Dragon Breath Technique

Inside a beautiful courtyard,

A youth around 18-19 years old was doing some strange movements with buckets in his hands.… this was the first time he was confident enough to complete this set of movements.

By his side, an old man was watching him with a bamboo stick in his hand. The old man was ready to strike at any time if the youth made mistake. These two people were obviously Zhu Shen and old man Ao.

At last, the youth finished the final stance but before he could get any happy he fell down on the ground.

'Ouch…'

Zhu Shen fell on the ground, not because of exhaustion but because he was unable to control his body. All the muscles in his body were relaxed, creating a strange boneless vibe.

"Good… Good…"

Old man Ao became really happy seeing Zhu Shen's strange state. He moved in Zhu Shen's direction and supported him up. Zhu Shen tried his best to balance his body and noticed that he was unable to even walk properly…

'It's like I'm experiencing rebirth…'

Zhu Shen felt like a toddler learning to walk again. Old man Ao grabbed Zhu Shen by his shoulder and supported him while walking towards his room…

"Soon you will get used to all the changes in your body…. The state you are in is called released state… where you have gotten rid of all the tension inside your body…"

Master Ao told Zhu Shen who was listening attentively. This was the best state to start your cultivation from. Hence old man Ao initiated his next plan for Zhu Shen.

"You have reached this stage, which means you are ready for body tempering now…"

Old man Ao took out a book from his storage ring.

"This is the first chapter of Dragon Transformation art… it's called Dragon Breath… from tomorrow onwards you will cultivate according to this book…"

Old man Ao said this as he passed the book to Zhu Shen. As they reached his room, Zhu Shen sat on his bed while looking at the black book in front of him.

The book was made from an unknown material and on top of the book, there was a golden dragon diagram of a dragon releasing his breath.

'This is a real cultivation technique…'

Zhu Shen's hands were shaking with excitement as he looked at the book.

Tomorrow morning, he finally opened the book. The book contained some complex words as well as a single sitting position while cultivating the dragon breath.

Zhu Shen mimicked his sitting position according to the book and started chanting words from the book…

As he chanted more and more words, he noticed that his body was getting heavier and heavier… he felt like he would sink into the ground if he continued onwards. He didn't knew what to do…

'Should I stop reciting..?'

Thought Zhu Shen but his master's voice was heard inside his head…

"Continue reciting… breath deeper and deeper…"

Zhu Shen listened to his master's advice and started breathing deeper… His whole body relaxed as he got heavier and heavier. Soon enough Zhu Shen fell asleep…

Unknown to Zhu Shen, all the air from his courtyard was rushing towards his room bringing in Qi with it.

"Good… Good…"

Old man Ao looked felt the air rushing in his disciple's room and felt very elated… he waved his hand and activated Qi gathering array inside the courtyard.

'Absorb… absorb as much you want… it will nourish your body…'

Body tempering realm was divided into 5 small realms… Skin refinement, Muscle refinement, organ refinement, blood refinement and bone refinement.

In each step, the cultivator has to nourish and strengthen his body using external sources such as elixirs, pills, medicinal baths and even food.

But the dragon breath technique of the dragon clan was different… while inhaling, it took Qi from the surroundings into the cultivator's body nourishing the body… and while exhaling it took impurities from the cultivator's body out.

This technique was nature defining... Cause at this stage cultivator was unable to sense chi around him. Only at the Qi sensing stage, he would be able to sense the natural Qi around him.

As time passed, Zhu Shen's exhales got deeper and deeper. People could see a black fog-like substance coming out of his body as he exhaled.

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Unknown to Zhu Shen his mind drifted to an unknown place. The place looked like a cave where all the dragons were practising dragon breath techniques…

Seeing them use the same technique zhu shen observer them and started mimicking the same methods…

No less than ten seconds passed as Zhu Shen felt like his stomach-churning…

He finally opened his eyes and…

"Blerg…."

Zhu then threw up… He threw up so hard that he felt like his guts going to come out of his body…

"Huff… Huff…"

He looked at the black smelly substance in front of him. A pungent smell filled his whole room.

Old man Ao saw Zhu Shen throw up and instantly came to his room. He saw a black sticky substance in front of him. First, he became surprised and then elated as he looked at his disciple with shining eyes.

"Clean the mess inside this room.."

Old man Ao ordered the servants to clean Zhu Shen's room while he pointed towards Zhu Shen saying,

"Go and wash yourself up… we will continue your cultivation tomorrow. "

"Yes master…"

As Zhu Shen got up from his sitting position he felt really light… like his body just lost 7-8 kg of weight.

He saw the black substance on the ground and felt terrified…

'That just came out of my body…'

He rushed out of his room and ran towards the washroom…

Old man Ao was still standing in the room looking at the black substance thinking…

'At this rate, he will soon reach his first shackle of mortality… this is earlier than I expected…'

Old man Ao was really surprised at the progress of Zhu Shen… Even the Most gifted person will take at least 1 year before they reach their first shackle. But at the rate Zhu Shen was progressing, old man Ao believed that Zhu Shen will definitely reach the shackle in 10 days.

'I guess I need to reevaluate my student's potential…'

With this thought, old man Ao disappeared from the room.