Chapter Fifty-Eight: Tea Tasting and Taoism
"At the end of the simulation training, the eight-person combat team fought against nine mature aliens, one alien queen, and one T-virus mutant alien larvae, one died, one was seriously injured, and the combat effectiveness of three people was damaged, and the aliens were all wiped out...... Team Weapon Proficiency Rating is 76, and Coordination Rating is 61,...... Overall rating: 67"
Eight metal helmets automatically rose from the heads of the eight people sitting on the recliners, while Li Shuaixi and Zheng Zhe were still twitching on the recliners, which was the after-effect of death and serious injuries magnified by six times.
"I am very dissatisfied with the team's cooperation this time, with the cooperation of our targeted weapons and equipment, there are still one dead and one seriously injured, not to mention that a lot of the pressure is borne by Wang Zongchao alone. Chu Xuan shook his head and said.
"It's already very good......" Zheng Zhe, who had just recovered from the pain, said with a wry smile: "In the upper task, we separated them and changed gravity, and we used all the methods, and several people died." ”
"But that's also because we didn't have any training and we were poorly equipped. Now we shouldn't be satisfied with such a result!" Chu Xuan sighed and stood up.
Although the training was not yet complete, the 100-day training period that they had paid 1,500 reward points each in exchange for had ended, so everyone walked out of Wang Zongchao's room and came to the main god square.
"Teacher Wang, what should we do next?" Li Shuaixi asked, in fact, his rewards were all used up, and 300 points were borrowed from Wang Zongchao.
"There are still five days left, and then everyone is free to arrange, and those who still have enough points left may wish to exchange huàn time for training......" After speaking, Wang Zongchao walked to the main god platform and began to exchange huàn an enhancement suitable for his current situation.
"The sun and moon pupils, practitioners need to insist on looking directly at the light of the sun and moon with their eyes, supplemented by the internal force of yin and yang nature to refine their eyes, and those who have achieved cultivation have greatly increased their eyesight, and can see within ten miles, and can see in strong light and dark environments. To enhance the huàn, you need a D-level plot with 700 points. ”
According to the introduction, the ability of "Sun and Moon Pupil" is very consistent with the nature of the ice and fire internal force that Wang Zongchao is currently cultivating, and the effect is also very practical.
At the same time, the "Sun and Moon Pupil" is also an ability that can be upgraded, and the C-level "Sun and Moon Golden Pupil" is as hard as a golden stone under the infusion of true power, although it is the most fragile eyes, it is difficult to hurt by the sword, and it can also glimpse the ghosts and gods, and it has a certain restraint against the evil spirits, with the effect of spiritual attack. The role of such an ability in combat is undoubtedly enormous. And Wang Zongchao has always been wary of supernatural and ghost movies, although there is a weapon that can attack spirits like the magic gun "Lonely", but when fighting, you must always know where the other party is.
The B-level "Sun and Moon True Pupil" can gain insight into the transformation of yin and yang between heaven and earth and even within the human body. There's even one more item that can draw energy from the sun and moon. Accelerate the cultivation speed of yin and yang internal forces.
And to the ultimate S-class. It turned out to be the "Candle Dragon, Sun and Moon, Xuanxu True Pupil". It can penetrate the mysteries of the sun and the moon. See through a qiē illusion. Heaven and earth. Ignore everything. It's like the legendary ancient beast Candle Dragon. The left eye is closed. The day is dark. The right eye is closed. Moon hidden. Keep your eyes closed. The sun and the moon are gone. Heaven and earth are dark! Although the Lord God is unknown. Not necessarily true. But it can also be seen that it is a kind of anti-heaven skill.
Wang Zongchao in addition to strengthening this ability. He also exchanged 150 points for the C-level Sun and Moon Golden Pupil cultivation method. The C-level ability cultivation secret is not required for plot points. He does not reject reinforcement. But he still insists on focusing on cultivation and comprehension. Reinforcement is complementary. Unlike Zheng Zha and others, on the contrary, they focus on strengthening. Cultivation is supplemented.
Afterwards. He spent another 500 points on a series of basic martial arts cultivation methods involving the use of internal strength. Including basic light skills, basic boxing, palm techniques and so on. Although none are very strong. It's basically an introduction to martial arts in the world of martial arts. Such as Shaolin Changquan, Wudang cotton palm and the like. Wang Zongchao also came into contact with things with the same name in the real world. However, it lacks the use of internal forces in the moves.
Although only the basics. But these martial arts are the cornerstone of a sect's martial arts. Hidden in the most comprehensive martial arts thought of a sect. Wang Zongchao can be called a grandmaster in the field of realistic martial arts. But when it comes to internal forces, it is necessary to make up for all aspects of martial arts knowledge.
There are still 3,900 reward points left, and I will continue to practice for another 260 days. Although the internal strength of the evil sect of the Seven Heavens of Ice and Fire has progressed relatively quickly. But since the four heavens. If you want to have a small success, you can often remember the land by years and months.
Wang Zongchao's own iron bone skills and bone forging skills have been cultivated to the peak realm, and after the refining of medicine, the strength of his body has been raised to a rather terrifying height, and his anti-poison and anti-corrosion abilities are no longer inferior to Zheng Zha's blood clan physique, and now ordinary alien blood can no longer leave a trace on his skin, even if the T virus mutates and aliens, the threat caused by super corrosive blood is no longer fatal.
This kind of physique to deal with the cultivation of the Ice and Fire Triple Heaven and the Fourth Heaven of Ice and Fire Outside Cultivation Kung Fu is undoubtedly twice the result with half the effort, when he cultivated the Triple Heaven before, he even changed the limbs required in the cheats to insert Baidu boiling water into the red-hot iron sand, and added even colder dry ice to the zero-degree bucket filled with ice cubes!
As for the Four Heavens of Ice and Fire, cultivators are required to enter the secret room, surrounded by barbecue grills, adjust the temperature to the highest, pose in a yoga posture, and use internal forces to resist the high temperature of hundreds of degrees Celsius.
At the beginning of the practice, the scorching heat forced into the body, causing the water to evaporate all over the cultivator's body, burning pain like ten thousand needles being inserted, the trachea between the breaths seemed to be burned, and the whole body was burned, and he also smelled the burning smell of his barbecue, which was extremely nauseous and unbearable.
That's not all, the most dangerous thing is actually to go into the snow room immediately after boiling up the high heat, and the feeling is another thing from the high fever to the cold of more than minus 100 degrees Celsius.
The extreme cold made the cultivator's whole body stiffen, as if ten thousand knives were scraping, the vertebrae invaded the muscles, and the blood true qi seemed to be condensed.
Different from the previous Triple Heaven, the Quadruple Heaven of Ice and Fire has been changed from the previous outer gate horizontal refining to the inner refining Zhou Tian, but it still uses an extremely cold and hot environment to promote the growth of internal strength. This kind of practice is biased towards the evil way, but the entry is undoubtedly much faster, and the internal force of the practice is also extremely domineering, and the lethality and the shock force after being attacked are extremely strong, but they are worse in terms of durability, qi recovery, and healing.
However, in this way, the danger in cultivation is much higher, the most dangerous one, Wang Zongchao hallucinated in his cultivation, and actually felt unbearable high heat in the fight against the extreme cold, and couldn't help but turn his skills into a running route to resist high heat. Otherwise, feeling hot and dry in the cold is a sign that you are about to freeze to death!
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The first rising sun wheel rises from the side of the mountains in the distance, and the strange rocky mountains turn into a touch of purple and brown, painted on the skyline. The waves of water in the sea of ice below the cliff, and the clouds in the sky, all turned golden, colorful—giving off the glow of a morning.
Wang Zongchao was sitting on a cliff and spitting out, facing the rising sun with his back to the majestic active volcano rising from the clouds. Feeling the turbulence of the vigorous, brilliant sunshine that rushed in, Wang Zongchao guided the breath of the rising sun and the moon alternately, combined with the true qi of ice and fire, and silently refined his eyes.
The internal strength has reached the advanced realm, and the assistance of drugs has been extremely limited, in fact, "medicine refining" is almost the apex of the strengthening effect of drugs on the human body.
In the favorable environment of the volcanic ice sea, after nearly a year of hard training, although his internal strength has made great progress, Wang Zongchao feels that he is still far from the perfection of the cultivation of the four heavens of ice and fire; as for the sun and moon pupils, although they have also made great progress, they are still a thin line away from the sun and moon golden pupils, so they can only insist on rising in the morning and evening and setting for half an hour each, using the alternating yin and yang qi between heaven and earth to cultivate their eyes, and at the same time regulate the balance of ice and fire true qi in their bodies.
It is extremely difficult for a skill to be upgraded completely by self-cultivation, Wang Zongchao relied on the T virus to strengthen himself to have the primary internal strength, the intermediate ability was to rely on the main god to strengthen, and the advanced ability was to break through in the blood battle alien nine deaths, but it was not stable, and it was only consolidated by relying on the sixty-five days of hibernation to completely settle into a state of tranquility. Relying entirely on oneself to upgrade skills, in addition to hard training, also requires organic chances.
Suddenly, Wang Zongchao's eyes moved, and he didn't see how to behave, his figure had already bounced up, and he fell towards the cliff.
The height of the cliff is 100 meters, but Wang Zongchao didn't care at all, after his body fell heavily from a high altitude on the hard rock, Wang Zongchao's legs were like elastic springs, and after an obvious contraction, he bounced up silently, and shot into the distance with his strength.
For a while, Wang Zongchao was like a spark projectile, jumping like a fly in the Gangluan Peak, incredibly fast, with more than a dozen ups and downs, and he had already reached the foot of the mountain.
This kind of skill is caused by his increasingly powerful internal force to perform light skills and special effects of bone forging skills.
And in a pavilion at the foot of the mountain, Chu Xuan was already waiting there.
"What a rare guest!" Wang Zongchao nodded and greeted, with his eyesight after the sun and moon pupils now, although the distance was far away, as soon as Chu Xuan entered this room, he could see it clearly.
Now it was just the time when he had run out of personal time, so Chu Xuan was able to enter, and since everyone was a companion, Wang Zongchao also set his room to be accessible to anyone.
"Well, I'm here to tell you about an important discovery. Chu Xuan nodded and said.
"Since you're here, you might as well take a sip of tea and talk slowly, I'm sure you haven't drunk the tea I brewed yet......"
Wang Zongchao beckoned Chu Xuan to sit down in the pavilion, took out the tea leaves and tea sets in the space bag he carried, and then moved his body, and within two minutes, he had already come back from a bowl of clear spring in the middle of the mountain, coming and going like the wind, and the bowl full of clear spring did not overflow at all.
Although there is no utensils for boiling water, this is not difficult for Wang Zongchao, just holding the teapot in the palm of his hand, and with a fortune, the spring water in it has been boiling in the blink of an eye.
"The temperature of this tea is very particular. To make tea and boil water, boil over high heat, do not simmer slowly. It is advisable to boil and bubble up, and use such water to make tea, and the tea soup has a good aroma. If the water boils for too long, it is called 'water old' by the ancients. The freshness of brewed tea is greatly inferior. ”
"Well, if you boil for too long, the carbon dioxide and oxygen dissolved in the water will evaporate, and the taste will have some effect. Chu Xuan was obviously not interested in the tea ceremony, and only casually echoed it.
"Now I often boil water with internal strength to make tea and drink, if the true qi is not well controlled, and the heat is not right, the tea brewed will be much inferior. After all, Wang Zongchao had been practicing hard in retreat for more than two hundred days, and there was only one doctor Hua who usually had to refine a large amount of medicine, and when he saw Chu Xuan at this time, he couldn't help but talk a lot.
"It turns out that you still like the tea ceremony, and I thought you only had martial arts in your heart. ”
"Everyone treats me as a martial artist who only has muscles in his head?" Wang Zongchao smiled after hearing this.
"For me, it's acceptable not to practice martial arts for a day, but it's not okay to not drink tea for a day. I didn't even forget to carry some good tea with me when I even went into the barren mountains and forests to practice, and the reason why I returned to the civilized world early several times was not because I was in distress or injured, but because the tea ran out......," Wang Zongchao said with a bit of self-deprecation, and at the same time handed a cup of tea to Chu Xuan.
"The brown color is clear and bright, emerald and inviting, and I love the color. Chu Xuan took a sip of tea, held the teacup and looked at it for a while and said.
Wang Zongchao was stunned, and then he couldn't laugh or cry, but he didn't expect that what Chu Xuan praised was not the taste of tea, but the color of tea.
At the same time, Wang Zongchao also poured a cup of tea for himself, but he didn't drink it, but with an internal force, the tea boiled and evaporated into steam in an instant, and the refreshing tea fragrance overflowed, and then he inhaled the evaporated tea fragrance into his mouth and nose.
"The way you drink tea is unique. Chu Xuan looked at Wang Zongchao, who was like a god swallowing clouds and spitting mist, and said.
"Recently, I have been bored and created a tea drinking method, but people who do not have intermediate or above internal strength are afraid that it will be difficult to enjoy this drinking method. Wang Zongchao closed his eyes and quietly felt the fragrance of tea while talking.
"You say that I only have martial arts in my heart, which reminds me of two masters in martial arts novels.
One is the Ximen blowing snow in the early stage of the novel "Lu Xiaofeng", which 'has nothing but the sword', and the other is the wave of "only extreme love can be extremely sword" in "Turning Clouds and Rain".
The former put all his heart into the sword, and there were no relatives and friends in his heart, and there was no restraint and fetters, which certainly made his swordsmanship reach the extreme, but he lost himself, after all, the sword is a person, if he even gives up himself, no matter how strong the sword is, no matter how many people are killed, what is the point?
The latter's sword intent is not to destroy miè but to protect, to protect the one qiē he loves, and if there is affection in his heart, there are all things, and love melts into the sword, and his sword also contains all things. ”
When he said this, Wang Zongchao opened his eyes and stared at Chu Xuan, he faintly felt that in addition to the excitement and passion that his companion would show in the face of various technologies and unknown things worth studying, everything he did and said had an ominous aura of indifference and dead silence that penetrated from the depths of his soul and was difficult to be concealed by the surface disguise, so he had this statement.
"Swords, guns, swords, and halberds are just weapons for killing, and martial arts only make killing more efficient. And I think that no matter what kind of Tao you are, the closer you get, the more you feel in your heart, the more fulfilling, the warmer, the more peaceful, or the more comfortable...... The sword is ruthless, people are merciful, and giving up emotions for foreign things is the last thing!"
Chu Xuan gently swayed the teacup, his eyes fixed on the tea in the cup.
"Then what is the true Tao in your heart?" After a long time, Chu Xuan asked softly.
"I just want to be free to act according to my heart.
The power of martial arts allows me to do what ordinary people can't, so I have the freedom of **.
The heart of martial arts makes me dare to do what ordinary people dare not do, so I have the freedom of the soul.
This is the true meaning of martial arts to me, I am not what you think, but for the sake of martial arts, I have to give up other qiē. ”
"Since what you are pursuing is freedom, why do you want to join the army and seek restraint for yourself?" Chu Xuan was silent for a moment and suddenly asked.
Wang Zongchao smiled and said, "In addition to practicing martial arts, there is another reason......" When he spoke, he gathered cold qi in his hands, condensed it into an ice cup, poured tea, and drank hot tea in the ice cup, which had a unique flavor.
After a pause, Wang Zongchao said solemnly: "Only with a clear conscience can I have no worries, as a descendant of Yan and Huang, but I don't contribute to the country, how can I talk about having a clear conscience?"
"Well said!" Hearing this, Chu Xuan nodded, and the pitch-black pupils that had been unwavering unexpectedly lit up with a glimmer of light.
"If you really want to serve your country, I want you to answer me first: Do you want to go back? I mean, back to the real world!"