Chapter 34

Listen, listen, listen, (Master Huang Yi's book is already up, do you think we should also step up? Don't hide those recommendation votes.)

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As soon as he returned to the room,

he immediately took out stacks of RMB from the air, a total of ten stacks of cash, neatly placed together.

Apart from cash, there weren't many things that could be brought out of the space. Cash was probably the item that had the least impact on the real world, after all, the country prints so many banknotes every year, and these few hundred thousand were just a drop in the ocean! However, cash is just paper, and if he wanted to exchange gold, silver, or other precious metals from the space, it would cost a lot of survival points!

The energy required to create gold and the paper used for currency must be different.

Zhao Futu stretched his body, then opened his personal data page in his mind. Sure enough, the attributes added by the equipment were gone, leaving only his basic attributes.

However, his current state was excellent, almost perfect!

It was as if he had suddenly become a martial arts expert with a completely renewed body, able to control every muscle and every bit of strength in his body, a feeling he had never experienced before!

Zhao Futu walked to the desk, took a deep breath, and then brought his two fingers together, focusing his mind on his dantian. With his slow but powerful breathing, a concentrated heat flow emerged from his body. The human dantian is usually closed, and it must be opened through breathing exercises, after which the energy known as 'true qi' or 'internal breath' can be mobilized.

This energy has always existed, but its effects are quite limited. Zhao Futu's greatest experimental result so far was using it to give massages, making the person being massaged feel warm and a hot flow entering their body, and this energy was particularly effective for promoting blood circulation and resolving blood stasis!

A large bruise would basically disappear after a few presses.

Apart from that, the true qi's effects were quite limited, and the idea of using it for high-flying techniques was out of the question!

However, today Zhao Futu felt very different.

His body was now full of strength, and the data-driven body gave him an unprecedented level of precision in controlling himself. He could even feel each of the 639 muscles in his body! This was a very unique experience, as ordinary people can only feel a few large muscles, and the smaller muscles are almost impossible to sense!

Many martial arts techniques and stances in Chinese martial arts are designed to train these small muscles. Zhao Futu was now absolutely certain that if a martial arts master were to take him as a disciple, he would be a once-in-a-century martial arts prodigy! With his data-driven body and the strong perception of a cultivator, his control over his muscle groups was at an almost terrifying level!

Any martial arts technique or stance could be performed to 200% of its effect on him.

"Ha!"

Zhao Futu let out a low shout, channeling all his strength to his fingertips, then began to stimulate the true qi in his body to reach his fingers, and then pressed down heavily with his fingertips!

He began to write on the wooden desk with his fingers!

— Using his fingers as a pen!

The profound and extensive Chinese heritage cannot be denied by a few words of scientific skepticism. In the past, many martial arts masters and Daoist cultivators during the Republic of China era had extraordinary abilities, as historical records show! In recent times, many qigong masters have also demonstrated their skills. After the cultural impact, a mix of genuine and fake practitioners is inevitable, but there are still many genuine ones.

On the internet, all sorts of charlatans and cult leaders have emerged, but one thing remains unchanged.

That is, the true essence of 'Dao' and 'Qi' in Chinese tradition has always been preserved in only two places!

One is the orthodox Daoist places like the White Cloud Temple and Longhu Mountain, which still have some true transmissions, though they are becoming fewer. In recent years, Zhao Futu has found that these traditions are beginning to spread to some folk martial artists. The other place is the traditional Chinese medical families, which are also the source of 'zhongqi' as mentioned in Daoism. The true qi in cultivators' bodies varies, and in modern terms, it has different attributes. The 'qi' required in traditional Chinese medicine must be 'zhongzhengpinghe' (balanced and harmonious), so even the simple qi cultivation methods passed down by traditional Chinese medical families are more orthodox than the orthodox Daoist traditions!

It's just that these methods haven't been developed to a higher level.

The qi cultivation methods of traditional Chinese medicine mostly come from the 'Huangdi Neijing,' which emphasizes balanced and harmonious qi.

As the saying goes: "Excessive talk leads to exhaustion, better to maintain the center!"

Once, Zhao Futu heard a legend about a powerful traditional Chinese medicine master who could insert a soft silver needle into tempered glass. This seemed completely impossible to him at the time, but now that he has experienced the Nightmare Space, he can believe in such small wonders. He wanted to test how far his true qi could go!

Stroke by stroke!

Zhao Futu held his breath in his abdomen, channeling all his strength to his fingertips, and slowly wrote a character on the solid and hard desk.

The character 'Dao.'

When he finished writing the character, he couldn't help but exhale a long breath. It was still spring, but the breath he exhaled was like a white mist, condensing into a stream!

As the strength dissipated, Zhao Futu immediately noticed a layer of fine sweat on his body, and the energy he had when he returned from the space was completely drained.

He felt a sense of excessive mental fatigue, and a wave of drowsiness washed over him.

"Phew!" Zhao Futu rubbed his brow with his fingers, then pressed his temples to alleviate the side effects of overexertion.

Looking at the 'Dao' character he had written on the desk, a satisfied smile appeared on his face. If it were before, he would have needed decades of qi cultivation to reach this level, but now, after just one space mission, he had already achieved this level of external qi emission! Thinking about this, he no longer found the Nightmare Space as terrifying!

"Gain and loss, that is my Dao."

A cultivator cannot expect to receive great blessings out of nowhere; the feeling of advancing through life and death is even more acceptable to Zhao Futu.

Especially after experiencing the space mission, he felt a sense of tempering his Daoist heart.

"Throughout history, there have been so many ghostly and bizarre legends in the East and West, but there are very few in reality. I wonder if this mysterious Nightmare Space has anything to do with it? The strange beasts and spirits recorded in the 'Shanhaijing'... the various monsters in Western European mythology... and the 'his kingdom is not of this world' mentioned by Jesus..." Zhao Futu's thoughts were scattered, and many strange and bizarre ideas popped up in his mind.

However, he shook his head to dispel these thoughts, got up, and put the ten stacks of cash in the drawer. Then he lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep. He hadn't slept for a long time in the 'Nightmare Legend,' and although he might have infinite energy in the Nightmare Space, his nerves were very tired after returning to the real world.

Soon, he began to snore heavily.

He slept very deeply.

A cultivator usually never snores, but he was now in a deep sleep due to fatigue, and his perception of the outside world was completely withdrawn.

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{Piaotian Literature}