Chapter 17: Breathing

“Mmm, not bad.
You still have some ambition.
You didn’t shrink back as I expected.”

Zhang Heng looked at Su Xuan, who was dressed in simple clothes and had come to the practice room.

He showed an indescribable smile, just like a drill instructor saying that something good would happen later during military training.

Looking at that lecherous smile, a creepy feeling sent chills down Su Xuan’s back.
Even though he was fully prepared mentally, it still made him break out in a cold sweat.

“Here, I’d like to congratulate you in advance on breaking through to the initial form in half a month.
However, the prerequisite is to endure these fourteen days of devilish training.”

As he spoke, he revealed those sinister white teeth.

“Every fat person is a potential stock.
I’m very optimistic about you!”

“Me… a fat person?”

“It’s just an inappropriate analogy.
The large amount of energons accumulated in your cells, from a cultivation perspective, isn’t that just a big fat person?”

“Cells not only have to learn to absorb energons, but also know how to use them.
And the process of becoming the initial form is actually the process of learning to use energons, how to decompose energons and release energy, how to combine these energies, and even how to release energons externally, to achieve external release of energy through other means.
This is what you will learn next.”

“So, your abundant energon content, in a sense, is an out-and-out fat person.
If you only slowly consume energons in ordinary time, how can you quickly enter the initial form?”

Zhang Heng spoke quickly, his sonorous and forceful tone seeming to strike a chord in Su Xuan’s heart.

‘That’s right.
If simply absorbing energons can lead to advancement and becoming stronger, then what’s the point of so many trials?’

Su Xuan understood why his cultivation was so slow.

“Have you developed your Energon Chamber?”

Zhang Heng asked.

“I have…”

“Is that so? Since you’ve developed your Energon Chamber, the intensity of your cultivation will have to be greatly increased!”

Zhang Heng muttered, as if he were talking about something insignificant.

“Before you learn to control energons, you have to learn to control your own body.
No one can specifically control a single energon and turn it into energy on a macroscopic level.
However, our bodies do have a mechanism to turn energons into energy, and what you need to do now is to concretize the abstract decomposition of energons!
This is the intuitive feeling your body gives you.
Everyone has a different feeling.”

“Some people will perceive a picture of a burning flame.
The stronger the energon consumption, the bigger the flame.
Some people perceive a picture of lightning and thunder.
The more intense the energon consumption, the higher the frequency of lightning strikes, and the stronger the sound of thunder!
Mastering the intuitive reaction scene of energons means that you have made certain achievements in controlling energons.”

“And learning to control energons is the key to entering the initial form.
The three major keys to entering the initial form are the Energon Chamber, controlling energons, and external release!
You already have the Energon Chamber, so next you have to learn to control energons.
Before you learn to control energons, you have to learn to breathe!”

“Breathe? Like sinking your qi into your dantian?”

Su Xuan was puzzled, because he really didn’t know what breathing had to do with controlling energons.

“Learning to breathe is actually a macroscopic regulation of the body’s mass-energy, just like a furnace’s ventilation.
When controlling a fire, when you can’t control the size of the fire by controlling the coal, you can control it by controlling the incoming wind.”

“Although the energy conversion of energons does not require so-called air, the energy conversion of energons is driven by a certain existing ability in the cells.
Although this energy is weak, its effect is very large, and this energy comes from the body itself.”

“Although energons are said to be a product of the Dark Abomination world, it does not mean that it does not follow the will of Aquamarine.

Control your breathing, control the release of the initial energy, and indirectly control the release of energons.

When the control reaches a certain level, you can control the release of energons at will.

At that time, there will inevitably be an intuitive picture to assist in controlling energons.”

“Is that where the first thing written on the paper, the breathing special training, comes from?”

Su Xuan remembered the paper he received yesterday.

The four words written at the top were breathing special training.

But what Su Xuan wanted to know more was what the fantasy picture had to do with cultivation.

“Coach Zhang, what is the direct relationship between the fantasy picture and cultivation?”

“There is.
After entering the initial form, seeing different pictures means that you are more compatible with different attributes.
When you reach the initial form, I will explain it to you in detail.
This involves the sketching method.
If you haven’t reached the initial form, it’s impossible to explain it clearly.”

“Oh!”

Su Xuan clenched his fists, wanting to reach the initial form even more.

That way, he could learn about the so-called sketching method sooner.

The knowledge taught in high school was too little, because it was useless to say it.

It’s like when you’re learning binomial linear equations, the teacher tells you that you will learn Leibniz’s formula, spatial analytic geometry, linear algebra in university…

Even if you know the names, do you understand?

It’s useless.

In the three years of high school, you only focus on one thing, and that is the condensation of the Phantom Soul.

Everything else is only mentioned but not taught, or even not mentioned at all.
So everything Zhang Heng said now was so fresh and attracted Su Xuan to explore.

If this were in his original world, the current Su Xuan would be like a learning devil, grabbing a retired university professor and asking for guidance on university knowledge.

But that teacher would say that your aptitude is okay, but your foundation is not good, and you still need to supplement it.

“Follow me!”

Zhang Heng stood up.

Only then did Su Xuan realize that Zhang Heng was wearing a long gown today, like an old scholar from ancient times.
It also reminded Su Xuan of the widely circulated story of the only person who stood and drank wine while wearing a long gown.

And Zhang Heng, who was walking in front, secretly let out a breath.

Fortunately, he still had such a long gown at home, so he wouldn’t be embarrassed in front of the student.

Last night, his wife even asked him why he was in such a hurry.

Encountering this kind of student whom one could only watch from a distance and not play with up close was also a test of one’s mentality.

After several turns, he pushed open a large door.

There was no one inside.

There was a high horizontal bar.
The thickness of the bar was about the thickness of five fingers chopped off and tied together.

It was in the shape of an unclosed oval.
The opening was about two meters wide.
At the opening was a climbing ladder, about three meters from the ground.

The entire circle was about forty meters long.

The ground was covered with a layer of black iron mesh.

“High-wire walking, you know about that, right?”

Zhang Heng said with a grin.

“The most important thing in walking a tightrope is stability.

Stabilizing your mentality, stabilizing your breathing, and then control.

Controlling your balance, controlling your strength.

When you can carry this bag and walk a circle on it, controlling the time to within ten seconds without falling off, you will have completed the control of your breathing.”

As he spoke, he took out something that looked like a backpack.

To say it was a backpack, it was more like the kind of life jacket that swimmers wear.

“Try it on.”

He playfully threw the “life jacket” over.
Su Xuan looked at this “life jacket” suspiciously and put it on.

“Press that red switch.”

“Oh…”

Su Xuan pressed the red switch on his chest.

“Hiss hiss~”

The sound of inflation.

After dozens of seconds, he could clearly feel the pressure on his lungs, the pressure on his chest, as if the thing used to measure blood pressure was wrapped around his chest and kept inflating.

Su Xuan opened his mouth weakly.

“What the…”

It was meaningless.

This thing, paired with a dangerous level like walking a tightrope, was completely a perverted hell-level difficulty.

“I forgot to tell you, that black iron mesh below is not set up to protect you, but for punishment.”

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