Chapter 76

Although he had things to do these past few days, Su Xiaofan didn’t neglect his training.

During the day, he trained his body, and at night, he practiced his cultivation techniques, making his life very fulfilling.

The only problem was the meals every day.

In these few days of increased strength, Su Xiaofan needed to eat a large amount of food to replenish his body’s consumption.

In Su Xiaofan’s view,

This was because the true qi generated in his body was insufficient to nourish the expanded and unblocked meridians and flesh, so he had to replenish through eating.

After weighing himself again, Su Xiaofan found that his weight had reached 115 kilograms.

Reaching out, clenching his fist, Su Xiaofan could clearly hear the popping sound of his muscles and joints.

Alright, time to drive out and buy some meat.

These past few days, Su Xiaofan’s heart was bleeding, as he had to spend two to three thousand yuan on food every day.

As a former poor guy who earned his living by selling things on the street, Su Xiaofan felt deeply ashamed of his current extravagance.

The speed of unblocking the major meridians was getting faster and faster.

On the second day after Gangge drove to Yanjing, Su Xiaofan had only a dozen meridians in his hands left to unblock to completely open the major meridians.

The small meridians are the circulation from the dantian to the perineum, spine, head, chest, and abdomen.

The major meridians are the circulation of the meridians in the limbs, making the qi flow smoothly throughout the body, forming a closed loop.

Sitting cross-legged on the floor of the living room, Su Xiaofan practiced the major meridian technique.

The flowing true qi was like river water, continuously washing over the unblocked meridians.

It was like spring rain nourishing the wheat fields; the originally narrow and dry meridians were gradually being unblocked and expanded.

If someone were in the living room, they would notice that Su Xiaofan was now enveloped in a hot steam, with a white mist surrounding his body.

Where the true qi reached, a lump was moving continuously on Su Xiaofan’s smooth forearm as he performed the final unblocking of the major meridians.

When the last meridian in the technique was unblocked,

Su Xiaofan felt a loud roar in his ears, and his bones sounded like thunder.

Black and foul-smelling bodily fluids were expelled from his pores.

However, at this moment, Su Xiaofan’s six senses were closed.

His mind was immersed in the major meridians, with the surging true qi circulating in his body.

Perhaps because some of the meridians in his brain were also unblocked,

Su Xiaofan now used his consciousness to control the true qi, feeling no obstruction, as smooth as directing his own arm, and the mental strain was greatly reduced.

This smooth feeling made Su Xiaofan feel as if he were floating in the air, and his whole body seemed to become lighter.

Time passed, and Su Xiaofan didn’t know if it was a second or a day. When the major meridian technique was thoroughly stabilized, he opened his eyes.

The closed six senses were now open, and the sudden and loud sounds made Su Xiaofan’s face change.

Various noisy sounds entered his ears, and the complex and foul odors entered his nose, almost making him vomit.

"How did so many toxins come out again?"

The joy of unblocking the major meridians was immediately diluted by the foul smell.

With the experience from last time, Su Xiaofan didn’t dare to get up rashly but slowly stood up and went to the bathroom.

"Snap!"

While normally taking off his clothes, Su Xiaofan helplessly watched his shirt tear into two pieces; his strength had lost control again.

Standing under the shower, he repeatedly washed his body.

The expelled dirt and toxins were not only foul-smelling but also very greasy. It took him more than half an hour to finish washing and leave the bathroom.

"Such sensitive six senses are not a good thing."

As soon as he entered the living room, Su Xiaofan frowned because the foul smell had not dissipated and was still rushing into his nose.

Moreover, the noise in his ears was abnormally loud, and the sound of car engines on the road hundreds of meters away sounded like thunder in his ears.

What made Su Xiaofan most uncomfortable was that he could hear some inappropriate sounds. As a man who could still practice the child’s technique, Su Xiaofan could not tolerate this.

With a thought, the true qi flowed through the meridians behind his ears.

Su Xiaofan’s earlobes twitched slightly, and the noisy sounds outside immediately became much quieter.

"It seems I need to practice more to make my ears only accept the information I need."

Using the same method, Su Xiaofan adjusted the meridians in his nose, and the foul smell also dissipated.

Su Xiaofan felt the difference after unblocking the major meridians.

His control over his muscles was extremely fine.

Except for the moment of losing control when he was showering, his current physical condition was completely different from when he unblocked the small meridians and his strength increased dramatically.

Where his mind went, the qi followed, and the true qi, which was previously not very obedient, now became exceptionally gentle.

It might be his illusion, but Su Xiaofan felt that he could even control the cells in his body.

"Ancient martial artists could achieve invulnerability to cold and heat, which must be due to unblocking the major meridians."

Feeling the scorching heat from the sun outside, the pores on Su Xiaofan’s body suddenly indented, and his skin no longer felt any heat.

Taking a deep breath, he let it sink into his dantian, driving the true qi to circulate throughout his body. After the major meridian technique was completed, he exhaled.

"Running the major meridian technique once takes six hours!"

Su Xiaofan looked at the clock on the wall and calculated the time it took to run the major meridian technique.

While running the technique, Su Xiaofan did not breathe at all.

That deep breath allowed his breathing to shift from external to internal, meaning that while running the major meridian technique, Su Xiaofan could go without breathing for six hours.

"The major meridian technique is probably related to the consciousness in the brain."

Previously, when Su Xiaofan ran the technique, he used his consciousness to drive the true qi, and after each small meridian cycle, his mental awareness would feel tired.

But now that he had unblocked the major meridians, he felt refreshed and invigorated after practicing.

The running diagram of the major meridian technique also involved the meridians in the head, seemingly enhancing Su Xiaofan’s mental abilities.

"The human body is a treasure house. It seems that the ancients’ pursuit of immortality and the Dao is not entirely baseless."

Su Xiaofan had a moment of enlightenment.

Modern people pursue technological development, from individual weapons to nuclear weapons, from eliminating physical bodies to destroying the Earth.

The development of weapons brought about by technological progress is indeed very powerful and has reached its peak today.

Even now, Su Xiaofan doesn’t think he can withstand a bullet; the probability of a bullet taking his life is very high.

Being invulnerable to weapons is a delusion of a group of people who believed in religion and had their minds corrupted a hundred years ago.

From Su Xiaofan’s current perspective, the physical body still cannot withstand a bullet.

Of course, after unblocking the major meridians, the body’s speed and reaction are enhanced.

Su Xiaofan’s current cultivation level is not enough to block a bullet, but the probability of dodging a bullet is greatly increased.

If he can make a good prediction, and if only a handgun is used, Su Xiaofan has some confidence in dodging it.

"Technological evolution brings disaster and war. Perhaps the evolution of the human body itself is the right path."

After thinking for a long time, Su Xiaofan came to this conclusion.

Even emperors and generals ultimately end up as a handful of dust.

The emperor who shouted a few hundred years ago that he wanted to borrow five hundred more years from heaven ultimately lived only 69 years.

But Su Xiaofan feels that with his current state, living to be a hundred is absolutely no problem.

The hermits and cultivators in ancient times might have been pursuing this result. Immortality is an ideal, but longevity is achievable.

A real example is Uncle Jing, who looks like a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, even though he is over seventy.

This should be the most direct change brought about by the individual evolution of the human body.

Moreover, after unblocking the major meridians, Su Xiaofan feels that this is not the end of cultivation.

Unblocking the major and minor meridians only unblocks the meridians with known paths.

In Su Xiaofan’s perception, there seem to be countless meridian branches in his body, which are unknown and represent a direction for human evolution.

"Our Daoist cultivation lineage is probably from ancient times, pursuing the evolution of the body."

Su Xiaofan couldn’t help but let his imagination run wild.

He doesn’t know what level Laozi and Zhuangzi reached in their cultivation, or whether Zhuangzi could truly live as freely as he described.

"My master probably just unblocked the major meridians."

Recalling Uncle Jing’s usual state, Su Xiaofan could roughly deduce his cultivation level.

Of course, even with the major meridians unblocked, the thickness of the true qi in Uncle Jing’s body is far beyond what Su Xiaofan can compare to.

"Huh? How did my weight decrease?"

Su Xiaofan was tallying his body data, but when he stepped on the scale, he was taken aback.

Before unblocking the major meridians, Su Xiaofan was already 115 kilograms.

Su Xiaofan later pondered that the increase in weight was due to the increased density of his bones and muscles.

But now, the scale showed 70 kilograms.

"Did the density of my body increase, but the Earth’s gravity decrease?"

This thought crossed Su Xiaofan’s mind.

After unblocking the major meridians, Su Xiaofan felt that his body was much lighter.

Although he hadn’t tried it, Su Xiaofan believed that he could jump over a height of three to five meters.

From this, Su Xiaofan could infer that the lightness techniques mentioned in legends were real.

He couldn’t perform the "crossing the river on a single reed" technique, but he felt he could walk on water for a hundred meters or so.

In Su Xiaofan’s view, lightness techniques are based on the major meridians, and unblocking more meridians in the legs.

As for techniques like Baguazhang and Taijiquan, they are related to the meridians in the hands.

Once one meridian is unblocked, all are unblocked, and where the qi flows, the spirit follows.

When Su Xiaofan unblocked the minor meridians, he felt he could stand shoulder to shoulder with a superhero.

If all the meridians in the body were unblocked and the true qi spread throughout, wouldn’t that be what the ancients called a deity?

The path of cultivation is full of potential!