When he walked out of the ticket gate and stood in the arrival hall of Shanghai Hongqiao Station, where he couldn't see the edge, Ji Yiming was a little stunned.

As far as the eye can see, no matter which direction you look, there are tall buildings full of shadows. It winds around, stretching out to every corner of the city like a tentacle, and can reach up to several floors up and down.

Is this the commercial and financial center of the whole of China, the international first-tier city known as the "magic capital": Shanghai?

In the past, I have been listening to popular science on the Internet, and Beijing and Shanghai are the world's top cities that are completely comparable to New York, Paris, London, Tokyo and other internationally famous cities.

At this moment, standing in the lobby of Hongqiao Railway Station, he already felt the breath of drunkenness coming to his face.

New York, Paris, these are just horizontal comparisons.

As a history student, Ji Yiming actually prefers to make longitudinal comparisons with equally prosperous eras in human history.

Xianyang during the Qin Shi Huang period, Chang'an during the Tang Xuanzong period, and Bianliang during the Song Renzong period.

There are also modern Beijing and Shanghai.

They were all famous capitals in Chinese history, and they were also one of the most human settlements in the world at that time.

This kind of super-large and prosperous city is the crystallization of the most typical and quintessential human civilization of an era.

But this is the crystallization of human civilization...... It's hard to find a bus station to take a bus to Cixi City from a convenient arrival hall!

Ji Yiming checked on the Internet that the bus station near Hongqiao High-speed Railway Station is Shanghai South Railway Station, but at this moment, standing in the hall and looking at the signs pointing to different exits such as ABCDEF, he turned left and right along the arrow but never found the underground road to South Station, and finally couldn't help but have a headache.

There are three floors above ground and three floors underground. Commercial area, parking lot, taxi waiting area. Even mobile phone navigation is powerless in complex terrain - it is clear that the distance from the South Railway Station is less than 300 meters in a straight line, and there is no way to find the passage in front.

He reluctantly put away his mobile phone, asked people everywhere and walked around the road, and it took twice as long as expected to finally find the bus station of Shanghai South Railway Station: and then perfectly missed the last train to Cixi.

What to do, do you want to stay in Shanghai for one night?

"It's at least a hundred dollars for an extra night......"

- After buying the train ticket, Ji Yiming still had more than 300 cash left, and the deposit in the card was less than 2,000 yuan: if he hadn't found Jiang Zhiyou before the money was spent, he might have to sleep on the streets of Cixi.

There was a piece of mutton fat white jade hanging on his body, which might be worth more than a million, but he was so short of money for an extra night.

And the contact is all ancient martial arts, internal strength and mental methods, Yue kiln ruins, mysterious organizations and other strange events that ordinary people may not be able to contact in a lifetime, this contrast is really helpless.

Ji Yiming couldn't help laughing, shook his head and began to search for the cheapest hotels nearby on the mobile app.

The first day of my life went out for the first time, and it didn't go well.

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As an international metropolis, Shanghai has the luxury of being drunk on money, but it is not full of high-spending places.

Ji Yiming found a small hostel near the South Railway Station and asked for a bed in a quadruple room. Although I had to squeeze in with three strangers for one night, the room fee was only twenty-eight after all, which was not even enough for a cup of coffee.

For him, as long as there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain at night, there is no essential difference between a small hostel of 28 yuan and an Ace International Hotel with a suite price of more than 1,000.

Of course, he didn't dare to leave his luggage in such a place when he opened a room, so Ji Yiming could only go out with his schoolbag and eat a bowl of noodles casually - a few thin slices of beef, and spent another eighteen yuan - and then found a quiet park and began to practice "Taiyi Longevity".

Last night's dream experience was so amazing that he was still in excellent physical condition. After taking the high-speed train from Hanzhong to Shanghai for more than eight hours in a row, there was no discomfort of backache, but there was always a warm and rising feeling in the veins of the limbs.

"This ...... Is it internal breath?"

However, it is not the same as the air flow that Yingxingtianna transmits into his body through the wrist veins, which have substance after burrowing into the meridians and can freely circulate and move through the meridians. The former, strictly speaking, should only be the "feeling" of this warm rise, rather than the internal breath that can really work with the mental method of "Taiyi Longevity".

He closed his eyes and stood under a locust tree in the corner of the park, and after carefully tasting it for a long time, he had to admit that it was still too naïve to break through the bottleneck of more than ten years of cultivation and internal breath because of a strange dream.

"There must be something wrong! According to Ying Xingtian, those two men didn't have much internal breath at all, but they could burst out with speed and strength that surpassed ordinary people. It's impossible that I've been cultivating for more than ten years and have gained nothing. ”

What's more, that guy is the same age as himself, even if he starts practicing from his mother's womb, it won't be more than a few years. However, with the momentum he released, he could directly scare the two away.

Then that phrase came to his mind again.

"The answer may lie in you......"

Perhaps because of the dangerous situation in the face, Ji Yiming always felt that his mind was so chaotic that he couldn't calm down, and he had to take the initiative to stop after running his mind twice.

He noticed the sounds in his surroundings.

A few dozen meters away, several middle school students were playing in the open-air court, and there were bursts of fierce footsteps and cheers.

On the left are four or five gray-haired, balding old men using free sports equipment, and the sound of metal crashing is clearly audible.

A little farther away is a fan dance team composed of old ladies, and melodious folk music comes from the amplifier.

The glow of the street lamp, the low chirp of the autumn insects......

In the complicated voices, Ji Yiming's heart moved slightly, and he suddenly closed his eyes again.

When I just left the station in the afternoon, the feeling of being shocked by the essence of modern civilization in the super metropolis came back to my heart, and the peace and tranquility of being in the most prosaic and marketable environment at this moment......

Two very different emotions are so intertwined and merged, miraculously becoming the same feeling.

The feeling of warmth and swelling in the meridians quietly became strong, and Ji Yiming, whose eyes were slightly closed, didn't even take the initiative to operate the mental method, and the "Taiyi Longevity Formula" naturally began to flow along the twelve canons.

All the small and complicated sounds around him poured into his ears, but it was a bit like the so-called "white noise" in hypnotherapy, which made him feel very peaceful.

Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, Hand Yin Pericardial Meridian, Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, Hand Yang Ming Large Intestine Meridian, Hand Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian......

Du Pulse, Ren Pulse, Chong Pulse, Belt Pulse, Yang Pulse, Yin Pulse, Yin Pulse, Yang Pulse.

Every circulation is so simple, there is no need to deliberately "imagine" that there is internal breath running in the meridians, and there is a warmth that has gone through a circle of Zhou Tian from beginning to end.

The hand is too yin and the lungs are meridians, and the yang stilts and pulses are stopped.

This time, the unconscious Zhou Tian was running almost twice as fast as when he usually practiced on his own, and there was no side effect of the headache that he usually had when he accelerated slightly.

After a while, Ji Yiming reopened his eyes.

The various sounds that were originally clearly audible quickly receded like a tide.

He squeezed his fist, and a very faint and extremely present air flow condensed into his fist along the six meridians of his hand.

This one...... Is it the inner breath?

Ji Yiming hesitated for a moment, let go of his fist and let this faint air flow retreat along the meridians, carefully feeling the difference between it and the lively internal breath that Ying Xingtian sent into his body yesterday.

The latter is cold and intense, as if alive and full of life.

This strand in my body is not only much weaker in degree, nor does it have any activity, but it carries a warm warmth that is completely different from the interest rate of the winning bank, and it is not as "aggressive" as the latter.

So, am I really cultivating my inner breath?

With doubts in his heart, Ji Yiming clenched his fists again, let the air flow fill the six meridians of his hand, and then gently swung a punch at the locust tree beside him.

No momentum, no

Use as much effort as you want.

After hearing only a "bang" sound, the bark of the tree was shattered and the sap splashed, and a shallow fist mark instantly appeared on the hard tree.

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In the same park, not far from the big locust tree where Ji Yiming tried his boxing.

Two people witnessed the whole process from beginning to end.

One is an old man with a tall and thin figure and a clear temperament.

Another young man with short hair and black clothes, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist.

"What is he?" the young man looked strange, and he couldn't believe it when he saw the former leave a mark on the locust tree.

"Cultivation is out of the inner breath. The old man was relatively calm, but there was also surprise in his tone.

"But ......"

"That's right, on your own. No formations or gems are used. ”

The young man swallowed dryly, feeling that his entire worldview was collapsing at this moment: "How is it possible! This is ...... at all."

"Nothing is impossible. The old man sighed: "Those amazing ancients in history also have a precedent of being able to 'break the life barrier' without the help of formation gems. And don't forget, his surname is Ji. ”

"Yes, his surname is Ji. ”

The young man was a little distracted, and he whispered a sentence silently and then smiled bitterly: "Everyone says so, because his surname is Ji, his surname is Win, his surname is Jiang, and his surname is Ji...... And we, just ordinary people without ancient blood, are not qualified to marry them. ”

The old man's gaze retracted from Ji Yiming, who was not far away, and his expression was unwavering: "If you continue to feel sorry for yourself like this, you will not be able to achieve great things in your life." And you should know that because of his surname Ji, no one has ever told him how to take the real path of cultivation - but he just took a different path himself. ”

Even if such a qualification is not surnamed Ji, it is definitely not a thing in the pool.

The former took a deep breath, finally calmed down and didn't say anything more.

Ji Yiming, who was not far away, seemed to accept the changes that happened to him, bent down and picked up his schoolbag and quietly left.

The young man and the old man waited for a moment, and then followed from a distance.

"What's next?"

Watching Ji Yiming walk into the dilapidated inn, the young man couldn't help frowning: "The bloodline of the once noble Ji family is actually mixed into a place like staying overnight, do we still want to keep an eye on it?"

The old man looked at him dissatisfied, and finally didn't say anything, just walked into the hostel by himself and asked for a single room on the same floor as Ji Yiming.

"Anyway, he will definitely go to the bus to Cixi City tomorrow morning, and we can't lose it if we are in the back. The young man muttered, hesitated for a moment, but did not follow in, and turned to leave without looking back.

What he and the old man didn't know was that before the two talked, there was already a man about the same age as Ji Yiming, who had checked into this hostel one step earlier than the old man.