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Inside the stone chamber of the underground cave.

Huo Yuqing looked at the book in her hand, made of an unknown metallic material. The whole book had a dark silver color, except for the words on it, which were in a dark gold color. She didn't know how they achieved this color difference.

The cover of the book had four large characters: 《Nine Yin Manual》.

Filled with curiosity, she slowly opened the book. Surprisingly, even though it was made of metal, it was as soft as ordinary paper. The first thing that caught her eye was the phrase "Upper Volume: Inner Strength Chapter."

'What is inner strength?'

With this question in mind, Huo Yuqing turned another page. Immediately, dense and small but well-organized words came into view. The content recorded within was not difficult to understand. She roughly glanced through it and realized that it described a meditation technique called 《Innate Skill》, teaching people how to meditate and cultivate soul force daily.

As the daughter of the White Tiger Duke, Huo Yuqing knew that meditation techniques were divided into advanced, intermediate, and low levels. Those meditation techniques in ordinary academies were the lowest level, with the lowest cultivation efficiency! They didn't even deserve a name and were simply called meditation techniques.

The efficiency of cultivating soul force with intermediate and advanced meditation techniques was incomparable to that of low-level meditation techniques.

Unfortunately, although Huo Yuqing was the Duke's daughter, her talent was too low, so she didn't receive the White Tiger Meditation Technique passed down through generations of the White Tiger Duke lineage. She only received the lowest, simplest, and most common meditation technique.

"So many complex meridians! The inner strength meditation technique recorded in this Nine Yin Manual, even if I don't know if it's an intermediate or advanced meditation technique, it's definitely not the lowest level."

Huo Yuqing was overjoyed. She knew that the low-level meditation technique she had only taught her how to absorb external soul force through her martial soul meditation. It didn't involve any meridian circulation at all.

Huo Yuqing had heard people say that a truly advanced meditation technique had its own set of meridian soul force circulation paths. The soul force cultivated in this way was not only more powerful, but also far more efficient than ordinary meditation techniques.

At that time, she was troubled by her slow cultivation progress and even fantasized about creating her own meridian circulation meditation technique. As a result, during a simple attempt, she entered the wrong meridian with her soul force, causing her to vomit blood on the spot! It almost scared her mother half to death. In the end, she had to beg the Duchess and was humiliated before she could barely find a soul master to help her heal.

From then on, Huo Yuqing never dared to fantasize about creating advanced meditation techniques again. Thinking about it, if advanced meditation techniques were so easy to create, wouldn't they be everywhere?

Huo Yuqing knew how precious those advanced meditation techniques were. Especially those meditation techniques involving soul force meridian circulation routes, they must be the secrets of those large families and sects!

And now, she actually had a dreamlike advanced meditation technique in her hands!

This made Huo Yuqing feel so happy that she was about to faint.

Could it be that after so many years of bad luck, her luck was finally turning around?

In fact, Huo Yuqing didn't know that the inner strength meditation technique in her 《Nine Yin Manual》 was not comparable to those common advanced meditation techniques of families. It was a set of cultivation methods specially tailored for her by a God King. The value was self-evident.

After realizing how valuable the meditation technique called 《Innate Skill》 was, Huo Yuqing didn't hesitate and couldn't wait to study how to cultivate it. Fortunately, she was literate, avoiding the embarrassment of not being able to read. Moreover, the cultivation method in this book didn't have any professional terms, it just taught you how to cultivate in an easy-to-understand way.

After spending most of the day neglecting food and sleep, Huo Yuqing finally had a rough understanding of the 《Innate Skill》. For the sake of caution, she still didn't start cultivating. She decided to study it for a longer period of time and thoroughly understand the essentials of cultivation before starting. The experience of randomly exploring meridians and almost killing herself had left a huge psychological shadow on her!

"Goo..."

A burst of abdominal sounds suddenly rang out.

Huo Yuqing rubbed her flat belly, and then realized that she should eat. But where can she find food in this place?

She looked around, the ground was covered with dust, and she couldn't see any traces of food. Even if there were any, they would have rotted long ago.

Suddenly, she thought of the pool she had fallen into before. It seemed that there were quite a few fish swimming in it. She could catch a few fish to fill her stomach.

Carefully put the 《Nine Yin Manual》 back into the jade box and put it back on the table. Huo Yuqing couldn't guarantee that this secret book would rust if it got wet, so it was safer to put it here.

Walking out of the stone chamber, along the long passage, it took a long time to finally reach the end of the pool.

Huo Yuqing's eyes lit up with a faint glow, and her sharp eyes began to look at the pool in front of her, and found that the pool was bottomless, and seemed to lead to an underground river. Therefore, fish would dive into the depths from time to time, and fish would float up again.

She looked around, but didn't find any tools that could be used to stab fish.

In the end, she had no choice but to take off her clothes and jump into the water like a mermaid, catching fish with her hands.

Fortunately, at this time, Li Chang'an and the three had already arranged all the opportunities for her, and left here on their own to go to other places to be unrestrained. So, she wouldn't be seen naked.

After a while.

From time to time, a fish was thrown ashore from the bottom of the pool. When she felt that it was enough to eat.

Huo Yuqing floated to the surface again, shivering and swam to the shore, quickly got ashore, and put on her half-dry clothes. The underground water was too cold. Even if these clothes were a little wet, it was better than nothing.

She stood in place for a long time to recover.

Huo Yuqing took out the White Tiger Dagger and began to cut the fish on the ground. Because she couldn't make a fire, she could only choose to eat sashimi. She hoped that these fish didn't have parasites.

Without any seasoning, the slices of fish were unexpectedly delicious and had no fishy smell.

Huo Yuqing didn't recognize this kind of fish, but she felt that if she took this kind of fish to sell, many rich people would be willing to spend a high price to eat it.

After eating and drinking enough.

Huo Yuqing returned to the stone chamber, took out the 《Nine Yin Manual》 from the jade box again, opened the page, and began to study it carefully from the first page...

For the next three days, Huo Yuqing was immersed in the study of the specific practice of 《Innate Skill》. When she felt that she knew the process and could start practicing, she slowly put the book back into the jade box.

Then, according to what was said in the book, she sat cross-legged on the bed, put on the posture of practicing with five hearts facing the sky, closed her eyes, and silently spread her spiritual perception into her body, internally visualizing the dense meridians in her body like tree roots... and was immediately shocked by her terrible meridians.

To describe it in one sentence: dry, narrow, blocked, like roots about to wither.