Chapter 9: Grandmaster's Talent
A few days later.

In the backyard of Songfeng Temple, there is a small courtyard room where Senior Brother Yu Canghai lives.

"Internal strength is internal training."

"In today's martial arts world, most people practice external skills. There are only a handful of martial arts sects that truly have internal skills. At the same time, internal skills are also the core of a sect."

"All the real top masters in the martial arts world, without exception, have practiced internal skills and have profound internal strength."

Chu Yuan and Yu Canghai each sat on a wooden stool, facing each other, and Yu Canghai taught Chu Yuan some knowledge about internal strength.

Chu Yuan seemed to be listening very seriously, but he was actually thinking carefully about how he had optimized and modified the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" in his dream state over the past few days.

As for the importance of inner strength...

Chu Yuan knew the importance of internal strength to a master without his senior brother Yu Canghai saying much.

"Brother, do you think I can try to modify the Qingcheng Sect's Qingcheng Heart Sutra?"

Chu Yuan suddenly said.

"what?"

Chu Yuan's words made Yu Canghai fail to react at first, and he asked subconsciously.

"I want to try to optimize and modify the Qingcheng Heart Sutra based on it!"

Chu Yuan repeated what he had just said.

"Junior brother, why do you want to modify the Qingcheng Heart Sutra?"

Yu Canghai, who understood Chu Yuan's words, said in surprise.

"I feel that the power of Qingcheng Heart Sutra is too weak. Compared to the martial arts in the legends, such as Yijinjing and Taiji Magic, it is not only weaker in power, but also slower in practice."

Chu Yuan said seriously.

Yu Canghai: ...

"Brother, why do you have such an idea?"

Yu Canghai felt incredible about Chu Yuan's words.

"It was an idea that suddenly came to me when I was practicing the Qingcheng Heart Method."

Chu Yuan scratched his head.

In the past few nights, after falling asleep and in a dream state, he has been trying to modify the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra".

However, after adding one acupoint, Zhonggu, I had no idea how to add the next acupoint, as if I had reached a bottleneck.

Chu Yuan could only confess to his senior brother Yu Canghai that he was revising the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" to see if he could get any inspiration from him.

"It's good to have internal skills. You must know that in today's Jianghu, many sects and martial artists don't practice internal skills. They only practice external skills. The martial arts you mentioned are all legendary skills in Jianghu. Even the sects that created them may not have been lost."

Yu Canghai had a helpless expression, as if Chu Yuan was unaware of the blessings he had.

He had vaguely heard of the two martial arts that Chu Yuan mentioned. These were magical skills created by the founders of the two martial arts sects, Shaolin and Wudang, and they only existed in legends.

"Brother, I have studied it carefully. The Qingcheng Heart Sutra of our Qingcheng Sect only includes one of the twelve meridians, the Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian, and nineteen acupuncture points. According to my speculation, the more meridians and acupuncture points are included in the practice of internal energy, the stronger the power of the internal energy will be."

"As long as I try to incorporate more meridians and acupoints into the Qingcheng Heart Sutra and find a new Qi circulation route, I will be able to optimize and modify the Qingcheng Heart Sutra..."

Chu Yuan said to his senior brother Yu Canghai seriously.

"what!"

Chu Yuan's words were like a thunderbolt, striking Yu Canghai's mind and leaving him standing there in a daze.

"Brother, have you tried it? Do you know how dangerous it is to modify your internal energy?"

After a while, Yu Canghai came to his senses and looked shocked.

He was afraid that Chu Yuan's chance to rise as the leader of the Qingcheng Sect would be aborted because he did not know his place.

As he spoke, he quickly put his hand on Chu Yuan's right wrist, transferred a trace of his internal force into Chu Yuan's body, and at the same time explored the situation inside Chu Yuan's body.

He reprimanded Chu Yuan with a serious look:

"Internal skills are much more complicated than external skills. They involve many meridians and acupoints in the human body. If you rashly change a mature internal skill, make a mistake in an acupoint, or circulate qi in the wrong order, you may go astray during practice. The Qingcheng Heart Skill that the Qingcheng Sect is currently practicing is the result of the efforts of several generations of our Qingcheng Sect's ancestors, who have accumulated hundreds of years of time and spent countless efforts to create it through summarizing their experiences and lessons."

"How can you modify the Qingcheng Heart Sutra with your own strength?"

"If you can really modify the Qingcheng Heart Sutra, you are actually not far from creating your own martial arts. You will definitely become a master who founded a school in the future!"

"I will never do something so dangerous again..."

Yu Canghai, who was speaking, paused and suddenly stopped talking with an incredible look on his face, as if he had discovered something incredible inside Chu Yuan's body.

"How is it possible, Junior Brother, how did you cultivate internal strength so quickly? I just passed the Qingcheng Heart Sutra to you, and it has only been six or seven days."

Yu Canghai said in disbelief.

Although the force lingering in Chu Yuan's Dantian Qi Sea was weak, he was very sure that it was internal force.

If Chu Yuan learned the Qingfeng Sword Technique and the Cuixin Palm in a short period of time, it could be explained by his extraordinary talent and intelligence.

In such a short period of time, Chu Yuan not only learned the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" he taught, but also cultivated his internal strength.

This doesn't make sense at all.

Because the practice of internal strength needs to be gradual.

No matter how talented or smart you are, it takes time to practice.

In addition, as Chu Yuan said, although the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" is the Qingcheng Sect's secret internal skill, compared with those famous skills in the world, its power and training speed are far inferior.

It takes hard practice and many years of training to develop even a modest amount of internal strength.

Probably the only advantage of "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" is that it belongs to Taoism, and when it was created by the elders of the sect, many concepts from Taoist scriptures were borrowed.

This makes its characteristics neutral and peaceful, which can help practitioners consolidate their foundation and increase the recovery speed of internal energy.

Apart from this, there are no other advantages.

According to the normal practice speed of "Qingcheng Heart Method", it takes three months to produce the sense of qi, and at least half a year to cultivate internal strength.

His junior fellow apprentice brother, on the other hand, had achieved success in just a few days. He skipped the stage of generating the Qi sense and went straight to cultivating internal strength.

"Brother, do you mean to generate a sense of Qi? I generated a sense of Qi the first time I practiced."

Chu Yuan recalled the situation when he first practiced.

Yu Canghai: ...

“Wulian Tianzun! What kind of evil junior brother did I accept…”

Yu Canghai murmured to himself.

You will feel the energy when you practice for the first time, and you will develop internal strength after practicing for a few days.

If someone had told him this before, he would have thought that person was crazy! If the facts were not in front of him, he would never have believed it.

Yu Canghai didn't know that Chu Yuan not only developed a sense of Qi in his first practice, but also successfully cultivated internal strength in his first practice.

"In fact, the reason why I am practicing so fast may be related to the fact that I added an acupuncture point to the Qingcheng Heart Sutra."

Chu Yuan then said.

At first, he didn't notice it.

With the continuous practice in the following few days, the originally imperceptible internal force in the Dantian Qi Sea gradually grew stronger and was noticed by Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan guessed that he might have cultivated internal force when he first practiced "Qingcheng Heart Method".

"Did he really succeed?"

Chu Yuan's words made Yu Canghai doubt.

This is the only possibility!

"Junior brother, can you tell me the route and order of Qi circulation in the Qingcheng Heart Method after your revision?"

After hesitating for a moment, Yu Canghai said to Chu Yuan, his curiosity about Chu Yuan's suggestion to modify the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" outweighed his concern for his own safety.

"of course can."

Chu Yuan nodded in agreement.

"The Qingcheng Heart Sutra that I revised has added the Zhonggu acupoint in the Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian. The specific route for moving qi is as follows..."

Chu Yuan told his senior brother Yu Canghai about the qi circulation route and sequence of the Qingcheng Heart Sutra that he had modified.

Senior Brother Yu Canghai hesitated for a moment, then made up his mind to give it a try.

During this attempt, Yu Canghai discovered...

These qi circulation pathways are real. Not only are they completely unobstructed, but there is also no risk of going astray when practicing.

"It turned out to be true!"

After having a brief taste, Yu Canghai was overjoyed.

Not only that, the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" modified by Chu Yuan not only greatly increased its power, but also the speed of practice was incomparable.

"Junior brother, I am wrong. It seems that you are not only intelligent, but also have an extraordinary talent for martial arts. In the future, you will be able to become a genius comparable to the great masters like Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng."

Yu Canghai looked at Chu Yuan with a complicated expression.

Before, he regarded Chu Yuan as the hope to lead Qingcheng Sect to become the largest sect in the world.

Now it seems that he still underestimated Chu Yuan.

If Chu Yuan was able to modify the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" at such a young age, it would be a piece of cake for him to create his own martial arts in the future.

Then he will have the qualities to be a master of a school, and will be a true genius destined to become a martial arts master like Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng in the future.

It is precisely because of the appearance of Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng that Shaolin and Wudang stood at the top of the martial arts world, becoming the leading figures in the martial arts world and the dominant force in the world.

Over the past few hundred years, the flags of the world's largest sects have changed many times, but Shaolin and Wudang have remained in the world for a long time, and no one dares to despise them.

Now Yu Canghai feels that the appearance of Chu Yuan has given Qingcheng Sect such an opportunity.

"Brother, you are too kind."

Chu Yuan felt a little embarrassed when he heard this.

The reason why he was able to modify the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" was due to his ability to enter dreams, not his own talent. However, his senior brother Yu Canghai believed that he had the potential to be a master of his generation and a genius who could become a martial arts master like Zhang Sanfeng and Bodhidharma in the future. Chu Yuan still felt a little embarrassed.

"Brother, the reason I told you this is because I encountered a bottleneck when revising the Qingcheng Heart Sutra, and I couldn't find a breakthrough to add a second acupuncture point!"

Then Chu Yuan remembered the purpose of his confession to Yu Canghai and said to Yu Canghai.

"So you want to ask me, Senior Brother, how to add a second acupuncture point?"

Yu Canghai understood what Chu Yuan meant by asking for advice, and he said to Chu Yuan.

At the same time, he felt extremely bitter. How could he have deserved the fact that Chu Yuan would think of asking him for advice when he was revising the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra"?

However, he admired Chu Yuan very much. He had been practicing the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" for nearly thirty years, but he had never thought of modifying it.

"Yes."

Chu Yuan nodded.

"Brother is dull by nature. Unlike you who dare to modify the Qingcheng Heart Sutra at such a young age, he knows that the characteristics of each meridian and acupoint are different. If you want to continue to modify the Qingcheng Heart Sutra and enhance its power, you need to understand the characteristics of each meridian and acupoint in detail and make choices."

After thinking for a moment, Yu Canghai gave his own suggestion.

Yu Canghai's words made Chu Yuan's eyes brighten instantly.

"Sure enough, no matter what you do, it's taboo to work behind closed doors."

Chu Yuan said excitedly.

Although he didn't know whether what Senior Brother Yu Canghai said was right, he felt it made sense.

"I have practiced the Qingcheng Heart Sutra for many years and I have a good understanding of the functions of the human body's meridians and acupoints. I will tell you about them."

Yu Canghai said again.

"Then I'll trouble you, senior brother."

Chu Yuan said happily.

Although the medical books and Taoist scriptures he had read before recorded the meridians and acupoints of the human body, the characteristics and functions of the meridians and acupoints of the human body were very brief.

Yu Canghai's professor can help me make up for this shortcoming.

"I am not teaching you these out of selflessness. I just hope that after you have successfully revised the Qingcheng Heart Sutra, you can pass on the revised Qingcheng Heart Sutra to me and the sect."

Yu Canghai looked at Chu Yuan with a calm expression.

Having just tried the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" revised by Chu Yuan, he felt that the original "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" was indeed not strong.

Compared with the "Qingcheng Heart Sutra" revised by Chu Yuan, it is far inferior and there is no comparison at all.

"Of course. I am a disciple of the Qingcheng Sect. Any martial arts I modify and create in the future will belong to the sect."

Chu Yuan nodded.

"It is a blessing for the Qingcheng Sect to have you as its disciple."

After hearing Chu Yuan's words, Yu Canghai looked grateful.

He felt that with Chu Yuan, the rise of Qingcheng Sect was just around the corner and would be unstoppable.

　ps: I see everyone is talking about the Crane Li Jiuxiao Magical Art. This was a martial art when Jin Yong was serializing the book, but it was later deleted. Therefore, this book does not plan to have this magical art.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)