35: Chapter 35 Human Breathing Techniques

Chen Mo maintained the state of Unity of Spirit and Flesh, carefully feeling the warm current as it seeped through his pores, spread along the fascial layers, and finally merged into his muscles and bones.

This was the first time he had actively absorbed Spiritual Qi using his own body without utilizing the system panel's abilities.

This feeling was completely different from directly absorbing spirit energy particles with the system panel.

Using the system panel to absorb was like drawing directly from the source; the volume was large and the efficiency was high, like turning on a faucet to fill a bucket with water.

Whereas the Rhythm absorption under Unity of Spirit and Flesh was about extracting Spiritual Qi from the air; the volume was small but continuous, like using a damp towel to absorb water from the air.

But he knew better than anyone what this meant.

It meant that ordinary people could also achieve this.

Everyone knows how to breathe.

Everyone has a body.

If the Rhythm generated by synchronizing breathing and the body could itself actively absorb Spiritual Qi, then theoretically, as long as one's control reached a certain threshold, anyone could master this ability.

He continued to maintain the state of Unity of Spirit and Flesh, constantly fine-tuning the frequency of his breathing and the amplitude of his muscle contractions, as if adjusting an extremely precise instrument.

He adjusted the inhalation length from two seconds to three, the exhalation depth from three seconds to four, and the intensity of the antagonism from the limit to eighty percent and back to the limit.

With every fine-tuning, he carefully felt the changes in the efficiency of Spiritual Qi absorption.

The moment all parameters matched precisely, the speed of the Spiritual Qi influx reached its peak—Spiritual Qi seeped in through every pore of his body, spread along the fascial layers, and merged into the violently tearing muscle fibers, with a repair speed almost several times faster than when he was not absorbing spirit energy particles.

He carved this Rhythm deep into his muscles.

Not by remembering with his brain, but by remembering with his body itself.

His muscle fibers remembered every rise and fall of this Rhythm.

Only after finishing this did he slowly exit the state of Unity of Spirit and Flesh—not to stop the breathing method, but to let the breathing method continue to operate in a normal state.

The amazing thing was that the breathing method did not stop because he exited Unity of Spirit and Flesh.

Although the absorption efficiency dropped significantly, that faint Rhythm was still running autonomously—the contraction memory accumulated by the muscles during antagonistic training allowed this breathing Rhythm to maintain a low-power basic cycle even without Unity of Spirit and Flesh.

It did not require Mental Energy support or total concentration.

This discovery was completely beyond his expectations.

It seemed that Unity of Spirit and Flesh was the starting point for him to discover the breathing method, but it was not a necessary condition for the breathing method itself.

Once the Rhythm was found using Unity of Spirit and Flesh, the body could maintain its operation at a very low level in a normal state.

This meant that the threshold for practicing the breathing method was lower than he had initially expected.

It did not require everyone to be able to achieve Unity of Spirit and Flesh; Unity of Spirit and Flesh was a tool to discover the Rhythm, not a condition to maintain it.

As long as someone could combine breathing and their body under a state of control to find their own unique Rhythm, their body could remember it, practice it, and eventually master it.

Of course, the prerequisite was that the person possessed sufficiently high body control.

Chen Mo returned to the Main Hall, picked up his notebook, and began to record.

He wrote silently for a long time, pausing only once—he wrote a title on a blank page.

"Human Breathing Method."

Under the title, he recorded the trigger conditions and operating mechanisms of this method one by one.

First, the core of this breathing method was not breathing, but Rhythm.

Breathing and muscles must be synchronized at a certain specific frequency to produce the effect of actively absorbing Spiritual Qi.

Second, Unity of Spirit and Flesh was not a normal condition, but at least a certain degree of control precision was required to "find" one's own Rhythm.

It was best and fastest to enter Unity of Spirit and Flesh when Mental Power was highly concentrated; if that was not possible, one could gradually approach it through repeated practice and muscle memory.

Third, everyone's body, breathing habits, and muscle types were different, so the corresponding Rhythm was also different.

Therefore, it was not a fixed Cultivation Technique—it was an underlying mechanism that varied from person to person.

He added a footnote at the bottom of the page: If someone could independently discover their own breathing Rhythm, they would be the first true Genius after the Spiritual Energy Revival.

What is truly difficult is always the act of pioneering.

And he was merely standing at a higher Realm, looking down to discover this pattern.

After writing this line, he leaned back in his chair and stared at the ceiling for a long time.

He thought about many things.

He thought of those ordinary people who were still completely unaware, going to work, eating, and sleeping as usual, not knowing that their bodies were being slowly and firmly changed by a brand-new energy particle.

The concentration of Spiritual Qi was still rising, and the amount of passively dissipated energy was increasing; ordinary people would eventually discover their bodies getting stronger, chronic illnesses disappearing, and their energy becoming increasingly vigorous.

But they did not know why they were getting stronger, let alone how to become stronger faster.

He could remain silent forever.

He was the leader, and silence served his interests best.

He also had the ability to actively perceive and absorb spirit energy particles, over two hundred particles a day, which was over two hundred times the effect of the Human Breathing Method—even if everyone learned the breathing method, the absolute gap between him and ordinary people would remain insurmountable.

But the Spiritual Energy Revival was not just an evolution.

It was also a reshuffling.

And on the table where the cards were being reshuffled, it would never be just humans.

The principle of the Human Breathing Method had been figured out, but one question still hung over his head.

Could this method absorb the spirit energy particles themselves?

The answer to this question would directly determine whether he should teach the breathing method to others.

Because spirit energy particles—those sources that were evenly distributed in nature in a discrete form and dissipated free Spiritual Qi—could only be actively perceived and absorbed by his system panel ability.

If the Human Breathing Method could absorb the particles themselves, then teaching it would be creating trouble for himself; after all, the number of spirit energy particles was limited, and they did not recover immediately upon being absorbed.

If it could not, and only absorbed dissipated Spiritual Qi, then the benefits would be very limited—currently, about twenty particles could cover a standard area, and the total amount of subtle substances that ordinary people passively received every day was barely equivalent to fifteen percent of a particle.

Even if they used the breathing method to actively absorb it, it would barely reach the level of one particle.

And he could now absorb over two hundred particles a day, a gap that was easily over a hundred times greater.

More importantly, he also had the abilities provided by the system panel—as long as he continued to train, he could keep getting stronger.

He pushed the door open and walked into the backyard, quickly finding a spirit energy particle in the night.

That familiar feeling shone like a small lamp in his perception—the particle itself floated motionless in its original place, while the faint free Spiritual Qi dissipated from it slowly spread in all directions.

He sat cross-legged next to the particle, closed his eyes, and used the Human Breathing Method.

His breathing steadily cut into that familiar frequency, his whole body's muscles were slightly tensed in an antagonistic state, his pores opened, and Spiritual Qi began to seep into his body from all directions.

He could clearly feel the flow of the free Spiritual Qi—after he activated the breathing method, they seemed to be attracted by some kind of magnetic field, changing direction and rushing towards him.

But the spirit energy particle itself remained motionless.

It hovered less than a meter away from him, as if it did not belong to this space, neither approaching nor moving away.

No matter how he increased the Rhythm of the breathing method, deepened the intensity of the antagonism, or adjusted the frequency to test it, the particle itself seemed to have cut off its connection with all external physical fields—it neither responded to the weak gravitational force brought by his breathing Rhythm nor produced any fluctuations due to his body's approach.

Sure enough.

At this stage, the Human Breathing Method could only absorb the free Spiritual Qi dissipated into space and could not directly absorb spirit energy particles.

The particles themselves could currently only be actively absorbed by his ability; apart from that, no other known method could do anything about them.

This also gave him peace of mind.

His greatest advantage was not how much Spiritual Qi he could absorb, but the upper limit of his abilities.

Even if everyone mastered the Human Breathing Method, it still could not threaten his absolute leading position.

And this point was enough for him not to worry when he handed it over in the future.

He stood up from the ground, returned to the Main Hall, opened his notebook, and continued to record under the "Human Breathing Method" entry.

Experiments proved that the Human Breathing Method currently only acted on the free Spiritual Qi dissipated in the air and could not capture the spirit energy particles themselves.

The particles could still only be actively absorbed through the system panel's ability.

Chen Mo calculated the evolution of the future gap; over the past fifteen days, the concentration of Spiritual Qi had increased by about half, and currently, the amount passively received by ordinary people was about fifteen percent of a particle per day, and those with high activity levels could reach thirty percent.

If the efficiency of the breathing method was ten times that of passive absorption, then after mastering the breathing method, one could reach a level of 1.5 to 3 particles per day.

Moreover, the "Infinite Growth" brought by the system panel was his true advantage that could not be caught up with—as long as he was still training and still getting stronger, this gap would only continue to widen.

The next thing to consider was the timing of teaching it.

The concentration of Spiritual Qi was still too low, and the perception threshold for the Human Breathing Method was very high.

To meet the minimum control force requirement to discover the Rhythm, reaching 1.5 times the force, even with him leading the way, most people would probably take a long time to master it.

Furthermore, once the breathing method spread, the best outcome would, of course, be helping humanity firmly occupy the top of the food chain during the Spiritual Energy Revival.

The worst-case scenario was that someone would use this power to fight for resources and create chaos.

However, no matter how great that chaos was, it would not threaten the Foundation of modern civilization—after all, even if everyone learned the breathing method, they would only be absorbing a little dissipated Spiritual Qi, which would still be vulnerable to all the equipment of a modern army.

And for ordinary people to reach the level of being able to withstand bullets, it would still take many years.

After all, the current Spiritual Qi content was not enough.

Maintaining overall order and stability was not only protection for his loved ones but also a guarantee for his long-term training environment.

Finally, he wrote a line at the footer of the page: The timing is not yet mature.

Wait for the Spiritual Qi concentration to increase for a while longer before considering teaching it.

Before that, first bring his own training to the limit.

Putting down the pen, he let out a long breath.

There had been enough Breakthroughs tonight—Mental Power 3.0, Prediction and crisis warning, Unity of Spirit and Flesh, Human Breathing Method.

Each one, taken individually, was a qualitative leap.

He stood up, walked to the center of the courtyard, and resumed the Standing Post posture.

For the last set of Basic Muscle Tension Control Method tonight, he would use the breathing method to assist in recovery.

The antagonistic tension spread throughout his body, and the Rhythm of his breathing was slow and deep.

Sweat seeped from his forehead, trickling down his cheeks and dripping onto the gravel beneath his feet.

But this time, in addition to sweat, there was also Spiritual Qi merging into the depths of his muscles from all directions.

That current of Qi intertwined with the sweat, adding a layer of cool relief to the burning and itching under the original extreme load.

He maintained this state, and this time was longer than any previous round.

In the distance, the horizon had already tinged with a faint, faint gray-white—that was the edge where the deepest night before dawn was pierced by the first ray of light.

A new day was about to begin.