NOVEL FROG Chapter 119: The Power of a Soul Sovereign
On the high beam of the room, perched imperiously, Miao Miao watched Ling Yi sitting cross-legged in meditation at the center of the black and white stone platform below.
Ling Yi, possessing a keen spiritual perception, was aware of Miao Miao's gaze, but he did not concern himself with it; instead, he focused deeply within himself, immersing ninety-nine percent of his consciousness in his body.
With his mind's eye, Ling Yi 'saw' every part of his internal being.
The heart, vibrant and fiery, pulsed with every contraction, each beat pumping a torrent of hot blood through the arteries, coursing rapidly throughout his body.
His lungs, with hemispherical sacs, tirelessly exchanged gases with each breath of Ling Yi.
Beyond these were the liver, gallbladder, stomach, intestines, muscles, fascia, bones...
And, critically, the twelve major meridians and eight extraordinary vessels, straddling the boundary between reality and illusion!
This time, Ling Yi did not engage his "Blue Silver Grass" spirit, hidden somewhere within his body, to actively absorb various natural elemental energies. He merely directed the soul power within him to flow through his meridians.
Compared to the initial "Basic Meditation Technique," the meridian channels through which Ling Yi now manipulated his soul power were more than ten times as complex!
The rudimentary "Basic Meditation Technique" simply directed the soul power from the right hand – where the martial spirit manifested – along a single meridian to the dantian, straightforward and crude, utilizing the martial spirit’s nature to mechanistically absorb elemental energy from the surroundings, then channeling both soul power and external elementals into the dantian through a most familiar, elementary meridian.
In the past, Ling Yi improved upon the "Basic Meditation Technique," developing the "Advanced Meditation Technique 1.0," which allowed his soul power to carry external elemental energies through more meridians in his body. This process further tamed these unruly elemental energies during their circulation.
This not only flushed more meridians within his body but also reduced the burden on any single one.
Now, under Ling Yi's control, his internal soul power flowed along a path that was not profound but natural and smooth, circulating endlessly.
Thanks to his years of meticulous control over his soul power for the precise use of soul techniques, Ling Yi's mastery of his soul power was exceptional.
Thus, unlike others whose soul power might be hard to control and used mechanically, Ling Yi's operated effortlessly according to his will within the meridians.
The six Yang meridians of the arms, measuring about five feet from hand to head, combined to a total of roughly thirty feet.
The six Yin meridians of the arms, extending from chest to hand, measured roughly three and a half feet each, totaling approximately twenty-one feet.
The six Yang meridians of the legs, from head to foot, were about eight feet long, totaling approximately forty-eight feet.
The six Yin meridians of the legs, running from foot into the abdomen, were around six and a half feet each, totaling about thirty-nine feet.
The Du meridian and Ren meridian each measured about four and a half feet, totaling approximately nine feet.
Though Ling Yi could not remember all the acupuncture points and their names, through the detection of soul power, he marked the fourteen major meridians in his body one by one.
The lengths of various meridians mentioned above are the approximate data deduced by Ling Yi after exploring them himself and with the help of hundreds or thousands of others.
Of course, the breath transfer routes in "Basic Breathing Technique" do not involve all the meridians, covering only one-third of the main meridians in the human body.
Although it's far from the exaggerated claim by the surgeon in his past life that all the blood vessels in the human body lined up end to end would stretch approximately 96,000 kilometers, about two and a half times the circumference of the Earth, it still exceeds a length of five zhang!
Half an hour later, when three complete cycles were finished, the soul power within, like a flood, surged into the dantian. In that moment of semi-consciousness, Ling Yi seemed to experience an auditory illusion. With a crisp cracking sound, the once gaseous and illusory soul power suddenly coalesced in the dantian, becoming dense and substantial.
'Three cycles, according to the martial arts novels from my past life, this is just three small heavenly cycles, yet there's already a change in this internal power, or rather, soul power?'
'Wasn’t it said that it requires thirty-six, or seventy-two, eighty-one, or even a hundred and eight heavenly cycles?'
'Just three small cycles, are they underestimating me? Or is my aptitude too poor?'
Shaking his head, Ling Yi dismissed the thoughts that had just come to mind.
In his current state, all the information from his past life could only serve as a reference, definitely not to be regarded as an unalterable truth.
Just like the "Nine-word Mantra Hand Seals" he developed earlier, the Lin Seal is neither Daoism nor Buddhism, nor a variant of Japanese traditions. It's merely a method he devised based on his physical and mental condition.
No one could tell Ling Yi, "What you're doing is wrong."
Nor could anyone refute the various methods Ling Yi had pioneered by saying, "That's incorrect."
He was just an ordinary person who had traveled through time to be reborn, without the inheritance of Taoism or Buddhism, nor a profound cultural background. All he had were pieces of information from the era of the information explosion, and some imaginative ideas from web novels, movies, and anime.
Perhaps the only commendable trait was the decent worldview shaped by more than a decade of education during his youth.
Feeling the soul power within him, comparable to that of a Soul Sovereign, Ling Yi stood up with a smile in his eyes.
Higher soul power quality represented a higher efficiency in refining elemental energy from the outside world.
Consequently, his cultivation speed had once again accelerated!
As for those fan theories in novels from his past life, where the protagonist's enhanced energy quality required more accumulation for upgrades, thereby slowing down the leveling speed, the present Ling Yi could confidently say that this absurd notion didn't exist in the worldview of his universe!
After all, if you consider the increase in the original energy needed to enhance unit energy, why not consider that the ability of enhanced unit energy to capture and refine original energy has also been strengthened accordingly?
In any case, with the qualitative change in Ling Yi's soul power and the aid of the "Basic Breathing Technique," the accumulation speed of his soul power was now on par with ordinary peer soul masters of innate soul power level six!
Equivalent to a thirteen-hundred-year-old baron-level "Blue Silver Grass," with a natural soul power level of three, and omnipresent "Blue Silver Grass Mimicry Cultivation Grounds," akin to the elemental concentration in the outskirts of a primary soul beast forest, and the life-force-boosting meals three times a day.
Beyond the physical prowess of a Soul Master, Ling Yi's soul power quality has also caught up. Today, Ling Yi can be called a pseudo Soul Master without the third soul ring!
"Yi Elder Brother~"
As Ling Yi was assessing his current combat strength, Zhang Lei walked into the large warehouse and approached the black and white stone platform of the "Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams", calling out to Ling Yi:
"Old Master Jin sent a letter, saying the thing you asked the association to look out for has appeared—"
"Swoosh—"
Ling Yi instantly crossed a distance of more than twenty meters to stand in front of Zhang Lei, asking, "Any news? Where is it?"
Zhang Lei lifted the unopened letter in his hand, saying, "The messenger wasn't very clear, just that it seems to be within the borders of the [Heaven Dou Empire]—"
The chapter ends.
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