Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Chapter 67: Chapter 67 Five Elements Fist, Yijin Scripture Breakthrough (3/3)

These past few days, Wang Sheng concocted several possible formulas of golden sore medicine powder.

Unfortunately, even the powder that could heal wounds was merely a result of the “Spiritual Medicine’s” own effect.

Take the dandelion, for example, its original effect is to stop bleeding. After “Medicinal Plant Cultivation” breaks through three times, this effect is greatly enhanced.

But the effect of this single herb was not what Wang Sheng was looking for.

The principle is actually the same as with the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill. The “Spiritual Medicine” used to make the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill is basically enhanced to supplement Qi-Blood, and eating it raw actually can replenish Qi-Blood too, but the effect of eating the medicine raw is considerably less than when it’s compounded into the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill.

Simply put, when the herbs are combined, they stimulate each other and can provide a much better effect.

The golden sore medicine was the same; a single herb could stop bleeding and heal wounds but couldn’t satisfy him.

The dandelion’s effect was decent, but now his physical fitness had been thoroughly enhanced. If he cut himself, the self-healing speed wasn’t much slower than that of the dandelion. Although the effects of the two could be stacked, he still yearned for that immense boost from herbs to medicine.

After several unsuccessful attempts, he gave up and tried every method multiple times, forcibly grinding out the “Golden Sore Medicine Making” skill.

Needless to say, the effect of the finished medicine definitely exceeded that of the individual herbs.

The golden sore medicine produced with the knowledge from the progress bar could basically achieve an effect where “blood met it stops, wounds met they heal,” having the taste of an Immortal Pill!

The production of the golden sore medicine was successful, but it was uncertain if there would ever be a chance to use it. Rationally, he did not wish for that, as reaching the point of needing golden sore medicine meant either serious injury or being close to death.

“Better to store it properly and honestly!”

The golden sore medicine was created by Wang Sheng with the attitude of not needing to use it, but not wanting to be without it; producing it yet hoping never to have to use it… quite a dilemma!

Of course, even if it’s not used, the “Golden Sore Medicine Making” skill still had to be diligently practiced.

Practicing skills had become his way of life, like eating and drinking water—or perhaps even if he became strong enough to not need to eat or drink, he’d still have to practice his skills.

Time passed once again over five or six days.

Wang Sheng’s days were still spent diligently practicing skills, and after tireless effort, he broke through in the Five Elements Fist, which was now at level 9!

“Five Elements Fist: Breakthrough +1 (1%)”

The Five Elements Fist was his martial art for strengthening the five internal organs, but like the Ba Duan Jin, after breaking through, it also required time to practice so as to truly bring out the results.

The Ba Duan Jin mainly strengthened Qi-Blood, ultimately giving rise to the power of Qi Blood Power, and Wang Sheng’s improvement in his own strength relied primarily on the Ba Duan Jin.

After a few days of cultivation, Wang Sheng also began to feel the effects of the Five Elements Fist.

The Five Elements Fist strengthened the five internal organs and sorted out the Five Qi.

“Five Qi” in cultivation typically refers to the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and also heaven and earth.

After the breakthrough, this effect became much stronger. Once the Five Elements Fist had broken through, the Five Qi in his body were guided by the Five Elements Fist to gradually return to their original places.

That is, they returned to the five internal organs, which is basically the process of “Five Qi Chaoyuan.”

Of course, achieving the true state of Five Qi Chaoyuan is not that simple.

Even with a breakthrough-level Five Elements Fist, it is a process destined to be long-term; Five Qi Chaoyuan is not something that can be achieved in a mere hundred days of Foundation Establishment.

Now, the most direct benefit of the Five Elements Fist for him was strengthening the five internal organs, enabling his physical body to contain even more terrifying power.

But strengthening the five viscera had huge benefits for Foundation Establishment.

“Further progress in concocting the great human medicine, the choice of Five Elements Fist certainly wasn’t wrong!”

After Foundation Establishment, to Refine Essence to Qi, this “Essence” would be harvested during the Foundation Establishment period.

Moreover, shortly after the Five Elements Fist had its Breakthrough, another week passed and another skill achieved Breakthrough.

“Yijin Scripture: Breakthrough+1 (1%)”

The levels of the two skills were very close, so the Yijin Scripture followed closely after the Five Elements Fist in achieving Breakthrough.

The effect of the Yijin Scripture after the Breakthrough was simple; when Wang Sheng practiced it, he truly felt what was meant by “Inner Strength, External Divine Power.”

The concept of External Divine Power was easy to understand—it simply meant increased strength.

Based on the feeling he got after the Breakthrough and with prolonged practice, he could, even if he practiced nothing else, lift city gates and hoist cauldrons with his hands.

Inner Strength, on the other hand, drew Divine Power from the bones. With sustained efforts, this power could make arms, wrists, and fingers extraordinary, allowing the mere use of one’s physique to split metal and break stone.

Thus, whether it was Inner Strength or External Divine Power, it was actually about strengthening the body.

In fact, it was the same principle as the enhancement of physical fitness after Wang Sheng became a Martial Artist, except that the Yijin Scripture was an “active skill” which further strengthened the body on top of the enhanced Qi-Blood of a Martial Artist, while the physical enhancement of the Martial Artist’s strength was “passive.”

Each of the three martial arts served different purposes.

The Five Elements Fist strengthened the five viscera and six bowels, the Yijin Scripture strengthened the human tendons and bones, enhancing one’s own physique, and Ba Duan Jin as a foundational base, enhancing Qi-Blood.

These three Cultivation Techniques could strengthen Wang Sheng’s body in all aspects, from the inside out.

None of them could be overlooked.

“There’s still time, let’s do another round of Yijin Scripture!” During the time after the skill’s Breakthrough, he would practice a little longer to deepen his understanding.

While practicing the Yijin Scripture, Wang Sheng still held a Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill in his mouth.

It always came back to the same truth: all strength didn’t come from nowhere.

The Yijin Scripture strengthened the physique and also needed Qi-Blood to reinforce it; otherwise, just like Ba Duan Jin training Qi-Blood Power, if there was no replenishment from the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill, it was easy to lead to a deficit of Qi-Blood.

Of course, with his current strength of Blood Qi, practicing the Yijin Scripture was not a big issue if not done over an extended time, but it was naturally better to have means of replenishment.

Between grunts and laughs, Wang Sheng made rapid progress.

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Time steadily passed, and a month went by; it was now mid-to-late March.

The villagers had finished preparing all the farmland and had sown the seeds. Since there were no spare fields to plant anything else, the village had entered a brief period of agricultural downtime.

So, the village chief sought out Wang Sheng, who was in the midst of Cultivation, saying that the village school was about to be founded and hoping he could be a witness.

“I’ve tentatively chosen children between six to twelve years old to enroll. There aren’t many kids like that in the village, just twelve. We have some books that you guys have used before, and it’s not a problem for several kids to share one. The main issue is the writing materials like brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, but we’ve also found temporary replacements for them…”

While on his way to discuss matters with the village chief, he also briefly mentioned some affairs.

Wang Sheng just listened quietly. As for matters like brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, he had difficulty solving them himself. After all, he only knew of the Papermaking Skill by “name” and its basic method; his level of understanding was probably just remembering “crush the bark, lay it on a mesh, and dry in the sun.”

However, he pondered over sharing the process he could remember with the village chief, who was more than willing to study it…