(The incorrect transfer process in Tiao Yin's window has been corrected!)
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Chen Han, upon hearing the game's prompt, snapped awake and instinctively looked at the sect base information in his mind's game interface:
Level: Level 1 Sect Base.
Effect: Ancient +2, Aesthetics +2
Upgrade requirements: 1. 100,000 wealth (189,500/100,000). 2. Reputation 500 (500/500).
Special Functions: 1. The effects of the sect base can be converted into a Sect Base Construction Token. 2. Special Spiritual Acupoint (This is the special functional site of a cultivation sect, with special effects: Refreshing and comfortable +2 near the spiritual acupoint, fresh air +2 near the spiritual acupoint, and at 5:00 AM daily, a Spiritual Energy Flush occurs!)
Sure enough, whether it was wealth or reputation, all the requirements were already met.
He couldn't hide his smile.
Looking at the game's prompt to choose whether to upgrade, he thought this game system was just like a fool, not smart at all.
Does upgrading even need to be asked?
Could there be an idiot who would choose no?
Naturally, choose yes!
The game prompt rang out again:
[Congratulations, sect base upgrade successful, rewards received: 1. Special effect of the Taoist Sect's Residence: Calm Heart +2. 2. A jade scroll recording the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method'!]
[Congratulations, modification of the special effects of the sect base is underway...]
The moment Chen Han received the game's prompt, he saw, just like last time, a white light appear, rising and expanding all around.
He walked to the window and saw the entire Chen Clan was enveloped in that same white light from last time.
The upgrade of the sect base meant that the game system had started modifying the Chen Family's range to add a new Calm Heart +2 effect when the modifications were completed.
In the Taoist Sect, Calm Heart means clearing out distractions, essentially making the heart return to purity and tranquility, achieving a state of no distractions.
In modern society, however, people's minds are restless, making it impossible to be free of distractions.
At work, the pressure is immense, enduring grievances for a meager salary, even during vacations, worries about interpersonal relationships disturb one's mood, like a girlfriend's temper, family expectations, and all kinds of inexplicable social engagements with friends...
But with the Calm Heart +2 attribute, visiting the Chen Clan Ancient Building Complex allows you to achieve a state of no distractions, making it an excellent way to cultivate body and mind.
Especially for those in creative professions, like painters, writers, and so on.
These individuals sometimes need to be free of distractions to produce good works, yet society's disturbances and the pursuit of fame and fortune make it nearly impossible for most people to achieve that state.
But by visiting the Chen Clan Ancient Building Complex, it can be achieved.
However, this attribute cannot be conveyed through video, and even if explained verbally, others might not take it seriously. Currently, every scenic area and resort market themselves as "a great place for relaxation and self-improvement."
He also says this, and there's no difference from others unless someone experiences it personally to truly feel it.
So, this attribute is somewhat challenging to market.
However, what he's most interested in isn't the Calm Heart +2 attribute, but the second reward from the sect base upgrade: the jade scroll of the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method'!
This seems to be a cultivation method.
Many legends about cultivation exist in the Taoist Sect.
Even now, the Daoist Academy offers courses on Qi Introduction.
Simply put, Qi Introduction involves attracting spiritual energy between heaven and earth into one's body, forming one's energy source, with a special mind power technique for cultivation.
However, the mind power technique is just a legend, not clearly explained by anyone.
Checking online, someone inexplicably defined it as: "Visualize a flow of energy entering from the top of your head, passing through with your breath, absorbing the one energy from heaven and earth with inhalation, and exhaling impurities through the soles of your feet."
Anyway, it seems nonsensical.
Within the Chen Family, a Taoist inheritance family, they naturally have a method for Qi Introduction. He practiced it during childhood but found it amounted to nothing.
In fact, among Taoist inheritance families like the Chen Family, and even celestial masters in the Taoist Sect, no one seemed to cultivate anything substantial.
So, inexplicably, who knows which celestial master redefined Qi Introduction on the encyclopedia: "Through special techniques, cultivate the innate energy within the human body, achieving the goals of strengthening the body, prolonging life, and even 'Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi and Transmuting into God'!"
This definition seems more profound compared to the previous one, yet it remains incomprehensible to ordinary people.
Being unable to understand is the point; it shows a lack of insight.
Can't cultivate it?
That's due to a lack of aptitude.
Otherwise, how would anyone get lost in the clouds?
In any case, Qi Introduction had been practiced by Chen Han since childhood without yielding any results. Later, in school, he lost interest in the Chen Family's martial arts swordsmanship and fist techniques, practicing them rather lackadaisically.
Instead, his younger martial sister practiced diligently.
Yet, as he performed the Chen Family's inherited Taoist martial arts at a school event, classmates jokingly termed it 'dance technique,' indeed, it was essentially useless fluff.
Even with his younger martial sister practicing so diligently, what good did it do? Before his health issues, he could subdue her within three moves and spank her.
However, the jade scroll of the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method' is different.
It's something from the game, a genuine cultivation method.
Moreover, the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture' is a renowned technique in the world of the 'Swordsmen of Shushan,' obtained by the founder of the Emei Sect, Ren Shou, through a fortunate encounter. It encompasses a wide range of knowledge, later becoming a legacy technique of the Emei Sect.
The key is that this cultivation method offers a glimmer of hope for treating cancer.
With this thought, his first reaction was to look at the warehouse and he saw the remark for the jade scroll of the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method':
['Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method' Recording Jade Scroll: The 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method' is the most basic form of Qi cultivation within the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture,' usually reserved for core disciples as an introduction. Due to the failure of major sects in besieging the Blood Demon, causing the Blood Demon's escape, the Emei Sect, when dispatching disciples to establish subsidiary sects across various regions, transmitted the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method.']
[Would you like to use the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method'?]
Seeing the game's prompt asking yes or no, Chen Han decisively chose yes.
He felt that hesitating would be an insult to this reward.
A moment later, he saw the jade scroll in the warehouse glowing, transforming into tiny starlight. Simultaneously, Chen Han sensed an exceptionally detailed flow of cultivation information appearing swiftly in his mind.
Moreover, this information seemed imprinted in his memory, making it deeply ingrained. He could even comprehend detailed meanings of some obscure phrases.
In no time, he completely understood this 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method,' including the cultivation methods, and the attached meridians and acupoints of the human body... and so on.
The 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method' is specifically for Qi cultivation, allowing the absorption of heaven and earth's spiritual energy, circulating it through the body's acupoints and meridians, ultimately refining it into one's True Qi.
Isn't this description almost identical to the Taoist legend of Qi Refining?
However, since this is only the foundational part of Qi cultivation, it does not provide any offensive abilities but only nourishes the physical body with refined True Qi. Therefore, new core disciples of the Emei Sect are not particularly strong at the beginning.
Take Li Yingqiong, for instance. Even after cultivating the basic entry method initially, she was very weak and would be chased around by minor lackeys.
Of course, this weakness is only within the cultivation world of Shu Mountain.
If placed in the real world...
But currently, Chen Han is most concerned about the effect of True Qi nourishing the physical body, the cultivation's nurturing of the body and its potential healing effects.
This might be the pathway to treating his cancer.
With that in mind, Chen Han wasted no time, got up, and sat cross-legged on the bed, adopting the meditation posture required by the 'Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method,' no longer casually sitting any way he wished.
Then, forming hand seals, he focused his mind as instructed by the cultivation method.
Following the method's guidance, he calmed his thoughts and began sensing the surrounding spiritual energy for cultivation through the body's acupoints.
The cultivation method's information imprinted in his mind made these practices instinctive for Chen Han, as if he had already gone through countless sessions of cultivation.
However, as time passed, Chen Han's brow gradually furrowed until he suddenly stood up.
Is this teasing him?