85: Chapter 85 Cultivation Craze

The day after the press conference concluded, the Xia Kingdom officially released the complete content of the Human Breathing Method to the world.

This included detailed tutorials synchronized in thirty-two languages.

From every breakdown step of the Basic Muscle Tension Technique.

The correspondence between breathing Rhythm and muscle group activation, methods for correcting common incorrect postures, to guided exercises for the Rhythm perception stage.

And self-test standards for determining if one is close to 1.5x power output were all made public, without any reservations.

Released simultaneously was an announcement with clever wording:

"To promote the common cause of global human evolution, the Xia Kingdom suggests that individuals from other countries who intend to study the Human Breathing Method deeply should learn the Xia language."

"Some core concepts in the Human Breathing Method are most accurately recorded in the Xia language; translations into other languages may have semantic deviations or misunderstandings."

"Accurate understanding of terminology is the prerequisite for correct training."

It was not mandatory, it was a "suggestion."

But everyone who compared the original text with the translated versions knew the weight of this suggestion.

For example, "Rhythm"; in some languages, there is simply no corresponding term, and new words have to be coined.

Yet, in the original text, "Rhythm" contains multiple meanings including cadence, resonance, and internal drive.

Other terms like "Force Transmission Chain," "Muscle Tension," and "Dantian" all showed varying degrees of semantic drift in different language versions.

Accurate understanding indeed requires the Xia language.

Subsequently, the Xia Kingdom released another announcement.

Regarding the international cooperation plan for dispatching instructors:

"The Xia Kingdom will provide professional instructor support to various countries."

"The Xia Kingdom will dispatch senior instructors who have neared the Rhythm Realm to partner countries to specifically train local students and help them master the core essentials of the Human Breathing Method as quickly as possible."

"Terms of cooperation: To be determined through negotiation between the Xia Kingdom and the respective governments, covering areas such as technology transfer and mineral resource supply."

The wording of the announcement was very formal and diplomatic.

But translated into plain language, it meant: Want instructors? Trade technology for them.

Trade minerals for them.

Trade conditions for them.

At the routine press conference of the United States State Department, the spokesperson was asked three consecutive questions by reporters about the "conditions for instructor cooperation," and their facial expression was well-controlled.

But the answers were always beating around the bush: "We are currently evaluating," "We will communicate through diplomatic channels," "We have no further information to disclose at this time."

The reaction from the India's Ministry of Foreign Affairs was much more direct.

An anonymous official leaked to the media, using a term that was cited the most that day: "This is blatant robbery."

But leaking was just leaking.

The next afternoon, the India officially submitted its first round of letters of intent for instructor cooperation negotiations to the Xia Kingdom.

It was not just the India.

Over the next week, more than forty countries sent cooperation applications to the Xia Kingdom.

Some countries were cursing in their domestic media while urging via diplomatic channels.

No one wanted to fall another step behind at the starting line of the evolution race.

The Xia Kingdom already had nearly a thousand people who had broken through to 1.5x power output and entered the Rhythm perception stage, while other countries did not even have one.

Domestic reactions in various countries were equally intense.

On social media, anger and anxiety alternated in flooding the feeds: "Why should we trade our minerals for their instructors?"

"Because you can't Cultivate it yourself."

"They made the methods public; who do you blame if you can't Cultivate it?"

"The translated versions are really not good; I've already started learning the Xia language."

"Same as the person above, I signed up for an online class, three lessons a week, to first learn how to pronounce 'Rhythm'."

Meanwhile, the Xia Kingdom was also pushing forward with full force.

Training centers in various cities opened free public classes.

At six in the morning, long lines had already formed at the entrances of the training centers.

In the queues were young people in sportswear, middle-aged people who had rushed over after getting off work, and elderly people with gray hair but straight backs.

The internet was even livelier.

The server of the Cultivation forum crashed three times within forty-eight hours after the release.

Some people shared data on their power output changes after three days of training.

Some posted their training videos to ask for corrections.

In the comment sections, professional advice like "Your core isn't tightened" or "Your breathing frequency is too fast, slow down by one-third" appeared endlessly.

Some even started threads to livestream their process of learning the Xia language from scratch, titled "For the sake of evolution, I'm going all out."

But imagination is beautiful.

Once people actually started, they discovered that the difficulty of Cultivation was far higher than it looked in the videos.

The first wave of dropouts occurred in the first week after the launch.

An office worker who previously had zero athletic foundation collapsed after the fifth day of training because his body could not handle it.

He posted on the forum: "I can't even finish the simplest version."

"The Basic Muscle Tension Technique requires keeping the core tightened for over ten minutes; I couldn't even hold on for two minutes."

"Didn't everyone's body get stronger after the Spiritual Energy Revival?"

The replies below were very realistic: "You didn't Cultivate before; now the Spiritual Energy Revival has boosted you, but your foundation is still very weak, which is why you can't finish."

This was not an isolated case.

The intensity of the Basic Muscle Tension Technique far exceeded all previous exercises.

It required the trainee to simultaneously control breathing Rhythm, core stability, and the continuous activation of multiple deep muscle groups.

And maintaining this state was not for seconds, but for minutes, tens of minutes, or even longer.

After finishing one simplified set, ordinary people would be sweating as if they had been fished out of water, and their entire body's muscles would ache so much they needed to hold onto the wall to get up the next day.

As for those who challenged the complete version directly, most were forced to stop before even finishing one-third.

But those who persisted started to see returns.

Someone posted after a week of training: "I ran five kilometers today, and my breathing was smooth. My strength increased by a quarter."

They attached a screenshot of a dynamometer.

The data was solid, and the replies were enthusiastic.

These real-world feedbacks were more convincing than any official propaganda.

There were many who dropped out, but even more who persisted, and the changes after improvement made everyone yearn for it.

The laws of Spiritual Qi absorption were also verified repeatedly: the higher the training intensity, the more Spiritual Qi absorbed, and the faster the evolution.

This was a cruel but fair positive feedback loop.

The more one could withstand high-intensity training, the faster the evolution, and the faster the evolution, the better the body could withstand higher intensity.

Conversely, for those who could not persist, the gap would only widen further.

On the seventh day of the training fever sweeping the globe.

Chen Mo went to record the detailed explanation of Cultivation.

The venue was still chosen at the Jing City Aura and Evolution Investigation Department. When he pushed open the soundproof door, the room was already full of people.

The core technical personnel of the Xia Kingdom's Aura and Evolution Investigation Department, training guidance backbone, and representatives of the military evolutionist teams were all present.

Everyone was someone who had stepped into the Basic Realm and was groping towards the Rhythm Realm.

Chen Mo did not engage in small talk.

He stood directly in front of the podium, and his Source Power unfolded behind him.

The light screen condensed by Source Power was clearer than any projector.

"Today's lesson will be recorded as a tutorial and released to the world."

His voice was calm.

"The content will be explained layer by layer, from the Basic Realm to the Rhythm Realm."

"Listen carefully."

No one in the audience moved.

There was no sound of turning notebooks, no sound of clearing throats.

"The core of the Basic Realm is the Force Transmission Chain."

Chen Mo raised his hand, and a human structural diagram appeared on the light screen.

"Power output does not rely solely on arm strength."

He tapped the forearm muscle group marked in red on the diagram: "When an ordinary person throws a punch, muscle compensation occurs."

"The complete chain, which should ideally start from pushing off the ground with the soles of the feet, conducting through the calves, rotating the waist and abdomen, and then transmitting to the arms, breaks halfway because the core is not stable enough."

His finger traced all the way from the soles of the feet to the knuckles.

"Every movement of the Basic Muscle Tension Technique is about repairing this broken chain."

"When you perform antagonistic contraction, you are not exercising a specific muscle; you are exercising the coordinated power output of the muscle groups."

"The activation sequence of each muscle, the timing difference of the power output, and stability—this is the essence of the Basic Realm."

"I hope you understand this, rather than just following along."

Then he began to dismantle the variation movements one by one.

"This is standard variation one; the focus is on core abdominal pressure."

"When inhaling, the transverse abdominis is activated first, then the pelvic floor muscles follow; only after forming intra-abdominal pressure do you initiate the limbs."

He changed his posture.

"This is the advanced variation."

"From antagonism to dynamic conversion, there cannot be a break in the transmission of power."

"Many people have enough strength but cannot increase their speed because the core relaxes during the zero-point-something seconds of the transition."

After explaining the Basic Realm, Chen Mo paused for a moment, then continued.