I, Who Hate Marine So Much, Have Become A Future Nika?

Chapter 60: Qi Consumption Technique Advancement: Chest Cultivation of the Five Qi

After making a decisive response, Zhong Cang turned around and returned to the training ground.

This time, Yan Lingwei did not stick to him anymore. At this moment, she was still surprised that Zhong Cang had the determination to abandon Yan Lingdie, who had such favorable conditions.

"My naive and foolish sister is seven parts similar to me, absolutely beautiful and lovely. Her character is so innocent in my eyes, but such a girl should be the most liked by these men. Coupled with the extravagant wealth of marrying into the Yan Family, I don't believe that you lowly people who are desperately climbing up can resist this temptation."

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Feeling that something was amiss, Yan Lingwei secretly investigated, while Zhong Cang returned to the training ground and continued his cultivation.

While practicing, he had also been searching for Law Weapons and elixirs that could increase his spiritual energy storage and improve the quality of his spiritual energy.

After searching for several days, Zhong Cang did gain something.

In the Four Seas Pavilion and some auction news, Zhong Cang saw information about such elixirs and Law Weapons.

However, faced with these things, Zhong Cang could only sigh with regret.

There was no way. Increasing spiritual energy and improving its quality were things that even the descendants of the family wanted.

Although Zhong Cang had some extra money thanks to the Sword Heart attachment, if he wanted to compete with the financial resources of the cultivating families, it was simply wishful thinking.

"Unless I stop hiding and fully demonstrate the functions of the Sword Heart attachment, and find a few loyal customers from the Gold Core families, then I might have a chance to purchase such elixirs."

The advancement of the Twelve Melodies of Jade Heaven Tower and the Ignorant Heart Sword Art had made Zhong Cang's Sword Heart attachment extremely powerful.

He could be sure that even the direct descendants of the Gold Core families would benefit from the Sword Heart attachment.

If he completely unleashed his ability to earn spirit stones, he would reach new heights.

However, just as this idea arose, Zhong Cang quickly extinguished it. He didn't want to die.

"If I really do that, I would be making money with my life and spending it without hesitation."

"Moreover, for me now, the descendants of the Gold Core families are trouble. It's better not to have any contact with them."

Unable to purchase elixirs and Law Weapons, and with his own low-quality spiritual energy, Zhong Cang originally thought that he would need to rely on his cultivation at the fourth level of Qi Refining and inferior spiritual energy to confront the descendants of the families at the fifth and even sixth level of Qi Refining.

Such a confrontation was too difficult, and Zhong Cang had already given up hope and prepared to "repeat" for three years before making another effort.

However, when one reaches the end of the road, there will be a glimmer of hope.

Although Zhong Cang did not find any elixirs or Law Weapons to improve the quality of his spiritual energy, after several days of cultivation, his Qi Consumption Technique, which had a proficiency of 2791/3000, advanced to the next level.

This time, it went from being proficient in the third realm to becoming a master in the fourth realm.

As Zhong Cang had said before, when a thousand people read "Dream of the Red Chamber," there are a thousand different interpretations.

The same goes for the cultivation of techniques. Each cultivator has their own experiences, understanding, and insights. Different people practicing the same technique will ultimately exhibit slightly different characteristics.

At the same time, this "individuality" begins to show signs at the proficient level of the third realm and is fully manifested at the master level of the fourth realm.

This time, the characteristics Zhong Cang obtained were closely related to his growth and experiences.

In addition to practicing the Qi Consumption Technique, Zhong Cang also practiced a body tempering technique called the "Five Beasts Infusion Technique."

Although it was called the Five Beasts, its foundation was the five elements of spiritual energy.

During the advancement and enlightenment of the Qi Consumption Technique, Zhong Cang spent nine-tenths of his time comprehending the Five Beasts Infusion Technique.

The remaining one-fifth was related to the Devouring Tongue.

After gaining this ability, Zhong Cang had tasted dozens of types of spiritual energy, such as the gentle warmth of water, the heaviness of mountains, the inclusiveness of the earth, the explosive power of fire, the vitality of trees, and the sharpness of the aura of war...

These spiritual characteristics have also become the nourishment for the advancement of the Qi Consumption Technique.

The final seventy points are related to knowledge from past lives.

"Three flowers gather at the top, five qi face the origin..."

"The heart is fire, the lungs are metal, the heart (fire) governs the blood vessels, and also governs the spirit..."

"The liver stores the soul, the postnatal is the wandering soul, the Innate is benevolence, empty in joy, then the soul is settled, the wood qi of the Eastern Azure Emperor faces the origin..."

Under this enlightenment, Zhong Cang's memory and spirituality have both increased nearly a hundredfold.

This also causes vast information and knowledge to constantly emerge and collide in Zhong Cang's consciousness sea, integrating and uniting.

In this collision and integration, slowly, a characteristic called "Chest Cultivating Five Qi" is comprehended by Zhong Cang.

The overall outline of this ability is related to the future of facing the origin with the five qi.

Of course, most cultivators who achieve the state of facing the origin with the five qi are extraordinary beings.

The current Chest Cultivating Five Qi of Zhong Cang is like a newly sprouted seedling that has not yet broken through the soil, different from the towering ancient tree.

However, although it is still a seedling that has not yet broken through the soil, this characteristic is already sufficient for Zhong Cang at present.

What is more important is that this is the characteristic he has been most looking forward to, increasing the storage capacity of spiritual energy.

Previously, due to the low grade of the Qi Consumption Technique, Zhong Cang's spiritual energy not only had no attributes, but he also had less spiritual energy storage than normal cultivators.

A single Thunder Light Sword Dragon would deplete his mana, indicating the scarcity of his spiritual energy and mana.

But Chest Cultivating Five Qi allows Zhong Cang to break free from this constraint.

"In simple terms, Chest Cultivating Five Qi means that the five organs (heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys) in my chest nurture and store the five types of spiritual energy (metal, wood, water, fire, earth)... This gives me five additional small dantians."

The five small dantians greatly enhance Zhong Cang's spiritual energy reserve, and more importantly, these five dantians have five different spiritual energy attributes.

And all things in the world are related to the five elements.

This also means that in the future, no matter what kind of spell is used, Zhong Cang can mobilize the corresponding spiritual energy to enhance the power of the spell.

In addition, this ability has great potential for the future.

"The upper limit of Chest Cultivating Five Qi is none other than facing the origin with the five qi!"

Just this one characteristic has led Zhong Cang to make a decision—even if he switches to another cultivation method, he cannot abandon the practice of the Qi Consumption Technique.

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The Chest Cultivating Five Qi at the 4th Grandmaster level can be said to greatly alleviate Zhong Cang's shortcomings.

However, after some enlightenment, Zhong Cang also discovered the shortcomings of Chest Cultivating Five Qi.

One of them is that the amount of mana the five organs can store is less than that of the dantian Qi Sea.

Among them, the heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys can only store 30% of the mana in the dantian, while the liver can store 50%.

Overall, Chest Cultivating Five Qi only increases Zhong Cang's spiritual energy by 1.7 times.

As for why the heart and lungs only increase by 20% while the liver can increase by 50%, it is because in the practice of the Five Beasts Infusion Technique, the main liver (wood) has awakened the spiritual resonance of the spiritual deer, allowing Zhong Cang to obtain the spell—Palm Cultivating Five Thunders.

The other organs have not yet awakened.

"Speaking of which, in the Five Beasts Infusion Technique, the spiritual deer not only governs the liver but also has the function of nurturing the internal organs. The reason why my heart, lungs, and other organs can store 30% of the spiritual energy should be related to its awakening... Under normal circumstances, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys should each store 20% of the spiritual energy of the dantian, adding up to exactly double the amount of spiritual energy storage."

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