Chapter 175: The Results of Meditation Training

Winter snaps swept across the East China Sea, and snow was already covered outside Kalmar.

In a frozen stream, William sat cross-legged on a huge bluestone in the middle of the stream, shirtless, wearing only a thin pair of shorts, allowing the goose feathers and snow to fall on his body, but his eyes were closed and motionless.

William is practicing meditation according to the method of "return of life".

There are also spiritual and spiritual practices in the swordsmanship taught by Koshiro, but they are too general and crude compared to the "return of life" that William received from mice.

Moreover, the direction of cultivating the mind and spirit in swordsmanship is quite different from the "return of life".

Swordsmanship, emphasizing the swordsman himself and the sword in his hand, the swordsman's own induction with external objects, is to cast the spirit and mind, so as to sense the outside world, in short, to let the spirit radiate from the inside out.

However, "Life Return" is the opposite, its ultimate purpose of cultivation is to let the cultivators themselves feel the limbs and bones of the whole body, the internal organs, and even the hair on the surface of the skin, and finally manipulate them, and when they reach a certain level, they can even control the hair to attack others, and get an effect similar to the furry fruit that "Redbeard" Barbarossa took at the beginning.

"Life Return", which emphasizes immersing the mind and heart in the body, is an outside-in approach.

William immersed his mind, mind, and spirit into his body according to the method noted in his notebook, and he first immersed the three into the movement of exhaling and inhaling in his body, so that his consciousness also rose and fell slightly with his chest, so that his thoughts also flowed like a spring, and as he breathed, it seemed that he was gradually brushing away the distracting thoughts on the surface.

A stream of heat emerged from his chest and gradually traveled through his body, as he began to try to control the steam that was agitated with the heat and the heat that was always emitted involuntarily, using the method of "life return".

The snowflakes falling from the sky fell on William's shoulders, and in the first hour, the snowflakes that fell on them vaporized directly, but after that, when the snowflakes fell on William's shoulders, they directly turned into water droplets and slipped down, and after another two hours, William seemed to have disappeared from his body temperature, and the snowflakes did not change after falling on his shoulders, and the water droplets that turned into snowflakes before also condensed into ice because of the cold weather.

The heavy snow soon covered William, and in less than half an hour, there was only a "snowman" on the boulder in the middle of the creek with a faint glimpse of William's outline.

William didn't know how long he had been sitting cross-legged for a long time, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and suddenly, the "snowman" on the boulder moved, William opened his eyes suddenly, and with his movements, the next moment, the snow on his whole body turned into steam in the blink of an eye, coiling around his sides.

William stood up from the boulder, suffering from the two temperatures of cold and heat, the surface of the boulder made a clicking sound, William exhaled, and a heat wave suddenly emanated from his mouth, and when he encountered the cold current outside, he turned into a long dragon of white gas and floated far away.

William was sure that his temperature was now far beyond the original limit by 100 degrees, about 300 degrees, but he still did not "leak" everywhere because he could not lock in his own heat and resist the pressure of steam as before.

William clenched his fists, and he felt a "power" in his body that kept pushing him to vent, and he knew that it was because the steam pressure was not being used.

Then, William's legs were slightly bent and he kicked the ground violently, and the big rock under his feet turned into gravel directly under the huge force, and William had already used the reaction force to rush into the sky like a sharp arrow.

William, as a swordsman who has stepped into the realm of iron cutting, is also learning to control the "return of life" of the body, although both have not yet reached the point of completion, but his grasp of himself is quite accurate, he can sense that his strength at this time is at least nearly double that of usual.

William jumped into the air, when the body fell, his feet violently spewed out a stream of air, originally in his body seemed to be very impetuous, rushing endlessly, intending to want to rush out of the steam to the outside world suddenly found a breakthrough, and this time is different from the past, William, who has learned the "life return" method, is still trying to control the angle and speed of steam catharsis, so William's feet are stepping on it, and he actually "walked" up and down in the air for a distance before he slowly landed.

After landing, the snow around him began to melt again, and quickly turned into steam, and his body was soon shrouded in the white mist formed by the steam, and the snowflakes falling from the sky fell into the range of the white mist, and quickly vaporized, and the white mist became larger and larger.

William laughed in the mist, of course he wasn't just satisfied with improving the Fruit Ability to this point, but he was excited to confirm the fantasy in his heart and find out that the method of life return was indeed useful for him to further control the Devil Fruit's ability.

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As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are sad.

Just when William, who had no worries about food and clothing, was excited and rejoicing because of the improvement of his strength and the results of his training, under the same sky in the East China Sea, the kingdom on the bridge, Tequira Wolf, was gloomy and miserable.

Working and living on the surface of the bridge, Tequira Wolff, who has no production and therefore no production, lacks food and clothing, which is the norm for the locals, but in winter, this life becomes doubly difficult.

The local officials, dressed in thick leather coats, constantly whipped the leather on the laborers, who were slow to move because of hunger and cold, and the thin clothing on the laborers could not resist at all, and when they fell, it was often the result of the skin being opened.

A dark-skinned boy who looked to be only ten years old was pushing a boulder along with his peers, and because of the cold, the little boy put his frozen hands to his mouth halfway and blew hot air, not thinking that the overseer next to him was a whip on his back.

The little boy's body was quite strong, and although his body was shrunk, he still turned back to glare at the overseer.

Several of his companions hurriedly retreated, and sure enough, when the overseer saw that the little boy dared to glare at him, he laughed fiercely, waved his leather whip, and whipped the little boy again and again.

Witnessing this scene, a terrible scream suddenly came from a laborer in the distance, and a woman with the same dark skin left the team, ran over in a panic, and took the little boy in her arms, her thin body contained great strength at this time, while enduring the whipping of the leather whip, while holding the struggling child tightly, and firmly protecting him in her arms.

The surrounding laborers looked at them expressionlessly, and continued to work under the urging of the other overseers.

The whip-wielding overseer whipped him a few times, then panting from exhaustion, and lowered his whip.

But the woman still did not let go of the little boy, she looked down at the boy's already swollen eyes from crying, and pleaded: "Abram, be good, be obedient." ”

"Mom....... "The boy named Abram no longer struggles