Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 326 Fish Fry (Thanks to the generous donation of 10,000 Qidian Coins!)
At this stage, ordinary martial artists with insufficient natural talent often need to spend seven or eight years honing their foundation. Even those with decent talent need two or three years of arduous training before they can even begin to grasp the basics of internal organ training.

Unlike Xu Yunfan, whose internal energy circulates naturally with each breath, his pure Yang energy nourishes his internal organs, making them smooth and lustrous like jade, and his mastery of internal organ cultivation is a natural progression.

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But this was a natural progression, since he had already mastered the Yi Jing Marrow Cleansing Technique and was fully qualified to begin tempering his internal organs.

The Daoist sect's Five Qi Formation Method within the Twelve Golden Gate Jade Lock Techniques, the pinnacle of the Refining Organs Realm, and the Xuanzhen Sect's Dragon Tiger Heavenly Gang... all have been explored in the Ten Extreme Martial Arts.

However, in Xu Yunfan's view, the Ten Extremes Martial Arts were entirely achieved by Dugu Jiu using his high-level martial arts skills from the ninth realm to unify them. Although it could push the body and physique to their limits, and even reach the point of internalizing energy into the brain, it was a different story.
As for Chen Hong, Xu Yunfan didn't make a move, but instead used him as bait, hoping to catch a dragon.

Although the other party was already suspicious, Xu Yunfan observed them silently for several days. The other party still held onto a glimmer of hope. After all, Chen Hong was more upright and honest than him, and would never leave without a last resort.

To Xu Yunfan's regret, Chen Hong had been behaving himself and keeping a low profile these days, without making any unusual moves.

He stopped paying excessive attention, focused his mind, and stopped being distracted by external things, instead immersing himself in the profound mysteries of "Ten Extremes Martial Arts".

According to the Ten Extremes Martial Arts, once the Primordial Seed is formed within the body, it is like a seed at the beginning of chaos, flowing through the blood and qi at the deepest point where flesh and blood meet, breathing in and out pure energy.

These vital energies travel along the muscles, skin, bones, and musculoskeletal structure, seeping into the internal organs like spring rain nourishing the earth, beginning the initial tempering process.

The Ten Extremes Martial Arts incorporates various internal organ training techniques, believing that the liver belongs to the wood element and its energy is like a spring bud sprouting forth.

The heart belongs to fire, and its power is like a raging flame rising.

The spleen belongs to the earth element, and its nature is similar to the earth's ability to bear weight.

The lungs belong to the metal element, and their sharpness is like a blade drawn from its sheath.

The kidneys belong to the water element, and their essence is like a deep, cold pool.

In this martial arts training stage, the focus is on the five elements and five organs. The energy is used to generate the five elements, which circulate and interact among the organs, mutually generating and restraining each other. When the organs are tempered to a certain level, the energy is fed back by the five elements, and a layer of protective energy film will condense on the body surface. This is the sign of "transforming energy into protective energy"!
Once he reaches this stage, Xu Yunfan's every move is surrounded by a powerful aura; even before his fists and palms arrive, the force of his attacks is devastating.

The protective energy that ordinary martial artists who practice internal organ training need to activate through secret methods flows naturally in his body like breathing. This is the domineering aspect of the Ten Extremes Martial Arts, which has forged hundreds of scriptures and refined all five elements of liver wood, heart fire, spleen earth, lung metal, and kidney water, transforming the five elements' mutual generation and restraint into the Ten Extremes Primordial Qi.

From this perspective, the Ten Extremes Martial Arts can be described as comprehensive, as it refines almost all the five elements in the five internal organs, but this also means that it requires a lot of time to constantly refine and hone it.

In other words, Xu Yunfan has an attribute panel.

If it were someone else, they would not only explode and die, but just the tempering of their internal organs and the perfect circulation of the five elements would take at least twenty or thirty years.

Without the thirty years of arduous training memories instilled by the attribute panel, the tempering of the five internal organs in the Ten Extremes Martial Arts alone would take decades, not to mention that if one is not careful when the five energies are in harmony, the blood and qi will be disordered at best, and the internal organs will burst at worst.

Even with Xu Yunfan's "Jade Marrow and Golden Bones" foundation from his mastery of the "I Ching Marrow Cleansing Exercise," combined with the power of refined gold internal organs elixirs and the ginseng, it still took him a whole month to barely get started.

He even pulled the roots of the ancient ginseng king, Shenwa, almost bald.

Xu Yunfan pondered that once he reached the ninth realm, he might be able to swallow the ginseng child.

"In some places, it's all a complete waste of effort."

Through the cultivation memories transmitted to his mind via the attribute panel, Xu Yunfan began to slowly and continuously adjust them in order to make them more suitable for him.

“The redundant circulation of kidney water qi actually bypassed the flesh and blood three times…” The cultivation memories reflected in the attribute panel kept flashing, allowing Xu Yunfan to observe from the most comprehensive perspective, and then try to correct the twelve invalid qi circulation routes in the Ten Extreme Martial Arts passed down by Dugu Jiu one by one.

The corrections made in the past few days have proven to be entirely feasible.

The protective energy became increasingly solid.
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Seven days passed in the blink of an eye, just as the Grand Zhou Imperial Examination and Martial Arts Competition was about to begin.

Before the morning mist had dissipated, Chen Hong, a disciple of the Daoist sect, stood outside the courtyard where Xu Yunfan lived and gently knocked on the bronze door knocker.

"Senior Brother Xu, the martial arts preliminary selection will begin at 3:45 AM."

Chen Hong respectfully reported through the courtyard gate, "As per Chief Cui's order, your name card has been submitted to the Imperial Examination Hall's military register. However..."

He paused slightly, as if puzzled.

"The sect specifically instructed that you must start from the training grounds of the seventy-two workshops and advance through the levels one by one."

"Oh?"

The courtyard gate creaked heavily in the morning mist as Xu Yunfan slowly stepped out onto the bluestone steps.

Beneath his indigo robe, the dragon scale armor gleamed with a dark gold luster. At his waist, a pair of Mountain-Shaking and Sea-Suppressing Hammers emitted a deep hum with every movement, the patterns on the hammer surfaces constantly flowing with the luster of the earth's veins. Behind him, the Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace resembled a crimson dragon coiled up.

What's most eye-catching is the Sky-Splitting Cloud-Piercing Bow slung across his left shoulder. This divine weapon, which he forcibly seized from the Burial Sword Abyss, has not yet fully recognized its master, but it is gradually being forcibly tamed as Xu Yunfan's strength continues to rise. The bowstring automatically emits a clear and melodious sound without wind.

Even more secretive is the vest made from the remains of Yu Congling's ultimate cultivation, which he wears close to his body. This skin, which is suspected to be made from the remains of a celestial demon, is incredibly tough, and even a seventh-tier divine weapon cannot break it in the slightest.

He raised an eyebrow at Chen Hong: "Does the true disciples of the Daoist sect have to compete on the same stage as wandering cultivators from the martial world?"

Seeing Xu Yunfan walk out of the courtyard in his divine attire, Chen Hong felt as if he were being blinded. He had never seen anyone with so many divine weapons in his entire life.

Leaving aside the six major sects, other sects that have a Grandmaster of the Ninth Realm of Qi Refining, some even use magical artifacts.

Chen Hong was also a little confused: "This... I'm not really sure either, it was a special request from the sect."

Xu Yunfan nodded slightly upon hearing this, guessing that it must be related to that religious ceremony.

"Lead the way."

"Yes!"

Chen Hong respectfully agreed. He dared not act rashly in front of this person. Having a supreme grandmaster of the ninth realm of Qi Refining as his protector was enough to show how respected the other party was within the Dao Sect.

Several disciples of the Dao Sect followed closely behind, leading in carriages and horses. Chen Hong stood beside the carriage shaft, his eyes flickering slightly beneath his lowered eyelids, his fingertips unconsciously stroking a cold token hidden in his sleeve.

He glanced at Xu Yunfan's back out of the corner of his eye, his Adam's apple bobbed, and finally lowered his eyes.

The carriages and horses rolled over the bluestone road of the seventy-two wards of Yujing, the rumbling sound mixed with the distant, surging noise.

As soon as the car curtain was lifted, a wave of sounds rushed towards me: the clanging of weapons clashing on the arena, the desperate shouts of gamblers betting, and the hawking of iced plum juice by vendors, all mixed with the smells of sweat and perfume, making the early summer heat even more intense.

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