Heavenly Dao Engine-Chapter 30 - 00 Its not working

Chapter 30: Chapter 0030: It’s not working

Chapter 30 -0030: It’s not working

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Qi Tian continued to grit his teeth and persevere. Relying on his indomitable will and numbness to constant pain, Qi Tian gradually managed to gather a modicum of spirit amid the unbearable agony, enough to operate the Tiger Golden Body Skills a little bit.

With more and more attempts, Qi Tian slowly found some knack. After each consumption of the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid, he initially couldn’t stand for even one second during the first five minutes when the medicine would rampage uncontrollably. Gradually, he made a rapid improvement and could last for more than two minutes by the time he had ingested all fifty doses of the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid.

Qi Tian knew that the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid could only take effect when he was practicing the Tiger Golden Body Skills. When he could no longer hold up and collapsed, most of the precious medicinal power of the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid would dissipate after the initial assault on his body and the immense pain that followed. Only a small part would remain in his body, waiting to be excavated later.

Despite each round of middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid only lasting for five minutes and fifty doses amounting to only a bit more than four hours, Qi Tian spent two full days exhausting all fifty doses. After each dose, he needed to rest a while, else his spirit could not bear the strain.

There’s a time for tension and a time for relaxation. This is the way of martial and literary arts.

If he had tried to continuously take the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid, he worried his spirit would collapse. Then, it would be game over. He wouldn’t even be able to cultivate, let alone prevent himself from becoming an imbecile. Qi Tian might be crazy in cultivation, but he would not push himself into insanity.

Qi Tian didn’t know that if it was made known he had consumed all these middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid in just two days, everyone would call him a “madman”. Body temperers understood the nature of the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid. Normally, they would take one dose every two or three days, or at most, one dose per day. By comparison, Qi Tian’s consumption of fifty doses in just two days was absurd.

In other cultivator’s view, cultivation was a process that required slow and meticulous work rather than forcing oneself to endure great pain and potentially risk a mental breakdown from reckless cultivation, like Qi Tian was doing.

If he wasn’t a madman, who was?

After using up all fifty doses of middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid, Qi Tian evaluated his progress. He found that his practice of the first layer of Tiger Golden Body Skills had reached a highly accomplished state and was only one step away from advancing to the second layer.

Without mobilizing True Essence and only using the power in his body, Qi Tian threw a punch against the iron wall of the advanced single Cultivation Room. The wall bore a shallow punch mark, about 0.4 inch deep. This meant Qi Tian could exert about four hundred pounds of force without the aid of True Essence. Although he couldn’t match the twelve-hundred-pound force from the Eight Desolate Demon Tiger Fist, Qi Tian was still pleased.

Previously, he could only punch with a little over a hundred pounds of force without using True Essence. Now, he could do four hundred pounds, a significant improvement. Even though four hundred pounds of power might not seem like much, it could serve as his hidden trump card in critical times.

Furthermore, Qi Tian had just started cultivating the Tiger Golden Body Skills, which still held a lot of room for progress. In the future, his physical strength could potentially match the power of his True Essence. What’s more, that was when using the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid. If he could use the Tiger Roar Pill in the future, his physical strength might even go beyond his current limit.

What made Qi Tian even happier was how the increase in his physical strength correspondingly allowed his Qi cultivation to improve. Earlier, he was always worried that once he opened up more meridians and his True Essence Power increased, using all his power to attack enemies could hurt him as much as his enemies due to the force’s backlash. After repeated tempering from the Tempering Body Liquid, his body could now withstand more recoil force, allowing him to utilize more power during a fight.

After spending two days using middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid for body tempering, Qi Tian was extremely tired both physically and spiritually. Instead of forcing himself to start cultivating Qi right away, he unrolled his bedding, rolled onto it, and fell into a deep sleep.

Qi Tian slept for more than ten hours. When he woke up, he felt refreshed and spirited, rejuvenated completely from the exhaustion of body tempering.

Qi Tian ate a Grain Avoidance Pill, drank some water, adjusted his condition, and then took out a middle-grade Essence Qi Pill, getting ready to open his fourth meridian.

Qi Tian had some understanding of the theories of Twelve Regular Meridians and Eight Extraordinary Meridians mentioned in Chinese medicine. Since the accessibility of Ren Meridians and Du Meridian has such noticeable effects, Qi Tian planned to follow the theories of meridians in Chinese medicine to unlock more meridians. As for the nine meridians in “Black Jade Skills”, Qi Tian planned to use them based on circumstances. If they were necessary, he would use them. If they weren’t, he would dismiss them. As a native of the mainland, on the topic of meridians theory, Qi Tian leaned toward believing in the Chinese medicine theory.

This time, Qi Tian chose to open the third extraordinary meridian in the Eight Extraordinary Meridians—the Vital Channel, which had fourteen acupuncture points. Qi Tian planned to break through it within four or five days.

Qi Tian took out a bottle of middle-grade Essence Qi Pills, which contained an impressive total of fifty pills.

Qi Tian was experienced in opening meridians. He poured out four or five middle-grade Essence Qi Pills from the porcelain bottle and put them all into his mouth. He crushed each of the pills and began to drive the medicinal power to impact the Vital Channel.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed. Qi Tian collapsed on the ground like mud. With his persistent efforts and continuous consumption of seventy-eight middle-grade Essence Qi Pills, Qi Tian successfully unlocked the Vital Channel.

During the process of opening the Vital Channel, the medicinal power impact on the Vital Channel and the passed acupoints also brought Qi Tian immense pain. But compared to the pain from the consumption of the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid, it was not nearly the same. Qi Tian even had the illusion that it wasn’t so bad, wondering if his thinking was distorted from the torment of the middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid.

After opening the Vital Channel, the number of Qi Tian’s opened meridians increased from three to four, and his True Essence Power also increased by three hundred pounds, from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred pounds. Just like before, when Qi Tian performed the Eight Desolate Demon Tiger Fist, he still couldn’t produce Fire Fist.

Qi Tian only had twenty thousand taels of silver, which was enough to rent a high-level single cultivation room for only ten days. Since he had already exhausted more than five days, there were less than five days left. Qi Tian planned to attempt to open his fifth meridian within the remaining time.

This time, Qi Tian chose the Belt Vessel, but when he swallowed the middle-grade Essence Qi Pill and tried to impact the acupoints of the Belt Vessel with the medicinal power, he ran into a problem. No matter how many middle-grade Essence Qi Pills he swallowed or how fierce the medicinal power was, the acupoints on the Belt Vessel remained immovable, showing no signs of giving way.

Qi Tian had swallowed a bottle containing fifty middle-grade Essence Qi Pills. Usually, by this time, he would have opened most of the previous meridians, but this time, there was no movement at all.

Qi Tian stubbornly tried again using the Yin Link Vessel and the Yang Link Vessel, but the result was still fruitless. Worried that the middle-grade Essence Qi Pills might be having no effect on him, he switched to the top-grade Essence Qi Pill and gave it a try. He consumed three precious top-grade Essence Qi Pills in a row, but there was no change at all.

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Did the meridian theory of Chinese medicine fail here?

If it was just the failure of the Chinese medicine meridian theory, it would be fine. Qi Tian’s biggest concern was that he could only open four meridians and was unable to open the fifth one. If that was the case, his achievements in this life would be limited. Even if he was able to reign supreme in the initial stage of Qi cultivation, so what? The initial stage of Qi cultivation is the lowest level of cultivation realms, akin to kindergarten. Who other than immature children aspires to be a tyrant in kindergarten for a lifetime? Besides, is it that easy to be a tyrant in the kindergarten? Don’t forget that there are teachers, security guards, and principals in the kindergarten. Would it not be easy to deal with a tyrant?

With many questions, Qi Tian, with a slight hint of fear, made a decision to put the meridian theory of Chinese medicine aside for now. He took out “Black Jade Skills”, which also had nine meridians, with the theory that unlocking one of the meridians would theoretically elevate him one level in the cultivation realm.

Qi Tian was not concerned about whether he could advance to the Qi Training Second Level, his main concern was whether he could open more meridians. He took out the “Black Jade Skills” that the Imperial Master Mansion had issued to all external disciples, and carefully read it from start to finish again, particularly memorizing the second meridian diagram.

Then, Qi Tian adjusted his state, began to consume the pills, and tried to open his fifth meridian, which was also the second meridian in the “Black Jade Skills”. As a precaution, Qi Tian swallowed the top-grade Essence Qi Pill this time. After wasting three earlier, he was left with only seventeen top-grade Essence Qi Pills. If he finished taking all of these pills without any effect, he would have to stop his closed-door cultivation and go out to seek advice from the knowledgeable.

To Qi Tian’s surprise, after the top-grade Essence Qi Pill was ingested, it became a surging medicinal power. Under his guidance, the medicinal power converged into a torrent which smoothly began to impact the acupuncture points on the second meridian of the Black Jade Skills. Very soon, the first acupuncture point began to loosen.

Overjoyed, Qi Tian quickly suppressed his joy, steadied his mind, and began to impact his fifth meridian…