The whole world is cultivating qi, only I am cultivating the body

Nannan took the Taiyin Secret Book in her hand and nodded solemnly to Li Shengnan: "Don't worry, sister! I will definitely keep this secret book well! I will never let it be damaged in the slightest!"

"It's not that you can't let this secret book get damaged at all," Li Shengnan raised her hand and rubbed Nannan's hair. "After all, you still need to rely on this secret book to practice, so it will definitely be worn out. What's more, this secret book has already been worn out in my hands. I just said that you should not throw it away."

"Ok!"

Seeing Nannan nod, Li Shengnan couldn't help but rub her hair again, and took out a storage ring from her pocket and handed it to Nannan. This was what she had just bought for Nannan at the Treasure Pavilion. She originally wanted to wait until Nannan finished practicing before giving it to her, but she didn't expect to find that Nannan had already reached the Qi Gathering Realm after she came back. It could be used by her now, so she simply gave it to Nannan.

After taking the storage ring, she put the secret book and the wooden man into the ring under Li Shengnan's guidance. Nannan excitedly used the storage ring, putting it in and taking it out repeatedly, as if she was playing with a new toy.

Li Shengnan asked Zeng Wenyu and Zhang Qing to take Nannan back to their room. She went downstairs, asked the shopkeeper, and then went to the alchemy room of the inn. She picked a small room at random and started to make the pills that Nannan needed.

After bringing Nannan back to his room and thinking about it, Zeng Wenyu felt that it would be better to go downstairs and get a separate room for Nannan. After all, there was only one bed in each room. Originally, it was ok for only him and Zhang Qing, as the two of them could sleep in one bed. But now there are three of them, including a very young Nannan, so it is really not convenient for them to live in one room. It would be better to get a room upstairs for Zhang Qing and Nannan to live in.

Thinking of this, Zeng Wenyu told Zhang Qing about this idea. Zhang Qing thought about it and agreed, so Zeng Wenyu went downstairs to the shopkeeper and opened another room upstairs. The shopkeeper certainly would not refuse. He was very happy to be able to earn extra money. After Zeng Wenyu paid the room fee, he quickly gave Zeng Wenyu the token key to the room.

She took the key and went upstairs, handing the token key to Zhang Qing. Although she was a little reluctant, Nannan still obediently went to the new room with Zhang Qing.

Seeing Zhang Qing and Nannan walking out of the room, Zeng Wenyu sat on a chair and recalled the wooden man just now. He felt a palpitation when he saw the wooden man. He felt that the red dots on the wooden man's body representing the acupoints seemed to be able to help him.

Thinking of the red spot on the wooden man's body, Zeng Wenyu immediately sat cross-legged on the cushion. He carefully gathered the energy and blood in his body to an acupuncture point.

Zeng Wenyu's body was full of qi and blood. Since it was an experiment, he chose an acupuncture point on his arm. However, he only remembered that this place was an acupuncture point, but he did not remember its specific name.

Qi and blood gathered beside the acupuncture point. Zeng Wenyu tried to use the qi and blood to break through the acupuncture point. However, even his extremely abundant qi and blood only wandered outside the acupuncture point. Not a single bit of qi and blood could pass through the acupuncture point to break through it. Moreover, under the continuous impact of qi and blood, Zeng Wenyu suddenly felt his arm begin to swell, and qi and blood began to accumulate.

After dispersing the Qi and blood around the acupoints, Zeng Wenyu opened his eyes. He was a little confused. When the Qi and blood rushed into the acupoints, he could feel that his judgment was correct. When the acupoints were impacted by the Qi and blood, he could feel his cultivation level fluctuating, but it was just a fluctuation. The Qi and blood could not rush into the acupoints, and his cultivation level was still stagnant.

Sitting on the mat, watching the swelling on his arm gradually recover, Zeng Wenyu kept wondering where he had gone wrong. He could clearly feel that he was going in the right direction, but the qi and blood in his body simply couldn't go any further.

He kept thinking about this all day, until dinner time, when Zhang Qing brought her daughter outside and knocked on Zeng Wenyu's door, and Zeng Wenyu was awakened from his thoughts.

"Let's go downstairs to eat?" Zhang Qing asked Zeng Wenyu who opened the door.

"Row."

After closing the door of the room and locking it using the token key from the upper room, the three of them walked downstairs. The shopkeeper had already prepared the meal, so Zeng Wenyu and the others sat at the table and began to enjoy dinner.

Li Shengnan was not here. The pill to be refined this time was more complicated. Before refining the pill, she told Zeng Wenyu and the others that she would probably not have dinner with everyone today, and asked Zeng Wenyu and the others not to wait for her.

While eating, Zeng Wenyu continued to think about cultivation. His eating speed slowed down a lot. Zhang Qing was a little surprised to see Zeng Wenyu like this. She had never seen Zeng Wenyu eat so slowly and eat so little. She was a little worried.

"What's wrong? No appetite today?"

Zhang Qing asked Zeng Wenyu three times before he responded: "Oh, it's okay, I just don't understand something about cultivation."

"Have you figured out what the next stage is?"

"Well, do you remember Nannan's wooden man? The red dots on it represent acupuncture points. It suddenly occurred to me that since the muscles, bones, skin, flesh, and blood have all been cultivated, should I move on to the acupuncture points in the body and open them up so that the body can accommodate more Qi and blood. However... the Qi and blood in my body can't break through the acupuncture points, and even cause Qi and blood to stagnate."

Zeng Wenyu's words made Zhang Qing stunned. She didn't know much about body training. She only knew the first five stages. She didn't have much to do with Zeng Wenyu's worries, but after thinking about it, she still said: "Maybe the direction is wrong? Maybe you shouldn't use the energy and blood in your body?"

After thinking for a while, Zeng Wenyu put down the chopsticks in his hand and began to practice the Sui Xin Men's exercises. At once, the true energy around him began to enter his body. This time, he did not guide the true energy into his dantian. Instead, Zeng Wenyu guided the true energy that entered his body to the acupuncture points on his arms. After hesitating for a while, he separated a strand of the true energy and tried to let that strand of true energy enter his acupuncture points.

Of course, that trace of true Qi did not enter his acupoints in the end. Perhaps it was because the true Qi did not circulate once in his body and did not become his true Qi. It was still the true Qi between heaven and earth, and it was different from the power of Qi and blood. When the true Qi touched his acupoints, he felt a tingling sensation in his arm, although it was not strong.

"Can't you?"

"No, this Qi is not mine after all, and it cannot be integrated into my acupuncture points..."

There was no other way, Zeng Wenyu had to continue eating. Anyway, he had found the direction, he just needed to try how to open his acupoints to let the qi and blood in his body enter.

"Brother, eat this. This is the pancake that Nannan made for you. Nannan put a lot of delicious things in it."