Chapter 10 Breathing Technique

On the kitchen counter, there were three plates of blanched spinach.

The first plate of spinach had short leaves and a green-yellow color. This was ordinary spinach picked from the villa's greenhouse. The second plate of spinach had plump leaves and a pleasant green color, but there was only one leaf. This was picked carefully by Gu Nian from the suspected mutant spinach in the greenhouse. The third plate of spinach had large leaves and lush green. This was the spinach Gu Nian took out from the farm space.

Yes, the farm space has produced several batches of spinach during this period. Gu Nian has not eaten them all, but has saved them in the farm. She wants to try to accumulate vegetables to a certain level to see if she can trigger the trading function of the system and unlock the system mall. However, as she sees that the vegetables she has accumulated are getting more and more, and even starting to go bad, she has not triggered the conditions to unlock the mall.

Gu Nian picked up the chopsticks, picked up the first plate of spinach and put it into her mouth. It tasted the same as before the cold wave came. Although the appearance was a little different, it tasted crisp and delicious. She carefully picked up a piece of spinach from the second plate and put it into her mouth. The taste of this piece of spinach was the same as the one in the first plate, but after swallowing it, it seemed that there was a trace of cold energy wandering in her stomach. Gu Nian was caught off guard and shivered all of a sudden, and fine goose bumps appeared on her body.

What's going on? Gu Nian couldn't help but panic. Her stomach was still cold. She quickly went to get a cup of hot water to drink, but it didn't help. She still felt cold air moving around in her stomach, and her hands and feet were extremely cold. But fortunately, after a few minutes, her body gradually returned to normal. At this time, Gu Nian felt refreshed, her mind was clear, and she didn't feel tired at all.

Could it be that the cold air I just felt was the energy that Jingli mentioned that was floating in the air? Gu Nian thought. She carefully picked up the spinach from the third plate, which was grown in the farm space. Gu Nian was grateful for this farm space, but also full of doubts. At the end of the world, owning such a farm would undoubtedly greatly increase her chances of survival, but Gu Nian still didn't know the mechanism of the farm, and she was not even sure whether the food on the farm was edible.

She made up her mind and ate the spinach produced in the farm space.

Cool. After the spinach went into his stomach, a chill rose in his stomach and spread to his limbs. After the mutant spinach in the greenhouse was eaten, it produced a violent and uncontrollable cold, and even for a moment it made Gu Nian feel as if his whole body was frozen. However, the spinach produced in this farm space was different. It was like just wiping the whole body with warm water. It was a comfortable and refreshing coolness. However, in just a few seconds, this energy disappeared, so short that Gu Nian suspected that he was hallucinating.

If the chill just now was not an illusion, then the spinach produced in this farm space probably also has this kind of cold energy, but it is very, very weak? That is why it only lasted for such a short moment and then disappeared. Gu Nian was thoughtful. It seems that the reason why this ancestral jade lotus can only open the farm space on the day of the nine stars in a row is because only then will the world be filled with the energy brought by the natural disaster cold wave?

Gu Nian secretly kept this guess in mind. She put on thick clothes again, took a deep breath, and stepped out of the house into the severe cold.

She was almost suffocated by the snowstorm. Gu Nian stood in the snowstorm and severe cold, and tried her best to do stretching exercises. The stretching exercises she did were very simple, a set of judo passed down from the ancestors of the Gu family, a bit similar to Tai Chi, but extremely challenging the flexibility of the muscles and bones. Gu Nian always called this set of judo stretching exercises.

Even wearing heavy clothes, Gu Nian put his body into many incredible postures, but this was not the key point of the Gu family's ancestral jutsu. This jutsu must be combined with a special breathing method. According to the ancestors of the Gu family, a breath of fresh air must be spread throughout the joints and bones of the whole body, and finally the air must be accumulated in the dantian, before it can be considered successful.

Gu Nian's breathing became longer and lighter. Because of this breathing technique, her lung capacity has been extremely high since she was a child. According to her estimation, it is probably comparable to that of the world's top athletes.

The cold wind blew into Gu Nian's nostrils. After practicing the jutsu with breathing techniques, she still didn't feel the mysterious energy in the air. But strangely, she did feel more adapted to the cold than when she first went out. She didn't know if it was the psychological suggestion from Jing Li's words, or if practicing the ancestral jutsu in the cold wind was really useful, or if it was the effect of the spinach she ate today.

In the next few days, Gu Nian simply blanched a plate of spinach produced in the farm space every day, and then went to the small garden of the villa to exercise her muscles and bones. She practiced her family's judo every day, and her body was in various incredible postures. Her flexibility was beyond human imagination. She gradually adapted to the cold temperature more than before. In the past, she felt cold hands and feet and severe hypothermia after staying outdoors for an hour, but now she can gradually stay outdoors for two hours. Unfortunately, she still didn't feel any special energy.

Perhaps because of the daytime exercise, Gu Nian slept soundly for several nights. That night, Gu Nian had a warm dream. In the dream, she dreamed of a huge white lotus. The white lotus gently wrapped her. She sat in the middle of the lotus. With her breathing, the petals opened and closed. The frequency of her breathing was exactly the breathing technique passed down from her ancestors...

Gu Nian woke up from this dream, and when she woke up, she found herself lying on the bed, kicking off the quilt, and unconsciously using the ancestral breathing technique! As she breathed, the cold air clearly had a trace of extremely cold air entering her body, and then followed the frequency of her breathing to stay in the joints and bones of her body. She sat on the bed in her long-sleeved pajamas, and did not turn on any electric heater, but she did not feel any cold!

Gu Nian had no time to think. The instinct of breathing techniques that she had practiced continuously in her childhood and adolescence kicked in. She closed her eyes and her breathing became long and fine. She seemed to sense the free energy in the air, and the breathing technique seemed to create an invisible small vortex in the room, pulling the energy into her body.

There was a muffled sound in front of the window, as if something heavy was constantly hitting the roof. Gu Nian got out of bed, turned on the light, and opened the curtains, but was shocked to find that hail as big as fists was falling outside the house! Hail fell from the sky like small cannonballs, hitting the roof, the yard, and the roof of the car. There were crackling and muffled sounds, and the wind and snow were also flying in the air. Palm-sized snowflakes whistled past, and the world seemed to have returned to the Ice Age.

Gu Nian looked at the metal thermometer next to him and saw that the temperature in the room had reached minus 35 degrees Celsius! In that case, the temperature outside might have reached minus 50 degrees Celsius!

With such horrific low temperatures and such extreme weather, humans can no longer survive!