Chapter 197: Sixth Layer of Qi Cultivation [1st Release, Requesting Monthly Votes]
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Late at night, at the hour of Zi.
Clouds veiled the sky, hiding the moonlight.
As usual, Ge Dongxu sat cross-legged on the balcony connected to the training room on the second floor of the villa, cultivating with his eyes closed. Seven Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation Talisman Jades were placed around him following specific directions.
Streams of moon essence, invisible to the naked eye, penetrated the clouds and converged toward Ge Dongxu, swirling around him.
True Qi began at the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian and circulated successively through the Twelve Regular Meridians, becoming not only stronger but also purer with each circuit.
The purpose of daily cultivation was not only to enhance the True Qi within the body but also to continuously refine it, making it increasingly concentrated and purified.
In this repeated process, part of the True Qi nourished the twelve organs, making them more robust and vigorous, while another part entered the five organs that had already formed Air Cyclones, causing the cyclones to grow even larger.
As the hour of Zi neared its end, Ge Dongxu felt the True Qi within his body surge mightily, like thousands of horses galloping. It seemed as if the Twelve Regular Meridians and the five organ cyclones could no longer contain so much True Qi. With a thought, he boldly directed a portion of the True Qi into the small intestine while it flowed through the Hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian.
Immediately, familiar, intense pain flooded his body like a deluge, causing him to tremble all over as cold sweat poured down like rain.
This process continued until the hour of Zi was over; suddenly, the Talisman Jades crumbled into dust, and a look of comfortable relief appeared on Ge Dongxu's face.
An Air Cyclone formed in the small intestine, slowly rotating, growing larger and stronger.
Sixth Layer of Qi Cultivation!
In less than a year's time, Ge Dongxu once again wrought a miracle in this Age of Dharma Decline, becoming a Cultivator at the Sixth Layer of Qi Cultivation.
The True Qi flowed gently through the Meridians in his body, also spinning in a cyclone-like manner in the lungs, large intestine, stomach, spleen, heart, and small intestine.
A breeze blew by, and Ge Dongxu felt as if he could ride the wind away.
"Eh! What's happening?" Ge Dongxu was undoubtedly a Cultivation prodigy; he immediately sensed that this was not a mere result of a breakthrough in Cultivation altering his mental state, but a genuine feeling of nearly being carried away by the wind with each gust.
Of course, this sensation was very subtle, imperceptible without close attention.
Ge Dongxu immediately stopped circulating his True Qi; the feeling disappeared as soon as he did so. Yet, when he circulated it again, the sensation of almost being carried away by the wind faintly returned.
After several more attempts with the same results, Ge Dongxu ceased his cultivation and went downstairs to find a digital scale.
This scale was purchased by Cheng Pudgy - he claimed it was for monitoring his weight loss, insisting he needed to weigh himself daily. However, the only changes ever seen were increases, never decreases.
Nonetheless, Cheng Pudgy argued that this was normal since he was still growing in height.
Taking the digital scale, Ge Dongxu went back upstairs to his training room.
Standing on the scale, Ge Dongxu maintained his usual composure, noted down his weight, and then circulated his True Qi again, only to discover the numbers on the scale had changed.
The change was minimal, roughly two kilograms less. It's likely that there had been changes before, but they were so small that Ge Dongxu hadn't noticed them.
"Why is this happening? Logically, it's just a breath circulating within my body, and the Earth should still treat me as a whole, subject to the same gravitational force. So why has my weight decreased?" Ge Dongxu stepped off the digital scale, feeling puzzled and at the same time indescribably excited.
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Ge Dongxu still remembered Liu Jiayao asking him about Qinggong, at that time he had no answer. Now he had an intuition, if he could crack this secret, then Qinggong would no longer be just a legend to him.
With that thought in mind, Ge Dongxu almost did not sleep at all that night, constantly pondering over the issue, but without any clue.
When the next morning came, because he had to go to school, Ge Dongxu no longer thought about the matter.
In the afternoon there was a physics class. At this point in the senior year, they had already entered the review stage, and today the physics teacher was revising mechanics. When the teacher mentioned gravity, describing it as one of the four fundamental interactions in nature, along with electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, it was as if a bolt of lightning had struck Ge Dongxu's mind.
If he considered his body to be a type of matter, then it would be more appropriate to regard the True Qi within him as a form of energy. When it circulated, if it generated a special magnetic field, and if the force of this magnetic field happened to repel the Earth's magnetic field, then his previous confusion would be easy to explain.
What a pity that it was only two kilograms, he probably needed to exceed his master's cultivation, or even reach the Dragon Tiger Realm, to operate True Qi before he could achieve the lightness of a swallow!
Although resolving his confusion was certainly gratifying for Ge Dongxu, there was also a hint of disappointment, because reducing his weight by two kilograms was obviously not enough to allow him to scale walls and leap over rooftops.
However, Ge Dongxu quickly put aside this disappointment and felt only joy. Your next read awaits at My Virtual Library Empire
Previously, he had always felt that natural science and Daoist teachings actually viewed the world from two different perspectives. Now he was more convinced than ever that studying natural science would serve as an analogy to his own path of Daoist cultivation and help to broaden his thinking.
With this clear understanding, Ge Dongxu's state of mind suddenly brightened. For some time, he had actually started to feel a bit confused, why continue spending time on exam preparation when he already had abilities and so much money?
After his state of mind brightened, Ge Dongxu's thoughts seemed to suddenly become exceptionally clear, and he fortuitously thought of airplanes.
Why can airplanes take off? Since airplanes can fly, and I have surging True Qi in my body that I can control freely, even if I can't fly like an airplane, I should at least be able to walk on walls and scale rooftops.
Yes, I should look it up tonight, maybe that will give me some ideas, Ge Dongxu began to feel hopeful again.
Scaling walls and leaping over rooftops is the dream of many, and Ge Dongxu was no exception!
On this day, Ge Dongxu himself might not have realized it, but he had taken a monumental step on his path of cultivation.
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That evening, just as Ge Dongxu finished his self-study session and was returning to his villa with Du Yifan and Cheng Pudgy, he saw two sedans parked at the entrance of the villa. Wu Qianjin, Cheng Yazhou, and Tang Yiyuan were already waiting for him at the door.
Seeing his own father and uncle, and a university professor eagerly waiting at the doorstep for Ge Dongxu, Cheng Pudgy felt an urge to bash his head against the wall when, before getting close, they all went up to him for handshakes and greetings, while barely nodding to him and Du Yifan, and Cheng Yazhou even glared at him, asking if he had listened to Ge Dongxu's words.
How come the difference between people can be so great!
But he did not feel the slightest bit of jealousy towards Ge Dongxu, just ever-increasing admiration; Du Yifan felt the same way.
To reach such a level as a high school student was something only their boss could achieve!
"You've arrived, let's talk inside," Ge Dongxu said after shaking hands with the three of them, opening the door to invite them in.
Once inside, to avoid disturbing Du Yifan and Cheng Lehao's studies, Ge Dongxu invited the three guests to his study to talk.
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