Chapter 12

Speaking of the previous owner of Zhu Lingwu's body, the eight-year-old child who bought the Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique from a commoner fraudster, it was indeed a martial cultivation method created by a legendary talented individual from a humble background.

However, this was indeed something that happened over three thousand years ago. At the time, the commoner fraudster was not entirely lying, as it was said that this talented individual from a humble background did indeed rely on this Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique to successfully enter the Dao through martial arts, and then through cultivating qi and laying the foundation, he successfully ascended to the Immortal Realm under a stroke of luck.

As for whether he became a Thunder Department Celestial Official under the Great Emperor Gouchen, one of the five great Immortal Emperors after his ascension, that remains unknown.

Such a cultivation method would naturally attract the children of commoner families to risk their lives to compete for it. Initially, the descendants of the talented individual from a humble background kept it as a secret manual, only passing it down among the elite members of their family.

Later, the family of this talented individual from a humble background was lost in the dust of history over time. No one knew how they were exterminated, perhaps it was because of this cultivation method.

About a thousand years ago, the Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique suddenly appeared in the martial world of the Great Jin Dynasty. As a result, countless martial experts from commoner families died in the wilderness and by the roadside in their struggle to obtain this cultivation method.

This incident even attracted the attention of some noble families, who sent their qi cultivators to join the competition for the manual. As the situation escalated, the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty could not help but intervene, as it had begun to affect the stability of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Thus, the Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique naturally fell into the hands of the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty, who invited several top noble families to share this cultivation method.

However, a big misunderstanding soon arose. Even though they obtained the Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique, they could not cultivate it at all. They also could not find a suitable method to use electricity for cultivation.

Later, it was discovered how the talented individual from a humble background had cultivated this method. It was said that by chance, he found a special lightning pool and was able to use the electricity in the water to successfully cultivate the method and break through to the innate realm.

However, two thousand years later, the place where the lightning pool was located had undergone tremendous changes, making it impossible for later generations to cultivate this method. Perhaps this was also the reason why the family of the talented individual from a humble background declined and was destroyed.

In order to quell the covetousness of the nobles and commoners over the Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique, the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty decided to make this cultivation method public, turning it into a widely known common method in the Great Jin Dynasty.

Of course, this was old news from over a thousand years ago. It was unexpected that someone would still sell this cultivation method to the previous owner of Zhu Lingwu's body.

To be honest, when Liu Ping learned that Zhu Lingwu had found a way to cultivate this method, he also became interested. However, he only secretly passed the cultivation method back to his own family and did not do anything else.

After all, his family was under the protection of the Zhu family. Even though the Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique had once helped the talented individual from a humble background gain the opportunity to cultivate, it also depended on other fortuitous encounters on the path of cultivation. Otherwise, it was not certain that he could ascend to the Immortal Realm.

As for what Liu Ping did in private, we can't control it for now. On the surface, he was wholeheartedly guiding Zhu Lingwu in cultivating the martial arts of the innate realm.

After learning the history of the Ninefold Imperial Lightning Body Cultivation Technique from Liu Ping, Zhu Lingwu naturally became more eager to cultivate it.

Under the guidance of Liu Ping, a martial expert at the ninth level of the innate realm, Zhu Lingwu gained a more systematic understanding of the cultivation of martial arts.

In fact, the cultivation of martial arts is divided into two different paths: external martial arts and internal martial arts.

External martial arts, also known as external body cultivation techniques, focus on the cultivation of muscles, bones, and skin, mainly through physical training to bring out the ultimate strength of the body. However, such cultivation is basically hopeless for reaching the innate realm and can only be considered a lower-level method.

Internal martial arts, on the other hand, is not what Zhu Lingwu originally imagined, such as cultivating internal energy. Instead, it focuses on the cultivation of the body's essence and blood.

The martial artists from commoner families have a saying about martial arts cultivation: "External cultivation of muscles, bones, and skin, internal cultivation of the body's meridians, first the small circulation, then the great circulation, the fusion of the small and great circulations, the infusion of spiritual energy into the Gate of Mystery, and the path to immortality becomes visible."

"External cultivation of muscles, bones, and skin" refers to the refinement of the body, which is the so-called external martial arts. Without the correct method, it can even pose a risk to the body.

True cultivation of martial arts, or internal martial arts, aims to unblock the body's acupoints and meridians, refining the essence and blood.

Only by unblocking the acupoints and meridians of the small and great circulations can one mobilize the body's life energy, transforming it into a controllable force that can be released in battle, thus possessing great power.

The acupoints in the human body are the nodes of the body's life energy field, helping the body to integrate with the natural energy field of heaven and earth, which is the so-called unity of heaven and man.

However, uncontrolled fluctuations of the acupoint energy field can also waste the body's stored life energy, which is the life force that humans lose every moment.

Through the cultivation of internal martial arts, one can control the flow of blood to manage the body's acupoints, thus preventing the waste of life energy and allowing one to fully control the body. By circulating the body's strength with the flow of blood, one can control the strength.

The main subjects of innate martial arts cultivation are mostly ordinary people from commoner families whose blood does not contain innate spiritual energy. Of course, the so-called lack of innate spiritual energy is relative, meaning that the innate spiritual energy in their blood is very thin and almost undetectable.

Commoner families cannot sense the innate spiritual energy in their blood and thus cannot use it to attract the natural spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Therefore, even if the children of commoner families obtain cultivation methods and practice them, they may only achieve a health-preserving effect after a lifetime of hard work, and may not even reach the first stage of qi cultivation in the path of cultivation.

However, the world is still full of dangers. Besides the natural predators, there are also monsters that prey on humans. Relying on the protection of cultivators, the children of commoner families naturally also want to have the strength to protect themselves.

Thus, in the long process of survival, they first found the method of external martial arts cultivation, enhancing their physical fitness through extreme physical training to gain strength, speed, and sensory improvements.

However, they soon discovered that such physical training often left hidden risks, leading to a lifetime of injuries in old age. Gradually, they discovered the secrets of the body's acupoints and meridians, leading to the emergence of internal martial arts cultivation methods, which could even help them rediscover the innate spiritual energy hidden in their bodies.

This can be considered a way for the children of commoner families to make up for their innate deficiencies and strengthen themselves, hence it is called innate martial arts cultivation.

The original owner of Zhu Lingwu's body, the eight-year-old child, knew some of this vaguely, but not as clearly as Liu Ping, who was just one step away from the threshold of the innate realm.

Now, Zhu Lingwu finally understood it clearly...

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