Chapter Forty-Five: The Inner Family Road

  "Congenital Qi Deviation? It's actually Congenital Qi Deviation..."

  Ye Han was stunned, and then his heart was filled with wild joy. "It's actually true, it's actually true, could those legends be true?"

  In the legend of ancient times, in the depths of the mountains, there often appeared sword immortals during the pre-Qin era. With a mouthful of sword pellets, they could create a galaxy of silver with just one opening of their mouths, and take the heads of enemies thousands of miles away. That scene is similar to Ye Han's current state, where he spits out air that can cut through the air and sever walls.

  In the previous life, there was no such thing as a sword immortal. It was actually a terrifying figure who had practiced internal martial arts to an extremely high level, cultivating a pre-heavenly aura in their dantian that could kill people without leaving a trace. In ancient times, people didn't know the truth and thought it was a divine miracle, passing it down through word of mouth, making it more and more exaggerated. Ye Han had been practicing internal martial arts for a long time and had heard these stories from older generations, thinking they were just legends.

  I didn't expect it to be true.

  Just like Ye Han now, with one breath, spitting out, although it's impossible to be like the legend, taking the enemy's head from a thousand miles away. But within a range of one zhang in front of him, with one breath, even gold and iron would be ground into powder.

  This is not some kind of magical power, but a kind of "qi" that is cultivated from the flesh and blood through the practice of internal martial arts to an extremely high level. In ancient times, the term "gang qi" referred to strong and powerful energy, indicating that people had possessed this power long ago.

  So in ancient Chinese legend, there is still the existence of 'Pure Yang Sub' Lü Dongbin who can take the enemy's head from a thousand miles away. In fact, they are all human beings who have cultivated the internal family fist method to store the innate gas in the dantian. To ordinary people, they seem like gods. However, this era is relatively distant, and it wasn't until the Ming dynasty during Zhang Sanfeng's time that the internal family fist method was gradually systematized. Later on, in modern China, a disastrous cultural rupture occurred, and many precious internal family fist method materials were destroyed as dross, leading to later generations finding it very difficult to practice any more.

  "It turns out that all the legends are true, I was just ignorant and uninformed."

  Ye Han had always thought that after achieving the state of "harnessing one's energy and embracing the elixir", he had reached the highest level of internal martial arts, and no one else could surpass this level. This was because after the Republic of China era, having gone through several major wars, the last generation of flourishing masters of internal martial arts either died or were injured, leaving no successors, resulting in a significant break in the lineage.

  Then there was that famous cultural disaster in history, and almost all the classics were destroyed as heresy. The secret book of Xingyiquan that Ye Han got at the beginning was one of the few remaining ones, but it was not complete either. He relied on his own exploration and verification from others, and naturally, there were many more systematic things that relied on oral transmission that he didn't know! It wasn't until now that he realized how ignorant he had been.

  "Who would have thought that even the deepest state of internal martial arts practice could be so unbelievable?"

  It can be said that Innate Qi is a kind of power with properties completely different from Dou Qi.

  The fighting spirit of this world, or that of the beastmen, is from outside to inside.

  Because this world's heaven and earth yuanqi is abundant, people can easily absorb external energy to exert a terrible power, and gradually nourish themselves. Neijiaquan, on the other hand, is from inside out, through unique breathing and exhalation, unlocking one's own bodily potential, and when trained to the extreme, producing a kind of terrifying 'qi' from the flesh and blood, also known as innate ligation energy, achieving the same effect as releasing douqi externally.

  These are two completely different roads, and to a certain extent, the innate energy is even half a level higher than the martial energy. Because this power is entirely one's own potential, born from one's own flesh and blood, it is the great secret of developing the body's potential. However, the road of internal school boxing is more tortuous, fewer people can climb to the peak, and the threshold is higher.

  But once you can walk to the end, the reward is also huge.

  Ye Han clenched his fists slightly, looking at and feeling a mysterious "qi" that was slowly nourished from his own flesh and blood. Although it was weak, it continued to brew from the flesh and blood in his body, just like nuclear fusion, the flow of qi and blood was endless.

  He was convinced that the weak but real power emanating from his own flesh and blood was indeed the legendary 'Ling Qi'. He couldn't help but feel a surge of joy in his heart. This feeling was even stronger than when he first arrived in this world and successfully cultivated his first bout of Dou Qi.

  He could clearly feel the existence of that innate aura in his flesh and blood, compared to the battle aura of the Demon Beastman or the human's fighting spirit. If the fighting spirit was a hard rock, then the innate aura cultivated by the internal family fist method was like a steel needle that had been finely polished through thousands of hammering and hundreds of refining, more condensed and sharper.

  In essence, it is a power that is half a level higher than Dou Qi. However, in general, both have their own strengths and weaknesses. Dou Qi or Beastman Battle Qi has a larger quantity and is easier to learn and master, while the Xiantian Gang Qi cultivated from Neijia Quanfa has a much higher quality, although it is extremely difficult to cultivate.

  "If I were to bring the internal family fist method to its ultimate, and the innate Qi generated in my blood and flesh merged with the Qi within my body, what kind of effect would it have?"

  In Ye Han's heart, a sudden and inexplicable idea emerged.

  In this world, if someone says that a person has both the innate Gang Qi of Neijia Quan and the fighting spirit or Dou Qi, it's probably only him. If he can really combine the two into one, there might be unexpected effects.

  As he thought of this, he wanted to try it out. Just then, a "bang" was heard, and the door was pushed open. The waiting maid rushed out in a flurry, saw the room in disarray, the table and chairs broken into two pieces, and the wall, and couldn't help but exclaim.

  Then he saw Ye Han's gaze staring over, scaring his face pale, and hastily explained, "Sir, just now we were waiting outside the door, heard a big commotion inside, thought something had happened? So..."

  "It's nothing, I was just testing the power of my internal energy earlier."

  Ye Han stopped his action and opened his mouth to speak.

  "Ah! Sir, your leg?"

  At this time, the leading maid seemed to have discovered something incredible, her eyes wide open, staring at Ye Han's standing body, stunned and not daring to believe her own eyes.

  Because of his physical condition all along, Ye Han was always pushed by others to sit in a wooden wheelchair to move around, so these maids who were assigned to serve him didn't know the truth and thought he couldn't stand up on his own. Who would have thought that suddenly he actually stood up, naturally startling them greatly.

  "Huh?!"

  Ye Han turned his head and looked at her, that girl immediately knew she had misspoken, frightened, she lowered her head.

  "There's nothing going on, you all go out first!"

  He said.

  "Yes!"

  The leading maid hastily closed the door and retreated.

  "Sigh, it seems I'll have to wait a few more days before trying again to merge the innate energy and battle spirit."

  Disturbed by others, Ye Han also lost interest in continuing the experiment. The innate aura nourished from his flesh and blood was still very weak, so he planned to wait for a few more days until his body fully recovered before trying again.

  He took down a towel and wiped his back before walking out of the wooden bucket. Ye Han began to meditate, entering a state of concentration.

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