Chapter 152: Check for omissions and fill in the gaps, the true solution to the way of swordsmanship
(Chapter 151 has been released, contains very important information)
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Such a strange and strong feeling arose in his body, which made Meng Zhou feel awe-struck.
Without much thought, he wanted to put it back into his dantian again. He also thought in his mind that he could not take it out hastily before he understood the reason.
At this moment, a strange scene happened.
This drop of "life marrow" taken out from the Dantian did not return to the Dantian as he thought, but was "cut off" by the Dantian.
When the essence of life was about to enter the Dantian, a strong sense of hunger suddenly came out of the Dantian, which was very similar to the "emotion" coming out of the palm just now.
Then, Dantian directly swallowed this drop of "life marrow". Before Meng Zhou could make any further reaction, the strong and strange vitality contained in this drop of life marrow quickly spread throughout the Dantian meridians, and
Completely integrated into it.
Instantly, Meng Zhou felt a strange feeling in his heart.
Originally, the Dantian meridians, which were completely integrated and flawless, now had many cracks and defects in his heart.
What's even more amazing is that Meng Zhou can still vaguely feel what method should be used to fill this lack.
Meng Zhou closed his eyes and carefully realized the changes brought about by this drop of life essence. Then he opened his eyes and looked at the strange changes that had occurred in his personal information.
I saw that in the [Talent] item, other information has not changed, only the original "White Lotus Spirit Body (Incomplete)" has become the current "White Lotus Spirit Body 45% (+)".
Meng Zhou's eyes swept across a large number of perfect skills, and he was indifferent to the others, but he had a special reaction to six of them.
Among these six skills, four are all at the second level, namely "Perfection of the Elimination of Impurities", "Perfection of the Harmonious Wind Technique", "Perfection of the Spirit-raising Pill", and "Perfection of the Life-Extension Pill".
There are also two first-level ones, "Puiyuan Dan Perfection" and "Breaking Realm Dan Perfection".
Among them, the strongest response is to the first-level "Pui Yuan Dan Perfection", followed by the first-level "Breaking Realm Dan Perfection", the second-level "Shengling Dan Perfection", the second-level "Life-Extension Dan Perfection", and again the second-level "Shengshou Dan Perfection".
The first level is "Perfection in the Art of Dispelling Impurities", and the last is the second level "Perfection in the Art of Harmony".
"The reason for the strongest response to Peiyuan Dan is that compared to several other skills, is this skill the most compatible with the White Lotus Spirit Body?"
Meng Zhou thought for a while and decided to follow the guidance of induction and focus his consciousness on the first-level skill of "Puiyuan Dan Perfection".
Soon, the perfect true form of the Peiyuan Pill appeared in the soul pool, and there was a just right attraction in the Dantian.
Under this attraction, the true form of Peiyuan Dan's perfect skill disappeared into the soul pool and blended into the Dantian.
"White Lotus Spirit Body 45% (+)" With this change, the value increased by two percentage points and became "White Lotus Spirit Body 47% (+)".
Then, Meng Zhou focused his attention on the "Perfection of the Dantian", and soon, another true form was attracted to Dantian and transformed into the Dantian meridians.
This time, Meng Zhou could sense more clearly that the attraction coming from the Dantian area had weakened a lot.
"Is the degree of compatibility reduced, or is the effect of the drop of life essence weakened?" Meng Zhou thought in his mind.
And as this true form was integrated into the Dantian meridians, the White Lotus spirit body took a further step, increasing from 47% to 48%, an increase of one percentage point.
Compared with the progress provided by Peiyuan Dan, it is somewhat lower.
Meng Zhou had many guesses in his mind, but since there was too little evidence, they could only be guesses, so he decided to continue.
Therefore, Meng Zhou aimed at the second-level "Spirit Ascension Pill Perfection".
As the true form of this skill appears in the soul pool, and is attracted by the attraction emanating from the Dantian, the true form once again transforms into the Dantian meridians.
The White Lotus spirit body was able to go one step further, increasing from "48%" to "52%", another increase of four percentage points.
"The progress of fusion is related to the degree of compatibility, and also related to the skill level."
Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.
And as the true form of this skill was integrated, Meng Zhou's special sense of the remaining perfect skills also disappeared.
His consciousness was once again focused on the "Perfection of the Life-Extension Pill", the "Perfection of the Art of Dispelling Impurities", and the "Perfection of the Harmonious Wind Technique". Their true forms also appeared in the soul pool, but the Dantian meridians became "indifferent".
Nor does it exude any special appeal.
In the personal information, the (+) behind the White Lotus Spirit Body also disappeared.
"The compatibility between these skills and the White Lotus Spirit Body is far from reaching the level of automatic attraction like the Myogenic Technique. It must be assisted by special spiritual objects such as the Soul Marrow to increase the attraction.
The special effects of the Life Essence will also be continuously weakened in this process until they disappear."
Meng Zhou analyzed in his mind.
"When a great realm is broken through, the state of life changes from closed to briefly open. During this period, the state of life is most easily interfered with and rewritten."
"The effect of this spiritual marrow is that in ordinary times, with the help of special spiritual objects, it can forcefully open a hole in this closed life state?"
"However, compared to what can be achieved through a major breakthrough, this method is more limited."
It is worth mentioning that this strange change was brought about by the Life Essence itself and has nothing to do with Meng Zhou's panel plug-in.
Before checking his personal information, Meng Zhou had already had a similar realization, but that realization was more vague and not presented in such a clear digital form.
Personal information only more accurately quantifies the changes brought about by the essence of life.
Combining his own experience and the "reminders" of personal information, Meng Zhou's thoughts were whirling, and various insights were presented in his heart.
"The second-level Spring Water Sutra has reached perfection from the master's breakthrough. The innate ability of this technique has transformed from 'life dew' to 'life marrow'."
"On the basis of inheriting all the abilities of 'Life Dew' and further sublimating them, 'Life Marrow' has a new, extraordinary ability."
After some thought, Meng Zhou called this ability "checking for leaks and filling in gaps."
Meng Zhou felt it carefully and could clearly feel that compared with before the three perfect forms were integrated this time, the innate ability of the White Lotus spirit body had been significantly improved.
Meng Zhou looked at the other two drops of unused soul essence deep in his dantian, and wanted to continue to experience how much the White Lotus spirit body would be "repaired" if the remaining three skills were integrated into their true form.
But soon, Meng Zhou restrained his curiosity.
Instead, he took another drop in his hand and felt that after the palm came into contact with the soul dew, he felt the instinctive hunger again. Meng Zhou did not resist anymore, but allowed the drop of the soul marrow to blend into the palm and quickly spread throughout his limbs.
Hundreds of skeletons.
He now knows that this feeling of hunger does not come from the palms or a certain part of the body, but from the mutual attraction of the incomplete spiritual bodies to the living marrow.
This powerful attraction is like a magnet meeting iron. It does not mean that the palm of your hand really has an uncontrolled consciousness.
After understanding this, Meng Zhou breathed a long sigh of relief.
And as this drop of soul dew spread into his limbs and bones, his body that originally felt complete suddenly gave him a feeling of being pieced together and leaking everywhere.
It's like a broken porcelain bowl has been forcibly pieced together. Not only are the traces of the pieces clearly visible, but there are also a lot of missing parts, which makes it look very unbearable.
In personal information, this change is reflected in the fact that "Various Spirit Body (Incomplete)" has become "Various Spirit Body 61% (+)".
Among a large number of perfection skills, Meng Zhou had a special feeling for many perfection skills at this moment.
Among them, Cunbu is the most important, followed by the art of transformation, transformation of objects, flying consciousness, flying escape, earth escape, water escape, shadow escape, invisibility, stealth, and locking.
Acacia technique.
From a certain perspective, compared to the more pure "White Lotus Spirit Body", the "Various Spirit Body" is originally a bit of a hodgepodge.
At first, it was a incomplete form that was forcibly fused with more than a dozen perfect martial arts.
Later, many second-level perfect skills were gradually integrated into the true form, including the art of controlling objects, armor and shields, the three innate skills, the roar of the peaks, the tyrannical ape body, etc.
For this reason, after being digitized, the incomplete Variety Spirit Body is more complete than the White Lotus Spirit Body, has a higher degree of compatibility with it, and has many skills that can create special feelings in his heart.
Following the feeling in his heart, Meng Zhou first integrated Cunbu's true form into his body.
The ever-changing spirit body increased by four percentage points, from "61%" to "65%".
Then, Meng Zhou incorporated the true form of the shape-shifting technique into it, and the integrity of the ever-changing spirit body increased by another three percentage points, from "65%" to "68%".
With these two integrations, the "+" disappeared, and the effect of this drop of life essence was exhausted.
"Although the White Lotus spirit body has been integrated three times, twice it was the true form of the first-level skill, and the progress provided was smaller."
"Looking at the extent of progress alone, the effect of a drop of Life Essence is the same, both increased by seven percentage points."
"The effects of different skills' true forms are also different, which should be related to the degree of fit.
...However, the observation sample is too small, and these are just guesses."
Thinking in his mind, Meng Zhou looked at the last drop of life essence in his dantian.
Meng Zhou already had the answer in his mind as to where the last drop should go.
Now that the various spirit bodies and the white lotus spirit body have been digitized through the living soul marrow, of course the last drop must be "fed" to the natural sword body.
but--
"How should I accurately 'feed' this drop of living soul marrow to the natural sword body?"
Thinking in his mind, a long sword appeared in Meng Zhou's hand.
This is a hand-held magic sword he made from steel scale wood.
When he held it in his hand, he focused his consciousness on the junction between his palm and the hilt. Gradually, Meng Zhou felt that his consciousness seemed to have entered the sword in his hand, extending bit by bit towards the sword body.
Finally, his consciousness seemed to be focused on the tip of the sword.
It was also during this process that Meng Zhou gradually grasped another hidden spirit body in his body that was different from the "White Lotus Spirit Body" and the "Variety-Changing Spirit Body".
Compared with these two spiritual bodies, it is deeper and lighter, and it is harder for him to grasp it in daily life.
A drop of life essence disappeared from the depths of Dantian and appeared in front of Meng Zhou. Meng Zhou tapped it gently with the tip of his sword.
The moment the soul marrow comes into contact with the tip of the sword, it is like being directed into an invisible straw and quickly disappears.
Meng Zhou clearly felt that this drop of spiritual essence was quickly transferred into his palm after being hit by the tip of the sword.
Then, it follows the palm of one's hand, blends into one's own muscles and bones, and is also smeared in the Dantian meridians.
Soon, a wonderful feeling filled Meng Zhou's heart again.
"Natural Sword Body (Incomplete)" became "Natural Sword Body 9% (+)"
"No wonder, although the three spirit bodies are all incomplete, the sword body is the most severely damaged."
Compared to the other two spirit bodies, this sword body incorporates the least swordsmanship skills during the process of practicing Qi and breaking through the foundation.
At the same time, Meng Zhou had a very strong reaction to the two sword-control techniques of "Shadow Killing Sword Code" and "Spectral Shadow Transformation".
He didn't resist at all, he followed this feeling and integrated the two sword-controlling skills into the perfect form.
What surprised Meng Zhou was that the two true forms of swordsmanship each brought him a 5% improvement. After the integration of the two swordsmanship skills, the integrity of the natural sword body increased by a full ten percentage points.
Although it is still the most incomplete compared to the other two spirits, it has also made the greatest progress.
And as the true form of these two swordsmanships merged, the "+" disappeared, and the effect of this drop of life essence ended there.
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[Talents: Moon Mirror Round Light, Heart of Nature, Life Essence, Variety Spirit Body 68%, White Lotus Spirit Body 52%, Natural Sword Body 19%]
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The three drops of life essence condensed during the retreat were all consumed, but Meng Zhou was still unfulfilled.
Deep in the Dantian, there is a steady stream of rich vitality coming out of the abundant mana, and new life marrow is slowly being nurtured.
Meng Zhou's heart moved and he took out the sealing jade bottle.
There are still sixteen drops of life dew stored inside, which have not been used.
He took out a drop and put it back into his Dantian.
As soon as this drop of life dew enters the Dantian, it immediately loses the ability to maintain its complete form and once again transforms into the perfect level of Spring Water Sutra mana.
At the same time, the condensation speed of the soul marrow suddenly accelerated.
Soon, one-tenth of a drop of spiritual essence was born deep in the Dantian.
"It's doable!" Meng Zhou was delighted when he saw this.
Hurry up and put more Soul Dew back into your Dantian.
When the tenth drop of Life Dew returns to the Dantian, a complete drop of Life Essence has condensed in the Dantian again.
The rich vitality contained in the mana began to condense into the prototype of the second drop of Life Essence next to this drop of Life Essence.
After observing for a while, Meng Zhou roughly made a judgment in his mind.
Without using mana for high-frequency cultivation, it usually takes about two days to condense a drop of life essence.
But during the routine retreat, which also lasted about two days, three drops of life essence could be condensed.
Meng Zhou weighed it in his mind and looked at the remaining six drops of Soul Dew in the Sealing Jade Bottle, but did not immediately recycle them into his Dantian.
Instead, he came to the gourd-shaped spiritual plant and fed it the only drop of complete spiritual marrow in his dantian.
With the integration of this drop of spiritual essence, this spiritual plant grew rapidly.
The spiritual vitality contained within it has become more active than ever before, as if it has returned to the time when it was at the middle or lower level of the first level.
The seven small gourds hanging on the branches, which were originally only the size of a thumb, quickly expanded and became larger like blowing balloons.
Finally, when the spiritual vitality inside this spiritual plant stabilized again, all seven gourds were the size of two adult fists, green in color, and rich in spiritual vitality.
"Two years."
Meng Zhou quickly made a judgment in his mind.
This drop of Life Spirit Marrow saves the two years of accumulation of this spiritual plant in the second-level mid-level, and the effect is much better than ten drops of Life Spirit Dew.
With this result, Meng Zhou sealed the six drops of life dew in the jade bottle and collected them in his dantian, so that the drop of life essence, which was still just beginning to take shape, suddenly took on more of its appearance.
Even though he knew that the spiritual marrow was so precious, Meng Zhou still chose to use this spiritual plant because of a consideration in his heart.
This was also the reason why he first chose to cultivate this spiritual plant alone.
In ordinary times, during each retreat, the condensation speed of the soul marrow varies greatly.
What Meng Zhou knew for sure was that during the retreat when the old and the new changed every year, when winter came to an end and spring came, the vitality contained in the Spring Water Sutra would be far greater than in ordinary times.
The condensation speed of the soul marrow will inevitably far exceed that of retreat in ordinary periods.
One thing that has been verified is that the "revealing position" in the Dantian is limited.
Once the quantity reaches the upper limit that the Dantian can hold, no new Life Dew will be born.
Meng Zhou guessed that although the Life Dew sublimated into the Life Essence, this point should be common. The amount of Life Essence that can be contained in the Dantian at the same time is limited.
Once saturation is reached, no new soul marrow will be born.
In the past, it was fine without the soul marrow.
Now, it would be a pity if he wasted this only opportunity once a year.
Therefore, he chose to "invest" in this spiritual plant first to fundamentally solve this pain point.
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After dealing with matters related to the soul marrow, Meng Zhou temporarily put these matters aside and continued the practice of cutting mountains and dividing seas.
Before this retreat, this sword-controlling technique was already on the verge of breakthrough.
Therefore, it did not take too much time to complete the breakthrough from master to perfection in this sword-controlling technique.
As this sword-controlling skill reaches perfection, its unique true form appears in the soul pool, demonstrating its unique characteristics.
The "natural sword body" had no reaction at all to this new true form of swordsmanship.
The doubts that had arisen in Meng Zhou's mind when he merged into the true form of the two swordsmanships of "Shadow Killing Sword Code" and "Spectral Shadow Transformation" resurfaced at this moment.
"In terms of compatibility, these sword skills and the natural sword body should all be able to attract each other automatically."
"But why is there no response?"
"Is it because the integrity of the natural sword body is too poor and the foundation itself is unstable?"
Meng Zhou had some speculations in his mind. He felt that the most likely possibility was that the natural sword itself was too "weak".
Although they are both incomplete spirit bodies, compared to the other two, this one's degree of disability is particularly serious.
Although magnets have a very strong attraction to iron, if the magnet itself is too small, the attraction will not be that great.
Because of this consideration, Meng Zhou's next schedule became clear.
Sitting cross-legged under the eaves of the elegant house, amidst the rising fragrance of tea, Meng Zhou had a jade slip in his hand.
"The True Explanation of Swordsmanship: Foundation Building Chapter"
This is the inheritance prepared by the Alchemy Sect for the members of the Establishment Sect whose birth magic weapon is the Flying Sword. It is just right for the current Meng Zhou.
This jade slip does not record any specific sword-control techniques such as the Shadow Killing Sword Code, splitting light into shadows, cutting mountains and dividing seas.
But after looking through it carefully, Meng Zhou believed that it actually contained a large amount of second-level swordsmanship.
It's just that they are all "hidden" very deeply.
The three second-level sword skills he had practiced before were like three gems clearly displayed in front of him. If he wanted to get them, all he had to do was walk to the corresponding gems, bend down and pick them up.
The "True Explanation of the Way of the Sword" is like a treasure mountain. The only thing that is certain is that there are many treasures buried in it, but where exactly they are buried and what is buried depends on each person who enters the treasure mountain.
Dig.
This excavation does not rely on luck, but on sensitivity to the way of the sword.
For Meng Zhou, although he is still a long way from a complete natural sword body, even a incomplete sword body is enough for him to rank among the swordsman geniuses at the foundation level.
Cultivating three second-level swordsmanship to perfection is his best "treasure hunting tool".
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The True Explanation of Kendo is divided into two parts.
One is the "Sword Control Chapter" and the other is the "Intentional Sword Chapter".
The Sword Control Chapter is divided into two parts.
The first part explains in detail all the basic sword-handling postures, stabbing, cutting, splitting, picking, teasing, stirring, sealing, point, collapsing, intercepting, hanging, clouding, wiping...etc.
The second part summarizes all the sword-control techniques in the foundation-building stage into three specific frames.
"The sword turns into silk", "The sword turns into rainbow", "The sword turns into gas".
After careful study, Meng Zhou suddenly discovered that the Shadow Sword Code can be put into the framework of "Sword Control and Silk".
Whether it is splitting light into shadows or cutting mountains and dividing seas, these two sword techniques are all under the general framework of "sword turning into rainbow".
The reason why there are such different effects needs to be understood with reference to the "Intentional Sword Chapter".
If we talk about the content of the Sword Control Chapter, it all revolves around the core of "Flying Sword".
Then the Yi Jian chapter is just the opposite, completely divorced from the specific "flying sword".
The core of the Yi Jian Chapter is to teach people to understand "Yi" - the true meaning of swordsmanship.
The true meaning of swordsmanship is never an illusory thing, but the practitioner's understanding of all things on the road, expressed through the specific carrier of the sword.
The true meaning of swordsmanship is never limited to any form. Whatever you feel can be expressed.
If the "Intent Sword Chapter" and the "Sword Control Chapter" are fully understood, any second-level sword control technique can be easily dismantled and its core essence can be seen directly.
From now on, practicing any second-level sword-controlling technique will be easy for you.
Not only that, you can also create a sword-controlling technique that perfectly suits your own needs.
Of course, this difficulty is far higher than cultivating a specific second-level sword-controlling technique.
But if in the process of practicing the second-level sword-controlling technique, the true understanding of the sword is mutually confirmed, then not only will the mastery of this sword-controlling technique be faster, but this rapid progress will also in turn accelerate the practitioner's mastery of the sword.
Understanding the essence of kendo.
After understanding this true interpretation of swordsmanship, Meng Zhou had a huge advantage, that is, he had already perfected three sword-control techniques.
He can freely disassemble and combine the three perfect sword skills of Shadow Killing Sword Code, Light Splitting Shadow, and Mountain Cutting Sea, to mutually confirm with the true understanding of the sword, and accelerate his absorption of the essence.
In this kind of meditation, time flies by.
October 20th, late at night.
Meng Zhou interrupted his study of the true meaning of swordsmanship. Before entering the quiet room to prepare for the routine retreat, he moved to the gourd spiritual plant.
At this moment, deep in his Dantian, there were already five drops of Life Spirit Essence, and the sixth drop of Life Spirit Essence was already 80% complete.
Meng Zhou took out a drop and fed it to the spiritual plant.
In an instant, this spiritual plant began to grow rapidly, but the seven gourds no longer continued to grow in size, but the spirituality contained within them became more and more intense, and the color became darker and darker.
At a certain moment, the spiritual vitality within the entire spiritual plant suddenly changed.
This spiritual plant, which was only a second-order mid-grade plant a moment ago, has been upgraded to a second-order high-grade plant.
After the upgrade, although it is still growing rapidly, compared to the second-level mid-level, the speed has dropped a lot.
It didn't take long for the spiritual vitality within it to stabilize again.
Meng Zhou observed it carefully and poured in four more drops of life essence.
Every drop of life essence can help this spiritual plant complete its one-year accumulation at the second-level high-grade.
With the complete four drops of life marrow absorbed by it, this spiritual plant is infinitely close to complete maturity.
At the middle level of the second level, the seven gourds that were constantly turning dark green in color turned into a mysterious and deep dark green.
That majestic spiritual vitality has become more and more restrained.
Looking at this spiritual plant that was only one step away from being completely mature, Meng Zhou estimated in his mind that without the help of the spiritual dew and the spiritual marrow, it would take a full sixteen years for it to grow from spiritual seed to complete maturity.
This is a long time for a baby to grow into another baby.
With this thought in his mind, Meng Zhou took out the drop of soul marrow that had not yet completely formed in his Dantian and threw it into it again.
As the spiritual vitality inside the spiritual plant once again surged and fell like a wave, when it stabilized again, the plant that was still standing tall and tall a moment ago was withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The spiritual vitality contained in the spiritual plant is quickly being swallowed up by the seven gourd whales.
As the last trace of spiritual vitality dissipated, there was a "bang" sound, the plant collapsed, and the seven gourds fell to the ground. Meng Zhou reached out to catch them all.
His consciousness scanned back and forth on the seven gourds, and finally selected the one with the best appearance.
The other six were all put into the jade volute by him.
This gourd is called the Nakong Gourd. It is a natural storage device. It has a very large internal space and has the effect of sealing souls as insurance.
And unlike ordinary storage equipment, it can be placed in other storage spaces like a matryoshka doll.
These alone determine its value.
For it, this is only the most basic function. Its real value is that because of its innate nature, as long as it has not been sacrificed by others, it has a very high degree of compatibility with any monk.
Although it is not to the level of a natal magic weapon, it can be easily stored in the Dantian Sea of Consciousness after being sacrificed.
It can be summoned at any time when needed. It can not only contain the enemy's magical weapons and spell attacks, but also can contain some sinister gadgets and release them in time.
This was what Meng Zhou was interested in. He used his spiritual consciousness to quickly refine the Nakong gourd in his hand and put it into his Dantian.
Looking at an extra gourd coming out of his Dantian, Meng Zhou had an idea. The gourd emitted a little suction, sucking in some of the surrounding mana, and then spit it out as he wished.
Seeing that it responded so casually, Meng Zhou nodded with satisfaction.
Although it consumes a lot of life essence, the result is still worth it.
Hey, every time I'm reviewed, it affects my mood. I haven't finished this story yet, so I'll update it tomorrow.