Chapter 15

Today is the weekend, and I went to pay respects at the Qingming tomb. I'm sorry, I can only update once today!

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Zhu Lingwu slowly introduced the current from the Baghdad battery into his bloodstream, delivering it to his heart.

The current and the blood mixed in the ventricle of the heart. The special blood in the ventricle, which already carried an electric charge, acted like a catalyst, helping the new current to blend into the blood.

The special blood in the ventricle was not much, about the size of a soybean.

Although it was not yet considered essence blood, it had already acquired some of the properties of essence blood due to the powerful electric shock from the lightning.

This drop of blood would not leave the ventricle at will. It only helped the new current introduced into the body to blend into the blood. Then, with the heart's beating, it used the pressure generated by the heart's contraction to push the blood, now carrying the subtle current, through a special pathway to the Conception Vessel.

The blood, now carrying the subtle current, moved like a small blood snake, first reaching the Chengjiang acupoint in the lower jaw through the aorta, and then traveling downward along the pathway of the Conception Vessel.

This small blood snake, formed by the special blood, did not necessarily have to move through the arteries or veins. Since blood is a liquid, it could flow through the capillaries in the skin. Of course, most areas had blood vessels to help it circulate.

The meridians and acupoints, which cannot be detected by normal methods, are difficult for modern science to acknowledge.

This is because they are a kind of energy field within the body, directly connecting the five organs and body regions. So, even though some acupoints may appear close, connecting from one acupoint to another might still require a circuit through some internal organs.

Now, the special blood driven by Zhu Lingwu's heartbeat flowed tortuously within his body, but no matter how it flowed, it always remained connected, originating from that special drop of blood in the ventricle of the heart.

Ultimately, the blood that was sent out would return to the heart. Through this circulation, the current that was initially roughly blended into the blood would fully integrate with the blood, further enhancing the properties of the special blood in the ventricle until it became essence blood.

Then, it would gradually grow and further enhance its energy properties, eventually transforming into acquired spirit blood.

Therefore, the choice of internal martial arts techniques can also affect the properties of the innate spirit energy that martial artists will condense after breaking through to the innate realm.

For example, Liu Ping, who comes from a martial arts family, practices a special technique called the Crimson Flame Profound Technique, which condenses fire elemental energy.

As the name suggests, this technique allows the practitioner to generate extremely high temperatures with every movement, causing all the liquids in the target's body to boil upon impact.

At the ninth level of the acquired martial arts realm, Liu Ping can even form invisible flames on the surface of his body when he activates the Crimson Flame Profound Technique.

With his strength, he can even fight against low-level Qi Practitioners and ordinary monsters.

Liu Ping's practice of the Crimson Flame Profound Technique involves condensing acquired fire elemental spirit blood in the heart. If he breaks through to the innate realm, he can then condense innate fire spirit energy in his body. If he obtains a fire-based Qi cultivation technique, he can then enter the path of Qi cultivation and foundation building.

Moreover, commoners who enter the Dao through martial arts, being originally martial artists, can match the combat strength of mid-level Qi Practitioners once they reach the innate realm.

Although their Qi cultivation level may be low and they cannot use talismans or spells, they can still drive their internal qi and blood to release the power stored in their bodies, forming innate protective qi, which also has special power.

Practicing the Crimson Flame Profound Technique, like Zhu Lingwu's practice of the Ninefold Thunder Dominance Body Technique, also requires the use of external forces to cultivate the yang fire elemental energy within the body.

In the early stages of practice, one needs to consume drugs or foods with yang properties to enhance the yang fire energy in the body.

In the later stages, one must practice in special places like volcanic craters to absorb the concentrated yang fire energy from the volcano, until the essence blood in the body transforms into acquired fire spirit blood, marking the completion of the technique.

Since Zhu Lingwu has chosen the Ninefold Thunder Dominance Body Technique, the acquired spirit blood he will condense will carry special thunder properties. If he can break through to the innate realm, his innate spirit meridians will naturally transform into innate variant thunder spirit meridians.

This does not conflict with his current innate mixed spirit meridians. In fact, everyone's blood contains all five elements, but some people have one element that surpasses the others, leading to the formation of special innate spirit meridians.

Occasionally, there are also variant spirit bloodlines, which are further elevations of the five elemental energies. For example, the variant thunder spirit meridian that Zhu Lingwu might condense in the future should contain the five elements, manifesting as pure yang energy.

However, whether he can increase the concentration of innate spirit energy in his blood and thus improve the quality of his innate spirit meridians remains unknown.

Most martial arts experts from commoner families who can enter the Dao through martial arts are already in their seventies or eighties. Even if they reach the innate realm, they rarely join the formal ranks of the noble clans and can only become scattered Qi Practitioners.

As far as Liu Ping, a ninth-level acquired martial artist, knows, he has never seen an example of someone entering the Dao through martial arts. Even he does not dare to easily attempt breaking through to the innate realm, partly because his acquired spirit blood is not yet sufficient, and partly because he lacks the courage to risk his life.

For him, being at the ninth level of the acquired martial arts realm is already enough to place him at the peak of martial arts. Even if he risks his life to break through to the innate realm, he would only be on the same starting line as the noble clan's children, and he does not believe he has a chance to break through to the foundation-building stage.

In any case, he has never heard of anyone successfully entering the Dao through martial arts and breaking through to the foundation-building stage, except for the creator of the Ninefold Thunder Dominance Body Technique that Zhu Lingwu is practicing. However, that is a legend from over three thousand years ago. Although the technique is clearly cultivable, whether the legend is true cannot be verified by rewinding time.

Of course, for Zhu Lingwu, the goal is not to enter the Dao through martial arts, but to use the Ninefold Thunder Dominance Body Technique to make his body immune to lightning. As for other matters, he can't worry about them for now.

In any case, Zhu Lingwu is aware that although there are cultivators in this world, the path to cultivation is even more arduous than the thousands of people competing for civil service positions in the original world. At least he can still become a witch or a monster...