Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Chapter 15: Chapter 15 First Strike at the Lesion (Please follow, vote for recommendations and Yue tickets!)

Finding Disease is the first realm of Qi Rushing to the Disease, or rather the first stage.

As the name of this realm suggests, it requires finding the ”disease” within oneʼs own body.

The method involves using oneʼs own Qi-Blood to circulate through the meridians; encountering any blockages means that a disease focus has been found.

Previously, Wang Shengʼs circulation of Qi-Blood had been autonomously ongoing for a month, and during this time the Qi-Blood encountered no blockages, completely eliminating the need for the power of Qi-Blood to strike.

Under the aid of chrysanthemum tea, the Inner Core Skill had already reached ”Inner Core Skill: Breakthrough+2 (22%),” the circulation of Qi-Blood power had sped up, and now the progress of Qi Rushing to the Disease had reached ”Finding 15.8%,” meaning the Qi-Blood power had already passed through 15.8% of Wang Shengʼs body.

Having found just one disease focus after traversing such a large area suggests Wang Shengʼs physical condition was quite optimistic.

However, unless one achieves a body without leaks, completely and thoroughly transforming oneself, disease focuses will inevitably be found.

During this process, a seemingly healthy person will exhibit an increasing number of illnesses.

The pain and swelling that Wang Sheng now felt were manifestations of the Qi-Blood power finding hidden disease focuses and exposing them.

This was a sign of progression in his own realm, so he did not panic and immediately entered a state of cultivation for his Inner Core Skill, introspecting and wanting to control the Qi-Blood power to break through this disease focus.

”Pain and swelling, these are the diseases of the past, meaning these are injuries the body has sustained before?”

Wang Sheng quickly thought, understanding the origin of his own disease focus which would help the Qi-Blood power to break through the focus more smoothly.

The bodyʼs disease focuses can be divided into three types: past, present, and future illnesses. The Qi-Blood power will elicit different reactions during a strike, depending on the type of disease focus encountered.

”Experiencing this condition, without a doubt, is a ʼdisease of the past.ʼ”

Wang Sheng quickly made his judgment, narrowing down the possibilities considerably.

”The pain is in the ankle of the left leg...”

Searching his memory, Wang Sheng soon found the source of the disease focus encountered by the Qi-Blood power.

”In the year when I was 12, my left ankle was injured by a sickle. I even rested at home for many days. I thought it had healed, but has it not fully recovered?”

Wang Sheng gained a new understanding of Qi Rushing to the Disease. Such detailed diagnostics could even rediscover an injury from when he was 12.

For a person, this could be considered healed, but for the ”Inner Core Skill,” it was also a hidden risk.

Once the origin was determined, the rest was much easier to handle!

Wang Sheng started to control the Qi-Blood power, maneuvering it around his left ankle, and indeed, he quickly felt a concealed blood clot.

Under his control, the Qi-Blood power launched a fierce attack.

The pain in his left ankle became increasingly intense, as if something was slicing through it.

This was because when the Qi-Blood power was striking the disease focus, facing a ʼdisease of the pastʼ would cause oneʼs body to experience a feeling of ”relapse of an old illness.”

Wang Shengʼs ankle had sustained a cut, so now he felt a slicing sensation.

”It really does hurt!”

However painful, he had to endure it; this was a process that must be experienced during the cultivation of Inner Core Skill.

Half a minute passed, and under the ferocious assault of the Qi-Blood power, the disease focus at the ankle began to loosen. Wang Sheng fully concentrated his spiritual power, gathering all of the Qi-Blood power, then with a sudden surge...

Boom!

It was as if a dam had collapsed, and the sound of rushing waters entered his ears.

The sound of the waters rushing was the sound of the Qi-Blood flowing unimpeded, a sound that only Wang Sheng, who was introspecting, could hear.

This sound signified that the Qi-Blood power at the ankle had been broken through!

The Qi-Blood power continued to run, seeking the next disease focus.

Wang Sheng also ended his introspective state.

”Is this what it feels like to break through a disease focus?”