Chapter 8: Practicing & Qingyang Market (1/2)
Chapter 8: Practicing & Qingyang Market
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Carefully hiding the piece of paper under the mattress, Little Shiba covered the quilt and took a deep breath. He then closed his eyes and started to stimulate the working flow of Ignis Skill in his mind.
It would not have worked back when he had just arrived in this world, even if he got the full script of Ignis Skill and memorized all of it. The reason was that he didn't know the trick of practicing Internal Qi.
But things were quite different now with him knowing the trick. Though Unusual Strength Qigong was the easiest one among Internal Strength cultivation methods, it still shared a common trick with others.
Ignis Skill was obviously much harder than Unusual Strength Qigong, particularly in its details. But their beginning steps were pretty much the same.
Going through Ignis Skill carefully, Little Shiba managed to have a basic idea of this mental cultivation method. The differences between Ignis Skill and Unusual Strength Qigong lay in the two following parts. Firstly, the working flow of Ignis Skill was much more complex than the other one, which required a higher degree of concentration and controlling ability of Internal Qi. It took a much longer time to complete the working flow of Ignis Skill than it took for Unusual Strength Qigong. Thus, it required better controlling ability. For now, Little Shiba could only sustain two days of concentration. Secondly, the way of absorbing the essence of the world. The so-called Internal Strength was absorbing the essence of the world and then making use of it with a special method. That was the fundamental principle of Internal Strength no matter how superior it could be. Unusual Strength Qigong was the easiest one to swallow but the hardest one to digest, which could do great harm when practicing with heterogeneous pneuma. That was to say, with eating both good and bad food, the inability to digest all of it could only lead to an upset stomach. However, Ignis Skill had its own specific target. It seemed that it only absorbed the pneuma of a certain property and excluded the other properties. The reason why the working flow of Ignis Skill was much complex than the other one was that the process of digesting the pneuma with a certain property was much harder than with heterogeneous pneuma.
The name of it has already shown that it only absorbs t he pneuma of fire property from the essence of the world.
Lying on the bed, Little Shiba thought in his mind with his eyes sparkling in the dark.”Though Ignis Skill is harder than the other one, it's still a level-one mind cultivating method. Otherwise, I would not have understood it. Wang Tianlei told me that he got it from the man he killed in the war, so the person who owned this couldn't be a Kung Fu master with super precious or difficult books. But this method really works for me. It's not too hard, nor too easy. I guess it's my lucky day.”
Thinking of this, he giggled and remembered the words his elementary teacher used to say in his past life. The teacher was always telling him to set a goal that suited him and could be achieved by practicing. As he grew up, those words became jokes. Nowadays, in a whole new world, those words came true in another way.
It was said that building Internal Strength could strengthen one's body and prolong one's life, and Wang Bo thought so too when he read Kung Fu fiction in his past life. However, in this world, Little Shiba, who has already practiced Internal Strength, had learned that the rumor was not even half true.
The truth was that your life could only be prolonged once you've already reached the advanced level of bone forging when practicing the External Strength. Otherwise, your life was just shorter with increasing amount of Internal Qi. Let me explain: The body was like a closed container with a limited volume of water, if it was forced to bear what was beyond its capacity, it could easily break. The relationship between the body and Internal Qi was just like that of closed container and water. The only way to bear a large amount of Internal Qi was to strengthen your own body. Pushing it could only lead to an explosion.
Since one would gain pure Internal Qi with fire property by practicing the fire cultivation method, it required more than Unusual Strength Qigong did, in terms of tendons and vessels.
Therefore, it was imaginable that the speed of practicing the fire cultivation method was slower than that of practicing the Internal Qi of Unusual Strength Qigong. But before that, Little Shiba did not need to absorb the fire-property pneuma from the essence of the world, instead, he should transfer the impure Internal Qi, which came from practicing Unusual Strength Qigong, into Internal Qi of fire property.
After knowing what the exact way of practicing Internal Qi was, Little Shiba was more anxious than happy.