In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 348 Qi

[Current luck value: 1.7 percent.]

[Opened world: 4]

The luck value is maxed out again, and a new world opens up.

This last wave of luck was not gained by serving as the Wind Shadow substitute.

To be precise, Shimizu is still only a candidate for the quasi-Kazekage, and he still has the final process regarding the daimyo to go through.

This luck came from his other position, a position that the Third Kazekage had just handed over to Shimizu.

The leader of the Sand Village's jonin squad.

He has already received such a high number of votes in the confidence vote for his inauguration that he can even be the candidate for Kazekage, let alone the leader of the Jonin Squad.

The position of leader of the jonin squad is not low in status, but the extent of the power is rather vague, depending on the ability of the person holding the position and how much power the Kazekage is willing to give.

Generally speaking, as the head of a jonin, Shimizu will be required to preside over any jonin-level meetings in the future. In wartime, he has the power to command and dispatch jonin, as well as some other powers.

However, Qingshui doesn't really care about this.

Because those powers have already been covered by the Kazekage candidate.

Now Qingshui's attention is focused on the new world that has opened up.

The first three worlds opened so far are the DC World, Demon Slayer World, and Marvel World, and each incarnation has already occupied a considerable position in that world, bringing a lot of luck to Shimizu, and also greatly helping Shimizu improve his abilities and knowledge.

New world, which one will it be?

Even though he had already had this experience three times, Qingshui still harbored some curiosity.

After the meeting to elect the candidate Kazekage was over, Shimizu patiently engaged in some necessary interpersonal communication with these jonin before hurriedly returning home and sitting cross-legged on the bed.

He still remembered the scenes of opening new worlds several times before. Every time after splitting out a wisp of spirit, he felt very tired, even fainted, and needed a lot of time to recover.

It was still the familiar black vortex, emerging from the void, leading to an unknown time and space.

A wisp of consciousness was invested in it, and Qingshui couldn't help but feel a pain in his head, as if part of it was knocked off, and he groaned.

But perhaps because Qingshui's mental will was now much stronger than before, he just frowned slightly and got through it.

……

……

Unknown world.

Hua Xia, Kyoto University, one of the top two universities, in the doctoral dormitory.

The snoring stopped abruptly.

Qingshui felt his head was a little drunk, rubbed his eyebrows, sat up from the bed, pressed the light switch beside him, and silently sorted out his memories.

In this world, his name is Zhuo Qingshui.

The "Zhuo" in "Zhuo Qing Lian but not evil" is a rare surname, with less than 10,000 people in the country. His name comes from the poem of the ancient Zhen Dexiu:
Wash your spiritual roots with clear water at midnight, and be sure to expel the turbid air from your dantian.

Well, the name Zhen Dexiu is indeed very cool, but it is not made up. There was such a person in history. He was a famous official in the Song Dynasty, a disciple of Zhu Xi, and the Minister of Revenue. He was a great Confucian scholar at that time.

As for Shimizu, his incarnation is now 26 years old and has just graduated with a doctorate from Kyoto University with a double doctorate in high energy physics and quantum physics as well as artificial intelligence. He is currently serving as a lecturer in the academy and working in a postdoctoral mobile station.

Definitely high-quality talent.

He was drunk because today was the day for a celebration party for the successful completion of an academic project led by his mentor.

According to his doctoral supervisor, after the completion of this project, his level 3 professorship will probably soon be upgraded to level 2 professorship, and the evaluation as a Yangtze River Scholar will basically be ensured.

It is a calf that is evolving into a big bull.

As for which world this is, Qingshui now has some guesses, but he is not quite sure yet.

After the celebration banquet, the doctoral supervisor named Meng Xuan gave him two small notebooks and asked him to go back and study hard and come back to him when he had learned them.

One is called "Mohist General Knowledge" and the other is called "Mohist Secrets".

Shimizu did not extract chakra immediately after arriving in a new world as usual. Instead, he got out of bed, wiped his face, spread out two books on the desk under the bed, and began to read.

The dormitory at Kyoto University is a double room. My former roommate went to work at a postdoctoral research station at an Ivy League school in the United States last month, following a Chinese-American big shot in the industry.

So before the new batch of doctoral students arrived, Qingshui lived in this single room alone.

By that time, he had already moved to the single room prepared for him in the teachers' dormitory of Wanliu Apartment.

"The Mohist Divine Machine, the Mohist mechanical art, the extraordinary people, the practice of Qi... is that true?"

Qingshui put down the page of the book and his eyes moved slightly.

This is the world of one person, and the current timeline is...

Qingshui picked up the phone from the bedside.

The current time is displayed above the wise eyes of the grinning Pig Man on the screensaver.

August 2014, 8, 22: am.

It seems it’s still quite early.

And it wasn’t too early, not even into the last century.

This book, General Knowledge of Mohism, introduces the Mohist school to which Yiren and his doctoral advisor Meng Xuan belonged.

The Chinese ancestors of this world proposed the concept a long time ago that everything in the world has Qi. In the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi even believed that all matter is composed of Qi.

Everything in the world has its own Qi. The Qi that can reproduce on its own and that refined by external forces is considered to be the difference between life and non-life. In addition to materials such as flesh and blood, living organisms also inherit this abstract energy from the previous generation, which allows them to grow, think, and have souls, rather than being just zombies.

At first, there were people who were born with the ability to better control the Qi and brought it out through various forms of supernatural powers. With the development of the times and the research on Qi, various methods of breathing and strengthening the body to help people control and grow the Qi in the body were also studied.

The Mohist General Knowledge in Qingshui's hands contains a set of Qi training methods originally created by Mozi and Mozi.

In addition to this set of Qi training techniques, there is also an introduction to Mo Men.

In the ancient pre-Qin period, after Mozi's death, the Mohist school was divided into three parts. The Chu Mozi were mostly knights, the Qi Mozi were mostly scholars, and the Qin Mozi were more pragmatic.

Chu Mo and Qi Mo, the former gradually turned into a knight-errant who showed off his bravery in the martial arts world, while the latter was absorbed by Confucianism and Taoism in academia and gradually disappeared during the Qin and Han dynasties.

Only the pragmatic Qin Mohist school became the core of Mohism and was passed down. Although it did not become a school of governance like Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism, it actually became an indispensable part of each dynasty in another way, just like the military school, and also absorbed the concepts of Confucianism, Taoism and other schools in the process.

Whether among the people or in the government, although it has never become mainstream, the shadow of Mohism is always present.

Creating siege equipment, constructing water conservancy projects, and building urban bridges are all the specialties of the disciples of Mohism. A series of ancient scientific and technological inventions such as the armillary sphere and the water-powered astronomical observatory cannot be ruled out as being influenced by Mohism.

Over the past two thousand years, the Mohist school has experienced several wars and has left its spark for reconstruction several times. From Mozi to Qin Huali, and then to Meng Sheng, Tian Xiangzi, and Fu, it has been passed down to the modern era that focuses on scientific and technological development. The Mohist school has closer ties with the official government than the ancient dynasties.

The contemporary leader of the Mohist school is Academician Ou, who has served as a designer for many manned spaceflight and lunar exploration projects.

(Ahem, there are prototypes for the characters, but the people are definitely different, and we don’t dare to make up stories about academicians.)
This person is also Qingshui’s master’s master, and his doctoral supervisor Meng Xuan is his apprentice.

After reading this introduction about Mo Men for a few minutes, Qingshui turned his attention to the last few pages of the booklet.

The Mohist Qigong technique was founded by Mozi and later revised by many generations of Mohist masters.

But it is only the first part, used for introductory purposes, and it mainly teaches how to condense, mobilize and nourish the Qi in the body through breathing, regulating the mind and practicing the intention. There should also be methods on how to cultivate and strengthen it in the future.

"It is somewhat similar to the method of refining chakras. Both can be regarded as a combination of one's own physical energy and spiritual energy. However, chakras focus more on tapping and strengthening physical energy, emphasizing the evolution of energy properties. Qi training is another way. It uses the human body's own system to absorb nutrients from external substances, and then refines these nutrients into qi. Spiritual energy plays a guiding role in this process. Through the circulation of the meridians in the body, it simulates the laws of nature and integrates spiritual will into it.

This will be more difficult, especially in the early stages. Although the upper limit will be limited by the weak human body, the scope of use will definitely be wider than that of ninjutsu limited by chakra attributes, and it can also nourish the body and prolong life. "

Qingshui carefully read through these thousands of words and their related annotations, and began to calculate in his mind.

In terms of destructive power, chakra is obviously higher, and it is possible to destroy the earth and shatter the stars.

But that still relies more on the Otsutsuki bloodline.

For ordinary ninjas, relying on chakra, it is already the limit for them to reach the peak level of Kage like the third Kage of each village.

Puppetry, swordsmanship, fusion bloodline ninjutsu and other skills that regular ninjas can possess, he has already cultivated them to a very high level.

If that were the case, his upper limit would actually be about the same.

It was the ability to manipulate air currents that he obtained from his incarnations in various worlds, the super regeneration brought by perfect demonization, the huge amount of chakra, and the blood demon technique version of Flying Thunder God that allowed him to take another half step back beyond this limit.

If you really count it, he possesses super spatial displacement ability + large-scale high-powered ninjutsu + master of swordsmanship + puppetry, which combined makes him roughly a Senju Tobirama with enhanced self-healing ability + half a Chiyo.

Qingshui expects Yiren's Qi training system to bring him more surprises.

The collision between two systems that are similar to a certain extent but have completely different development directions will definitely complement each other and produce more brilliant sparks.

Inhale—exhale—inhale—exhale…

Practicing Qi-breathing is not about breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like in fairy tales, but about regulating the mind through breathing, finding peace, and concentrating the mind. What's more special is that some people can better exchange gases with the outside world through breathing, and better circulate and utilize the energy in the body in a specific way through the respiratory system.

After all, the energy needed for human activities needs to be transported to the body through breathing for cells to use.

Soon, a hot current was generated in Qingshui's dantian, and slowly moved along with Qingshui's consciousness in the rhythm of his breathing.

As the circulation of the Qi was in progress, the mind's interference with energy became greater and greater, and this flow of heat was quickly controlled by Qingshui with ease.

Perhaps because of his foundation in chakra practice, Qingshui learned the art very quickly, and once he got started he could easily control the Qi in his body.

He even had some ideas of combining Qi training and chakra extraction for application.

However, Qingshui was not in a hurry to do so because he did not have sufficient understanding of this new system.

He chose to let the incarnation of Demon Slayer do this.

After all, the incarnation of Demon Slayer has a perfect demonic body, so he is not afraid even if something happens.

Moreover, the average combat power of the world there is much lower. Even after Muzan's death, even the strongest swordsman does not have the ability to threaten him. It can only be regarded as a low-military, low-tech world in the early twentieth century.

Even if there was something wrong with his chakra and he couldn't use it anymore, relying solely on his perfect demonized body and breathing techniques, in this era when even the First World War has not yet broken out, nothing can threaten him.

A few minutes later.

The incarnation of Demon Slayer sat on the sofa and slowly opened his eyes.

It is difficult for Chakra to coexist with Chi.

The composition of the two energies is quite similar. If they exist at the same time, they can easily devour and assimilate each other.

But this is not a disadvantage.

Being able to assimilate means being able to transform into each other. As long as you know enough about Qi and your control ability reaches a relatively high standard like Chakra, you should be able to do it.

and……

A bright blue light condensed in Qingshui's palm.

From chakra to qi, and then back to chakra, the will that does not belong to oneself in this chakra seems to have weakened a little.

No, it’s more accurate to say it’s refined rather than weakened.

Although it is very weak, it is effective.

The practice of alien cultivation emphasizes the dual cultivation of sex and life. According to this aspect, the ninjas in the world of Naruto cultivate life rather than sex, and the cultivation of sex is entirely driven by life.

Perhaps it was because he was cultivating his nature while cultivating his life that he was able to refine that strand of will in his chakra that was not suitable for his own.

For Qingshui, this alone is worth the luck it takes to open up this world.

The original body is not like the incarnation in the Marvel world, which has a Mind Stone that can be used to suppress and consume energy. He can only let the incarnation try to study it and see if he can figure out any means.

Therefore, one can imagine the importance of this Qi training technique to pure water.

The bright blue light slowly dimmed.

"what happened?"

Shinobu Kocho walked slowly towards them, holding her three-year-old child.

"nothing."

Qingshui shook his head.

Shift your focus back to your own world.

Qingshui's eyes slowly opened and he let out a long breath.

The amount of Qi in his body at this moment has reached a considerable level.

(End of this chapter)