As soon as Zhou Fan's fire Qi came into contact with the tube-like structures, it was absorbed.
Looking at Cao Lin, Zhou Fan saw that he didn't seem to feel anything.
Continuing to look at his body, Zhou Fan saw that the Fire Qi was just sitting in the spot where it was absorbed.
Instead of saying that Cao Lin had absorbed the Fire Qi, it was more accurate to say he was holding onto it.
Since it wasn't doing anything on its own, Zhou Fan decided to move it around for him.
The tube-like structures filled the whole body and even went up to the brain. It branched out like a nervous system throughout every part of the body.
A name came to Zhou Fans mind, meridians. Zhou Fan started to move the Fire Qi around Cao LIns meridians and soon, he completed an entire cycle around the body.
As soon as the cycle was completed, Cao Lin started to sweat intensely, and before long, impurities started to pour out of him.
At first, Cao Lin started to freak out when he saw the unknown, yet disgusting gook coming out of him. However, after Zhou Fan's reassurance, he once again sat down and let the process be completed.
As soon as impurities stopped pouring out, Zhou Fan blasted some water at him that instantly cleaned the impurities off.
"Did you feel anything before impurities started to pour out?" Zhou Fan questioned.
"Besides the sweat, no." Cao lin answered.
After some brief pondering, Zhou Fan decided to try again.
"I will repeat the process. This time, try to sense anything going on inside your body." Zhou Fan said.
"Ok." Cao Lin answered as he sat in a meditative position.
As Zhou Fan once again pushed Fire Qi into his meridians, Cao Lin felt something.
The more he focused on it, the hotter the sensation felt. As Zhou Fan pushed the Fire Qi around, Cao Lin attempted to memorize the movements and feeling.
After 10 more full cycles, Cao Lin had finally memorized the route.
Only then did Zhou Fan stop.
"I've memorized the route, but what good does that do?" Cao Lin questioned.
Since the only Qi in the natural air was Chaos Qi, he couldn't absorb it.
"You'll see later." Zhou Fan answered.
Since Cao Lin had memorized the route, Zhou Fan moved on to the other people. Although their memorization skills varied, it didn't take too long before everyone, including Yipeng, had memorized the route.
They all had the same route since it worked for everyone. Zhou Fan also had no idea as to what is more efficient. He had guessed on Cao Lin and simply repeated on the rest.
Before he continued with the next step, Zhou Fan called the beasts over.
With Xiaolong in the front and the rest next to him, Zhou Fan observed their bodies the same way he did with Cao Lin. After looking, Zhou Fan wasn't surprised to see that they didn't have meridians like the others.
Instead, they had a core at the center of their bodies with vein like structures, similar to the others meridians, branching out from the core like a sprouting seed.
Since they didn't need a route like the others, Zhou Fan didn't waste much time with them and simply got them used to the feeling of their specific Qi's.
Another notable thing was that the beasts could also absorb the other Qi's.
After testing their affinities, Zhou Fan discovered that Xiaolong had an affinity with every basic Qi, and lightning Qi. Zhuque also had an affinity with every basic element, but it was HEAVILY leaning towards fire Qi. She also had an affinity with Life Qi. Bainu, the white tiger, had the same basic affinities, but was leaning heavily towards earth Qi and had an affinity with shadow Qi. Xuanwu and Hang lu shared the same affinity's which were the basic Qi's and leaning towards water Qi and an incredible affinity with space!
When Zhou Fan discovered their shared affinity with space, he was astonished. He had the most expectations towards Xiaolong, but the turtle and snake out did him.
Shaking his head, Zhou Fan got them to sit around with the others and sat in the middle.
"In a few moments, I will be changing the surrounding Chaos Qi into absorbable Qi. Prepare to feel and absorb it. Trace it along the path I showed you and all should go well." Zhou Fan said.
He then got straight into the action without waiting for a response.
As he felt the Chaos Qi, he split it into every conceivable Qi he had comprehended.
Although Zhou Fan didn't have a specific affinity with these elements, they were all parts of Chaos Qi. Since he appeared to have an affinity with Chaos Qi, he could just as well control the other elements.
Unless there was some Qi out there that was equal or greater than Chaos Qi, Zhou Fan could control it.
Actually, there were some limits for Zho Fan himself. Although he could control everything that was technically a part of Chaos Qi, he didn't have the strength to control some of them.
Qi's such as space and time were nearly impossible for him to control at this point. At most, he could allow space Qi and time Qi to be split off from Chaos Qi, which allowed the turtles to absorb space Qi.
Even so, Zhou Fan wasn't envious. Eventually, he would be able to control those Qi's. Not to mention, he could already control Chaos Qi, which is much more powerful than time and space Qi combined.
As the Qi was split, everyone was able to sense it almost immediately. As if their body was dying of thirst and had just found water, the Qi's they could absorb flowed into them and rotated intensely.
After 5 hours had passed, only the beasts had made any progress in cultivation. From their previous states of 1st level Qi gathering, every beast had broken into the 2nd level. Unfortunately, not a single one of the others had made progress.
After 10 more hours had passed, Zhou Fan was about to give up. All of a sudden, he looked at Cao Lin, who then broke into the 1st level of Qi gathering. When he broke through, Zhou Fan had some more hope and gave the others another 5 hours before calling it quits.