387: The Problem

Soon, Xiao Fan stopped writing, and on the yellowed paper, a densely packed diagram of human Meridians appeared.

The human body has a total of twelve Meridians and 720 Acupoints.

Currently, the human figure on the yellowed paper in Xiao Fan's hand only marked a hundred Acupoints, with over six hundred Acupoints still blank.

Acupoints are almost inseparable from Martial Arts.

Operating each different Martial Arts technique will activate the Meridians and Acupoints required by that specific Martial Arts.

Generally, a Saint-Grade Martial Arts requires between forty and sixty Acupoints. What Zhou Xinyang did was to select an Acupoint that could stimulate Mental Energy from these dozens of Acupoints.

Every Acupoint can stimulate the body's nerves, but it requires a special method of operation.

For example, when the "Shangyang Scripture" operates the Fengchi Acupoint, the Acupoint will stimulate Mental Energy.

However, using "Blazing Fire Blade Art" to operate the same Acupoint will not cause Mental Energy stimulation.

Different Martial Arts and different operational methods lead to different effects.

The first step Zhou Xinyang took was to select the Acupoints that could stimulate Mental Energy from the hundreds of Martial Arts in his possession, along with their operational methods.

The second step was the true Hellish challenge.

He needed to operate these more than one hundred Acupoints from different Martial Arts with their different operational methods, all at once.

The difficulty lies in the fact that Acupoints cannot be operated individually.

Once the "Shangyang Scripture" is operated, over forty Acupoints will move together; it's impossible to activate only one Acupoint while the others remain still.

It's like a large gift package where you only want one item, but the seller doesn't support individual sales. No matter how much you argue with the salesperson, they won't sell it separately.

At this moment, Xiao Fan felt as if he was in a vast supermarket, surrounded by hundreds of super large gift packages, each containing one item that you absolutely had to take out.

How to dismantle hundreds of large gift packages, take out the most important item from each, and then repackage them, this was an enormous challenge.

Xiao Fan was genuinely excited at this time because Zhou Xinyang was almost on the verge of accomplishing this.

Seeing Xiao Fan's serious expression, Zhou Xinyang immediately entered a state of research and discussion.

At this point, Zhou Xinyang took the yellowed paper, condensed his comprehension, and began to add some details to this human Meridian diagram.

"Now, I have fused the hundreds of Acupoints from hundreds of Martial Arts into ten books. Each book operates ten Acupoints along one Meridian."

"My goal is twelve books, because humans have twelve Meridians, and the covered Acupoints can exceed two-thirds of the total Acupoints on the Meridians."

"That's talking too far ahead. Now, please look."

"This Martial Arts I created is called the ""Twelve Palace Divine Scripture."""

"I structured each Meridian into a Palace, then sealed it off so it wouldn't conflict with other Meridians. Operating it then could stimulate the nerves."

"But to achieve no conflict, perfect control of Qi and the body is needed, which requires another Martial Arts."

"""Supreme Meditation Scripture"" is a quasi-Divine-Grade Martial Arts!"

"This Martial Arts is too suitable for the "Twelve Palace Divine Scripture" I created, because when I enter the Supreme Meditation state, my Qi seems to condense into a sphere, sinking into my Dantian, and can connect with the Twelve Palaces!"

"Please take a look, I bought it on my way here."

Xiao Fan lowered his head and took the quasi-Divine-Grade Martial Arts handed to him by Zhou Xinyang.

He couldn't help but think that the other party had truly come with great expectations for this trip, even having the necessary Martial Arts prepared in advance.

He had never learned this Supreme Meditation Scripture before; being quasi-Divine-Grade, its difficulty was much greater than quasi-Saint-Grade, so it couldn't be learned instantly.

About half an hour later, Xiao Fan finished learning this Martial Arts. He frowned and said, "I've learned something similar before."

He didn't want to say that he had truly achieved Perfection in a quasi-Divine-Grade Martial Arts in just half an hour.

Zhou Xinyang didn't think much of it, let out a long breath, and said, "That's good. Then, would you… give it a try?"

"Follow my Twelve Palace operation method, and connect to that Qi from the Supreme Meditation Scripture!"

Xiao Fan took a deep breath, his Qi sinking into his Dantian, first entering a meditative state, with that Qi in his body condensing in his Dantian.

Then, the hundreds of Acupoints in his body began to operate one by one.

First Palace.

Second Palace.

Third Palace…

When it connected to the Seventh Palace, his Qi became chaotic and dispersed!

Xiao Fan suddenly opened his eyes. His overall Mental Energy had not improved at all.

The biggest problem with Zhou Xinyang's Martial Arts was completely exposed in Xiao Fan's eyes.

This Twelve Palace Martial Arts could be said to be ingeniously crafted.

But its biggest flaw was that he had to operate eleven Martial Arts simultaneously, which meant dividing his attention into eleven parts!

He also had to divide one breath of Qi into eleven parts, and these eleven parts had to be incredibly even and not conflict with each other!

Even the slightest conflict would render everything useless.

Even after learning the Supreme Meditation Scripture, it still couldn't be done.

Because humans have seven emotions and six desires.

Zhou Xinyang saw that Xiao Fan couldn't enter the state and showed a look of expectation.

He sighed softly, "Now you know why I came to you, hoping you could help me research this Martial Arts, right?"

"How can human attention be divided into eleven parts!?"

"And you have to keep your Qi stable, maintain a high level of Mental Energy concentration from beginning to end, and not think about anything else!"

"This is simply impossible!"

"I am human; I have seven emotions and six desires!"

"I've spent a full ten years trying to solve this flaw!"

"The only way to solve it is to dissipate all of one's essence and Qi, to make oneself lose that… human desire."

"So… so others would say I'm like… a eunuch."

"But this is ultimately not the Dao to a solution."

"Moreover, even so, the actual effect is very mediocre."

At this point, Zhou Xinyang lowered his head, his entire old face filled with helplessness and grievance.

He just wanted to write the world's first Martial Arts for Cultivating Mental Energy.

But he couldn't write it!

He had exhausted all means, even turning himself into a eunuch, yet he couldn't find a solution!

The simplest way was to combine these ten Martial Arts into one, operating ten Meridians with one breath of Qi!

But he wasn't smart enough.

He couldn't connect them.

Forget ten; he couldn't even connect the Acupoints of two Meridians together.

It was like finally finishing an argument with the supermarket salesperson, taking out the most important gifts from a hundred gift packages, and dividing them into ten portions.

But these ten portions were too messy, and he couldn't carry them all home at once.

He wanted to continue arguing with the salesperson to package these ten portions into one, but he couldn't win the argument against the salesperson.