Beiming Divine Art

This is a web wuxia novel centered on the Beiming Divine Art, the supreme martial art of the Carefree Sect in Jin Yong's Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils. In the book, the Beiming Divine Art is presented as a supreme art created by a Daoist immortal, comprising thirty-six sections. A practitioner can absorb others' internal energy into the four seas of the body (the stomach as the sea of water and grain, the Chong vessel as the sea of the twelve meridians, the danzhong as the sea of qi, and the brain as the sea of marrow), and can also gather qi in the danzhong and disperse it to the dantian, cultivating gathering and dispersing together. Its qi pathway runs contrary to ordinary principles: from Shaoshang to Yunmen, when the thumb touches another person, that person's internal energy flows into the practitioner. The novel unfolds through the cause by which the Duan clan of Dali (Duan Heyu) passes the manual down to later generations: to practice this art one must first disperse one's original internal energy to avoid damaging the meridians. Duan Heyu possesses only a fragment concerning the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian and the Ren vessel, and the manual is accidentally damaged; although he and Xuzhu work together to restore it, only half is recovered. Later practitioners succeed in merging the Beiming true qi with the special true qi inherent in their dantian, while being warned that absorbing the internal energy of highly skilled masters risks bodily explosion, and that the remaining techniques must be destroyed. The book expands the original "energy absorption" premise into a complete cultivation system and advances the story through transmigration, a fan-fiction world, and jianghu conflicts, making it a "reading-drought" wuxia web novel passed around by word of mouth.