Gao Wu: You have science, and I have magic!

Chapter 158 Oxygen is "toxic"

Seeing this, Ye Qingzhou said to Huang Jinlong with an embarrassed look on his face: "How about this, if you introduce ten customers to me, I will make you a top-grade sword for free."

"really!"

The golden dragon immediately became alert.

Ye Qingzhou sighed: "It's because I'm kindhearted and can't bear to see others suffer, otherwise how could I let you take advantage of me like this?"

"..."

Huang Jinlong was too tired to complain. He still remembered the last time Ye Qingzhou blackmailed him and Liu Dingjian in Yanling Cave Heaven!

The man in front of me has a heart as black as an ink puddle. How can he be kind?

But free ones are still good!

"Brother Long, let's make it clear first. You have to provide the materials yourself. I can only waive the labor fee for you. You can't let me lose money, right?"

"Row!"

Huang Jinlong gritted his teeth and agreed. He felt that he had made no loss.

But how could he know that he might not lose money in this deal, but Ye Qingzhou would always make a huge profit.

Because after practicing the Thousand Hammers to perfection, the cost of materials for making a top-grade sword would not be much higher than that for a rare sword, while the Golden Dragon had to pay five times the amount of materials for it.

The extra materials are all free money!

If the deal was successfully concluded, Ye Qingzhou would probably wake up laughing in his dreams. After all, behind the Golden Dragon was Kang Jinlong, who was the master of the cave heaven, a star god, and a mythical life form, so he must have a solid family background.

It all depends on how many gold coins the Golden Dragon can get from Lao Deng.

Ye Qingzhou is very much looking forward to this.

In the end, both parties felt that they had gotten a great deal and the outcome was a happy one for everyone.

"Ye Qingzhou, when can you become a master craftsman?"

"Go back and wait for notification. I will notify you when I have perfected the Thousand Hammers and Hundred Refinements and am confident of forging a top-grade weapon."

"Okay, remember to notify me."

"Don't worry, Brother Long. Even if we don't consider your ancestor Kang Jinlong's face, based on our friendship, you are still my beloved relative."

After Ye Qingzhou's deception, Huang Jinlong finally left contentedly. His mouth was grinning so hard that he couldn't close it.

Ye Qingzhou was also moved when he saw this: "Sure enough, in the adult world, there are some things that you have to show an embarrassed expression no matter how happy you are in your heart. Otherwise, how can you make the other party grateful?"

After the Golden Dragon left, Ye Qingzhou became addicted to cultivation again.

Recently, in addition to "Thousands of Hammers and Hundreds of Refinements", Ye Qingzhou is still continuing to comprehend the "Fish Dragon Transformation" technique. Although there are various sequelae of physical alienation, the exploration of life potential by "Fish Dragon Transformation" is still the strongest of all the techniques Ye Qingzhou has come into contact with.

none of them!

In the quiet room, Ye Qingzhou held his breath and concentrated his mind.

Now, he has gotten used to replacing sleep with meditation, and uses the distraction created by the "Twenty-Four Divine Concentration Methods" to allow the organs in his body, especially the brain, to get sufficient rest and regulation.

"I have mastered the Dragon Breathing Technique. I no longer need to breathe externally. This is a sign that the martial arts true energy has completely transformed from acquired to innate. Next, I will cultivate a pure body, so that my mind and body can be spotless and my energy can flow smoothly."

According to the internal breath cultivation method recorded in "Fish Transformation into Dragon", the creatures of the scaly clan can use the secret technique of dragon breath to continuously purify and refine their acquired internal breath, and finally transform it into innate internal breath.

Then, through the innate internal breath, guide the vital energy to cleanse the whole body, strengthen the muscles and bones, and sublimate your life.

The ultimate goal is to transform oneself from a "mortal body" into a "perfect life".

For example, the true dragon body that Bai Jiao Fengqi created with all his strength is a special body that meets the definition of "perfect life" and has extremely powerful abilities.

Ye Qingzhou immersed himself in cultivation, and began to realize the differences between "Six Forces of Military Conflict" and "Fish and Dragon Transformation" in terms of internal breath secret techniques.

Inner breath is the foundation of martial arts.

Just like for life, breathing is the basis of everything.

An ordinary person may be able to survive for six days without water before dying, but if an ordinary person does not breathe, six minutes will cause irreversible damage to the brain, or even brain death.

From this we can see that air has a much higher priority than water for life.

Breathing is the process of gas exchange between a living individual and the external environment.

The human breathing process includes three interrelated links.

First, through external breathing from the lungs.

Second, the transport of gases in the blood.

Third, internal respiration of gas exchange and oxidative metabolism between cells and blood.

The internal breathing technique utilizes the characteristics of internal breathing, allowing the vital energy to replace oxygen and participate in the metabolism of cells and blood, thereby gaining powerful strength.

As for the innate internal breath, it is to slowly "replace" the external breathing mode through the lungs, so that practitioners no longer rely on inefficient "ordinary breath" such as oxygen, but completely transform the body's functional mode into the more efficient and powerful "internal breath" driven by vital energy.

Vital energy is "toxic", and in fact oxygen is also "toxic".

Just like iron will rust due to oxidation, the human body will also "rust" due to oxidation reaction and become old.

With every breath, cellular oxidation reactions produce free radicals that damage the body's genetic code, interfere with energy production, and ultimately accelerate aging.

This is why martial artists who enter the professional level will live longer than ordinary people, and those at the master and grandmaster levels can even live up to the theoretical upper limit of human lifespan of 175 years.

As for the powerful Martial Saints, because of the multiple transformations of their lives, they can break through this limit and gain a long life.

In the history of Blue Star, there has never been a record of a Martial Saint dying of natural old age. Most of them were beaten to death by others, or ascended to heaven on their own.

All of this is because martial artists, starting from the professional level, will constantly replace their original external breathing with martial arts true qi, and martial arts masters will completely "cut off ordinary breath", open up the bridge between heaven and earth, and be able to "penetrate heaven and earth with qi", directly draw energy from the surrounding natural environment to supply themselves, and cells will not accelerate aging due to oxidation.

The next morning, when he opened his eyes, Ye Qingzhou was no longer breathing.

Now he no longer needs to breathe air. The energy supply of his body depends entirely on the four kinds of innate qi in his body.

Ye Qingzhou's body has the five innate elements of gold, wood, water and fire already present, but the innate earth is still missing.

As long as Huang Liwen succeeds in his training and awakens the inherited memory in his body, Ye Qingzhou's Five Emperors Dragon Sword Technique can be truly practiced. At that time, he can try the Five Elements Rotation and the Five Qis Returning to Origin, and launch an attack on the realm of perfect life.

Ye Qingzhou clenched his fists, feeling the surging martial arts true energy in his body, and once again realized the difference between true energy and internal breath.

"The way the power of internal energy works is like a steam engine that boils water. To start a steam engine, you have to burn coal to boil the water first, and then use the rising steam to drive the machine. The same is true for internal energy. A martial artist needs to use internal energy first to induce the resonance of vital energy and thus activate martial arts moves."

Ye Qingzhou fell into deep thought. The gear he developed actually upgraded the steam engine into an internal combustion engine, changing the internal "boiling water" driving mode into a more powerful "internal combustion explosion" mode.

But now that Ye Qingzhou has been promoted to a professional level, his internal energy has been transformed into martial arts true energy, and the "internal combustion explosion" mode can hardly keep up with his pace of progress.

"The mechanism of action of martial arts true qi is similar to that of electric energy drive. It is much more efficient than 'boiling water' and 'internal combustion explosion'. But the output power is obviously not enough. If I want to obtain more powerful power, I must start developing an upgraded version of the second gear."

Ye Qingzhou began to organize his thoughts in his mind.

As soon as he walked out of the room, Yingyue, who was wearing pajamas, had her eyes lit up. She came over, rubbed and licked, and hugged Ye Qingzhou tightly: "My dear, you smell so good."

"Let me go now, I'm going to be late for school."

"do not do it."

Yingyue continued to rub Ye Qingzhou's face hard, and then sniffed Ye Qingzhou's body with her nose, her expression very intoxicated.

In fact, Ye Qingzhou's pure body has no "smell", and the "good smell" that Yingyue said is actually a mental illusion.

The Immaculate Body is pure and flawless, so the life aura it exudes has a fatal attraction to other living beings around it.

After much difficulty, Ye Qingzhou finally broke free from the broad mind of Yingyue, the enchantress. As soon as Ye Qingzhou left home and was about to walk to school, he saw Liang Yawen greeting him: "Good morning, Ye Qingzhou."

Today, she wore a slim-fitting wool sweater, which not only kept her warm but also showed off her figure. It was really pleasing to the eye.

Ye Qingzhou nodded at her, saying calmly, "Well, hello."

However, Liang Yawen did not mind. Instead, she became even more enthusiastic towards Ye Qingzhou. She even took the initiative to invite Ye Qingzhou to get in the car and go to school together.

Ye Qingzhou did not refuse.

After getting in the car, Liang Yawen asked curiously, "Where is your big black snake? I haven't seen it recently."

"Why, do you want to meet him?"

"No, no!"

Liang Yawen was so frightened that her face turned pale and she quickly waved her hand to refuse.

For a delicate girl like her, the creature she fears most is snakes. At this moment, she thought that Ye Qingzhou had finally sent away the dangerous pet, the Tyrant Black Viper. She secretly breathed a sigh of relief and became bolder: "Ye Qingzhou, can I also attend your cram school?"

Want to join Zhou Zhou Tuition Class?

Ye Qingzhou smiled and said, "No problem, as long as you pay me, I won't refuse anyone."

For money, capitalists even dare to sell the noose to hang themselves.

For the sake of money, Ye Qingzhou also dared to teach martial arts to the murderer of his father, as long as the other party was willing to pay more.

A strong person is so confident.

What's more, Liang Yawen is just an ordinary neighbor and there is no conflict of interest between them. It is fine to teach her martial arts as long as she is paid enough.

"Ah? It costs money..."

When Liang Yawen heard that it was not free, she felt a little disappointed.

She thought that she could rely on her beauty to make Ye Qingzhou obey her in everything and fulfill her requests.

When she was in the Magic City before, she asked those martial arts geniuses to teach her, but no one ever asked her for money!

But thinking about Ye Qingzhou's current status and fame, Liang Yawen suddenly felt that it made sense. After all, her father had recently tried to get in touch with the big shots of the Linjiang Chamber of Commerce through many connections, but always failed.

Her father went around trying to curry favor with big shots, but in the end he didn't even have a chance to pay a visit!

In comparison, I only need to spend a little money to get the opportunity to get close to a future big shot like Ye Qingzhou. It’s worth it no matter how you look at it!
Finally, Liang Yawen paid the fee and became a member of Zhou Zhou's cram school as she wished.

Back at school, the classroom of Grade 7 () is particularly lively today.

New Year's Day is just a few days away, and everyone is discussing the New Year's Eve party.

"Hey, hey, have you heard? It looks like the Ice Fairy is going to perform on stage!"

“It’s exciting just thinking about it!”

Xu Yuebing's popularity in Linjiang No. 1 Middle School is still as high as ever, and any news about her will make the boys talk about it for a long time.

As soon as Ye Qingzhou sat down, Xiao Yuanyuan, the arts committee member of Class 7, came up to him with a form in her hand and said softly, "Ye Qingzhou, do you want to perform on stage at the New Year's Eve party?"

Ye Qingzhou unrighteously pushed Huang Liwen out to take the blame: "Brother Wen is much more showy than me, he should be allowed to perform on stage, I guarantee he will wow the whole audience."

Huang Liwen, who was copying homework enthusiastically, did not say anything, but just raised his middle finger to Ye Qingzhou to show his friendliness.

Seeing this, Xiao Yuanyuan immediately hugged Ye Qingzhou's arm and started to act coquettishly: "Can you just help me? You are the most famous person in our class. If you don't show your skills on stage, what will happen if our class is outshined by other classes?"

Being rubbed by Da Yuanyuan like this is not a good idea. Ye Qingzhou's swordsmanship can already feel the boys around him, and the malice emanating from them is getting stronger and stronger.

If their maliciousness level is too high and triggers the anti-killing mechanism of the Heart Sword Secret Technique "act first", then things will not end well.

Ye Qingzhou felt tired. This class needs to be disbanded without me.

In the end, he agreed to Xiao Yuanyuan's request.

During the last two physical education classes in the morning, Ye Qingzhou saw a shocking piece of news on his phone: Prince Dong, one of the two candidates for the emperor of Xiji Country, was assassinated again.

The murderer is an unemployed vagrant who possesses a powerful magical weapon. It is said that this person has close ties with the Donkey Sect, one of the two major sects in the West, and King Dong is the current leader of the Elephant Sect.

The battle between the two super sects is becoming increasingly intense.

"The West Pole Kingdom is really getting more and more chaotic. The dispute between the Donkey Sect and the Elephant Sect has almost reached the point of going to war."

Ye Qingzhou shook his head and sighed. Over the years, the national strength of Dongji Country has been growing, while the national fortune of Xiji Country has been declining, which is somewhat like the law of conservation of luck.

When someone is lucky, someone else has to be unlucky.

Huang Liwen came over and took a look at Ye Qingzhou's phone screen, and asked in surprise: "You are also concerned about the Xiji election?"

"Well, the original battle between the King of Understanding and the King of Sleeping has unexpectedly turned into a battle between the King of Understanding and the King of Hating. I don't know who will win in the end."

The reason why Ye Qingzhou was concerned about the election was mainly because the candidates for the throne of the Western Kingdom practiced very special skills.

Many martial artists there like to take the religious route, are extremely skilled in the use of mental energy, and attach great importance to the collection of the power of faith.

For example, the election in the Western Kingdom was not so much "elected" as it was "fought" with real swords and guns.

The "Emperor Candidates" participating in the election in the Western Kingdom will gain the support of public opinion based on their own support rate, and thus quickly become strong, which is somewhat like the meaning of "human-shaped vessels of the Tao".

Compared to the martial artists in Dongji Country who need to practice hard on their own, it is not so easy for the masters "selected" on Capitol Hill in Xiji Country to improve their levels. They just need to give speeches everywhere, and through TV debates and verbal abuse with their opponents, their strength can be improved rapidly. The speed is like riding a rocket.

However, power that is easily gained is naturally easy to lose. Once one loses the support of the people, his cultivation will be immediately lost and he will be reduced to his original form at the speed of light.

Moreover, before he officially ascends the throne, the candidate for emperor is at his most vulnerable and can easily be assassinated.

In fact, even if you ascend the throne and become emperor, it is not absolutely safe.

After all, the strongest force in the Western Kingdom has never been the Donkey and Elephant sects that are on the surface, but the Blood Temple clan, which is known as the "Chosen Ones of the Blood God."

It’s just that “Holy Temple” is what they call themselves, and everyone else calls them “Shura”.

In the Western Kingdom, it's okay to insult the emperor of a country, but if you dare to say anything bad about the "descendants of the saints" of the Scarlet Temple, then be prepared to be shot eight times in the back and commit suicide.

"The 'election' of the Western Extreme Country should be called the Way of Thinking and Energy, right? It seems that the spiritual martial arts there are very special, and the popularity rate is much higher than that of the Eastern Extreme Country."

Ye Qingzhou pondered in his heart: "But the Thought Energy Martial Arts should have great hidden dangers. In the history of Dongji Country, there were similar so-called Emperor's Martial Arts that could carry the hearts of the people and control the power of thought to become a peerless master. But now it has been abandoned, which shows that the top leaders of Dongji Country obviously know that the Thought Energy Martial Arts has huge flaws."

After a brief thought, Ye Qingzhou understood where the problem was: "It's the Internet!"

He suddenly realized: "In the ancient Dongji Kingdom, the government controlled the propaganda channels, so they could practice the emperor's exclusive martial arts through the family-based system and suppress the rebellious people in the world. But now the emergence of the Internet has broken the original propaganda model, so it is very easy for the Shineng martial arts to spread out of control."

This is actually easy to understand. In ancient times, if a person wanted to promote himself and gain public recognition, the process was extremely difficult and most people simply could not do it.

But in today's society, with the popularity of the Internet, all kinds of people can promote themselves through the Internet in order to gain support.

However, there are many idiots who know nothing and are easily deceived. They are instigated and do all kinds of crazy things when their minds are hot.

Once used by someone with ulterior motives, the mental power of these fools may be transformed by the ambitious person into spiritual cultivation of martial arts, thus allowing the ambitious person to rise to fame overnight.

Especially the foreign enemy Xiji Country, what they like to do most is to engage in cognitive warfare, and want to destroy the stability and harmony of Dongji Country. Therefore, knowledge related to the power of thought will be strictly controlled in Dongji Country.

Ultimately, it is to protect ordinary people.

"It seems that the power of thought is stronger than I thought."

Ye Qingzhou fell into deep thought, and had a vague premonition in his heart that the key to breaking through the second gear might lie in the power of thought.

(End of this chapter)