Chapter 138: Spiritual Energy Unblocking the Meridians

The next morning, all the reserve members gathered punctually at 6:30 and arrived in front of Building Number One.

The once unremarkable Building Number One now looked like a living hell in their eyes, radiating grievance and agony from top to bottom.

"Good morning, everyone!"

Lin Feng wore a bright expression and his signature smile, greeting the reserve members enthusiastically.

Xu Peng's anger flared the moment he saw Lin Feng's smile. He muttered under his breath, "Damn it, this kid's face just makes people more furious the more they look at it. Yesterday, I was practically tortured to death, and this kid just sat on the side drinking tea and smiling. It's so infuriating!"

Wang Zexi, however, harbored none of Xu Peng's resentment.

This was because, after yesterday's acupuncture session, he discovered that he could vaguely sense a strange energy lingering around his body—invisible and intangible.

Clearly, Lin Feng's "special training" was working.

Ever since his youth, Wang Zexi had dreamed of delving into the mysterious realm of martial arts and becoming a martial artist.

Now, the opportunity was right before his eyes, and he did not hesitate for even a second.

Compared to his dreams and the chance to grow stronger, what did a little pain matter?

"Wonderful, I can see everyone is in high spirits. Let us continue. Of course, if anyone cannot bear it, you may withdraw right now, and I will not hold it against you at all."

Looking at the indignant expressions of the hundred-odd reserve members before him, Lin Feng smiled casually and calmly.

Following yesterday's hellish special training, these people practically hated Lin Feng to the bone and wished they could pin him to the ground and beat him up.

Yet, faced with Lin Feng's "dissuasion warning," not a single person paid heed. Instead, they all glared at Lin Feng through clenched teeth, determined to resist him to the bitter end.

Lin Feng shrugged and smiled lightly, "Since no one is quitting, let us continue!"

"Yes, Instructor Lin!"

Everyone roared in unison, sounding almost as if they were shouting the name of an enemy. Lin Feng waved his hand lazily and led them once again into the basement of Building Number One.

A new round of the golden needle acupuncture tortures began anew.

Piercing shrieks akin to a slaughtered pig rang out once more, but compared to yesterday, everyone was starting to adapt to the agony. They all glared in unison at Lin Feng, channeling their physical pain into raw fury and venting it entirely through their gazes upon him.

Just as the day's acupuncture session was drawing to a close, Wang Zexi became the very first to perceive the "sense of qi"!

A wisp of spiritual energy was seen swirling around his body. This spiritual energy slowly entered his body through his crown, and under the control of Wang Zexi's willpower, it actually began to shuttle through the meridians within him, helping his body dredge the blocked meridians!

This was precisely the first step for an immortal cultivator—the perception of qi!

Indeed, Lin Feng was not teaching the reserve members martial arts at all; he was teaching them immortality cultivation!

After all, martial arts cultivation was far too crude and, in Lin Feng's eyes, completely unpresentable. Moreover, wanting to defeat the disciples of martial arts noble families in a short period of time was only possible through immortality cultivation.

Clearly, this Wang Zexi possessed good talent and was worth cultivating.

Lin Feng walked slowly up to Wang Zexi, brought his index and middle fingers together like a sword, and pressed them against the center of Wang Zexi's brow. Using divine sense transmission, he imparted the foundational cultivation technique of the Wukun Heavenly Sect—the Haotian Martial Scripture—directly to him.

This Haotian Martial Scripture was a foundational cultivation technique that Lin Feng had spent three days compiling, capable of cultivating up to the Second-Grade Foundation Establishment True Person realm at its peak.

Generating the sense of qi and drawing spiritual energy into the body were precisely the beginning of a mortal stepping onto the path of cultivation.

The golden needle acupuncture was merely an auxiliary; one's own talent and comprehension were the crucial keys.

"This is..."

Wang Zexi never expected that with a single gentle touch from Lin Feng, an entire volume of a martial scripture would appear in his mind!

Furthermore, he could directly memorize and read it through his brain without any obstacles.

Thus, he immediately began tireless comprehension. Such a profound martial scripture completely exceeded the scope of his cognition, and his worldview was shattered and rebuilt over and over again after repeatedly studying the scripture.

Finally, after several hours of contemplation, Wang Zexi entered a state of meditative absorption!

The spiritual energy swirling around his body began to grow stronger, and the first meridian in his body began to be unblocked, until he lifted his neck and let out a long roar:

"Ah—!"

Driving qi with sound, in one single push, he directly unblocked his first meridian—the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian!

With Wang Zexi's roar, the aura around his body surged violently. Like a tornado, it shattered the execution rack behind him. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth continuously filled his meridians, and his cultivation realm directly ascended to the First-Grade Meridian-Connecting Spiritist, First-Stage Early Phase!

Having completed the leap from a mortal to an immortal cultivator, Wang Zexi looked at Lin Feng at this moment with eyes full of gratitude.

He knew that what Lin Feng was teaching was not any so-called martial arts, but a true immortal cultivation method!

"Instructor Lin, please accept my bow!"

Stepping down from the execution rack, Wang Zexi's very first action was to cup his fists, drop to one knee, and perform a deep, respectful bow toward Lin Feng. After all, this was the grace of imparting doctrines, teaching professional knowledge, and resolving doubts; even without the title of master and disciple, the reality of it was already established.

Therefore, Wang Zexi could perform such a grand gesture, and Lin Feng could completely accept it.

"I didn't expect you to comprehend the sense of qi in a mere two days. It seems your talent and comprehension are quite good. Very well, you may go to the second basement level. The spiritual energy there is sufficient for you to cultivate all the way to the peak of the First-Grade Meridian-Connecting Spiritist."

"Yes! Thank you, Instructor Lin. Wang Zexi will never forget your grace in imparting this knowledge!"

Wang Zexi bowed again and again before finally walking into the second basement level.

The special training plan Lin Feng had proposed back then precisely included a complete set of Spirit-Gathering Arrays, and Lin Feng had placed this Spirit-Gathering Array precisely in the second basement level of Building Number One.

True to form, the Chinese military was extraordinarily wealthy.

For the sake of the one hundred Tenglong Squad special forces soldiers, they had actually gathered three types of millennium-old spiritual treasures and handed them over to Lin Feng to set up a Spirit-Gathering Array.

Now that Wang Zexi had become an immortal cultivator first, Lin Feng no longer needed to worry about him and could focus entirely on the other members who were still searching for the sense of qi.

With the Spirit-Gathering Array in place, Wang Zexi was bound to go further and further.

Thus, over the next few days, among the one hundred reserve members, one after another successfully perceived the sense of qi and broke through the shackles to become immortal cultivators.

It wasn't until the twentieth day, after the very last reserve member succeeded, that Lin Feng finally moved to the second basement level.

Walking into the second basement level, Lin Feng discovered that Wang Zexi, who had been the first to enter the Spirit-Gathering Array for cultivation, had already unblocked seven meridians, making the fastest progress among all of them.

Next was Xu Peng. Although this fellow looked boorish on the surface, his innate aptitude was genuinely not low, and he had now unblocked six meridians.

In a mere twenty days, all one hundred of them had successfully crossed into the ranks of immortal cultivators. Even the premier sect in the Hongmeng Universe would find such a success rate in initiation hard to surpass.