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Chapter 61: Stones from other mountains can attack jade

"Stop, stop, stop, let me rest for a while and help me prepare something to eat!"

Feng Xue, who was aching all over, raised his hand and called for a stop. Liu Yunxi, with a sincere smile on her face, stopped immediately. She didn't seem reluctant at all, as if everything that had happened before had no personal emotions at all.

In fact, if you have to say that she was ruthless, that would not be the case. After all, after more than half an hour of fighting, Feng Xue didn't even have many real bruises on her body. But every time she attacked, she targeted the soft flesh, so there were no hard injuries. But the pain was really painful!

Seeing Liu Yunxi turn around and go to the kitchen to prepare food, Feng Xue immediately collapsed to the ground, but did not rest immediately. Instead, he forced himself to take out his mobile phone from his Hu Tian bag, inserted the memory card containing Taoist classics and began to study.

Since he had prepared too many relevant documents, it was unrealistic to search for them one by one. Moreover, the load he could carry on this journey was limited and could not bear the computing power required for local deployment of AI.

However, this did not pose a problem for him. He simply clicked on the keyword search and entered keywords such as "qi", "qi", "five elements", "yin and yang", and "leifa" to conduct a precise search. After finding the content he was interested in, he read the context and used the keywords he did not understand as search items to retrieve them from the database.

Although this would definitely result in missing some things, it was the most efficient learning plan he currently had. His eyes kept jumping between the texts, and suddenly he found a piece of content that interested him.

"The five zang organs and five qi are the specific manifestations of the yingwei qi within the five zang organs... I know the five zang organs and five qi. The kidney water controls the liver wood's water zang thunder, the heart fire controls the lung metal's crimson palace thunder, and there's also the heart fire and kidney water tempering the lung metal's Gengxin sword qi... But this yingwei qi..."

Feng Xue saw a term that looked familiar but he couldn't remember what it was, so he immediately started searching for information about the Yingwei Qi. After reading several copies, he took out a memory card related to Chinese medicine theory and studied it for a while. Only then did he confirm that this thing was actually a basic setting from the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine.

"As the Ying and Wei circulate, the internal organs generate the five Qi. Ying Qi is a bit like the nutrients transported by blood. These nutrients nourish the five internal organs, generating their Qi, which then enters the meridians. This Qi, collectively known as Wei Qi, can resist external pathogens and strengthen the body. Yuan Qi, on the other hand, is a person's innate Qi, and can be understood as the body's inherent properties. It slowly grows stronger as the Ying and Wei circulate...

"According to this theory, what warriors in this world call Qi and blood is actually the Qi of the Ying and Wei. Blood is the Ying, and Qi is the Wei. So-called martial arts cultivation is about refining the control of the Ying and Wei circulation to achieve the goal of strengthening the body, while Xuan cultivation is about nourishing and strengthening the Xiantian Yuan Qi with the Wei Qi, and then feeding it to the spirit and soul. As for the so-called feeding back to the body, it is probably about integrating the more yin-oriented magic power into the Ying Qi, strengthening the Wei Qi, and thus achieving a nourishing effect on the body far beyond that of eating. One can even replenish the five Qi by eating things like jade."

Feng Xue was not good at traditional Chinese medicine theory, so he was not sure whether his crude idea was accurate. However, based on the Xuanxiu system he had come into contact with so far, this idea should be fine. At most, there were some flaws in the details.

However, as a life-saver, he didn't care much about the missing details. What he was thinking about now was whether he could use these theories to create some techniques based on yin and yang and the five elements.

It’s not that he wants to give up his advantageous mana, but he wants to create a mold for mana.

In terms of the cultivation process, the perception and control of the Nutritive and Defensive Qi are easier than mana and primordial energy. This is probably because the Nutritive and Defensive Qi have their own exclusive channels (Nutrition Qi goes through blood vessels/Defense Qi goes through meridians); while mana not only requires a channel, but also requires the assistance of the main control system, the spirit and soul. However, before entering the Tao, the spirit and soul cannot even be considered fully developed.

To use a more vulgar analogy, it is like a child who has not yet fully developed and cannot ejaculate, but can pee far.

So according to this theory, if we can directly use Wei Qi to cast spells, can we gain a higher level of control and dominance?
Feng Xue didn't even ask for power, because as long as he could do it, he could use Wei Qi to make a shell and wrap the magic power inside. That's right, it's the theory of missiles, separate the warhead and the control part, and the magic power only needs to be used for killing, and leave the rest to Wei Qi.

Thinking of this, he immediately took out the small notebook he carried with him and wrote down this idea. Although he wanted to study it immediately, he had just started practicing Jingzhuang. It was okay for the circulation in the body, but he still had a long way to go before he could get rid of the circulation.

While thinking, Feng Xue began to look up more relevant content about the Yingwei Qi, the five internal organs and the five Qi, and by the way, he found several related Taoist scriptures, even including "The Original Meaning of Journey to the West", which interpreted the cultivation methods from Journey to the West, and carefully compared them with the other world's conjectures and understanding of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements and the practice of Dandao.

Of course, Feng Xue knew that different worldviews might not necessarily translate, but since the theoretical foundations shared, there was no harm in giving it a try. He kept taking notes, and ideas based on the circulation of nutrients and vital energy kept popping up. His former online writer's imagination was rapidly bubbling, and one spell framework after another was recorded in his notes. By the time he came to his senses, Liu Yunxi's nourishing meal was ready. Feng Xue ate while practicing the ingestion method. Afterward, he performed the body-building technique, and the fatigue and pain he had experienced before instantly disappeared.

Without any hesitation, he started to communicate with Liu Yunxi again, but this time, it was not just about the application of the skilled magic weapon to unilaterally beat people, but also an experimental process. However, most of the plans became Mo Ming's dinner.

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"Pooh, pooh, pooh! You damn gray rat, I'll come and deal with you after I've gotten over my human calamity!" Because the mountain was full of rats, the demon cultivator could only rely on the simplest method and dig up his own grave with his bare hands. Even though he was a grandmaster with hundreds of years of experience, the moment his soul and body were separated, he was destined to say goodbye to his past self.

Now that he is stuck at this awkward point, he may not be able to really deal with the big rat that has been practicing for nearly five hundred years.

Since it is certain that it is a human calamity, it is obviously foolish to try to escape or hide. Living in this world, one cannot escape the cycle of cause and effect. Rather than leaving Lucheng and meeting a wandering master on the road, it is better to have a battle of wits with the local cultivators in this relatively familiar place.

"I'm only at the half-step Grandmaster level right now, but with my experience and the nature of the turbid evil spirit, I don't have to worry too much about the mortal cultivators. I just need to be careful not to push them to the point of asking the ancestors to possess me, but I can't be too weak either. If I can't attract enough attention, it's inevitable that someone will be distracted and investigate my existence. Although I don't know why they're looking for me, since that gray rat has taken action, it must be something serious!"

As a demon cultivator who had reached the Grandmaster level, he had ample experience fighting against Xuan cultivators. He naturally understood that every Xuan cultivator with a well-established lineage had a long lineage of ancestors behind them. Although demon cultivators also had ancestors, the problem was...

When the demon cultivators go to the underworld, they all avoid the territory of the underworld. Those who can fight basically operate in the foreign territory. Those who can stay in the native land are weaklings who find a remote corner to create a den of ghosts. Even if they are pulled out, they may not be able to fight.

"Alas, that gray rat can't find me, and maybe he'll ask someone else to come later. I'd better not stay in this mountain anymore. Anyway, I'll find a way to sneak into the city and check out the situation first!"

　So, ancient theories are really interesting. For example, the word "nutrition" refers to nutrients obtained from food, while "Yang Qi" is what we now call oxygen. And Ying Qi circulates in the blood, meaning that blood is responsible for transporting nutrients. So, what is Wei Qi?

　　According to the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, Wei Qi is the general term for the Ying Qi that is differentiated into five Qi through the five internal organs (the five internal organs and five elements in traditional Chinese medicine do not really refer to the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, but the five internal organs represent the five major systems, namely the blood circulation, immunity, digestion, respiration, and urinary and reproductive systems) and flows through the blood vessels. It is responsible for resisting external evils and strengthening the body.

　　If we use modern medicine to explain it, it means that the five major systems obtain nutrients, which then keep the body healthy and immune to diseases. Of course, whether this is a forced application or the ancients thought so, that’s a matter of opinion. I don’t believe that Chinese medicine is omnipotent, nor do I believe that Chinese medicine is useless. I just think these ancient classics are very interesting.

　　Finally, I'd like to mention that although the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is said to have been written by the Yellow Emperor, it certainly wasn't. This is because it contains information about the Five Elements and the Five Zang organs, and the Five Elements theory didn't become popular until the Hundred Schools of Thought. Therefore, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine must have been written later than the Spring and Autumn Period.

　　As for how popular this thing was at that time?

　　Isn't there a meme about science fiction that has inexplicable technology? In the 19th century, it was steam, in the 20th century, it was nuclear energy, and in the 21st century, it was quantum mechanics. And back then, the Five Elements theory was just that. Everything had to fit in.

　　But please be careful not to take the five elements literally.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)