Chapter 119 - Urging Qi to Move Through Blood Channels
At the very least, Wei Xiao Bei did not have that kind of feeling right now. Even if in the future, he felt like being in a relationship, it would probably just be a physiological demand.
As a man whose willpower was about to reach 13 points, he was able to suppress these kind of simple desires.
Following Wei Xiao Bei's departure, the two women suddenly lost interest in continuing their chat. They looked at each other in the eyes, not knowing what kind of thoughts were going in the mind of the other party. Afterwards, they returned to their room without talking.
Wei Xiao Bei meanwhile, did not know that a misunderstanding was born between the two women. After coming out of the building, he hailed a cab and rode to the dojo.
Just as he was entering the dojo, Wei Xiao Bei happened to bump into Cheng Si Si, who was preparing to leave.
"Senior apprentice sister," Wei Xiao Bei spoke with a smile.
"Junior apprentice brother? Where have you been? Why weren't you answering the phone? I even thought that you had been involved in human trafficking? You worried us to death!"
As Cheng Si Si opened her mouth, her grumbling abruptly came out, making Wei Xiao Bei smile in embarrassment. It took a while before Cheng Si Si was pacified.
When he entered the dojo, Wei Xiao Bei thought that his master and apprentice brothers would investigate him like Cheng Si Si. In the end, after seeing him, his master only nodded his head and did not inquire further. On the other hand, his big senior apprentice brother and third apprentice brother were only worried about his body. After seeing that nothing was wrong with Wei Xiao Bei, they did not bother him anymore.
After all, Wei Xiao Bei was already an adult. As long as nothing happened to him, his master and apprentice brothers would not investigate his personal matters any further.
After returning to his own room, Wei Xiao Bei charged his phone and looked at the time. Five days had actually already passed. It was no wonder why Cheng Si Si was that worried.
At four in the early morning of the next day, Wei Xiao Bei woke up, left the room, and directly headed towards the practice grounds.
There were no people at this time in the practice ground. Even his big senior apprentice brother, who normally woke up the earliest, could not be seen.
This though, was natural since his big senior apprentice brother only wakes up 30 minutes after 6.
Wei Xiao Bei chose a strong tree and did a few breathing exercises. He stood straight, placed his hands on his waist, widened his legs parallel to his shoulders, straightened his back and pushed out his chest. He closed his eyes and breathed deeply as he focused on his Dantian. He threw out all distracting thoughts, inhaled and exhaled to cleanse his body and rid himself of impurities.
After a few minutes, his mind entered a peaceful state. The sleepiness from waking up was disappearing without a trace.
Wei Xiao Bei changed his stance to a Qigong stance. His thoughts sunk deep within himself, urging his Qi to slowly move inside his Dantian.
Following the circulation of the Qi, the uncontrollable Qi was beginning to be absorbed by the Qi inside his Dantian. Perhaps because of the gap between the outside and the inside of his Dantian, the uncontrollable Qi began flowing toward his Dantian. In the end, it had collected in the middle of his Dantian.
This cycle moved step by step.
At this point in time, Wei Xiao Bei had already rid himself of all outside distractions.
Following the passage of time, his Qi continued to expand.
In the end, Wei Xiao Bei's spirit was quite spent, but his Qi could not be described as a simple thread anymore.
Under his efforts, his Qi had already occupied half of his Dantian.
The time Wei Xiao Bei cultivated his Qi came to an end as he resisted the dizziness coming from his mind. He returned back to his room while coincidentally meeting his big senior apprentice brother, who had just woken up, along the way.
Seeing that Wei Xiao Bei was rocking from side to side, his big senior apprentice brother worriedly said a few words. After hearing that it was caused by excessive Qi cultivation, his opened mouth almost made Wei Xiao Bei laugh.
The amount of time his big senior apprentice brother had been following his master was very long. From that time until now, it was almost 20 years. As a result, he was already at the realm of negative jing, so he was not a stranger to cultivating Qi. However, Wei Xiao Bei had only been there for 3 months, yet he had already reached the state negative jing and had started to cultivate Qi. This had truly shocked him.
This gave his big senior apprentice brother the feeling of a new student he had just began instructing, entering college without going through elementary.
Naturally, his big senior apprentice brother had already developed a slight immunity against Wei Xiao Bei's surprises. After telling Wei Xiao Bei to rest well, he began to train under a tree.
Wei Xiao Bei fell down onto his bed as soon as he returned to his room and fell asleep in an instant. His master and Cheng Si Si had also checked on him during this period of time.
When his master came in, he tried to feel his pulse. After seeing that everything was in order and the pulse was vigorous, he left relieved.
As for the reason why Cheng Si Si came in, it was to call Wei Xiao Bei for breakfast. However, after seeing that Wei Xiao Bei was unwakeable, she could only leave angrily.
Wei Xiao Bei slept peacefully, and only woke up when it was time for lunch.
In an instant, Wei Xiao Bei had slept for more than five hours. Although his temples were aching after he woke up, his spirit consumption had made up for this inconvenience.
After taking a look at his Dantian, he noticed that the first time he trained in reality exceed the time he trained in The Dust World by more than a few times. This made him quite happy. If it was not because it was lunch time, he would have began to train a bit more.
After eating lunch, Wei Xiao Bei found out that Cheng Si Si's freshmen military training had ended, and that school had officially begun. Cheng Si Si would return every Friday afternoon to the dojo, and go back to school on the Sunday afternoon.
Cheng Si Si, compared to most girls nowadays, was a perfect virtuous woman. Once she returned to the dojo, she immediately washed the master's and apprentice brother's clothes. Moreover, she even cooked the meals.
The only weakness was that her mouth was unforgiving. Wei Xiao Bei, himself, had already experienced this countless times.
After seeing their difficulty of cooking meals when she left for college, she hurriedly went out after lunch to go to the employment center to find a cook for them.
His master followed convention and boiled tea. He sat in front of the chessboard to analyze the desperate situation. His big senior apprentice brother went for a nap, and as for Wei Xiao Bei, he once again returned to the practice grounds.
It was already past the Autumn Equinox. Compared to the summer, the climate at this time was pleasantly cool. The small period of time after the Autumn Equinox was one of the most comfortable times of the year.
Wei Xiao Bei felt extremely comfortable as the cool breeze softly blew past his body. It did not make him drowsy or cold at all.
Since he had just finished eating lunch, he sat down in a lotus position in front of the tree and practiced breathing techniques.
Breathing techniques did not put any importance into posture. You could stand, sit, or lie down. Some Guo Shu experts even trained while they were asleep.
This kind technique was used to stimulate internal organs and train them. It also increased the amount of Qi flowing inside his body.
After half an hour, Wei Xiao Bei felt that the feeling of fullness had disappeared. He slowly stood up and began to train again by sinking his thoughts into his Dantian.
Perhaps because his Bajiquan had already reached pretty much perfection, he felt that his Qi was much more abundant compared to how much his master had described it was during the initial stages of negative jing.
The Qi in his Dantian began to circulate as he honed in on it and began to absorb the uncontrollable Qi, expanding again.
After half an hour, the Qi had fully occupied his Dantian. The uncontrollable Qi outside could no longer easily enter his Dantian anymore.
Wei Xiao Bei recalled the things his master had told him about cultivating Qi. After recalling this, he knew that the next step was to urge his Qi to move through his blood channels.
This was one of Guo Shu's traditional training techniques.
When the Qi inside the Dantian was full, it needed to be moved all throughout the body using the 12 blood channels.
The so called '12 blood channels' referred to the three on each hand and the three on each foot.
Urging the Qi to move through the blood channels would stimulate the blood, link up the internal organs, expand the blood channels, clean the internal organs, and also strengthen the muscles, bones, skin, blood, etc.
As for the opening of governor and conception vessels described in various Wuxia novels, it was in fact referring to the Qi moving through the acupuncture points. This was one step after urging the Qi to move through the blood channels.
The process of urging the Qi to move through the blood channels must reach a certain level before being able to move it through acupuncture points.
The main purpose of training the acupuncture points was to gain the 8 extra meridians.
These 8 meridians were different from the 12 channels. It not only affected the internal organs, but it also affected the relationship between internal and external organs. In the past, these things were originally called extra channels due to their limited knowledge of Chinese traditional medicine. It was only when powerful Quo Shu experts developed them did everyone find out their use.
The 12 channels was the place where blood and Qi normally moved. It was a natural pathway that even normal people have, albeit it may be a little narrower.
However, the 8 extra meridians were naturally blocked ever since birth.
Operating these 8 meridians would require using Qi to forcefully open them
After opening them, these 8 meridians could link up with the 12 blood channels and allow a finer adjustment of accumulated Qi and blood.
In short, opening the 8 meridians would make the blood channels stronger and also strengthen Qi!
As for how this actually happened, Wei Xiao Bei had not yet reached this stage so everything he knew about it had only came from his master.
Just from observing his master when he would occasionally demonstrate his skill, Wei Xiao Bei imagined that the benefits of opening the 8 meridians was not small.
It must be known that his master did not have a status panel, but his master was able to play around with Wei Xiao Bei.
Urging the Qi to move around the blood channel was done by circulating Qi in them. Opening the meridians, on the other hand, would require him to use Qi to open the acupuncture points. Although the processes were similar, they were also different.
As his thoughts continued to run, Wei Xiao Bei moved his Qi all over his body.
Chapter 120 - Kill the Japanese Fatty
As he examined the inside of his body, Wei Xiao Bei felt a powerful Qi appear in his body. After a slight nudge with his thought, the Qi naturally moved around all of his acupuncture points, completing a cycle.
In this period of time, the uncontrollable Qi passed throughout his body, and a huge portion of the accumulated Qi in his Dantian had been devoured by it.
However, Wei Xiao Bei could feel the benefits in his body after the uncontrollable Qi finished a cycle throughout his blood channels.
There were 54 acupuncture points in his blood channels. The amount of uncontrollable Qi that was produced was not small.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei finally understood that urging Qi to flow into his blood channels was not only to clean the internal organs but also to increase the amount of uncontrollable Qi flowing throughout his body. By increasing the amount of Qi in his body, it would help in opening the 8 meridians later.
However, what caught him unprepared was that when he began another cycle and had his Qi pass through the foot's kidney channel, heat rose from his lower body, making it hard and swollen.
This was a symptom of a natural occurrence among men, morning wood!
Since it was like this, Wei Xiao Bei couldn't help but stop training and stood up. He quickly walked to the toilet and relieved himself.
While he was in the toilet, he pondered why this kind of phenomenon happened.
The foot's kidney channel included the kidneys, lungs, and throat, but the main feature was the kidneys.
As a result, when moving Qi into the foot's kidney channel, internal organs related to the kidney would show a clear reaction.
In reality, Wei Xiao Bei did not know that this was not caused by defects in his kidney. If his kidney really had problems, the symptoms would be different.
Afterwards, he returned to his former position and circulated the uncontrollable Qi again. He tried it a few times, but everytime the Qi passed through the foot's kidney channel, he needed to go to the toilet to relieve the symptoms. However, the symptoms were getting less pronounced and weaker.
When it came to his foot's liver channel, the symptom that appeared was a burning sensation in his liver. Soon, it became very painful, as if something was slowly being removed from inside of him.
Wei Xiao Bei knew that he loved to drink. He had even smoked when he was in the army. The toxins from those habits were most likely absorbed into his liver. As a result, this kind of symptom appeared.
After cycling the uncontrollable Qi seven to eight times around his blood channels, Wei Xiao Bei could not continue to do so anymore as his head became dizzy. He then stopped cultivating and began training his techniques and great spear.
In the next few days, Wei Xiao Bei repeated the same cycle of circulating his Qi and training.
During this time of cultivation, he had encountered many different kinds of symptoms that were sometimes strange. When moving the Qi to his hand's lung channel, he spat out black blood. This should be an indicator of it cleansing his lungs. When moving Qi to his foot's bladder channel, he felt the need to go urinate.
He would urge his Qi to move through his blood channels twice a day. After a month, the amount of strange symptoms that Wei Xiao Bei encountered had greatly decreased. Moreover, he could feel that the involved organs had become much more healthier and vigorous.
This was something that his health attribute could not address. These were all problems he had before he obtained the status panel. Even the health attribute could only heal injuries.
At this point in time, Wei Xiao Bei had a bit more confidence in attempting to open his meridians.
On this day, the cold winds were chilling. Wei Xiao Bei still woke up early, arrived under the big tree, and cleaned his internal organs with breathing techniques. After entering a calm state, he sunk into deep thought, and he began absorbing the uncontrollable Qi into his Dantian.
The Qi that was occupying his Dantian had been heavily saturated. After cramming his Dantian full, it had automatically stopped absorbing the uncontrollable Qi.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei carefully circulated his Qi toward his Yinjiao Acupuncture Point.
Just as previously said, the eight extra meridians had been blocked ever since birth. As a result, circulating Qi to unblock it and the its channels would be very difficult.
Luckily, this blocked channel was originally unimpeded before birth. As a result, whenever the Qi charged forward to challenge the blockade, the blocked channel would be forced open a bit.
Everytime the Qi collided with the blocked channel, it would decrease by a bit. In reality, the reason why the Qi was weakened because it had to hold up the channel to prevent it from closing again.
This process of opening the meridian was like having his body cut open by a knife or chopped by an axe. In an instant, Wei Xiao Bei's forehead was drenched with beads of sweat.
If it was another person who had not experienced such intense pain before, the Qi that they were controlling would have dispersed due to carelessness. The most severe case would be entering a state of near death.
For Wei Xiao Bei, the pain was terrible, but it was nothing compared to the pain that he experienced from muscle reconstruction.
This was one of the difficulties of cultivation. A normal person would not even be able to endure this kind of pain. They would not even have the energy to open their meridians.
Reaching the peak of negative jing and earning a small success in cultivation after 30 years was already not a bad accomplishment.
When the Qi had diminished to about 30 percent, Wei Xiao Bei finally opened the Yinjiao Acupuncture Point.
While using his inner sight, he saw that the Yinjiao Acupuncture Point was a muddy chaos. When he tried to hit the Yinjiao Acupuncture Point, the muddy exterior would block the Qi and bounce it back.
This hit had decreased the Qi, leaving it with only 10 percent of its original amount.
Just like that, Wei Xiao Bei could not help but return his Qi to his Dantian and once again let it absorb the uncontrollable Qi.
After it had recovered, he once again urged the Qi to move through the blood channel and charge toward the Yinjiao Acupuncture Point.
This was something he must do. If he did not open it now, the blood channel would slowly close up, wasting his time.
Boom!
This time, the amount of Qi that he lost while passing through the blood channel had decreased, and he once again tried to hit the Yinjiao Acupuncture Point, directly decreasing the muddiness to 30 percent.
But, his Qi had also decreased to less than 30 percent.
Boom!
His Qi once again charged forth, decreasing the muddiness.
After three hits, there was only a layer of muddiness left.
Pop! With 10 percent of his Qi left, he once again made it hit against the muddiness, completely shattering it this time. Now, only a small strand of Qi was left. He sent this small strand of Qi toward the Yinjiao Acupuncture Point. This had immediately created a path between his Dantian and his Yinjiao Acupuncture Point.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei felt a bit dizzy. He couldn't help but stop and stand up.
Urging Qi to move through the blood channels was different from opening the meridians. It was possible to circulate the Qi through the blood channels every day, but opening the meridians was different. After opening the meridian, it took a bit of time to stabilize the path between the acupuncture point and the Dantian. This had prevented Wei Xiao Bei from immediately opening another meridian.
Just like that, Wei Xiao Bei did not waste anymore time in the dojo. He called up Captain Zheng of the Da Hao Security Firm.
Captain Zheng never expected Wei Xiao Bei to call him at all. The training period for the first batch of security guards was finished after all, and the second batch was still in its proposal stage.
However, when he heard Wei Xiao Bei speak, he knew that Wei Xiao Bei wanted to fight in the Lou Lan Club's underground fight club again.
Previously, Wei Xiao Bei did not leave a way for Lou Lan Club to contact him. As a result, there was no means of communication between the Lou Lan Club and Wei Xiao Bei. Wei Xiao Bei was not willing to disturb his senior apprentice brother, so he directly called Captain Zheng.
Although Captain Zheng did not work in the Lou Lan Club, it was not difficult for him to set up these kinds of matters. He quickly gave Wei Xiao Bei a number, "This is little Zhou's number, the one you met last time."
Wei Xiao Bei did not think too much about it and just called up the number. The voice on the other side of the phone was familiar. Wei Xiao Bei tried to recall the last time he went to the Lou Lan Club and remembered the young man that was with him. They had indeed met before.
As for the last time he had fought in the Lou Lan Club, it was this little Zhou that had brought him to the stage.
Since they had met before, the conversation between them was much more relaxed.
Wei Xiao Bei went to the Lou Lan Club and met up with him. They both rode in an electric-powered vehicle and entered the Lou Lan Club. In this period of time, this little Zhou handed Wei Xiao Bei his business card. What was written on it was his name and occupation: Zhou Yuan Ming, Lou Lan Club Foreign Affairs Assistant.
Wei Xiao Bei slightly smiled. These business cards from the underground fight club were only a cover up. What was a Foreign Affairs Assistant? This simply meant someone on the managing side of the underground fighting business.
After a while, the vehicle stopped by the lobby.
After signing the contract and changing clothes, Wei Xiao Bei was guided by Zhou Yuan Ming to wait on the path again.
The noises that came from the other side of the curtain were as diverse as ever.
The two contestants that were fighting on stage were the Lion King from Rwanda and the White Bear from Russia.
After a short while, the fighting on stage ended.
The Russian man was carried out of the stage. Wei Xiao Bei cast him a light glance. The White Bear truly looked strong, but there was a bloody fist mark on his chest. From the deepness of the wound, the attack had shattered the White Bear's ribs. It might have even damaged his heart. As a result, the White Bear did not budge.
This was another human life. Wei Xiao Bei inwardly sighed, but he turned his eyes to the front again.
This was the fate of underground fighters. As long as one still stood on stage, then death was just waiting close by.
Wei Xiao Bei's opponent was a Japanese newcomer, Human Twisting Killing Machine. He was a fatty that weighed more than 150 kg. Ever since he first fought, he had won nine times.
Although the fatty was fat, his entire body was made up of all muscle. From his previous battles, it was said that he had caught his opponents and strangled them to death.
The battle between the fatty and Wei Xiao Bei did not even need to be described. After testing each other for three minutes, Wei Xiao Bei hit the fatty with an Iron Mountain Lean. The fatty was sent flying towards the cage, killing his opponent.
For Wei Xiao Bei, this match was not meaningless. Other than obtaining a lot of money, he was also able to refine his techniques during the fights, but his opponent was a let down.