Based on my own experience... ahem, from my own perspective, looking at myself now, I appear to be at most three or four months old, which means it will be at least another five or six months before I am truly born into this world... Thinking about having to stay alone in this pitch-black place for another five or six months, William Brooks couldn't help but feel a sense of madness—he had been lonely his whole previous life, and now he still had to endure it... What kind of world is this!

Since I’m here, I might as well make the best of it. William Brooks thought. At this moment, William Brooks suddenly recalled the greatest regret and hatred of his previous life: being framed, a ruthless palm strike to his dantian, destroying all his pride and hope! He had been so close to completing the transformation from acquired to innate internal energy before the age of twenty, and then, just like that...

Wait a minute... what was I just thinking? A flash of inspiration struck William Brooks's mind—framed... martial arts crippled... acquired... wahahaha, innate true qi! Isn't the constant flow coming from the umbilical cord attached to him exactly the innate energy he had dreamed of? Such a heaven-sent opportunity, a pie falling from the sky—how could he possibly miss it?

Wahahaha, a Lin Daiyu fell from the sky, and it's a naked Lin Daiyu... William Brooks was already so excited he almost wanted to dance with joy.

With this realization, William Brooks immediately felt that his life wouldn't be so boring—at the very least, he could still cultivate his internal energy.

William Brooks first focused all his attention on carefully recalling the secret techniques and circulation routes of the Ling family’s forbidden art, "Jinglong Divine Skill," that he had learned in his previous life. He remembered bit by bit, pondering over it. William Brooks knew this was an opportunity one could only dream of, and he would not allow himself to make even the slightest mistake!

Reborn with all the memories of his previous life! This was truly an unbelievable thing. It was like a billionaire, after dying and being reborn, discovering that all his billions in assets had come out of the womb with him... Starting off with innate true qi, for heaven’s sake—some martial artists spend their entire lives unable to reach this level! And he had this chance before even developing a complete human form! If he didn’t make good use of this opportunity, he would be letting down the care of his ancestors and the favor of the heavens!

William Brooks still hadn’t figured out how he was suddenly reincarnated, but he guessed it had a lot to do with that human spiral drill game he played. But that was no longer his main concern. What troubled William Brooks most now was the frailty of his own meridians.

William Brooks understood very well that he was still just a lump of flesh, at best a lump of flesh with self-awareness! His current situation was still quite dangerous—after all, if the mother carrying him happened to fall on her butt, he could easily be reduced to a meaningless puddle of blood, expelled like a menstrual discharge.

So William Brooks's main task now was to strengthen his body, to the point where even medicine couldn’t abort him, and he could survive a fall as lively as ever. Even if he had to endure eighty-one tribulations, he had to hold out until the day of revolutionary success—the day of his birth!

To strengthen his body, he had to rely on the innate energy transmitted from the mother’s body and the internal cultivation techniques he had learned in his previous life. But the problem now was that the meridians in William Brooks's body were extremely tiny and fragile. William Brooks didn’t know if all babies at this stage were like this, but he just felt he was a bit too weak...

No turning back now, William Brooks very carefully guided the innate energy, as cautiously as embroidering on tofu in his previous life, slowly and step by step channeling it through the meridians inside his body...

It felt as if a century had passed... William Brooks finally completed the first full circulation of innate energy through his meridians. For a moment, he was mentally and physically exhausted. It felt like holding a huge, extremely fragile piece of top-quality jade in his arms while walking a tightrope over a ten-thousand-foot abyss... It was pure torture! William Brooks's first thought upon waking was to curse out loud.

After one full circulation, William Brooks felt that his meridians seemed to have grown much stronger. His confidence increased as well. Complaints aside, William Brooks knew very well that the most difficult part of internal energy circulation was the first full cycle. Not only did he have to be careful not to take the wrong route, but he also had to carefully control the flow of energy into the meridians, gradually widening them, then clearing them, and only then could the internal energy start circulating along the established route. If anything went wrong at any stage, it would be a disaster with no hope of recovery!

Sometimes William Brooks wondered, what if he went berserk while still in the womb... He stopped that crazy thought halfway through! Ptooey, ptooey, what a jinx.

Ever since that conversation with Emily Brooks on the road to the underworld, William Brooks was delighted to find that his personality had changed a lot. Maybe it was because the knot in his heart had been untied, but he was no longer as extreme as in his previous life, and he felt his temperament was becoming more cheerful.