Chapter 14

Everyone pondered for a long time, but they were not pondering whether they were willing to exchange!

They were all willing to pay homage as disciples, so what was there that they were unwilling to exchange!

They were just pondering the method of inheritance that Xiao Ran had mentioned!

At this moment, Hong Qigong said, "Actually, our Beggar Sect is the same!

It's just that we haven't made the inheritance as clear as this!

The last time a disciple in my sect accomplished a great feat, I only taught him one boxing technique and one palm technique.

If we had such a method earlier, perhaps our Beggar Sect would have had a few more participants in the Huashan Sword Summit."

The others thought the same, if our disciples hadn't accomplished great feats or shown sufficient loyalty, how could we have imparted all our ultimate skills to them!

Aren't these also considered merit points!

Even Wang Chongyang kept his innate technique tightly, not teaching it to any of the Seven Disciples of Quanzhen!

Understanding this, everyone felt relieved and began to think about trying it out when they returned, to see if they could improve their sect's inheritance method!

Wang Chongyang said, "I have an innate technique, though it may not be much, it is my ultimate skill, and I am willing to exchange it with Mr. Xiao for merit points!"

Xiao Ran nodded and said, "A stone from another mountain can polish jade.

No matter what martial classics there are, there is always something to learn!

The path of martial arts has many ways; specialization is one path, and learning widely from the martial arts of the world is also a path!

And I happen to prefer the latter!

So I will exchange with you, Daoist Master!"

Only Xiao Ran's impressive appearance could have convinced Wang Chongyang to so generously hand over his innate technique!

If Xiao Ran wanted to exchange martial arts with the Five Supremes, there were other methods, but he chose this one precisely to make the world's martial arts inheritance mechanism more advanced!

This was a strategy for the ages.

The merit point system he proposed might not be the best, but it was the most reasonable one he knew!

He didn't need to provide the most complete solution; each world was different, and the inheritance mechanism suitable for this world needed to be perfected by this world itself. He was just providing a seed!

As for what it would grow into in the future, he didn't care and couldn't control it!

Duan Huangye also said, "Although my family's One Yang Finger is not as good as Brother Wang's innate technique, it can also be exchanged with Mr. Xiao."

Since these two had started, everyone else was willing to offer their ultimate skills.

Wang Chongyang's innate technique, Duan Huangye's One Yang Finger, Hong Qigong's Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, Ouyang Feng's Toad Technique, and Huang Yaoshi's Finger Skill—all the ultimate techniques of the Five Supremes ended up in Xiao Ran's pocket!

These techniques might not be top-notch in the ancient continent, but they still had many unique methods that others had not thought of.

Moreover, Xiao Ran was in dire need of techniques!

Xiao Ran smiled and said, "Since that's the case, I'll talk about what I know..."

Seeing the servants of Ouyang Feng, the Seven Disciples of Quanzhen, and the four disciples of Fisher, Woodcutter, Farmer, and Scholar who were about to leave, Xiao Ran said, "You don't have to go, it's fine to listen. After all, I've gained a lot today, enough to let you all listen as well!"

Everyone was moved to tears, thinking, "I actually have the chance to hear the teachings of an immortal!"

Xiao Ran took a sip of water and continued, "After the second level of Qi Cultivation, when martial artists open the Ren and Du meridians, connecting all the meridians in the body, allowing true qi to flow freely, don't you all start to accumulate and refine your true qi?"

The Five Supremes nodded, thinking, "Isn't that natural!"

Accumulating true qi increases its quantity, while refining true qi removes impurities, changing its quality!

True qi is the foundation of all martial techniques.

Xiao Ran thought for a moment and said, "I looked at the innate technique that Daoist Master Wang gave me, and I noticed something. I wonder if your internal techniques are the same!

You spend a lot of time refining true qi, but you don't have a method to condense spirit orifices!"

Everyone was stunned. What were spirit orifices?

It was like this, no wonder it took so long to reach the third level of Qi Cultivation without knowing how to condense spirit orifices!

Xiao Ran continued, "The world I come from is vast and boundless, and besides the human race, there are countless intelligent races!

And beyond the intelligent races, there are extremely powerful spirit beasts!

Spirit beasts are born with true qi and are naturally at the Qi Cultivation stage.

In our battles against spirit beasts, we discovered that their dantian is different from ours. Their dantian has the ability to automatically purify and refine true qi!

So they don't need to spend time on the impurities of true qi!

The ancestors of the human race spent a lot of time studying and imitating the dantian of spirit beasts!

In fact, the martial arts in our world started with biomimicry!

Initially, they tried transplanting the dantian of spirit beasts or their bloodlines. These methods weren't entirely useless, but the effects were not good, and the side effects were significant!

Finally, they invented the method of condensing spirit orifices!

Condensing spirit orifices in the dantian greatly accelerates your Qi Cultivation, allowing your dantian to naturally purify and refine true qi even while you eat and sleep."

Hearing this, Wang Chongyang thought of the jade bed he left in the ancient tomb. Spirit orifices were like having an upgraded version of the jade bed with you all the time!

"Spirit has power, a power completely different from the physical body, which we call spiritual energy!

Spiritual energy is one of the most wondrous things in the world, and I don't fully understand its many wondrous uses!

But our spiritual power is very weak, and we can hardly feel its existence, let alone influence the outside world.

The universe is a great cosmos, and the human body is a small cosmos!

Compared to the external universe, our spiritual power is insignificant!

However, for our bodies, our spirits are the masters, like deities in the universe.

Although it is weak and intangible, it is not something we cannot understand. We rely on spiritual energy to control the flow of true qi.

The acupoints in the human body are intricately connected to the spirit, acting as a bridge between the spirit and the physical body...

Or something else...

After all, I am only at the first level of Qi Cultivation, so I'm not entirely clear.

But one thing is certain: spiritual energy is easiest to perceive and control here!

The method of condensing spirit orifices in the dantian involves using your internal technique as a blueprint, visualizing it in the dantian, and ultimately using spiritual energy to materialize the blueprint, evolving into spirit orifices.

With spirit orifices in the dantian, it can automatically purify and refine true qi at any time.

Then, using the same method to refine other acupoints commonly used in your techniques, once these acupoints are refined, reaching the fourth level of Qi Cultivation is just around the corner!

Without condensing spirit orifices, it is very difficult to reach the fourth level of Qi Cultivation."

Xiao Ran was still a bit nervous, as he was talking about something he didn't fully understand. He tried to explain it in a simple and understandable way!

In Xiao Ran's view, if true qi is compared to electricity and the human body to a computer, then the meridians are the wires, the acupoints are the hardware, condensing spirit orifices is upgrading the hardware, and martial techniques are the application software!

Because the human body's innate hardware is not good, a lot of hardware upgrades are needed!

This analogy might not be entirely correct, but it was the best one Xiao Ran could think of!

Fortunately, the Five Supremes of the world of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" were all geniuses in martial arts. Although what Xiao Ran said was beyond their understanding and not entirely clear, they could fill in the gaps and improve on what Xiao Ran said.

They also understood that Xiao Ran's explanations were not entirely clear, as he himself had said he was only at the first level of Qi Cultivation!

As for whether what Xiao Ran said was true or not, they could try it out and see!