Da Xuan Martial Saint

The six human viscera are used for regulation and for downward harmonization.

The stomach is the first and most crucial viscus of the human body, linking the six viscera with the five viscera and other parts. From birth, all the essential essences of food, from innate to acquired, must start from the stomach. After digestion and extraction, it then passes through the gall bladder and intestines, step by step delivering nutrients throughout the body to meet its needs.

When martial artists cultivate to reach the Five Viscera Realm, even if they have not yet awakened the spirit of their stomach, their digestive systems are already significantly stronger than ordinary people, capable of digesting things such as withered wood, tree bark, gravel, and sand.

Hum!!

Surging Yuan Qi flowed down from the five viscera into the stomach, immediately making Chen Mu feel as if his entire stomach was basked in warmth, as though immersed in a soak of warm water.

The process to awaken the spirit of the stomach was similar to that of awakening the spirit of the five viscera, but compared to the five viscera, the stomach was clearly much more 'lazy', deeply tucked in slumber. Engulfed and partaken in solidifying refinement by Chen Mu's Yuan Qi, it was unknown how long it took before a hint of 'spirituality' gradually developed, subsequently awakening like a divine spirit, slowly emerging from within him.

Meanwhile.

Chen Mu immediately felt that the Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi he breathed in and out was no longer transformed solely by his lungs, but a portion began to flow into his stomach to be received by it.
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Only when the entire stomach was fully tempered, and the divine spirit of the stomach fully awakened, did the changes in Chen Mu's body become even more intense for a moment. The Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi he breathed was markedly stronger than before, with more of The Power of Heaven and Earth surging into his stomach, being slowly refined and stored, becoming a part of his own strength.

This Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi, after being digested by the stomach, no longer passed through other organs such as the gall bladder and intestines, but directly flowed to all parts of the body, providing for the entire body, creating another circuit separate from the five viscera.

"It's done."

Chen Mu slowly opened his eyes, "Only three days, that was quick."

The spirit of the six viscera was more sluggish than that of the five viscera. According to the descriptions in various Martial Canons he had read, to commence cultivation in the Six Viscera Realm and awaken the spirit of the six viscera, each viscus needed six to seven days, and the last triple energizer even possibly up to half a month.

Yet, in his case, awakening the spirit of the stomach took merely a short span of three days.

With the awakening of the spirit of the stomach and the formation of a new set of circulation outside of the five viscera, it also meant that, from then on, he had completely shed the 'carnal body that feeds on grains', reaching the level of Fasting, able to dine on wind and dew, inhaling and exhaling Yuan Qi.

Thenceforth, living in the world, he would no longer be subject to various restrictions, not requiring worldly sustenance nor excretion.

The Martial Canon says that the human body is like a sieve, constantly leaking Vital Energy. Before the age of thirty, the growth of one's Qi-Blood makes this leakage imperceptible, but after thirty, the loss gradually becomes obvious.

The way of the Body Tempering Method, firstly entails solidifying refinement of skin, flesh, tendons, and bones, strengthening Qi-Blood, next refining the five viscera, forming an internal circulation within the body to reduce the leakage of Qi-Blood. Then stepping into the Six Viscera Realm, eliminating the need for excretion, which is like sealing the biggest outlet for the external leakage of Yuan Qi from the body.

From that point on.

The strength and realm of martial artists can easily be maintained past a hundred years, with a lifespan reaching 120 or 130 not at all difficult.

However, reaching the Six Viscera Realm is only completing the second internal circulation within the body. Every pore and hair still allow external leakage of Yuan Qi, only by stepping into the Marrow Cleansing Realm and going through Marrow Cleansing, subduing the White Tiger, can one completely seal all channels of Yuan Qi leakage from the body, transforming into a true 'body without leaks', where one's strength can be maintained up to 150 years without decline.

The experts on the Wind Cloud List, those in the top ten, can almost surpass some of the weaker Grandmasters who have just stepped into the 'threshold' of the Marrow Cleansing, but in terms of status, they are still not comparable to the Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters. One of the key reasons is that Grandmasters live longer.

Those who can step into the status of a Grandmaster no longer have any deficiencies in talent or insight; what is termed 'weaker' only means they are not as dazzling compared to many peerless geniuses.

But with their prolonged lifespans and Qi-Blood that hardly fades, they can steadily improve their strength over the centuries.

Unlike those on the Wind Cloud List who remain in the Six Viscera Realm, no matter how powerful they are, even reaching the heights of the 'Sovereign Wanderer' who stands first, they cannot advance further, permanently stalled there, while Marrow Cleansing Grandmasters still possess endless possibilities.

"Next."

After carefully sensing the changes brought about by the awakening of the spirit of the stomach, Chen Mu soon gathered his thoughts again and closed his eyes.

Although the cultivation of the Six Viscera Realm could be interrupted and advanced in stages, no one usually did that, nor was it necessary. All would go through a prolonged period of seclusion, directly taking the step in one go, thoroughly entering the Six Viscera Realm.