332: Chapter 332 Human joys and sorrows are not shared.

The second Lin Yuan's personal official account updated its status, the traffic curve in the underlying data monitoring center of the entire Xia Kingdom's internet broke through the chart's highest scale at a nearly vertical angle.

"Refining Essence to Qi: Volume One"!

Just this unremarkable attachment, within ten seconds of its release, saw its download requests break the one hundred million mark!

Moreover, this number was still jumping frantically at a terrifying speed of tens of millions per second.

Countless people stared fixedly at the green loading bar on their screens, not daring to blink, fearing they would miss a single byte.

Finally, a crisp "ding" sound rang out.

The download was complete, and the document was opened.

Countless pairs of eyes lit up instantly, and breathing slowed accordingly.

What came into view was an ancient and profound opening summary:

"When humans are born between heaven and earth, they are born with Yin and Yang, harboring the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit within the body..."

"If essence is exhausted, qi declines; if qi declines, the spirit tires, leading to all kinds of illnesses and the daily loss of lifespan. This is the constant path of following heaven, and all living things wither away day by day following this..."

"This volume is the first foundation for entering the path. It does not impart mysterious supernatural powers, nor does it contain methods for flying or escaping the earth; it only cultivates the origin of the physical body to solidify the foundation of the self."

This text did not use any obscure modern scientific terminology; it only contained the most authentic ancient Xia language.

In front of computers and mobile phone screens, countless Xia people looked at these words, feeling that while they did not fully understand it, it seemed incredibly powerful. The sense of weight unique to Xia cultural heritage seemed to pierce through the electronic screens and rush toward them.

Immediately after, when they repeatedly chewed on the last half-sentence of the opening summary, not only were they not disappointed that this was just a primary technique for "solidifying the foundation," but they were so excited that they trembled, with goosebumps rising all over their bodies.

No mysterious supernatural powers?

No methods for flying or escaping the earth?

The implication of this was practically painting an incredibly enticing picture for all the people of the Xia Kingdom!

Everyone was very clear about this.

It was not being taught now simply because this was Volume One, the first foundation for entering the path.

But since there was a Volume One, there must be a Volume Two, Volume Three...

Even later, there would certainly be chapters on "Refining Qi to Spirit" and "Refining Spirit to Void"...

By that time, riding the wind with a sword, traveling to the North Sea in the morning and the Cangwu Mountains in the evening...

Would that still be a fantasy?!

Countless Xia people clenched their fists tightly in front of their screens, their eyes burning with unprecedented fanaticism and extreme conviction.

"A technique, it really is a Cultivation technique!"

"Holy crap! God Lin is so good at painting these pictures; I will eat it! I will even eat the plate!"

"Solidifying the foundation is good! With my body that stays up late working overtime every day, if he gave me a supernatural power directly, I am afraid I would explode and die instantly!"

After the brief ecstasy, everyone suppressed the excitement in their hearts and impatiently scrolled down to view the rest of the content.

"Calm the spirit and quiet the breath, use the heart to drive the fire, use the breath as wind to refine the essence, and transform it into the clear and harmonious internal Qi of the Energy Center..."

"Press the tongue against the roof of the mouth, sink the Qi into the Energy Center, keep the spirit void and the head upright, and keep the tailbone centered..."

"Guard the void and stillness, cut off stray thoughts, and cease the deluded mind..."

Each line of text, in the eyes of the Xia people, although somewhat profound in meaning and requiring effort to comprehend, was definitely not an obscure "heavenly book" that was impossible to understand.

Because they were too familiar with these terms!

From martial arts novels to various Cultivation web novels, to the mantras recited by grandpas and grandmas doing Tai Chi in the park.

"Sink the Qi into the Energy Center," "Press the tongue against the roof of the mouth," "Ren and Du meridians"...

These concepts had long been engraved in the bones of every Xia person.

Even a middle school student who had just started junior high could close their eyes and roughly locate their Energy Center or their Baihui acupoint.

This was the cultural barrier!

This was the most precious wealth left by the ancestors to the descendants of the Xia Kingdom!

"I get it! I think I get it!"

In a certain university dormitory, a male student slapped his thigh, sat cross-legged on the bed, and closed his eyes.

In an office building, a programmer who was typing on a keyboard silently pushed the keyboard away, adjusted his sitting posture, and began to try to "sink the Qi into the Energy Center."

On a park bench, an elderly man taking a walk looked at his phone, touched his beard thoughtfully, slowly closed his eyes to rest, and muttered to himself.

In this next second.

The entire Xia Kingdom, hundreds of millions of people, in different locations and with different postures, made the same stunningly consistent choice.

They put down all secular chores and impatiently began their first "Cultivation" in life.

And at this moment, the Xia Kingdom's internet also experienced an extremely strange phenomenon.

The major social platforms, forums, and message boards, which had been boiling to the extreme because of the press conference and could refresh millions of posts every second...

Suddenly, they became quiet.

On the trending search list, the entries "Cultivation technique descends upon the world" and "The first step to nation-wide Cultivation" were still hanging high in glaring deep red.

But the number of posts in various discussion areas saw a cliff-like drop that defied the laws of physics and internet dissemination.

No one was posting meaningless memes anymore, no one was playing with memes, no one was spamming, and even the most active trolls and paid posters had completely disappeared at this moment.

Because everyone was too busy!

At this moment, no one was willing to waste even a second of time arguing with others online.

They were all staring fixedly at the technique, scrutinizing the details word by word, and experiencing that mysterious leap of life during their first Cultivation process.

...

However, human joys and sorrows are not shared.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, in the Western world overseas.

In stark contrast to the quiet and peaceful atmosphere of the Xia Kingdom where everyone was in seclusion to comprehend the Dao, the overseas internet and major intelligence agencies had completely descended into chaos.

Lin Yuan's status update was public to the entire internet, and just as he said at the press conference, he did not set any IP restrictions or blocking, nor did he use any encryption methods; it was just placed there openly.

The second the attachment was released, major intelligence agencies on The Other Side of the Ocean, top analysts at the Pentagon, and countless foreign netizens waiting eagerly in front of their screens with bloodshot eyes also downloaded the document immediately.

Filled with extreme desire and greed for extraordinary power, they clicked on the document with trembling hands.

Many of them had some foundation in the Xia language in order to study the Xia Kingdom.

Especially with the emergence of Xia-language programming last year, coupled with the strong rise of the Xia Kingdom, it had already set off a wave of interest in the Xia language among the Western upper class and intelligence circles.

But then...

When they opened the document with confidence and looked at the contents inside, countless people were stunned.

Every single character in it, when broken down, they recognized; they could accurately read the pinyin, and could even write its basic meaning.

But when these characters were combined together, they only felt their heads splitting in two!