Chapter 40 40. Smell Yin and Yang
The nasal orifice, also known as the Mingtang, is the gateway for the entry and exit of clear and turbid air, so it is the external orifice of the lungs.

The lungs control the vital energy, regulate breathing, store the soul, and serve all the meridians. They are an important channel for communication between the human body and the breath of heaven and earth.

Once the lungs are affected, the breathing will change immediately.

So this time when Xu Qing guided the qi and blood to impact the nasal orifices, his body's reaction was particularly violent. Not only did the qi in his lungs surge, but even his originally regular breathing suddenly became disordered, and he almost lost his breath.

Fortunately, Xu Qing has the twelve guardian gods, the Six Dings and Six Jias, guarding his body.

At the moment of the accident, the Six Dings and Six Jias simultaneously emitted spiritual light, instantly stabilizing Xu Qing's disordered breathing rhythm.

Then suppress the surging lung metal energy again to restore it to a settled state.

Under the protection of the Six Dings and Six Jias, the slight twists and turns in Xu Qing's body soon subsided, and after that, everything went smoothly all the way.

"The sixth orifice!"

After exhaling a breath of foul air from his throat, Xu Qing opened his eyes and murmured in his heart with a hint of joy.

The nine orifices become six, and one is not far from perfecting the essence.

Xu Qing carefully felt the changes in his body.

The physical strength is much stronger than before, and the Qi and blood are obviously more vigorous than when the five orifices were intact. The life essence symbolized by the two is naturally more abundant.

There are also changes in the sense of smell.

After his nasal opening, Xu Qing's sense of smell became extremely sensitive, and he could now distinguish many smells that he could not distinguish before.

The most outstanding point is that one can smell yin and yang with the nose.

As mentioned earlier, everything in the world has its own aura. Humans have human aura, monsters have monster aura, and ghosts have ghost aura.

A cultivator with his nostrils opened can use his keen sense of smell to smell the scents of goblins and ghosts that are difficult for mortals to detect, and can thus identify or track the goblins.

This ability combined with Xu Qing's method of "observing Qi" will make it easier and more accurate for him to distinguish evil things in the future.

"The overall changes are all within expectations." Xu Qing thought to himself, and suddenly a strange look flashed in his eyes, "Except..."

Breathing changes!
In fact, in this breakthrough, the increase in qi and blood and the improvement in sense of smell were only secondary. Xu Qing’s biggest gain was that he had touched the threshold of fetal breathing.

In Taoism, after the realm of refining essence, the next stage is refining qi.

The key to breaking through from the Essence Refining Stage to the Qi Refining Stage is to extract the first ray of True Qi from the human body's primordial essence and use it as the Ancestral Qi.

After that, the effort of the Qi Refining stage is all about nurturing and strengthening this wisp of ancestral Qi.

The method to strengthen the true Qi in the body of a practitioner is called breathing method.

Exhaling the old and taking in the new, one inhalation and one exhalation is called breathing in and out. Among them, breathing through the mouth and nose is the lowest level, and the highest level is fetal breathing, which does not involve breathing in and out through the mouth and nose, but transforms external breathing into internal breathing.

When Xu Qing opened his nostrils just now, the lung metal energy surged up, was suppressed by the Six Dings and Six Jias, and then returned to a sinking state. At that time, the qi also sank and returned to its origin.

a certain moment.

He suddenly felt all the pores in his body open up, as if he had turned into a sponge. The energy of heaven and earth was like an endless sea, pouring into his body from all directions.

This feeling only lasted for a few breaths.

But Xu Qing did feel it.

At the moment, there is no benefit from this experience, but when he reaches the Qi Refining Stage, the difficulty of achieving fetal breathing will be greatly reduced.

After all, going from 0 to 1 is always the hardest!

The next day.

The sky is clear and the wind is gentle and gentle.

The matter of the Cao family has come to an end with Xu Qing. As for who is secretly plotting against the Cao family and how they are plotting against them, that is the business of the Cao family itself or the government.

He has no need and need not get involved.

At this time, Xu Qing and Fatty Li were walking on the streets of Huai'an County.

The tasks assigned by Cao Mansion and Cao Erlang had been completed. Xu Qing and Fatty Li were supposed to return to the mountain to report, but since it was a rare opportunity to go into the city, neither of them wanted to go back so soon. They had to stay for a day or two anyway.

"Xu Qing, if there's anything you want to see today, tell me and I'll take you there!"

Fatty Li patted his chest, looking very proud.

In the entire Huai'an County, when it comes to the person who is most familiar with various places to play, Young Master Li is second to none, and no one dares to claim to be first.

"Brothel." Xu Qing glanced at Fatty Li.

"Uh" Fatty Li choked.

It was indeed Xu Qing, who hit his sore spot as soon as he opened his mouth.

Which man wouldn’t be curious about the Red Street?
The problem is that his Li family was originally a military family with strict family traditions. If he dared to go to that kind of place, his father would really break his legs when he got home, and his mother would come over and give him a few slaps in the face.

Then the two of them would probably start to study how to raise the next baby in the evening.

Xu Qing looked at Fatty Li, who looked like he had eaten hot shit, and smiled and said, "Where is the Linhong Inn in the city?"

Linhong Posthouse is a very special immortal sect in Dasheng, which specializes in providing letter and package delivery services to all cultivators and mortals.

"You want to send a letter?"

"Yes." Xu Qing nodded. "Last time I asked you to send a letter back, there was no reply from home. I wanted to send another letter to ask about the situation."

"Linhong Inn is right next to Hua Street." Fatty Li muttered.

"Why is the post house located in such a place?" Xu Qing raised his eyebrows. "Forget it, this is not important. I need you to do me a favor."

"What help?" Fatty Li asked in surprise.

Is there still a time when Xu Qing will be of use to him?
"I don't want the reward from Cao Mansion this time in the form of Dao Gong. I hope it can be converted into gold and silver. Also, please help me find a house in Huai'an City that can accommodate eight or nine people."

"The money will be deducted from the gold and silver converted from Dao Gong. If it's not enough, you can help me to make up for it first, and I will pay you back later."

"Do you want to bring your family to Huai'an City?" Fatty Li asked.

"Yes."

Xu Qing did have this plan. Last time he asked Fatty Li to send a letter home, he mentioned in the letter that he wanted to bring his parents and his older brothers over.

However, it is easy to get a family to move here, but how to make the family settle down in Huai'an City is a problem.

The city is not the countryside where people can make a living by farming. Without their familiar means of making a living, Xu's father, mother, and older brothers may not be able to adapt.

It’s true that Xu Qingneng has always supported the Xu family.

But based on Xu Qing's understanding of his elder and second brothers, they would definitely not want this to happen.

Perhaps because of this reason and also because he was reluctant to leave his hometown, he never received any letters from home.

"Both of these things are easy to handle. Don't worry, I promise to prepare them for you."

"Thank you."

Led by Fatty Li, the two came to the Linhong Inn next to Hua Street.

Linhong Posthouse looks like an ordinary house from the outside. There are many ordinary people carrying letters and things coming in and out of the door. It looks similar to the express delivery point in the previous life.

Xu Qing entered the posthouse and took out two letters.

A letter was sent to their home, urging them to sell their land and house as soon as possible. If the family came to live in Huai'an City, the land would be idle and useless.

One was sent to Uncle Zhang, along with a porcelain bottle containing six blood-nourishing pills.

He still remembers the kindness of Uncle Zhang in introducing him to him.

Although Uncle Zhang may not take it to heart, I cannot help but be grateful.

The six blood-nourishing pills were exchanged for the Taoist merits that were rewarded for being the first on the Izumo Ranking. Xu Qing exchanged them for them when he went down the mountain yesterday.

(End of this chapter)