Chapter 3: The First Realization of Internal Qi
Chapter 3 Inner Qi Initial Enlightenment
There were twenty-three disciples in the Purple Extreme Martial Hall.
Chen Fan, as a new disciple, had to pay a tuition fee of ten taels of silver every month.
This was not a small amount of money.
One should know that he had only spent over a hundred taels of silver to buy a mansion in White Stone City.
It was also that he was quick with money.
Otherwise, he couldn’t afford to learn.
“Xiao Yun, take Chen Fan to the practice room and talk to him about the do’s and don’ts of cultivation.”
After He Tongyong accepted Chen Fan, he opened his mouth and rushed a fifteen or sixteen year old girl next to him.
Chen Fan had inquired about the martial arts center before coming to it.
He knew that the young girl’s name was He Yun and that she was He Yitong’s granddaughter.
“The fundamental method of our Purple Pole Martial Hall is called the Purple Pole True Cloud Technique.”
“This is the true visualization chart that carries the Purple Pole True Cloud Technique, as a disciple of the martial arts school, you can receive a free Concentration Incense from the martial arts school every day to aid in your visualization.”
He Yun brought Chen Fan to one of the practicing rooms of the martial hall and pointed to a set of purple ancient cloud patterns engraved on a strange black iron and said:
“Those with superior qualifications who visualize the Purple Extreme True Cloud Pattern will be able to get started in just a few days.”
“Those with medium qualifications will have to visualize it for ten days before they can get started and contain internal qi from their dantian.”
“Those with ordinary qualifications can also be initiated within a month.”
“Da …… you can first cultivate in the martial arts center for a month, if you can’t be initiated within a month, don’t be defeated.”
He Yun had wanted to call Chen Fan an uncle.
But once she thought that after Chen Fan was initiated, she would be a senior sister, she even controlled her mouth.
“…… Thank you, Junior Sister Xiaoyun.”
Chen Fan automatically filtered out the last sentence.
He knew nothing about cultivation.
After He Yun had finished speaking, he asked her for some more basic cultivation knowledge, and then after she left, he lit the Condensation Incense and sat down on the futon in the practicing room.
Wisps of the God Condensing Fragrance seeped into his body, and his eyes stared at the Purple Extreme True Cloud Diagram in front of him, and in a trance a purple cloud seemed to have appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.
“I make a wish to permanently enhance my martial artist qualifications.”
At the same time, Chen Fan perhaps made his wish for this day.
Immediately, as the wish was made, his spirit, along with his physical qualifications, enhanced by a fraction in an instant.
With the clouds and white smoke lingering around, Chen Fan immersed himself into the realization of the Purple Pole True Cloud Diagram.
Time passed.
Half an hour later, the Concentration Incense burned out.
Chen Fan also slowly woke up.
“Is this cultivation?”
He rubbed his brow and felt a swelling pain in his head.
Even along with his entire body, there was a burst of weakness.
According to He Yun, the cultivation of gongfu pursued the harmony and unity of essence and spirit.
When he could achieve the harmony and unity of essence, qi and spirit through visualization, the dantian in his body, would give birth to internal qi.
It was just that this process was extremely taxing on himself.
Especially since he was already over thirty years old, his essence had already started to decline, unlike young people who were so energetic, and after every consumption, if he wanted to recover, it would take him longer than when he was young.
Under these circumstances, it was unknown how long it would take for him to get started.
“Junior Sister Xiao Yun, I want to purchase a God Nurturing Incense and try the effects.”
After the cultivation ended, Chen Fan once again found He Yun.
Previously, He Yun had told him that the martial arts center had a God Nurturing Incense for sale.
Lighting the God Nourishing Incense while sleeping could speed up the recovery of a martial artist’s spiritual energy.
When used for a long period of time, it could even enhance the martial artist’s spiritual power.
“Alright, I’ll fetch it for you.”
A smile appeared on He Yun’s small face.
A single God Nurturing Incense cost one or two silver pieces.
Not many people in the martial arts center could afford it.
That’s a real fat goat.
“Here, seeing as you’re so rich, go back and eat something nice if you can.”
Soon after, Xiao Yun took a God Nourishing Incense and handed it over.
“Thank you, Senior Sister Xiao Yun, you speak so well.” Chen Fan took the God Nourishing Incense, looked the little girl up and down, and left the martial arts center.
“Is this person really in his thirties? It doesn’t look that old.”
“Thirty years old and still wants to learn martial arts, simply whimsical.” “Just wait, I guess after a month, he’ll give up.”
After Chen Fan left, the disciples in the martial arts center, all talked.
None of them looked favorably on Chen Fan.
Everyone felt that he was wasting his silver.
“Have a plate of beef in sauce, a plate of hand torn chicken, and a mix of cucumber.”
Leaving the martial arts hall, Chen Fan directly came to a restaurant, ordered a few small dishes, and ate while listening to the jianghu winds and lakes of the four parties of customers in the restaurant.
All of this was a very novel experience for him.
A brand new world.
A brand new life.
“Have you heard? Empty Picker Fu Qingying struck again in the city yesterday!”
“Struck again? Which family is he targeting this time?”
“Still the Qian family.”
“It’s still the Qian family, the Qian family wouldn’t have hidden any treasures for him to target, right?”
“Who knows, but this man’s lightness is really high, I heard that last night the head of the Qian Family invited the Vice Sect Master of the Iron Sword Sect to be their guest, and as a result, they didn’t even manage to capture him.”
“Light power ……”
Chen Fan listened to the crowd’s discussion and a pang of yearning came over him.
The body is like light smoke crossing the emerald mountains.
Floating like an immortal dancing in the long sky.
Who hasn’t fantasized about such a scene?
“I make a wish to permanently improve my martial arts qualifications.”
Before the early hours of that day, Chen Fan once again made a wish, and then he lit the God Nurturing Incense and fell into a deep sleep.
In the early morning, after he woke up, he only felt a surge of refreshment.
He moved his muscles and bones and felt that his strength seemed to have increased a bit when his martial artist qualifications were enhanced.
He then fetched a basin of washing water.
“It’s true that when people see hope, their essence starts to look different.”
After washing his face, he looked at his reflection bobbing in the water, and in a trance it was as if he felt like he had returned to his youth.
“Wow!”
He splashed the water in the yard with a clatter.
He then walked out of the mansion and went to the street to buy a few meat buns and a bowl of congee before arriving at the martial arts center refreshed.
“Junior sister Xiao Yun, good morning.”
Chen Fan greeted He Yun, who was practicing sword at the martial arts hall, and then he collected a Condensation Incense and went to the practice room.
“I make a wish to permanently improve my martial artist qualifications.”
“I wish to permanently ……”
Time passed day by day.
During these days, Chen Fan took a bath every day before going to bed.
He wondered if it was because he had the effect of Yi Shen Washing the marrow when he was improving his martial artist qualification.
He felt like his body was sticky every day.
However, as time passed, his body became better and better.
After more than twenty days passed in a row, he felt as if he had gotten a year or two younger.
“Senior brother, it will be a month after today, will you still come tomorrow?”
On this day, He Yun received a sugar gourd that Chen Fan brought to her and asked with a smile.
This month, Chen Fan had bought an extra God Nurturing Incense every day.
Sometimes he would also bring her delicious food.
It was simply rich and fat.
It’s just a pity that Chen Fan is too old.
If he wanted to cultivate internal qi, he might not be able to do so for two or three months.
“Of course.”
Chen Fan smiled and paid the next month’s tuition fee in passing.
Then he took the Concentration Incense and entered the practice room.
“Is this True Qi?”
A few days later, not long after Chen Fan had just visualized the Purple Extreme True Cloud Diagram, he felt a wisp of breath emerge from his dantian.
(End of chapter)