Chapter 5: Bottleneck

On the training ground, Cheng Xiao was practicing Tai Chi to recover his state. Not far away, Xiao Wu pursed her lips high enough to hang a pot of soy sauce. She held a bamboo broomstick beside her, but Tang San was not nearby.

Xiao Wu and Tang San, being work-study students, were assigned to clean the academy every day. However, today Tang San did not show up, leaving Xiao Wu alone to do the cleaning.

After finishing Tai Chi, Cheng Xiao gradually relaxed, but his brow furrowed.

Although his Tai Chi had indeed improved, there was always a vague barrier hindering him. He always felt that something was missing from his Tai Chi.

This issue had troubled him for many days, like a fog shrouding his mind.

"What kind of martial arts are you practicing? It's so soft, like dancing," Xiao Wu handed him a water bottle, not in the best mood, and her words weren't very polite. "You'd better spend more time with me."

"What's wrong? Who upset you today?" Seeing her in a bit of a bad mood, Cheng Xiao asked with a smile, "How about Xiao San?"

"Hmph! Don't mention him." Xiao Wu seemed to have had a little disagreement with Tang San.

Cheng Xiao didn't try to comfort her; she and Tang San had quarreled more than once, but it was usually forgotten the next day.

This reminded Cheng Xiao of his nephew in his previous life, who had a fight with Little Mei. Today, claiming not to play with her anymore. The next day, they were good friends again, and after a few days, he fell in love with Little Yi.

Pure childishness.

"Annoyed, really annoyed." Xiao Wu pounded the notebook in her hand, as if the notebook was Tang San, venting her dissatisfaction. "That stinky Xiao San hasn't come back for three days. What on earth is he doing? I'm all alone here cleaning! I hate it."

"What book is this?" Cheng Xiao asked, immediately changing the topic.

He wouldn't be a fool to help with cleaning like to fleece the sheep. His aspiration was to be like happy sheep, not lowering the market threshold. Tang San had already set a low bar, and Cheng Xiao would not foolishly rush in to grab the low-end market; the returns weren't high enough.

"This was given to me by Xiao San. He said it's a meditation technique, much better than what the school teaches, given by a master to him, and he asked me to practice." Xiao Wu swayed the notebook in her hand nonchalantly.

As a soul beast in human form, Xiao Wu didn't need to work as hard on cultivation. She just needed to integrate into human life, and her soul power would naturally rise. The meditation technique didn't help her much.

"Meditation technique?" Cheng Xiao raised an eyebrow. According to the school curriculum, they would start teaching meditation techniques around the third year. Since he was still in the first year, he hadn't had the chance to come into contact with it.

"It was given to me by Xiao San. He said it's a meditation technique, much better than what the school teaches, given by a master to him, and he asked me to practice." Xiao Wu swayed the notebook in her hand nonchalantly.

"This is probably information collected by the Martial Soul Hall, combined with the meditation technique of Yu Xiaogang's Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family. It was finally summarized and compiled by Tang San." Cheng Xiao flipped through the notebook while chatting casually with Xiao Wu. In his mind, he thought, "Rich woman are indeed different. It's really worth it to spend less time on detours. Collecting information on these meditation techniques would be time-consuming and laborious. If not for the Martial Soul Hall, it would probably be difficult to achieve."

Cheng Xiao sighed inwardly. He also wanted to find a rich woman! With this thought, the little rabbit was no longer tempting.

"But there's a problem with this. Some areas are obviously detours, and the Extraordinary Meridians are not opened up, and some of the Twelve Meridians are missing."

Cheng Xiao didn't know internal cultivation techniques or meditation techniques, but he knew acupoints and the Extraordinary Meridians and Twelve Regular Meridians by heart. This knowledge came from his study of acupuncture in his previous life. He also had heard some Daoist internal alchemy cultivation theories in his previous life, such as the Small Circulation walking through the Ren Du Extraordinary Meridians and the Large Circulation walking through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. Blah, blah, blah.

Comparing these theories with the meditation techniques in the notebook, it seemed that the theories from his previous life were not wrong.

Thinking about it, Cheng Xiao suddenly remembered that even Tang San himself had marveled at the excellence of this meditation technique in the original work. Although it was not as good as Mysterious Heaven Skill, it was much better than most meditation techniques on the market and even better than those taught by the school.

"This seems to be information collected by the Martial Soul Hall, combined with the meditation technique from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon family of Grandmaster, and finally summarized by Tang San."

Cheng Xiao had a hunch that these things might not be as amazing as they sounded. They were just a collection and summarization of other people's experiences. Of course, this didn't mean that it was worthless. At least, no one had summarized it before, right?

Cheng Xiao smacked his lips and returned the meditation technique to Xiao Wu, losing interest in it. He figured that sitting in meditation, he'd rather practice a few more sets of Tai Chi...

Boom! "Wait a minute!"

Suddenly, Cheng Xiao's mind echoed like thunder. Could it be that the invisible and intangible bottleneck during Tai Chi practice was related to this?

Cheng Xiao stood up suddenly, a hint of seriousness appearing on his face. The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Xiao Wu was still pouring out her bad mood when she saw Cheng Xiao suddenly stand up, feeling surprised.

However, Cheng Xiao didn't respond at all. He walked to an open space and began to perform the Tai Chi starting posture. While practicing Tai Chi, he simultaneously activated the meditation technique summarized in the notebook.

"Ka~"

At first, multitasking made Cheng Xiao uncomfortable. It even caused the Tai Chi to deviate. However, along with Tai Chi, his soul power circulated along the routes mentioned in the notebook. Suddenly, a crisp sound came from his spine, as if a force had spread from his spine throughout his body. The invisible obstacle was torn open a bit.

"This is the feeling!"

Cheng Xiao's eyes lit up, and a hint of joy appeared on his face. This feeling was exactly what he had been missing these past few days!

However, this feeling was fleeting. It disappeared from his body soon, and the blocked sensation reappeared, persistently looming in Cheng Xiao's mind, making his whole body uncomfortable.

"No! It shouldn't be like this."

After finishing a set of Tai Chi, Cheng Xiao furrowed his brow again.

"Ren Du Second Meridian..."

Recalling the Daoist internal alchemy theories from his previous life, Cheng Xiao quickly sensed that something was wrong. The soul power circulation route recorded in the notebook, when reaching the Ren Du Second Meridian, would directly turn around, and what's more, it strangely avoided some difficult routes in the Twelve Meridians.

"Could it be that people in this world find it too difficult to go through the Ren Du Second Meridian, and the efficiency of absorbing soul power is too low, so they choose to bypass it?"

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