Chapter 269 Left Zero Right Fire Thunder Tai Chi
Yan Xu repeatedly switched between respecting the tradition of handicrafts and giving up handicrafts, torturing himself to the point of wanting to die, but the effect was surprisingly good.

Although the process is painful, it is undoubtedly a repeated and cruel interrogation of one's own heart, allowing oneself to face the truest side of one's heart, no matter whether it is good or bad, dirty or just.

This kind of behavior would be useless for ordinary people even if they tortured themselves into a lunatic. But Yan Xu was different. Not only did he break through his physical body, he also cultivated internal strength, and the internal strength he cultivated was a Taoist method that placed great emphasis on the mind.

Taoism is not Buddhism. It does not emphasize that the four elements are empty. If everything is empty, why bother practicing Taoism? Just lie down and be a vegetable.

Taoism emphasizes following one's heart, which means following one's own wishes, so one must have clear thoughts.

Yan Xu's self-questioning about whether to indulge or not is a bit weird, but it is undoubtedly also a kind of spiritual practice, especially when he is torturing himself while constantly drawing nourishment from the precious works left by ancient sages.

During this process, Yan Xu himself did not feel much change, but in fact the speed of practicing Qingcheng Mental Method increased by 20% unknowingly, and this was without relying on cheats in the system.

This shows the influence of mind and nature on the practice of internal energy, especially the Taoist mental methods.

At this point Yan Xu finally understood why Yue Buqun had been practicing the Zixia magic for so long but still had difficulty using it freely. It was because his character was not up to standard and he could not recognize his own nature.

With a long sigh of relief, Yan Xu once again proved that his idea was correct. After muscles, bones, and internal strength, mind and spirit will become the new focus. Only by gathering all the puzzle pieces can he reach the realm of perfect practice.

However, this was not a coincidence, nor was it a sudden inspiration. Instead, he knew subconsciously that the foundation of spiritual practice was the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit. The ancient sages had already pointed out the way for him. What Yan Xu called twists and turns and tortures were nothing but obstacles to knowledge and understanding.

"Practicing is indeed full of difficulties." Yan Xu, who was sitting cross-legged on the top of the mountain, opened his eyes and said with emotion.

He hasn't even really stepped into the realm of cultivating immortals, but he's already tormenting himself to the point of ecstasy. He really doesn't know how difficult true cultivation is. He can't drive himself into a lunatic, making everyone look like a mahjong master to him, Yan Xu thought uncertainly.

In any case, Yan Xu's gains were not limited to this. After breaking through the barrier of knowledge and understanding, he finally found a breakthrough in the three major cultivation systems he possessed: internal boxing, internal strength and Lightning Thunder Fist.

As he acquired more and more cultivation systems, Yan Xu became more and more troubled by the compatibility issue.

Trying to advance at the same pace not only wastes time and energy, but may also cause hidden dangers and conflicts, so Yan Xu has been looking for common points between different systems, connecting them in parallel, or even integrating them.

For example, internal martial arts may seem to involve the strength of tendons and bones, but in fact it is the strength of Qi and blood. Qi and blood flow through the heart, lungs and blood vessels, and the system is very similar to the internal force that circulates through the meridians.

So after gaining internal strength, Yan Xu wanted to merge the two, but he found that the two were like oil pipelines and natural gas pipelines, seemingly from the same source, but in fact completely incompatible.

The Lightning Thunder Fist, which combines magic and martial arts, is a completely independent power grid, which put the fusion into trouble from the very beginning.

Now that he has understood the essence, energy and spirit, Yan Xu regards the blood and qi of the internal boxing as the essence, the internal force of internal training as the qi, and the Lightning Thunder Fist as the spirit, so they have something in common. Yan Xu uses the internal force as a medium and the Lightning Thunder Fist's method to introduce the power of lightning into the blood and qi.

The last mutation in the world at the end of the Qing Dynasty gave Yan Xu's body cells the ability to generate, store and release electricity. He also had the idea of ​​using the power of electricity to temper his body and develop electric current martial arts.

It’s just that electric current is difficult to control, and the electric current martial arts he created always lingers at the entry threshold, unable to make further progress.

Now he broke this barrier, and with the help of his internal force, he evenly integrated the electric current into his qi and blood, and then stimulated the qi and blood to temper his muscles and bones more comprehensively and meticulously, guiding the formation of a new circulation and balance inside and outside.

Yan Xu drew a circle with his left foot and a circle with his right hand, while silently reciting the formula:

Zero is left and fire is on the right, Lei Gong helps me!
Three phases and four wires, the Mother of Electricity appears!
After forming the positive and negative poles, dense electric currents traveled back and forth around Yan Xu's body, like mercury pouring on the ground, or like he was wearing brilliant silver-scale armor, like the gods of thunder descending to earth.

With a circle of his hands, he drew out the electric current from his body and turned it into a lightning ball surrounded by electric light. Yan Xu reached out to catch it, and it fell into his arms like a lead ball. He lowered his waist and sat on the horse. The dragon on his spine rose and fell. He shook his shoulders and arms, and punched out with the power of lightning. There was a loud thunder, and the clouds in front of him shattered. Countless water droplets carrying electric currents flew away, revealing a hole of ten feet in radius, which was then filled by the surrounding clouds.

"Let's call this move Thunder Tai Chi, but it's a bit too arrogant and doesn't fit the self-cultivation style of Tai Chi. Calling it Zero Fire Tai Chi doesn't sound very nice either." Yan Xu struggled for a while, and finally named this move Thunder Tai Chi.

The emergence of Thunder Tai Chi broke the isolation between the three practice systems that Yan Xu currently possessed, and extended it to the swordsmanship.

Yan Xu had the highest talent in swordsmanship and was also the first to learn it, so after breaking the interval, he began to practice swordsmanship, trying to create a thundering swordsmanship that was not inferior to the Thunder Tai Chi.

As the Green Dragon Crescent Blade was swung, strands of electric current gradually wrapped around it. Under the restraint of internal force, it did not dissipate quickly, but instead gathered more and more, eventually stimulating the Green Dragon phantom in the Green Dragon Crescent Blade. The Green Dragon phantom, more than ten feet long, appeared and disappeared among the clouds on the top of the peak, and at the same time, the electric current wrapped around the blade gathered into a ball, surrounding the blade like a dragon playing with a pearl, but it was a little difficult to control.

However, the ninety-point swordsmanship attribute is not for show. Yan Xu quickly found the key points. With a slash of the sword, the thunder ball shattered and turned into a thunder dragon that flew into the air. The obvious tear marks penetrated deep into the clouds for an unknown distance.

Yan Xu seemed to have found the trick and continued to practice boxing and swordplay. Then, every once in a while, a thunder would be heard on the top of the peak, or a thunder dragon would appear. The gathered clouds would be torn apart and gradually dissipated.

In the past, Yue Buqun and his wife would at most feel that the climate in the mountains was becoming increasingly strange. However, after paying a visit to Taoist Priest Yuan Hua, they discovered that the thundering dragon shadow came from the peak where Taoist Yuan Hua practiced everyday. They did not know that this was Taoist Yuan Hua practicing his magic.

Yue Buqun's heart became more and more excited. If he had such ability
Having made up their minds, the couple avoided the time when the Taoist priests were practicing, took the specially prepared Taoist scriptures, and set out on the road to Yuntai Peak again, but they did not know that there was someone following them.

Yan Xu came back from the top of the mountain, had his meal and rested, then began to instruct Lin Pingzhi in laying the foundation. He was not surprised to see Yue Buqun and his wife coming from the foot of the mountain from afar. After all, the thunder and lightning produced by his practice just now reflected back and forth in the valley and spread to several main peaks around. How could Yue Buqun and his wife not hear it? But they brought a little tail with them, which did surprise him a little. He just hoped it was not Linghu Chong.

(End of this chapter)