Chapter 162: Qi Refining Era

In the underworld, under his control, the mental power was like a glowing paintbrush, constantly sketching.

Many lines converged to form a slightly blurred blade.

This was the method of condensing mental power that he learned from Liu Dingsheng.

The process of using mental power to sketch things is the process of condensing the spirit.

The principle is not complicated, it is simply consumption, use, recovery, and then consumption.

Each consumption will gradually increase the strength of mental power.

And each use will naturally condense mental power.

This repeated cycle is the simplest and crudest way to improve mental power.

And it is said that in the hands of those hidden sects or some martial arts masters, there are also some serious visualization methods that can improve the mental power of warriors more efficiently and effectively.

Of course, this kind of visualization method is as precious as martial arts, and even Liu Dingsheng has no way to obtain it.

What Song Changming outlined was his dragon-patterned knife, but every time he outlined half of the blade, his mental power was not enough.

Before it was completely exhausted, he had to stop and rest.

"Huh." Song Changming relaxed his mind and exited the meditation state. The half blade in the dark sea instantly disappeared.

"It seems to be a little progress."

He sketched it day by day, from only being able to sketch a small section of the blade at the beginning to now half of the blade.

The progress is still very obvious.

Today, as usual, Song Changming tried to comprehend and study the martial arts.

Suddenly, he felt a flash of inspiration, which was different from the past.

He looked through the annotations of the martial arts scriptures in the secret book, and he seemed to have a lot of understandings.

He immediately opened the panel and saw that, as expected, the martial arts he had been thinking about for a long time were listed.

[Ninth Grade Wind Dragon Divine Sword Art: Not yet started (0/1000)]

Although it is still not yet started, the experience bar is displayed, which means that he can finally gain experience!

"Wind Dragon Divine Sword Art!" Song Changming was excited. He had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

For ordinary warriors, perhaps they have to wait until the Nether Sea is opened and their mental power is strong enough to practice such martial arts step by step.

Song Changming is different. As long as the experience bar is displayed, he can practice martial arts!

Practicing martial arts and improving mental power are no longer a matter of sequence. They can be done simultaneously for him.

The sooner he gains experience, the sooner he can master martial arts!

In this way, the focus of his daily martial arts practice will also change slightly.

Martial arts, a more advanced power system, will naturally become his key project for gaining experience in the future, occupying most of his energy and time.

While he was studying more advanced martial arts, the appearance of a dragon in Donglai County was also known by the group behind Nanyang Gu Wenhui, and they decided to make a big fuss about it.

In their mouths, the dragon was called a real dragon.

The real dragon was born in the territory ruled by Gu Wenhui, which indirectly proved that Gu Wenhui was the man of destiny in the world, and he should follow the will of heaven and become king and emperor!

Gu Wenhui is ambitious, and this step is also one of the preparations for his ambition, occupying the high ground of public opinion.

Even in ancient times, this kind of public opinion war is equally important.

After all, only those who are ultimately supported by the people can naturally become the final winner, sit in the highest position, and make people convinced.

Otherwise, those who are not convinced by the public and sit on the throne forcefully will eventually be overthrown again.

And such a big publicity can also let more people understand his deeds and rely on him, and strengthen his momentum.

The effect is still not small.

But such publicity is also easy to attract hatred.

Today, the world is still in a state of fragmentation, and there are large and small forces everywhere that claim to be kings and hegemons.

Seeing that you are developing well, they want to trip you up.

So, the war in the south, which had just stopped for a short time, began to break out again.

Winter has gone and spring has come, and another half a year has passed.

This day, in the courtyard.

Song Ping'an was practicing light body skills on the iron stakes in the corner of the yard, concentrating on it.

Song Changming was sitting cross-legged alone. In the dark sea, a complete dragon-patterned knife was glowing and floating next to his spiritual body.

The dragon-patterned knife was not blurred at all, and even the two dragon patterns on it were clearly visible, delicate and exquisite.

After a moment, Song Changming exhaled and ended this meditation.

The dragon-patterned knife in the dark sea also dissipated.

Song Changming drank a sip of tea, then grabbed the black wooden knife on the table beside him and swung it at the iron stakes in the corner of the yard.

The next moment, a familiar ripple spread from his black wooden knife, followed by an endless knife wind, sweeping in.

The ripples hit the iron stakes, and there was a continuous rumble, and the surface of the iron stakes continued to dent and deform.

Under the violent shock, Song Ping'an, who was above, stepped on the air and was about to fall down.

However, it was swept up by the strong wind and flew higher into the alley outside the courtyard wall.

"Almost done!" Song Changming nodded secretly.

This wave was exactly the same as the martial arts tactics that Li Pu used with his mental power when he fought against him.

[Nine-grade Wind Dragon Divine Sword Art: Entry (850/6000)]

Now that more than half a year has passed, he has successfully mastered the only martial arts tactics on hand.

Therefore, he can also use his mental power to activate the martial arts tactics and swing the sword to perform them.

Although it is not an authentic sword energy, its power cannot be underestimated. He has not used all his strength just now, but it is more than enough as a trump card.

He could feel how difficult this sword technique was to understand and practice.

But after half a year of practice, the speed of progress was much better than he expected.

And all of this is due to the transformation brought about by the dragon ball.

He was unable to do anything at first because his innate qualification attributes were too low, which made him unable to start training.

After swallowing the Dragon Ball, his innate aptitudes and attributes increased exponentially, which put his martial arts training on the right track.

In more than half a year, the progress has been quite fast, and he has not encountered any difficulties. As early as two months ago, he had successfully mastered this sword technique.

"With my current mental strength, I should be able to refine my qi," Song Changming put away his wooden sword and thought.

In fact, he had tried to refine Qi more than once before.

However, he could clearly feel that he was not strong enough, and his mental strength was not strong enough to support him to complete a round of Qi refining, so they all ended in failure.

Only now, after his mental power has been further enhanced, has he gained some confidence.

After returning to his room to take a nap and rest for a while, Song Changming immediately began to practice Qi after his energy was fully replenished.

The process of refining Qi is similar for every martial artist. There is no special training method, unlike body refining which has specific directions.

Refining qi is a cookie-cutter process in which one breath is introduced into the body and refined into internal qi, which accumulates and grows stronger day by day.

There are also some notes on Qi refining in his martial arts, but they are not detailed.

Fortunately, the breathing methods required for qi refining are not scarce. Unlike martial arts, no one will pass on ordinary qi refining methods as a private inheritance.

Therefore, Song Changming spent thirty gold coins and entrusted Liu Dingsheng to purchase a Qi Refining Technique from a Qi Refining Master.

The operation of the Qi Refining Method itself is not very difficult.

What is really difficult is that the steps of collecting qi, moving qi, refining qi, and accumulating qi require continuous consumption of mental energy to operate.

If the mental strength is not strong enough, it will not be able to withstand the consumption of Qi refining, and it will fall short in this process.

He had been like this after several previous failures.

By the time Song Ping'an came back from outside the courtyard wall, Song Changming had already returned to the room and started trying to refine Qi again.

His breathing began to change regularly, and at the same time, the spiritual power in the underworld was mobilized by him, sinking into his body, and guiding the breath into his body in conjunction with the rhythm of his breathing.

The Qi circulates, travels around the sky, and finally uses the spiritual power to refine the natural Qi in the body.

He had failed in the refining process more than twice before.

Therefore, he was a little anxious this time, until finally a trace of refined inner energy took shape in his body and was captured by his mental power.

The anxiety in my heart was swept away, the dark clouds cleared, and I felt great!

Done!

Although it was not much, just a trace of inner energy, a successful start meant that the most difficult first step had been successfully taken by him.

Then there is Yun Qi.

The refined inner energy was initially unstable and easily dissipated. He also needed to consolidate it with his mental power so that this inner energy could remain in the body permanently, as if it were branded.

This complete round of Qi refining did not end until all the mental energy was almost exhausted and the brain was groggy.

Looking inside again with mental power, one can clearly find that a trace of inner energy has been integrated into the flesh and blood of his body.

When he has an idea, he can mobilize it to appear.

"Great!"

Song Changming looked quite tired, but his heart was full of joy.

After today, his martial arts has officially entered a new stage!

The era of refining energy!

In this remote Donglai County, he believed that there must be masters of qi refining, but they were definitely not many, and they might not even be able to count them with two hands.

At this stage, most of the Qi-refining warriors are immersed in their own pursuit of martial arts and hide in the city. In the eyes of the general public, few of them show their faces.

Therefore, Qi refining masters are generally relatively mysterious. Even due to the application of inner Qi, the appearance looks too mysterious. Occasionally, the person who makes the move is glimpsed, which is enough to leave a great rumor in the market.