1240 A Breakthrough For The Tribe

"WHAT! REALLY?" Lin Mu's words were no less than a quake to Elder Niji.

He had long since marveled at the powers of the various experts. While Elder Niji himself could match against in raw strength against many, he also desired the more 'flashy' moves like making fire and summoning thunder.

Not to mention, there was also the added benefit of a life span increase. Even with the passive increase in the spirit Qi that the Haima Tribe members had, their lifespans were still the same as humans.

Not to mention, there was the upper limit of Dao Treading realm for the Haima Tribe. While there might have been many experts above the Dao Treading realm in the past and some in the Immortal realm as well, now there were none.

This also meant that the Elder of the Haima Tribe only had less than 4000 years to find his successor who also had to reach his level. Unfortunately for Elder Niji, three thousand years had already passed and while there were strong members like head warrior Kulo, there was no one that could inherit the knowledge that he held.

For that, the potential elder needed to learn Dao Script good enough to communicate freely.

Even though many tribesmen were now showing interest in learning Dao Script after Lin Mu's arrival, it was still not enough. With only a thousand years left in his lifespan, Elder Niji was not confident of teaching a disciple.

After all, he himself had only learned Dao Script from the last elder after over fifteen hundred years.

But now that he had a chance to increase his lifespan, he would have a better chance at finding a new elder. And if he was lucky, with the increased number of members showing interest, he might even have multiple candidates.

"What do we need to do then, Noble Lin Mu?" Elder Niji asked hurriedly.

"I'll teach you the method first and then you can explain to the rest." Lin Mu replied.

"Alright." Elder Niji nodded his head.

Lin Mu then spent an hour explaining a technique he had come up with.

It was a relatively simple method which expanded on the speeding and slowing down the flow of spirit Qi. Since the Haima Tribe was already getting proficient with this, Lin Mu reckoned this would be the best way.

The change that he made in this was that one needed to do both speeding up the flow of spirit Qi as well as slow it down at the same time. At first one would split the flow of spirit Qi in their body in half and divided it into two circuits.

Then they would speed up the flow in one circuit, while slowing it down in the other. This would create a point of focus that should potentially draw in spirit Qi from the air. Once one managed to do it by splitting the circuits in two half, they would then reduce the size.

Instead of splitting the circuits in 50-50 parts, they would do so in 75-25 parts. Then once equilibrium was achieved in this fraction too, they could go smaller and smaller.

Lin Mu had even gone further and guessed that in the latter stages, one could then create multiple smaller circuits instead of just two of different sizes. The greater the number of circuits, the greater the number of focus points.

Lin Mu didn't know how far it could be scaled up, as there was no way to theoretically check it. The only way to do it would be a practical demonstration.

'Now the only hurdle is if the Haima Tribe can gain a control over this…' Lin Mu thought.

He had seen them achieve a meditative state of great focus, which was unusual for most experts, thus he had great hopes for them.

"This is certainly new noble Lin Mu. I'll try it out first myself, then I'll instruct the others." Elder Niji stated. "I think I'll be able to explain better that way."

"Yeah, you can do that." Lin Mu agreed.

Elder Niji first asked the warriors to wait patiently and then got to practicing. Lin Mu too sat nearby, watching him closely. His spirit sense was close to elder Niji's body, but didn't enter it for the fear of affecting the man's practice.

If anything happened, Lin Mu was confident of acting in time.

His eyes stared at elder Niji and traced the fine movements of spirit Qi in the air. For the first fifteen minutes, nothing happened and there was no change to the spirit Qi in the air. But after fifteen more minutes passed, Lin Mu sensed a wisp of spirit Qi.

The wisp of spirit Qi was moving in an irregular manner and it was the only one to do so.

"It should be starting now…" Lin Mu muttered.

Minute after minute passed as he sensed the irregular wisps of spirit Qi increasing in number. When 45 minutes passed, a qualitative change happened.

~shua~

All of a sudden, all the wisps of spirit Qi rushed towards Elder Niji's chest.

~Huala~

A wave of spirit Qi directly spread in the area and was sensed by all the warriors nearby.

"He managed to do it!" Lin Mu smiled.

Elder Niji opened his eyes, feeling the infusion of spirit Qi into his body. It was a familiar yet new feeling for him. They were long since used to spirit Qi being absorbed after eating the Stone Flesh Mushrooms, but now directly absorbing it though their skin was refreshing.

"It is a marvelous feeling…" Elder Niji muttered to himself as he gazed at his body.

"Congratulations, you did very well." Lin Mu spoke with a smile on his face.

"It is all due to your help, noble Lin Mu." Elder Niji didn't dare take the credit.

"Now, now, we got a lot more to do before we rejoice." Lin Mu chuckled.

"Of course." Elder Niji smiled and turned to the warriors.

He spent the next hour teaching them the method in their own tongue before they began the practice.

And just an hour later, Lin Mu saw the progress.

~SHUA~

"He broke through?"