"Harmony between man and nature?"
Zhou Yi murmured these four big words, but a vague obsession kept revealing in his heart. All of Zhou Yi's martial arts now were based on the extremely profound "Nine Heavens Scriptures", but after parting with Zhang Sanfeng in Tianshan, Zhou Yi had been concentrating on practicing hard all the way, but he inevitably neglected the pure Taoist martial arts ideas.
And today, since Qiu Ruoshui talked about the Taoist thought in "Tai Chi Xuan Gong", it made Zhou Yi quite enlightened.
Qiu Ruoshui stared at Zhou Yi's hazy eyes and said with a smile: "I see that you seem to have realized something. Why don't I read the formula of Tai Chi Xuan Gong to you and see if you can gain something?"
"This..." Zhou Yi was shocked and waved his hands repeatedly, "How can this be possible? The Tai Chi Mysterious Skill is such a treasure of martial arts, how can I let you make this secret book public?"
"Alas!" Qiu Ruoshui laughed, "What good would it do if I learned it? In the martial arts world, it is said that Wudang is revered in the south and Shaolin is revered in the north, but my martial arts skills are at best a tie with Shi Kong and Shi Yan, two of the three great Shaolin monks. I am far inferior to Shi E... If you can gain some insights and defeat those bald monks in Shaolin Temple with your Wudang Kung Fu, it would be a glory for Wudang!"
“But… this… ”
"You don't have to refuse!" Qiu Ruoshui smiled and closed her eyes, then immediately began to recite aloud: "The Supreme One said: Good and bad fortune have no doors, they are only brought upon oneself. The rewards for good and evil follow like a shadow..."
Listening to Qiu Ruoshui's chanting, Zhou Yi's heart felt peaceful. He slowly sat down cross-legged and entered a mysterious state of complete silence. Only the sounds of their heartbeats and blood flowing embellished this wonderful world.
Zhou Yi began to practice qigong to close the pores all over his body, so that the body heat could not be released outside, and the cold air could not invade. The air from the mouth and nose was cut off, and the internal breathing cycle continued, entering the fetal breathing state.
Zhou Yi was in a state of confusion, as if he had returned to the innate state in the mother's womb.
This is a feeling I have never experienced before.
At the beginning, only the Niwan acupoint kept jumping, followed by the Tianling point on the top of the head and the left and right Yongquan points between the feet.
Then, Zhou Yi suddenly felt itchy all over, and his limbs were numb. The feeling was so uncomfortable that it was hard to describe. However, Zhou Yi's limbs suddenly became uncontrollable, and he entered into a mysterious spiritual realm. He had to endure this pain.
Slowly, the true Qi in Zhou Yi's body flowed back and forth endlessly, and soon all the acupoints in his body began to beat together. Zhou Yi felt blessed in mind and let the Yin and Yang Qi rise and fall, and the innate true Qi flowed through his neck and feet. He kept his mind as calm as a dead ash, without any worries.
Previously, Zhou Yi had fought a series of battles along the way in Suzhou, which had damaged his tendons and veins, caused countless hidden injuries to his body, and almost exhausted his true energy. Now, after doing this, it was like spring returning to the earth after a severe winter, the dried-up rivers were refilled, and the withered grass and trees came back to life.
Then two mysterious forces that had been hidden in Zhou Yi's body began to stir.
It turned out that when the empress used the "Purple Blood Method" to help Zhou Yi to bleed and when Zhou Yi practiced the "Sun-Changing Method" to heal the internal injuries caused by the Toad Skill, she had already stored the two kinds of true essence, the lunar and solar, in her body. Although she later received help from Yan Fei's "Sun and Moon Beautiful Sky Method" and used the two kinds of true essence to perform such a unique move as the Immortal Sword Technique, she was actually still able to completely absorb the two true essences.
Absorbing true essence is a long process. When Zhou Yi was performing the Immortal Sword Technique before, he could only barely stabilize the released true essence. It was only now that he was able to truly absorb the vital energy transformed from the true essence into the acupoints and make it his own.
Then, the Qi on the left side of Zhou Yi became colder, while the Qi on the right side became hotter. One yin and one yang, chaotic. Zhou Yi listened and let it flow naturally, without rushing or confusion, without help or forgetfulness. With the training methods learned from Jiuxiao Zhenjing and the Taoist core of Taiji Xuan Gong, there was nothing empty, nothing quiet, and the spirit was one. He was in a trance, as if he had returned to the realm of Taixu before Pangu was created. Deeply in harmony with the Taoist fire in the furnace, the white tiger was restrained by the water in the Linghe Ding, and the blue dragon swam in the abyss.
Wind and fire are in the same furnace, and warm water produces clouds.
The true Qi circulates back and forth, and all the limbs and bones benefit from the combination of this boundless true Qi. After a while, the external breathing automatically turns back to internal breathing. Not only is there no sign of true Qi loss, but the true Qi in the body flows even more vigorously.
Suddenly, strange visions appeared, demons appeared, and the many killings and worldly grudges of the past kept flashing before Zhou Yi's eyes like a fast-forwarded movie. However, Zhou Yi was so determined that he ignored them, guarded his mind, and continued to move towards the ultimate realm of martial arts.
The strange vision flashed for a moment and then disappeared. In an instant, a kind of mysterious enlightenment suddenly emerged in Zhou Yi's empty thoughts.
The Jiuxiao true qi, which had originally been stabilized at the ninth level of perfection, suddenly boiled over in an instant, and the two kinds of true essence, the moon and the sun, began to blend together.
“Success or failure depends on this move...” Zhou Yi murmured, and then his face showed determination!
“Buzz!”
At the moment when yin and yang met, Zhou Yi's body immediately swelled up, with blue veins bulging, and he looked as ferocious as a man-eating beast. Endless energy that was so terrifying that it made people shudder spread through his body at a terrifying speed, and in just a blink of an eye, the meridians in Zhou Yi's body were swollen, and an intense tearing pain came from the meridians.
Sweat flowed out of Zhou Yi's pores like streams. His body size shrunk several times in a few breaths. His originally thin body now looked like a skinny monkey with only bones around.
Qin Ge and Qiu Ruoshui were stunned. They wanted to stop him, but they were afraid that they might accidentally disrupt Zhou Yi's internal energy, so they could only wait quietly for Zhou Yi to wake up.
As the sweat was pouring down like a waterfall, Zhou Yi's face was filled with pain. The pain was so severe that his face became distorted.
But the next moment, changes occurred.
Zhou Yi's skinny body suddenly emitted a dazzling blue light, as if a bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, scaring Qiu Rushui and Qin Ge away several steps. They all looked eagerly in Zhou Yi's direction, wanting to know what had happened.
Under the two people's extremely horrified gazes, a blue lightning suddenly flashed on Zhou Yi's face, rising from his eyes to his forehead. It was the battle pattern of a strong man that could only be produced by practicing a stunning magic skill to an extremely high level!
Zhou Yi suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of strange pupils that were completely unlike those of human beings and emitted a purple fluorescent light!
"Nine Heavens Scripture - Returning the Two Poles to the Origin, Success!" (To be continued)