The powerful spiritual energy of heaven and earth cleansed his body, penetrating his tendons and veins, seeping into his bones and marrow, just like a blade scraping across a chopping board, repeatedly clearing away the faint trace of cold and yin qi in Yan Liqiang's body. However, that trace of cold and yin qi had already completely stuck to Yan Liqiang's internal organs and bones, becoming extremely difficult to deal with and extremely resilient, like sand stuck in mud. Each time the spiritual energy of heaven and earth cleansed it, it could only slowly grind away a small amount of it and could not completely eradicate it all at once.
After two hours of practicing the Yi Jing Xi Sui Jing, Yan Liqiang felt that his condition had improved a little. He opened his eyes, stopped practicing, and walked out of his tent.
It was completely dark outside, with stars filling the sky. There were several bonfires burning in the camp, and the smell of barbecue filled the air. The bonfires were filled with people, and one could even hear faint laughter coming from the crowd, which was rare.
This was the first time Yan Liqiang heard laughter from the team since leaving Luyuan.
These past few days, everyone had been living a tense and depressing life, with few opportunities to relax. Yan Liqiang glanced at the light and dark sentries posted in the distance, seeing that they were all still at their posts, and nodded secretly.
Not far away, beside a bonfire, several officers and a group of soldiers from the Deer Park were sitting around it. The child Yan Liqiang had saved, the sheep boy, who was now renamed Yan Changsheng by Yan Liqiang, was sitting beside the bonfire, using his hands and feet to vividly imitate the scene of two rams fighting for a ewe, making the surrounding soldiers of the Deer Park laugh...
Yan Liqiang narrowed his eyes and glanced at Yan Changsheng. The cleverness of this little guy was beyond Yan Liqiang's expectation. He had been running with the caravan these days, and he never complained about the hardship or tiredness, and he didn't dare to cause any trouble to others. Every day when he set up camp, he worked with the craftsmen and cooks in the Deer Park, doing whatever he could. Now he came to entertain the adults whenever he had the chance. At such a young age, he already knew the way to survive. This was not an easy thing. Perhaps this was how he survived in the village before...
"Sir..." Meng Hui had been guarding outside Yan Liqiang's tent. When he saw Yan Liqiang coming out, he hurried over. He was still worried that Yan Liqiang hadn't eaten tonight. "Sir, the venison over there has been roasted and is still hot..."
"No need, I ate some dried meat on horseback during the day, you guys can have it!" Yan Liqiang shook his head, "Everyone is happy tonight, so we can turn off the fire in the camp for half an hour in the evening. I'm going to take a walk over the valley to relax by myself, so you don't have to come with me!"
Yan Liqiang knew that if he went over and sat down in front of this cheerful scene, people would probably not laugh so easily and naturally, so he simply didn't go over, letting everyone have fun, and he went to walk around the valley behind the camp alone to relax.
After hearing what Yan Liqiang said, and knowing that Yan Liqiang was very powerful, Meng Hui no longer followed Yan Liqiang. Yan Liqiang walked out of the camping place alone, bypassing the noisy crowd gathered around the campfire, and headed towards the valley behind the camp.
Behind the campsite is a hillside with shrubs on it. After turning around the hillside, there is a tall mountain range blocking the campsite. A clear stream flows out from the valley. Two smaller streams flow out from the left and right sides of the hillside, bypassing the hillside and merging in front of the shrubs behind the campsite, flowing far away...
On both sides of the stream, there are pebbles and shade of trees. The whole stream is like a secluded path made of water, extending into the valley.
Under the cover of night, a light layer of steam was rising from the surface of the stream. Yan Liqiang squatted beside the stream and touched it with his hand. The water in the stream was warm to the touch, not cold at all. He presumably thought that the stone-scale fish that everyone had just eaten was caught from this stream. Naturally, the water in the mountains was not of this temperature.
"I heard that Luquan County has many mountains and hot springs. It seems to be true!" Yan Liqiang muttered to himself, and then followed the stream and strolled into the valley.
This ravine in the valley meanders upwards, with trees and boulders on both sides of the stream. It becomes deeper and deeper as you go up. After walking about three or four hundred meters, climbing a small hill, and following the stream's source and turning around a group of boulders, the sound of the water becomes louder and louder. After passing through a small patch of bushes, a pool of water in the mountain surrounded by mountain walls appears in front of Yan Liqiang, which makes Yan Liqiang's eyes light up.
The pool in front of me is slightly smaller than the one in the Deer Park. It is very hidden. It is surrounded by steep cliffs on three sides. There are some vigorous pine trees growing on the cliffs. A stream of steaming water flows down from the more than 20-meter-high mountain wall behind the pool, forming a stream of water on the mountain wall. It flows into the pool, making the pool steaming hot and forming a large natural hot spring. More than a dozen smooth stones of different sizes are scattered around the pool near the mountain wall. Next to those stones, you can see several gurgling bubbles coming out from the bottom of the water, indicating that there are also hot springs coming out from under the pool...
Yan Liqiang reached out and touched the temperature of the water. The water here was neither cold nor hot, but much warmer than the water downstream of the stream. It felt like around 40 degrees.
Damn, this is like a natural hot spring bath...
Yan Liqiang had been busy these days and hadn't taken a bath for several days. Now, when he saw this natural hot spring pool, he suddenly became interested.
Yan Liqiang looked around and saw that this place was far away from the camping site and there was no one around, so it was a perfect place for him to take a bath and soak in the hot springs to relax.
Thinking this in his mind, Yan Liqiang quickly took off all his clothes, then took a look and put his clothes behind a rock near the pool. Then he jumped into the pool with a splash.
It is so comfortable to soak in such a large natural hot spring bathtub. The water in the bathtub is still flowing, and the water droplets rolling out from the bottom of the pool have a massage effect.
The water at the edge of the pool was a little shallower, not even reaching Yan Liqiang's chest. The water in the middle was slightly deeper, about two meters deep, which was a perfect place for a bath.
Yan Liqiang swam around in the pool first, then took a nice bath and cleaned himself up. Then he came to the edge of the pool, soaked his body in the water, and rested his head on a shiny stone by the pool.
Soaking in the hot spring, gazing at the starry sky, listening to the rustling of leaves in the night wind, the exhaustion from running all the way from the Imperial Capital disappeared without a trace at this moment, and Yan Liqiang's whole body and mind were completely relaxed.
After soaking for an unknown amount of time, Yan Liqiang suddenly had an idea - he wondered if practicing the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing in the water of this natural hot spring would have any special effects
Some time ago, before the incident in Imperial Capital, Yan Liqiang was obsessed with cultivation in the Deer Garden every day. He had practiced Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing in the pond where he practiced shaking the big spear. When practicing in the pond at that time, Yan Liqiang found that the energy and spiritual energy that entered his body seemed to be a little different from usual. Among those spiritual energies and energies, there would be more energy than usual. After entering his body, it had a special nourishment on the acupuncture points such as Jingming, Zanzhu, Meichong, Qucha, Wuchu, Chengguang, Tongtian, Luoque, Yuzhen, Tianzhu, Dazhui, Fengmen, Feishu, Jueyinshu, Xinshu, Dushu, Diaphragmshu, Livershu, Gallbladdershu, Spleenshu, Stomachshu, Sanjiaoshu, Shenshu, Qihaishu, Dachangshu, Guanyuanshu, Xiaochangshu, etc.
Yan Liqiang tried it several times and found that every time he practiced the Yijing Xisui Jing in water, the energy that entered his body seemed to have "special care" for some acupoints. Later, he connected all those acupoints and saw that they all came from two major meridians in his body - the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian. These two meridians belong to water in the Five Elements.
For Yan Liqiang, this was a "huge" discovery. However, he had not yet figured out how to use this discovery to improve his cultivation a few days ago, and then the incident in Dijing City happened. Since then, he has been fighting and running around until now.
If you practice Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing in ordinary water, the water meridians and acupoints in your body will be specially nourished. If you practice in this hot spring water, will it be different? Will the meridians of other attributes in your body also benefit
Thinking of this, Yan Liqiang could no longer lie still. He swam to the center of the water and after taking a deep breath, he sank to the bottom of the water. He then began to practice the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing underwater.
Once Yan Liqiang entered the underwater state, all 36,000 pores on his skin seemed to be breathing, and the energy from heaven and earth, just like before, suddenly surged into Yan Liqiang's body.
After careful feeling, Yan Liqiang was pleasantly surprised to find that the energy of heaven and earth and the spiritual energy that flowed into his body while practicing in the hot spring water were indeed slightly different from before. The acupoints on the Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian still had a special moisturizing effect, which was much stronger than when he practiced in the tent. In addition to these two meridians, the other meridians in his body - the Hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian and the acupoints on the Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian - also had a special feeling of being nourished and replenished, just like being recharged. These two meridians were the fire meridians in his body.
While the fire-attributed meridians and acupuncture points in his body were being nourished and replenished, the hard-to-eliminate cold and yin qi that had been entrenched in his body was cleansed and melted away in the blink of an eye, just like ice and snow meeting the sun. This efficiency was dozens of times faster than before. Yan Liqiang was overjoyed. If he had not been in the water, if he had not been practicing, he would have definitely shouted for joy and danced with joy.
Just as Yan Liqiang was getting more and more into the water, after an unknown amount of time, a slight sound of footsteps suddenly came from the edge of the pool, which startled Yan Liqiang and made him alert. He slowly stopped and lay motionless in the water.
Then, the water at the edge of the pool was gently stirred, and a surprised yet familiar voice appeared at the edge of the pool, "Ah, this is it, the water temperature is just right, sisters, after leaving the palace for a few days, it seems that we can have a good bath here tonight..."
Damn, Concubine Rong!
Yan Liqiang was stunned in the water. How did these women get here? Didn't he forbid them to leave the camp at will
Yan Liqiang was confused. He had never expected to meet Concubine Rong and the others here. He was about to surface from the bottom of the water to explain, but when he heard the sound of water, he realized that someone had already gone into the water...
Damn it! Yan Liqiang didn’t dare to show his head. He was so scared that he quickly dived back into the water…
(End of this chapter)