Chapter 3 Learning in the Mountains
Su Xiu was blocked by a young man, although he was a little frightened in his heart, but he also knew that Zhang Xiu was the only boy on Tong Yuan's mountain, and as for Tong Yuan's eldest disciple Zhang Ren, he had already gone down the mountain, so there was a chance that the young man in front of him was Zhang Xiu.
So he arched his hand and said, "This is Senior Brother Zhang Xiu?" I am a disciple that Master has just received, and I just went up the mountain today, and I will be a family from now on, and I ask my senior brother for more guidance. ”
"Oh? Bro? I didn't listen to what the master said, don't fool me, my brother is a little prodigy of Xiliang. ”
Eh, Zhang Xiu in history has not heard of this kind of person who runs the train with his mouth full, Xiliang little prodigy, if Zhang Xiu can be called a prodigy, then Li Ru and Jia Xu, who are also in Xiliang, are not going to be gods?
However, Su Xiu didn't intend to poke him, "That's, how did I deceive you, senior brother, I am indeed a disciple that the master just accepted, if you don't believe it, you can ask the master." Besides, how could I have come here without Master taking me up the mountain, you say yes. ”
Zhang Xiu thought about it, it seemed to be such a reason, so he patted Su Xiu's shoulder and circled around Su Xiu, "Well, it makes sense, but junior brother, your body is a little thin, let me tell you, Master's requirements are very strict, senior brother, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it." ”
"Really? Only by being strict can you learn the real skills, look at the senior brother, you are heroic, and the master's marksmanship is almost learned, right, you say that the master is not strict, how can the senior brother learn so quickly? ”
Zhang Xiu scratched his head and smiled: "What the senior brother said makes sense, but junior brother, it's not that the senior brother said you, your body is indeed too thin, and after I go to see the master, I will teach you a set of body refining methods, otherwise you may not be able to go down the mountain for fifty years." After saying that, he smiled and left.
Is there any mistake, if those historians saw the current Zhang Xiu, they would definitely not think of the terrifying Northland Gun King, which is completely beyond Su Xiu's imagination, so history is really not so credible.
After taking a turn in the back mountain, Su Xiu returned to his hut, thinking of what Zhang Xiu said, it is true that his physical foundation is too poor, and he thought about the training methods in the future, especially the training methods of special forces seen in movies and television, although it should not be all, but it can also improve his physical fitness very well.
As soon as he thought of it, Su Xiu started to make equipment in front of his hut, and if he didn't have it, he would find something to replace it, and if he could do it, he would do it, and if he couldn't do it, he would find another way.
Fifteen days later, everything he could do was done, during which he went to Tong Yuan every day to learn the basic knowledge of marksmanship, and he also practiced the method of refining the body that Zhang Xiu told him, and after half a month, he did feel a little different.
Tong Yuan saw all this in his eyes, although he didn't know what the things he made were useful or how to use them, but Tong Yuan knew Su Xiu from the beginning and felt that this teenager was different from others, and through the observation of this half a month, he felt that Su Xiu was much more mature than other teenagers, and he was also much smarter, many things were thorough, and he could draw inferences from one another, except for his physical almost, his qualifications in other aspects were very good, plus he had been refining really hard in the past few days, and he had a tenacity that Zhang Xiu did not have. Tong Yuan was very satisfied with this apprentice.
In the past half a month on the mountain, Su Xiu also found that there was a small library behind Tong Yuan's bamboo house, which in addition to the basic marksmanship introduction, there were also martial arts introductions such as knife skills, swordsmanship, stick skills, halberd techniques, etc., in addition to the practice of qi cultivation and the art of war astrology.
It can be seen that Tong Yuan is not only a martial arts master, but also should have a certain amount of research on the art of war and astrology (later Su Xiu learned that these books on the art of war and astrology were collected slowly after Tong Yuan retired, and he didn't study too deeply, and he didn't stop his disciples if they were interested).
Like the classic military books "The Art of War", "The Art of War", "The Art of War", "The Art of War", "The Art of War", "The Art of War", "The Art of War", etc., there are all available, and there are some rare books in later generations, Tong Yuan also has a collection here.
After obtaining Tong Yuan's consent, Su Xiu will come to the library to read books whenever he has time, of course, the main thing to look at is spearmanship and the art of war, after all, he is very aware of the changes and his goals in a few years, if he wants to survive and rise in the troubled times, these will be the capital of development.
Three months later, Tong Yuan called Su Xiu to the back mountain, gave him a wooden gun, and asked him to shoot a thousand times at the grass target on the opposite side, when he could pierce three grass targets with one shot, he could enter the next stage of practice.
When Su Xiu heard it, it was quite simple, just three grass targets. Seeing his expression, Zhang Xiu knew that he had the same thoughts as when he first went up the mountain, so he walked up to him and said, "Senior brother, do you think it's quite simple?" ”
"Huh? It doesn't feel like it's that hard. ”
"Hehe, I knew you would think that, and I did the same. As you can see, there are two feet between these three grass targets, and the grass targets are woven by the villagers down the mountain, which are quite tight, and there is a two-inch thick wooden plank inside, and it took me about a year and a half to pierce three grass targets with a wooden gun. ”
"Huh?" Su Xiu really didn't expect this basic prickly gun to be so difficult. But think about it, if it can be done simply, then how can Zhang Ren, Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun be so outstanding.
"Practice slowly, junior brother."
A thousand times of piercing the gun, what he practiced was the accuracy of the two-handed gun, the strength and explosiveness, at the beginning, Su Xiu did feel a little unbearable, his hands were sore, and he almost couldn't hold the gun steadily, but Su Xiu still insisted on doing basic exercises, because he knew that there would be no satisfactory harvest without hard work. After more than a decade of hard work to build a business empire from scratch, he believed that through his own efforts and rich knowledge of history, he would be able to establish his dynasty more easily than anyone else.
After practicing the spear for a month, Su Xiu slowly got used to it, and then after the spear, he also trained himself to step with a gun, hang a stone at the edge of his eight-foot spear, tie a four-flat horse with his legs, and a wooden gun with one hand, so as to train his wrist strength. From half a catty at the beginning, it slowly became two, three, and five catties, and the time of Zama also changed from a cup of tea to a stick of incense to an hour later, Su Xiu obviously felt that his body was getting stronger.
A year later, after his own hard practice, he was finally able to pierce three grass targets when he stabbed the wooden gun with all his might, for which Zhang Xiu was surprised for a long time. After all, before he went up the mountain, he had a family martial arts body, and his physical fitness was not better than Su Xiu's, but it took him a year and a half to practice from the beginning to pierce three grass targets with one shot, and this junior brother did not have any martial arts foundation when he went up the mountain, and his body was so poor, he actually completed it nearly half a year earlier than himself, I have to say that this junior brother made him very admirable. In addition to the comprehension ability in martial arts, there is also that tenacity. At first, he couldn't help but practice together when he saw Su Xiuzama holding a gun, but it didn't take long to find that he couldn't stand the boredom, and he was still standing in that strange posture (at that time, there was no Zama practice like in the martial arts hall in the movie), and I am afraid that this junior brother could withstand it.
After Su Xiu completed the initial practice of piercing the gun, Tong Yuan began to teach Su Xiu some marksmanship, such as protruding, stabbing, picking, sweeping, pressing and other techniques to demonstrate to Su Xiu one by one, Su Xiu practiced for half a month, and after basically mastering the tricks of the technique, he changed the practice location to the waterhole in the back mountain.
Due to the resistance of the water, the technique that could have been decent was completely deformed. Since Su Xiu had been practicing the qi practice method taught by Tong Yuan at night for more than a year, Su Xiu had been trying to control the gun with qi and use true qi to resist the resistance of water. Once the true qi is exhausted, go ashore to rest and recover, and then go down to the pool again to practice. Day after day, never stopping.
Half a year later, Tong Yuan and Zhang Xiu were practicing in the woods in the back mountain, when they heard a "bang" sound coming from the waterhole.
The master and apprentice hurriedly rushed over, only to see Su Xiu waving the spear in his hand freely in the waterhole, stabbing left and right, like a dragon in the water. Suddenly, a flying body pressed to the top, only to hear a loud "bang", the water splashed, just like the goddess scattered flowers, shining in the sunlight, like countless pearls scattered in the pool.
"Good! Good! Good! Tong Yuan really didn't expect that in a short period of time, Su Xiu would be able to practice qigong to this extent, looking at Su Xiu's momentum is already on par with Zhang Xiu, you must know that Zhang Xiu has been practicing family martial arts under the teaching of his uncle Zhang Ji since he was a child, and this Su Xiu has only taken less than two years to practice to Zhang Xiu's realm of the Gang body, although it is inseparable from Su Xiu's diligence, but it is also inseparable from his outstanding talent. Tong Yuan felt that this apprentice had made a profit, and maybe in another ten years, he would be able to become a top master at the same level as him and Wang Yue.
"Master, Senior Brother!" Looking at Tong Yuan's relieved expression, Su Xiu knew that his performance was relatively satisfactory in Tong Yuan's opinion. Coming ashore, Su Xiuyi arched his hand, "Master, I recently feel that my true qi is not very controlled when I practice qi, I don't know why, please ask master to solve the doubts for the disciple." ”
"Hahaha, this is a sign that you are going to break through, I taught you to practice Qi at that time, and I didn't expect you to be able to practice to such a realm so early, so I didn't tell you in detail. As I told you before, Qi training is divided into four realms: foundation building, qi cultivation, gang qi, and feathering, among which foundation building and qi cultivation have no obvious signs when breaking through, and they break through very smoothly, but when you enter the realm of gang qi, because you want to transform your own internal strength into Gang Qi that can penetrate the body, you need a lot of internal strength, so you will feel that there are more and more internal strength, and it is uncontrollable. And Gang Qi is divided into acquired Gang Qi and innate Gang Qi, and then up is the realm of feathering, legend has it that people can fly flat after reaching the realm of feathering, but it's just a legend, at least I haven't heard of anyone who has really soared. ”
Tong Yuan paused, and then said: "It's really a good thing for you to break through, but after all, it is to break through to the realm of Gangqi, there is still a certain risk, in this way, if you come to my bamboo house at night, I will help you protect the Fa, and I will also tell you some of my experience, but I can't help you with the breakthrough, and you can only rely on yourself to comprehend." Everyone's comprehension is different, so that you can create the most suitable stunt for yourself. ”
After Tong Yuan finished speaking, he turned his head and said to Zhang Xiu, who was still in shock: "Look at your junior brother, look at you again, if you don't work hard, you will be surpassed by your junior brother!" ”
Zhang Xiu also looked helpless, this Su Xiu is a pervert, he has come up with so many strange cultivation methods, what kind of horse step gun, waterhole practice, I really don't know how his head grows, why there are such strange things.
So he said to Su Xiu: "Senior brother, let's talk about it after you break through, I don't need a hundred birds and a phoenix, I want to see how strong the method you little pervert has come up with!" ”
It's not that Zhang Xiu deliberately made things difficult, the main thing is that Su Xiu's way of practicing has never appeared, which makes Zhang Xiu curious, and Zhang Xiu is not the kind of person who is jealous of his ability, the stronger his junior brother is, the happier he will be.
"Okay, but when the time comes, I'll have to ask my senior brother to correct me a lot!" Su Xiu clenched his fists and arched his hand.