"Sit properly, feel the mountains and rivers, feel the sun and moon, feel the energy of heaven and earth. You are better than some people who claim to have completely transformed; your body is pure and free of impurities. This will help you adapt to our simplicity faster."
Noticing Wu Hen was feeling stuffed, the Ancient Clan uncle, Chongli Mountain, immediately reminded him.
Wu Hen stopped walking around and sat down cross-legged.
Deep breaths, calmly feel the mythical nature here!
"Our mouths are not just for eating; they can breathe and expel impurities. You must learn to taste the essence of heaven and earth," Chongli Mountain said.
Breathing, the more complicated one's life, the easier it is to forget the most basic needs.
Why does deep breathing in the wilderness and mountains make one's body feel refreshed and cleanse the mind?
In the Scroll Realm, the inhaled breath and the exhaled breath actually contain highly spiritual factors. Chongli Mountain was teaching Wu Hen the most basic human behavior, but it was completely different from what Wu Hen knew about breathing!
The uncle placed one hand on Wu Hen's shoulder, lifting it for him to inhale and pressing down for him to exhale.
The rhythm was slow, no matter how uncomfortable Wu Hen felt at that moment, he couldn't let his breath become unsteady.
Even athletes must maintain balanced breathing while exercising; otherwise, the body will quickly collapse, and fatigue and soreness will fill the whole body, making one feel weaker over time.
Wu Hen cleared his mind of distractions and began to breathe in sync with the uncle's rhythm.
Soon, the steady breathing calmed down the panicked internal organs...
Even though he didn't know exactly how the organs worked, as the leading consciousness of the body, if the mind became anxious, how could the body continue to function normally?
No matter how tense or anxious one is, one must first calm down, so the body's functions can remain orderly, and only then will they perform their respective tasks properly.
Once calm, Wu Hen began to think. His mind suddenly caught a glimpse of inspiration, stemming from his wonderful adventure in the stomach of the Dragon.
Wu Hen remembered that when the Dragon digested him, first the stomach moved violently, turning those large objects and enormous energy into granules, facilitating the subsequent digestion by gastric juices...
First, he had to adjust his breathing!
Wu Hen instantly understood, and as he maintained steady breathing, he let his body relax according to this breathing rhythm. After relaxation, the stomach began to move naturally, starting to break down the consumed nuclear energy bear bile.
"How is it? Feeling better?" Chongli Mountain asked with a smile.
Wu Hen no longer felt as uncomfortable as before and sensed that his internal organs had entered a normal digestive process...
Previously, a warm current flowed inside...
At this moment, Wu Hen felt a rough and strong stream of fire rushing through his body. If not for Chongli Mountain's timely guidance on using the breath of heaven and earth to harmonize, his small physique might have been torn apart!
His physique was transforming, and the Holy Embryo was solidifying.
Wu Hen had a premonition that both aspects would transcend to a higher realm because of the bear bile.
Especially the Holy Embryo, as the breath of the Scroll Realm matched it closely. The small Holy Embryo in his dantian had grown robust, transforming into the shape of an infant, which made Wu Hen overjoyed!
His Totem Bloodline had broken through a major barrier, reaching the level of the Holy Infant!
Senior Brother Gu Yue had also cultivated a Holy Infant, allowing him to act domineeringly among the Holy Sect disciples. Now, Wu Hen had also reached the same realm!
"Made progress?" Chongli Mountain asked with a smile.
Wu Hen nodded, eyes full of gratitude. If not for the uncle teaching him this method of breathing and digestion, he would have struggled to digest even the most precious ingredients.
"You have a thin foundation but it is very clean, unlike him, who learned rogue techniques, with his path sealed above," Chongli Mountain said.
"Our Zhenwu is not rogue!" Du Mao retorted, a bit agitated.
"Zhenwu is not rogue, but you learned rogue techniques," Chongli Mountain said.
With this statement, Du Mao was instantly disheartened!
His Zhenwu inheritance was rogue??
But he had learned from a reputable family, a Zhenwu aristocratic family with a profound heritage. The things he learned had been purified through countless generations, yet in this Scroll Realm, were they considered rogue techniques?
"Uncle, please teach me the True True Martial," Du Mao hurriedly requested, almost bowing his head.
In the process of constant cultivation, Du Mao also realized his cultivation chain had some issues, especially as his realm got higher. The inconspicuous condensation of True Qi became less smooth, and Du Mao himself could not pinpoint the problem. He only knew that the original way of cultivating True Qi might be flawed, with a hastily pursuing rapid improvement resulting in flaws.
"I don't understand Zhenwu. If you want to learn well, you must abandon everything you learned before and start from the basics: how to breathe, how to walk, how to run, how to exert force, how to build momentum, how to explode with power, how to control breath, how to circulate it..." Chongli Mountain said.
Du Mao's eyes showed disappointment. Was he to abandon what he prided most, his cultivation of True Qi?
Seeing Du Mao , Chongli Mountain smiled but did not insist. He just continued to guide Wu Hen, who had no cultivation background.
"From now on, you'll wake up earlier than others and run around the two villages. If you can run the entire course without disrupting your breath, you'll have mastered the basics of expelling impurities and absorbing spirits. This will greatly help you in whatever skills you cultivate in the future, including your digestion, detoxification, impurity removal, and exorcism," Chongli Mountain continued.
"Once you master this natural expelling and absorbing process, can you resist some of the contamination from the Desert Dust?" Wu Hen asked in amazement.
What is called exorcism, isn't it just cleansing the mind? For someone like Wu Hen, who drifted alone, did he truly lose himself? Even Wu Hen found it hard to judge.
"Losing yourself is due to desires, fears, anxieties, and disappointments. But look at us, do we change our lives because of weakness or strength? Do we become greedy or murderous because of desires? Do we become anxious because of the unknown?" Chongli Mountain said.
"This place is like a utopia," Wu Hen had to admit this point.
His homeland could not be called a utopia. People chased fame and profit, overdeveloped resources, even opened Pandora's Box without any preparation...
Here, they followed the most primitive ways: gathering, hunting, reproducing. Doing these well was enough; how could they lose themselves?
"Don't be anxious about the faraway homeland. The Scroll Realm is located within the Myriad Realms. If you have the skills to traverse Red Snow Mountain, you can return to your world," Chongli Mountain raised his hand, pointing towards Red Snow Mountain.
"Crossing over means we can leave?" Du Mao asked excitedly.
"Yes, but you have to rely on the skills you've learned here. After all, our people won't set foot on Red Snow Mountain," Chongli Mountain said.
"But below Red Snow Mountain are mythical species; doesn't that mean..." Wu Hen hesitated.
It must be Nima God species!!
"Calm down and learn. Those who can leave have mastered the simple and pure laws of nature we have here. With your previous abilities, it's impossible to cross. It is indeed a towering Divine Mountain to you. But by following the mountains and rivers' rhythm here, you will find the path," Chongli Mountain said.
The Ancient Clan was teaching real things.
Not how to be the strongest Ascension Chain Gate, not gifting you immense power, but the most basic and solid survival skills for traversing Otherworldly Dust!
Everything stems from the simplest natural laws.
No matter how strange and evil, how bizarre Otherworldly Dust may be, it wouldn't deviate from these essentials.
"Uncle, I will learn diligently," Wu Hen said.
Great misfortunes indeed bring great blessings. Wu Hen felt that accidentally entering the Scroll Realm and encountering these Ancient Clan people was a great fortune. Most of the time, the mountains and lands of Otherworldly Dust were extremely perilous, but it was different here. Wu Hen could genuinely feel it was a place where he could finally focus on learning and improving himself...
No rush to leave here, because when the day comes that he leaves by his own abilities, no matter how vast, evil, or perilous the Otherworldly Dust may be, he would respond to any situation with composure and unperturbedness!