Chapter 7: The Mysterious Classic of the Five Elements and the Original Chaos

  As he looked at the time, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening. Zhao Yang sat cross-legged on his bed and began his daily nighttime meditation practice.

  The hour of Zi is the moment when the yin energy of night gives birth to the initial yang energy, and together with the hour of Mao when the morning sun first rises, it is the most suitable time for practicing qigong and absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.

  Although there are only two hours between midnight and 4 am, four hours of sleep per day is enough for cultivators.

  Since waking up, Zhao Yang had already started practicing twice a day, once in the morning and once at night, as soon as his body recovered its basic mobility.

  Daily practice of Qigong was extremely helpful for Zhao Yang's physical recovery. This is also the reason why Zhao Yang was able to fully recover in just half a month.

  Zhao Yang cultivated a top-level skill obtained during the "Di Yuan Xian Lu" period, called "Hunyuan Wuxing Xuanjing", which is a skill that collects and absorbs the five elements of heaven and earth to nourish oneself.

  For more than a dozen days after waking up, Zhao Yang had been carrying out the most basic foundation-building exercises, which was to absorb the five-elemental essence and merge it into his body, transforming it into internal energy.

  This is the most basic stage of practicing Qi, only after completing this step, the whole body is filled with internal energy, and then you can practice Qi to gas, reach the second realm of cultivation - Condensing Qi period!

  As Zhao Yang closed his eyes and inhaled, tiny specks of light that were imperceptible to the naked eye began to gather around him. The small dots included white, cyan, black, red, and yellow ones.

  White light spots bring a sharp breath, green light spots give people an infinite vitality, black light spots are gentle and cold, red light spots are scorching and fierce, and yellow light spots are thick and heavy.

  These five colored lights are the essence of the five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

  After the light spots gathered around Zhao Yang, they immediately flew into his body like moths to fire, causing Zhao Yang's body to emit a faint five-colored glow...

  Time flies, and soon it was one o'clock in the morning.

  Zhao Yang's timely recovery, he spat out a mouthful of turbid air and slowly opened his eyes.

  "Hmm... the spiritual energy on Earth is indeed much thinner than that of 'Diyuan Xianlu', with a concentration of less than one percent. It seems that it will be difficult to complete the foundation building in just a few years."

  Zhao Yang let out a light breath and sighed.

  Since waking up from his first cultivation, Zhao Yang felt that the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy on Earth was extremely thin, making it much more difficult to cultivate again on Earth compared to 'Diyuan Xianlu'.

  "Although it's a bit difficult, as long as I can cultivate, that's all that matters. I wonder if there are any fellow practitioners on this earth." Zhao Yang said calmly.

  At this moment, Zhao Yang couldn't help but think of those mythological legends from ancient China.

  "Perhaps there should still be a traditional heritage passed down..."

  Zhao Yang smiled and shook his head, self-mockingly saying: "I'm now just an ordinary person, where did I get the leisure to care about so many things? If I should care, it's only when my cultivation has achieved something in the future. For now, let me think carefully about how to live in the future..."

  Zhao Yang's gaze fell on the admission notice of 'H University' placed on the bedside table next to him as he put down his legs.

  Gently picking up the admission notice, Zhao Yang walked to the window, facing the gentle evening breeze, looking out at the quiet black night outside, and whispered to himself: "Perhaps continuing to go to school will be a good choice."

  "Firstly, this is my grandfather's last wish. Since I was young, he had always hoped to nurture me into a university student. After I became a vegetable, he even helped me fill out the application and fought with the school leaders to reserve my student status for three years. Now that he has passed away, I should fulfill his wish."

  "Secondly, I spent over 500 years in my hometown of Xianluo. Now, I feel somewhat unaccustomed to urban life on Earth, and school is undoubtedly the easiest environment for me to integrate into modern society. However, the only concern is the issue of tuition fees and living expenses in the future. The money left by Grandfather is only over 10,000 yuan, which should be just enough for one year's tuition fees and living expenses. It seems that after some time, I will have to think of a way to earn some money..."

  Having figured all this out, Zhao Yang already had a general goal for his life from then on.

  "It's already approaching September, just in time for the new school year to start. It seems like I'll have to make a trip to 'H University' these two days and have a good chat with the school leaders."

  He withdrew his gaze and walked back to the bedside, casually putting the admission notice into the drawer of the bedside cabinet before turning off the light and lying down.

  This sleep Zhao Yang slept exceptionally soundly, perhaps because he had returned to his hometown where he grew up.

  It was early in the morning, before sunrise, when Zhao Yang woke up. Then he sat cross-legged on his bed for nearly two hours of morning meditation practice.

  It was almost seven o'clock when Zhao Yang simply washed up and changed into a sportswear he had bought casually at a roadside stall yesterday before going out.

  Before leaving, Zhao Yang glanced at Lin Xueqi's room and didn't hear any movement, probably still asleep.

  Out of the door, Zhao Yang went straight to a park not far from the residential area for a slow run.

  After all, his body had been dormant for two years, and even though he practiced breathing exercises every day, some physical exercise was still necessary to help his body recover to its best state.

  It was a bit past seven o'clock when he went out for his morning exercise, neither too early nor too late. When Zhao Yang ran to the park, there were still many people inside doing their morning exercises, whether it was young men running, or old men and women practicing tai chi or doing fitness exercises.

  Zhao Yang glanced around casually and then found a quiet place by the lake in the park to practice his fist and footwork.

  Zhao Yang practiced a set of boxing called "Tiger Down the Mountain Fist", and from its name, it can be seen that this is a fierce and overbearing boxing technique.

  For those who have truly entered the threshold of Xiuzhen, these crude and unrefined fist and foot techniques are beneath them. However, for those who have not yet truly entered the threshold of Xiuzhen, fist and foot techniques are indispensable.

  This set of 'Tiger Down the Mountain Fist' was a basic fist technique that Zhao Yang learned when he first crossed over to 'Diyuan Xianlu' and was in his own small sect's outer gate school.

  Although it is only a basic fist method, it is very useful for people who are still in the foundation-building period. Not only can it be used as an attacking and defending technique during combat, but also practicing it regularly can help to cultivate internal energy within the body and assist with qigong practice.

  If we say that practicing Qigong is internal work, then practicing fist and footwork is external work.

  The foundation-building period is a process of tempering the body while gathering the essence of heaven and earth. Cultivating both internally and externally is indispensable.