Chapter 12: Tianmai

Tianmai is heavenly bloodline. It is said that there are some people in this world that is born with an ability to learn everything extremely fast

Their body have no defect and their meridian could easily be opened. It is different from those who were born with Poisonous Extreme Yin body.

That is also another special physique.

For those who were born with Poisonous Extreme Yin body, while they were born with all of their meridian opens their channel of qi is dried up and they have short lifespan.

Unless they learn certain special martial arts, they would not be able to go against the Heaven. Most of them die young because not everybody knew that they were born with such condition

But to anyone who were born with Poisonous Extreme Yin body and managed to learn inner energy that revitalize back all of their meridian channels, then sky is the limit for such a person

But before they could learn such skill, usually they would suffer from sickness when they are young.

And this only manifested in boys. For women, the Poisonous Extreme Yin could be beneficial sand is not as deadly

It is different for Tianmai.

Tianmai from the beginning might not have all of their meridians opened but this is just practicality.

Most people believe that Tianmai is basically had all of their meridians opened because Tianmai could easily open their meridians without any obstruction.

They also did not have any side effect like Poisonous Extreme Yin body.

And then most of Tianmai also have great talents like comprehension of martial arts, of knowledge and their mind could instantly comprehend strategy of war an all-around genius

Li Xin knows the history of this world because he reads the index of this game before he plays it.

Some of it was blurred or showing ??? signs but most of the thing related to the history of the Tang dynasty of this world is read by him.

Thankfully he had read it

If not, he would have come here without any knowledge at all. So, he knew a few things about this being called Tianmai

In this world, there is many people that is rumored to be a Tianmai. There is Li Bai who is rumored to be Tianmai and there is also Li Shimin and even Wu Zetian

All of them are a few people that is rumored to be Tianmai

But this is only rumors. Nobody knows because usually Tianmai would not reveal to the world that they are Tianmai

And there is a very solid reason why these people whether they are Tianmai or not did not reveal the truth

Tianmai is basically like albino in the African continent. They are associated with witchcraft and stupid lore.

Tianmai is real.

But no one would ever dare spoke of it brazenly that they are.

It is not because it is guided by some kind of humility but because of the danger posed to people who is Tianmai

Some said that if one could refine the bones of a Tianmai, one could create a powerful pill that would give one longevity and great inner power

And then there are some that said the blood of Tianmai also have the effect of anti-aging and increase one lifespan.

And this is only a few things that is attributed to the blood, flesh and bones of Tianmai

There is no wonder why Tianmai would never go public with it. Tianmai is basically like Tang Sanzang meat to some people, offering longevity and power

Most scholars scoffed at such ridiculous thoughts but this is still the ancient world where superstition is still very strong.

Even in the modern world, Li Xin could see such absurd things happening.

Some albino child is killed because the body parts and bones of albino people is thought to bestow good fortune.

It is in the modern world where people still believe in witchdoctors, the bones of albino people is turned into lucky charms and potions.

Such cases are reported in places like Malawi and Southern Africa. And Tianmai is like albinos for the martial artist

After all, Tianmai could easily open their meridians unlike some people who have to gather enough inner energy before trying to break through the meridian or using medicines and pills or external force.

To normal people who have to break through like that Tianmai is basically a miracle, someone who is bestowed by the Heavens, a physique that is most suitable to learn martial skill.

Li Xin knows he is a Tianmai because the status is so vividly displayed to him on his status window.

But there is one thing that people get wrong about Tianmai.

It is not that it is easy for Tianmai to break through the meridian, it is actually the easiest thing for Tianmai to break through to meridian.

However easy people think Tianmai have it in terms of breaking through their meridian, it is easier than breathing for Tianmai

Li Xin knows this because he had experienced.

As long as a Tianmai open the way to gather Qi, all of his meridian is opened almost automatically

There are twelve meridians and each meridian have different acupoint that needs to be opened.

Some meridians have only a few acupoint to break through. Some have tens or twenties acupoint that needs to be passed through

But when Tianmai opens the hidden meridian, the meridian which is to gather Qi, to gather the energy of the world, that energy even though it is only a small amount of Qi, for Tianmai, that small breath of Qi is like a hammer, breaking through all twelve meridians and all the acupoint in each meridian.

This had something to do with the miracle physique of Tianmai who have a different kind of meridian channel that easily could gather Qi and facilitate Qi

When he accesses the Qi and the hidden meridian is opened what happened to Li Xin was that all of the acupoint in all of his twelve meridian is all opened

On the meridian of the Taiyin Lung Channel of Hand, his Zhongfu (Middle Palace), Yunmen (Cloud Gate), Tianfu (Palace of Heaven), Xiabai (Clasping the White), Chize (Cubit Marsh), Lieque (Broken Sequence), Jingqu (Channel Gutter), Taiyuan (Supreme Abyss), Yuji (Fish Border), Shaoshang (Lesser Shang), and Kongzui (Maximum Opening) are all opened.

It was like an unstoppable stream that knock down each walls.

The acupoint is like a sturdy wall. But in the body of Tianmai, the walls are like it was made by branches.

Even the small energy one would get when accessing Qi is like a torrent of rushing water breaking down all of those acupoint in such a speed that is hard to imagine.

At the same time, from his dantian, the energy knocks all of his twelve meridians all at the same time

Yangming Large Intestine Channel of Hand is another meridian that had to be opened.

This is one of the meridians that takes a long time to break.

The reason is because this meridian in particular had twenty acupoint that must be unlocked.

Li Xin did not know how normal people practice but with the system, when he practices a meridian, for that meridian to truly be considered break through, he had to open all of the acupoint in that meridian

Some people takes years and even decades to opens the Yangming Large Intestine Channel of Hand.

If he is not a Tianmai, the points that is needed to be used to open all twenty acupoint might reaches a thousand point.

Skill points is not easy to get. Some novels that he read has the system awarding the hoist with skill points in the range of tens of thousands of points or even millions points

At first when Li Xin look at the requirements of breaking through or ranking up the skill, he does not feel it would be hard.

For example, to rank certain skill to beginner he only had to use one skill points.

At that time, he of course thought that points are not hard to get and he could easily get stronger in a short time

It was different when he was playing the game.

There is no such system for him even when he was playing the game in his PC.

But, to get one point is hard enough.

 He could only rely in quest generated by the system.

In the one week he is here in this world he had learned that while he could generate skill point in various ways, other than the Life Skill points and lightness skill points, things like martial skill points is hard to generate if he relies only on training or meditating.

The fast way is to solve quest.

The system always gives more points when he is doing quest.

If he is not Tianmai, he probably would have exhausted a lot of points that he had gotten from the Beginner pack but because he was Tianmai, those twenty acupoint of the Yangming Large Intestine Channel of Hand is broken in succession.

Then it was his Shaoyin Heart Channel of Hand which had nine acupoint.

The thing is that while the acupoint of each meridian is unlocked in succession, the same could not be said for the meridian itself.