Ink panel: Hunting the sun and surveying the sky from the bow.

Chapter 39: Internal and external cultivation, harmony of qi and blood
Shen Qing learned that the martial arts in the county can now be divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower.

The lowest level of martial arts is the "Nine Powers Brocade" which can only cultivate qi and blood.

This martial art, apart from nourishing one's qi and blood, has no other methods of fighting, training, or killing.

It can only be said that it is the basics of the basics in martial arts.

Even so, this martial art is better than those inferior and insignificant tricks.

As long as one cultivates enough Qi and blood and reaches the state of great perfection, even a thin person can knock down four or five strong men with one punch.

Without such power, martial arts would not be so valuable, and the court would not have such strict requirements on martial arts.

What these high-ranking people fear most is that some local people will take up arms and break the law by force.

For this reason, the imperial court added a large number of secret codes and cryptic expressions to the martial arts that were spread to the outside world, increasing the cost of learning martial arts.

If there is no gate, you cannot enter even if you want to.

Shen Qing was lucky enough. The "Nine Merits Brocade" in his hand was of low quality and mostly contained pictures and texts, with the text accounting for a small proportion of the content. This allowed him to get the hang of it.

Otherwise, even if he has an ink painting panel, he may not be able to successfully get started and achieve results.

Now that he has learned the Thousand Character Classic, and with his previous knowledge, he no longer has any reading difficulties.

After returning home, Shen Qing immediately took out the "Nine Powers Brocade" martial arts book and began to study it.

Turning to the first page, there is an introduction to Jiugong Brocade.

After reading it, Shen Qing realized that the reason why this martial art was called Jiugongjin was because it combines nine kinds of standing exercises for nourishing qi and blood. It is a collection of nine major standing exercises, so it is called Jiugongjin.

Each of the stance exercises recorded here is the most effective stance exercise among various martial arts, verified after various practices. It is the best way to nourish Qi and blood.

Among them, the nine types of standing meditation increase in difficulty from one to nine. The more difficult the standing meditation is, the better the effect of nourishing qi and blood will be.

Generally speaking, if you practice the first four or five types of standing meditation well, or even just practice one of them, you can reach the state of great perfection of Qi and blood.

As for how many types to practice in the end, it all depends on the practitioner's preference.

When he first saw the picture album, he thought it was a complete set of cultivation methods, so he practiced the first four types of standing exercises, and even practiced the last five a little bit.

Now it seems that he has taken the most difficult path.

But that doesn't matter.

The nine stances in Jiugong Jin are all for nourishing Qi and blood, and they do not conflict with each other. They just adopt different methods.

In the end, they all end up in the same place.

Shen Qing continued to read. The description of Qi and blood recorded in the Jiugong Brocade instantly opened up his ideas for cultivation.

The so-called qi and blood does not refer to qi and blood, but means that blood is like qi and can be perceived by people during the flow process.

The blood in the human body is very weak during its flow.

Only occasionally, in quiet moments, could one hear the beating of a pulse or feel the throbbing in one's temple.

This makes it difficult for a person to mobilize all the strength in his body.

The purpose of standing meditation is to perceive the flow of blood like qi, and control it so that it flows in the direction people want it to flow.

The warm current that appeared during Shen Qing's practice that day was the blood flow path that he noticed.

But just sensing is not enough.

Nourish qi and blood.

Before practicing, you need to cultivate it.

Everyone has different amounts of blood and different quality of blood, which can be improved through nourishment and food supplements.

In the process of nurturing and practicing at the same time, both the inside and the outside are cultivated, making people feel radiant and energetic.

When it reaches a certain level, the body's essence and blood have reached the limit that the body can accommodate. By combining the qi and blood with the thoughts in the mind, one can cultivate strength and reach a new realm.

Jiugongjin calls this process - cultivating both inside and outside, and harmonizing Qi and blood.

Shen Qing read all of these contents one by one and gained a lot. No wonder he felt that his energy was not coming up when he was practicing now, and his progress was much slower. He felt that something was missing.

It turns out that it was because of the lack of blood nourishing process.

He had only been eating flesh and blood these days, and it was no longer able to keep up with the refining of the blood and Qi in his body.

Shen Qing secretly thanked his decision to learn to read and write that day. If he hadn't known this, he would have taken a detour.

He put his thoughts aside and continued reading.

The rest are some techniques and key tips on practicing various types of standing exercises.

There are many code words involved, such as "walking dragon", "dark cave", "sky-high burner" and so on.

Shen Qing has mastered them all during the practice.

After reading the entire "Nine Merits Brocade" from beginning to end, he closed the booklet, feeling unsatisfied.

Generally speaking, the Jiugongjin martial art is easy to learn but difficult to master, and it is very difficult to practice it to perfection.

At this time, Shen Qing suddenly remembered the medicine that Li Linfeng gave him that day. According to that Ah Fu, the medicine was quite precious and should be used to nourish qi and blood.

He didn't take it lightly when he got it back.

Now that he had finished reading the Jiu Gong Jin and understood some of the key points in cultivating Qi and blood, he immediately decided to give it a try.

Shen Qing put down the martial arts booklet, took out the medicine that Li Linfeng had sent him, and found a medicine jar to boil it.

Shen Fang, who was busy in the kitchen, saw Shen Qing was about to decoct medicine, so she hurried over, volunteered to stop the work, and drove him out of the kitchen.

Shen Qing shook his head helplessly, ran to the gate and concentrated on practicing standing meditation.

Soon, time passed little by little.

By the time it got dark, Shen Fang had already boiled the medicine and brought it to the table: "Qingzi, the medicine is already boiled and warmed up. Drink it early to prevent it from getting cold."

Shen Qing stopped practicing after hearing this, exhaled a breath of foul air, and replied: "Okay, I understand."

He walked back into the room, picked up the bowl of medicine on the table and took a look.

The medicinal soup is dark brown, with finely chopped herbal residues floating on the surface, emitting a strong and complex aroma.

The rich aroma of ginseng, deer antler and other unknown medicines directly hit his nostrils.

Shen Qing raised his head and drank it without any doubt. As soon as the medicine soup entered his mouth, it was instantly filled with bitterness, which made his facial muscles twitch uncontrollably.

It's so damn hard to drink.

Just as Shen Qing was still enduring this bitter feeling, a strong medicinal power suddenly transformed into warm currents, instantly flowing from the abdomen to the four meridians and eight vessels.

The muscle soreness and weakness caused by the practice just now were instantly relieved a lot.

Not only that, after a moment, the excess medicinal power poured into his dantian.

Shen Qing only felt the heat rising in his body and his blood boiling, and the original warm current became stronger.

It is indeed a tonic medicine, and the effect is immediate.

No wonder Ah Fu said that such medicine is precious.

Shen Qing walked into the kitchen and said to Shen Fang, "Sister, did you throw the medicine residue in?"

"Not yet, what's wrong?"

"Put some water in it and boil it again, then make the residue into medicine cakes for me."

Shen Qing doesn’t know when he will be able to get such good medicine again, so he won’t waste it.

Martial arts are so mysterious.

He wanted to refine his Qi and blood to perfection as soon as possible and go to the county town.

(End of this chapter)