The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

Chapter 16: The Key and the Treasure Trove [Seeking Recommendations~]

At this moment, Lu Jing was in so much pain that even breathing became difficult.

He couldn't even spare time to think about how these things appeared in his dantian; he only wanted to quickly find a way to alleviate this pain that was worse than death.

But it wasn't until he tried to get out of bed that he realized his hands and feet were so痉挛 that he couldn't muster any strength at all.

In the next moment, a wave of despair surged in Lu Jing's heart. He even had thoughts of suicide, because compared to a clean death, enduring such endless pain, not knowing how long he would be tortured before dying, was the most terrifying thing.

However, for Lu Jing now, even suicide had become a luxury.

If there really was a hell in this world, then Lu Jing was definitely already in hell.

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It can't go on like this, I have to do something, anything, even if it's dying.

So, frantically trying to circulate the Little Vajra Force technique became the only thing Lu Jing could do at this moment.

It was just like before, without a sense of qi, Lu Jing simply couldn't truly activate this internal energy technique.

He followed the breathing methods recorded in the technique, focusing his eyes on his nose, his nose on his heart, and his heart on his dantian. At the same time, he pressed his tongue against the Celestial Pool acupoint on his upper palate, built the Magpie Bridge, and connected the Ren and Du meridians, but then no qi was willing to follow his Ren meridian down the Twelve-Story Tower to his dantian.

And the things in his dantian were unwilling to travel upwards along the Du meridian. Lu Jing realized that he was stuck at this step!

He stared with bloodshot eyes, and the last trace of reason was submerged in the ocean of pain.

After another failed attempt, Lu Jing didn't care about anything anymore. He gritted his teeth and began to circulate the Little Vajra Force's cultivation route in reverse!

When his master taught him this technique, he had repeatedly warned him that internal energy cultivation seemed simple, but in reality, it was an extremely dangerous thing.

The so-called internal energy manuals were all cultivation experiences explored by predecessors. Ordinary people could hardly imagine how many failures the predecessors who created this internal energy had experienced and how much effort they had spent to painstakingly explore a correct path.

And later generations also needed to strictly follow the routes recorded in the manuals to cultivate. Any slight deviation would cause internal injuries at best, and at worst, they would simply become demonized and lose their lives.

Zhang Sanfeng spoke very solemnly, because at that time, Lu Jing had thought of Ouyang Feng, who practiced the Nine Yin Manual in reverse in 'The Eagle Shooting Heroes', and curiously asked his master about the possibility of reverse cultivation.

Old Master Zhang was also afraid that this disciple would be idle and mess around, so he clearly told Lu Jing that reverse cultivation was a dead end.

It would be fine for ordinary people, because they wouldn't be able to cultivate anything, but for martial artists, the trouble would be great. Becoming demonized was certain. At that time, their acupoints would be blocked, their meridians would be disordered, and it would be no different from suicide.

Lu Jing took this advice to heart. After all, compared to him, a martial arts newbie whose knowledge all came from novels and movies, Zhang Sanfeng was a real industry insider. In these three months, he corrected many of Lu Jing's "fancies" and made Lu Jing understand the difference between novels and reality.

Otherwise, he couldn't get the Nine Yin and Nine Yang manuals, but he did think about forging a large sword of sufficient weight in the future if he had the opportunity, and finding a waterfall to comprehend the Profound Iron Sword Technique. However, after consulting his master, he had given up this naive idea.

But now, Lu Jing couldn't care less about his master's warning, after all, he was not even afraid of death.

He couldn't circulate the Little Vajra Force without a sense of qi. Since that was the case, Lu Jing simply reversed it, letting the qi start from the dantian, go up the Ren meridian through the Twelve-Story Tower, then cross the Magpie Bridge, and return from the Du meridian, forming a cycle.

His current approach, in the eyes of any martial artist in this world, would definitely be a sign of a broken mind.

As mentioned earlier, martial artists absorb the world's primordial qi through breathing, allowing these primordial qi to circulate in the meridians according to certain rules, that is, the cultivation route recorded in the internal energy technique, and then process it and transform it into internal force that can be used by martial artists, and then store it in the dantian.

One borrows and one stores, clear and distinct. And Lu Jing's current approach is equivalent to borrowing internal force from the dantian, and then converting the internal force into primordial qi and storing it in the world.

Even a child who has just started learning martial arts would shout 'Wrong, wrong!' when they saw him doing this, and then cover their belly and laugh until their snot ran out.

It's just that there were too many treasures in that treasure trove. Just at the moment of opening the door, Lu Jing was almost buried by the gold ingots that rolled out towards him.

Lu Jing realized that he had to find a way to spend these gold ingots as soon as possible. Although he was still in too much pain to move at the moment, Lu Jing was no longer as panicked as before. Since those things could run according to the internal energy technique (although in reverse), Lu Jing would tentatively call them internal force.

And he happened to know a way to consume internal force the fastest, and that was to break through acupoints.

Zhang Sanfeng once told him that the easiest and most direct way to evaluate how high a martial arts expert's internal energy level was, was to see how many acupoints they had opened.

Opening half of the acupoints on the Ren meridian was considered a third-rate expert, and they could make a name for themselves in the martial world. Opening the entire Ren meridian was a second-rate expert, and almost everyone in the martial world would recognize them. As for opening both the Ren and Du meridians, they were mostly sect leaders and elders, or core members of a major force, and could be called first-rate experts, shaking one side.

Further up, all eight extraordinary meridians would be opened. This was an unparalleled martial arts genius, one in ten thousand. If the twelve regular meridians were added, then no one in the martial world, past or present, could do it, which shows how difficult it is to break through acupoints.

And to break through acupoints, one needs to accumulate internal force. Only when internal force has accumulated to a certain level is it possible to break through the relevant acupoints. Lu Jing had only just started for two days, so in theory, he could not reach the step of breaking through acupoints no matter what. But now, he was like an arrow on the string, and he had to break through whether he wanted to or not.

Not a drop left.