Chapter 46
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Chapter 46: The Power of Breathing Technique
In the back courtyard of Black Tiger Fist Gym, in a certain hall.
Master Tian sat comfortably in a grand chair, calmly sipping his tea. Upon hearing a hurried sound of footsteps, he set his tea cup aside and said coolly:
"Ziying, you’re back."
"Dad, I’m back, and I also brought the things back." A tall woman stormed in from outside the hall and directly handed over the book in her hand.
"Did you give him all the Breathing Techniques?" Master Tian calmly asked as he took the book from his daughter’s hands.
"That boy is too cunning. He keeps saying that this cultivation method is the Body Forging Technique used by cultivators, so I had no choice but to hand over the entire formula," Tian Ziying said through gritted teeth.
"He is probably telling the truth. Only a cultivator’s Body Forging Technique can have such wonderful effects, able to enhance the Black Tiger Boxing Technique to this level," Master Tian said dismissively, opening the drawing book, which revealed a picture of the first move from the Tiger Pounce Four Styles.
"Dad, I think you should just capture him and ask him directly. Why do you need to make a deal?" the tall woman asked, a bit confused.
"What do you know? Although he is young, he has already shown strength equal to mine in one blow. Besides, he is a cultivator. He may not have a high level of skill at his age, but he might be from a family of cultivators. Our Martial Arts School has some backing, but we are still just ordinary people. If we can avoid trouble, we should avoid it," Master Tian said lightly while looking at the drawing book.
"It seems we have no choice. The first level of the Black Tiger Breathing Technique is fine, but the second level requires secret medicine to practice. He only has the formula and not the secret medicine recipe, so he cannot cultivate the second level anyway, let alone the third level." The tall woman suddenly laughed.
"We only talked about exchanging cultivation methods and formulas, but we never mentioned including the matching secret medicine. How can that be considered a trick?"
Besides the secret medicine, since he is a cultivator, he should be able to find the related formula. However, the second level of the Black Tiger Breathing Technique requires that special item for training. That item is very rare in the cultivation world. If it were easy to obtain, how could my father be stuck at the first level for so many years…
"Hmm, this cultivation method seems a bit difficult…" Master Tian frowned slightly while looking at the illustration book and gestured lightly with one hand.
"How hard can it be? I saw him practice the cultivation method shown in this picture with my own eyes." The tall woman was a bit surprised upon hearing this.
"At least you can’t practice it now, and I seem to be struggling a bit too!" Master Tian’s face started to look worse.
The tall woman…
Two months later, at the top of an unremarkable small hill outside Tongzhou City
Wang Yu sat cross-legged on a huge rock, his upper body bare, with his hands resting lightly on his knees, eyes closed. His chest rose and fell at a strange rhythm, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, while a rumbling sound began to grow louder from his belly.
Suddenly, he opened his mouth and let out a cloud of white mist. After taking a deep breath, the surrounding air began to swirl around, pulling in the white mist he had just released along with most of the surrounding air into his belly.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
A loud thunderous sound echoed in Wang Yu’s chest. His muscles twitched, veins bulged, and his bare body swelled like a balloon, revealing a large tiger pattern on his back.
He then rolled over and stood up, a faint glimmer sparkling in his deep-set eyes. Then, he struck with his fists and feet like a raging storm, and his body gradually grew larger. In just a moment, he transformed into a small giant nearly two meters tall.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Wang Yu took a horse stance and shook his shoulder; his two arms blurred and vanished. Yet, around him, there was a series of firecracker-like sounds. When his thick arms reappeared, a sudden strong wind swept through the air, sending powerful waves in all directions.
After growing larger, he unleashed more than ten "Sonic Boom Fists" in one breath.
At that moment, he had the strange feeling that the Qi Refining Stage cultivators he had seen before could be knocked out with just one punch!
"Whoosh!"
Wang Yu opened his mouth again, releasing a large cloud of white breath from his mouth and nose, and his body quickly returned to normal as if letting out air.
"Exit overclocking synchronization mode."
Wang Yu’s eyes gradually lost their sparkle as he felt a burning sensation in his lungs and chest, feeling somewhat amazed.
This is the power of the first level of the Black Tiger Breathing Technique!
This Breathing Technique, which Master Tian said was very difficult to practice, he mastered the first level in just two months with the help of overclocking synchronization mode, and the effects seemed quite different from what Master Tian described; he hadn’t grasped the so-called True Meaning of Black Tiger, yet his body had greatly strengthened.
He sat back on the rock, took out the old, yellowed book that recorded the Black Tiger Breathing Technique, and began to read it closely again.
After an unknown amount of time, he closed the book again, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
To him, the first level of the Black Tiger Breathing Technique was a process of drawing in a large amount of air through a strange breathing rhythm, constantly refining the organs and strengthening the entire body.
In short, it was like treating the human body as a large balloon, continuously inflating and deflating it, making the balloon’s toughness grow thicker and stronger, thus becoming more resistant and able to produce a stronger burst of power.
According to the scientists on Blue Star, this is naturally nonsense.
A person’s lung capacity is limited; no matter how hard one breathes, it is impossible to inhale too much air, let alone have the air spread throughout the body.
Even though the warriors of the Blue Star world also speak of hard energy techniques, they really only strengthen their bodies through training, which has very little to do with true ‘energy’. No one has ever found practitioners of ‘inner power’.
However, this world is, after all, a realm of cultivation filled with supernatural powers.
At first, he just followed the method recorded in the book, trying out the complex breathing rhythms: sometimes inhaling deeply, sometimes exhaling quickly, sometimes breathing rapidly, and sometimes breathing slowly. Surprisingly, after only a few tries, he was able to inhale an astonishing amount of air.
This gave him some confidence in the Qi Refining cultivation method, allowing him to practice continuously for the next two months and finally master the first level of the Breathing Technique.
Of course, for ordinary people, this would naturally be impossible.
After all, the organs and lungs of the human body are quite fragile. Without guidance from an elder, even with the mysterious Breathing Technique for protection, if one inhaled too much air too quickly, it could easily cause injury, and if one inhaled too little, there would be no training effect at all.
However, with the help of the super-frequency mode, he could precisely control the strength of his breath based on his body condition, ensuring that each wave of inhaled air stayed within a certain limit, achieving maximum exercise without harming himself.
Still, each time he practiced the Breathing Technique, he felt as if countless sharp blades gently scraped through his organs, causing both pain and itching, and he nearly quit several times.
Fortunately, under the super-frequency synchronization, although he couldn’t actively block the pain like Taiyuan, he could try to reduce some discomfort by controlling muscle contractions and the speed of blood flow, which allowed him to persevere.
After going through the Bloodline Awakening and the Four Beast Diagram, his body was already not inferior to Master Tian, who had reached the first level of the Breathing Technique. Now, after activating the first level of the Breathing Technique, his body strength alone was enough to crush Master Tian. If he used the overclocking synchronization mode to further enhance his muscle control, he could also grow bigger and increase his explosive power even more.
What amazed Wang Yu even more was that he noticed that after activating the Black Tiger Breathing Technique, his skin had a faint layer of ‘Qi membrane’ on the surface.
This ‘Qi membrane’ had amazing defense, was completely transparent, colorless, and invisible, wrapping around his whole body and could not be seen with the naked eye.
He tried using a sharp blade directly on the ‘Qi membrane’ that covered his arm, but it was bounced back and could not break through at all.
Wang Yu was very satisfied with this effect; it was like his body was covered with a layer of invisible armor that could not be pierced by blades or bullets after activating the Black Tiger Breathing Technique.
This made him even more excited about the power of the second level of the Breathing Technique.
Unfortunately, although he had thoroughly understood the second level mantra of the Black Tiger Breathing Technique with the assistance of the overclocking, there were two things mentioned in it that puzzled him.
One was the "Killing Qi" mentioned in the second level mantra.
Starting from the second level of the Breathing Technique, what he inhaled and exhaled was no longer the outside air, but this thing called "Killing Qi," which also needed to be nurtured in his body for a long time.
According to the booklet, there are many types of evil energy, and the benefits it brings to the cultivator vary depending on its characteristics.
The second is the matching secret medicine "Evil Dissipating Powder." This medicine must be taken when practicing the second level of the Breathing Technique; otherwise, if the evil energy stays in the body too long, it can cause the internal organs to rot and die.
He had never heard of either, and there was no record of them in the various books he had collected. However, Master Tian should definitely know about them. He probably fell into a little trap set by the other party. Even if he went to ask, most likely, he wouldn’t get any answers.
Wang Yu felt a bit frustrated thinking about this, but when he remembered the difficulty Tian Ziying faced with practicing the Tiger Pounce Four Styles, he felt a little nervous.
He had to first practice the Wolf Run Four Styles before fully awakening his bloodline to barely practice the Tiger Pounce Four Styles. Master Tian and his daughter would most likely be unable to practice them after receiving them.
With this thought, he gave up the idea of going back to the Black Tiger Fist Gym. As long as he had a name, he would naturally be able to find clues about the evil energy and the medicine in the future.
Wang Yu made up his mind and immediately turned around to head down the mountain. He arrived at a small wooden cabin halfway down and sat on a simple wooden bed to practice his Breathing Exercises.
After he completed the deal with Tian Ziying, fearing she might find out that he couldn’t practice and cause trouble for him, he ran out of Tongzhou City overnight and set up a temporary shelter here.
Now, he was ready to break through the bottleneck he had been stuck in at the second level of the Yin Water Skill for a long time, hoping to advance to the third level of Qi Refining Stage soon.
As for the method, it is naturally to continue practicing the Yin Water Skill and keep polishing his magical power.
More than ten days later.
In the wooden house, Wang Yu, who was sitting and practicing Breathing Exercises, suddenly trembled, and a wave of magical energy much stronger than before rolled out. He immediately opened his eyes, revealing a smile of great joy on his face.
Just now, he successfully broke through the second layer of the Yin Water Skill and entered the third level of Qi Refining Stage.
But before he could check the changes in his body, the smile on his face suddenly faded, and he hurriedly closed his eyes again to continue Breathing Exercises.
The Spirit Seed that had been stable inside him began to wildly devour his magical power, starting some kind of mysterious transformation on its own.
This made Wang Yu feel both surprised and happy.