Chapter 4: Don't Be a Prodigal Son

In the Thousand Luo Domain, people can improve their abilities by practicing exercises. According to the different abilities to be promoted, the exercises are divided into combat exercises and non-combat exercises, the former is the exercises that improve the practitioner's combat ability, and the latter is the practice that improves the practitioner's non-combat ability. According to its power, the exercises are divided into five levels, from high to low: Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, and Li.

Regarding the combat exercises, there is a poem that says:

Leaving the rank to fight the sword rivers and lakes, the Xun step side is a hero.

The majesty of the earthquake scale spread in all directions, and the battlefield broke through the army with a snap of the fingers.

Kun level is powerful and superior, creeping mountains and rivers with the Holy Spirit.

Acquire the immeasurable skill of the dry rank, and rush to the clouds to fight the Buddha God.

Vitality is the original qi of life, life from the moment of birth, there is a certain amount of vitality in the body, although this innate vitality is not deep, but it is the basic condition for life to survive. The vitality can be deepened through acquired cultivation, and when the vitality is deepened, the body's functions will also be improved simultaneously. Life is an organic unity of vitality and body, and this organic unity is called the metabody. According to the different physical functions of the depth of the vitality, the Yuan body is divided into six levels from low to high: mortal body, sensitive body, essence body, whole body, Xuan body, and Luo body, and each level is divided into nine sections, a total of 54 levels, and the beginning of life is a section of the mortal body. The improvement of the meta-level segment is from low to high, gradually advancing, and cannot cross the level, and the improvement of the level also needs to be broken through step by step. For example, from the mortal body to the sensitive body, you need to cultivate and deepen the vitality through continuous accumulation, cultivate the mortal body rank to the ninth stage, and then make a breakthrough, if the breakthrough is successful, you will be directly promoted to the first stage of the sensitive body, and if the breakthrough is unsuccessful, it may be reduced to a lower level, up to the sixth stage of the mortal body, and after the downgrade, you must re-cultivate and raise the mortal body to the ninth stage before you can break through again. The breakthrough of the meta body level depends on the talent creation, there is no fixed number, some people stay at a certain level all their lives, and they have repeatedly broken through countless times without being promoted. When the Yuan Body reaches a certain level of the ninth rank, if it does not break through, it will stay there, and even if it continues to cultivate, the Yuan Qi will not increase again, and the level will not be improved again.

The Yuan Body is the basis for practicing the exercises. To practice the exercises, the Yuan Body must reach the corresponding level, and this corresponding level is called the cultivation level of the exercise. The cultivation levels of the detachment stage, Xun stage, earthquake stage, Kun stage, and dry stage are the first stage of the sensitive body, the first stage of the essence body, the first stage of the whole body, the first stage of the Xuan body, and the first stage of the Luo body.

The metaphysical body affects the power of the exercises. The power of a skill when it is cast by the same Yuan body as its cultivation level is called the basic power of the exercise, and the power of the Yuan body when it is cast at a higher level than its cultivation level will be increased on the basis of the basic power of the exercise, and the higher it is, the more it will be improved.

The meta body affects the ability to perform exercises. Generally speaking, the higher the level of exercises, the more vitality is consumed when casting, and the consumed vitality will be restored after resting. If you continue to perform the exercises, the vitality in the body will gradually decrease, until the vitality is insufficient and you can no longer continue to cast, and you must wait for the vitality to recover. Therefore, the higher the meta-level level, the stronger its ability to continuously cast exercises, and the stronger its continuous combat ability in the case of combat exercises.

Luo body nine-section Yuan body is also known as Da Luo body, its Yuan body function has reached the transformation realm, the body vitality is used at any time, endless, can continue to perform any exercises, enduring.

If you want to practice the Fa, you must first ascend to the Yuan Body, and if you want to ascend to the Yuan Body, you must first refine the Yuan Qi! There is no special method for the cultivation of the Yuan Qi, that is, pranayama and breathing, everyone can do it, and everyone can practice it. There is no shortcut to the improvement of vitality, mainly by perseverance and accumulation, the higher the root bone talent, the faster the improvement. Of course, the action of external forces can also help to improve the vitality, such as cultivating in some places where heaven and earth are created, taking some elixirs, etc., provided that you have this opportunity!

In the Nanhao Empire, everyone can refine the vitality, but the exercises are extremely rare, not a commodity that can be bought with money, and the exercises in the hands of those family sects are also passed down from generation to generation, and the secrets are not passed on, even if it is the lowest level of off-level exercises, it is difficult to find!

The off-level exercise volley leg practiced by Baili Zixuan is the ancestral inheritance of the Baili family, and there are no other exercises other than that. In the entire Buddha Ye Town, there is also a detachment exercise in the Baili family.

Autumn is high and cool, it is the time when it is not hot or cold, and catch up with the sunny weather, the streets of Buddha Town are crowded, the shops along the street are full of people, the shouts of the vendors selling, the bargaining of customers, endlessly, a lively market scene.

At the crossroads of the town center, there is a three-storey pointed attic, blue bricks and black tiles, King Kong pedestal, covers an area of about one acre, the gate is high and wide, and the plaque of "Ancient Cui Pavilion" is hung on it. This is a shop that deals in antiques, and it seems to be independent and special in the market dominated by pharmacies in Buddha Town, but because the shop is not bullied, the price is fair, but it is also quite famous near and far, and the business is good.

The counter in the ancient pavilion is vertical and horizontal, full of gold, silver and jade, ceramic copper and wood, ancient books and calligraphy and paintings. Although the antique shop is not like the mass merchandise store, it is still full of customers today, and the shopkeeper and teller are not allowed to be idle.

A pair of young boys and girls slowly walked into the Gu Cui Pavilion, it was Baili Zixuan and Mei Ruoxue.

"Second young master, Miss Ruoxue!" the shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him.

"Uncle He!" The two of them gave him a junior salute. Shopkeeper He hurriedly grabbed them.

Baili Zixuan let the shopkeeper go to work on his own, and he and Ruoxue took a look at it at will. This is the antique shop opened by his family, and he specially brought Ruoxue to visit today, and he promised before.

Ruoxue was born in a wealthy family, and followed her father to many prosperous big cities in the empire, like this kind of antique shop, I have seen a lot of bigger than this, maybe it is the girl's heart, she still goes shopping with relish, Baili Zixuan has to accompany helplessly, most of the tellers in the shop know them, and from time to time tease him to take his daughter-in-law to the shop, which makes him embarrassed.

"Brother Zixuan, look at this Rosewood Bodhisattva, it's so vivid!"

"Yes. ”

"This tulle shirt is really good, no worse than the current craftsmanship. ”

"Hmm. ”

"This pair of characters is really well written, and the penmanship is strong!"

"Oh. ”

......

After a whole morning, Ruoxue patronized every corner of the three-story shop, and there was no gold, silver and jade in the picture, but she couldn't put down an ancient book "Business Tao".

"Uncle He, this book of "Business Tao" is on my head. ”

"It's okay, it's just that the young master gave his daughter-in-law an old ancient book, isn't it too picky!" shopkeeper He quipped.

Ruoxue on the side smiled slightly, Baili Zixuan made a grimace at Shopkeeper He, and pulled Ruoxue to flee the scene!

At noon, Baili Zixuan wanted to take Ruoxue to the restaurant for a meal, she had to go to the street stall to get some food, saying that the family was tired of eating big fish and meat, and wanted to taste the taste of local snacks.

In the afternoon of the Qinglan River, the breeze gusts, the river surface occasionally waves, a pair of boys and girls on the left bank pull the paper kite to run, and a black and gray kitten behind is also running around happily, happy and happy.

There were some stone benches and chairs on the shore, and when Baili Zixuan and Ruoxue were tired of playing, they sat down to rest, and let Xiao Qi bite the thread wheel of the paper kite with his mouth, and the little cat had a wistful look. He looked in the direction of the entrance of the Qingyun Cave, and the Yungen Mountain was endless from east to west, north and south, with clouds and clouds on it, and the mist was steaming, and the mountains were stacked on top of each other. This high mountain is from west to east, both ends are directly connected to the sea, from north to south, except for the Qinglan River through the hole, there is no road, it is an impassable area of the Nanhao Empire. Baili Zixuan likes to go to the mountains to play since he was a child, saying that it is in the mountains, that is, to go to the mountains near his house, he does not dare to go deep into Yungen Mountain, even if he dares, he will be pulled back, because the legend is that Yungen Mountain is hundreds of miles wide from north to south, and there are many poisonous snakes and beasts in the depths of the mountains, and there is a miasma zone in the southern mountains from west to east, which is full of miasma all the year round, and no one can cross the mountains for thousands of years. Baili Zixuan didn't believe that no one had crossed the mountain for thousands of years, otherwise how would he know that there was a corner of Wangya in the south of the mountain.

"Ruoxue, I'm going out for a while tomorrow. ”

"Where are you going, going to run a merchant with your uncle?"

"Hehe, no, go out and walk east along Yungen Mountain, and enjoy the mountains and rivers along the way!" Baili Zixuan said with a grin.

"Does Uncle agree?

"Agreed, I've asked my father for advice. ”

"You don't want to sneak into the depths of Yungen Mountain to explore, and lie to your uncle that it's along the mountain?" Ruoxue looked a little nervous.

"How can it, it's all a wolf's den, so I don't dare to go!" Baili Zixuan said with a swear.

"It's good to know!" Ruoxue glanced at him, and then the painting style changed abruptly, a pair of big watery eyes stared at Baili Zixuan smartly, and said with a smile on his face: "Brother Zixuan, take me with you! I also want to go out and have fun." ”

"Take you to a big city, it's not to play, playing is one thing, exercising your body is also one thing, it's inevitable to sleep in the open, how do you go to your girl's house!" Baili Zixuan lightly flicked Ruoxue's forehead.

Ruoxue pursed the corners of her lips helplessly!

"Meow...... Meow ......" Xiao Qi screamed twice in a row at the two of them, and the resentful eyes seemed to say, are you two tired enough, Lao Tzu has been biting the reel for a long time.

Baili Zixuan stood up, took the paper kite wheel, touched Xiao Qi's head, and the two of them took a cat, and ran crazy again.

Facing the cool river breeze, Ruoxue said softly: "Brother Zixuan, have you ever thought about going over to get a fame or follow your uncle in business?"

Baili Zixuan looked ahead, paused slightly, and said solemnly: "Unless I have to, I won't go to the court, I just want to be a ranger who travels all over the world." ”

Ruoxue showed a look of loss on her face, but it was fleeting, she blinked her autumn-like eyes, and said infinitely affectionately: "I like rangers, but I have to go home often." After speaking, she suddenly felt that her words were missing, her pretty face was slightly red, and her slender jade hand subconsciously covered her lips, and she lowered her head slightly, avoiding Baili Zixuan's sight.

"If you don't go home, you'll be a prodigal, and I'm not a prodigal. Baili Zixuan gently held Ruoxue's hand, and while running, the paper kite flew higher.

The two were about to return from their homes when one blocked the way.