Chapter 55: Nourishing Spirit, Nourishing Meridians

Zhaoyang Peak! Su Fan sat on the stone block at the highest mountain peak, practicing to absorb the purple energy of heaven and earth that was slowly dissipating between heaven and earth.

Ten years of uninterrupted practice of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, the first volume and the fourth volume, had already been practiced by him to a very profound level.

The more he practiced this Purple Cloud Divine Skill, the more Su Fan felt the wonder of this martial art, and because of the cheat, his understanding of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill was even above Ning Qingyu's.

At the same time, he also began to practice the second volume of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill. The second volume of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill was the Nourishing Chapter, using the gentle internal energy practiced by the Purple Cloud Divine Skill to nourish the meridians, and even the internal organs.

When Su Fan obtained the second volume of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, his admiration for the Purple Cloud Divine Skill in his heart was even greater.

The Nine Yin Manual remnant internal energy he obtained from the Chongyang Inscription, the Tendon Changing and Bone Forging Chapter, could enhance the ability of tendons and bones, but it had no effect on nourishing meridians.

Not to mention nourishing the internal organs, it was no different from other internal energy methods of the Huashan Sect. Of course, perhaps the general outline of the Nine Yin Manual had it; after all, the Nine Yin Manual belonged to the Taoist true canon, and most of the Taoist martial arts had some effects of nourishing the body and origin.

The Purple Cloud Divine Skill was different; the second volume specifically had such a method.

Nourishing meridians, for martial artists, the benefits didn't need to be said. When martial artists fight, sometimes when they explode, internal energy will damage the meridians.

Before the innate realm, martial artists could not achieve internal vision and naturally could not clearly see everything in their own meridians, only relying on perception.

General major injuries could be perceived, but slight meridian damage was often ignored.

In this way, over time, more and more accumulated, and after reaching a certain age, it suddenly erupted.

This was also why many martial artists, once they reached a certain age, often had old injuries recur, leading to an inability to die of old age.

Some famous experts disappeared without a trace after a period of time, all for this reason.

Nourishing the internal organs was even more extraordinary. As human organs, as a person of later generations, Su Fan knew very well that to live a long life, the functions of the internal organs must be normal.

Why did those rich people in the West strengthen medical care? Wasn't it because they wanted medical technology to be developed so they could live longer?

Those rich people, especially the old ones, had mostly changed their organs.

From the classics of Huashan, Su Fan discovered some points of view from his predecessors, that is, if the internal organs are prosperous, people can often live longer.

Even at the moment of breaking the heaven and earth dual bridges and introducing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, it will wash the marrow and cut the meridians, and at the same time, it will wash the internal organs in the body, making them younger.

So innate martial artists can often live an extra sixty years.

For example, Sanfeng Zhenren, it is said that he lived to be over 150 years old, and then disappeared. No one knew whether he died of old age or retired to the mountains and forests.

The second volume of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, nourishing the internal organs, naturally didn't have the effect of heaven and earth spiritual energy filling the body, washing the marrow and cutting the meridians, but the nourishment accumulated over the years would make the body's functions increasingly powerful.

For longevity, it was still very helpful.

However, although the second volume had such divine help, it was not without shortcomings, that is, it was extremely consuming of internal energy.

The internal energy you practice in a day is estimated to be not enough for consumption.

Ordinary people really couldn't stand it.

But the effect was indeed extraordinary, which could be seen from Ning Qingyu's face. Ten years had passed, and now Ning Qingyu was already over 70.

But his body was still strong, even better than the Great Elder Zhou Qingyun ten years ago, especially his face, which didn't look like he was over 70 at all, at most not even 60.

Later in the Xiaoao world, the introduction of Yue Buqun was also like this, seeming to be more than ten years younger.

Besides this, the third volume of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill was to melt foreign internal energy, which was nothing.

But these four volumes of the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, combined together, were absolutely a divine skill, a top-level divine skill.

Of course, because of its characteristics, in terms of accumulating internal energy, it had no advantages. Perhaps in many people's eyes, this internal energy method was not as good as other internal energy methods.

After all, this martial arts world relied on strength. What is strength? Your internal energy is stronger than others, and your martial arts are more profound than others.

The Purple Cloud Divine Skill didn't have such an advantage.

But Su Fan was different. Su Fan wouldn't look at it this way, and he had a cheat, which could accelerate cultivation. This divine skill was simply too suitable for him.

In ten years, Su Fan's internal energy cultivation had also reached that of a veteran first-class expert from an initial first-class.

Ten years ago, he barely completed the small heavenly circuit and opened up the twelve standard meridians, but now, he had already opened up six extraordinary meridians. Except for the Ren and Du meridians, which were not open, the other six meridians had all been opened.

Just in terms of the depth of internal energy, it was not worse than those top-tier experts. The only difference was that they opened the Ren and Du meridians, the internal energy in their bodies began to transform into true energy, and at the same time, the heavenly circuit was connected, and the recovery was not something Su Fan could compare to now.

Unlike the choices of ordinary martial artists, ordinary martial artists, after breaking through to first-class, often chose to open the Ren and Du meridians first, so that they could promote to the top-tier ranks as quickly as possible.

But Su Fan didn't. It wasn't that he didn't have this ability; if he wanted to, he could have opened the Ren and Du meridians five years ago.

But after reading the books of Huashan, he found that the extraordinary meridians had heavy descriptions of the Ren and Du meridians, especially the final breakthrough to the innate realm.

It was best to choose to open the heaven and earth dual bridges immediately after opening the Ren and Du meridians, so the possibility of breaking through to the innate realm would be higher.

Otherwise, if you open the Ren and Du meridians first, the subsequent heaven and earth dual bridges would seem to form a heavenly gate of shackles, which was more difficult than the former.

Of course, this was also a conjecture put forward by predecessors. As for whether it was true, no one had tried it.

After all, being able to reach the top-tier a little earlier had great benefits for the improvement of the Huashan Sect. As for the innate realm, many people didn't have this idea.

After all, since the Southern Song Dynasty, there had been very few who reached the innate realm. Those who could become innate were all proud sons of heaven.

Su Fan was willing to try. He had a great desire for the innate realm.

And the current Huashan Sect wouldn't be in any danger because he wasn't top-tier.

In these ten years, the Demonic Cult's strength declined due to the righteous and evil great battle, and Shaolin was even more so due to the Demonic Cult's attack ten years ago, which led to the fall of several top-tier experts, so it could only quietly lick its wounds.

Wudang hadn't changed, but they only operated in their own territory and didn't have any actions because of the Huashan Sect's expansion.

After all, the Huashan Sect only exited Guanzhong, entered Luoyang, and peeked at the Central Plains.

That was Shaolin's business, and they wouldn't be nosy.

They were more concerned about how to take back what had been taken away by the Demonic Cult back then. ===== CHAPTER 56 =====