XIAO SHUXIANG'S
14 - Breathing Techniques [Revised]
"Huh huh huh! Y-when are we there? I'm so tired..."
Jing Mi looked so exhausted, sweaty beads pouring down her forehead. "The journey from morning to noon in the middle of the vast dry grasslands with the scorching sun is so stinging. I'm very hot and tired."
Qi Xuan, "Brother Jing. Not only you feel that way, but me too..."
Although Qi Xuan did not complain like Jing Mi did, the look in his eyes faded and seemed to be able to fall down at any moment.
Xiao Shuxiang who realized that decided to help Qi Xuan walk, even though he himself was actually exhausted as well.
"Chairman...? I'm thirsty, is there no water...?" Jing Mi asked Yang Shu.
"You've spent it all,"
Jing Mi looked disappointed, "I really can't stand the scorching sun. Look," he said, "There is not even a speck of cloud up there. The sky is really clean. Huh... Oh my God.. huh..."
This was the first time Jing Mi had missed the rain so much, she usually hated the grains of water that seemed to fall from the sky.
"When should ki-ta keep walking the elder..? In-where's the tree that the elder meant?" Jing Mi asked in a dashed voice due to fatigue.
Yang Shu, "In the meantime, ahead there is a tree that can be occupied for shelter,"
To be honest he felt sorry for his students, but Yang Shu could not do much. The water supply they brought was exhausted, while the food provided by the villagers was now only for dinner.
Jing Mi stopped stepping for a moment, then started to catch up with Yang Shu back with heavy steps. "Elder, you've said that thirty times... B-but there is not a single tree that I see!"
He rubbed his forehead, Jing Mi was truly a scintillator. This dry meadow was so vast, and where was the tree that his teacher said?!
"You suck! Lookatme! I don't feel tired at all. As a man, you should be ashamed of yourself!" Xiao Lu sneered and it irritated Jing Mi.
"Sure you don't feel tired because the Elder is holding you! Ha-you should be the one who is embarrassed, look Brother Xiao! You are her brother!"
Jing Mi and Xiao Lu were both mocking each other, but it didn't take long until the two of them fell silent back from exhaustion.
Meanwhile, Qi Xuan and Xiao Shuxiang were as if unconcerned with Jing Mi and Xiao Lu, the two of them were busy with their own thoughts. Qi Xuan was trying to keep his consciousness. Because even though he rests, he will still feel hot because there is no place to shelter.
To Xiao Shuxiang, he had as much as possible use the Air Breathing Technique. One of the breathing techniques he created from the results of studying the Heaven and Earth Breathing Book.
This book itself, he obtained in his first life. Written by a blind man who called himself a Cultivator Without a Degree. Xiao Shuxiang did not know what his name was, yet this Degreeless Cultivator was a White Flow Cultivator who was his first opponent when for the first time he made a mess in the Eastern Continent.
The book was given a Cultivator Without a Degree to Xiao Shuxiang as proof of his defeat. The cultivator said that it was only a treasure he had other than his life, he told Xiao Shuxiang to study the contents of the book and develop it.
Xiao Shuxiang did not understand the purpose of this No Degree Cultivator giving him a book, yet as he was about to ask... This Cultivator Without a Degree had suddenly disappeared.
There was not any skill in the book that Xiao Shuxiang was holding back then, which had only two Breathing Techniques written. He seemed to be fooled because the name of the book in his hand sounded so great, but in it there were only two sheets of paper that had writing. Others..empty without any scratches.
These two Breathing Techniques were the Fire Breathing Technique and the Wind Breathing Technique.
Xiao Shuxiang did not care at first. But while on a break from committing the massacre, he began to read and study the contents of the Heaven and Earth Breathing Book. While studying it, it was unexpected that he was able to develop the Wind Breathing Technique and form new breathing techniques namely Air Breathing Technique and Water Breathing Technique.
As for the Fire Breathing Technique, Xiao Shuxiang preferred not to learn it because his dantian back then was the Phoenix Fire Dantian. A special dantian that will actually be a problem for him when desperate to learn breathing techniques that have the same properties as his dantian.
Although he had never practiced the Fire Breathing Technique, Xiao Shuxiang still remembered every step of the technique. He kept it deep in his head.
Xiao Shuxiang then burned the Heaven And Earth Breathing Book. He did not want anyone else to know, especially if the owner of the book came and tried to take the book from him after being able to be developed. Although there is no sword style in Our Breathing Heaven and Earth, it is a very dangerous book. Xiao Shuxiang realized it after he developed one of the Breathing Techniques in the book.
Breathing is the main foundation of a person practicing martial arts. If while fighting one cannot control his breathing well, then hundreds or thousands of great moves will be useless.
How to do the Air Breathing Technique can be said to be quite simple. Naturally, this was for someone named Xiao Shuxiang.
The first thing he did was take a slow breath through his nose for three seconds. Then feel the inhaled air move to fill the lungs and stomach, after that exhale slowly by pursing a little lips.
This breathing technique can not only be done while walking, but also when standing, sitting, running, fighting, even while sleeping. This technique is useful to improve the stability of the body's muscles without having to use Qi and is also useful to slow the rate of breathing so that there is no need to expend too much energy.
What was interesting about this Air Breathing Technique was that Xiao Shuxiang could feel the air he was breathing then separate between the hot air and the cold air. As of now, he was using the Air Breathing Technique to help him cool down the body. He separated the hot and cold air that was inside his nose.
The cold air Xiao Shuxiang put into his body, while the hot air he exhaled. So next.
The Air Breathing Technique is arguably somewhat similar to the Qi Type Change. The Qi in the body can be converted into various elements in addition to functioning to improve the quality of bones, muscles, blood, and other organs in the body.
The element produced from Qi itself consists of five elements namely Water, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Wood. Yet there were also cultivators who could transform his Qi into other elements such as Ice, Lightning, Wind, or even Poison.
Even so, there had not been a single cultivator who had all these elements within his body. Because each element must have its own place, while a cultivator only has one dantian, unless the cultivator can divide his dantian into several parts.
But please note that the more elements are mastered, the more difficult it will be to raise the level of practice.
And if there was a crazy cultivator who dared to do the dantian division to be able to master all the elements, he could have even damaged or destroyed his dantian.
Because so far... Cultivators prefer to focus on learning only one element, because studying all the elements can make their bodies burdened.
But there were also geniuses who were born with the talent to learn more than one element, they were the ones with a special dantian named Twin Dantian.
The difference is that the dantian is like having a dividing line of arches in it, this is the place for Qi which can be converted into more than one element. The trick is to enter Qi and turn it into an element that matches the genius's talent.
Although Xiao Shuxiang's Breathing Technique was somewhat similar to the Qi Type Change, the two of them had considerable differences.
Breathing techniques do not use Qi at all in practice. While to do the Qi Type Change, it takes a Breathing Technique.
The Breathing Technique that existed in the cultivator world was merely the Flower Dew Breathing Technique. They did not know that Xiao Shuxiang possessed two Breathing Techniques that they had never heard of before.
"I became curious about that Cultivator Without a Degree, who was he really? If he was really a white flow cultivator... Both techniques should have been well-known and learned by some white and neutral flow cultivators. But what was seen was that only this Xiao Shuxiang knew both breathing techniques..."
Xiao Shuxiang dissolved in his mind. He was actually so curious about the Degreeless Cultivator that gave him the Heaven And Earth Breathing Book. What was the real reason for that cultivator? If only in recognition of defeat, he should not have given the book to him.
Of course, it was because it was the book that made Xiao Shuxiang able to fight tirelessly and had a Qi control that was far greater than other cultivators.
"Haiy... And the most astonishing thing was that the cultivator never showed up again. Even when I was wreaking havoc on this continent, he didn't show up either..." Xiao Shuxiang rubbed his chin, he was too preoccupied with his thoughts to forget that he was currently still in the middle of a dry meadow.
Jing Mi was really not strong anymore, her gaze started to blur. Unceasingly Jing Mi rubbed her forehead and chin, she was unable to walk anymore.
"Teachers. be..r.hen.ti.. du.lu.." Jing Mi almost fell. It was fortunate that Xiao Shuxiang quickly caught up and pulled the boy to embrace him.
Xiao Shuxiang finally had to be the walking buffer of Jing Mi and Qi Xuan. Despite having a small body, but due to his breathing technique, Xiao Shuxiang was able to help the two children walk.
"Sa..Sauda.ra Xiao. te.ri.ma ka.sih.." Jing Mi's voice was so slow, even Xiao Shuxiang did not understand what she said at all.
Xiao Shuxiang sighed, "Are these children not taught any techniques? What could help them?! Hiya... If this continues when will we be able to get to the Lotus Flower Sect...? Let alone getting there, getting out of this place just feels so impossible..."
Yang Shu actually wanted to rest as well. But the sun will sting even more if they decide to rest.
Yang Shu then turned his head towards Xiao Shuxiang, he was quite surprised because his grandson was packing Jing Mi and Qi Xuan.
"Xiao'Er...? What... Are you still able to take them?" Yang Shu wanted to praise his grandson's physical strength, but the current conditions were so unsupportive. Qi Xuan and Jing Mi really looked like shrunken apples right now.
"I-I think we can still, but how long can we really get to the tree that Grandpa said?" Xiao Shuxiang was actually feeling tired.
Although Xiao Shuxiang's body was not affected by the scorching sun thanks to his breathing technique, it was because Xiao Shuxiang's physique was still a boy... naturally bearing the weight of Qi Xuan's body and Jing Mi was not an easy thing to do. Moreover, right now Xiao Shuxiang also needed water and food.
"I could have helped both of them, had my dantian not been a flawed dantian. I could drain the Qi in their bodies and turn it into a cold wind. The problem... The Qi here is so very thin and doing that with a flawed dantian will make my body hurt. I don't want to..." Xiao Shuxiang slightly weaved his lips while lamenting his dantian and the surrounding conditions that were so thin by Qi.
"This kind of torture is outrageous. I've never done anything good in my life before, so why should I be tormented like this?!" Xiao Shuxiang tried not to explode even though his heart was currently hot. According to him, only good people are tested by God. But why should he?!
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Author's Note :
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it's time for Dasha Sensei to show up..
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'Dasha and Pantun Advice'
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The tiger is roaring
It sounds very rhythmic
If there is a general
Let us ny*nt*k be together! ＼(☆o☆)／
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KABUUUUUR!!! ╭（ ⁇ . ⁇ ）╭（ ⁇ . ⁇ ）╭（. ⁇ ）╯
