Chapter 11 Fundamentals

  With the basic internal skill, Ye Wen can finally lay a solid foundation for his future cultivation of high-level internal skills. Originally, this basic internal skill is called the foundation, but to get started, it also requires guidance from others, because people who cultivate basic internal skills generally don't have any foundation in internal skill cultivation and don't know where to start.

  Fortunately, Ye Wen had originally practiced some Qigong techniques and already had a basic internal energy in his body, which saved him the initial part of cultivating Qi sensation and brewing internal Qi.

  So from the very beginning, Ye Wen started practicing formal internal skills. In addition to this, he had to integrate and connect the meridian from his dantian to the index finger of his right hand, so that after a month, when he finally managed to send his internal energy to his index finger, it wouldn't be consumed by obstacles along the way, leaving him with nothing but a useless secret recipe.

  In the following month, Ye Wen practiced internal strength almost every day and night. After practicing internal strength, he would constantly control his inner energy to run back and forth between his dantian and fingertips. Each time it ran, it would consume all the hard-earned internal energy due to the unsmooth meridians.

  However, afterwards he would continue to cultivate his basic internal energy and then recover his inner strength. By the time he finished all this, a day would have more or less passed.

  In these days, he didn't go out to practice his swordsmanship properly once, which made his junior sister unhappy.

  Ning Ruxue originally thought that Ye Wen had started to take the sect seriously, and even thought that his senior brother had changed his ways due to the setback. But who would have thought that once life became a bit more stable, this senior brother seemed to have returned to his usual self, hiding in his room all day without coming out, and the only time he could be seen was during meals.

  At first, after advising a few words, Ning Yuxue saw that her senior brother seemed to have no intention of changing his mind. With a huff, she stopped paying attention to Ye Wen and focused on practicing her sword skills every day. From time to time, she would also go down to the lower floors to take a look around and see if there were any opportunities to poach two disciples or apprentices to strengthen the power of their sect.

  But unexpectedly, after her efforts were known to her senior brother, she was instead ordered not to go down the mountain at will and not to bring people in. This made Ning Ruxue so angry that she almost had a falling out with her senior brother on the spot, drawing her long sword to cut him into ten or eight pieces, just to clean up the door and comfort the ancestors' spirits in heaven.

  While having dinner, Ning Ruxue suppressed her discontent and once again persuaded Ye Wen: "Senior brother, now that our lives have settled down, if we don't think of a way to expand the sect, I'm afraid this stable life won't last for long!"

  Her intention was simple, she just wanted to tell her senior brothers that if their small Shu Shan Sect didn't think of a way to develop and expand, then being annexed again would almost be an inevitable event.

  Two people now occupy such a large place, and there is no strong military force to protect themselves. If they are bullied again, they may only be bullied by the enemy once more.

  She hopes that the humiliating memory of the previous period can make her senior brother strive to revive the sect, and not stay in the house all day without coming out, even forgetting his original kung fu.

  Ning Ruxue didn't know that although Ye Wen was hiding in his room all day, he wasn't just cultivating his internal energy. From time to time, he would secretly practice some basic fist and sword moves in his own room. After all, these were basic movements, and there was enough space in the room for him to practice.

  Although he looked down on the Book Mountain School's kung fu, he attached great importance to the basics and knew that no matter how exquisite the kung fu was, it couldn't be separated from those basic things. If the foundation is laid solidly, then when practicing advanced techniques later, it will be twice the result with half the effort.

  At the same time, he inadvertently discovered in the past few days that the Tai Chi he learned in his original space-time actually had the effect of nourishing Qi.

  He originally thought that the Tai Chi he had learned was just a set of movements for strengthening his body, mainly used by older people to exercise their joints. Although he had heard that there were real Tai Chi boxing techniques that could be used in actual combat, those were not something he could learn.

  He didn't expect that this exercise for strengthening his body would have such an unusual effect. Originally, when he was constantly familiarizing himself with the meridians in his arm and constantly cultivating his internal energy, he still had some worries.

  After all, cultivating internal strength is not something that can be rushed. If one doesn't practice day and night without stopping, the final result will likely not be a rapid improvement in their internal strength, but rather entering a state of demonic madness or even losing one's life.

  Because internal skill cultivation will to a large extent harm one's own meridians, even the most gentle internal skills, when cultivating with all one's heart, the flow of internal force will exert great pressure on the meridians. If this pressure is constantly applied, the final result can be imagined.

  Therefore, many martial artists have strict rules for the time they spend cultivating their internal energy. Once this limit is reached, they will not continue to force themselves to cultivate, because no one wants to hurt their own meridians and ruin their future due to eagerness for quick success.

  Ye Wen was the same, so he was very careful when cultivating and determined his daily limit for cultivation. He made a strict plan for himself. Once the meridians felt uncomfortable, he would stop practicing internal force. During this period, the meridian from the dantian to the right hand was under the greatest pressure, so it often felt uncomfortable and had to be stopped. This situation only improved recently.

  Everything was due to the magical effect of Tai Chi. This was all his unintentional discovery, because in the past few days he felt that his meridians were not suitable for practice and stopped practicing, and out of boredom he thought of what he had learned before, so he 'reviewed' it again, and as a result, after finishing Tai Chi, he found that the internal force consumed was almost restored, and the uncomfortable meridians actually felt much more comfortable.

  He didn't know that Tai Chi itself has the effect of strengthening the body, nourishing the tendons and meridians. As he practiced, his internal energy would slowly flow with each movement, without him realizing it. Because the internal energy flowed very slowly, it wouldn't harm his meridians, but instead warm and nourish them, which had been slightly damaged from his hasty practice. At the same time, the changing direction of his movements trained his internal power, allowing his internal power to make slight progress.

  This unexpected discovery made him realize that his cultivation speed could be further improved, so when he heard Ning Ruxue mention it again today, he didn't feel the slightest bit of annoyance, but instead smiled and replied: "Sister, don't worry, I've been diligently cultivating my martial arts these past few days, not indulging in leisure!"

  "Practicing?" Ning Ruxue clearly didn't believe it, because she hadn't seen her senior brother come out to practice swordsmanship.

  The Shu Shan Sect now only has a set of book mountain sword (now also changed to Shu Shan Swordsmanship due to sect relations), apart from this, there is nothing else that can be practiced, and even less so any martial arts that can be cultivated in a house.

  The only set of qigong, which doesn't seem to be worth anyone's undivided attention in the room. At the same time, she also didn't think that Ye Wen had obtained some secret transmission from his master, because the Wushan Sect's martial arts don't have any secrets, and basically everyone has a general idea of what they are.

  So, for Ye Wen's words, she just thought it was the other person coaxing herself.

  Seeing Ning Ruxue's expression, Ye Wen also knew that the other party would definitely not believe it. After thinking for a moment, he made a decision and took out a book from his pocket, then handed it to Ning Ruxue: "This is a set of internal skill mind methods created by my senior brother during his injury, based on our original breathing method. These days, I've been experimenting with this set of mind methods to see if they can be practiced. Now that it's basically confirmed that this set of internal skill mind methods is indeed feasible, today I'll teach it to you!"

  It was also his long-held idea to give Ning Ruxue the basic inner power, after all, this sect couldn't rely on just one person, and cultivating an assistant was still very necessary. As for Ning Ruxue becoming even more formidable than him as a result? Heh heh, he didn't mind that at all.

  "Internal skill mind method?" Ning Ruxue was shocked upon hearing this, because although there were many martial arts schools and practitioners as numerous as the hairs on a cow, internal skill mind methods were still something that could be encountered but not sought after for a martial artist.

  Who would have thought that her senior fellow apprentice actually took out a book, and even said it was his own creation... "This thing won't kill people from practicing it, will it?" Ning Ruxue's first thought after receiving the book was this sentence.

  "Or was he just talking nonsense to deceive me?" Turning the book over, it indeed contained the methods for cultivating internal strength, and they were easy to understand. For Ning Ruxue, who had never practiced real internal strength before, it wasn't obscure at all. She even compared it with her original breathing exercises and found that there were many similarities. The only difference was that this set of internal strength techniques required more meridians to be cultivated, and the acupoints involved were also more complex. Of course, this was relative.

  After a closer look, I found that this internal skill technique is indeed authentic, at least Ning Ruxue can't tell whether it's true or false. Perhaps one needs to cultivate it personally to know the truth.

  "Is this internal skill really something you came up with yourself?" However, she still found it hard to believe that her senior brother could actually create an internal skill, and she was very skeptical of its authenticity, even if it was the most basic internal skill.

  "Of course!"

  In that world, people lived with skills that may have been high or low and different from one another, but if we're talking about the skill of speaking nonsense with their eyes open, they were probably all masters.

  Ye Wen, although he had just graduated from university, had been "mixing" in society for a while, so this skill was already practiced to perfection. This remark came out without any unusual tone, Ning Ruxue, although clever, was after all only a 16-year-old half-grown girl, and couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.

  Seeing her senior brother being so certain, Ning Ruxue felt a bit strange, but she didn't continue to investigate further. She didn't think that her senior brother would intentionally harm her, so she didn't consider whether this inner strength secret book would make her suddenly die or not.

  In addition, Ye Wen then explained in detail the places to pay attention to when cultivating this basic internal skill, and also talked about his own cultivation situation, which made her even more suspicious. She couldn't wait to take the secret book back to her room to cultivate her internal skills, completely leaving Ye Wen behind.

  However, Ye Wen didn't mind and wasn't bothered that Ning Ruxue took away the secret manual of basic internal skills. After all, he had already memorized those internal skills and practiced them quite fluently.

  Moreover, if nothing unexpected happens next, he will summon a more advanced technique than the basic internal skill, provided that this summons can still summon the internal skill manual.