Ethan also finished eating the pork leg in her hand at this moment, but then tore off half of the roasted foreleg. She ate as she looked over curiously.

"Practicing those postures again? They look so strange, and you can't even use them to fight anyone. Young master, did you learn this from Linhai Academy? Those spirit masters only know how to deceive people, always talking about teaching without discrimination and embracing all under heaven—"

Henry Clark acted as if he hadn't heard, his expression focused, striving to complete each movement in the most perfect way possible.

The basic guiding technique did not come from ancient traditions, but was instead created by some players in the game "Divine Emperor." Its purpose was to guide the body to absorb energy from the outside world and convert as much of it as possible for personal use. Practiced together with internal energy techniques, it was extremely beneficial. Especially when cultivating foundational skills, it could increase efficiency by at least thirty percent.

Henry Clark was one of the participants and initiators. Before coming here, he had already studied up to the seventh set of movements, but unfortunately had not yet completed it when the "Chronicle of the Ultimate Fate" appeared, triggering the War of the Seven Emperors in the Cloud Realm.

After that, he inexplicably arrived in this world.

Now, every time Henry Clark completed a movement, a wisp of energy was forcibly guided by him into the lower abdomen's qi sea.

However, this energy was not true internal force, but so-called "essence energy," condensed from the purest spiritual power. Absorbed from wild boar meat, it would normally dissipate over time. But now, through Henry Clark's guiding technique, it was forcibly gathered in the dantian. It could strengthen the body, be converted into internal energy, heal injuries, or be transferred to others—its uses were many.

In his previous life, Henry Clark was able to stand above hundreds of millions of players, and this guiding technique was a major contributor.

Usually, Henry Clark practiced inside the carriage, three times a day. Ethan had seen it many times before and quickly lost interest after watching for a bit.

William Harris, however, was seeing it for the first time. After just one glance, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, and he watched intently.

Not until Henry Clark finished the entire set of guiding techniques did the sharpness in William Harris's eyes subside. He said calmly, "I wonder, young lord, where did you learn this set of movements? If you practice diligently, even if you can't become a great hero, you can at least strengthen your body—"

Henry Clark nodded slightly to show he accepted the advice, but a trace of oddness flashed across his face.

In these seven days, the only thing he knew was that he had once studied at the very familiar Linhai Academy for quite some time, and only recently had been picked up by the two of them.

And as for this William Harris, with all his knowledge and experience, he still couldn't see through the man's depth.

Calm and steady, well-mannered—no matter how you looked at him, he didn't seem like an ordinary coachman.

After finishing the pork, William Harris and Ethan each sat down to meditate and regulate their breathing. Their breaths gradually evened out, as if they had fallen asleep.

Henry Clark also sat cross-legged, first tentatively running a basic internal technique, converting the essence energy in his qi sea into internal energy. At first, he felt nothing unusual, but as the energy streams barely entered his meridians, he felt a stabbing pain all over his body, as if a hundred thousand steel needles were piercing him at once, making him almost cry out.

Henry Clark instinctively drew in a sharp breath, but not wanting to disturb the other two, he forced himself to endure. Only after a while did the intense pain subside a little, and his front and back were drenched in cold sweat.

"As expected! It's because of the dual meridians!"

A look of realization flashed in his eyes. Henry Clark used his will to guide all the warm currents back to the qi sea, temporarily giving up on continuing to cultivate internal energy.

In the Cloud Realm, all races cultivated based on the nine cycles of body meridians. The nine wheel meridians circled the body.

But just now, when Henry Clark circulated his energy, he clearly felt the essence energy splitting into different paths within his meridians.

As he had suspected, his body truly possessed two sets of meridians!

This body was half-demon, with both human and fox bloodlines, and both were of extraordinary origin. He possessed the strengths of both, and his bones and five-element spiritual roots were surely exceptional.

Yet precisely because of this, the two conflicted, making his physical strength shockingly low, preventing him from properly cultivating any internal energy.

For most people, a dual-meridian constitution like this would mean giving up martial arts altogether. But for him, it was not without hope.

Coming to this world, what he was most grateful for was the decades of reading in his previous life and the validation in virtual realms, which had given him martial experience far beyond any warrior of this era!

Recalling information from his past life, Henry Clark's brows gradually furrowed.

Either he had to practice special techniques suitable for dual meridians—he remembered several, all extremely powerful, at least at the level of supreme skills, but none were suitable.

The other option was to obtain certain rare natural treasures to strengthen one bloodline and suppress the other, improving his constitution and merging the dual meridians into one.

But such natural spiritual items were even rarer. Henry Clark hadn't even considered it.

"Serves me right! The Fiery Cold Flame Technique, the Great Reversal God Art, the Sun and Moon Radiant Wheel—when I snatched them back then, why didn't I take a closer look? Even if they were a bit trash—"

Just as he was vexed, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed his mind, and a line of text appeared:

"The way of Heaven is to take from those with excess and give to those in need. The way of man is to take from those in need to serve those with excess—"