Chapter 8: Twelve Sutras
It's quiet at night.

When the crescent moon in the night sky is half-covered by dark clouds.

Creak~
A Taoist boy, over four feet tall and wearing a black gauze Taoist robe, quietly opened the door.

Returned to his residence.

There are two types of Taoist robes worn by Taoist priests of Qingcheng Sect.

One is an ordinary Taoist priest wearing a dark blue cotton robe, which means that he has an average status in Songfeng Temple of Qingcheng Sect.

The other type is the Taoist priests wearing black gauze robes, who have an extraordinary status in Songfeng Temple.

This Taoist boy was none other than Chu Yuan, who had just returned from his senior brother Yu Canghai’s courtyard.

As Chu Yuan is the junior brother of the leader Yu Canghai, he has a very high status in the Qingcheng Sect, so naturally he wears a black gauze Taoist robe.

He opened the door and walked into the room. After closing the door, Chu Yuan lay on the bed with his clothes on.

At this moment, Chu Yuan's mind was full of the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" that his senior brother Yu Canghai had taught him during the day.

The entire book "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" is about 30,000 words long. The knowledge involved in acupoints, meridians, and qi circulation is more than a million words and cannot be explained in a few words.

The experience and skills required for practice require long-term instruction and demonstration from senior teachers.

It's not something you can figure out by yourself.

This is the benefit of having a formal master's inheritance.

The reason why Chu Yuan came back so late tonight was that he stayed with his senior brother Yu Canghai all day.

I stayed up late into the night before I barely figured out the Qingcheng Heart Sutra.

"The entry-level sword technique, Qingfeng Sword Technique, is not on the same level of difficulty as the sect's unique technique, Destroying Heart Palm."

"In comparison, the difficulty of practicing this Qingcheng Heart Technique is several levels higher than that of the Heart-Destroying Palm."

"I really envy those protagonists who can develop invincible martial arts with just a martial arts secret book."

Chu Yuan stared at the dark beams in the house, his mind wandering.

From this we can see that his actual talent for martial arts is not that good.

"Where do all these geniuses come from in the world?"

Chu Yuan sighed.

"Fortunately, I have the ability to enter dreams, so I can pretend to be a genius."

Chu Yuan then changed his mind.

After a day of studying, he was already very sleepy.

Not long after he lay in bed, he closed his eyes, a light snoring sound was heard in the room, and he fell asleep.

When Chu Yuan woke up again, he had arrived in a space that was as deep and dark as the universe, with only the area around him being bright.

Chu Yuan began to be in the state where his brain became much smarter again.

In this state, he could figure out problems that he couldn't figure out during the day with just a little effort.

Good news: I feel smarter!

Bad news: It was a dream!

"The human heart is only dangerous, the Taoist heart is only small, the essence is only one, and the persistence is in the middle..."

Chu Yuan began to recall the mantra of "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" in his mind.

The Qingcheng Heart Sutra is very long at 30,000 words. If you want to practice it, you must memorize it first.

Fortunately, Chu Yuan had just learned it during the day. In his dream state, his memory was extraordinary and he memorized the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" completely without much effort.

I can even recite it backwards.

However, memorizing the Qingcheng Heart Sutra is only the first step...

If you want to truly practice the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra", you must understand it thoroughly.

In this state, Chu Yuan's ability to understand and comprehend has become so strong that it has surpassed the level of ordinary people.

As long as he concentrated on thinking, the difficult-to-understand martial arts formulas in his mind during the day, combined with the experience taught by his senior brother Yu Canghai, were quickly absorbed by Chu Yuan.

The originally obscure internal skills no longer had any secrets after Chu Yuan truly understood them.

As he thought about it, Chu Yuan discovered.

The internal skill "Qingcheng Heart Method" contains a lot of Taoist terminology and Taoist knowledge.

All of a sudden, all the Taoist scriptures Chu Yuan had learned and memorized in Baiyun Temple for a year came in handy.

"It seems that I have not memorized those Taoist scriptures in vain."

Chu Yuan talked to himself in his dream.

As he thoroughly understood the Qingcheng Heart Technique, Chu Yuan actually felt that this Qingcheng Heart Technique was a bit crude...

"How can this be……"

Chu Yuan felt incredible that he would have such an idea.

Although "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" is not very well-known, it is the most core internal skill of the Qingcheng Sect, a major martial arts sect.

It must have been perfected by several or even more than a dozen generations of predecessors.

"The Qingcheng Heart Sutra is based on the Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian among the twelve meridians. It includes the internal skills of nineteen acupoints, including Shaoze, Qiangu, Houxi, Wangu, Yanggu, Yanglao, Zhizheng, Xiaohai, etc. This is a bit too rare..."

"Since humans have twelve main meridians, why not include a few more?"

Chu Yuan suddenly had an idea.

This is not Chu Yuan's random thoughts, but there is some basis for it.

"The Six Meridians Divine Sword relies on the practice of six of the twelve meridians to generate a magical skill that uses internal force to directly shoot out sword energy."

"Why can't I optimize the Qingcheng Heart Technique and include more meridians? This way, the power of the Qingcheng Heart Technique will be enhanced."

Chu Yuan thought again.

You must know that "Six Meridians Divine Sword" is a magical skill in the Tianlong world.

The earlier Mr. Jin wrote, the higher the level of martial arts. Tian Long is a story that happened during the Northern Song Dynasty. It is considered the world with the highest level of power among Mr. Jin's many works, except for the Sword of Yue Girl.

As the magical skill in the Tianlong world, you can imagine how powerful "Six Meridians Divine Sword" is.

"The meridians of an internal skill are a complete route for qi circulation, which contains at least a dozen or at most hundreds of acupoints. If one of these acupoints is different, or the order of qi circulation is different, it will produce completely different effects."

"It is extremely difficult to optimize an internal skill. Fortunately, I have the ability to enter dreams. Not only can I think quickly, but I can also try more in dreams."

As soon as this idea came to his mind, Chu Yuan immediately sat down cross-legged and began to try it according to the mantra of "Qingcheng Heart Sutra".

What made Chu Yuan feel relieved was that this dream state was indeed strange.

It was like entering another world in a dream.

He could clearly sense everything that was happening inside his body.

In other words, he just thought that it was feasible to use the dream state to optimize his internal strength in the dream.

As the saying goes, Taoism and medicine are inseparable. When Chu Yuan was reading Taoist scriptures in Baiyun before, he also read a lot of medical skills.

Therefore, he knows the meridians and acupoints in the human body very well.

This also makes it very possible for Chu Yuan to try to optimize the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra".

Chu Yuan started to try them one by one.

"It's just a dream anyway, so it won't be dangerous if you make a mistake."

Chu Yuan said in his heart.

In reality, he would definitely not dare to take such a risk.

The practice of internal energy is dangerous. The slightest mistake can lead to a stitch in the side or even to going insane.

Not to mention adding qi channels and acupuncture point routes according to your own ideas.

This is definitely courting death!

Fortunately, because of the ability to enter dreams, Chu Yuan's idea of ​​optimizing the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" has begun to become possible.

“Optimization isn’t that difficult!”

After trying for a while, Chu Yuan immediately felt relieved.

After trying to optimize the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra", he found that when he was in a dream state, if he made changes in the wrong direction, his body would feel a slight discomfort, but it was not strong.

However, once the Qi channels and acupoints are circulated correctly, there will be no discomfort.

On the contrary it's very comfortable.

After a long time, Chu Yuan gained some experience.

Once he feels unwell, he stops immediately, which means he has taken the wrong path.

"It's just that optimization takes a lot of time. If you want to successfully optimize the Qingcheng Heart Sutra, it will probably take a very long time."

After experimenting for a long time and adding only one correct acupuncture point all night, Chu Yuan said happily.

"But it doesn't matter. I have plenty of time."

A hint of excitement flashed in Chu Yuan's eyes.

Although we were busy all night, we only added one acupoint - Zhonggu.

But in Chu Yuan's opinion, his efforts were not in vain.

Finally a good start!
"Even if there is only one acupuncture point, I have indeed successfully optimized and modified the Qingcheng Heart Sutra."

Cuckoo!
Just then, I heard a loud crowing of a rooster!
The darkness around, as deep as the universe, seemed to be dissipating.

"It looks like I'm about to wake up from my dream state."

Chu Yuan suddenly had a premonition.

As he had dreamed so many times, he was even able to grasp some of the signs and patterns of waking up from a dream.

The next moment, Chu Yuan disappeared in the darkness...

Chu Yuan opened his eyes and found that there was some light in the room. He stood up and looked out the window and found that it was already bright outside.

I thought of the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" which I remembered very clearly after optimizing it while in a dream state last night.

"It's a good time to try practicing."

Chu Yuan immediately sat up from the bed, crossed his legs, raised his five elements to the sky, and began to practice the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" that had been optimized in his mind.

Chu Yuan tried his best to adjust his breathing and let his mind sink into Dantian. A warm breath soon emerged from Dantian, then went through the middle of the shoulder and passed the outside of the shoulder...

Finally, it returns to Dantian.

Before I knew it, I had completed a whole cycle...

"The fact that I can circulate Qi around the body shows that my revised Qingcheng Heart Sutra can be practiced. At least it is not harmful to me."

Two quarters of an hour later, Chu Yuan opened his eyes and felt the feeling of the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" that he had just practiced and optimized.

"But it's only slightly stronger than the original Qingcheng Heart Technique. The degree of optimization I have done to this Qingcheng Heart Technique is still too small!"

Chu Yuan then said helplessly.

"You can practice the optimized Qingcheng Heart Technique first, but you have to continue optimizing the Qingcheng Heart Technique. Don't give up."

Chu Yuan made a decision.

Chu Yuan did not notice that in the meridians where he had just circulated the Qi.

There is already a trace of power coming from the inside out, and it is a very weak trace of internal power!
To be more precise, it was a rudiment of internal force that was about to take shape.

According to the practice of "Qingcheng Heart Method", the first step is to cultivate the sense of Qi, which takes three months. If he wants to cultivate internal strength, it will take at least half a year.

He achieved the result in one step. In his first practice, he not only developed a sense of Qi, but also developed a trace of internal force.

Logically speaking, it's impossible to be so fast!
The reason for all this is the acupuncture points that were not originally mentioned in the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra".

Zhonggu!

　ps: Something unexpected happened today, so I’ll just update one chapter first!

　　
　
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