Chapter 22 – Cultivation in the Lake
Chapter 22 – Cultivation in the Lake
“Here.”
Chen Fan followed his memories and before long, he arrived at the cold spring where the Black Scaled Xuan Snake’s old nest was located.
He thought about it and parked the small boat on the shore.
“Brush!”
He then performed the Light Shadow Skimming Steps, and with a few dragonfly dips on the lake surface, he was in a position to dive headfirst.
“Gulp!”
Large bubbles rose from the lake water.
Chen Fan dived all the way down.
Soon, he arrived at the bottom of the lake.
The huge corpse of the Black Scaled Xuan Snake, as well as the cold and bone piercing cold spring, appeared in front of him.
“This is the feeling!”
As soon as he arrived here, Chen Fan felt the internal qi in his dantian become sluggish as it was running.
However, in the face of this situation, Chen Fan was not only not shocked, but instead, he was overjoyed.
This was the result he wanted.
“I wonder how long it will take for me to break through to the Houtian Realm by practicing here.”
Chen Fan pondered.
This little problem, all he needed to do was to make a small wish and he should be able to know.
Just like back then, when he made a wish to ask himself how much he could increase his lifespan at a time if he increased it through wishing, he immediately received an answer.
However, asking such a question was a complete waste for him.
Chen Fan landed his gaze on the corpse of the Black Scaled Xuan Snake not far away.
Brush!
He walked over to the corpse of the Black Scaled Xuan Snake, and with a single reach of his hand, he took out his precious sword and cut along the gaps of the Black Scaled Xuan Snake’s scale armor.
When the Black Scaled Xuan Snake was alive, its defense was extremely strong.
It was Li Chaofeng, who also went through a lot of trouble to kill it.
But after its death, Chen Fan avoided the scale armor on its body and quickly cut off a piece of snake meat from its body.
“That should be enough.”
After Chen Fan cut off the snake meat, his body swam towards the lake with a single vertical movement.
“Wow!”
Chen Fan drilled out of the water, and with a clap of one hand, he rose up into the air.
He then made a few nods of the water and arrived at the shore.
“The Purple Extreme True Cloud Technique can operate on its own without me having to bother with it, all I need to do is head to the bottom of the lake and keep approaching the cold springs to purify my internal qi.”
“During this period of time, I’ll just be able to successfully cultivate the Iron Body Technique.”
Chen Fan searched for some firewood and after lighting it, he put the snake meat on it to roast.
While roasting, he took out the seasonings and other things he bought when he left Ying Yue Town and sprinkled them on top of the snake meat.
Soon, the roasted snake meat that emitted a rich aroma was ready.
“Gudu gudu!”
Chen Fan gulped down the wine and ate the meat.
The instinct of life was to live.
But when one lived, it was natural to pursue a more comfortable lifestyle.
“It really works!”
Soon, Chen Fan took a large piece of snake meat and ate it all into his stomach.
As these pieces of snake meat went into his stomach, he immediately felt a gush of warmth surfacing in his abdomen.
“Time to cultivate!”
Chen Fan flew up and once again arrived at the bottom of the lake.
Just as he reached the bottom of the lake, the piercing icy cold made his body tremble.
He endured the coldness and gradually emptied his mind, visualizing the statue in the Iron Body Visualization Diagram in his mind.
The lifelike black iron statue quickly surfaced.
As it emerged, the internal qi in Chen Fan’s body slowly separated out and began to follow a special route, lighting up one of the acupoints in his body one after another.
The cultivation of internal energy required the internal qi to travel through the meridians.
The cultivation of external martial arts, on the other hand, required internal qi to light up the acupoints.
Therefore even if both were practiced at the same time, there was no risk of going overboard.
At the bottom of the quiet and cold lake, Chen Fan was fully immersed in his cultivation. With his internal qi protecting his body, even if he didn’t breathe, it was enough for him to stay at the bottom of the lake for a few hours.
“Is this the cultivation of external energy?”
As he cultivated, Chen Fan realized that with every acupoint he lit up, the location corresponding to that acupoint became a little tougher.
“So this is the mystery of the Iron Body Technique.”
Chen Fan felt the metamorphosis of his body and instantly became more focused.
“Huh?”
Suddenly, as Chen Fan lit up the acupoints in his body, one by one.
He abruptly felt that the snake meat he had eaten into his stomach earlier, converted into warmth, slowly flowed into these acupoints as well.
With that, he felt that his body’s speed was slightly enhanced.
“It really is a good treasure!”
……
“Oh no, I forgot to tell old brother Chen!”
In White Stone City, just as Chen Fan started practicing the Iron Body Technique, Lu Tingyi abruptly thought of something and his face changed.
He stood up and was about to head out.
But halfway there, he remembered that Chen Fan had already left White Stone City.
And Chen Fan hadn’t given him any indication of where he was going.
“Damn it, if old brother Chen doesn’t know the key to the Iron Body Technique, I’ll be a sinner!”
Lu Tingyi’s face was ugly.
Originally, he would not have forgotten such a thing.
It was just that Chen Fan suddenly said that its only taken less than an incense stick time to complete the Iron Body Technique’s visualization, which instantly confused him.
“The original version of the Iron Body Technique, when practicing, one has to light up three hundred and sixty-five acupoints all over the body, and when all the acupoints are lighted up, the body quality will be enhanced little by little until the upper and lower part of the circumference of the body, is as hard as steel ……”
“But cultivating like this, the speed is too slow.”
“It is possible to cultivate for a lifetime and only be able to cultivate the Iron Body Technique to the introductory realm.”
“The Iron Body Technique of the introductory realm, not to mention steel, is not even comparable to an unfired brick.”
“The whole body is hard, but not as hard as one place.”
“Therefore, some practitioners of the Iron Body Technique give up most of their acupoints when they cultivate, choosing to cultivate only a small portion.”
“Cultivating in this way, it may only take a few years to cultivate the Iron Body Technique to the Grand Completion Realm, and achieve the ability to use one’s own body to fight against divine weapons.”
Lu Tingyi recited.
This was what the previous owner of the Iron Body Martial School had told him when he first learned this technique.
And what he had chosen to do in the first place was to cultivate only the acupoints on his arms.
It was also for this reason that he would still be known as Iron Arm.
“Now I can only hope that Chen Fan won’t spend too long on this technique.”
Lu Tingyi shook his head.
In the Iron Body Martial School, this was something that everyone knew.
But no one mentioned it, and it would be too difficult for Chen Fan to think of that on his own.
One must know that he had been practicing the Iron Body Technique for more than twenty years.
After so many years had passed, he had only been able to cultivate his two-armed Iron Body Technique, to the Small Completion Realm.
As for the Grand Completion, in the Iron Body Martial Hall, only some martial artists who chose to cultivate the Double Palm Acupuncture Points, or the Ten Finger Acupuncture Points, were able to do so.
Further up to the Perfection realm, in the Iron Body Martial Hall, it hadn’t appeared for decades.
……
“Three hundred and sixty-five acupoints, all of them are finally lit up.”
Reflecting the Moon Lake, Chen Fan had only just practiced for an hour when he felt a burst of hunger coming from his stomach.
But what accompanied the hunger was the huge progress he had made in a short period of time.
He didn’t know how long it took for other people to be initiated into practicing the Iron Body Technique.
But he, just by gently pointing with his inner qi, all those acupoints in his body were lit up.
It seemed that all of these acupoints were originally in a half-open state.
All that was needed was a trigger, and they could all be opened.
(End of chapter)