Ming Dynasty: I am truly not the Emperor of Longevity

"After hearing what Lord Xue said, I also find it a bit strange."

The young man nodded.

"The master who taught this technique to Zhao made Zhao swear an oath that he would never pass it on to anyone without permission."

Therefore, Zhao never consulted anyone about the problems he encountered in his cultivation.

Zhao had long since mastered that faint trace of internal energy, but it was completely useless.

"If I hadn't truly run out of ideas, I wouldn't have broken my vow to inform Lord Xue of this technique, and I beg Lord Xue to enlighten me."

"Brother Zhao's technique also describes in detail the location of the dantian, the Ren and Du meridians, and the eight extraordinary meridians in the human body."

Xue Ting continued,

"However, throughout the entire exercise, all the internal energy pathways perfectly avoided the dantian area."

In addition to the cultivation method he had been practicing for more than 20 years, Xue had also tried to practice several other cultivation methods.

The core aspects of these techniques, which relate to increasing internal strength, are basically the same.

The real difference lies in the method of application.

Therefore, even if you practice multiple techniques at the same time, your skill level will not increase faster.

For Xue, he had been practicing his main cultivation method for many years, and the new cultivation method he was practicing was far less proficient than the main one, requiring much longer to complete one major cycle.

If you try to practice too many techniques, your internal energy will actually grow slower than if you only practice one technique.

Xue only began to spend some time practicing other martial arts techniques after he encountered a bottleneck in his main cultivation method and his internal strength increased very little if he continued to cultivate.

It's not for increasing one's skill level, but for practicing different methods of using internal energy.

Over the past two days in the carriage, Xue had carefully analyzed the strange martial art that Brother Zhao was practicing.

If Xue were to attempt to practice this technique after his injuries have healed, his internal energy would not only fail to increase with each major cycle completed, but would instead become weaker and weaker!

"How could this be?"

The young man's expression changed drastically.

"The master who taught Zhao the martial arts was a true top expert."

Zhao had personally witnessed him fighting with three people. At the time, his opponents were all highly skilled individuals capable of splitting stone tablets and unleashing palm strikes from a distance.

However, he was still able to gain the upper hand even when facing three opponents alone.

After fighting for over a hundred rounds, one of his opponents was struck by a palm strike that caused him to vomit blood. Seeing that they could not win, the other two retreated with their companion.

When he was teaching Zhao the martial arts technique, he said that it was a technique that his family had passed down for hundreds of years and had never been passed on to outsiders.

Because he admired Zhao and wanted to marry his granddaughter to me after she came of age, he made an exception and passed on this skill to me.

"Xue's injuries are too severe to attempt to use his internal energy."

Even if it's just a deduction, there's at least a 90% certainty about this conclusion.

Xue Ting shook his head.

"Based on Xue's many years of experience in cultivation, Brother Zhao's technique draws out the true qi in the dantian and disperses it into the eight extraordinary meridians every time the internal force passes through the periphery of the dantian."

Brother Zhao, you started your cultivation from a state where you had absolutely no internal energy, so naturally you can't feel it.

But for someone like Xue who has already developed internal strength, this is not a method for cultivating internal strength at all, but a method for dissipating internal strength!

If you keep practicing, all your internal energy will eventually dissipate completely.

The top expert who taught Brother Zhao the martial arts technique probably didn't practice this technique.

To be frank, he probably had ulterior motives for passing on this skill to Brother Zhao.

"This technique, for those who already possess internal energy, is actually a method that dissipates their power!"

The young man muttered to himself.

"That old scoundrel, he was plotting against me all along!"

He even made empty promises to me, saying that in a few years, he would marry his granddaughter to me.

No wonder he made me swear that I would never pass this skill on to anyone else!

It turns out that what he was afraid of was not that his family's unique martial arts technique would be passed on to outsiders, but that I would discover from someone else that there was something wrong with the technique.

The technique he practiced himself and passed on to his son was not this one at all!

No, that's still not right!

Lord Xue, according to your deduction, circulating this technique actually disperses the internal energy in the dantian to the eight extraordinary meridians. Logically speaking, this method of dispersing internal energy should not be able to cultivate internal energy!

However, Zhao did indeed quickly find the feeling of Qi after practicing this technique.

Even now, Zhao can manipulate this faint internal energy with ease, allowing it to circulate through his eight extraordinary meridians.

"This is something that Xue also finds completely perplexing."

Hearing the young man's words, Xue Ting shook his head.

"Perhaps this technique does have its unique aspects."

Or perhaps, that top master kept it a secret, and the technique he taught Brother Zhao was not actually complete.

After cultivating this tiny bit of internal energy, there should be another completely different method of advancement.

Unfortunately, even after Xue recovered from his injuries, he dared not practice this technique.

According to Xue's deduction, to cultivate the meager internal strength that Brother Zhao possesses now, one would probably have to dissipate all of one's internal strength first.

Xue's internal strength was the result of over twenty years of arduous training, and he certainly didn't want to dissipate it all just to try out this strange technique.

Was this old scoundrel hiding something, or was the cultivation method he obtained incomplete?

The young man paced back and forth in the room.

The old scoundrel's personal guard said that this man had infiltrated the commander's mansion at night and was injured by the cult leader himself.

To be able to escape to a place nearly forty miles away from Taiyuan City after suffering such serious injuries, this person must definitely be considered a master.

This person must have a deep understanding of internal martial arts techniques.

In his view, his savior was very close to him, and the possibility that the person who deduced the cultivation method for him was very small.

If that's the case, his deduction must be correct.

Moreover, all the operational routes of this technique deliberately avoid the dantian.

I wasn't aware of it before because I had never consulted any masters of internal martial arts.

It's not that I don't want to ask for advice, but all the internal martial arts masters I can contact are from the Maitreya Sect, and I can't keep it a secret from that old scoundrel.

According to this Jinyiwei expert surnamed Xue, this skill actually has specific functions!

Being able to gradually dissipate the internal energy one has painstakingly cultivated is certainly a function.

But why would a certain senior master from back then create such a technique?

It can't be to dissipate the internal energy you've worked so hard to cultivate!

and many more!

This technique can dissipate one's own internal energy; could it also dissipate the internal energy of others?

Even if it can dissipate, it's not very useful!

Having only this meager amount of internal energy, it was completely unusable in combat, making him no different from an ordinary person who had no internal energy at all.

A master of internal energy is incredibly powerful; with just a casual move, he can take one's own life.

How could I possibly allow myself to use my power on them and dissipate their inner strength?

unless...!!!

The young man turned to look at Xue Ting.

This master of internal energy was on the verge of death and completely powerless to resist!