The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 46

"Khahahaha! I knew you were amazing, but I didn't know you were this amazing. To digest an elixir, hahaha!"

A little while ago, after Grandmaster Gakil left the room saying he would find out what had happened, my Martial Uncle couldn't stop laughing.

This damn fragrance doesn't seem to want to leave even with the windows open.

'Sigh. Of course. Can't things ever go smoothly?'

As expected, there seems to be nothing easy in the world.

To be honest, when I heard that I had absorbed all the energy of the Small Rebirth Pill, I even thought that if I could just keep getting elixirs, I might have a constitution that could become infinitely strong.

But even though I ate a second Small Rebirth Pill, the size of my internal energy doesn't seem to be much different from when I ate one. Of course, it seems to have increased a very, very little bit.

"Did you see Grandmaster Gakil's flustered expression earlier? Well, it's no different from scattering the Small Rebirth Pill, which is said to be the treasure of Shaolin, into the air, so it would be hard for him not to be flustered."

Since when was my Martial Uncle such a cheerful person?

I'm already gloomy because I'm thinking that it will be difficult to increase the size of my internal energy with elixirs from now on, but with my Martial Uncle laughing like that, my feeling of shame doesn't seem to go away.

"Ahem. Right. Let's stop joking around now. How is your body condition now?"

"To exaggerate a little, I feel like I could fly. Besides, my energy has increased a lot. I think it's several times the energy I had before."

As someone who has eaten an elixir for the first time, I'm just amazed.

To think that a single small elixir contains more power than years of training.

"Yes. Even without that, I can feel your true qi. Now, if you just have the enlightenment to back it up, you'll be able to learn advanced martial arts."

"So I'm moving on to advanced martial arts now."

Although I had a full smile on my face, I didn't show that I was too happy.

If it were before, I would have made a fuss out of joy, but a few days ago, after having a spar with Monk Il-jik, did I see with my own two eyes that he realized the importance of basics over advanced martial arts?

Of course, I'm happy, but it's not like I'm so happy that I feel like I'm going to die like before.

"Yes. For now, I don't know what will happen to your body, so rest in your room. Don't use your power recklessly and let's just watch for a day."

"I understand, Martial Uncle."

My Martial Uncle left me alone and left the room.

But as soon as he left the room, I heard the sound of him taking a deep breath, as if he had been holding his breath until now.

For a moment, my face turned red again.

This damn fragrance.

My Martial Uncle might have left because he couldn't stand this fragrance.

***

A day passed.

I came to the Abbot's room at Grandmaster Gakil's call.

It was the first time I had come here alone without my Martial Uncle.

The Abbot's room was so small that it would be full if one person lay down, but when I entered this place, I felt a strange sense of stability.

"Almsgiver, are you not in any pain?"

"Thanks to your concern. No, on the contrary, I feel so good that it's a problem."

"Really? That's a relief."

Although I thought I heard him say, "You ate two Small Rebirth Pills," I lightly ignored it.

"I've talked with the other elders about your matter, almsgiver. But no one knew of a case similar to what happened to you."

"Yes. Especially since the second Small Rebirth Pill had almost no effect, it's safe to say. Can I no longer increase my internal energy with elixirs?"

"I don't know. It could be because you ate them in too short a time. Perhaps if you consume an elixir other than our Shaolin's, it might have an effect."

He still seemed to have a hard time drawing a clear conclusion about what had happened to me, and after thinking about various things, he continued.

"Anyway, we decided not to think too complicatedly. We decided to approach it simply."

"Simply... how?"

"Almsgiver, you have met a fortuitous encounter. It was just a strange thing that is hard to happen easily."

"A fortuitous encounter..."

I nodded my head without realizing it.

In fact, there's no need to understand why this happened.

I just have to accept it as a fortuitous encounter and keep in mind what I should do to develop further in the future.

"Heh heh. I'm looking forward to the next Dao-Buddhist Great War. Our disciples will have to be very nervous."

"When I return, Wudang will develop even more."

"Yes. Good. It's not my place to say, but it's about time Shaolin lost once."

"Pardon...?"

When I asked back, unable to understand his words, Grandmaster Gakil showed a slight smile.

"The Dao-Buddhist Great War was created for our Shaolin and your Wudang, the two great mountains of the orthodox faction, to compete with each other, keep each other in check, and develop further. But at some point, the atmosphere became too biased towards our Shaolin, and as a result, the significance of being conscious of each other and working hard disappeared."

"That's right. It's still not enough. Our martial world must develop further."

"When we first met, you said that. That you were afraid of the evil demons and heretical ways."

"That's right."

"By any chance, should I take that as a revelation from the Primordial Heaven Supreme as well?"

He asked with a rather serious face.

I slowly nodded my head.

I didn't think it was a lie.

No matter how I think about it, my existence of having returned to the past cannot be explained unless it is the will of the Primordial Heaven Supreme.

"Yes. I understand. Our Shaolin will train ourselves even more than now. Of course, we can also tell the other sects to do so."

Although he said it as if it were passing by, there are few sects that would ignore the words that came out of the Shaolin Temple.

Unexpectedly, it seems that the orthodox martial world will develop one step further starting from today.

"Yes. Then you may go back now. I heard that you have been refraining from using your true qi since yesterday, but how about you start training slowly from today?"

"I was thinking of doing that anyway. If there's anything strange, I'll come and tell you right away, Abbot."

"Thank you. If you feel anything wrong with your body, don't overdo it."

"Of course. That's a given."

Grandmaster Gakil smiled at my immediate answer.

He laughs like that even though I haven't said anything funny.

This body is really such a precious body.

***

After consuming the Small Rebirth Pill, I hadn't moved my body for just one day, but I was already going crazy from the itch to move.

Afraid that the muscles I had worked so hard to build would disappear, I decided to resume training from today.

It was a little burdensome to train in the training ground where the other Shaolin monks were, so today I decided to train alone in the small open space attached to the guest hall.

My Martial Uncle had disappeared somewhere, so there was no one to be concerned about.

One hour passed since I started training, and for now, I sweated refreshingly during that time and did enough of various strength exercises, and the stimulated muscles grew taut.

'This is the feeling.'

It would be too terrible if I were to rest from training and these precious muscles were to disappear.

Fortunately, the Muscle-Tendon Change Classic I learned this time will make it easier to build muscle, so I'm looking forward to the future even more.

"Hoo..."

After finishing the physical training lightly, I took a deep breath and slowly sat on the floor in a cross-legged position.

Now it's time for internal qi technique training.

Since it was the first time after consuming the Small Rebirth Pill, I slowly and carefully began to observe my inner self.

Swaaaa—

The energy flowing inside my body is flowing through my whole body as if it were a cool stream of water.

Originally, it was like a babbling stream, but the passages of qi and the amount of flowing qi are incomparable to before.

'If it's this much...'

To be honest, no matter how outstanding Wudang's internal techniques are, and even if I understood them perfectly, I thought it would take at least three years to gather this much energy.

But after meeting a fortuitous encounter and achieving this much so quickly, the next stage began to loom in my eyes.

'I might be able to open the Governing and Conception Vessels.'

The Conception Vessel refers to the meridian that starts from the Chengjiang acupoint between the mouth and chin, follows the front of the torso, passes the dantian, and goes to the Huiyin acupoint.

The Governing Vessel refers to the meridian that starts from the Changqiang acupoint near the coccyx, passes the Baihui acupoint at the top of the head, and goes to the Yinjiao acupoint located on the inside of the upper lip above the front teeth.

The reason they are called the Governing and Conception Vessels separately is because the paths leading to the two meridians are blocked from each other.

A newborn baby's Governing and Conception Vessels are connected to each other, but as they live in the world and take in turbid qi, the two meridians gradually become blocked.

You have to consciously move your energy through the blocked passages to make a heavenly cycle of circulating the energy once, and this is simply called 'qi circulation'.

'Simply put, having opened the Governing and Conception Vessels means that you are always circulating qi without rest.'

Fortunately, in Wudang, they stay away from fire and turbid qi and live in the mountains, so the boundary is thinner compared to other martial artists.

But, what's blocked is blocked.

There is a huge difference from having opened the Governing and Conception Vessels.

To open the paths of the two meridians, two things are needed.

'A deep understanding of internal energy and a sufficient amount of internal energy.'

As for the understanding of internal energy, well, there are few who can follow me, so it wasn't a big problem, but the problem was the amount of internal energy.

With my original measly amount of internal energy, opening the Governing and Conception Vessels was out of the question. I would have been lucky not to suffer from Qi Deviation from not being able to hold back the reverse flowing energy if I had tried for no reason.

But now, it seems the amount is sufficient.

'Should I give it a try?'

Actually, this is not a problem to be tried so lightly.

As I said before, if you try to break through a wall for no reason and fail to break through the wall and your energy reverses, you will go straight to Qi Deviation.

'Yes. Let's do it.'

After contemplating for a moment, I made up my mind.

It was something I had to do someday anyway, and I thought it would be better to do it here than in Wudang.

Although Wudang is my home, there are too many eyes of my senior brothers and Martial Uncles watching me.

On the contrary, this place where I haven't been for a few days is more comfortable for revealing my true skills.

Tss-tss-tss—

As I sat in a cross-legged position and began to circulate my internal energy, a little bit of energy began to flow out of my body.

The concentration and amount of that energy are incomparably richer than before.

"Heup!"

As I took a deep breath, the energies that had been floating around my body were absorbed into my body at once and formed a large colony.

That colony settled in a certain part of my qi and blood that had been widened by consuming the Small Rebirth Pill, and then it began to roll and grow in size.

The energy that grows little by little, as if rolling a snowball on a mountain ridge.

The first place to break through is the Huiyin acupoint.

RUMBLE—!

The energy soon grew in size, becoming so large that it was difficult for me to control.

Actually, breaking through the Huiyin acupoint is not that difficult.

Because the energy that started from the Baihui acupoint at the top of the head just has to collide with the force of going down the Conception Vessel. Like this—

BOOM!!

A thudding sound was heard from a part lower than my dantian.

At the moment of collision, my body flinched from the thrilling pain, but after that, it immediately became calm.

The Huiyin acupoint had been properly opened.

'Success. Next is the Yinjiao acupoint...!'

Thanks to the opening of the Huiyin acupoint, the Conception and Governing Vessels were connected as one.

Thanks to that, I could immediately feel that the circulation of energy was much smoother than before.

But, now is the most dangerous moment.

Because if the Huiyin acupoint is open and the Yinjiao acupoint is blocked, the energies that couldn't pass from the Yinjiao acupoint to the Baihui acupoint might reverse backwards.

If that happens, it's straight to Qi Deviation.

WOOOONG—!!

So I began to pour all my energy into the energy that was going up to the Yinjiao acupoint after breaking through the Huiyin acupoint.

If there's one secret I learned from opening the two vessels once before...

'No mercy. Unconditionally in one go!'

There is a way to break through the meridian by controlling the energy well and tapping it several times, but that method is too painful.

No, breaking through with a large energy in one go is also terribly painful, but since it's going to hurt anyway, it's much better to hurt once.

GU-OH-OH-OH-OH— KWA-ANG!!

The condensed energy that flowed like a raging wave collided with the Yinjiao acupoint.

At that moment, my head spun, but I barely managed not to lose consciousness and held on.

But...

'Keuk! ...Why isn't it stopping.'

Perhaps because I had gathered too much energy, the energy didn't seem to want to stop even after breaking through the Yinjiao acupoint.

The energy passed the Baihui acupoint, went down the neck to the Mingmen acupoint, passed the Mingmen acupoint and then to the Huiyin acupoint again... I had started qi circulation regardless of my will.

And so, gradually... I fell into a state of selflessness.

(End of Chapter)