Chapter 4: Yi Jin Jing

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  Yi Jin Jing was originally an ancient martial art, famous far and wide, with powerful strength. In the ancient earth era, practitioners basically didn't know anything about Yi Jin Jing. After several epochs of research and innovation, today's Yi Jin Jing is many times stronger than before. Some people say that practicing Yi Jin Jing to the highest level, punching a large warship to explode, is absolutely not a difficult task.

  Of course, these are all theoretical. In fact, due to the profundity and complexity of Yi Jin Jing, it is already rare for anyone in the Starry Sky World to cultivate it beyond the fifth level. If someone cultivates it to the fifth level, their military rank would be at least that of a lieutenant general. If they cultivate it beyond the sixth level, it's estimated that there would hardly be any opponents left.

  Compared to other martial arts internal skills, the cultivation progress of Yi Jin Jing is indeed relatively slow. Fortunately, in the Starry Sky World, the average human lifespan is over 300 years old. If it's a cultivator, their lifespan is even longer. Cultivators who live beyond 500 years are not unheard of. Therefore, cultivators have enough time to elevate Yi Jin Jing to a certain height.

  The main purpose of new soldiers practicing Yi Jin Jing is to transform their meridians and bones, change the structure of their body, in order to adapt to the combat life that follows.

  Cultivators are to fight in the airless space. The human body is obviously not suitable, so it must be modified. Among them, modifying the heart and lung structure, changing external breathing to internal breathing, and letting true energy replace oxygen is one of the most important links.

  At the same time, Yi Jin Jing transforms the body and is a prerequisite for practicing other martial arts. As everyone knows, practicing any martial art requires the cooperation of the meridians. Without meridians, it is impossible to run internal energy. However, the meridians of ordinary people are basically closed, and they can only be opened by relying on Yi Jin Jing.

  Of course, other internal skills can also open up the meridians, but the effect is not as good as Yi Jin Jing. Generally speaking, the more meridians that are opened and the faster they are opened, the faster the cultivation progress will be. On the contrary, if the meridians cannot be opened for a long time, the cultivation progress will naturally be slow like a turtle crawling.

  According to the latest research, there are a total of 88,880 meridians in the human body. From the main twelve meridians, to the eight extraordinary meridians, to the mysterious Ren and Du meridians, to those tiny meridians that don't even have names, all deeply affect the progress of martial arts training. Every single meridian, no matter how small, has a function.

  It can be said that the meridian is the foundation of a practitioner. Without the meridian, any practice is in vain. The cosmic rays in the starry sky have many negative effects on the genes of natural people. This effect mainly manifests in the expansion degree of the meridian.

  In ancient Earth times, the human body's meridians could all be expanded. Except for the Ren and Du meridians which were relatively difficult to open up, opening up other meridians generally wasn't difficult. However, after humans entered the starry sky world, due to the influence of cosmic rays, the number of expandable meridians in the human body greatly decreased. Now, the number of meridians that can be smoothly expanded is less than one percent of what it was in ancient Earth times.

  In other words, although a natural person has nearly 100,000 meridians, which seems like a huge number, actually less than 1,000 can be truly opened up. Moreover, opening up each meridian requires the consumption of a large amount of internal energy. Sometimes, danger may even occur. Generally, for primary cultivators, being able to open up the twelve main meridians in the human body is already considered quite good.

  Although it is said that some mysteries about the meridians have not been fully solved, one thing is certain: if someone were to open up all of their meridians, they would absolutely become a freak, a freak who cultivates at a speed thousands or hundreds of times faster than others. A practitioner who has opened up all of their meridians will absolutely become the master of the starry sky.

  "Yi Jin Jing? The first of Shaolin Temple's 72 ultimate techniques? Looks good..."

  In choosing internal skill cultivation, Xia Xingxiao went with the flow again. Now he just wants time to pass quickly, just wants to receive the demobilization notice early, and doesn't care about anything else. Since most people chose Yijin Jing, he also chose Yijin Jing.

  Of course, this is not to say that Xia Xingxiao had no feeling for the Easy tendon art. From the earth he came from, he had a special sense of familiarity with the Easy tendon art. Because this name was too familiar to those who had been through martial arts or played martial arts games. It was simply synonymous with internal strength!

  In fact, the power of Yi Jin Jing is enough to make everyone feel at ease. In ancient times, Yi Jin Jing was one of the top three among the 72 ultimate skills in Shaolin Temple. Even a useless person like You Tanzi could become a top master with it, let alone others? It's not without reason that later generations chose Yi Jin Jing as the foundation of their martial arts.

  The process of acquiring martial skills was simple, and after a brief stop in the middle of his mind, the green light flashed continuously, and the cultivation method of Yi Jin Jing's first level had already been transmitted into his mind. As for how much he could understand and absorb, it depended on his individual fortune.

  Those with high innate ability and good comprehension may be able to fully understand and absorb everything in one or two years. Those with poor innate ability and poor comprehension may need three to five years, or even ten years, to fully understand and absorb it. If the innate ability is really too poor, it's estimated that they will never be able to understand and absorb it in their lifetime. That's also an unavoidable thing. Many times, diligence cannot make up for clumsiness.

  The first level of Yi Jin Jing is further divided into four realms: Small Success, Great Success, Small Perfection and Great Perfection. Each realm has its own standards. Generally speaking, when one reaches a certain realm, their basic explosive power can be increased by one level. In other words, the practitioner advances to the next rank. Therefore, as long as the practitioner cultivates Yi Jin Jing to the realm of Great Perfection, they will become a fifth-level practitioner and can obtain the title of Lower Officer.

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  After the new recruits had chosen their own inner skill doors, Down Officer Li Duo Cha simply shared some of his experiences in practicing Yi Jin Jing, repeatedly reminding everyone not to be greedy and messy, not to think that this inner skill is good, that one is also good, learning this one, then running to learn that one, resulting in none being outstanding. In the end, wasting precious practice time.

  Throughout the entire explanation, Xia Xingxiao was actually spacing out. His cultivation index for martial arts was zero, and he couldn't cultivate even if he wanted to, let alone listen to it being explained. Occasionally, mischievous thoughts would flash through his mind. They say you can't have too many irons in the fire, but I'll just go ahead and try to cultivate dozens of internal skills at once, and see what kind of effect it has.

  Of course, this is just a thought and has not been implemented. Doing so would be too showy and does not suit his low-key identity. I don't know how other rich second-generation kids spend their days, but anyway, Xia Xingxiao, this rich second-generation kid, is relatively low-key and usually doesn't cause trouble. Of course, if someone else provokes him, he won't hold back either.

  Zhao Zhi Lei and others had actually discovered Xia Xing Xiao's distraction long ago. This guy's expression of being distracted was too obvious. However, they didn't speak up to stop him either. As long as he wasn't disturbing others from listening, and not affecting anyone else, they were too lazy to care. Basically, in their eyes, Xia Xing Xiao was like air. And air, in outer space, is almost non-existent.

  After the explanation, the new recruits returned to their respective dormitories and began their formal military life. Well, to be precise, it was a cultivator's life. Before being formally awarded the rank of corporal, they were not considered formal combatants. Because with their abilities, they could not yet appear on the real battlefield and could not participate in real wars.

  Each new recruit has a separate dormitory. The dormitory is actually a practice room, with enough space for the practitioner to toss around. Each new recruit's dormitory is a huge cave. The smallest ones are over 100 meters wide and 40-50 meters high. These caves are said to have been knocked out by meteor showers.

  Of course, some people say that these unfathomable caves are actually the lairs of the monsters that Ailuwei has raised. In the deepest part of the cave, a terrible monster is hidden. They will come out of the cave at any time. However, this statement has never been officially recognized by the authorities. The official guarantee is that these caves are absolutely safe.

  In the beginning, the reason why Aiyuewei was chosen to establish a military base, apart from its strategic location, was that Aiyuewei itself had abundant heavenly and earthly energies, which were beneficial for cultivators to grow rapidly.

  It seems that the cave where Xia Xingxiao and others are located has rich Tian Di Yuan Qi. The endless Tian Di Yuan Qi emerges from the depths of the cave, enveloping all space. Basically, before they were awarded the rank of junior lieutenant, they didn't have to worry about the problem of insufficient Tian Di Yuan Qi. Daily cultivation also doesn't require leaving the military base.

  As a new recruit who had just enlisted, Xia Xingxiao and the others, apart from mealtimes and necessary assemblies, could spend all their other time cooped up in the training room. The training room was fully equipped with all facilities except for a cafeteria; even dirty laundry was collected and washed by specialized personnel.

  Of course, if you want to go out and have a stroll, that's also possible. However, the entire Mian Luo military base is just black rocks and mine pits, without even a single tree or any flowers and grasses. I reckon there isn't much scenery to appreciate. If you're not careful, you might fall into one of those deep and bottomless mine pits and die without knowing how you died.

  Aiye Wei was a resource-rich mining satellite before the establishment of the military base. The red copper ore produced here is of high quality, and the red copper ore is the main mineral for refining RL211 materials. RL211 material is one of the most widely used metal materials in the machinery industry, and it can be used in any kind of metal product.