Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World
Chapter 334 - 208: Primordial, Modern Martial Arts Transmission_2

Chapter 334: Chapter 208: Primordial, Modern Martial Arts Transmission_2

"Human body simulation? Three Gates and Nine Acupoints?"

At the conference table, Cheng Yun first furrowed his brow: "We don’t understand these terms!"

"I know!"

Tang Mudao suddenly spoke up: "The Three Gates refer to the tail gate, Jiaji Pass, and Yuzhen Pass. The tail gate is where the Innate Yuan Qi is stored, Jiaji Pass is the place of Yin Yang convergence, and the Yuzhen Pass is..."

"As for the nine acupoints, different sects actually have different interpretations..."

He had once been the president of the Daoist Association, and now he spoke of this knowledge as if returning to his old profession, his explanation sounding incredibly proficient.

Even Old Man Bai nodded repeatedly.

A hint of pride appeared on Tang Mudao’s face.

"Unexpectedly..." Old Man Bai smiled at him, "Old Tang, even though your cultivation is low, you know a lot!"

"..."

Tang Mudao rolled his eyes, showing no interest in dealing with the old man.

Tang Lingwu interjected: "But this... doesn’t it make us even more confused?"

Everyone fell silent; to be honest, anyone could spout Daoist terms—the problem was how to understand them.

Zheng Fa looked around at everyone, seeing the difficulty on their faces.

He gently tapped on the table.

Everyone couldn’t help but look up at Zheng Fa.

"Don’t be frightened by the terminology, if we return to the fundamentals, set aside these terms, set aside the ideas about the alchemy furnace—what if we consider the essence of an outer elixir?"

His words made everyone at the table pause.

"You mean?"

Zheng Fa voiced the thought he had pondered for a long time: "What kind of reactions occur inside a Golden Core?"

"Fusion, fission, mixing..."

Old Man Bai summarized with a frown.

Cheng Yun nodded, speaking up: "According to our analysis of the Shenxiao Golden Core, first there is a fusion reaction, generating new particles and spare neutrons, then using high-speed neutrons to bombard heavy nuclear particles to create fission reactions..."

"What is an alchemy furnace then?" asked Zheng Fa.

"A manufacturing tool..." Cheng Yun answered subconsciously, then suddenly raised his head, looking at the structure of the alchemy furnace on the screen, realizing: "Dean Zheng, are you saying that the so-called Three Gates and Nine Acupoints are corresponding assembly workshops?"

"I think that’s very likely." Zheng Fa explained, recalling the changes that occurred when Zhang practiced those three Cultivation Techniques, and looking at the three types of alchemy furnace designs, he suddenly added:

"I think, it’s not the alchemy furnace that mimics the human body, but rather the cultivation process is refining the human body towards the direction of an alchemy furnace, each Cultivation Technique strengthening specific acupoints to suit the process of creating Golden Cores..."

Synthesizing the differences between Zhang and those ordinary people, Zheng Fa shared his thoughts to the people at the nursing home:

"To say that the alchemy furnace mimics the human body, I actually think there’s a logical error..."

Old Man Bai and others looked at him, puzzled.

"In our earlier summed-up cultivation processes, every step of cultivation has its purpose, Core Formation is to create new particles, Nascent Soul is even a new form of life..."

"Any cultivation method is rooted in this purpose."

Old Man Bai immediately grasped Zheng Fa’s point: "Are you saying, the method of cultivation, is from top-down, created by a cultivator stronger than those of the Golden Core, who developed the Golden Core Method?"

"Exactly!" affirmed Zheng Fa: "So I say, rather than the alchemy furnace mimicking the human body, it’s more accurate to say that through the process of cultivation, a cultivator transforms their own body into some kind of alchemy furnace!"

Zheng Fa paused, then suddenly added: "I’m thinking... the Golden Core Method might actually originate from the alchemy process, so the alchemy furnace came first, followed by the Golden Core Method; saying the alchemy furnace mimics the human body, in reality, it’s the human body that mimics the alchemy furnace."

This was Zheng Fa’s biggest suspicion...

In the Xuanwei Realm, various cultivation methods were not innately available.

For instance, Tianhe Venerable probably created the Lifebound Magical Treasure technique based on the Divine Dao Spirit Treasure.

"..."

The idea that Zheng Fa proposed was rooted in one thing—essentially, the Golden Core is a kind of nuclear reaction.

The human body is merely a specific reaction space.

Simply put, Zheng Fa believed that the great being who created the Golden Core Method had this thought: I want to use the human body to build a nuclear reactor!

This point, he had actually verified in Zhang, where each of the three methods were clearly intentionally strengthening specific acupoints,

This deliberate enhancement is evident as each Cultivation Technique strengthens the same number of acupoints, which are what the alchemy furnace refers to as the Three Gates and Nine Acupoints.

But this concept, passed down to later generations, became—only by mimicking the human body, can you build a nuclear reactor!

"This way, the issue seems simpler!" Cheng Yun’s eyes brightened.

"So, all we need to do is design the right reactor, right?" Tang Lingwu seemed to have understood and asked directly.

Zheng Fa nodded, the biggest advantage of changing this mindset was not anything else, rather it was ditching the limitation of simulating the human body, allowing Zheng Fa and Cheng Yun to consider the process of the outer elixir entirely from an engineering perspective.

Cheng Yun said with a smile, "With these three outer elixir skills for reference, and having the ’Shenxiao Golden Core’, creating an outer alchemy method is indeed not hard..."

Everyone laughed.

To be honest, setting aside the restriction of mimicking the human body to design a reaction vessel—for Cheng Yun and these nuclear engineers, it really was a piece of cake.

"Group Leader Yang?"

After the meeting, Zheng Fa called out to Group Leader Yang.

Group Leader Yang turned around, only to see Zheng Fa handing her a few books.

She took them with some confusion, noticing these books appeared to be handwritten and had no titles on the covers.

Opening the books, they contained images of human body postures.

"What’s this?"

"Martial arts texts."

It wasn’t a big deal for Zheng Fa...ordinary martial arts secrets were truly not valuable in the Xuanwei Realm.

Now, as the ruler of Jiushan Realm, Zheng Fa didn’t even need to leave Jiushan. He just posted a task within the sect, and dozens of disciples offered many secrets.

What he was copying now were the books with the simplest techniques.

Group Leader Yang flipped through the pages, her face inadvertently showing extreme excitement.

"Dean Zheng..." Group Leader Yang said sincerely, "I thought I would have to wait for a while."

"These few books aren’t much..." Zheng Fa said honestly, "However... before spreading them, if anyone wants to learn martial arts, they need to come to the nursing home first."

"This..."

Zheng Fa looked at Group Leader Yang, his eyes undeniably firm.

Group Leader Yang smiled wryly.

She understood what Zheng Fa meant—if it became widespread, Zheng Fa probably wouldn’t manage or have the energy to manage so much.

But if someone wanted to keep these things to themselves...

Zheng Fa wouldn’t agree.

"Dean Zheng... why must you be like this?"

Group Leader Yang’s words, to some extent, confirmed Zheng Fa’s thoughts...

Zheng Fa looked at her, saying, "Jiushan No.1 sells so fast, besides the so-called virility claim, some people... aren’t honest, but if they don’t go too far, I let it go..."

"But I am not cooperating with those people, I am cooperating with this country. What I care about, is never them..."

"Do you understand?"

Zheng Fa’s tone was very gentle, and there was no sign of anger on his face. After speaking, he didn’t care about Group Leader Yang’s reaction and turned to walk towards the nursing home.

But Group Leader Yang behind him was stunned.

The popularity of Jiushan No.1 indeed benefited from its virility claims, which was true.

But Group Leader Yang also knew some inside information, understanding that the claim was half-true—quite a large part of Jiushan No.1 was actually not bought by common people.

She had heard of it but was powerless.

However, unexpectedly, Zheng Fa hadn’t said anything before, but now suddenly brought up this matter—thus beginning to restrict the spread of martial arts.

She stood in place, biting her lip, feeling the taste of bitterness in her mouth.

At that moment, Zheng Fa suddenly turned back, nodded gently at her, and smiled.

Group Leader Yang suddenly straightened her back—she knew Zheng Fa still trusted her. His displeasement was towards certain people.

That meant, somebody was in trouble.

But she herself, was still the ’little padded jacket’ of the nursing home!

Thinking this, she couldn’t help but feel smug.

Huh?

Wait?

Was she being manipulated?

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