Chapter 094: Refining elixir with fire, nourishing essence with fetal breathing!
The medicinal soup and fish maw were being stewed simultaneously, with low fire burning on both stoves in the house.
There were two black casseroles, one with three packets of Ten-Ingredient Tonic Soup, and the other with almost 1 kilogram of fish glue and auxiliary ingredients. The casserole could not hold any more.
To be on the safe side, Chen Jue also took out several tonic medicines he had bought before but had not taken.
Soak the donkey-hide gelatin powder and ginseng slices in hot water. After waiting for 2 hours, it was almost 12 o'clock in the evening. Chen Jue finally stewed the medicine and food, and scooped out two large basins to cool.
The reason for being so cautious is that the siphon effect of this [Small and Large Circulation] is too strong. It has just been put on the panel and its proficiency is only (1/100) but it has already absorbed all the nutrients from the food in the stomach.
The starting point for this addition is at least 10 points of proficiency. Chen Jue doesn't want to experience the feeling of loss after his body is hollowed out again.
"There's no way to practice well!"
"I've practiced for so many days but nothing has worked. It's basically impossible to master this skill through hard work. I can only rely on adding points!"
Chen Jue took a deep breath, drank medicine and ate fish glue to fill his stomach, then sat cross-legged and practiced Qi and blood. Then he mobilized 0.01 free attributes and added them to the [Daxiao Zhouquan Run].
boom!
With this addition, Chen Jue felt his head suddenly buzzing, his ears ringing, and the blood running through his body was like he had taken stimulants, his blood was rushing wildly!
One circle, two circles, three circles, I don’t know how many circles it turned. The whole old house was filled with the sound of boiling water.
This is the echo of the blood in Chen Jue's body!
His blood vessels were dilated, his whole body was like a red cooked shrimp, veins popped out, and his heart was beating violently, even more exaggerated than Chen Jue's continuous use of hidden power!
The most important thing is that Chen Jue felt that the medicine and food he had just taken in his stomach were consumed in a very short time. The three attributes of strength, stamina and agility, including the intelligence column, began to grow rapidly!
This is the process from "refining essence into qi" to "refining qi into spirit" mentioned in Taoist inner alchemy.
It’s just that for those Taoist masters in ancient times, practicing it was an extremely slow process; it might even take several years or even decades to see certain effects!
But Chen Jue relied on adding points to directly compress this conversion process!
Chen Jue, whose whole body was flushed and blood was boiling, was like a human alchemy furnace at this moment. There seemed to be a fire burning in his dantian, an inch and three fen below his navel. The blood was gathering in his dantian, forming a round, clear, warm and bullet-like feeling.
This place hides an acupuncture point called Shangqu, which is an important center for blood circulation in the human body. Once it is stimulated, the human body will burst out with extremely powerful power.
The boxing classics call it the Blood Gate, while Taoist alchemy says that the great god Beidou Zhenwu is hidden inside it!
And now Chen Jue's blood was rushing uncontrollably to the Shangqu acupoint, which was actually forming a special situation in inner alchemy called "blood refines lead and mercury, and the inner elixir is formed naturally"!
At this time, no matter how much Chen Jue ate, it would be completely digested by the powerful siphon effect caused by this exercise.
"not good!"
"I didn't eat enough to absorb!" Chen Jue was so scared that he hurriedly ran to finish the remaining medicine soup and fish glue.
But it was no use. I only lasted a few minutes before my stomach was empty again.
Just like burning a fire to refine an elixir, constantly adding firewood into it, Chen Jue's body is the elixir furnace, and food and tonics are the firewood. The stronger the fire burns, the faster the firewood is consumed!
Seeing that the two casseroles of medicinal food were not enough for the tonic, Chen Jue had no choice but to tear open the donkey-hide gelatin he had prepared in advance, and drink more than a dozen packets of it. Then he felt that it was not enough, so he drank the hot tea made with ginseng slices in big gulps.
Still feeling unsatisfied, he finished a pot of ginseng tea and even poured the ginseng slices at the bottom into his mouth, chewing and swallowing them.
At this point, I still felt the residual power of the siphon, so I hurriedly poured hot water over the can of ginseng slices I bought online, and poured them into my mouth without caring whether the slices were softened or not.
With Chen Jue's current teeth, he could even crush a stone. He only needed to chew this half can of ginseng slices a few times before it was ground into powder.
Just taking tonics randomly like this left a very strange taste in his mouth, but Chen Jue didn't care about that!
After I scooped out all the residue of the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Soup in the casserole and swallowed it in two big mouthfuls, the siphoning effect after adding the medicine stopped.
The pores that had been closed for a long time suddenly relaxed, and a stream of hot steam visible to the naked eye gushed out from all the pores on Chen Jue's body.
The first floor of the huge old house seemed to have suddenly been stuffed with a sauna , and the temperature was rising rapidly due to the hot steam.
Chen Jue sat down cross-legged, controlling the surging blood in his body to slowly calm down.
Taking a look at the attribute panel, Strength, Stamina, and Agility have skyrocketed, each increasing by 0.1, and Intelligence has increased the most! In the past few moments, Intelligence has increased to 1.61 (1.11).
“I’ve only just increased my proficiency in [Small and Large Circulation] by 10 points… If I break through directly, then my body will be hollowed out, right?” Chen Jue glanced at the messy kitchen stove.
In order to calm down the extremely strong siphon effect just now, Chen Jue even ate a few mouthfuls of the medicine residue in the casserole, which was enough to show how urgent the situation was at that time.
Fortunately, his qi and blood had calmed down at this moment, and his intestines no longer moved faster. The surge in attributes and intelligence made Chen Jue feel clear-headed, relaxed all over, and open-minded. Any random thought that came to his mind could give rise to many strange and bizarre ideas.
After tidying up the kitchen and taking a shower, Chen Jue looked at the time and saw that it was already past 1 a.m., so he lay down to sleep.
No matter how many ideas you have, you have to conserve your energy and maintain your sleep schedule. You can't be like when you were working, constantly checking your phone until four or five in the morning, and then sleeping until the afternoon the next day. That would damage your health.
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After waking up, it was already past 9 o'clock in the morning. Chen Jue felt relaxed all over. The sleep he had last night was like a baby returning to the mother's womb. He slept without dreams, in a deep and peaceful state, until dawn.
In fact, this state is called "fetal breathing" in Taoist classics. It is a special way of sleeping mentioned in Taoist internal alchemy that is extremely difficult to achieve. It is like an animal hibernating, sleeping for several months. The blood flow and organ activity in the body drop to an extreme. You can get rid of distracting thoughts, concentrate and calm your mind to nourish the elixir.
This pill is not the golden elixir used in cultivating immortals or practicing Taoism, but the blood mentioned above that gathers together at the Shangqu point in the dantian.
Shangqu point is an important blood circulation hub in the human body. It connects to the human kidneys, supplies blood and nutritional energy to the kidneys. The stronger the kidneys are, the stronger their ability to filter toxins and impurities in the blood. Combined with the blood supply from the heart, the body will be healthier in the long run.
Having said so much, what was reflected on Chen Jue’s attribute panel was that his health index rose from 105% to 132% overnight.
Simple, direct and clear, it also proves that Chen Jue’s improvement of [Small and Large Circulations] last night was on the right path of practice.
