Chapter 8: The Great Chaos Primordial Skill

  After lunch, Yue Yu first took the private money that Xiao Yue Yu had saved up and went to the south gate of the city to buy medicinal materials from hunters and professional herbalists at a high price. There were a large number of winged mouse bones, as well as some medicines he had previously identified. However, as cover, many useless materials were also purchased, mostly for bruises and injuries. Then, with Ruan Li, they hastily ran out of the city, not to the south side of the Yue family's castle, where the rice fields were connected, but to the back mountain on the north side of the city.

  The Yue family claims to be the master of this thousand-mile radius, but in reality, the area under their actual control is limited to just a few dozen miles within a large valley surrounded by mountains. With approximately 700,000 mu of land, they need to support more than two million people, so every district's arable land has been utilized to the extreme.

  Fortunately, the environment of this world is extremely good, and the land is fertile. An acre of land can easily produce 12-13 tons of grain, and the terracing technology does not exist yet. So he can see the gurgling green water and the lush and beautiful scenery on this not very steep hillside.

  As the backyard of their own home, this small mountain called Hu Ling, about 1,400 meters high, is almost cleared every few years by those martial masters among the Yue family, eliminating all the monsters that can pose a threat to humans.

  In addition, there is the highest place, where a group of crossbows are installed - with extremely tough Huangtuo wood and soft silver steel made into the crossbow body, and then equipped with lion-eagle and crazy-horned rhino tendon-made bowstrings, making their range as high as 1,000 to 1,400 meters. Not only can they defend against fierce birds in the sky, but also have enough suppressive power against threats from the foot of the mountain.

  This is the accumulation of the Yue family for hundreds of years, and it also makes this place a relatively safe area compared to some small towns and villages that are attached to the Yue family in the surrounding areas. Many children inside the city consider this place as their playground.

  Of course, Yue Yu and Ran Li ran out not for fun, but to prepare to go to a place in the eastern part of the back mountain.

  It was a piece of land hidden in the dense forest, next to a mountain stream. Since Yue Yu discovered this place more than a month ago, he had almost brought Ruan Li here every day and together they built a wooden fence around it.

  In the eyes of the adults guarding this mountain, it was just these two little guys being naughty and treating this place as their 'base'. Many people have had similar experiences when they were young, so they didn't think it was strange. However, Yue Yu's true purpose for coming here was to prepare for his qigong training.

  Yue Yu called this place a 'spirit land', others might not notice, but he, with his analytical ability, had discovered that the unknown aura he named 'spirit energy' in this area was about three-quarters stronger than the small courtyard in Yue's city.

  Afterwards, Yue Yu specially experimented here, sitting and practicing qigong. Although the speed of cultivation didn't improve much, the internal energy obtained was far more pure than in other places. At first, Rong Li was puzzled, but within a month, he would come running on his own at noon without Yue Yu's urging, as if he could smell food.

  Entering the enclosure, the two did not rush to start their cultivation, but instead dispersed to make a thorough inspection of the surroundings. Only after confirming that there were no demonic beasts around did they one by one throw off the large and small packages on their bodies.

  Yue Yu first found a slightly dry place to sit down, with his palms and soles facing upwards, sitting in the five elements facing the sky. Ran Li took off the big axe behind him, practicing the Big Angry Ming Wang Axe while protecting Yue Yu. This was both to prevent monsters from disturbing them and to guard against human treachery.

  In this world, the general method of cultivating true energy is somewhat similar to the so-called "ancient martial arts" that relied on high-tech development in the previous life of Yue Yu. Both focus on internal breathing exercises within the lower dantian and Ren Du meridians. The difference lies in the fact that here, unlike the 23rd century Earth, it's not about seeking self-sufficiency from one's own body due to lack of conditions. Instead, it heavily relies on external "spiritual energy" (ling qi), drawing in external spiritual power through breathing and storing it in the dantian to enhance one's true energy. The speed of cultivation is fundamentally incomparable to the latter.

  However, in this "spirit", it is not just a simple one. In fact, among the classics collected by the Yue family about internal skills and martial arts, there are records and explanations of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as various derived spiritual powers based on the five elements, such as wind, thunder, Taiyin, and Taiyang. After analyzing these unknown substances, Yue Yu also found that some were extremely agile, while others were thick and heavy, roughly matching the records in the book.

  As a result, when people cultivate with the help of "Ling Qi", their internal breath will also be influenced by the external spiritual power, and they will have different "attributes". In general, in order to speed up the cultivation process and increase the power of martial arts, people in this world will choose one or two to three kinds of five-element attributes that are mutually generated for internal skill exercises to cultivate their internal breath.

  Just like Rong Li, the main practice is to temper the fire and earth attributes of the "Huichen Great True Power". And the previous Xiao Yue Yu, was mainly practicing the "Miyu Step Cloud True Method", which mainly attacked the water attribute true energy. After Yue Yu obtained this body and roughly figured out the situation in this world, he immediately changed his practice to a "Great Hunyuan Gong" found in the Yue family's book pavilion.

  This skill is as its name suggests, it can absorb any attribute of true energy, but the true energy in one's own body will also become impure and uneven. Whether it's the speed of cultivation or the use of true energy in the future, there are no special features to speak of, and it's not even comparable to other single-attribute internal breath training methods.

  However, Yue Yu's was just its steady and stable, other skills although in the speed of cultivation indeed have a place beyond others, but in his eyes, the damage to his own meridians was also equally great.

  Just like the Fire Spirit, as it is said 'Fire is fierce and upward', every day it burns and scorches the meridians, not a small matter. At first, it doesn't show anything, but after a long time, when it reaches a certain height, it will inevitably make the practitioner suffer greatly. And then there's the Earth Spirit, its thick and heavy properties make it extremely difficult to control, and after a period of time, it will also cause blockages within the meridians.

  Other metal and wood properties are not worth mentioning, the former's sharpness is the most dangerous, if you're not careful, it will damage the meridians. Even people in this world have discovered its inadequacy, legend has it that for thousands of years, no one has been able to cultivate metal inner power to the prenatal stage, and among the practitioners within the Yue family clan, there are less than one in a hundred. The latter's 'growth' property is also equally frustrating. When the wood spirit energy accumulates to a certain extent, it will 'take root and sprout' like plants, forcibly breaking through the outer wall of the meridians, making it extremely difficult to control.

  As for the water attribute, it seems harmless, but "water is said to moisten downward". Under the long-lasting nourishment of the true power of water, after a period of time, it will also cause the inner wall of the meridians to lose their due elasticity.

  That's why Yue Yu chose this almost unknown 'Great Chaos Movement'. Although it has no advantages in all aspects, the damage to the meridians is also close to none.

  It's just that his cultivation progress over the past two months has been mediocre. However, Yue Yu's body was never very suitable for the Water Attribute's Mi Qi Bu Yun True Method to begin with. Adding on the Personal Auxiliary Intelligent Parasitic System, which requires an accuracy of orders of magnitude higher than others, this introspection method allowed him to temporarily bypass several stagnant areas in his meridians when circulating his internal energy, and his speed was actually slightly faster than before.

  In fact, if it weren't for him being cautious about the meridians in his body, which were just starting to develop. Many branch meridians were very unstable and couldn't withstand too much turmoil, doubling up quickly wasn't a big deal.