Chapter 2: The Nourishment Of Spirit (1/2)

Given that youths generally did not have a coht process, the real Shen Lian could easily sense his spirit and he nourished it according to the methods recorded in the book of martial exercises

He wondered if the book of es - there was only the Way of Spirit Nourishth training

He was too fixated on nourishi+ng his spirit and had subsequently neglected the physical aspect of his training Yet, the spirit drew upon Qi energy to heighten its power

His spirit grew stronger but at the expense of his physical body His body was beco and briy, yet the real Shen Lian was drained of energy and fraught with frailty It could very well be that he was blessed with a healthy body to begin with, so nothing disastrous happened even after so from the proper path of cultivation will usually lead to unfortunate outcomes One day, the power of his spirit was at its lih the Bai Hui point He was close to having an out of body experience and his spirit was light, so light that it felt as if it was going to leave with the wind

He lacked understanding in the art of cultivation He was unaware that when his spirit leaves his body, it will bring along all of the Qi energy in his body He had always been frail The Qi energy produced daily by his blood was h his body

A significant ay was needed when his spirit was about to leave his body His body was no longer capable of providing that aarded his physical liy reserve in his body was co apart

The body and its vigor were directly linked to the well-being of the soul, the psyche linked to the spirit; the soul and the spirit were connected on a myriad of levels and possibilities The disturbance to their balance sent hi a toll

In the end, his body was taken over by a doctor fro, the new Shen Lian, ed his memories with that of the real Shen Lian, he still had to deal with the frail body that he was then trapped in

Fortunately, being in a state of psychosis had dispersed some of the power of spirit all over Shen Lian's body The power of spirit was subsequently turned into Qi energy, which protected the body fro

This was the reason why Shen Lian, the new Shen Lian, did not die right after waking up

He was after all a doctor, he knew full well hoeak the body was

Though to be fair, he did not know that the stronger the spirit, the greater the burden it was to the body

There was a pressing need to bring his body back into shape and to instill vital Qi back into him

Luckily, he was surrounded by nature and its luscious greenery The plants here shared striking sied to find sothen his body with

It was a shah, herbs that had high ardless of which era one was in Further around, the villagers would have dug theo

After several ht on his once frail and skinny body The progress was remarkable, but he was still far below the normal standard

Well, at least he would not be bloay by gusts of strong wind then

Knowing fully well that the real Shen Lian lapsed into a state of psychosis fro the martial exercises, the new Shen Lian was not about to continue onto the path of cultivation without having sufficient knowledge of it

Engaging in e of it was akin to self-rave Even though the fa out of luck, he did start off on a solid foundation; one uidance fro

Having transcended time and space, the new Shen Lian was not about to try his luck There was no guarantee that he could escape death through tiain