Chapter 21: Martial Arts

In the North, the winter is very cold. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Huo Xiaoshan was practicing boxing on the snow by the lake, the exhaled haqi quickly formed frost flowers on Huo Xiaoshan's eyebrows and clothes, and he practiced martial arts to concentrate, and whenever he finished practicing, he didn't know how much snow and frost were on his eyebrows and hair.

After practicing martial arts at the beginning, the little roe deer didn't dare to approach, without him, he couldn't recognize Huo Xiaoshan anymore, until Huo Xiaoshan entered the hot spring to soak in the snow and frost, the little roe deer also entered the water and chirped at him, as if to say, it turned out to be you, which scared me a lot.

Huo Xiaoshan has a foundation for practicing martial arts and being cold-tolerant, with continuous training, Huo Xiaoshan's body has become stronger and stronger, and the time he has been practicing martial arts in the snow is getting longer and longer, and when he rests, he no longer only lies in the center of the hot spring, but deliberately lies in the cold water, and in this extremely cold place, he actually picks up the cold water bath he made at home.

It is under the dual tempering of ice and fire that in this short period of two years, Huo Xiaoshan has been immune to cold and heat, and his body is very abnormal.

When Huo Xiaoshan practiced "leaning against the mountain", he chose a big tree thicker than his waist in the woods by the lake, and used his body to constantly hit it according to the method taught by Huo Yuan.

Huo Yuan didn't talk about the meridians and internal qi to Huo Xiaoshan, maybe he thought it was too early for Huo Xiaoshan to teach this, maybe there was no content about the meridians in Bajiquan, Huo Xiaoshan naturally didn't know.

But Huo Xiaoshan remembered that his father told him that when he practiced Bajiquan, his whole body would be like a ball full of gas, and no matter where he was hit, it would automatically rebound.

Huo Xiaoshan conceived in his heart, inhaled the qi of heaven and earth into his body, realized the qi gathering, and accompanied the sound of humming when he exerted his strength, so that he could use qi to promote force and qi to match.

But Huo Xiaoshan always felt that he still didn't know the essentials, although he also had benefits, but it was not obvious.

Then he visualized the qi in his body like water.

The water is invisible, small but can drip through the stone for a long time, and the big one is like the tide of the Qiantang hitting the stone and hitting the shore, unstoppable, but he is still walking among the clouds without the guidance of his father, and he can't touch the right path.

Huo Xiaoshan is undoubtedly a stubborn person, the more he can't figure it out, the more diligent he becomes, and he puts all his body and mind into the perception of qi, like a demon, but he can't get the essentials in the end.

On this day, Huo Xiaoshan finished his work and walked by the lake to rest, but he still thought about the elusive, invisible, inaudible but real qi in his heart.

Suddenly, the chirping of the little roe deer in the distance behind him sounded, and when he turned around, he saw that the little roe deer had run to the shallow part of the lake at some point, and was playing happily alone.

Seeing that the forest was still shrouded in the water vapor produced by the hot spring, a poem suddenly jumped into his heart, but it was the "Song of Righteousness" by Wen Tianxiang of the Song Dynasty that Song Zijun taught him to recite: Heaven and earth have righteousness, mixed and popular, the lower is the river, and the upper is the sun and the stars......

Huo Xiaoshan's eyes lit up, and his heart suddenly felt enlightened, and he jumped up and shouted, "I understand!" ”

He galloped to a tree as thick as a sea bowl, and made a gesture, breathing and breathing, ha! With all his strength, he hit the tree with one shoulder, and the tree fell down with a bang, smashing up a snow mist! The little roe deer who was playing in the lake was so frightened that he stumbled.

The meaning of Wen Tianxiang's song of righteousness is that qi is the root of all things, and qi gathers into all things, and all upright people uphold the righteousness of heaven and earth and act in the world, so that the righteousness of this world can last forever.

And what Huo Xiaoshan realized was that qi was everywhere.

Since he was a child, under the guidance of his mother's son, he will recite the "Heart Sutra" and "Diamond Sutra" of Buddhism, and will also recite the "Tao Te Ching" written by Lao Tzu of Taoism and other classics.

The spirit of all things is self-proclaimed, Lao Tzu said that heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are dogs, if people rest delusional thoughts, that is, the self-proclaimed so-called spirit of heaven and earth, then they can communicate with all things in heaven and earth.

Buddhism says that the light enlightenment must be realized, it is called enlightenment, he hit the tree, no longer have the idea of gathering the qi of heaven and earth, his mind is quiet and peaceful, but he feels the qi of heaven and earth in the chest, suddenly emitted, the tree fell in response to the sound, which is also the proof of his martial arts achievements from then on.

Huo Xiaoshan didn't know that although he still used the frame of Bajiquan, the mental method he used was realized by himself, and it was very different from Bajiquan.

It's just that now he is the only one in this Tiankeng Jedi, and there is no other Bajiquan master to compete with him, but there is no way to verify the effect of Xiaoshan Bajiquan that he has explored.

The idea of the unity of heaven, earth and man occupies absolute authority in the cultural history of the Chinese nation, and the breadth and profundity of the Chinese's yin and yang dialectical theory is far from being comparable to the Hegelian dialectic of the West.

This unique thinking is habitually permeated throughout the 5,000-year history of civilization of the Chinese nation, and has its application in all fields of social life, such as imperial techniques, military wars, shopping mall games, and even the martial arts practiced by the Chinese.

Therefore, even though the Chinese have many shortcomings, such as servility such as liking internal coaxing, but compared with the West, the Chinese must have an advantage in IQ over those foreigners who like to go straight.

And Huo Xiaoshan's mental method has gone beyond the scope of dialectic, when practicing martial arts, the aura of heaven and earth comes and goes, and when he fights, he moves like a rabbit, but when he is quiet, he does not show a trace of fire and is no different from ordinary people.

This kind of realm has reached a level that cannot be expressed in words, and it can only be understood but not spoken.

As the so-called master leads the door, the practice is in the individual. There is a truth in this, and how many people understand it? Cultivation in the individual is of course said to be diligent and hardworking, and in addition, it also depends on personal understanding, because although the master understands the words, he can't speak clearly, just like the Buddha Shakya smiling on the seat, everyone doesn't understand, only the Mahakala leaf smiled slightly, and he has the Zen Dharma eye and Nirvana wonderful heart.

In Huo Xiaoshan's hard practice, a long and cold winter in the north passed like this, seeing that the weather was warm, the snow had not yet melted, but there was a trace of moisture in the air.

On this day, Huo Xiaoshan still only wore the deerskin pants to practice martial arts on the snow by the lake, and his performance was different.

There is also a proverb in martial arts, "Tai Chi is ten years to get started, and Baji kills people in one year", which shows the fierceness and domineering of Baji Boxing.

It turned out that when Huo Xiaoshan practiced Baji Boxing, he was also like other Baji masters, with the strength of his fists and feet, and when he broke out, he slammed and stomped, stomped on the ground, and shook the trees, but now he practiced the movements and speed, but the fists and feet just didn't regain the wind.

In the past few days, the temperature has been very long, but the sky is gloomy, and before you know it, snowflakes have begun to fall, which are small at first, and then as big as goose feathers in the blink of an eye, falling from the sky.

Huo Xiaoshan didn't realize it, and still practiced and focused.

The snowflakes floated down leisurely like feathers, and it stands to reason that there was wind in the fists and feet, and the snowflakes would be light and would be blown away by the wind, but at this time a strange scene happened.

The snowflakes did not change the trajectory of the leisurely fall in the slightest, and regarded Huo Xiaoshan, who was moving, as if there was nothing, and directly landed on his **** skin, as if Huo Xiaoshan was punching and kicking in another space.

At first, the snowflakes would melt when they fell on his body, but the snow was big, and the melting always fell quickly, and soon Huo Xiaoshan's body was already full of snowflakes, and the snow became thicker and thicker, and slowly Huo Xiaoshan became a snowman.

Huo Xiaoshan punched and kicked his legs, but the snow did not fall, but gathered more and more, and in a blink of an eye, the snowman turned into a snow bear again.

However, Huo Xiaoshan's boxing and kicking speed was not slow, and he seemed to be practicing martial arts with a thicker and thicker snow suit.

It's like rolling a snowball on snow, the faster and farther it rolls, the bigger the snowball gets.

At the same time, it turned out that he practiced martial arts in the knee-high snow like ploughing the ground, if he wanted to stand firm in the soft snow and not move absurdly, he had to use great strength.

But this time he flew on the water grass like a clear fly, although the movement was still very large, the whole person was no longer deep in the snow, the snow only did not reach the surface of his feet, but he did not enter the snow, and the whole person seemed to float on the snow

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and Huo Xiaoshan became more and more bloated, and the snowflakes were finally piled up to the extreme.

At this time, Huo Xiaoshan laughed, mixed with the internal force of the outside, there seemed to be a muffled thunder between heaven and earth, and his feet stepped into the snow again, the snow was back to his knees, and at the same time, the snowflakes shook down, revealing the skin tempered by ice and fire, and he was still that heroic young man!

Since then, Huo Xiaoshan's martial arts have stepped into the ranks of first-class masters!