The Miraculous Divorce Technique

Chapter 51

Cheok Sagyeol said with a slight hostility.

SWOOSH.

His right hand was still hanging over the hilt of his saber.

It was an intention to cut him down if necessary.

"This Daoist has a theory that I have been researching throughout my life. For that theory, I have studied the internal energy cultivation methods of Daoism, Buddhism, and the secular martial families."

"Internal energy cultivation methods? I heard you were a branch of the sorcery lineage?"

Cheok Sagyeol asked with a bewildered face.

"The martial lineage or the sorcery lineage is just their own classification. This Daoist is not a person who has a foothold in the martial world, so I am not bound by it. If I had to say, I would say that I have a foothold in the sorcery lineage and study the martial lineage."

Jamheoja said freely, stroking his beard.

"But that theory has a relationship with wanting to see this one? Are you by any chance wanting to know about our cult's internal energy cultivation method?"

"That's right. I have traveled the world and looked at many internal energy cultivation methods, but I have not been able to come across only that of the Divine Cult."

'That would be so.'

'The Demonic Cult is one huge group.'

'Moreover, its closed nature and particularity were different from any other sect in the world.'

'The internal energy cultivation method of the Divine Cult was not something that could be encountered even if one wanted to, unless one became a cult member.'

"For now, that theory. Can I hear it?"

"It would be this Daoist's honor if one of the ten great masters of the world would add his esteemed opinion. Hahaha."

"Then I will listen and judge."

As Cheok Sagyeol gave his permission, Jamheoja's face brightened, and he opened his mouth.

"Martial artists who have learned martial arts are those who accumulate and use qi in their dantian through internal energy cultivation methods. But the physical organ called the dantian does not exist."

"The dantian is a vessel for qi. It's because it's made with an internal energy cultivation method."

"That's right, but anyway, even if you cut open a martial artist's stomach, you can't find the dantian."

"You speak as if you've cut one open?"

"Hahaha. Let's skip that part."

Jamheoja shrugged his shoulders and continued.

"But you know. In the case of a spiritual beast, if you cut open its stomach, a core exists. Is that difference really just a difference in species?"

"Are you now questioning the difference between a mere creature and a human?"

"That's not it. If you broaden your perspective, in both cases, qi from nature is accumulated in the body through training, but don't the two cases have a clear difference?"

"You can't just compare them like that. No matter how much martial arts they have learned, it is difficult for a person's lifespan to exceed a hundred years, but spiritual beasts are called spiritual beasts only after they have lived for several hundred years. If a person also lives for several hundred years, the dantian may be materialized and become a core."

Cheok Sagyeol's words were true.

An ordinary person could be said to have lived a long life if they passed their sixtieth birthday, and in the case of a martial artist who had learned martial arts developed based on life-nourishing arts, the average lifespan did not exceed seventy.

"That is also the same. Isn't it strange? When viewed from the standard of not accumulating qi, beasts have a shorter lifespan than humans. But when they accumulate qi, it becomes the opposite. Such a contradictory phenomenon is rare in the natural world. That's why I'm interested."

"So what do you think about that part?"

"This is also a hypothesis, but in this Daoist's opinion, the reason lies in speed."

"Speed? What speed?"

"The speed of accumulating qi in the body. Although there are differences between people, in general, the speed at which a person accumulates qi through an internal energy cultivation method and manifests that power is incomparably faster than that of a spiritual beast. The proof is that a martial artist who has not even lived for a hundred years can beat down a spiritual beast that has lived for several hundred years."

'If you exclude the variables of the development of outstanding stances and cultivation methods, that's right.'

'Cheok Sagyeol also had the experience of nourishing his body with spiritual beasts of about one or two hundred years during his snot-nosed days when he was in the Red Wolf Squad.'

"In this Daoist's opinion, the development of martial arts has made that speed abnormally fast, which has become the cause of the shortening of lifespan."

"It was developed based on life-nourishing arts, but the degree was excessive?"

"That's right."

Cheok Sagyeol admitted it in his own way.

Excessive power that surpasses the limit inevitably brings about a shortening of lifespan.

Jamheoja's words meant that people who could have lived for several hundred years with life-nourishing arts had obtained power at the cost of their lifespan by developing it into martial arts.

"Well, it's not a completely absurd statement. Let's go back to the main point. The difference between the dantian and the core. Isn't that the key?"

"That's right. For now, that difference may be the difference in the breathing method. Martial artists use an internal energy cultivation method through artificial breathing, but spiritual beasts accumulate qi over a long period of time through their innate breathing."

Jamheoja explained, touching his nose and mouth, passing his chest, and then pointing to his lower abdomen where the dantian was located.

"So I have studied various internal energy cultivation methods. I started with the correlation between the breathing method and the dantian."

"How were the results?"

"Apart from the breathing method, the shape of the dantian was similar. Roughly, a spherical bead in a rectangular hexahedron. Literally, a 'dan' and a 'tian,' shall we say? However, the size and properties were vastly different. Even this was something I was allowed to do because I had a foothold in the sorcery lineage."

'It meant that since he was a Daoist priest who had inherited the sorcery lineage and was not learning martial arts himself, it was possible to examine the dantian.'

'It was only natural.'

'Because showing one's dantian to others was the same as showing all of one's inner self for a martial artist.'

"But then, I had a connection with a secular disciple of Shaolin and came to study the internal energy cultivation method of the orthodox Buddhist sect."

"Was there anything unusual about the martial arts of the Buddhist sect?"

As Cheok Sagyeol showed interest and asked, Jamheoja nodded his head.

"Their dantian had almost no part that could be called a 'tian.' Instead, the size of the 'dan' was large."

The 'tian' plays the role of refining the energy, and the 'dan' plays the role of storing the refined energy.

The fact that the 'tian' was small meant that the energy gathered in the 'dan' was not pure.

A prime example was the martial arts of the demonic path.

'Interesting.'

'To think he has studied the internal energy cultivation methods and dantians of each school to this extent.'

'It was a theory he had never heard of anywhere, so Cheok Sagyeol was also intrigued.'

"In this Daoist's guess, doesn't the demonic art also have almost no 'tian'?"

"Why do you think so?"

"Please answer me first."

"That's right. The demonic art of our cult is also like that."

"As expected..."

Jamheoja stroked his beard and nodded his head repeatedly.

"I believe it is because the internal energy cultivation methods of both places are based on mental image training. There is no need to refine it with a 'tian,' but the energy is refined with just mental power and then immediately accumulated in the 'dan.'"

'The principle is similar, but the function is the complete opposite.'

'For example, the Buddhist qi art is to settle the mud in the inflowing muddy water with a Buddhist heart and store only the clean water.'

'The demonic art was to mix the muddy water with the ink of the demonic nature and store it.'

"In this Daoist's opinion, the core of a spiritual beast is a 'dan' formed by completely excluding the 'tian.' Although I don't know if the principle of refinement is mental image training."

"Then if we develop the Buddhist qi art and the demonic art and can completely eliminate the 'tian,' the dantian can be materialized like a core, is that what you're saying?"

"That's right. But since I don't know what the advantages of a core are, I don't see the need to turn the dantian into a core."

"That's also true."

Cheok Sagyeol completely took his hand off the hilt of his saber, folded his arms, and agreed.

In fact, the function of the dantian itself had almost no weaknesses.

Because over countless years, martial arts had developed and developed, and at the center of it was the dantian.

"Honestly, I'm surprised. I've never met a person who has studied the dantian so deeply in my entire life. Even this one myself has not paid that much attention to it. I think your theory has a firm hypothesis established in its main trunk, and there are quite a few reasonable parts in its procedure. To add a few things..."

Cheok Sagyeol added his own opinion to Jamheoja.

It was a vast theory that included not only the lower dantian but also the harmony with the middle dantian, and the system leading to the upper dantian and the realm of enlightenment of mind, qi, and body.

Since this was a perspective from the side of the Demonic Cult, it was an unparalleled fortuitous encounter for Jamheoja.

After discussing for a long time, Jamheoja closed his eyes as if to organize his knowledge and organized his thoughts for a long time.

And then he opened his eyes, which were filled with a mysterious light, with a faint smile.

"It seems to have been helpful?"

"That's right. Since I have newly established the future direction of my research, it is no different from obtaining the joy of a lifetime for me."

"Feel free to visit the Divine Cult anytime. If you want, I'll prepare a position for you."

"Hahaha. I have obtained the most reliable sponsor in the world."

Jamheoja laughed heartily and then continued with a serious gaze.

"In return for your kindness, I have one more thing to tell you."

"What is it?"

"While looking at old documents, I have seen something about the external core of a spiritual beast."

"An external core? What is that?"

"It is said to be the second core that a spiritual beast that has completed its internal core obtains. It is said that it creates a virtual core outside the body to store its own power, and when the external core is completed, it can also freely use the energy of the heavens and the earth."

"Oh?"

"Isn't it similar to the dantian, except that it exists outside the body?"

Jamheoja's words were true.

Because the storage and use of energy were the same.

"Perhaps there is a way for humans to also create another dantian outside the body. And if that is possible, only the Buddhist sect and the Demonic Cult in the world would be able to do it."

"For some reason, it feels like you're giving me a task, not a reward?"

"Is that so? Hahaha. Then let's call it a task. For reference, since the spiritual beast's is named the external core, I have given a different name to the human's external core."

As Jamheoja said slyly, Cheok Sagyeol smirked and asked.

"What do you call it?"

"The Golden Core. For now, I have decided to call it the Golden Core."

* * *

"What brings you here?"

Baili Jian, as soon as he returned from the Lion Grove Garden, saw Danmok Ryeon waiting in the Heavenly Wind Pavilion and asked.

But the answer came from Baili Lin next to him.

"Brother. It seems she has come for the matter I mentioned before."

"Hmm... is that so?"

At Baili Jian's words, Danmok Ryeon nodded her head with a firm expression.

"We shouldn't be doing this here, let's go inside. Let's go inside and talk."

As the two went into the Heavenly Wind Pavilion first, Danmok Ryeon and her nanny, Yanghwa, followed behind.

In the office, Lee Ok-yeon was there as the acting family head.

"Dear, did the matter you went for go well?"

"There were some results. Let's talk about that later and sit down."

"Hmm? Ryeon, what brings you here with them?"

As Lee Ok-yeon discovered Danmok Ryeon and asked, she smiled bitterly.

"You know as well, Mother. I have come to ask about the marriage."

"Phew... I see. Come here and sit down."

As Danmok Ryeon sat down with a troubled face, Lee Ok-yeon first reprimanded Baili Lin.

"Brother-in-law, how could you speak so carelessly about a great matter of the family?"

"I'm sorry, sister-in-law. Since the marriage is not far off, I thought I should inform the Danmok family as soon as possible."

'Although there was also a reason related to the Hidden Wind Squad as the manager of the Wind Forest, it was not a matter that could be used as a justification.'

'The justification was whether it was a matter that could break off or delay the marriage.'

"Even if it is an urgent matter, it is not something for you to notify, brother-in-law. This is my responsibility as the mistress of the family."

As Lee Ok-yeon repeatedly reprimanded Baili Lin, Danmok Ryeon sighed and said.

"Mother. No matter whose mouth it came from, it seems to be true that there is a problem with the marriage. As a party involved, I need an explanation, so please tell me."

The act of reprimanding Baili Lin was a kind of setting the mood.

Danmok Ryeon had turned the topic to the main point before she was swept away by the atmosphere she had created.

"If you say so, I understand. Whatever the circumstances, I will first apologize to you. Our main family wishes to postpone the marriage a little."

"Please tell me the reason."

"Huang... is very sick right now."

"Suddenly sick? The person who was fine until yesterday?"

Danmok Ryeon, as if she couldn't believe it, raised her eyes and continued.

"Please let me meet him. I have to see him myself."

"I cannot allow it. Huang must have absolute rest."

Lee Ok-yeon drew a firm line.

"Did he suddenly get a fatal disease? Why can't I even meet him? I am not only a party to the marriage, but I have also come as the representative for the wedding preparations. I have the right to know, Mother."

As Danmok Ryeon shot back, Lee Ok-yeon sighed and opened her mouth.

"Actually, Huang has fallen into a qi deviation."