4 Training starts (1/2)
The next after receiving the beating, Long Lao Er was recuperating from his wounds on the small bamboo house.
Long Yi didn't looked surprised nor angry, heck he didn't showed any reaction towards his grandson son wounds.
Long Yi just gave his grandson a White Lotus pill that would help him absorbe Wind Qi essence much faster which would eventually help him have a breakthrough, but Long Lao Er had read that using pills will eventually hurt his Qi foundation.
It was common practice in this world for cultivators to use pills to increase their cultivation levels and realms. But there was a side effect because of the impurities formed by the pills and this would cause cultivators to become pill addicts and in the long run the pill will have a weaker effect making cultivators have to look for more powerful pills which would repeat this cycle over and over unless they managed to have a realm breakthrough but the same would be repeated with stronger pills.
In fact in the past, the pill addiction had cause countless of wars between cultivators for not just possessing a pill but also for producing and distributing those pills.
Pill consuming wasn't the real problem, but when to actually use it. It should be used either for healing or for breaking through realms instead of levels. That's why Long Lao Er decided to wait before consuming the White Lotus pill.
For the next days he went into seclusion and resumed his cultivation and 10 days after exiting his cultivation, he had had a breakthrough from level 1 to level 2 of the Qi Foundation Realm. Still he knew that without a proper external martial arts technique, he wouldn't have chance at all.
Long Lao Er has studying his basic cultivation manual and read
”Meridians: Are the network of vessels in the body through which Qi essence flows.
Qi circulation: It's the act of controlling Qi to flow from the dantian, through the meridians, and back into the dantian in a cycle.
Accupoints: Are the points around the meridians which allow the Qi essence absorption from the nature. The more you have opened, the more Qi essence you can absorb. It can be used to heal if a cultivator and injects his own Qi essence.
It has been recorded that poison can be injected which depending on the poison it can damage the meridians in the best case scenario till killing. The regular human cultivator has up to 128 point while a Dragon cultivator can have up to 1024 points which is the maximum number of points recorded so far.”
Long Lao Er finished reading and started thinking, he frowned and his face made a happy expression an idea had appeared in his mind.
The next day he went to his cultivation room an started trying to open his own accupoints using Qi essence within his index finger, but much to his dismay he coulould not open a single accupoint and even he had blocked his own meridians and accupoints with crystalized Qi essence and now just Qi circulation was failing.
Long Lao Er own Qi circulation started to diminish and that got him to seriously started worrying. By default Qi essence would open an accupoint on newly borned kids and as cultivation proceeded, Qi essence from within the meridians would open new the accupoints. Somehow he had discovered that by combining refined Qi essence with external Qi essence, he could crystalized both Qi essences.
For at least 5 min those crystals blocked some of his accupoints, but at some point the Qi essence from the outside reabsorbed those crystals and unblocked his accupoints again and meridians.
It had been a miracle for Long Lao Er who had been trying everything he knew to unblock the accupoints without any success and he was worried that he would end up messing his cultivation.
Curiosity had been awaken in Long Lao Er, so he tested again with several inputs levels of Qi essence. The more internal Qi essence he used; the more time it would take for those Qi essence crystals to be reabsorbed but the less accupoints he could used to seal Qi essence absorption and Qi circulation through the meridians and the opposite happened with less internal Qi essence he used.