bookbashuk Chapter 188 Fetal Breathing and Limits
Chapter 188 Fetal Breathing and Limits
Chapter 188 Fetal Breathing and Limits
A world of dragons and snakes, off the coast of Laoshan.
Nearly 100 meters deep, the seabed is dark and deep, with only slivers of sunlight. The immense water pressure makes it difficult even for professional divers to reach the bottom. The ocean currents carry sand and broken coral, whistling and weaving among the reefs.
Yet, deep within this treacherous seabed, Wang Chao stood firm like a pillar of strength, his feet firmly planted in the soft mud of the seabed. Though his robes were soaked with seawater, they remained unmoved. Only his eyes were gently closed, his mind focused inward.
In his hand was the very pill that Xu Qing had given him.
Wang Chao's pores contracted and expanded, opening and closing gently as if they were alive. It wasn't just ordinary breathing; it was more like he was "swallowing" and "breathing" the surrounding seawater and energy.
The wisps of life force and energy emanating from the surface of the elixir, like fine silver threads, silently seeped into his limbs and bones through his open pores.
The cells throughout the body seemed to be starving, greedily absorbing the energy, and even the blood flow accelerated significantly.
As Wang Chao entered this state, continuously absorbing the energy from the pill, he felt his physical strength constantly increasing.
Feeling the changes within his body, Wang Chao suddenly recalled records from ancient books he had read:
This is fetal breathing.
The fetus is the spirit within the fetus.
God is the primordial spirit, the mind, and the soul of a person.
Breathing with the mind is somewhat similar to photosynthesis in plants. If a person truly enters the state of fetal breathing, they can actually use mental breathing to absorb some energy from the outside world to support the body's needs. This is also known as fasting.
Wang Chao recalled that when he consulted ancient boxing manuals, he saw that some ancient practitioners would sleep for a month at a time without eating or drinking.
Although such people usually starve to death and become dried corpses, Wang Chao didn't care about them.
Even if a person cultivates themselves to the highest level, they are still a person; how can they not eat or drink?
Even though he had reached the level of Transformation Realm and was able to practice Fetal Breathing, he had never tried abstaining from grains. On the contrary, his appetite became increasingly astonishing, and he could swallow a whole sheep in one sitting.
But at this moment, in the state of fetal breathing, energy seeped in through his pores, and he felt his cells greedily absorbing the warmth. Suddenly, Wang Chao understood.
Perhaps the practice of fetal breathing is not a hoax.
Those ancient people, however, had no elixirs or any energy; they relied solely on their cultivation level to survive.
No matter how much ginseng and snow lotus you eat, how much nutrition do they provide? How can such a small amount of nutrition be enough for fetal breathing?!
Without energy intake, cells can only devour their own vitality, eventually turning into dried-up corpses.
"Could practicing martial arts truly grant unparalleled power, but Earth simply lacks the right environment?"
The thought had barely formed in his mind when Wang Chao acted on it.
"Snapped!"
Suddenly, a crisp sound exploded on the seabed!
It wasn't the muffled sound of water rippling, but a sharp crack like a steel whip shattering the air!
Wang Chao's right fist slammed down, and the force that broke through the water layer instantly tore apart the surrounding seawater!
A visible shockwave exploded outwards from him, causing the surrounding seawater to suddenly cave in and condense into a bubble ten feet wide!
As soon as the cavitation bubble appeared, a series of fine popping sounds rang out, followed by a "bang" as it collapsed, like a miniature bomb exploding in the water! The fish within a radius of ten zhang instantly turned white and floated to the surface, their eyes bulging and their scales falling off in pieces, clearly their internal organs had been shattered by the shockwave.
The power of this punch was dozens of times stronger than when he first entered the realm of mastery!
Such a fierce and violent scene could scare a person to death!
Is this even human?!
Immediately afterwards, Wang Chao started moving both arms.
It's not the slow, deliberate practice of ordinary boxing, but a rapid, continuous series of movements. The elbows bend like bows, and the wrists rotate like wheels. Every swing of the arm is accompanied by a thunderous explosion!
A thunderous roar echoed across the seabed, like dozens of cannons exploding in the water! In the blink of an eye, dozens of punches had been delivered.
The bones grew harder with each cracking sound, becoming countless times harder than diamonds. Blood flowed faster, yet it felt as heavy as molten iron!
What's even more amazing is his perception; he used to only be able to vaguely sense the blood vessels in his internal organs.
At this moment, one can "see" every tiny blood vessel in the body, every acupoint the size of a cell, and even the peristalsis of the cells.
All changes in the body are like lines on the palm, and this perception extends not only internally but also externally!
Perception is still expanding outwards!
Microorganisms ten meters away, swimming fish a hundred meters away, even the patterns of ancient fossils under the seabed rock strata, everything is reflected in my heart like a clear mirror!
The power is constantly growing stronger!
boom!!!
The seawater was instantly engulfed in raging waves, and the sound of explosions echoed continuously.
The originally gentle ocean current was stirred into a whirlpool, and sand and coral fragments were swept into it, swirling to form a turbid column.
But in the center of this chaos, a huge cavity with a diameter of over ten feet appeared strangely.
There wasn't a drop of seawater inside the cavity; only billowing white steam.
The steam did not come from seawater, but from Wang Chao's body.
At this moment, his skin was burning red, radiating a scorching heat like a red-hot iron.
The seawater that touched his body instantly vaporized upon contact, turning into white mist that filled the void, distorting even the light due to the intense heat.
It forms circles of blurry halos.
Every pore on his body was opening and closing violently, like countless tiny bellows, drawing steam and oxygen from the pores into his body as he inhaled.
When exhaling, a stream of hot air is expelled, which hits the cavity wall and makes a resonant "yu yu" sound.
Even from several meters away, you could feel the heat that was enough to ignite the firewood!
On the sea surface, far from the seabed, the originally clear and sunny scene suddenly changed drastically.
The calm sea surface was violently stirred up by an invisible hand. Giant waves surged up directly above Wang Chao's training area, with waves several meters high rushing into the sky with a loud "boom" before crashing down in all directions.
A deafening roar swept across the sea, yet it seemed to originate from the seabed, as if a thunderstorm were crashing from the ocean floor into the sky.
The seagulls were startled and scattered, and many fish were shaken out of the water, floating belly up in mid-air.
This isn't practicing martial arts; it's clearly a celestial being descended to earth, able to stir up the sea and sky with a mere flick of the wrist.
Wang Chao's strength grew stronger and stronger, and the waves became more and more turbulent. He could feel that even ten whales would be punched into the sky and turned into minced meat in front of him!
His thoughts were constantly transcending, soaring over the sea, leaping into the sky, one thousand meters, two thousand meters, three thousand meters.
But the next moment, the sea, which had been boiling like porridge, suddenly calmed down.
Wang Chao stopped what he was doing.
"Why can't we expand anymore?"
He sensed a sudden limit emerging; the limit of his mental capacity was only five kilometers away.
He withdrew his spirit from his body, opened his right hand, and found his palm empty; the pill had already transformed into energy that spread throughout his limbs and bones.
"The medication's effects have worn off?"
But the hunger in my body is still there; countless cells and every organ in my body are craving energy.
Wang Chao squinted, feeling the surging power within his body, and a sense of doubt arose in his heart.
"Even though I'm already this strong, why do I still feel unfulfilled, both physically and mentally?"