60: Chapter 60 The Wonders of Breathing Techniques, Attribute Enhancement

Chapter 60: The Wonder of Breathing Techniques, Attribute Boost. The function of a Breathing Technique differs from a Body Tempering Technique or a Visualization Technique.

This kind of method doesn't merely increase the stats on one's personal attribute panel...

Instead, it regulates various physiological details through breathing, allowing one to activate certain special states.

If Martial Skills and Meditation Techniques are equivalent to active skills in a game that can be used actively,

and Body Tempering Techniques and Visualization Techniques are like passive skills in a game, boosting a large amount of attributes,

then a Breathing Technique...

is essentially a buff skill in a game.

Different Breathing Techniques...

can activate different states within oneself.

Once activated, some Breathing Techniques...

can enhance one's elemental affinity, boosting the speed and power of Esper ability release.

Others can drastically improve an Evolver's physical fitness and grant immunity to pain.

There are even some Breathing Techniques that possess all sorts of bizarre effects.

However, only one Breathing Technique can be activated at a time...

After all, the human body has only one respiratory System.

But by switching Breathing Techniques, one can quickly activate different states.

And these Breathing Techniques...

stem from the fruits of exploration and development of their own bodies...

by various Espers and Metahumans over hundreds and thousands of years.

"This Breathing Technique can be considered a jack-of-all-trades method."

"Once learned, it will bring immense benefits to your Sword Technique."

"Many soldiers in our Jinchuan Military Region maintain this Breathing Technique long-term..."

"It provides a degree of help to both Espers and Metahumans."

It had to be said.

Dieshan and Wu Di indeed had a good relationship.

Even after Ye Hai spoke like that, Dieshan still exchanged a Breathing Technique for Ye Hai.

He looked at Ye Hai in front of him with a complex expression, ultimately saying only, "Take care of yourself..."

"Cough, cough, cough..."

"Thank you, Senior..."

"This time, this Junior will definitely accomplish something..."

Ye Hai bowed deeply to him with immense sincerity.

He made a massive gain this time!

One of the best Breathing Techniques in the Jinchuan Military Region, and one of the best Body Tempering Techniques...

Both had fallen into his hands!

Ye Hai immediately took this Water Breathing Overlapping Method and returned to his small private room.

Reopening the book,

the contents of the Water Breathing Overlapping Method came into view.

A Breathing Technique does not merely regulate the body's internal physiological state;

it also absorbs free elements in the air to strengthen oneself.

Back when Ye Hai was in school,

he had heard of a famous Breathing Technique called the Great Sun Thunder Attracting Method.

This Breathing Technique absorbed the free Yang element and Lightning element in the air,

allowing the cells in one's body to be fully nourished by these two elements... and undergo transformation.

And clearly,

Ye Hai's Water Breathing Overlapping Method at this moment was a technique that nourished cells through the Water Element of the Void Realm...

ultimately strengthening oneself.

"Different breaths enter the lungs with oxygen, then travel through different meridians throughout the body..."

"To think it could produce so many miraculous effects..."

"The cultivation of Breathing Techniques is truly an endless field of study..."

Looking at the contents of the Water Breathing Overlapping Method,

Ye Hai's heart was filled with pleasant surprise.

Once a Breathing Technique is activated,

it causes one to enter a certain state.

And some Evolvers who master a Breathing Technique to the utmost Realm

can maintain that current Breathing Technique even while eating or sleeping.

Thus...

the buff becomes a permanent effect.

Moreover, a Breathing Technique isn't just a fixed boost upon activation;

rather, as time passes,

the degree to which the Breathing Technique nourishes and strengthens the body's cells increases...

And once activated,

the magnitude of the buff gained becomes even greater.

Many people who reach mastery with their Breathing Technique can even increase their strength several times over!

"If the attribute boost from Body Tempering Techniques comes from tempering and forging..."

"Then the attribute boost from Breathing Techniques comes from nourishment."

"These are two completely different principles, but both offer immense benefits to the body."

"Breathing with the Water Breathing Overlapping Method long-term..."

"Will likewise improve my various attributes."

"And this boost is even longer-lasting than that of Body Tempering Techniques..."

Ye Hai grasped the core essence from this Breathing Technique.

The wondrous nature of the human body opened his eyes.

The depth of exploring the human body's mysteries...

might not be inferior to the depth of exploring the mysteries of the Universe.

He sat cross-legged once more and retrieved the diary from his consciousness space.

Then,

bit by bit, he began altering his past.

An important aspect of a Breathing Technique is establishing muscle memory and bodily habit.

This differs greatly from Body Tempering Techniques and Martial Skills.

Body Tempering Techniques and Martial Skills require a quiet environment to Cultivate and practice,

and once practicing, one cannot focus on other tasks.

But for a Breathing Technique, as long as one successfully reaches the entry level and enters that state,

one can maintain that state long-term.

From giving full concentration to maintain the Breathing Technique at first, to maintaining it constantly once it becomes a habit...

Eating, sleeping, traveling, practicing...

Even when fighting to the point of losing consciousness, the Breathing Technique continues to run.

This is a long-term process.

It requires slow, steady nourishment over months and years to strengthen oneself.

Thus, Ye Hai rewrote the past in his diary.

Making it so that over the past month... he spent every day practicing this Breathing Technique.

Inhale—Exhale—

Regulating the frequency.

Guiding the elements in the oxygen into his blood and cells...

Afterwards,

Ye Hai closed the book—

[...During this past month, you worked hard every day practicing the Breathing Technique...]

[...On the very first day, you grasped the essence of the Breathing Technique, allowing you to subjectively absorb and exhale elements to nourish yourself...]

[...Soon after, you moved past relying on your mouth, breathing solely through your nose...]

[...Gradually, you developed the breathing habit of the Water Breathing Overlapping Method!...]

[You no longer needed to consciously maintain it; just like blinking, you kept up this breathing habit automatically...]

[And through breathing to obtain the Water Element to nourish your cells, you achieved vast, long-term progress...]

[Your sensory ability, Cell Strength, Neural Response... all received varying degrees of improvement...]

[Half a month later, you gradually freed yourself from active guidance, maintaining the rhythm of the Water Breathing Overlapping Method even while eating and sleeping...]

[Your body ultimately committed the breathing and guidance of the Water Breathing Overlapping Method to memory!]

The moment he closed the book,

Ye Hai instantly felt an unprecedented state.

His entire body felt unbelievably clear and unimpeded, as if his nostrils were directly connected to every single cell in his body.

Under this state,

Ye Hai felt as though the entire world had become somewhat different.

Ye Hai immediately realized the status effect of the Water Breathing Overlapping Method—

Concentration!

While inside this Breathing Technique, one's overall concentration was vastly heightened.

One could instantly dispel extraneous thoughts.

Doing anything, one could quickly enter the zone.

The effect was in no way inferior to Nie Feng's eight-word mantra, "Mind clear as ice, unfazed though the heavens fall."

And looking at his attribute status panel at this moment,

the originally empty status panel now displayed a special state—

[Water Breathing Overlapping State: Greatly increases concentration, and boosts Neural Response, Mental Will, and Mind Sensing attributes by 7%.]