487: Chapter 487 Improving Physical Attributes, The Path of Cultivation

Time quietly slipped away amidst the Visualization.

Inside the hotel suite, the darkness remained profound, as quiet as the Universe Void Realm.

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However, the golden halo enveloping Fang Cheng was like a miniature sun suspended in the eternal night, becoming the only light source in this darkness.

Strangely enough, this light did not expand wantonly around, as if restrained by an invisible barrier.

When the light reached the edge of the two-meter-diameter range, it stopped abruptly, condensing without dispersing.

It clearly and distinctly completely isolated the darkness inside and outside the circle, forming an absolutely independent Domain of light.

Inside the halo, ribbons woven from countless light particles drifted slowly, rotating endlessly around Fang Cheng's body, outlining a sacred and tranquil picture.

How much time had passed, unknown.

Through the gaps in the heavy curtains, a trace of faint grayish-white filtered in.

That was a sign that the deepest darkness before dawn was being diluted.

As the external daylight gradually brightened, the golden halo surrounding Fang Cheng seemed to be pulled by some wondrous traction.

The rotation speed began to slow down, and the light gradually became dim and transparent, transforming into countless tiny light spots.

They were silent like fireflies, merging into the first ray of morning light piercing through the gaps of the curtains, and disappeared.

The layer of golden light flames enveloping his body surface also retracted accordingly, sinking beneath the skin.

The last trace of light flashed past from the space between his eyebrows and vanished.

The entire room seemed to return from the extraordinary dimension to the ordinary world.

A few crisp bird chirps came from outside the window, mixed with the faint sounds of vehicles driving on the distant street.

Fang Cheng, sitting cross-legged on the bed, trembled his eyelashes slightly.

The next second, he slowly opened his eyes.

Those eyes appeared exceptionally deep and bright under the faint light, as if stars were being born and perishing within them.

A night of Cultivation not only did not make him feel tired, but instead left him full of energy and radiant.

Fang Cheng's gaze swept across the dim room, finally falling on the air in front of him.

A light blue light screen that only he could see quietly emerged.

Several brand-new prompt messages were quietly displayed upon it.

[You comprehended the Dao of the Sun during Visualization, your True Self tends towards Perfection, Visualization experience +50]

[You comprehended the Dao of the Sun during Visualization, your True Self tends towards Perfection, Qigong experience +50]

[Congratulations, your Physical Body Foundation has received a baptism of vitality from the Inner Scene World, your Physique has improved, successfully achieving a Breakthrough to 67 points]

Looking at the contents of these prompt messages, a trace of joy flashed through Fang Cheng's eyes.

He sorted through the harvests and insights from last night's Cultivation, and his heart suddenly became enlightened.

The effect of this Visualization far exceeded any previous sedentary meditation, comparable to the situation when he initially condensed his True Self and opened up the Inner Scene World.

The fundamental reason lay in the verification of the martial arts theory of "Unity of Knowledge and Action".

In the real world, Fang Cheng used thunderous means to execute Xuanzhen, acting out the move of "tyrannical destruction".

And because he liberated countless dead souls, he obtained majestic "Karma Power Of Will", thereby having a benevolent heart to bless the common people, planting the seeds of life.

These two happened to perfectly fit the duality of the "Dao of the Sun".

Destruction and rebirth, tyranny and benevolence.

When the "action" of reality and the "knowledge" of consciousness completely merged, it triggered a qualitative change in the Inner Scene World.

That desolate world was showered with sweet dew everywhere, finally radiating the first trace of true vitality.

And the transformation of the Inner Scene World, through arcane energy conversion forms, fed back onto his Physical Body.

This was not only a Cultivation Breakthrough on the spiritual level, but also an sublimation from the inside out, running through both spirit and matter.

"So this is truly the genuine Cultivation of the martial dao..."

Fang Cheng muttered softly, slowly closing his five fingers and clenching his fist.

Crackle——

A solid and tyrannical sense of strength instantly filled his entire right arm.

Muscles bulged and swelled, and blue veins slithered beneath the skin like little snakes.

Every cell was cheering with joy, as if a sleeping volcano could erupt again at any time, fully displaying its might.

Seeing this, Fang Cheng did not hesitate at all, and his left hand grabbed the end of the bandage wrapped around his right arm.

Rip, with a sudden pull.

The white gauze was instantly shattered by a clever force, scattering across the bed like fluttering butterflies.

The right arm, freed from constraints, immediately revealed a bronze, healthy luster under the morning light.

Those originally crisscrossing, bone-deep ferocious wounds had now vanished without a trace.

His skin was shockingly as smooth as before, his muscle lines smooth and filled with a sense of strength, leaving not even a sliver of a scar.

Had he not experienced it firsthand, no one could believe that this arm, a day ago, was still in a dilapidated state that was almost completely destroyed.

Fang Cheng got out of bed, shirtless, and stood within the bedroom.

He took a deep breath, lowered his body slightly, raised both fists, and assumed a standard fighting stance.

The next second, his figure moved.

Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!

The fist wind whistled, tearing apart the quiet air in the room.

He first threw a series of lightning-fast jabs, their landing points precise, as if nailing several invisible nails into the air.

Immediately afterward, his waist and hips suddenly exerted force, and a heavy, powerful rear straight punch fiercely blasted out.

The fist wind it brought up even caused the distant curtains to sway slightly.

Fang Cheng's movements did not pause at all, his body smoothly sinking down to dodge the imaginary attack.

At the same time, a ferocious uppercut suddenly erupted from bottom to top, its fist edge pointing straight at the jaw.

Immediately, his body rotated like a spinning top, and a fierce and peerless swing punch swept horizontally outward.

Jab, straight punch, uppercut, swing punch...

A set of flowing combination punches was executed by him to the fullest.

Accompanied by slight sonic boom sounds, every movement was swift and neat, filled with textbook-like aesthetic beauty and fatal lethality.

Finally, he abruptly retracted his fists, his body shifting from extreme motion to extreme stillness, standing firmly.

Feeling the surging and unending majestic Qi and blood within his body, as well as the unhindered and even more abundant sense of strength in his right arm,

a heartfelt smile could not help but curl up at the corner of Fang Cheng's mouth.

Originally according to his plan, this morning he was also going to deliberately stand on stakes to circulate the heavenly orbit, practicing Qigong for one hour in order to speed up the recovery rate of his injuries.

It was just completely unexpected that last night's flash of inspiration during Visualization Cultivation would yield such astonishing effects.

It not only completely replaced the healing role of Qigong, but its efficiency was even several times higher.

Overnight, it completely healed those terrifying injuries that would have left any surgeon at their wits' end.

What made Fang Cheng even more rejoiced was that his Physique attribute had also unexpectedly improved during this process, increasing by nearly 2 points.

His gaze slightly condensed, and his thoughts sank into his Dantian.

That azure True Qi ocean remained vast and calm.

Compared to before last night's Cultivation, the water line showed no obvious changes.

"In other words, repairing such severe injuries actually did not consume much True Qi?"

Fang Cheng's thoughts stirred, and he immediately understood the crucial point within it.

Previously, when healing himself, whether actively operating Qigong or relying on the passive recovery of his extraordinary Physique, the essence of it was consuming his own life energy.

Spoken in terms of Daoist inner elixir theory, it was transporting the True Qi stored within the Dantian to make up for the deficit produced by the Physical Body.

But this time, it was completely different.

The energy for repairing the body did not originate from the "stockpile" inside the Dantian.

Instead, it came from the growth of all things in the Inner Scene World, and from the Karma Power Of Will dedicated by those rescued dead souls.

It was precisely this special Power Of Will acting as a catalyst that allowed the Divine Soul to ignite a light flame different from the past.

Eventually illuminating the entire body, bypassing the step of circulating True Qi, and directly activating the life potential within his body.

This was clearly a higher-level energy circulation method.

Fang Cheng's gaze narrowed slightly as he recalled the Qigong theories he had once learned and the Cultivation classics he had read.

Regarding the various tenets and Profound Truths of Daoist Dual Cultivation of disposition and longevity, and Esoteric Buddhism's union of bliss and emptiness, they flowed through his heart like flowing water.

A brand-new understanding of Cultivation suddenly became thorough in his mind, forming a System.

If it could be said that his previous process of opening up the Inner Scene World followed the path of acting in a "Heaven-Defying" manner:

Taking the Physical Body as a tripod cauldron and digesting high-energy substances into "essence";

Taking True Sun Fire as a medium to refine "essence" into Dantian True Qi, which is "Refining Essence into Qi";

Then using True Qi to counter-rush the crown chakra, nourishing the spiritual platform, transforming it into the spiritual energy constructing the Inner Scene World, which is "Refining Qi into Spirit";

And finally using spiritual energy to open up heaven and earth in the conscious world and condense the True Self, which is "Refining Spirit to Return to Void".

This was an sublimation process from matter to energy, and then to spirit, a retrograde path competing for creation with heaven and earth.

Then now, when his Inner Scene World radiated vitality due to the "unity of knowledge and action", it opened up a brand-new path of "acting in accordance with the Heavenly Dao".

The Inner Scene World was originally an illusory realm, but because it bore Karma Power Of Will, it tended toward reality, beginning to conform to the Heavenly Dao and feed back into the Physical Body.

This could be said to be the beginning of "Void Refining and Dao Integration".

And the Divine Soul of the "True Self" bloomed with a more restrained light flame, giving birth to an indestructible bright point, directly transforming spiritual power into human body energy containing vitality.

This was the forward path of "Spirit Refining into Qi".

The indestructible bright point then transformed this life energy into quintessential substances that nourish the Physical Body and activate cell division and growth.

This was the method of "Qi Refining into Essence" that followed the human physiological System and conformed to the laws of Qi and blood circulation and viscera operation.

Ultimately, this "vitality" perfectly made up for the "essence" of the Physical Body, making it stronger and more consummate, until achieving a state of unity of disposition and longevity.

Conforming leads to mortals, rebelling leads to immortals; one compliance and one rebellion overturn Yin and Yang.

The three of Essence, Qi, and Spirit were no longer a one-way retrograde progression, but a perfect closed-loop that could freely transform and endlessly reincarnate.

The Dantian also upgraded from a mere energy warehouse to one of the important hubs in the entire circulation System.

And the Inner Scene World was like opening a valve connecting to a higher dimension for him, becoming a generator capable of transforming spiritual energies such as "Karma" and "Power Of Will".

As long as there was sufficient "Karma Power Of Will" as fuel, it could even continuously create life energy.

From then on, not only could he accumulate strength and break through life shackles through the retrograde path of "Refining Essence into Qi",

but conversely, through the forward path of "Spirit Refining into Qi", he could directly create energy from the spiritual level to repair the Physical Body and contain vitality, so as to practice the deeds of healing the wounded and creating all things.

"The rebellion and compliance of Yin and Yang are both within a single thought; only then is it the Foundation of longevity."

"Perhaps, this is refining the false into the true and the immortality of the Physical Body in Daoist inner elixir doctrine, which is the Yang Spirit..."

Enlightenment sprouted in Fang Cheng's heart.

At this moment, his Cultivation System could be considered truly consummate and harmonious in the true sense.

Then his gaze slightly narrowed, concentrating his consciousness to try and verify it.

This time, he did not communicate with the Dantian, but instead completely immersed his mind and spirit upon that dazzling scorching sun in his mind.

Almost the instant his thought touched it, a warm, gentle, and vitality-filled warm current emerged from the spiritual platform.

This warm current rippled with a faint golden luster, yet completely lacked the tyrannical scorching heat of flame True Qi.

It was closer to the azure True Qi catalyzed by Water Breathing, just like that golden spiritual rain nourishing all things in the Inner Scene World.

Strictly speaking, this was a brand-new form after the two energies achieved the intermingling of water and fire.

Fang Cheng's thought stirred, guiding this warm current along his Meridians, gradually flowing toward his right hand.

Then, he slowly spread open his palm.

Hum——

A cluster of golden flames quietly emerged between his fingertips, wrapping around his entire palm.

The light of the flames was soft and tranquil, without the slightest burning sensation.

Instead, it exuded an aura that refreshed one's heart and mind, filled with exuberant life tension.

"This perhaps... can be called the Fire of Vitality?"

Fang Cheng gazed at the flames on his palm, contemplative in his heart.

He could sense that this cluster of flames might not be able to unleash the terrifying destructive power of the True Sun Fire.

But in other aspects, it possessed unimaginable wondrous uses.

For example, it could be used to catalyze plants, purify toxins, and heal his own and others' injuries.

Moreover, the efficiency was far higher than past True Qi healing methods.

More importantly, it could directly mobilize the life energy originating from the Inner Scene World without relying on the True Qi reserves of the Dantian, greatly enhancing endurance capabilities.

Fang Cheng's heart experienced a surge of exhilaration.

Toward this Cultivation System, and the future possibility of achieving "Inner Scene Manifestation", he gained a few more layers of profound understanding and anticipation.

The only flaw was the issue of acquiring "Karma Power Of Will".

This pure energy originating from others' gratitude and blessings could not be demanded at will.

It was more like a feedback of Karma, requiring doing good deeds and resolving difficulties as a prerequisite, and was definitely not something that could be produced simply by doing one or two good deeds.

Fang Cheng reined in his thoughts and gently clenched his fist.

The flames in his palm instantly extinguished, and all the light completely retracted into his body.

At this moment, the sky had completely brightened.

Between the gaps of the curtains, the morning light filtering in became bright and warm.

He strode forward and pulled open the heavy curtains with a single tug.

The early morning sunlight instantly poured in, illuminating the entire room brightly and transparently.

Outside the window, Cuihai Lake rippled with shimmering light, and a few white yachts drew slender silver lines across the lake surface.

On the distant street, scattered pedestrians and vehicles were passing by successively.

The city awakened from its deep slumber, radiating vitality anew.

Fang Cheng stretched, his joints making crackling sounds.

Feeling the fresh air, every cell in his body was also yearning for movement.

"Perhaps, today I can go for a morning run by the lake..."

Just as his thought stirred, the bedroom door was gently knocked at this moment.

"Brother Cheng, are you awake?"

Lin Chuqiao's gentle voice came from outside the door, carrying obvious concern.