Starting to Gain Experience from Push-Ups Chapter 176 - 152: The Skill Effect of Breathing Technique

Beneath the Abyss, darkness knows no bounds.

Each inch of space teems with a suffocating tranquility.

Ti also seems nearly halted, like the ghostly void of the universe before the birth of stars.

Fang Cheng floats within this expanse, his body motionless and utterly silent.

His entire being has entered a deep state of ’self-forgetfulness.’

His consciousness seems to slip from the bonds of the flesh, becoming strands of light adrift in the cosmos.

Occasionally sparking a glint, then vanishing in an instant.

As if awaiting the serendipitous mont for life to erge amidst darkness and silence.

At the sa ti, the panel displays a series of prompt ssages within the void.

[ditation Experience 1]

[ditation Experience 1]

.........

When consciousness becos extrely active.

The body, however, seems devoid of vitality, blood circulation gradually slows, the heart approaches stillness.

Until there are no signs of breathing.

Not even the slightest bubble erges from mouth or nose for an extended ti.

Seemingly due to the extre pressure of this sealed environnt, the body appears thoroughly asphyxiated.

But this is only an external facade.

Approximately every two minutes, Fang Cheng’s heart still trembles faintly.

Then pumps blood throughout the vessels, delivering oxygen to other organs.

He retains that most fundantal thread of breath within him, maintaining the most basic signs of life.

The hint of warmth in his abdon, like sothing hidden in the deep ocean of his body, is exceptionally tranquil.

With a thought erging in consciousness, it quivers slightly.

In the form of pulsing waves, it births traces of energy, spreading around.

Instantly, every pore on his body opens in unison, drawing oxygen from the seawater, then expelling stale air.

Even the grey-white vapors rising from the depths of the Abyss are absorbed through the pores, providing so kind of nourishnt.

Accompanying the exchange cycle of internal and external breaths, a series of prompt ssages appear one after another on the panel.

[Breathing Technique Experience 1]

[Breathing Technique Experience 1]

.........

An extrely suppressive environnt liberates inherent bodily instincts.

The respiratory functions of skin and cells are significantly enhanced, pushed to their limits.

Even subtly surpassing a certain threshold, stepping into a higher state.

The aura emitted by the body becos one with the environnt.

Fang Cheng seems to return to the fetal period, surrounded by amniotic fluid, in an incredibly comfortable and warm, wondrous state.

This state is known as "Fetal Breathing."

Breaths continuous, like the babe within the womb, not breathing through mouth and nose, thus it is called Fetal Breathing.

Many Taoist health manuals describe "Fetal Breathing" as a path to longevity, the gateway to the Way of the Immortal, the marvelous realm where the human body eliminates ailnts, returns to youth, and rges with the cosmic qi.

Ancient Cultivators also deed Fetal Breathing as life’s primal state, nurturing the foundational mystery of the essence of universal life, regarding it as a high-level goal in cultivation.

In the eyes of martial arts masters like Ma Jianguo, it’s not as mysterious as so texts claim.

Because humans inherently possess this special ability.

Sadly, it’s only present in the mother’s womb, and once born, this innate function begins to lie dormant within, requiring strenuous postnatal cultivation to be recovered.

Fetal Breathing in Qigong practice is, in fact, a profound Qigong state attainable after achieving unity of essence, energy, and spirit.

It’s a natural instinct expressed by the body in a highly ditative state, a physiological state achieved through Qigong training where internal and external respirations are harmonized, fully enhancing their functionalities.

This thod of cultivation not only invigorates and extends life but also promotes the unlocking of human potential.

At this mont, Fang Cheng maintains the Fetal Breathing State, floating in this absolutely dark sea for as long as six hours.

The external currents surge turbulently, fog perating, at tis intense, at tis calming.

As ti passes, a tidal rhythm of rise and fall erges.

As if the ocean itself were breathing, peaceful and prolonged.

The blood coursing through Fang Cheng’s veins, the breaths swallowed and expelled by countless pores, also ebbs and flows like the tide.

The two resonate with each other, subtly creating a harmonious and unified rhythm.

In this process, more and more sparks of insight burst forth in Fang Cheng’s mind.

Initially, a faint haze of light, flickering and indistinct.

Gradually, from the haze, sparks leap and dance, like fireflies on a sumr’s night.

Then these epheral fireflies begin to coalesce, stabilize.

Until they form a slightly larger dot of light, faintly taking the shape of an illusory fla, illuminating the imdiate vicinity.

This light point is very weak, like a candle in the wind, as if it could be extinguished at any mont.

Under its guidance, the geothermal current hidden deep under the sea naturally generated an upward force.

Like the finest stream flowing along river channels, advancing thodically.

Even when encountering silt blockages, it still managed to perate through without exception.

After a full-body circulation, the current eventually returned to the deep hollow within the abdon.

Perhaps due to the fusion with the fog inhaled into the body, the geothermal current vaguely showed signs of swelling.

It was after the consciousness and inner qi blended, successfully completing a guidance cycle.

In the Dark Abyss, the panel suddenly flickered with extraordinarily brilliant light.

[Congratulations, after efforts and perseverance beyond ordinary imagination, your skill has reached the Expert Level]

[Breathing Technique lv1 (0/250)]

[Receive an enhancent reward, a chance to synthesize an exclusive skill]

Imrsed in Deep ditation, Fang Cheng paid no attention to these prompt ssages, but suddenly had a mont of enlightennt.

Life originates from the embryo, inherently arising from Fetal Breathing.

Entering the Fetal Breathing State is a way of returning to the innate.

And that space in the abdon where the geothermal current is stored, is the origin of life.

Cultivating Fetal Breathing is the process of life’s self-regeneration, as well as solving problems from the root of life.

In this favorable environnt for cultivation.

The speed of skill practice experience gained thus accelerated.

Soon, like the Breathing Technique before it, ditation was also approaching the level cap for a breakthrough.

Not just that.

Fang Cheng’s body and consciousness were also undergoing so kind of transformation.

Panel lights flickered, a stream of prompt ssages flowed by rapidly.

[You are communicating with the Heaven and Earth Natural Laws, comprehending the Life Mystery, Spirit increased by 0.001]

[You are communicating with the Heaven and Earth Natural Laws, comprehending the Life Mystery, Constitution increased by 0.001]

.........

At this mont, Fang Cheng finally completely stepped into the legendary realm of "Unity of Heaven and Man."

Riding the montum, the efficiency of cultivation reached an unimaginable level.

However, the geothermal current still seed sowhat weak, unable to produce sufficiently astounding effects.

At this ti, thousands of kiloters below the seam at the seabed.

A vast and deep oppressive feeling erged faintly, as if nurous dark and profound things were surging.

If soone’s gaze could penetrate the Abyss, all the way to its darkest depths, they would see an odd and spectacular scene.

There, all the seawater was swirling around a submarine volcanic vent, thus forming a giant vortex.

The vortex was mixed with many sea grasses, fish and shrimp carcasses, and even fragnts of ship hulls.

Spinning like a top, the stirring force transferred to the top of the crack, creating a siphoning effect that continually sucked in seawater.

Fang Cheng floated in the Dark Abyss, focusing on practicing ditation and the Breathing Technique.

His natural awareness of danger was always retained, even more acute by several tis than when his own consciousness controlled the body.

When his body was pulled by this suction force and began to spin downwards.

His pores suddenly dilated, and his muscles trembled slightly, offsetting the pulling force.

During the resistance process, the panel also exhibited new prompt ssages.

[Pile Skill Experience 1]

[Pile Skill Experience 1]

.........

The turbulent undercurrents that could tear an ordinary person’s body apart and drag it into the Abyss, instead beca a force for Fang Cheng to temper himself, to breakthrough.

As the experience of the three skills simultaneously increased, his body gradually floated to a position right above the center of the vortex.

Then he maintained his balance and steadied.

The whole person also shifted from a supine lying position to a floating standing posture.

However.

The strength of the vortex continued to grow, as if calling out for sothing or preventing sothing.

The dark Abyss was like a boiling cauldron, endlessly gurgling up copious milky-white foam, evaporating into billowing mist.

It seed that this was the legendary "Milk Sea" where gods and all living beings were born.

Afterwards, in the deepest dark, vague blue glows began to appear.

Billows of oddly-shaped shadows gradually rose from the Abyss, slowly approaching the sea surface.

Splash—Splash—

From the top end of the seabed fissure, suddenly ca the sound of water being cleaved.

A group of creatures, neither human nor fish, began to converge from all directions.

They swam to the side of Fang Cheng, who was in deep ditation, and kept circling around him.

So emitted a low hissing sound, gesturing at Fang Cheng with their long webbed hands.

So, with eyes flickering dark green light, observed him curiously, filled with wonder.