watched Ji Qing’s slowly disappearing back but said nothing, only letting out a long sigh.
She knew very well that Ji Qing meant what he said!
If Ji Qing’s intelligence was really restored, she didn’t know about others, but she was definitely the first one Ji Qing would kill!
Shopkeeper Yu was very certain of this.
……
Ji Qing returned to Hundred Battles Sect.
After greeting Lie Yingniang, Ji Qing continued to stay in the library.
Ji Qing took out the second-rate internal energy art given by Shopkeeper Yu from his bosom.
This was the first second-rate internal energy art Ji Qing had obtained, named “Internal Breath Art,” which mainly cultivated the Belt Meridian.
The internal energy cultivated by this internal energy art was upright and peaceful, with good nourishing effects on organs, flesh, bones, and so on, and it had remarkable effects on restoring one’s spirit, making one energetic and spirited every day.
It belonged to an “auxiliary” type of internal energy art.
Ji Qing had long anticipated that the second-rate internal energy art from Listen to the Wind Tower would not be a top-tier one.
But Ji Qing’s current internal energy art was already very profound.
Even if the internal energy from this Internal Breath Art had little attack power, as long as the “quantity was sufficient,” he could purify the Internal Breath Art’s internal energy, and even auxiliary internal energy could transform.
Thus, Ji Qing began cultivating the Internal Breath Art.
Three days later, Ji Qing’s Internal Breath Art had reached beginner.
Ji Qing no longer hesitated.
“Improve Internal Breath Art to perfection.”
With the consumption of six origin points, images appeared in Ji Qing’s mind.
He cultivated the Internal Breath Art day after day, year after year.
“Boom.”
When the Internal Breath Art reached major accomplishment, Ji Qing’s Belt Meridian naturally opened.
This was the self-contained effect of the Internal Breath Art.
But major accomplishment in the Internal Breath Art was not the end.
Ji Qing continued cultivating the Internal Breath Art day after day, trying to grasp a sliver of opportunity from it.
“Consume six origin points, Internal Breath Art to perfection. Your Internal Breath Art has reached a divine level, you have comprehended Internal Energy Reversal!”
Ji Qing opened his eyes.
He immediately opened the Demon Record to check his own information.
Ji Qing: Second-Rank Martial Artist（ Two Extraordinary Meridians opened）
Supreme Yang Pure Yuan Internal Breath Art: Perfection（ Supreme Yang Internal Energy, Internal Energy Burst with three-tenths amplification, Internal Energy Purification, Internal Energy Reversal）
Astonishing Swan Saber: Perfection（ Signature move First Line of Sky, Shocking Force, Accumulating Momentum）
Grass on Flying: Perfection（ Signature move Borrowing Strength from the Void）
Origin Points: 4 points
Origin points were left with only four; this improvement of Internal Breath Art consumed a full six origin points.
Improving a second-rate martial arts once requires two origin points.
Twice the consumption of improving third-rate martial arts!
The effects of second-rate internal energy art were also extremely astonishing.
The internal energy cultivated by Internal Breath Art was already quite pure; purifying it once more made the internal energy even purer.
Crucially, the amount of internal energy directly doubled!
This was also a feature of the Internal Breath Art: internal energy continuous and unending.
Even after being nourished by the Internal Breath Art’s internal energy, Ji Qing felt that some old injuries and chronic ailments in his body were completely swept away.
The whole person was full of energy, feeling extremely good.
Ji Qing carefully comprehended “Internal Energy Reversal” again; this was what he comprehended when Internal Breath Art reached perfection.
So-called Internal Energy Reversal meant that during normal internal energy cultivation, a portion of internal energy would naturally fuse into the body’s flesh, tendons, bones, skin, organs, etc., subtly strengthening the body.
Over time, the cultivator would naturally have a healthy body, free from all diseases, full of energy, and always at peak!
Most crucially, if the internal energy was exhausted, more internal energy would continuously surge from the body, as if the internal energy could never be used up.
This was “Internal Energy Reversal.”
Second-rate internal energy art, even if merely an auxiliary second-rate internal energy art, its effects far surpassed third-rate internal energy arts.
This internal energy art not only opened the Belt Meridian, causing Ji Qing’s internal energy to surge, but also had many inconceivable effects.
These six origin points were well spent!
However, second-rate martial arts consume double the origin points.
And origin points can only be obtained by killing demons.
Demons are not easy to find.
So Ji Qing had to make choices.
Internal energy art is fundamental and cannot be stingy with; use origin points to improve when possible.
As for saber technique, Ji Qing had an idea: second-rate saber technique and third-rate saber technique actually have no essential difference.
So he could completely “stack” with third-rate saber technique, elevating the saber technique to an unimaginable level!
