Chapter 96: Rounded Up, It Counts As A Spell! Weren’t We Supposed To Believe In Science?
At the moment when the true qi poured into his dantian, Chen Han could clearly feel his body becoming much lighter, and his senses seemed to strengthen as well. He could hear the chirping of insects coming from a greater distance by his ears.
As the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 circulated, the true qi drawn into the dantian began to flow through the corresponding meridians, absorbing the spiritual energy newly inhaled into the body and turning it into true qi.
More importantly, when this true qi passed through the taiyin meridian again, its healing effect on his lungs was clearly stronger than before.
Moreover, as described in the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》, as long as one circulates true qi, successfully draws it into the dantian, and constructs an internal cycle, that is the true beginning of cultivation.
Naturally, at this time there is no realm.
In Shu Shan Swordsman, realms are not divided in a unified way. In any case, each kind of sect and left-path school has its own realm divisions, and there are even rather niche distinctions such as the sword intent realm.
There are also realm divisions like mystic sect communicating with spirits, spirit emptiness, and purple mansion.
Someone like him now, who has cultivated true qi, successfully drawn it into the dantian, yet has no realm, would be uniformly called a swordsman in the Shu Shan Swordsman world.
And the cultivation realms of the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 refer to the four cultivation realms in Shu Shan Swordsman.
The four cultivation realms are: Liquid Condensation Stage, Golden Core Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, and Spirit Transformation Stage.
The Liquid Condensation Stage can correspond to those Emei Sect disciples who have just learned the sword control technique, because only at the Liquid Condensation Stage can they learn sword-riding flight.
The Golden Core Stage is the level of strength of the seven disciples of Emei.
The Nascent Soul Stage is the level of strength of people like Dan Chenzi, Xuantian Sect, and the old monster Youquan.
As for the Spirit Transformation Stage, the novel does not describe much. Roughly, it is the realm where one can cultivate the nascent soul into an avatar outside the body, and it seems that even True Man Changmei never reached it.
Some people say this realm is actually the Golden Immortal.
Naturally, the four cultivation realms in Shu Shan Swordsman also correspond to the four immortal realms: Loose Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, and Golden Immortal.
In addition, there is a general term: Sword Immortal.
Anyone who can fly is put into this category, that is, from the Liquid Condensation Stage onward, those who have learned sword-riding flight are all Sword Immortals.
Simply put, Loose Immortal is the Nascent Soul Stage; as long as one opens the purple mansion and successfully condenses a nascent soul, one is a Loose Immortal. Naturally, there are other detailed distinctions, but those are not important.
The Nascent Soul Stage will draw down the four-times-nine heavenly tribulation. Survive it once and one becomes an Earth Immortal. At that degree, one already has the ability to be reborn through nascent soul reincarnation. After surviving the four-times-nine tribulation three times, one becomes a Heavenly Immortal, which is the realm True Man Changmei was in when he ascended.
And the Heavenly Immortals here truly correspond to the Heavenly Immortals of the Heavenly Court, otherwise there would not be cases of heavenly lords of the Heavenly Court descending to visit their friends.
Chen Han drew the true qi into his dantian, and the cultivation that followed was the process of entering the Liquid Condensation Realm.
This process required two steps.
The first step was to open the chong, dai, yang wei, yin wei, yin qiao, and yang qiao among the eight extraordinary meridians to form the small circulation, and then open the ren and du meridians to achieve the great circulation.
Sounds a bit like a wuxia novel rather than cultivation, doesn’t it?
Exactly. In Shu Shan Swordsman, the early stages of cultivation and martial practice are similar.
Moreover, Shu Shan Swordsman does have the jianghu martial world circle, and in the early chapters many jianghu figures appear.
In the jianghu martial world, opening the ren and du meridians means becoming a peak innate expert of the jianghu. But martial training relies on inner strength; opening the ren and du meridians can take ten or even dozens of years.
Cultivators refine spiritual energy into true qi, so opening the six meridians and the ren and du meridians is much easier, since the energy is more advanced.
Therefore, in Shu Shan Swordsman, Emei Sect disciples who have not been cultivating long can easily kill long-famous jianghu experts, and Li Yingqiong’s first trip down from Emei Sect is exactly so.
As for the second step, it is breaking the meridians. The meridians broken here are not the eight extraordinary meridians or the ren and du meridians, but the spiritual meridians of the body.
There are spiritual meridians for immortal mountains, and only with spiritual meridians can a person cultivate into an immortal roaming heaven and earth.
Isn’t there a “qi sea snow mountain” concept in some novels?
The qi sea is the dantian. The snow mountain is actually the immortal mountain; it refers to these spiritual meridians.
The “xian” character of “immortal” being composed of a person and a mountain also comes from this.
If one has no spiritual meridians and no immortal destiny, then go down the mountain and mix in the jianghu martial world; one can still be an expert.
For those with spiritual meridians, after birth their spiritual meridians slowly close and clog. They must be broken open again, clearing the spiritual meridians, in order to transcend the mortal category and enter the Liquid Condensation Realm.
As for him now, he had only just drawn true qi into the dantian and did not yet meet the conditions to open those meridians.
Time passed.
As the true qi circulated, the spiritual energy rinse and the spiritual energy inhaled into his body were quickly refined and absorbed.
When everything calmed down and Chen Han opened his eyes and rose from his seated meditation,
he stretched lazily and could clearly feel that his body was more than just a little stronger.
What excited him most was the lifespan increase this time.
Thirty-two years and two months.
This lifespan meant he could now live to fifty-six.
And the lung cancer had been greatly healed through this round of cultivation. He figured that after cultivating one more night with spirit stones, it would basically be cured; then he could truly breathe easy, and heaven and earth would be wide open before him.
Chen Han let out a long breath, then left the pavilion and went over to Uncle’s Kitchen to make medicinal cuisine.
Today, in addition to taking out the remaining dog demon meat, he also had to process the Green Feather Pheasant meat.
He deftly processed the dog demon meat and placed it into a stew pot.
Then he began handling the Green Feather Pheasant meat. While plucking the green feathers from the meat, he found one feather that was somewhat different: its color was darker, and it still bore faint special patterns.
Instinctively, he stored all the plucked feathers into the warehouse, then saw the remark information:
【Green Feather Pheasant ordinary feather: this really is an ordinary Green Feather Pheasant feather, nothing special about it!】
【Green Feather Pheasant plume: this is a plume of a Green Feather Pheasant, on which a trace of wind attribute power remains. By channeling true qi, you can activate its power. If you gather enough of them and attempt some refinement, you might obtain unexpected gains.】
Chen Han stared at this remark information in surprise, continued removing the feathers from the Green Feather Pheasant meat, and stored all feathers into the warehouse, finally obtaining three such special plumes.
He immediately took out one plume and tried circulating the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》. As expected, he sensed a trace of power remaining on the feather. He tried channeling a wisp of true qi into it and, just as the remark said, activated that sliver of wind attribute power upon it.
What happened next surprised him even more. He could clearly feel a cluster of wind forming on the plume. It was not strong, but it was indeed a small mass of wind.
This works too?
He waved the plume, and that cluster of wind blew toward a potted plant. At once he could see the branches and leaves shaking, though only shaking; it had no real power to speak of.
Honestly, if a girl in a short skirt stood there, this bit of wind would not even lift her hem.
Chicken ribs, truly chicken ribs.
Still, rounding up a bit, this should count as a spell, right?
And according to the remark information, this Green Feather Pheasant plume should be an artifact refining material, right?
After all, the remark clearly said: with enough quantity, one can try refining an artifact, and there might be unexpected gains.
It would depend on whether You Cai the doggy could deliver, whether he could bring his younger brothers to hunt Green Feather Pheasants on Green Luan Peak every day.
Looking again at the Green Feather Pheasant plume in his hand, after casting that small gust of wind just now, its color had lightened, and the special patterns remaining on it had vanished.
Afterward, Chen Han also cut off a portion of the processed Green Feather Pheasant meat, put it into another stew pot, added medicinal herbs and water, and started stewing it.
After he took a break, it was not long before he noticed that the prompt for his rising reputation in his mind began speeding up again.
He had a rough guess why. After opening the Douyin hot search list, he saw that a Provincial Xin City News 《Believe in science and leap over walls and run along eaves》 news video had indeed entered the top twenty.
It was exactly the news video from yesterday where Reporter Wu interviewed the Chen Clan.
Checking the upload time, it had been posted last night.
The Douyin hot search list updates every two hours. Now that this video had started fermenting, it was rapidly climbing up the chart, and along with it his attention level was rising. Many people, after seeing the video, came to follow him.
He also checked his own video data:
The 《Dog demon asking for help》 video had previously gone explosively viral and had now reached 53 million likes. Although the growth rate was no longer as fast as at the start, it should have no problem reaching three million likes.
With this level of popularity, even the 《Mountain Shaking Spirit Ox part-time job guiding spirit oxen》 video he had shot for You Fu last night had gained 180,000 likes overnight.
Sure enough, once the popularity rises, the data growth is very fast.
He then checked his fans and saw he had already reached 480,
That was an increase of more than 165,000 fans at once.
Naturally, this also brought his reputation to: 50,000 reputation （461735/50000）.
Almost ten times the upgrade requirement.
So, when Chu Hao arrived, and considering that Wu Ying the reporter also wanted agency rights for Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, he could talk with the two of them about paying in full upfront.
If so, with the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea accumulated over these days, plus the 75 million balance Chu Hao needed to pay from before, it should more or less meet the upgrade requirement.
If no additional conditions appeared when the sect residence upgraded, he should not have to worry about reputation for the next level. He would just need to earn enough money and could directly upgrade.
He hoped the system would act more human and not come up with any new tricks to make things difficult.
Online, as New City News’ interview report grew hotter, more and more people saw this news, especially those who followed the Chen Family Head account.
Professor Wu was one of them.
Because of the previous Lion Head Goose incident, he had been paying close attention to this Chen Family Head. He had even watched the video about guiding spirit oxen the other party posted yesterday.
Last night he thought Chen Family Head was just being abstract again. Even if beast taming technique was strong enough to allow riding a cow around, riding a cow and controlling it to walk versus having the cow go pick up tourists on its own were two completely different things.
A cow could not accomplish something so complex and requiring such flexibility; its intelligence limit was right there.
But who could have expected that early this morning he would see in the news video that the cow really was picking up guests, and it was a news report from a well-known provincial-level news media outlet.
The key was that the cow not only picked up guests, it actually took people to the Tourist Service Center, and along the way would even look back to see if the reporter and the others were keeping up.
Professor Wu suddenly realized something shocking: the abstract videos of Chen Family Head seemed to be becoming less abstract.
The expert in the white vest was actually a real expert.
The cow really could pick up guests.
In the video, Chen Family Head’s voice sounded again: “Regarding these things, everyone should still view them rationally. Just like that Professor Wu from Hua Agricultural University said, everything has a scientific basis. Everyone should believe in science.”
“???” When Professor Wu heard his name suddenly pop up, he was completely dumbfounded.
Wait, what did this have to do with him?
Previously he had only commented on that first Lion Head Goose guarding video, saying that such a scene could be achieved through scientific training methods.
After the second formation video was posted, he felt it was a bit unscientific and had already chosen to remain silent and lurk, even deleting that comment.
So what now?
How did Chen Family Head manage to drag him into this again?
He suddenly felt as if a blame pot had been placed on his back.
From now on, he would never casually comment online again.
While Professor Wu was still stunned, the video continued. After they finished showing the courtyard full of beautiful orchids, the interview moved on to the dogs.
When he saw those armored dogs charging over, he was shocked as well.
Especially when he saw that little earth dog proudly shaking hands with the female reporter.
Chen Family Head’s beast taming technique was truly impressive; in just one day and night he had trained the dogs to this level.
Of course, what attracted him the most was the interview with the three Chen Clan masters, because he himself practiced tai chi for fitness and had some chivalrous feelings toward traditional martial arts.
And these three Chen Clan masters had real kung fu. He had also seen the video of the dog thieves being beaten black and blue.
After learning the name 《Taiyi Long Fist》, he paused the video and searched for it. Sure enough, this fist technique was a Daoist spell passed down for a long time, and in most Daoist inheritance sites there were people practicing this set.
It seemed the Daoist sect did have real kung fu.
Resuming the video, Professor Wu was soon amused by the scene of the three Chen Clan masters practicing.
They were not synchronized at all.
Among the many martial arts promotion videos online where several people practiced together, which one was not tidy and in unison?
But after the female reporter explained the reason, his smile suddenly faded.
Because what she said made a lot of sense.
Everyone’s strength is different, so how could their speed of executing techniques be exactly the same?
It was something worth pondering.
Of course he could not have known that this was actually just an awkward mistake on the part of the three members of the Chen Clan.
Professor Wu kept watching the video.
“Chen Family Head, do you think there are martial arts like those in the novels nowadays?”
“…We must believe in science…”
“Xiao Yu, you…”
“…Yes, senior brother can leap over walls and run along eaves.”
“???” Professor Wu clearly froze when he heard the words “leap over walls and run along eaves.”
Was this junior sister of Chen Family Head also very abstract?
Chen Family Head had just said to believe in science, and she immediately came out with something as unscientific as leaping over walls and running along eaves.
But the next scene truly made his eyes widen in shock. In the video, Chen Family Head ran forward to the base of the wall and leapt up, stepping on the wall and eaves in succession for leverage, and like that went up onto a rooftop more than five meters high.
Wait, Chen Family Head, you can really do it?
Not only Professor Wu, but everyone online watching this news video was dumbfounded at this scene.
What happened to believing in science???
