Dominating Martial King
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227: Chapter 190 Template Card_4 227: Chapter 190 Template Card_4 However, this Qi was not truly Inner Strength but what’s called “Essence”, gathered from the most purified Spiritual Energy.

Absorbed from the Wild Boar Meat, it should have dissipated over time.

At this moment, however, it was forcibly gathered into the Dantian by Zong Shou’s Guiding Technique.

It could strengthen the body and could also be turned into Inner Breath, able to heal injuries as well as be transferred to others, serving many purposes.

In his past life, Zong Shou was able to suppress billions of players; this Guiding Technique could indeed be said to have contributed greatly.

Usually, Zong Shou practiced inside a carriage, three times a day.

Chuxue had already witnessed it and lost interest after watching it briefly.

However, it was Yiin Yang’s first time seeing it, and after the first glance, his eyes revealed a keen sharpness, watching intently.

Not until Zong Shou had completed the entire set of the Guiding Technique did the sharp light in Yiin Yang’s eyes recede.

He casually said, “I wonder, Princely Heir, where exactly did you learn this set of movements?

If practiced diligently, even if one cannot become a regional magnate, it can still strengthen and invigorate the body—”

Zong Shou nodded slightly, acknowledging the instruction, yet a flicker of unusual expression crossed his face.

During these seven days, the only thing he knew was that he had studied at the very familiar Coastal Academy for a long period and was just recently taken out by the two.

Also, there was Yiin Yang, whose depth and breadth of experience he could not gauge.

Calm and composed, with appropriate demeanor, he did not look like a coachman at all.

After they had finished eating the pork, Yiin Yang and Chuxue entered meditation and began regulating their breath, breathing steadily, almost as if they were asleep.

Zong Shou also sat cross-legged, tentatively operating a basic mental method to transform the Essence in the Qi Sea into Inner Breath.

At first, he felt nothing, but as the Qi began to flow into his meridians, he suddenly felt as though ten thousand steel needles were puncturing his body all at once, almost causing him to cry out in pain.

Zong Shou involuntarily inhaled sharply, not wishing to disturb the two nearby, he forcibly endured it.

After 15 minutes, the intense pain finally began to subside, leaving his forehead and back soaked in cold sweat.

“Indeed!

It is because of the parallel meridians!”

A flash of realization crossed his eyes, and Zong Shou stimulated his Thought, causing the warm currents to return completely to the Qi Sea.

He temporarily gave up the idea of continuing to practice the Inner Qi.

In the Cloud Realm, all races cultivate based on the nine circles of the Body Meridian.

Nine Wheel Meridians circulate around the body.

While Zong Shou was circulating the Qi, he distinctly felt the Essence in his meridians splitting and taking different paths.

As he anticipated, his body indeed harbored Dual Veins!

This body, being a Half-demon, had both the Human Clan and Fox bloodlines, both of extraordinary origins, possessing the strengths of both, with undoubtedly exceptional root bone and Five Elements Spirit Root.

However, it was precisely because of this that they conflicted with each other, making his physical strength frighteningly low, which prevented him from practicing any Inner Breath normally.

Given such a physique where two meridians run parallel, if it were someone else, they would likely have given up on the idea of practicing Martial Arts.

For him, however, it was not without hope.

What he was most grateful for in this world was his decades of reading in his previous life and the validation in the virtual Illusion Realm, gathering Martial Arts experience far surpassing any Martial Artist of this era!

Recalling information from his past life, Zong Shou’s brows gradually furrowed.

He either had to practice a special Kung Fu suitable for Dual Veins, of which Zong Shou’s memory held several, all of which were formidable—at least above the Absolute Skill level, but none suited him.

Alternatively, he needed to obtain several Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

By enhancing one of his bloodlines and suppressing the other, he could improve his physical condition and merge the Dual Veins.

Yet such Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were even rarer.

Zong Shou had never even considered them.

“I really deserve it!

Fiery Fire Cold Flame Technique, Great Reversed Luo Divine Technique, Sun and Moon Radiant Wheel—when I obtained them back then, why didn’t I look at them more closely?

Even though they were somewhat inferior—”

While he was worrying, a flash of spirit light suddenly appeared in his mind, and another segment of text swept through.

“The way of heaven is to diminish the full and augment the deficient.

The way of human beings, to use the deficient to serve the full—”

Zong Shou suddenly froze.

The next moment, like seeing a snake, he hastily expelled these memories from his consciousness, burying them deep within his memory.

This was a text from an ancient Martial Arts secret he had stumbled upon in his early years, named ‘Swallowing Essence.’ It had once stirred boundless storms in the Cloud Realm, causing countless bloody upheavals and became notorious across myriad worlds, regarded as taboo by the masses.

If this technique could resolve his bloodline conflicts and even massively increase his cultivation, he would be tempted.

However, unless it was absolutely necessary, truly a matter of life or death, he was reluctant to delve into it.

Especially given his dual-veined constitution, it might pose additional risks.

At this moment, he was still hesitating.

With a sigh of hardship, Zong Shou then dispersed all the gathered essence into his limbs and bones to enhance his body.

Particularly his hands, making the muscle groups more solid and the sinews tougher.

He then cut a piece of Iron Wood commonly found in the Cloud Realm from a nearby forest and, using the fine steel treasure sword in his hand, carved it into several wooden flying knives, each about half a foot long.

Standing by the carriage window, Zong Shou slightly lifted his wrist, and a black shadow shot out instantly from his sleeve.

In a blink, it reached twenty yards outside the carriage and firmly nailed onto a small tree, emitting a ‘duo’ sound softly.

“Left half an inch!”

Since someone took over driving, the speed of the Cloud Flipping Chariot had increased by a fraction.

The small tree used as a target swept past in the field of vision, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Zong Shou narrowed his eyes, his gaze sharp as an eagle’s, clearly seeing his own Iron Wood flying knife slightly veering left.

Since the day he stopped to make repairs, three more days had passed, and he hadn’t paused again.

Yiin Yang and Chuxue, from time to time, still left the carriage imbued with an aura of slaughter, while Zong Shou continued to idle within the carriage.

Besides practicing swordsmanship and movement techniques daily, using the Guiding Technique to congregate Spiritual Energy from all directions to strengthen his physique, he had added another task: practicing with these Black Iron Wood flying knives.

Whenever he felt tired, Zong Shou would stand by the window, targeting anything close by and shooting out the flying knives.

In his previous life, Zong Shou was known for his swordsmanship, entering the Divine Emperor game and ranking among the Seven Emperors of the Cloud Realm, even among the top players in the myriad worlds.

However, at that time, what made him most dreaded was his Flying Knife Hidden Weapon, which also dominated the leaders.

The Six God Sword Technique, learned in “Divine Emperor.” When the knife was released, it never missed, and its force could cut down immortals!

Even during the Seven Emperors’ battle, he never made a mistake, and even the one known as the Shadowless Extreme Emperor, who was unparalleled in the art of escape and famed alongside him, fell at his Six God Sword Technique.

And this peculiar aspect of the virtual game was that most of the Martial Arts and secret techniques that could be learned had detailed practice methods recorded, inherited from ancient times.

They could also be practiced in reality.

The Six God Sword Technique was one of the top-secret Martial Skills, and although Zong Shou’s Wheel Meridian was not yet activated, he could still practice some of the secret methods within it, making his Flying Knife Skill as formidable as those who genuinely practiced Martial Arts, perhaps even surpassing them!

His right hand suddenly flipped again, and another black flying knife made of Iron Wood appeared in Zong Shou’s hand.

With his fingers moving, it rolled up and down between them, creating a series of dazzling knife radiance.

Zong Shou himself slightly closed his eyes and started introspecting his body.

Having not cultivated Inner Breath, it was nearly impossible for him to truly inspect his body’s meridians.

However, his experience as a top Martial Artist in his previous life allowed him to clearly feel every muscle in his arms, their state and changes, the strength and resilience, and even the stretching of the tendons and the twisting of the joints.

In a short while, Zong Shou had an epiphany.

In three days, he had gone from unfamiliarity to proficiency with the flying knife, and now even moving targets could almost always be hit with complete accuracy.

This was something no one else could accomplish.

Even those with great natural talent in Martial Arts, the truly astonishing geniuses, were unable to do so.

It was only he, relying on this precision control and constant self-reflection and adjustments, who could step by step reach this realm.

Yet, the throw he had just made, Zong Shou was still not satisfied.

For the art of hidden weapons, a small miss could lead to a great error.