Chapter 00120: Breathing Technique
# Breathing Technique
Chapter 120
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 120: Breathing Technique
It was said that this Peach Blossom Valley was created by an Immortal using a Great Divine Power to protect the Demon Race.
Generally speaking, outsiders could not enter.
This was also why the local demons all regarded Yang Yiyi as a hairless monkey; they had simply never seen a human before.
However, this Father Eagle was different.
From time to time, he would fly out of Peach Blossom Valley to see the outside world, so naturally, he knew more.
When he first saw Yang Yiyi, he was extremely nervous.
After all, a human entering meant this place was no longer safe.
It wasn't until Li Chengxi spoke that Father Eagle relaxed considerably.
For an Immortal, sending a person in was no big deal.
Thus, Father Eagle straightforwardly accepted the newcomer, Yang Yiyi, and even made time every day to guide her in her cultivation.
Among the 28 demons in the entire valley, this Father Eagle was the strongest, on a completely different level from the other demons.
But speaking of which, an eagle walking on the ground looked a bit comical, not even as graceful as a chicken.
He led Yang Yiyi and Li Chengxi down the hillside, then turned a corner and walked toward a towering tree that grew against the mountain wall.
Passing through a tree hollow in the tree, they then entered a cave.
After many twists and turns, Father Eagle brought the two of them to an underground secret chamber.
Here, one could see rare traces of human repair work.
A stone bed, a stone table, and something that looked like a bookshelf were placed within the secret chamber.
One corner of the secret chamber seemed to have a hole in it, and sunlight poured down from this corner, preventing the room from being pitch-black.
Father Eagle pointed to a wall in the secret chamber and said:
“The Immortal who created Peach Blossom Valley back then left behind two sets of cultivation techniques here. One is for demon cultivators, to absorb the essence of the sun and moon and seize the spiritual qi of heaven and earth. The other is for human cultivators. When I was young, after taking over the responsibility of guarding these techniques from my senior, I was always puzzled as to why a human cultivation technique would be left in Peach Blossom Valley. Now, it seems that Immortal may have foreseen the events of today.”
“Brother Li, can you also foresee things?”
“How could I possibly do that?”
This was clearly the truth, yet Father Eagle said:
“Even Immortals aren't proficient in everything; they always have some shortcomings.”
Alright, I'll just let it force that explanation.
“Here, any demon who awakens their spiritual intelligence during the Imperial Flowing Dew is brought here. They comprehend their own cultivation techniques from this stone wall. However, what Yiyi can comprehend, this old one truly cannot make any guarantees.”
When Li Chengxi heard this, he thought to himself, 'This is bad.'
Yang Yiyi's Comprehension had not been increased at all; it was still at the trash-tier initial value.
What could she possibly comprehend from this?
On the contrary, Yang Yiyi was very confident.
She hurriedly sat cross-legged before the stone wall, staring at it without blinking.
It wasn't covered in written words, but a kind of winding tadpole script.
Suddenly, it felt like the Taixuan Scripture from 'Ode to Gallantry'.
Maybe there's actually a chance?
Just as it's written in wuxia novels, some peerless cultivation techniques cannot be comprehended by the talented and intelligent; only those with poor comprehension can understand them.
As these thoughts spun in Li Chengxi's mind, he then saw a glowing ‘+’ appear on the Teaching Box icon on the side of his screen, indicating a new martial technique.
He clicked it open and, at the very end, found ‘Breathing Technique’.
“Uh… a single glance tells you this is the lowest-grade internal skill.”
Regardless of whether it's wuxia or xianxia, the lowest-grade technique is definitely a breathing technique.
You don't even have to think about it.
It really was no surprise.
After all, Yang Yiyi's Comprehension was just too low.
But then again, this was the first time he had obtained an internal skill.
Everything he had gotten before were all external skills.
Looking at Yang Yiyi again, she seemed to have gained some comprehension as well.
She closed her eyes, her gaze turned inward, and if one looked closely, one would notice that she seemed to be breathing according to a specific rhythm.
Li Chengxi tried to imitate it, but he immediately messed up his breathing, and a stifling pain spread through his chest.
It seemed it wasn't just the xianxia dream; the wuxia dream was also not meant for him.
As he was rubbing his chest, Li Chengxi noticed that the True Qi Value on the side of the screen seemed to have jumped up a little.
The increase was so small that one might mistake it for an illusion.
Li Chengxi took a ruler from his drawer and placed it against the screen, his eyes fixed on the True Qi Value.
Before long, it had indeed risen by about a millimeter.
“So you need an internal skill to recover your True Qi Value. No wonder it always decreased bit by bit whenever I used it before.”
Because Li Chengxi sent food to Yang Yiyi every day, each time he sent something in, it would consume a little.
Now, the True Qi Value had already dropped to one-third of its original amount.
He had just been worrying about what to do when it ran out, and unexpectedly, he found a way to restore it here.
Seeing that Yang Yiyi was still in qi circulation meditation and wouldn't be waking up anytime soon, Li Chengxi quietly whispered a few words of instruction to Father Eagle, then turned to look at his other computer.
This one displayed the Fantasy Script, and he happened to see Viola disembarking from a ship, standing on the dock with her people.
More than ten days ago, Li Chengxi knew that the Sailing Harbor City Lord was preparing to write a letter inviting Viola for a visit.
The letter took time to travel, and after Viola received it, she needed time to arrange her work for while she was away.
The journey itself also took time.
So, she had only just arrived now.
Although the straight-line distance between Sailing Harbor and Leon Territory wasn't that far, because they could only travel by water, they also needed the navy to escort them along the way.
It was quite an ordeal.
Disembarking from the ship, besides the main person of interest, Viola, were a few Royal Guards responsible for protection, the blonde drill-haired Wendy and her butler Reina who were taking the chance to go home, plus a white-haired girl who was walking and gnawing on a roasted ox leg even after getting off the ship.
This was Renia, the white dragon.
Since Li Chengxi knew Viola was going out and was aware of her current situation, he was truly worried about her going out with just a few Royal Guards.
What if she was ambushed on the ship? What if she encountered a shipwreck? And what if the Sailing Harbor City Lord pulled a 'luring someone into a trap' scheme?
Although Li Chengxi's previous actions had caused the enemy navy to suffer heavy losses, and he had deliberately let a few ships escape to make an example of them, danger was still an unpredictable thing.
Therefore, watching Viola go out, Li Chengxi felt like a worried father seeing his precious cabbage leave home for university for the first time.
However, it was impossible for him to watch Viola 24/7. If something happened while he was sleeping, by the time Li Chengxi found out, the daylilies would have already gone cold.
So, he had to think of a solution.
The most suitable person was Audel.
Her level was super high, so she was surely a formidable fighter.
She would definitely be fine as a bodyguard.
But she had already returned to the City of Academics early on via a teleportation portal and had no idea Viola was going out.
So, Li Chengxi thought of the white dragon.
With a dragon as a bodyguard, even if they ran into Cthulhu at sea, she could probably drag it out and eat it like roasted squid, right?
Li Chengxi told the white dragon that as long as she went out with Viola and protected her, he would return her gold coins when they got back.
When the white dragon heard there was such a good deal, she immediately nodded frantically, insisting she had to go no matter what.
Although there was nothing wrong with this arrangement, Li Chengxi suddenly felt like he was bullying a child and hiring child labor.
It seemed a bit unscrupulous.
(End of this chapter)