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A moment later, Wang Yan felt his body become empty. All the inner force had flowed into his dantian. To be more precise, it had been sent into the Chaos Millstone. Then, he reached out with his right hand and took the 10,000-year-old stalactite milk, pouring it into his mouth.
In an instant, a refreshing and cool feeling spread from his throat to his dantian. As this feeling spread throughout his body, the scorched and frozen scars on Wang Yan's body actually healed a little. However, this was not the time to care about this. Wang Yan immediately focused and used all his strength to circulate the Foundation Formation Method. He knew that his Foundation Formation had reached the crucial solidification stage. This stage was extremely important. Whether or not he could successfully form his Foundation Formation depended on whether the Stalactite Milk could solidify successfully.
Wang Yan was like an old monk in meditation, his mind completely immersed in the Foundation Formation Method. The aura emitted from his body became fainter and fainter, and his breathing became weaker. In the end, the aura in his body was almost non-existent, and there was no sound coming from his mouth or nose.
In the visualization world, a huge, transparent, oval cocoon lay in the void. The Chaos Vortex was wrapped in the giant cocoon, and as the vortex rotated, a light green airflow splashed out from the vortex. This was the inner force that had been preliminarily purified by the Chaos Millstone. Soon, the light green airflow filled the entire giant cocoon and circulated within it. The original Clear Spirit Qi had unknowingly blended with the light green airflow, causing the inner force that had been purified to become even clearer.
At this step, Wang Yan knew that his Qingxu Sword Embryo had been preliminarily solidified. Right now, there was only one step left, which was to plant a strand of Evil Sword Qi in the embryo to lay the foundation for the Sword Embryo's cultivation.
With a thought, the space above the cocoon suddenly turned blood-red. Soon after, a blood-red longsword appeared. In the next instant, the blood-red longsword rapidly descended towards the cocoon. In the blink of an eye, it penetrated the cocoon's surface and went straight inside. In the end, the blood-red longsword hovered above the center of the chaotic vortex.
Wang Yan thought that this was the end. However, at this moment, countless strands of gray crystal silk emerged from the Chaos Vortex and entangled the blood-red longsword. Then, the inner force in the giant cocoon began to rotate with the blood-red longsword as the center. With the rotation of the inner Qi, the blood-red longsword was soon completely enveloped by the inner Qi. Under Wang Yan's attention, he saw that the blood-red longsword lost its blood-red color at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few breaths, it turned into a clear sword shadow. It was not until such a change occurred that the gray crystal silk in the Chaos Vortex slowly retracted, and the inner Qi that wrapped the sword shadow also slowly dispersed. However, the inner Qi did not flow as casually as before. Instead, it slowly flowed in the giant cocoon with the sword shadow as the center.
Seeing such an inexplicable change, Wang Yan knew that this clear sword shadow could no longer be called Evil Sword Qi. As for what it was called and what mysteries it had, Wang Yan had no way of knowing. He could only figure it out by himself in the future. However, his embryo formation was considered complete, and the Qingxu Sword Embryo was preliminarily solidified. Thinking of this, Wang Yan's mind no longer stayed in the visualization world.
"Thump, thump."
A strange sound came from Wang Yan's abdomen, as if something had awakened. The next moment, Wang Yan's eyes slowly opened. There was still no sound around him, and no sound of breathing could be heard. However, Wang Yan stood up like a living dead, with a touch of joy on his face. He knew that he had finally succeeded in forming the embryo.
Without any earth-shattering momentum, Wang Yan completed the formation quietly. From the beginning, his Qingxu Sword Embryo was based on the foundation of the 'embryo'. The so-called 'embryo' referred to the fetus and placenta. Humans were conceived from the fetus, and forming the embryo was the first step to returning to the innate state. When a human was still a fetus in the mother's abdomen, they would replace breathing with inner breath. Therefore, the first effect of the Qingxu Sword Embryo was to reverse the circulation of inner breath and replace breathing.
[By the way, the fetus actually breathes through the mother's umbilical cord to deliver oxygenated arterial blood. It is not the so-called inner breath. However, Wang Yan did not know this, and the fifth rhyme did not mention it either. His understanding was not that deep. In addition, the rules of the two worlds were different. Therefore, from the perspective of the real world, it can be understood that after the internal force sublimates, it becomes a kind of energy rich in oxygen. In the process of circulating in the body, oxygen is squeezed out to replace human breathing. However, this understanding does not apply to the world where Wang Yan was.]
Perhaps this effect did not seem to have any effect at first glance, but in fact, after completely replacing breathing with inner breath, the first effect was to hold one's breath. In this way, others could no longer judge the level of his internal force from the sound of his breathing. He could hide his cultivation to a certain extent. At the same time, Wang Yan could also use this to hide his figure. Especially in the dark, when he did not breathe, he was like a ghost.
Apart from this, the biggest use of this living dead state was to improve the physical body, and it was also more beneficial for the inner Qi to return to the primordial state.
According to what Wang Yan had studied from the Formless Sensing Yuan Dongxu True Scripture, this world was born from chaos. Then, clear Qi floated up and turbid Qi sank, thus forming the spiritual vigor of heaven and earth and nourishing the vast spiritual energy. According to Duan Henan, the spiritual vigor of heaven and earth in the five desolate provinces had long been cut off. Clear Qi and turbid Qi intertwined. Although it did not return to chaos, the 'Qi' in the external world was turbid and heterogeneous. When the human body breathed, the turbid Qi would be inhaled into the body. After a long time, the spirit would naturally be muddled, and the body that was originally mortal would accumulate turbid Qi. Not only would this increase the difficulty of returning to the primordial state, it would also breed disease and death.
Birth, old age, sickness, and death were the laws of nature, the laws of heaven and earth. However, cultivation was a path that went against the natural order. Getting rid of the mortal body was also to obtain more power, extend one's lifespan and even live a long life. This way, the 'Qi' would not only increase the difficulty of returning to the primordial state, but it would also breed disease and death.
Therefore, once one could completely replace breathing with inner breath, he would be able to isolate the turbid Qi from the external world. Since inner energy had the effect of nourishing and improving the physical body, after isolating the invasion of the turbid Qi from the external world, Wang Yan's physical body would be better nourished and improved. His inner Qi would also become purer, and it would be more beneficial to returning to the primordial state.
However, now that Wang Yan's Nascent Embryo had just formed, his Circulatory Cycle was not perfect yet. He could not maintain such a state of the living dead for long. However, once his Nascent Embryo was stable, his inner energy would become purer, and he would open up his eight extraordinary meridians and even some of the smaller meridians in his body, he would be able to maintain his state of the living dead for a long time.
There were many wonderful uses for forming an inner breath cycle, but this was only one of the mysteries of the Qing Xu Sword Essence. After feeling the inner breath cycle in his body, Wang Yan raised his hand and waved. Falling Sand flew into his hand on its own, and he immediately began to practice his swordsmanship.
After practicing a set of Yuanying Swordsmanship, Wang Yan's expression became a little strange. It was probably because from the previous practice, he could feel that the increase in his inner energy was not as big as he expected, and the improvement in his strength was not very obvious. If one were to carefully analyze, his strength, sword speed, and other aspects had only increased by less than 20%. According to the common saying in Jianghu, he now had about 20 years of pure inner energy, which was barely at the level of a middle-grade Nascent Embryo.
In terms of the thickness of his inner energy, the Qing Xu Sword Essence was only at the level of a middle-grade Nascent Embryo. Wang Yan shook his head, and then his eyes narrowed. With a flick of his right wrist, a green glow appeared in his hand. Soon, the green glow extended from his hand to the front, first covering the hilt of Falling Sand, and finally, the green glow extended to the entire long sword.
"Is this Gang Qi?"
Wang Yan could not be sure, but he could feel that the green aura that left his hand had a mysterious connection with the inner energy in his body, just like his tentacles. Through his inner energy, he could also use the green aura, and even use the green aura to change sword moves or come up with some other uses. This kind of performance was clearly no different from Upstanding Qi. Just twenty years of pure inner energy could condense Upstanding Qi? Or was it condensed by itself during the process of forming the Nascent Embryo?
Wang Yan could not understand, but in a flash, the trace of Clear Spirit Qi that was derived from the Millstone of Chaos when it was first formed appeared in his mind. Could it be that this strange Gang Qi was the result of the Clear Spirit Qi fusing with the inner Qi? In other words, after the Clear Spirit Qi fused with the inner energy, it allowed the inner energy to have the nature of Gang Qi, and there was no need to deliberately condense it?
"But is this really Gang Qi?"
With a strong sense of doubt, Wang Yan swung his sword, and the green glow on the sword turned into a sword light, slashing at a nearby boulder that was as tall as a person. In a flash, there was a muffled bang, and the boulder did not move. Wang Yan looked at it and saw that there was only a sword mark, which was less than an inch deep, on the boulder. Apart from that, the entire boulder was almost undamaged.
"This … is really too much of a difference, isn't it?"
Wang Yan frowned slightly. Not to mention that the power of the green glow was far inferior to the Gang Qi displayed by Bai Daoxin in Duan Henan, and even the sword light that appeared from his own sword edge was inferior. At least by using Falling Sand to perform the Solitary Heart Swordsmanship, Wang Yan could easily make a hole of a foot in this boulder. Even the effect of the Return of Thousand Threads was far superior, not to mention the Formless Selfless Sword.
However, Wang Yan was still unwilling to give up. He knew that he could not make an accurate judgment based on his observations, but he could still use his cultivation method to verify it. After all, he had two cultivation methods that specialized in cultivating Stellar Energy, the [Sword Stellar Energy Transmutation] and the final stage of the [Twisting Fingers]. The core of the final stage of the [Twisting Fingers] was to carry out a special transformation of existing Stellar Energy. In other words, if he could cultivate the final stage of the [Twisting Fingers], wouldn't that prove that this extremely weak green glow was really Stellar Energy?
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