Chapter 46: The Secret of Passing Energy

"What vast internal energy!"

Zhang Jie was shocked by the vastness of Wuyazi's internal energy.

If his previous internal energy was a small puddle,

then Wuyazi's internal energy was at least a lake!

"Is this the effect of the Northern Dark Divine Art?"

Zhang Jie was shocked in his heart.

He felt that in terms of the vastness of internal energy, Wuyazi had already surpassed all the experts he knew.

Even if the Seven Heroes of Wudang were added together, he was afraid they wouldn't catch up to Wuyazi!

As for the founder of Wudang, Zhang Sanfeng?

Well, the Zhang Jie from the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, who was a small shrimp before, couldn't see the depth of Zhang Sanfeng at all.

Just as a person can measure the height of a big tree or even a high mountain, but it is difficult to know how high the sky is.

Zhang Sanfeng's feeling to Zhang Jie from the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber was empty and vast like the sky,

neither knowing how high it was, nor how wide it was...

"Good, the disciple's aptitude exceeds my expectations!" Wuyazi was pleasantly surprised in his heart.

Passing energy is not exclusive to the Xiaoyao Sect, nor is it a unique effect of the Northern Dark Divine Art.

As long as they are first-class experts in the Jianghu or have first-class secret manuals, they will more or less involve the secret of passing energy.

So why haven't peerless experts who have inherited hundreds of years of internal energy emerged after generations of inheritance?

The answer is that aptitude does not allow it.

If passing energy is compared to filling a bucket with water, then aptitude is the wooden bucket that holds the water.

The larger the wooden bucket, the more water it can hold.

Although internal energy has the effect of improving aptitude, the internal energy consumed to improve aptitude is too much.

For people with poor aptitude, sometimes it takes more than ten years of inherited internal energy to increase their internal energy limit by one year!

And after aptitude is improved to a certain extent, there will be a diminishing marginal effect,

that is, after reaching a certain height, the improvement of internal energy on aptitude is already negligible.

Another thing is that a person's physical endurance has a limit and cannot bear internal energy endlessly.

If someone can really inherit hundreds of years of internal energy,

either he is gifted, born with the strength to lift a tripod like the Overlord of Western Chu;

or he has practiced a peerless body-refining martial art like the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art to the peak.

Ordinary people who forcibly inherit hundreds of years of internal energy will have no other thought than exploding and dying.

The reason why he didn't pass his internal energy to Su Xinghe decades ago and let Su Xinghe take revenge for him,

on one hand, was that Su Xinghe was unwilling to see him die after passing energy,

on the other hand, it was also because Su Xinghe's aptitude was "too poor."

At that time, his Northern Dark Divine Art was only about forty years old, and it would be good if twenty years remained after passing it to Su Xinghe,

and twenty years of Northern Dark Divine Art had no absolute advantage against Ding Chunqiu's Dissolving Power Art.

Now Zhang Jie's aptitude exceeded his expectations,

seventy years of Northern Dark internal energy passed to Zhang Jie was afraid that fifty years could remain!

Fifty years of Northern Dark internal energy was enough to defeat Ding Chunqiu.

Wuyazi, who was comforted in his heart, focused even more on controlling the internal energy, striving to let Zhang Jie inherit more internal energy.

If Zhang Jie knew Wuyazi's thoughts, he would inevitably smile without saying anything.

Although he started as a beggar in this life and his aptitude was mediocre, he was a man with a cheat,

and with the help of Zhang Jie from the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber and Zhang Jie from the Water Margin, his aptitude had long become a dragon and phoenix among people.

As for passing energy, in Zhang Jie's eyes, internal energy can actually be divided into two types.

The first type is what Jianghu people often say, I have several decades of internal energy.

This kind of internal energy determines the upper limit of a martial artist, and Zhang Jie calls it foundation internal energy.

The other type is internal energy that can be quickly restored after consumption.

Zhang Jie directly abbreviates this kind of internal energy as consumption internal energy.

If the two types of internal energy are seen as a complete reservoir,

then foundation internal energy is the bricks, soil, and ground that determine the size, depth, and speed of water entering and leaving the reservoir.

And consumption internal energy is naturally the water in the reservoir.

What Jianghu people talk about practicing martial arts generally refers to expanding the water storage capacity of the extraordinary meridians and the dantian.

So, martial arts people are all bricklayers~

And passing energy is the energy passer directly passing foundation internal energy to the energy receiver to build a reservoir.

Just like in the process of moving bricks and building a reservoir, a part of the bricks is always consumed and wasted,

the foundation internal energy passed through energy passing will also be reduced by a part,

leading to the energy receiver's martial arts often being inferior to the energy passer's.

Some energy receivers don't even have the ground to build a reservoir,

leading the energy passer to have to sell a part of the bricks to buy the ground

(consuming foundation internal energy to build a foundation for him), thereby leading to a significant reduction in energy passing efficiency.

And those martial arts that are used to fight for one's life, and after being used, either the internal energy drops significantly, or the vitality is greatly damaged, and the lifespan is shortened,

such as the famous Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art, it is easy to understand.

When other martial arts are still releasing water to rush people,

such martial arts directly take out the bricks that make up the reservoir to smash people.

The same volume of water and the same volume of bricks, which one causes greater harm to people, is naturally self-evident.

A short while later, the matter of passing energy was finished, and Zhang Jie relaxed his whole body, discarding distracting thoughts.

He adopted the natural breathing method, and after his breath was peaceful, he guarded his dantian, guiding the internal energy to slowly condense at the dantian,

feeling the warmth in the dantian, as if a new force was being conceived.

After the internal energy in the dantian was sufficiently condensed, he began to try to run the internal energy along a specific meridian route.

Starting from the energy center, passing through the Huiyin acupoint, along the Governing meridian up to the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head,

then from the Baihui acupoint down to the Conception meridian, returning to the energy center, and so on, initially forming a small circulation.

Time passed slowly, and Zhang Jie had initially practiced the Northern Dark Divine Art.

The true qi in his body formed a vortex in the dantian that rotated from the outside to the inside at high speed,

and every acupoint in his whole body generated a vortex suction force.

This force can absorb other people's internal energy and turn it into Northern Dark True Qi.

Zhang Jie also found that the Northern Dark Divine Art, like Wudang Nine Yang, has both yin and yang,

and the Northern Dark True Qi is as scorching as a furnace, and as cold as ice several times over, and is compatible with all martial arts in the world;

it has the effect of being immune to all poisons and being fierce and domineering, and every attack is fierce and unparalleled, with great power.

The true qi protecting the body greatly increases defense, and when attacked, it can also vibrate the enemy back.

Zhang Jie, who had finished practicing, slowly opened his eyes.

Then he saw Wuyazi, who looked like he had aged more than ten years,

his originally smooth face covered with dense wrinkles,

and his beard and hair turned into a sickly pale color.

"Master..."

Zhang Jie's eye sockets couldn't help but get wet.

He knew that Wuyazi's life was entirely supported by these seventy years of Northern Dark internal energy.

Now that he had passed the Northern Dark internal energy to him, Wuyazi's life was also coming to an end.

Even if Zhang Jie had long known this ending,

and he had come specifically for the Northern Dark True Qi and the Northern Dark Divine Art,

but seeing this scene, he still couldn't remain indifferent.

After all, people are not grass or trees, who can be without feelings?

The short time he spent with Wuyazi,

made him feel a warmth he had never experienced in his ten years as a beggar.

"Foolish child, today the teacher is liberated, you should be happy for the teacher."

Wuyazi's face was not only without fear of death, but full of the joy of liberation.

For him, who was free and unrestrained, the decades of being trapped in this Leigu Mountain secret room were simply worse than death.

If it weren't for the internal energy still in his body, he, who was paralyzed, wouldn't even be able to control his bowel movements!

He was once an immortal-like person known as the Three Immortals of Xiaoyao together with his senior sister Wu Xingyun and junior sister Li Qiushui!

If it weren't for the burning hatred for the traitor Ding Chunqiu in his heart, and the fact that he couldn't let go of his disciple Su Xinghe, who had been respectful and served him for decades,

he would have liberated himself long ago.

Today, having received such a good disciple as Zhang Jie, revenge is promising,

and the revival of the Xiaoyao Sect is just around the corner, so he can die without regrets!

"Disciple, how many years of Northern Dark internal energy do you have?

If it is less than fifty years, you still need to practice for a few years, don't be in a hurry to find Ding Chunqiu.

That rebellious disciple's Dissolving Power Art cannot be underestimated since he obtained the Divine Wood King Cauldron."

Wuyazi, who was afraid that Zhang Jie, a young man, would not be able to hold his temper, reminded him.

At the same time, a look of solemnity flashed in his eyes.

He didn't expect that Ding Chunqiu would actually create the Dissolving Power Art just by relying on the words revealed by his junior sister Li Qiushui without being taught the Northern Dark Divine Art.

Such talent, coupled with the help of the Divine Wood King Cauldron, a rare treasure,

Ding Chunqiu, who had practiced for decades, was afraid that he was only one step away from being a top expert.

Not to mention that Ding Chunqiu's most terrifying aspect was his poison art that combined martial arts and poison.

Under his highly toxic poison, even a top expert would be hit if they were not careful.

"Reporting to Master, I have inherited about sixty years of internal energy."

Zhang Jie roughly estimated and came to this answer.

"What? So much?"

Wuyazi frowned and fell into deep thought.

"This is not very possible!"

Wuyazi muttered to himself in disbelief.

This does not conform to the basic laws of passing energy!

Even if his master Xiaoyaozi passed energy to him back then, it consumed almost one-third.

Back then, Master Xiaoyaozi specifically passed ten years of energy to him as a foundation when he entered the sect.

Even so, the energy he got was only barely more than six years, less than seven years.

"Could it be that Zhang Jie's talent far exceeds his own?"

Wuyazi couldn't figure it out and attributed the problem to aptitude.

Zhang Jie had some guesses about this:

Of course, his aptitude in this life did not far exceed Wuyazi's, but his body,

and the Nine Yang Divine Art internal energy that Wuyazi had just absorbed had been shared through the shared space.

With the great power of the shared space, even if the magic power of the Xianxia world,

the chaos power of the Primordial Demon God, the divine power of the Coiled Dragon world gods,

and the magic power of the magic world were all fused together without any consumption, Zhang Jie would not be surprised.

Not to mention the mere Northern Dark Divine Art true qi? ===== CHAPTER 47 =====

What's more, what is the mere true Qi of the Great Yin-Yang Art?