Qi An didn't just pick up the exercise book like others and couldn't wait to flip through it, he liked to skim through it first to summarize the statistics, perhaps it was a habit he had retained from his father's words for many years. After most of his inductive summary of forgetting to sleep and eat for most of the day, there are a total of sixty-nine kinds of cultivation exercises in the library pavilion, each of which can be cultivated at least to the late stage or peak of the Qi Condensation Realm, which is obviously not comparable to the superficial exercises circulated by the people, it seems that the foundation of this Qianqing school is quite profound, and it is worthy of being officially founded by the official school, which is millions of times stronger than those folk martial arts halls seen in Pingyang County.

However, among these 69 kinds of cultivation exercises, there are three very special books, one is "King Kong is not bad", the second is "Barbarian God Protecting the Body", and the third is "Tuo Shen Arm", the reason why they are special is because these three exercises are not orthodox qi refining exercises, but different ways of refining the body.

Qi An knew early on that all martial artists, including the Innate Martial Sect, were classified as belonging to the Quenching Body Realm, which was the foundation building stage of the entire cultivation process. After quenching the body, there is condensation, and the corresponding monk is called the condensation realm. The promotion process from the quenching body realm to the condensing qi realm is to use the unimpeded acupoint meridians to continuously absorb the heaven and earth vitality from the outside world, sink the dantian, absorb the ten and save one, and finally build the true qi vortex in the dantian qi sea and open the self-internal circulation. This is what is considered orthodox today, and the system of cultivation created around this process and purpose is also known as the Qi refining system.

In fact, there is another opposite system of cultivation in the world, that is, the system of refining the body.

The qi refining system is based on the dantian qi sea as the core, and the control of the true qi is used by me, the true qi has the great power of destroying the withering and decaying, and can also be turned into the true yuan armor or the true qi barrier to defend, while the body refining system abandons the dantian qi sea, but integrates the true qi into its own body, and constantly sublimates and tempers the mortal body of the flesh, and finally it is like a hundred refining steel, which will not be destroyed.

Knowing this, Qi An couldn't help but be moved in his heart, because his situation was different from other martial sects, his dantian qi sea was occupied by the dark blue flame of unknown origin, once the heaven and earth vitality entered the dantian, most of it would be swallowed up in an instant, and he couldn't cultivate normally at all, if he continued to absorb the external vitality Shen dantian according to such a slow progress, I am afraid that it would take him enough time for a hundred years to gather qi and condense the truth, in order to step into the realm of monks. However, although the lifespan of the Innate Martial Sect is longer than that of ordinary people, it is not more than a hundred years at most, and when the time comes, it will turn into a pinch of dust, how can Qi An be willing to stop at the realm of the Martial Sect for the rest of his life?

Now there is another path of body refining in front of him, although it is not the right path of cultivation, but it makes Qi An see a glimmer of hope.

According to these three body refining exercises, the body refining cultivators are not inferior to the qi refining cultivators in terms of combat power, and even stronger in terms of the ability to protect their lives, but they are only lacking in long-range attacks and area kills. In other words, the body practice focuses more on frontal melee combat than the Qi practice method, and relies on the strong ability to protect one's life and rush to the front.

It's just that the body refining method also has obvious fatal flaws, first of all, the entry of the body refining is relatively slow compared to the qi refining, and it will take longer to cultivate to the same realm, and the second is because there are very few body refining exercises available for cultivation in the world, and high-level body refining exercises are even rarer, after all, the vast majority of monks take the qi refining route.

And now the three body refining exercises in front of Qi An's eyes are all low-level body refining exercises. Take "Barbarian God Protection" as an example, there are only three levels, barbarians, barbarian kings, and barbarian gods. Practicing as a barbarian, the combat power is equivalent to the early stage of the Condensation Realm, and the barbarian king is equivalent to the middle stage of the Condensation Realm, in the same way, the combat power of the barbarian god is equivalent to the late stage of the Condensation Realm, and then there will be no more, unless you create your own follow-up exercises, you will stop at the barbarian god stage for the rest of your life.

And "King Kong is Not Bad" is only slightly stronger than "Barbarian God Protector", which is divided into four levels: gold, silver, copper, and iron. The iron body is equivalent to a barbarian, the bronze body is equivalent to a barbarian king, the silver body is equivalent to a barbarian god, and the golden body is at the top, and its combat power is comparable to the peak of the condensation realm, and there is no follow-up technique to break through again.

"King Kong is not bad" and "Barbarian God Protector" are both body refining exercises that temper the whole body, which are relatively balanced and have no flaws, while "Tuo Shen Arm" It is necessary to go to the extreme, focusing on the tempering of the arms, so the protective ability is not as good as the first two, but the attack ability is surpassed, when cultivating to the final realm, the arms are comparable to magic weapons, indestructible, very terrifying, but the protective aspect is much worse than the first two, only slightly stronger than the same level of qi refining cultivators, which is equivalent to giving up a certain protective ability, so as to pay more attention to strengthening the arms and improving the attack power.

These three body refining techniques, all of them stop at the Qi Condensation Realm, and after practice, they can only dominate among the Qi Condensing Realm cultivators at most, if they encounter a higher-level God Refining Realm Great Cultivator, they will not be able to resist, which is also the main reason why Qi An feels hesitant, after all, he has great ambitions, but he is not only satisfied with the Qi Condensing Realm, but also yearns for the Refining God Realm, or even the Rong Yuan Realm.

After thinking about it several times, he finally couldn't make up his mind, Qi An put the book in his hand back on the bookcase, and was in a daze without saying a word.

He suddenly recalled the bits and pieces of experience in the recent days, first of all, the fat man he met in Gujing Village. To tell the truth, Qi An actually admires this hateful-looking dead fat man, and he doesn't know what kind of exercises he is cultivating, his protective ability is amazingly strong, plus he is born with a brute force, if it weren't for his speed and dexterity, this person would definitely be able to break his wrist with ordinary martial arts and crush most of the martial artists.

Then I remembered the sinister and low-key Li Wei'er who was mixed in with the little minions, he succeeded in the sneak attack, but it was a pity that Qi An had a special physique, extremely strong self-healing ability, not to mention, and was not afraid of poison, so Li Wei'er died, and Qi An lived.

Then, Qi An's mind appeared that he was impressed by the peak martial arts Li Liuxian, an iron gun can be called invincible in the same realm, so that Gaochang Town and even Pingyang County did not dare to act rashly, as soon as the fight was made, Qi An fell into the water, no power to parry, if it were not for his negligence, mistakenly thought that Qi An who was shot through the chest would die, and temporarily lost his defense, Qi An had almost no chance to turn over.

In the end, one picture after another was frozen in Qi An's mind, the dead fat man who took dozens of sticks from himself and still had the strength to escape, Li Wei'er who sneaked up on the plot and finally succeeded, and Li Liuxian, who crushed everything head-on, when Qi An savored these three battles, he finally came to a conclusion.

- Survival is more important than anything else, and everything is possible only if you save your life.

If the fat man's life-saving ability is not strong, he may have died under Qi An's stick; if Qi An's life-saving ability is not enough, he may have been killed by Li Wei'er's plot; if Li Liuxian's life-saving ability is stronger, he can withstand Qi An's finger and learn, and he will not be a hero who hates him on the spot.

Strength is important, life-preserving ability is even more important, and the body refining system strengthens one's own body, and the most important thing is self-protection ability and life-preserving ability. What's more, although there are not many body refining exercises in the world, they are by no means just the three in front of them, maybe in the future, Qi An may also be able to obtain deeper body refining exercises.

Thinking about it like this, Qi An made up his mind to abandon the Qi refining path of the Seven Absolute Sword Techniques and transform the system to the one vein of body refining, as for which kind of body refining method to choose, it still needs to be carefully considered.

First of all, "Barbarian God Protector" was arranged by Qi to exclude, after all, it is similar to "King Kong is not bad", but it is one level less than the latter, which is obviously unnecessary.

As for the relationship between "King Kong is not bad" and "Tuo Shen Arm", Qi An thought about it, and finally chose "King Kong is not bad", because "King Kong is not bad" is a very standardized set of body refining exercises, which is more balanced and pays more attention to the ability to protect the body, while the sword of "Tuo Shen Arm" is biased, although the arms are strengthened, but the other parts of the body are not taken care of, resulting in outstanding attack ability, but the defense is weakened, if it is caught by someone with a heart, it is likely to die because of this.

However, although Qi An finally chose "King Kong is not bad", he did not completely abandon "Barbarian God Protection" and "Tuo Shen Arm", he is a person who is very good at thinking and summarizing, although he gave up the latter two, but he can use it for reference, after all, there are very few exercises for body refining, and it is not a bad thing to know more about one and cross-reference understanding with his major exercises. In particular, "Tuo Shen Arm", which is different from the traditional body refining exercises, its creativity is worth absorbing and learning, but the primary and secondary relationship must not be messed up, it must be the main "King Kong is not bad", and other body refining exercises can only be used as a reference, and it is not good to take the lead, otherwise it is easy to practice into four dislikes, and even go crazy, but it is not good.

After determining the next cultivation method, Qi An did not start to practice impatiently on the spot, but dragged his tired body back to his residence.

Because he hadn't eaten for most of the day, his stomach was rumbling with hunger, although there was a canteen in the backing mountain branch, and there were several wine and meat shops run by ordinary people, Qi An was mentally sleepy and didn't bother to go out for a walk, so he ate some dry food casually and fell asleep.

The next morning, Qi An finished freshening up, had breakfast, and rushed to the library again.

The students of the Qianqing school are mainly based on their own cultivation, and the existence of the school is only to provide them with a place for wealth and law, even if there is teaching, there are only three public lectures per month, which are set on the fifth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth days of the first month, and they can go or not, and what they tell is only their own practice experience, and answer the confusion encountered by the students on the way of cultivation, and will not ask you what to do, what you can do, and what you can't do, this is completely up to the students' own decision.

The so-called "master leads the door, practice in the individual", probably this is the meaning, suitable for him, and must be suitable for you, the experience of predecessors, can only be used as a reference, must not be copied, completely copied.