Chapter 17: Cleansing the tendons and marrow
After Qin Shaochen thought about it for a moment, he realized that those air masses were probably his inner breath that he had practiced hard for more than ten years.
Thinking of this, his heart moved, and he silently started the "Yan Yan Gong" technique.
Sure enough, the air ball immediately floated and condensed, gushes out from above the dantian.
As for the colorful thin clouds above the dantian, when the inner breath passes through, it naturally makes way for a passage, without hindering its movement at all.
It seems that the two can not interfere with each other!
But in comparison, the spiritual energy in the Dantian seems too thin, and even looks translucent.
However, this already made Qin Shaochen extremely excited.
He activated the five spiritual apertures wholeheartedly and absorbed the spiritual energy with all his strength. The spiritual energy in the air is also constantly flowing into the body.
However, a considerable part of the spiritual energy was absorbed by the body before it reached the Dantian after entering the body.
This is called spiritual energy quenching the body. It has been mentioned in "Opening Spirit Art" that when spiritual energy first enters the body, it will automatically cleanse the meridians. This is a normal phenomenon and has many benefits for the body!
Before he knew it, he had practiced the Spirit Opening Technique more than a dozen times.
Unintentionally, his nose smelled a sour smell, just like the sour smell of a person who has not taken a bath for more than ten years.
"It's about cleansing the tendons and cutting the marrow!"
Qin Shaochen suddenly realized that the sour smell was coming from his own body.
He quickly stood up, grabbed a set of clothes, and quickly rushed out of the small courtyard, heading straight to the Golden Whip Creek not far behind the house.
Fortunately, it was already late at night, and there was no one on the road. He looked sour and smelly, and no one saw him.
When he arrived at the river, he quickly took off his clothes, plunged into the river, and then breathed out a sigh of relief.
The river water in the middle of the night was cold and eerie.
But Qin Shaochen didn't feel any discomfort and swam up and down in the water freely for a while.
Seeing a relatively smooth rock at the bottom of the river, he leaned over it and sat cross-legged on the rock.
The bottom of the river was dark and gloomy, and from time to time small fish appeared suddenly around him and then disappeared.
"There is no need to ventilate. It's really comfortable to stay under the water!"
Qin Shaochen sat at the bottom of the river with great interest, and couldn't help but marvel.
He could feel that many parts of his body were open at this time, as if there were countless mouths all over his body, and he was breathing happily.
The five spiritual apertures were also among them, breathing open and closed.
There is still a trace of spiritual energy that is sucked into the body.
"There is aura in the water too!"
He started to run the Spirit Opening Technique, and sure enough, the amount of spiritual energy entering his body immediately increased a lot, even no less than in the air.
It's just that most of these auras are blue, accounting for the vast majority.
It should be water-attributed aura.
"Since you can absorb spiritual energy in water, you should practice under the water. In this way, the dirt after tempering the body will be washed away by the water immediately, so it is not troublesome at all."
He was happy in his heart and did not feel any inconvenience in the dark water. Then he sat quietly and practiced wholeheartedly.
The gurgling water kept flowing around him, which still had some influence, but he liked this novel feeling that he had never experienced before and didn't take it seriously.
He didn't know how long he had been practicing, but when he saw that the sky was already shining through the water, he didn't want to be seen, so he quickly swam ashore, quickly put on clean clothes, and returned to the small courtyard feeling refreshed.
Qin Xiaoluo had also gotten up and was feeding the chickens in the yard. When he saw Qin Shaochen coming back from outside, he couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"Brother, it turns out you went out so early. I thought you were in the house the whole time!"
But the next moment, Qin Xiaoluo had a strange look on his face, and his eyes were staring at Qin Shaochen, as if he had discovered something new.
Qin Shaochen was stared at inexplicably. He couldn't help but lower his head and look at himself. He didn't see anything strange, so he asked in confusion: "Little sister, what are you looking at?"
Qin Xiaoluo shook his head in confusion, with an uncertain expression.
"I don't know what I'm looking at? But," he hesitated and then said, "Why do I feel like you have changed!"
"Changed, what changed?"
Qin Shaochen was startled and hurriedly reached out and touched his face.
"What's changed? Why don't I know?"
Qin Xiaoluo burst into laughter.
"Brother, I don't mean that your appearance has changed, but the way you feel has changed."
Qin Shaochen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
There have been too many changes in him recently, and even he himself doesn't know what changes will happen next moment.
"I think your eyes seem to have brightened, your skin seems to have gotten better, and even your temperament has improved a lot. In short," Qin Xiaoluo thought for a moment, "You just look more handsome!"
"Nonsense! Little sister, when did you learn to make fun of big brother!"
"Brother, I'm not making fun of you. It's true. It's different."
"Really?"
Qin Shaochen was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, and suddenly said: "I know, this must be due to practicing the Spirit Opening Technique."
Qin Xiaoluo's eyes lit up and he said in surprise: "Brother, can it be true that practicing the spiritual art can make people beautiful?"
"I don't know much about this, but if the eldest brother has really changed, it can only be for that reason."
After speaking, he patted the younger sister on the shoulder.
"If you succeed in opening your spirit, you will definitely become more beautiful!"
After saying that, Qin Xiaoluo left Qin Xiaoluo with an envious look on his face and went back to the house by himself.
Although he never paid much attention to his appearance, he still picked up a bronze mirror from the table and looked at himself in the mirror after returning to the room.
With just a cursory look, he could see that his temperament had indeed changed!
It was just as Qin Xiaoluo said, his appearance had not changed, but his temperament was obviously more gentle and more handsome!
"Spiritual energy is really magical! Just by drawing the energy into the body, it can cause the cleansing of the tendons and marrow, and even change a person's temperament!"
He sat back on the bed and sat cross-legged.
After thinking for a moment, he gradually gained some enlightenment.
"It seems that all this is caused by the venom of the Golden Demon Snake!"
"The venom of that snake must be very strong. Once bitten, it will make people feel excruciating pain, as if they were burned by a raging fire."
"But that kind of poisonous fire can help people open up their meridians! All the meridians in my body have been opened up. Therefore, I can breathe underwater, and my five spiritual orifices are all connected!"
Of course, his speculation is all random guesses, without any basis.
But at the moment, he can only guess randomly.
"It's the same old saying, let it be!"
After thinking about it for a while, although there is no definite answer, I feel much better for some reason.