Chapter 118: Breakfast
Eating is also part of the Lu Clan’s special training. The common folk often say that man is iron and rice is steel, and the classics also say ‘Qi Eaters are divine and long-lived, grain eaters are wise and clever, meat eaters are brave and fierce, grass eaters are good at running but stupid.’
Qi Eater is Xiantian Secret Realm, only seen in classic legends, and no one has reached it in at least a century. Even Heavenly Rank Grandmasters must intake nutrition through normal diet, on one hand to maintain vigorous essence and blood to cultivate powerful true qi, and on the other to keep the physical body’s strong functions to bear the load of true qi.
For young people like Lu Yun, whether practicing martial arts or studying literature, diet is an extremely important part. There is a saying that a lifetime elder knows dwelling, a three-lifetime elder knows diet. No matter how rich upstarts are, they do not know what to eat, how to eat, or how to match it to be most beneficial to the body.
Only a hereditary family like the Lu Clan, passed down for hundreds of years, truly understands the essence of food and tonics, knows how to match and cook them, eat them at the right times, to maximally strengthen the body, clear the mind, and consolidate the foundation and cultivate the origin!
Although direct lineage disciples like Lu Bai have been extremely particular about their diet since childhood, and the nutrition and energy they intake daily far exceed ordinary people. But it still cannot compare to the diet specially formulated for them by the Lu Clan.
When they arrived at the eating place, they saw that the four long tables were already laid out with a dazzling array of various foods, each dish in small portions, but adding up the various meat and vegetable dishes there were fully twenty kinds, plus two bowls of medicinal cuisine, half a pound of cheese, four taels of honey, one serving of bird’s nest, and a portion of secretly made pill from the Lu Clan.
Lu Wei and Lu Xin ate with them in the same place, but the meals in front of the two were much simpler. It was not that the Lu Clan could not afford to feed them, but they basically had no consumption, and intaking too much nutrition would be harmful instead of beneficial.
“The breakfast for each of you costs as much as four thousand cash!” Lu Wei smiled to the four: “So not a bit is allowed to be left!” After speaking, he picked up his chopsticks, signaling everyone to start eating.
Having been tossed around all morning, the four were already starving, immediately picking up their chopsticks and focusing on devouring the piled-up food before them. In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, they had eaten most of the breakfast like a whirlwind sweeping away the clouds, yet still felt not fully satisfied. Lu Song and Lu Bai ate while secretly smacking their lips, thinking how they had become gluttons like Lu Lin…
However, they also knew clearly that it was because the seemingly simple training in the morning had depleted all the true qi in their bodies, and their bodies needed a large amount of food to quickly recover vital energy.
What Lu Yun knew even more clearly than them was that when martial artists deplete all their true qi, if they can timely replenish physical strength and quickly recover true qi, it would exercise their meridians very well, allowing them to bear and store more true qi. Although each time’s progress was too small to detect, if accumulated day after day, in a few months they would find they had achieved a qualitative leap.
Moreover, for the three, Lu Wei’s method had a great benefit—it could quickly increase their ability to control true qi. Especially for Lu Song, as long as his aptitude was not poor, he would soon learn the method to control true qi, and in not long, advance to Black Rank.
For Lu Bai, what he needed most now was to quickly become proficient in controlling the true qi in his body, making it retractable at will and usable as he wished, so the gains would similarly not be small. As for Lu Lin, he could already control his own true qi very well, so there was no immediate effect, only accumulating day by day to raise the true qi limit, until the whole body’s meridians could not bear it, then borrow the chance to impact the Ren and Du Meridians.
For Lu Yun himself, Lu Wei’s method could be said to be of no use at all. Because he had already opened the Ren and Du Meridians, and under the wondrous use of Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill, his control of true qi far exceeded Earth Rank Grandmaster, so Lu Wei could not see through his real strength at all.
However, Lu Yun would still treat Lu Wei’s training with utmost seriousness, because he too needed to soon openly show Earth Rank strength. If he could show explosively growing strength in the Lu Clan’s special training, others should only marvel at his exceptional talent and the Lu Clan’s effective training, right?
Moreover, Lu Yun was very much looking forward to Lu Xian’s guidance in two days. His previous cultivation was one, by studying the cultivation method on《Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill》, and two, by the guidance of Lu Xin and Uncle Bao. But both were Earth Rank Grandmasters, fundamentally unable to comprehend the profoundly mysterious《Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill》, let alone guide his cultivation after Earth Rank. Thus, Lu Yun had accumulated countless questions and confusions, long hoping to consult a peerless Grandmaster.
Although he did not dare to reveal his real strength to Lu Xian. But a Grandmaster’s understanding of martial arts was already close to the Dao, and Lu Yun believed that even if Lu Xian treated him as a Black Rank Expert to guide, he would still benefit greatly.
Lu Yun’s only worry was whether he would be seen through by Lu Xian for his real strength. But after repeatedly weighing, he thought that the cultivation method of Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill was uniquely extreme, and when he sealed his true qi in the glabella acupoint, even a Heavenly Rank Grandmaster could not see through his foundation.
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After breakfast, Lu Wei returned to the Martial Guard Department to handle clan affairs, changed to Lu Xin continuing to teach the four meditation and circulating qi.
Lu Xin did not have as many tricks as Lu Wei, but his understanding of true qi meridians, especially his own Heaven and Earth Righteous Law, was not inferior to Lu Wei at all. He sequentially guided the four’s methods of circulating qi, pointed out every tiny error of theirs, and injected his homologous true qi into their bodies, running a heavenly cycle in the most correct way, then let them run their own true qi to follow him for a few more heavenly cycles, before withdrawing his true qi, letting them experience the cultivation themselves.
Lu Bai and the other two all had extremely high comprehension, after Lu Xin taught a few times, they could timely correct their errors and circulate qi along the correct routes. Sure enough, they found the true qi recovery speed was much faster than usual. The three were overjoyed, hurriedly guarding their dantian, breathing and exhaling with mind free of distractions.
When it was Lu Yun’s turn, Lu Xin said seriously: “The Clan Leader shows mercy, exceptionally allowing me to impart the complete Heaven and Earth Righteous Law to you.” Saying so, he stood up and went out: “The three of them have long learned it, come with me.”
“Yes.” Although eight years ago Lu Xin had already imparted the Heaven and Earth Righteous Law in full, Lu Yun still obediently stood up as ordered and followed him to the backyard.
The backyard was densely shaded with incessant cicada chirps. Lu Xin looked at Lu Yun standing respectfully before him, and said softly: “From now on, you can use the full set of Heaven and Earth Righteous Law in combat. However, your strength still should not improve too fast.”
Lu Yun nodded, even a genius needs time to complete the leap. He at least within this year still had to show as Black Rank.
“But you don’t need to worry too much,” Lu Xin lowered his voice: “Yesterday I heard the Sixth Steward say that Xiahou Rongguang of the Xiahou Clan, Pei Ju of the Pei Clan, had successively reached Black Rank Peak a year ago, now in closed-door cultivation, intending to break the dictum ‘no Grandmasters under twenty’ and shock everyone in next year’s First Lunar Month Grand Competition!”
“These two should be seventeen or eighteen, right?” Lu Yun asked somewhat uncertainly.
“Xiahou Rongguang is nineteen, Pei Ju is eighteen.” Lu Xin gave the exact answers.
“That’s still very impressive.” Lu Yun sighed lightly. Although he had opened the Ren and Du Meridians at fourteen,《Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill》 also from then on had serious side effects. And as his cultivation deepened, the harm to his body grew greater. Who knows what it would be like in the future?
In contrast, those like Xiahou Rongguang and Pei Ju who advanced step by step were more likely to become Grandmasters in the future, leaving him behind…
“If from now you only cultivate Heaven and Earth Righteous Law, your future achievements may not be lower than theirs.” Although knowing it was of little use, Lu Xin still earnestly advised.
Lu Yun nodded, but he would not give up Imperial Extreme Profound Cave Skill!
