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Chapter 31: Chapter 15: A Daoist with Sword in Hand

Cheng Cultivator, and everyone else watching, all felt that Jiang Xuan, with his mediocre Spirit Root, should seize the opportunity to curry favor and ingratiate himself now that he had caught the eye of a benefactor.

In this Immortal Sect Daoist School, empty talk of integrity and dignity was just a foolish waste of a once-in-a-millennium opportunity.

But after obtaining the professional panel, Jiang Xuan no longer believed he was weaker than anyone.

With this thought in his heart, he naturally couldn’t bring himself to bend the knee and fawn over others.

Of course, Jiang Xuan wouldn’t reveal these thoughts before he was truly powerful.

Now, facing Cheng Cultivator’s earnest advice, Jiang Xuan just said quietly, "I have my own considerations on how to proceed."

With that said, he closed his eyes to regulate his breath, speaking no more.

At the same time, the warm medicinal power from the broth he had consumed slowly circulated within him, nourishing his meridians and viscera strand by strand.

Several hours later, as dusk fell, it was time for the Sect’s evening lessons.

Without needing anyone to urge him, Jiang Xuan, sensing his body had returned to its peak state, immediately began his second Cultivation session of the day.

This time, he was still practicing the One Qi Sword Technique.

The sequence of his practice still began with the liver’s wood element.

But unlike before, Jiang Xuan no longer recklessly drew upon the liver’s Origin Qi. He only guided a wisp of Wood Origin to ignite the Heart Fire.

He then suppressed the raging Heart Fire, leaving only a tiny flame, and, following the principle of the Five Elements’ generative cycle, sent it into his spleen.

Wood Generates Fire, and Fire generates Earth; the spleen corresponds to the Earth element.

HUMMM—

The moment the mouthful of Primordial Qi that Jiang Xuan had cultivated merged into his spleen, he immediately noticed a completely different sensation.

Unlike the abundant Vitality of the liver’s wood or the raging torrent of Heart Fire, the spleen belonged to the Earth element. It gave Jiang Xuan a feeling of profound weight and solidity, like a deep pool or a towering mountain. The Origin Qi he nurtured within it became dense and heavy as a result.

But "heaviness" was, in itself, a form of power.

Using the spleen’s Earth Origin as a foundation, Jiang Xuan could clearly sense that the Sword Qi he condensed with his Magical Power was several times more solid than before.

’Earth is the foundation of the world. In many myths and legends, the earth element is the very bedrock of the material realm. It should naturally possess this kind of stabilizing power.’

After nurturing the Earth Origin Qi, Jiang Xuan stimulated his spleen with Sword Qi while simultaneously activating the Mirror of Clarity, using his Divine Soul to look inward, trying to perceive the hidden acupoints within the organ.

But his Inspection, which had always been successful in the past, now met with an obstacle.

The nature of Earth was heavy and also concealed impurities. Wherever the light of the Clear Heart Mirror shone, it was met with murky, foul qi. It took him the time it takes to drink a cup of tea before he finally found six hidden acupoints amid the churning impurities.

At this point, Jiang Xuan realized that in the First Realm, Spirit Core Awakening, not only was it difficult to nurture the acupoints, but even finding the hidden ones was no easy task.

’Good thing I have the Mirror of Clarity...’

After a moment of reflection, Jiang Xuan resumed his Cultivation.

Having learned his lesson from the morning, Jiang Xuan no longer recklessly drew upon the spleen’s origin. He opened only two acupoints. The moment he sensed a slight deficiency in the spleen’s Earth Qi, he immediately guided a wisp of condensed Earth Origin Qi to refine his metal-aspected lungs, following the principle that Earth generates Metal.

With his practice reaching this point, his Magical Power and the Clear Heart Mirror were now focused on his lungs.

The lungs belong to Metal. The moment his Magical Power merged with the lungs’ origin, the previously dense energy suddenly became incomparably sharp, like a drawn sword.

Through the internal inspection of the Clear Heart Mirror, Jiang Xuan also figured out the Traits of the acupoints in the lungs—while the spleen’s Earth was obscured by murky qi, making its form difficult to perceive, the acupoints of the lungs were erratic and unfixed, like floating catkins in the wind.

They not only flickered in and out of existence but also changed in an instant, never resting for a moment.

Fortunately, after becoming a Clear Heart Swordsman, he had not only gained a heaven-defying passive ability like the Clear Heart Mirror but had also greatly enhanced his Divine Soul Power. With the two complementing each other, although it took some effort, he still managed to find all eight acupoints in his lungs.

’The heart and lungs are connected. The importance of the lungs is second only to the heart, ranking second among the Five Viscera. It’s reasonable that they have eight acupoints.’

INHALE... EXHALE...

In the space of a single breath, he opened another three acupoints in his lungs.

Thus, the total number of acupoints he had opened during his evening session was five.

Added to his morning session, the number of acupoints opened for the day was twelve.

’If I count the ones from before, that makes nineteen... I’ve opened a lot of acupoints, but the consumption is truly massive.’

The origin of the Five Viscera is the foundation of the human body. Even though he had been extremely careful during this Cultivation session, guiding the energy along his meridians the entire time without harming his organs in the slightest, the depletion of his Primordial Qi still left his body with an uncontrollable feeling of weakness and etherealness.

’Without some great restorative tonic to replenish my qi and blood, my efficiency today is already at its peak, since it’s the first time I’m cultivating this technique and I’m in prime condition. But a single night’s rest is nowhere near enough to fully replenish the deficiency in my Five Viscera.’

’At this rate, my Cultivation efficiency tomorrow will be at seventy percent at most, and the day after, it will drop to fifty. If I really keep cultivating so recklessly, in less than three days, I’ll be as depleted as the legendary Young Master Kongxu—so weak a gust of wind could knock me over.’

It was at this moment that Jiang Xuan understood why the Sect didn’t teach a Cultivation Technique like the One Qi Sword Technique, which could be used for both combat and cultivation, but instead taught the Nine Breath Qi Refining Method.

The latter was slow to cultivate, but it had the advantage of being extremely stable, with no risk of qi deviation or damage to one’s foundation;

The One Qi Sword Technique might be wondrous, but setting aside the strict requirements for Comprehension of the Sword Dao, one point alone made it unsuitable for students just entering the Immortal Sect.

It was too dangerous—both in using Sword Qi to stimulate the internal organs and reveal the acupoints of the Five Viscera, and in the way it massively drew upon the origin of the Five Viscera, damaging one’s own foundation.

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