Chapter 162 – Vast Like The Sea! (1/2)

Chapter 162: Vast like the sea!

Since ancient times, medicine and Taoism cannot be separated. Taoists possess good medical knowledge and can be called half a doctor.

Some Taoist priests were very capable doctors originally. For example, the Ziyang Taoist priest who came to examine Li Muyang. Even though Li Muyang was struck by lightning and inflicted with such a strange disease, he could still cure him. This clearly demonstrated his remarkable ability.

At this moment Li Muyang was situated inside Xiahou Qianbai's healing hut. Misty smoke curled and swirled inside, mixed with the bitter taste of herbs and the fragrance of the finished concoction.

The smoke didn't make people dizzy, and instead feel refreshed and energetic.

Xiahou Qianbai looked at the pitiful Li Muyang, saying: “Since I'm willing to help you build your foundation, I obviously took this into account. Because you have previously practiced Ziyang s.h.i.+shu's 'Art of the Breaking Body', your body has acc.u.mulated a certain amount of qi. So, I just need to guide the essential qi within your body with my functional activities of qi and direct the essential qi to acc.u.mulate, rather than entirely rely on my own power. This way, the side effects on you will be minimal.”

“I have to trouble Teacher Xiahou.”

“What I find hard to understand is that since you have 'The Art of Breaking Body', such a peerless sacred text, why have you not made much progress in cultivation in all these years? You could not even build a foundation yourself—If Ziyang s.h.i.+shu knew you are this stupid, he would have regretted his choice, right? Our Taoism's lost knowledge is wasted, it really is heart-wrenching.”

“——”

Xiahou Qianbai stared across at Li Muyang sitting opposite him: “Cross your legs and concentrate, focus.”

Li Muyang immediately obeyed. Sitting cross-legged, he shut his eyes and eliminated the thought of wanting to strangle Teacher Xiaohou, as well as various distracting thoughts, directing his brain into a completely blank state.

Xiahou Qianbai also gathered up both feet, sat cross-legged and began to meditate. His right hand stretched out from inside his wide, flowing sleeve and a faint, white light surfaced in the middle of his palm. The white light quickly condensed into an ent.i.ty that looks like a gla.s.s light bulb.

Xiahou Qianbai let his hand hover above Li Muyang's head. The gla.s.s ball of light slowly descended, drilling into the top of the skull of Li Muyang's head.

A blue ray of light, like the tail of the gla.s.s light bulb, connected Xiahou Qianbai's palm with Li Muyang's head.

“Ahhh—”

Li Muyang let out an anguished howl. His body slightly trembled and immediately sweat breaks out all over his body.

As though a pot of boiling water was poured over his head, Li Muyang felt like his scalp was being scalded.

And then, via the bloodstream, hot water flowed through the entire body, his whole body becoming warm and cozy.

It was only at that moment that Li Muyang felt better and more comfortable.

Suffering from one extreme of pain to one extreme of comfort, this all happened in a split second.

“Relax.” Xiahou Qianbai said aloud: “Do not resist, let the essential qi in your body follow my guidance.”

“How can I make my essential qi follow your lead?” Li Muyang tired to connect his mind with his body, keeping his body in a very comfortable state. He imagined himself situated away from Jiangnan in the beautiful Xiangshan, where he and his sister Li s.h.i.+nian found a natural hot spring, and persuaded by Li s.h.i.+nian, they leapt into the pool and bathe to their heart's content. Little sister kept splas.h.i.+ng him with sulfur-rich hot water and after evading for a while he began to fight back——

He really missed Li s.h.i.+nian. The time with her was always full of fun.

More importantly, when he's with her, Li Muyang ignored the fact that he's ill, nor cared about his poor academic performance and was never bullied in school——because Li s.h.i.+nian won't care about these at all.

When he's with her, it's difficult to think of any sad things.

“Leave it.” Xiahou Qianbai sensed that Li Muyang had finally relaxed his body and mind, which is what he wanted. “You don't need to do anything, just wait for me to guide you. Your qi activity is too weak, as long as I instill essential qi into your body and run a few laps around your body, your qi will also follow running after it.”

“——” Li Muyang felt very sad. He was always bullied but now even the essential qi in his body do not have the ability to make its own decision and turned traitor after being led for a couple of laps——

Just as Xiahou Qianbai had said to him before, once he crossed the blue bridge there would be a powerful surge of qi activity entering into Li Muyang's body.

Then, like a long snake, that surge of essential qi would roam all around the meridians of Li Muyang's body, and after circulating a few times, the pathetic little essential qi inside Li Muyang's body would fuse with it and finally become a part of the long snake. Then, they would run lap after laps, cyclesafter cycles.

Most of the time, these laps and cycles made Li Muyang very comfortable.

With the warm flow of qi circulating his body, Li Muyang felt his whole body becoming warm and comfortable. Like a cup of hot water in the cold winter, like a bunch of wildfire in the middle of a snowstorm.

It can bring light and warmth.

Bring realistic and strong emotions.

When the body of qi entered into Li Muyang's body, even though he clearly knew it's not his and would only temporarily exists in his body and be gone soon—he still likes the feeling of being filled up.

Everyone wants to be a hero, becoming a power in control of everything.

Li Muyang felt he finally accomplished something at that moment.

He liked that feeling.

Of course, sometimes he also felt discomfort and pain.

Like there was a stone in a ditch, water tries to break through but no matter how forceful it is, the stone is too big and hard. Although water and the stone fought against each other, in the end, only the ditch was injured.

“If there is pain, there is a blockage; if you don't feel pain, it is not obstructed.” Xiahou Qianbai said aloud. “Endure it for a while.”

This sounded very familiar to Li Muyang. After a brief ponder, he finally realised when he had heard this before. When he was in Jiangnan, every time he helped his mother with cupping therapy, he would hear this phrase——He thought of his mother again.