Chapter 46: The Beginning of Cultivation: Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment

After confirming that breathing rhythm could indeed influence the vital life energy, Li Li Boyang soon discovered a new problem.

That was that his own situation was very special and could not be used as a normal template for reference.

Even excluding the influence of the Ruifu Curse.

Before Li Li Boyang was born, he had already absorbed enough "Innate Qi," so his body's development and potential far exceeded those of normal ordinary humans.

From the perspective of the Third Eye in his forehead, the vital life energy within Li Li Boyang's body was surging, as hot and vigorous as a furnace fire.

In contrast, the Eldest Girl, who had long endured hunger and starvation.

Her vital life energy was so weak it was like a flame that might extinguish at any moment.

Li Li Boyang only needed to simply adjust his breathing to clearly notice the flow and changes of the vital life energy.

Yet the same breathing rhythm on the Eldest Girl actually made her vital life energy flow even more faintly.

With no choice, Li Li Boyang could only use the Eldest Girl herself as a template, teaching her step by step how to regulate the vital life energy within her body.

First, starting with eating.

The goal was to eat until full and eat well, yet not overeat due to greed.

In this process, Xi Luo's contribution was the most obvious.

The meat and herbs from the mountain beasts provided the best nutritional supplementation for the Eldest Girl, who was already in her growth phase.

Secondly, Li Li Boyang targetedly changed the Eldest Girl's daily routine and behavioral patterns.

For children who were naturally fond of play, this was undoubtedly the most challenging part.

Fortunately, Li Li Boyang employed a carrot-and-stick training method.

After passing the initial stage, the vital life energy within the Eldest Girl's body quickly underwent a qualitative transformation.

While learning the second version of the "Exercise-Type Vital Life Energy Regulation Breathing Method," the Eldest Girl experienced for the first time the sensation of vital life energy flowing within her body.

That increasingly powerful vital life energy finally no longer needed Li Li Boyang's guidance or reminders to be clearly felt.

Because of this, the Eldest Girl was delighted for nearly half a month.

As long as one could feel the flow of vital life energy, the subsequent matters followed naturally.

Referring to the meridians and Daoist alchemy theories from his past life, combined with his own trial-and-error experience.

Li Li Boyang taught the Eldest Girl to bind that flowing vital life energy within the meridians, rather than letting it scatter meaninglessly outside the body.

Of course, this was not because Li Li Boyang did not want to achieve the goal in one step, directly having the Eldest Girl merge the vital life energy into her dantian.

Rather, Li Li Boyang was shocked to discover that not everyone was born with clear and unobstructed meridians like himself.

As long as one is human, the body inevitably has defects and ailments.

These defects and ailments would affect the permeability of the meridians—when unblocked there is no pain, when blocked there is pain.

This is a very simple common sense in Traditional Chinese Medicine theory, and it holds true in this world as well.

Thus, to unblock the meridians within the Eldest Girl's body that were no longer permeable due to various reasons.

Li Li Boyang deployed all means including exercise, dietary supplementation, and therapeutic care, creating a customized training regimen specifically using exercise to alter breathing rhythm.

This process took approximately one year.

Only then did the vital life energy circulation within the Eldest Girl become smooth, barely sufficient to form the most basic Great Cycle.

Since then, even without Li Li Boyang's help, the Eldest Girl could convert her body's blood and qi into vital life energy and then merge it into the dantian through the meridian system.

Also starting from that day, the Eldest Girl gradually began to show aspects that were different from ordinary people.

Unobstructed meridians meant immunity to a hundred diseases.

The Eldest Girl, who was originally emaciated and sickly, grew strong at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The various meats and herbs the Eldest Girl ate into her stomach were converted into nutrients for her growth with extremely high efficiency.

Running all over the mountains and fields with Li Li Boyang on her back became the Eldest Girl's daily routine during that period.

Mountain beasts that encountered the Eldest Girl during that period.

Forget about hunting her; it was already their good fortune if they weren't caught and beaten up by her.

Cunning as a fox, swift as a leopard, fierce as a tiger, mighty as an ox, brutal as a bear...

This was the Eldest Girl who had completed the first stage of cultivation—a "Qi Refiner" who could already skillfully bind vital life energy within her body.

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"I call this 'Refining Essence into Qi,' and this stage is called 'Hundred-Day Foundation Establishment'."

"For us, who are naturally divine, with abundant Innate Qi, we skipped this stage at birth."

"But for ordinary people like the Eldest Girl to reach our level..."

"... they must return to the origin, transforming their Postnatal body back into a Prenatal body."

Decisively blocking out the vocabulary in Li Li Boyang's words that she did not understand, Xi Luo understood "Refining Essence into Qi" in her own way.

"Simply put, you have artificially created a 'Power User'."

"Although this Power User possesses no innate supernatural abilities, this physical constitution has indeed reached the standard of a spirit beast."

Just as Xi Luo finished muttering softly, she suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Wait, didn't I just ask about something else?"

"This girl's physical constitution now long ago far exceeds that of spirit beasts, and isn't much worse than mine?"

Ordinary spirit beasts might be much stronger than wild beasts.

But they absolutely could not do what the Eldest Girl did: climb and leap, run along eaves and walls, treating cliffs as if they did not exist.

"So this is the content I added to the seventh version of the Breathing Method—how to correctly utilize vital life energy."

Li Li Boyang proudly shook his head; this was new content he had suddenly thought of after a flash of inspiration one time.

"Binding vital life energy within the meridians can indeed subconsciously strengthen one's body, even making one less prone to aging than ordinary people."

"But those are ultimately just passive effects, not actively using that vital life energy."

"Big Ya Tou is not like you and me, favored by Heaven and Earth, where the Primordial Qi responds actively to our thoughts and intentions, thereby uncovering a unique innate divine ability..."

"So, how exactly is she to actively utilize that Life Primordial Qi?"

Pausing slightly, Li Li Boyang looked at Xi Luo, who had fallen into deep thought, and continued to explain.

"The answer is the conscious, active control of the flow of Life Primordial Qi..."

"And then allowing that Life Primordial Qi to break free from the constraints of the meridians, returning once more into the flesh and blood."

"Life Primordial Qi originates from the flesh and blood itself; it is the product of refined Qi and blood energy."

"Therefore, allowing the Life Primordial Qi to circulate actively within the flesh and blood, replacing the function of Qi and blood, can naturally greatly enhance physical strength and the speed of self-healing."

"Furthermore, during the flow of Life Primordial Qi, a special effect similar to 'Body-Protecting Aura' will form on Big Ya Tou's body surface."

Hearing Li Li Boyang speak, he raised his hand as he talked.

Invisible sword Qi protecting the body naturally covered his palm, presenting a sharpness capable of cleaving steel and severing iron.

"Although that 'Body-Protecting Aura' is not as domineering and sharp as the 'Body-Protecting Sword Qi'..."

"... it is sufficient to ensure that even if she falls from a cliff or a steep precipice, she will not be instantly killed by the fall."

"For you and me, this is an instinct born with us."

"But for Big Ya Tou, this is a skill that must be learned through arduous training."

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