"Zuò Wàng Jīng" translates to "Seated Oblivion Scripture" in English.

  After spending half a day, most of the children found their desired martial arts manuals and left.

  Ye Qin stayed behind, taking this opportunity to carefully consider which martial art he should choose.

  He had never seen martial arts since he was a child, and even if he wandered around the city of Zhugui for half a year, he only saw some hurrying Jianghu heroes, but he didn't see them show off any martial arts at all, and he didn't know what martial arts were or what they were used for.

  However, he had heard the old folks in his hometown's mountain village say that, according to legend, the martial arts of Jianghu were extremely powerful, flying eaves and walking on walls, tearing tigers and wolves apart, and being able to do anything.

  Ye Qin thought for a while before hesitantly saying out loud the kind of martial arts he had imagined.

  "Master, is there a kind of martial art that can make my physical strength sufficient, so I won't feel hungry when I don't eat, won't feel cold in winter, and won't need to drink water during severe drought?"

  That young man was shocked by Ye Qin's pitiful request. He didn't expect Ye Qin to ask for such a "strange" skill. Other children all wanted either the kind that had great power and could fight, or the kind that could run especially fast. Why did he want a skill that allowed him to endure hardship, withstand hunger, withstand cold, and not drink water?

  The young man did not frown.

  Enduring hard work, hunger, cold and thirst, this should belong to the category of internal skill and mental method, external skill is fundamentally unable to achieve these.

  The young guardian thought for a moment and came to the bookshelf where the basic internal skill mind method was placed, flipped through it, and picked out several relevant internal skill mind method secrets.

  "The Drunken Immortal's Reclined Decree", this mental formula can withstand hunger, and it's possible to go without eating for ten days or half a month, but you need to drink a lot of wine. I'm afraid this kid doesn't even have the money to buy wine, so it's hard to achieve anything with this technique.

  "Xuanyuan Neijing", an aggressive inner work heart method, does not meet the requirements.

  "Qigong for Health", um, this seems to be able to strengthen the body, should be able to withstand hard work, hunger, cold and thirst.

  The young guardian took it down from the dusty bookshelf.

  He has been stationed here for over a decade and has flipped through all the secret manuals, so he has some impression. However, this low-level internal skill manual is something that a core disciple of the Medicine King Hall like him would never cultivate. The core disciples of the Medicine King Hall only cultivate the highest level of internal skills.

  "This foundational internal skill 'Nourishing Body Scripture' is not bad, I don't know which small sect's secret manual it was obtained from, but the skills inside can completely meet your requirements. Take it back and practice the internal skill inside properly, if you can survive in herb gathering for dozens of years, you can also make a name for yourself in our Herb Gathering Hall and be promoted to become an apprentice or master pharmacist."

  The young guardian took down the book and flipped through the attached introduction with his hand, looking at its origin.

  "Oh, the introduction says that this set of exercises is a treasured family heirloom. Later on, the family couldn't make ends meet and was forced to sell it for money...... The introduction also says that practicing this can strengthen one's physique and prolong life. Hmm, after practicing, I reckon I'll be able to live a few more years."

  The young man's face was cold and he explained the function of this secret book, casually throwing it to Ye Qin. In his heart, he secretly ridiculed, not knowing what kind of small Jianghu family would treat a low-level internal skill secret book as a treasured heirloom.

  The young guardian did not know that this book indeed came from a family, only it was not as simple as he imagined.

  A thousand years ago, a mysterious and powerful family was said to have appeared within the borders of Pingzhou. This family had a treasured book passed down through generations, and it was with this book that the head of the family dominated all eight counties under the jurisdiction of Pingzhou.

  The original name of this book was "Zuò Wàng Jīng" (Sitting Forgetfulness Scripture), not "Yǎng Shēn Jīng" (Nourishing Body Scripture).

  But the fate of this family did not exist all the time, and in the thousands of years between, it had risen twice and finally declined.

  According to the disciples who sell books for the family, a person with a special physique is needed to cultivate this secret book. In every few decades, among thousands of disciples, there may be only one person with a special physique that meets the requirements for cultivation. After the death of the first generation head of the family, after hundreds of years, there was once a descendant with a special physique who again cultivated the kung fu in the book and made the family prosperous again. However, after hundreds of years, no one has been able to cultivate the kung fu inside, and this family eventually declined.

  This mysterious family gradually became a legend within Pingzhou of Wuguo.

  The person who sold the book was the last male heir of this family, so poor and desperate that he had to take it out and sell it at a low price of ten gold coins to a mid-sized Jianghu gang in Pingzhou - Carp Gang.

  The Carp Society has nearly a thousand members, relying on the river transportation within Pingzhou for their livelihood. They obtained the secret book and immediately organized manpower to conduct in-depth research on this book, trying to find out its secrets. They repeatedly studied every page, every text, and every interlayer inside, trying to find out if there were any hidden treasures, treasure maps, or cryptic messages.

  But unfortunately, after decades of painstaking research and exhausting their financial resources, the Carp's Help did not make any discoveries from the book.

  They also mobilized dozens of children with the best martial arts qualifications in the entire Carp Society to practice it, hoping to cultivate a group of top-notch masters. Unfortunately, none of the children achieved any results, and when they grew up, they were not even as good as ordinary people in the Jianghu.

  The Crucian carp gang had no choice but to believe that only people with special physiques could cultivate this secret book, and it was impossible for ordinary people. As for what constitutes a special physique, no one knows. Because even the members of that family don't know what a special physique is.

  Because the carp fish gang spent more than a decade training with this "legendary secret book", they missed the best time to learn martial arts, resulting in a lack of successors and quickly declined, eventually being destroyed by other gangs.

  This matter caused a great stir, and at the time, people in Jianghu jokingly called that book of secret skills "the legendary useless secret skills", which ruined the martial arts of a mid-sized sect with over a thousand members, cutting off their inheritance.

  The last leader of the Carp Fish Gang was forced to sell all his secret books for money, barely making ends meet. In this way, this book had been circulated in the hands of several small gangs before finally being sold to the Medicine King Gang for a single gold coin.

  At that time, Yao Wang Gang had just risen in Pingzhou and had more than a thousand followers. It was a small gang with medium strength.

  The high-level members of the Medicine King Gang had also heard about it before, and this was an ancient internal skill manual left by a family in Pingzhou over 800 years ago. They bought it down to take a look inside, even using the Medicine King Gang's special medicinal water for analysis to see if there were any hidden characters, but still couldn't find anything special hidden inside.

  At that time, the high-level of Yao Wang Gang repeatedly studied the content of this book and felt that it was a bit unjust to evaluate it as "legendary waste secret book". They thought that this book should still have some effect, such as strengthening the body and prolonging life.

  However, this kind of physical enhancement and longevity is not what the Jianghu people pursue. The Jianghu people are only interested in extraordinary martial arts, powerful attacks and defenses.

  So, a note of evaluation was added to the book: If this book can be practiced with perseverance for decades, it should have a very good effect on strengthening one's physique and prolonging life. However, there is no attacking or defensive power like that possessed by ordinary internal skills. Be cautious, do not learn it lightly!

  Having learned a bitter lesson from the Carp Society, the upper echelons of the Medicine King Society dared not mobilize all the children within the society to cultivate this "legendary" secret manual.

  This book was damaged by medicinal liquid during the process of making medicinal liquid, so a new cover was put on.

  On the new cover, the leader of the Medicine King Gang renamed this book to a more suitable name: "Nourishing Body Scripture", and classified it as the lowest-level basic internal skill, stored in the secret manual library, and shelved. Over time, this volume of secret manual was gradually forgotten.

  In the following hundred years, Yao Wang Gang continued to expand and grow, until it was rooted in Zhujici County. This book, along with a large batch of low-level external and internal Gong heart method secret books, was sent to the Caiyao Hall's secret room in Zhujici County, where it was stored for decades, covered in dust, and almost no one knew its origin.

  Young guardian accidentally flipped through, but also did not know the detailed origin of this book, did not know that it was the legendary waste secret book. He just treated it as a low-level internal skill method from some unknown small family and handed it over to Ye Qin. The low-level internal strength secret books in the medicine hall were too numerous, like the one Ye Qin took away, which was only one of hundreds, nothing big deal.

  Ye Qin hastily took it over, nodded in gratitude and left the secret room.

  The young guard remained indifferent and expressionless. After Ye Qin left, several other icy young guards walked over, with a hint of puzzlement on their faces, asking the leading young guard.

  "Big Brother, why did you give him the 'Nourishing Body Scripture'? He's just a young herb gatherer, going up and down the mountains every day. Learning this internal skill that has no attacking or defensive power will only bring him closer to death."

  The young guard who was in charge walked out of the secret chamber on the third floor and said coldly, "Since he insisted on practicing this strange internal skill that can endure hard work, hunger, cold, and drought, what's it to you? My Medicine Pavilion is not a charity. If he dies, it's his own fault, and has nothing to do with anyone else. Every year, so many people die in my Medicine Pavilion, one more won't make a difference. Don't gather here, go back to the second floor to practice, tomorrow I will test your progress in martial arts!"

  "Yes, Master!"

  The young guard did not dare say more and hastily returned to the second floor.