Chapter 174 Regulating the Breath

He Zhixing took Jiang Ni’s hand, placed the small wooden carved beauty near her elixir field, and said to her, "Try to regulate your breathing. We are going to perform internal energy transmission. I will transmit the energy to you, and after you run it through your micro-cosmic orbit, you will transmit it back!"

"Mhm, I understand."

He Zhixing used his hand holding the sarira and the small wooden carved beauty to transmit simultaneously. The sarira slowly began to emit a glow, and spiritual energy flowed steadily from his palm, rapidly entering his elixir field. From there, the elixir field escorted the energy to all the major and minor acupoints across his body. After running it through his micro-cosmic orbit, he transmitted it palm-to-palm through his right hand, which was holding Jiang Ni's.

Jiang Ni regulated her breathing and inhaled slowly. The moment the fierce and peculiar spiritual energy of the sarira entered her palm, an inexplicable vortex of internal energy violently jolted the acupoints in her hand. The shock made her hand go numb and tingle, and she almost let go in reflex. He Zhixing gripped her hand tightly and said, "Quickly clear your distracting thoughts and inhale slowly. You must hold on!"

Sweat began to bead on Jiang Ni's forehead. At this moment, she was wholeheartedly guiding the energy of the sarira transmitted from He Zhixing's palm. Gritting her teeth and enduring the sensation, she finally guided the energetic spiritual energy into the various meridians of her hands, and then slowly passed it through acupoints such as the Hand Taiyang and Hand Shaoyang into her elixir field and throughout her entire body.

After cycling through the recurrent orbits, she reached out her other hand, pressed it against the Baihui acupoint on the crown of He Zhixing's head, and slowly transmitted the internal energy back into his body. The moment she transmitted the energy into He Zhixing's Baihui acupoint, a powerful suction force tightly glued her hand to the top of his head. The internal energy of the two bodies connected for the first time, building a bridge. He Zhixing then absorbed it back, ran it through his orbit to refine his elixir field, and circulated it back again, repeating the process over and over.

The two of them entered a state of complete oblivion, where both self and surroundings ceased to exist. The onlookers were captivated by this wondrous phenomenon, fixing their unblinking gazes on the pair regulating their breathing.

After half an hour, then a full hour, seeing that He Zhixing and Jiang Ni were completely fine, the others returned to their respective rooms. Having stayed up the entire night, they went back to catch up on sleep. Zou Ning did not leave. This room happened to be her own. When she carried them into a room for medical treatment earlier, she had unhesitatingly taken He Zhixing and Jiang Ni to her room simply because there were no other vacant rooms left. The rest of the rooms had been given to her sisters and the beautiful Xiao. Since her room was the largest, she had moved them here. Her bed was exceptionally large—a massive bed big enough for four or five people to sleep on.

Seeing that the two of them remained completely motionless amidst their breath regulation, she tidied up a bit. Feeling overwhelmingly drowsy, she lay down beside them at some point and fell asleep.

When Zou Ning woke up, it was already four or five in the afternoon. She noticed that the other girls had all woken up, while He Zhixing and Jiang Ni remained just as they were, both maintaining that same posture on her bed, passing their internal energy back and forth while regulating their breath. The other beauties found it utterly incredible to watch He Zhixing and Jiang Ni quietly transmitting energy and regulating their breath to each other.

What astonished them even more was that the wounds on their bodies were healing at an unbelievable speed. Many of the wounds where bullets had been extracted had already begun to scab over. In less than a day, a third of their injuries had healed—a recovery rate that medical science could never explain.

The group chose not to disturb them and instead headed out to buy groceries and cook.

When the meal was ready and they saw that the two still hadn't woken up, remaining in that exact posture of mutual energy circulation and breath regulation, they decided to leave them be. The group ate together and then dispersed to their own quarters, leaving the beautiful Xiao and Zou Ning at home. The two beauties sat in the living room watching television, chatting until their conversation shifted to music, songwriting, and singing. As they talked about things they both passionately loved, a profound sense of mutual understanding blossomed between them, and they seemed to lose all track of time.

In a surge of excitement, they fetched recording equipment right on the spot and began recording impromptu, creating their very own original works...