Chapter Twenty-Four: Ancient Taiji

At night, Li Jingwei woke up from an ethereal sleep. He thought it was morning, but when he looked at the time, he found that it was only about twelve o'clock at night.

It seemed strange to him. Due to the habit he has developed over the years, his biological clock is extremely regular, and basically when he wakes up, it is around five o'clock in the morning.

And today, he only slept for about two hours before waking up. But he didn't feel like he was sleep-deprived, but felt refreshed and rested very well.

Seeing that it was still early, Li Jingwei lay in the tent for a while, but found that he couldn't sleep anymore, so he simply sat up.

He remembered the scene of running Tai Chi True Qi in the pool in the afternoon, and thought to himself, anyway, now that there is nothing to do, it is better to go to the pool to practice and try. Moreover, getting used to the temperature of the pool water will also help you to go into the water again tomorrow to find the Red Flame Snake.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, he got up and put on a diving suit, and walked towards the cold pool of the Tianshan Mountains. This time, he didn't carry an oxygen cylinder because he didn't intend to dive very deep.

After Li Jingwei entered the cold pool, he immediately felt the piercing coldness of the pool water. He hurriedly mobilized the Tai Chi True Qi and set it up all around him. Soon, he felt the difference.

In the afternoon, when he runs Tai Chi True Qi in the pool water, it will help him to keep out the cold, but he can still feel the chill of the pool water around him. And now, when he started to run Tai Chi True Qi, he didn't feel the slightest coolness, but had a very comfortable feeling.

This made him very curious. So he decided to dive a little deeper to see if it would still be the case.

When Li Jingwei dived to about 30 meters, he found that he still did not have any discomfort on the water. Moreover, he discovered an even more surprising fact, he could not feel the pressure of the water in the thirty-meter deep water, and he did not need to breathe. In addition, he could clearly feel everything around him for more than ten meters or so.

If you take your body as the center of the circle, you can clearly see the surrounding area with a radius of about 10 meters. It wasn't what he saw with his eyes, but it was all in his consciousness.

These situations made Li Jingwei puzzled for a while, because they all violated his previous scientific understanding of the world. For example, according to the principles of physics, the deeper the water, the greater the water pressure.

Without any equipment, the deeper you dive, the more your lungs and so on are squeezed. Even for professional divers, if they don't carry any equipment, the current limit depth of diving is only about 20 meters.

And Li Jingwei has dived to about 30 meters, but it is still as if he is on the water.

He closed his eyes, carefully felt the changes in his body, and after being sure that there was no discomfort, he was ready to continue diving.

It was at this moment that he suddenly felt clearly that those small transparent fish that had appeared in the afternoon had reappeared around him.

These small schools of fish surrounded Li Jingwei about five meters around, and actually formed a Tai Chi pattern, wrapping Li Jingwei in it.

This scene is like a big sphere, the surface of the ball is wrapped in a Tai Chi pattern composed of transparent small fish, and Li Jingwei is in the center of the ball.

Then, these small fish actually began to rotate, driving the entire Tai Chi pattern to start rotating.

Li Jingwei seemed to be in a state of chaos, and he subconsciously played Tai Chi in the sphere. What is unbelievable is that it is obviously in the water, but Li Jingwei is like stepping on the ground.

After a Tai Chi fight, Li Jingwei closed his momentum, still in a state of selfless chaos. At this moment, there seemed to be a sigh in my head, as if someone had said, 'Wrong, the trick and the method of luck are not right'.

Immediately, as if a stream of information poured into Li Jingwei's mind, he was like unconscious, and he started Tai Chi again.

It's just that this time, he played very slowly, as if someone was guiding him on the side, and he had just started learning, and every move seemed slow. If there are others, you will find that Li Jingwei's Tai Chi this time is very different from what he played before.

When the fight was over, Li Jingwei did not stop, because the integration of new moves gave him a feeling of sudden enlightenment. It's like there was a fuzzy layer of gauze in my heart, and now this gauze paper has been completely removed. So, without any pause, Li Jingwei started fighting a second time.

At this moment, in Li Jingwei's heart, he had completely forgotten everything around him, and he seemed to have become a world of his own, and the whole world was moving with him.

After the second pass, there was no pause, and the third pass began.

The end of each time is the beginning of the next time, and Tuesday is like a circle, there is no beginning and no end, only endless eternity.

Li Jingwei seems to have understood something.

The Taoist practice of the mind emphasizes epiphany, which is a very critical moment for practitioners. If you succeed in an epiphany, you will be able to greatly increase your skills and even improve to a higher level, but if you fail to have an epiphany, you may be stagnant for many years. So, epiphany is an opportunity that is hard to come by.

Li Jingwei was completely unaware of this at this time, and he was still immersed in his own world.

Gradually, he punched faster and faster, and finally turned into a mass of figures. Then, it slowed down again, and finally it was like punching in the sticky asphalt, and every move was extremely slow. Later, the moves gradually returned to their normal speed.

Suddenly, Li Jingwei stopped after closing the momentum, and the whole person looked up at the Tai Chi pattern rotating around, standing still in a daze.

In this way, about a quarter of an hour or so passed, I saw that Li Jingwei's diving suit suddenly swelled up, like a balloon inflated to the limit, and then the gas around his body dissipated with a bang and returned to its original state. The surrounding Tai Chi pattern also dissipated, and those transparent small fish disappeared again.

Li Jingwei also regained his clarity, and he muttered in his heart: "Ancient Tai Chi, is this the real Tai Chi?"

At this moment, he had completely forgotten the Tai Chi method he had practiced in the past, and replaced it with a new boxing method - Ancient Tai Chi.

This made Li Jingwei feel a little surprised for a while. In his impression, his grandfather, Zhang Longcheng and others all told him that Taijiquan originated from Zhang Sanfeng, the ancestor of the Wudang School. Zhang Sanfeng absorbed the essence of Taoist scriptures, interpreted the changes of yin and yang, and founded Taijiquan.

And now, as if someone had told him personally, it was clear to him that he was practicing ancient Tai Chi. It seems that Tai Chi has been formed since ancient times.

The Taijiquan practiced by Li Jingwei now is completely a set of natural Taijiquan methods, which implicitly coincides with the essence of Taoism. He seems to have been reborn, his eyes are bright and restrained, clear and profound, and his breath flows between his gestures, giving people a sense of unity between heaven and man.

How could this happen? Could it be that someone was pointing you out? But I was in the middle of a cold pool, and there was no one around. All of this made him wonder a little.

Li Jingwei shook his head and decided not to think about these questions for now, and to think about them slowly later.

He thought to himself that it was about the same depth as he had dived in the afternoon, and that time he was carrying an oxygen cylinder. Now that he can dive here easily, can he continue diving?

Because it was pitch black and his eyes couldn't see the surrounding situation, Li Jingwei closed his eyes and let himself enter that mysterious state again, to perceive the things around him.

The sights around me slowly come to mind, as if seen with the eyes, clear and real.

With the increase of the diving depth, Li Jingwei's cognition of the entire Hantan has become clearer and clearer.

When he dived to more than 90 meters underwater, he finally sensed the bottom of the cold pool, which was very flat, like white jade, and like ice formed by the pool. You only need to dive another 10 meters to reach the bottom of the cold pool.

Li Jingwei was about to continue diving, when he suddenly felt that the bottom of this cold pool seemed a little strange.

When he dived in the afternoon, he was leaning against the wall of the pool, and his perception of the cold pool was limited to relying on his own part, and he could not determine the whole picture of the bottom of the pool.

Now, he's in the middle of the pool. When he was able to basically perceive the whole picture of the bottom of the pool, Li Jingwei discovered an astonishing fact, the bottom of the pool seemed to have been artificially arranged, and the eight directions of Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui actually had a Tianshan Ice Spirit, releasing the meaning of extreme cold, and converging to the middle of the bottom.

It would be incredible to say that this was a natural formation.

But if it is said to be artificially arranged, not to mention that it is placed at the bottom of the 100-meter-deep pool according to the established orientation, but it is also extremely difficult to find the eight Tianshan Ice Spirits. Besides, what is the purpose of this arrangement?

When he stood in the middle of the bottom of the pool, he was surprised to find that the entire bottom of the pool was actually a huge Taiji diagram. This made the surprise in his heart even more indescribable.

At this moment, a voice suddenly appeared in my head, "Break in from the dry position." ”

Li Jingwei was stunned for a moment, who was talking to him? He felt his surroundings attentively, but he didn't find anything abnormal. Could it be an auditory hallucination? Li Jingwei felt a little surprised, and after a little hesitation, he decided to find out.

So, he walked towards the dry position, until he reached the stone wall, and found nothing.

Just as he was about to go to Kun to check, another voice sounded in his head, "Break through the wall and come in." It is a matter of concern to the safety of the Chinese nation and all mankind, so we must not hesitate any longer. ”

The voice was so real that he couldn't perceive anyone there, but he was sure it wasn't his auditory hallucination.

"Is it about the safety of the Chinese nation and mankind?" Li Jingwei felt even more inexplicable at this time, how could it be related to the safety of the Chinese nation?

He decided to find out, so he pulled the dragon slayer from his body and tried to thrust it into the stone wall in front of him.

Unexpectedly, this dagger entered the stone wall like cutting tofu, and it was easily inserted into the stone wall. He slashed down with the dagger again, and it slid to the bottom with ease.

This gave him a boost of confidence, and he plunged the dagger into the stone wall again, and then swiped the dagger again, drawing the shape of a door about thirty centimeters wide on the stone wall, and then pushed hard against the stone wall that had been cut.

Under Li Jingwei's hard push, the stone wall was cut but did not move at all. He increased his strength again, but there was still no movement.

Just when Li Jingwei was about to accumulate strength to push again, the stone wall actually fell outward, and he hurriedly flashed sideways.

And at the moment when the stone wall just fell off, Li Jingwei felt that a pale green light shot out from the door he had scratched, illuminating the nearby pool.

Li Jingwei looked inside through this door and suddenly saw a strange scene.