Forging The Immortal Body: Neigong, Shengong & Qigong for True Martial Power Paperback – November 20, 2025

There comes a moment in every serious practitioner’s life when the old ways of training… the sweat, the forms, the conditioning… stop opening new doors. The body gets stronger, yet something inside whispers that real power lives somewhere deeper. Hidden. Waiting. Calling.Forging the Immortal Body is the answer to that call.In these pages I open the inner-door teachings I’ve carried for more than three and a half decades. Not the watered-down philosophy that floats around the modern world, but the real methods… the ones passed quietly through lineage, teacher to disciple, breath to breath. These methods reveal how the human body can be rebuilt from the inside… how fascia becomes a conductor of intention… how breath becomes the sculptor of spirit… and how the gates of the body open one by one when trained with clarity, honesty, and depth.This book is not about mysticism. It is about internal science. The science of Jing, Qi, and Shen interacting with nerves, fascia, emotion, and intention. The science of breath that sinks into the marrow. The science of how the body protects itself, heals itself, and—when properly trained—unlocks a level of strength, perception, and presence that the ancients called Immortal.I share the methods that forged my own path… standing practices that shook loose the weight of old trauma, breath cycles that reorganized the nervous system, meditations that clarified the spirit, and internal strikes that revealed how a soft touch can carry more truth than a fist of iron.I wrote this book for the serious student… the one who feels there is more to the human body than muscle and bone… the one who knows that true martial power comes from stillness, subtlety, and the quiet fire rising inside the core.The Immortal Body is not a myth. It is a process. A transformation. A way of living inside yourself with greater awareness, greater power, and greater harmony.If you are ready to step beyond technique and into the architecture of internal strength… if you are ready to train the body you will inhabit for the rest of your life… then this book is your doorway.Step through.Michael Johnson / Wei Lei MaPresident, Cloud Forest Chin Woo AssociationWei Family Lineage Patriarch, U.S. Read more