Studing the first stage of the [black tiger breathing method] Alex was frankly disappointed, he was suprised that this pile of junk was considerd a [tier-3 Man Technique]. The basic principle was to breath in a specific pattern so the heart would beat in a simaler pattern. The combination of air and blood flow would stimulate the inner qi and slowly refine the blood.
Their where several problems with this though, firstly. The breathing method was based on the collective studie of several black tigers, and their in lies the problem. Not only was the foundation of the breathing a mix of several diffrent patterns, its core, the black tigers breathing itself, was just that, the black tigers breathing. Sure it had been modified for human use, but that just diluted the actual breathing method even more. That wasen't even mentioning the dangers of activlt altering your own blood flow. One wrong step and, oops, heart attack. Or oops, brain aneurysm. Or oops, permanent heart damage. And that was if you where lucky, if you messed up and wern't lucky, well, you wouldn't need to worry about your breathing anymore.
Sighing Alex got to work, he had already perfectly memorised the entire method. but now he was going to try and reverse engineer the breathing method to find its roots, then he would find how the core of the black tigers breathing worked and rebuild the breathing method around the actual core principles.
'Sigh, this is gonna be a long night. 'So, the basics of the breathing method had already been established. Breath in this pattern, control the heart, stimulate the inner qi, purify the blood. But how does that breathing method work.' Useing [soul visualisation] Alex began to simulate what would happen if he where to use the [black tiger breathing method], with his near perfectly knowlage on how his body functioned, and compleat memorisation of the method itself, he got to work. Once he had a proper simulation of how the technique would actually effect him, he began to trace the functions of each breath to how they worked.
Over the next couple of days he went to the library and studied the biology and anatomy of the black tiger, then he used that knowlage to simulate the original breathing method. Once the was done he once again traced the function of each breath to what they did and how there core functions worked.
With that collected knowlage he began to recreate the breathing method from scratch. Now the first stage would use a new specific breathing rhythm alone to stimulate the inner qi, this rhythm was entirely based on human anatomy, specifically his own as he did not intend to teach his modified version. His personalised version of the breathing method was both safer, more efficient at purifying the blood, had better controll of the inner qi, and could be used passively, even while he was moving. He was also trying to create an additional acupuncture method to go along with it, but his lack of acupuncture knowlage and limited time didn't allow him. It was now the end of the week and he was back in the training area with his second mother.
"Alright, I'm sure you memorised the entire method before the first night, but I wanted to give you some extra time to mentaly prepare. Now, sit down in the basic stance from the book, and I'll guide a stream of inner qi through you. While I do that try and follow the breathing pattern. Don't worry, of anything goes wrong I'll be here to stop it from going out of control. Although I doubt it will. Lest get started."
Alex sat cross legged on the ground in his personal cultivation robes as his second mother placed her hand on his back, as he felt a slow but steady stream of inner qi flow through him in the original breathing methods pattern, he began to breath. Meanwhile his second mother was silently suprised. 'Damn, this kids body is almost perfectly built. And his breathing is perfect to, im almost envious. Alright, time to focus, don't want anything going wrong.'
But nothing did, after 5 cycles of breathing nothing went wrong at all. Standing up, Alex's second mother said "Alright, looks like everything is OK. From now on you are a proper body forger and can continue to cultivate as you wish, just rember two things, the human body has limits, once you start getting tired, stop, going any further could result in more harm then good. Also, you need fuel, once you get hungry, eat. You can't make any progress without energy, food if the building material for the body. Now that thats out of the way, scamper off you little monster."
"I will see you later, second mother." And with that Alex went back to his room to begin body forging. He didn't need to worry about his mother warnings as he had enough regeneration to disregard any fatigue, and several diffremt traits and statuses feeding him at once. Sitting back down he started to use the modified breathing method, because both breathing methods had the same root, he could mask one with the other, and the breathing itself was discrete enough that unless someone know the modified breathing method they wouldn't be able to tell what he was doing.
Almost immediately he could feel the difference, the original breathing method was slow and clumsy and he had to be careful while useing it, meanwhile his modified version was smooth and easy, and almost as soon as he started it became automatic. Each stream of inner qi began to refine the blood. Starting from his heart each stream split into their own arteries and flowed away from the heart, before flowing through the veins back to his heart to repeat the cycle.
And with each cycle, a small amount of imperfections where removed, carried into his liver, and expelled through his skin or it would of if it didn't immediately get converted into a tiny about of biomass instead befor being used to fuel the refinement, In just a couple hours he had already reached 100% refinement, all the impurities had been removed, and his bloods capabilities had been drastically improved. But for some reason, he didn't feel like he had completed blood refining.
Starting the cycle again, he could feel impurities that seemingly wern't there before get removed, and his bloods capabilities get enhanced even further. After 100% completing blood refinement for a a second time, this cycle faster the the last, he still didn't feel done, so he cycled again, and again. From several hours to a couple, to 1, to 45 minutes, to 40, 30, 15, to 1 minute, untill he was 100% refining his blood every breath. Over the course of another week he had refined his blood a total of 157,596 times and counting. Alex could tell this wasent due to the modifications he had made, he doubted even a heaven rank technique could do this.
What he could tell though, was that with every breath, and subsequently every 100% refinement, his [transcendent physique holder] title triggerd. 'So this is what it meant by 'grant access to higher grades of each realm', I get to repeat blood refining a seemingly endless amount of times. I wonder if it's the same the others?'
Curently Alex could move on to marrow refining when ever he wanted,mbut that woukd rase suspicion. The fasted promotion in the famaly was by his brother who took only 1 year to advance, it would be incredably suspicous for him to advance in half the time. On the topic of body forging stages, blood refining, marrow refining, and bone refining where parallel to the bidy forging, Qi absorbing, and foundation building stages of cultivation. The organ and tendon refining stages where equal to golden core, and the muschle refining, skin refining, and fusion stages where for nascent soul. He didn't know what master, grand master and saint where for though.
Onto new topics, it was almost time for his next sibling to be born, despite the fact that the higher level someone was the harder it was to have kids his father somehow made due. Alex was curently walking towards his father's bedroom, where his mother was giving birth, he was very exited to see his new sibling