To raise was to support, to nurture, to pity, to protect, and to mend.
To raise Qi was to carry out these actions on the Qi of Heaven and Earth that was absorbed into the body.
Ning Que followed the description in the book and entered a state that was similar to meditation. However, it was not as deep as meditation, and he still maintained a continuous connection with the real world.
This connection was breathing, or in other words, breathing.
The air in the cliff cave entered his lungs according to the rhythm of breathing, and then returned to the outside through his mouth and nose. The Qi of Heaven and Earth contained in the air gradually settled and stopped in the process, and began to nourish every part of his body, including the most subtle parts.
Every time he breathed, Ning Que could feel a trace of Qi of Heaven and Earth entering his body. This change was very subtle, but when he entered a certain rhythm, the superposition of this subtle change would become more obvious, even to the extent that he could feel the increase of the aura.
After inheriting the Youngest Uncle's mantle at the Front Gate of the Devil's Doctrine, the process of absorbing the Qi of Heaven and Earth and transforming it into the Great Spirit had always been slow. Moreover, at this time, he finally found that he could actively cultivate the Great Spirit, and from then on, it became something that he could control and look forward to. After the initial shock, he began to feel happy. This was a surprise.
The night was deep, and the morning light was about to rise. In the cliff cave, Sangsang was dozing off while Ning Que sat cross-legged and seriously breathed every breath of air.
He felt the Qi of Heaven and Earth flowing into his body, like a drunkard drinking cans of hard liquor. He was so happy and intoxicated that he did not know where he was and where he would go.
The air flow in the cliff cave brought in the slightly cold mountain wind under the warm morning light. It blew on Sangsang's body and woke her up from her sleep. She rubbed her eyes.
She looked at Ning Que beside her with a confused look on her face.
With the influx of the Qi of Heaven and Earth, the Great Spirit in Ning Que's body was increasing at a slow but unstoppable speed. His body was also changing because of this.
This change was deeply hidden under his skin, between his muscles, and in his blood. Except for himself, no one could see any trace of it with the naked eye.
But Sangsang still felt that Ning Que was undergoing some kind of change.
Because she could feel that in the space around her, there seemed to be a very faint existence, even fainter than the wind, slowly approaching Ning Que's body. The morning mist between the cliffs also seemed to feel some kind of call and floated into the cave, gently covering Ning Que's body.
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After a long time, Ning Que woke up.
He silently looked at the azure sky outside the cliff cave, deep in thought.
The Qi of Heaven and Earth was everywhere between the cliffs and the clouds. There was also the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the quiet trees and the swimming fish. Therefore, when it entered the human body, it was still the Qi of Heaven and Earth. Thinking in this way, what was the essential difference between the Haotian Divine Flame of Haotian Taoism and the genuine Qi in the body of the powerhouses of the Devil's Doctrine?
The book on the Origin of the Aura of Heaven and Earth talked about this truth and tried to solve the doubts of cultivators in theory, trying to establish a unified system. This new system would fundamentally overthrow the doctrine of Haotian Taoism. No wonder it was banned by the West-Hill Divine Palace.
The other book told Ning Que that he did not need to care about the form of the Qi of Heaven and Earth. Just like water in nature, whether it was between cliffs, in the clouds, in the mountain stream, in the calm lake, or in the rushing river, the essence would not change. It was still water.
The ideas of the two books were similar to a certain extent. However, the book on the Origin of the Aura of Heaven and Earth finally gave up the discussion of metaphysics and went directly to the road of cultivating a certain characteristic of the Qi of Heaven and Earth to the extreme. Because the extreme would eventually return to the origin of things.
The Headmaster of the Academy imprisoned Ning Que in the cliff cave, which was equivalent to asking a difficult question and putting three answers in front of him in advance. The ideas in the two books were the two methods that the Headmaster of the Academy taught him.
Either to cultivate the Great Spirit to the extreme and powerful state and ignore the heaven and earth, or to use the no-boundary spirit to harmonize the Great Spirit inside the body with the Qi of Heaven and Earth outside the body.
Chen Pipi said there were three books, and these were two of them. Then what was the third book? What other methods could he find by reading that book?
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In the following days, Ning Que seemed to return to the time when he first entered the Academy and went to the old library. His life was calm and simple. He ate, slept, read, thought, and then read again. He had no distractions and was fully focused on reading. He put all the boring time and life in the cliff cave into reading.
With the help of the two books, Ning Que had a deeper understanding of the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit in his body became purer and more vigorous. At the same time, he had a better understanding of the operating rules and the existence of the Qi of Heaven and Earth. He even made significant progress in Talisman Taoism.
He vaguely sensed the key to solve the problem of the Headmaster of Academy and to break the inhibition to leave the cliff cave. But he still could not grasp the thread. He could not figure out how to mix the two completely different auras with light and dust, or even turn their actual existence into nothingness.
Ten days passed quickly. Third Sister Yu Lian came. Her loose Academy uniform fluttered in the cliff wall like a flag. She walked into the cliff cave and instantly became as quiet as the silk cloth on the table.
Ning Que did not waste any time. After a simple salute, he took out the paper with the questions he had these days and seriously asked her about the problems he had encountered in reading.
Yu Lian began to answer after thinking for a while. Her words were concise and even too simple. It seemed that she was a man of few words. However, these simple answers often fell on the most critical parts and directly made Ning Que's stagnant thoughts suddenly clear, and he easily saw a new path in the fog.
Finally, Ning Que began to ask about the Qi Cultivation Method at the back of the book after hesitating for a while.
Yu Lian frowned slightly and remained silent.
Ning Que glanced at Sangsang who was sitting outside the cliff cave and embroidering. He thought that Senior Sister was silent because there were outsiders from the Academy present and it was inconvenient.
Yu Lian smiled and said, "Since the Headmaster asked this little girl to accompany you, you don't mind her listening beside you. The so-called Qi Cultivation Method seems to be from the Devil's Doctrine, but this cliff cave is far away from the world. Why do you care?
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The next day, Chen Pipi climbed up the cliff platform panting.
Ning Que naturally laughed at him and expressed his great displeasure that Chen Pipi did not come up to the cliff to visit him these days.
Chen Pipi explained that the stone path was too slanted and the cliff was too steep, but Ning Que did not understand. He sighed helplessly and ignored this guy's annoyance. Then he began to practice the no-boundary spirit of the Academy.
"The so-called no-boundary spirit means that there is no trace of it. Just like the snow mud, it is in the east and suddenly in the west. There is no way to know where the snow trembles."
"When you want to move, you move at will. If you don't, how can the enemy know what you want to do?"
Chen Pipi raised his right arm and pointed at the blue sky above the cliff with his ring finger.
An invisible aura suddenly shot out from between his fingers, but it did not shoot into the sky in the direction of his fingers. Instead, it shot into the cliff cave unpredictably.
That invisible aura was the Qi of Heaven and Earth that was compressed to the extreme.
The aura brushed past Ning Que's shoulder and quietly fell on the hard rock wall of the cliff cave. With a soft sound, a dark round hole appeared on the wall.
No one knew how deep the hole was.
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(I was already very tired. Friends came from afar and I drank a few cups of wine. I suddenly collapsed and suffered for a long time, but I could only write this much. You all know that I have been working hard these days and I have a good attitude. I will continue to work hard tomorrow. Although I wrote less today, I really need the recommendation votes. After all, it's Monday. Please support me.) (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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