32: Introducing air into the body

Mountain City.

Inside the rental house.

After hanging up the phone, Shen Miao’s hanging heart finally settled halfway.

“Your brother is a grown man, what could possibly happen to him? It’s just a minor fall, men are tough.”

Her roommate Zhao Yi said, tidying up the books on the table.

“Let’s go, let’s go, if we’re late, all the good seats in the library will be gone! That’s Immortal Cultivation! Don’t you want to learn Spells early and go back to show your brother what you can do?”

Shen Miao nodded, hiding her worries deep in her heart, and quickly walked out of the dorm with Zhao Yi… Kunlun Cultivation Academy, Library.

Unlike mundane libraries made of steel and concrete, this entire building was carved from an unknown white jade, forming a seamless whole.

The hall’s space was vast and high, with rows of towering bookshelves packed with Jade Slips, beast-skin scrolls, and thread-bound ancient texts.

“Holy crap! I’m rich, I’m rich!”

Han Li was the first to let out a strange cry, darting in like a monkey, and casually pulled out a copy of “Basic Sword Art Explained” from a bookshelf.

“Haha! I’m going to be a Sword Immortal!”

He excitedly flipped to the first page, and the smile on his face instantly froze.

“This… this is all gibberish, isn’t it?”

“What does ‘Qi sinking into the Dantian, mind guarding the Xuan Pass’ even mean? I have a shoe cabinet on my Xuan Pass! How am I supposed to guard that?”

Liu Lian, next to him, also picked up a copy of “Elementary Geng Metal Sword Qi” and, after two glances, his brows furrowed into a knot.

“This stuff is even harder to understand than advanced math!”

“‘Condensing the sharpness of Geng Metal, transforming it into formless Qi’… would it kill them to speak in plain language?”

Complaints rose one after another.

In the grand hall, the freshmen who had just been so excited were now all dumbfounded.

They had initially thought that Immortal Cultivation was like what was written in novels: get a Secret Manual, practice according to it, and that’s it.

But reality gave them a resounding slap.

They recognized every word on these ancient texts, but when combined, they were more obscure and difficult to understand than the language of extraterrestrial races.

“It’s over, I feel like my brain is going to explode.”

“Help, did I choose the wrong major? Is it still not too late to switch now?”

“I can’t even understand the first sentence, am I a good-for-nothing?”

The entire library was filled with wails, full of the despair of poor students facing an incomprehensible text.

In the corner, however, there were a few distinctly different scenes.

Lu Miaomiao, the quiet girl who chose Body Refining, had found a pair of black-rimmed glasses somewhere and put them on.

Before her, two books lay open.

One was “General Principles of Body Refining,” and the other was “Illustrated Human Meridians and Acupoints.”

She was reading with extreme concentration, her left hand rapidly carving something onto a blank Jade Slip, while her right hand occasionally gestured on her arm, seemingly searching for a specific Acupoint.

Her reading speed was astonishingly fast, almost ten lines at a glance, yet it wasn’t a superficial read.

After finishing each section, she would pause, close her eyes to ponder for a moment, and then write down her understanding and questions on the Jade Slip.

On the other side, Lin Xiao, the arrogant Sword Cultivator Genius, also encountered trouble.

He held “Beginner Sword Control Techniques Tutorial” in his hand.

He had originally thought that, with his talent, he could skip the basics and directly learn the art of controlling a sword.

But after reading for a long time, he discovered a fatal problem.

To control a sword, one first needed to infuse one’s own Spiritual Qi into the Flying Sword and establish a connection with it.

However, he couldn’t even mobilize Spiritual Qi right now.

“Putting the cart before the horse.”

Lin Xiao shook his head in self-mockery, and without hesitation, returned “Beginner Sword Control Techniques Tutorial” to the bookshelf.

He turned around and, from the most basic bookshelf, pulled out an ancient text that looked the most unpretentious.

“Qi Refining Basics.”

Flipping to the first page, Lin Xiao’s body trembled slightly.

The breathing methods recorded within were seventy to eighty percent similar to his Family’s inherited Internal Skill Mind-Cultivation Technique.

But with just a quick glance, he discovered the world of difference between them.

The Family’s Cultivation Technique was like a crude, shallow technique stumbled upon by a country bumpkin, full of flaws and presumptions.

Whereas this “Qi Refining Basics” was like a rigorous thesis, refined through countless trials, clearly elucidating every step of Spiritual Qi guidance, transformation, and storage, pointing directly to the Origin of the Great Dao.

“So that’s how it is…”

“Our Lin Family’s proud Cultivation Technique was merely a superficial part of true Immortal Arts.”

Lin Xiao didn’t hesitate; he immediately sat down cross-legged on the spot and closed his eyes.

He began to attempt to circulate the Qi within his body according to the first method described in “Qi Refining Basics.”

The library remained noisy.

No one noticed the young man sitting with his eyes closed in the corner.

Time passed, minute by minute.

Suddenly.

A faint current of Qi began to slowly rotate, centered around Lin Xiao.

Several students around him felt something and stopped complaining.

“Hey, look, Lin Xiao, he…”

Before he finished speaking.

That current of Qi suddenly accelerated!

“Whoosh—”

A visible white vortex of Qi formed around him, stirring up dust from the ground!

An invisible pressure spread from Lin Xiao’s body!

Everyone in the library was startled and looked at him in unison.

“What the hell! What’s going on?”

“He… what is he doing? Has he suffered a Qi Deviation?”

Only Xie Wangsheng and a few other well-read individuals saw the clue.

“No… he’s… guiding Qi into his body!”

At this moment, earth-shattering changes were occurring within Lin Xiao’s body.

His originally cultivated impure Internal Energy, under the cleansing of the Spiritual Qi guided by the Immortal Art, melted away like ice and snow.

Those Impurities were burned away, transforming into the purest, most condensed Spiritual Qi!

An unprecedented feeling of power filled his limbs and bones!

“Boom!”

Lin Xiao suddenly opened his eyes!

Two flashes of brilliant light, gone in an instant!

The vortex of Qi around him instantly dissipated.

But his entire demeanor had undergone a fundamental change.

If he was previously a sharp sword hidden in its sheath, now, he was a divine weapon unsheathed, its brilliance fully revealed!

The entire library was deathly silent.

Everyone was completely stunned by the scene before them.

“He… he just guided Qi into his body?”

“How long has it been? From when we came in until now… has it been half an hour?”

“He’s a monster, right… Is this what a Genius is? We’re still reading the manual, and he’s already driven the car away!”

After a brief silence, there was an even more violent outburst.

“Damn it!”

Liu Lian’s eyes widened; he hadn’t expected his classmates to be so formidable.

He had only just begun to feel Qi, and someone had already guided Qi into their body.

“This is too Heaven-Defying!”

“I don’t believe it! If he can do it, I can do it too!”

With that, he grabbed the “Elementary Geng Metal Sword Qi,” plopped down, and regardless of whether he understood it or not, began to gesture according to the diagrams within.

Han Li also put away his playful smile, his expression turning serious.

“Yuanzi, this is for real now.”

“Can’t slack off anymore, or we’ll truly be left so far behind we won’t even see their taillights.”

Lin Xiao’s Breakthrough was like a sardine thrown into a school of catfish, instantly igniting everyone’s competitive spirit and sense of crisis.

The poor students who had been complaining earlier all fell silent now.

With reddened eyes, they each picked up their ancient texts again, and with the fierce determination of tackling the last major question of the college entrance exam, they stubbornly delved into their studies.

The entire library’s study atmosphere instantly reached its peak.