Chapter 7: Imperial Thaumaturgy
It's as if you're deep in a confused dream and can't wake up. In a blur of consciousness, he lay in a spacious room, staring at him with a pair of concerned eyes from time to time. The look was so familiar, as if it were somewhere in Knowledge, manifested by confusion. Gradually, I could feel a trace of light and noise, as if there were many people busy, someone leaned over to look at themselves, the light and shadow overlapped in front of them, and it was still that familiar look. He seemed to know who it was, but the star memory was stuck in the depths of Knowledge, and it couldn't be revealed. I'm still tired and don't want to wake up.
It was ten days before Xu Ruyu really woke up. He lay on the bed with all his strength, and turned his head to look at the bright sky outside the window, unable to identify whether he was in Qichuan, Wanling, or somewhere else. He thought that when he was in a coma, the eyes that often came to look at him should be Godfather Chen Ang and Godmother Xiao Yuru.
When he was in a trance, a handsome maid in a green shirt and a bearded man came in with a basin, and saw Xu Ruyu looking at him with his eyes open, slightly opening his cherry lips, and with an incredible look, he put the basin on the low table on the side, and screamed and turned around and slipped out: "Ah, he woke up." ”
Xu Ruyu was taken aback by her reaction, reached out and groped her face, but she couldn't notice anything abnormal. At this moment there was a sound of hurried footsteps in the courtyard, and more and more footsteps converged into the courtyard, but did not come in, as if they were whispering and asking questions around the maidservant. Xu Ru couldn't hear clearly in a vague way, and thought: Probably because he was afraid of disturbing himself. I felt very lazy, and I couldn't lift my energy to listen, so I had to look at the snow-white tent to think about some questions, but I found that my mind was not easy to concentrate, and I thought that maybe it was caused by too much stimulation of the essence of heaven and earth.
Xu Ruyu didn't think much about it, Ning Shen looked inwardly at the heaven and earth, and felt the slowly flowing Dan breath spin and sink into it, transforming into a purer existence. Xu Ruyu now knew that his body's instinctive Dan breath sank into the heaven and earth aperture and turned into essence to replenish the over-consumed essence in the four days. Xu Ruyu was slapped by Mei Tierui in the river, and by chance he realized the art of controlling the essence, but he never had time to meditate on the practice of qi, so he only knew how to strengthen the essence in four days, but did not know how to practice qi supplement. Now, lying quietly on the bed, carefully pondering the tricks taught by Wu Chu to practice the essence of gasification. The Dan breath in Xu Ruyu's body spontaneously moved from the Dantian Dan Mansion to the Heaven and Earth Aperture and transformed into the essence element, but it was extremely slow. All this, after Xu Ruyu closed Outer Knowledge (Concentration), the route of Dan Xi was fully revealed in the Sea of Knowledge.
Everything is clear, and there is no hesitation, Xu Ruyu's inner knowledge is clear and shocking Yin and Yang, the intention is to guard the dantian, the yang fire is gradually born, the qi sinks into the Danfu, the yin breath is at the beginning, the yin and yang sympathetic, the form and the god are really one and the same is Chong and Yuan Zhen Dan. Dan Xi Xiao Zhou Tian runs, sinks into the heaven and earth tricks, and resurrects the righteous to spiritual and subtle qi, which circulates endlessly in Xiao Zhou. Zhou Tian flows, the breath is slight, if there is nothing, up to the mud pill between the eyebrows, the neutralizing qi begins to merge with heaven and earth. Re-envoy Dan Xi traveled through the Great Zhou Tian, to the hundred bones and twelve canons, and the strange veins outside the meridians, so that it flowed for a long time, and when Xu Ruyu woke up again, I don't know how long it had passed.
When I woke up this time, I only felt that the dantian was flowing in the inner breath, if the surging river valley was surging and the essence and qi were combined, there was no longer any distinction between Xuan Xuan, the atmosphere was calm and relaxed, and the spiritual sense was far away, as if a more vivid world was revived in Xu Ruyu's consciousness.
This is also the difference between those who are not able to understand the heaven and the earth and those who do not practice internal breathing, and those who do not know the heaven and earth can only practice refining and transforming qi, which triggers the qi machine. The essence of human beings is divided into two poles, often the male yin body and yang surname, and the qi out of the dantian is the flame; The woman's yang body is surnamed Yin, and the air is out of the Dan Mansion for the cold water. The innate essence is limited, and it can only trigger the qi, and then absorb the subtle vitality of heaven and earth and the essence of the valley, and practice into Dan Xi, so Dan Xi is also called the method of breathing and pranayama, but this is only the preliminary of internal breathing, and most people who practice martial arts are stagnant here, and they will not go back. The qi collected by this kind of internal breathing technique is turbid and impure, and the qi is practiced and the spirit is transformed, and the eyes are not clear, and the tendons cannot be washed and changed.
After the heaven and earth are connected, the Dan breath technique will enter the innate realm, and the Dan breath will sink into it and turn into the essence element, and the essence will flow in the heaven and earth without stopping, and it will reach the realm of the most spiritual and subtle, rushing and refining.
If an ordinary person cultivates the Yin Technique with the surname Yang and the Yin Body, the Qi emitted by the innate essence is scattered in the Yin Body, and it cannot be accumulated in the Dan Mansion, and naturally it will not be able to practice the Yin Technique. However, Xu Ruyu was born with a great Zhou Tian and was not connected, and the veins of the hundred bones were not connected to the Dan Mansion, so he was able to accumulate cold breath and practice the Yin Technique, but he almost died because he was not tolerant of cold breath. Later, by chance, he practiced yang tricks, the harmony of yin and yang, water and fire together, and the Dan Qi technique had entered the innate realm.
After the Jiangjin incident, Xu Ruyu's meridians were damaged, and the heavens and the earth were connected. For several years, Xu Ruyu only knew how to regulate pranayama to heal internal injuries, and never tried to run the Dan breath out of the body to exert force. Zhonghe Danxi's surname is Zheng, not stored in Dantian, nor returned to Zhudanfu, and instinctively sinks into the heaven and earth to transform into his own essence (even if it is not in Jiangjin by chance, Chong and Danxi accumulate in Xu Ruyu's body to a certain extent, and will spontaneously impact heaven and earth). The technique of controlling the essence is that the essence flows through the heaven and the earth, and the essence is constantly flowing, and the essence is breeding. Xu Ruyu was seriously injured at the beginning, and the Dan breath was born and circulated rapidly in the veins of the hundred remains, Xu Ruyu could also rely on Knowledge to examine, and then the injury gradually healed, and the Dan breath was running in a small week, sinking into the heaven and earth and turning into the essence element, Xu Ruyu, who had never tried the art of controlling the essence, was naturally unable to use his own Dan breath. Relying on the Dan breath that changes with life is not enough to go out of the body and turn into Dan Jin.
He said that he was palmed in the river, and he suddenly realized that the technique of overflowing the essence and becoming a breath outside the body was actually half of the art of the imperial essence. Therefore, among the four days, only the support of the essence element is known, and the essence is exhausted when people arrive in Qichuanyi. If ordinary people are like this, they are already in a state where the oil is dry and the lamp is extinguished, even if they don't die on the spot, they won't be able to survive for a few hours, but Xu Ruyu's Dan Xi has been an instinct in the past four years, as if he has stepped into the realm of practicing deification and transforming void in half a step (in this article, "void" refers to the spontaneous flow of Dan breath, and the realm of no desire to contemplate the wonderful), although the circulation is slow, but he also maintains his vitality until he wakes up.
When Xu Ruyu woke up leisurely for the first time, Jing Yuan only made up enough to make his mind recover, but his five senses had dropped a lot, and he couldn't hear the whispers of someone outside, and he couldn't concentrate his mind to think about complex issues. After he settled down, the speed at which his breath was transformed into essence became faster and faster, and when he woke up again, the essence he had consumed was more abundant, and his divine consciousness had also risen to a higher level, so he had a sense of rebirth in the world. At this time, Xu Ruyu knew the art of controlling the essence, and the Dan breath in the trick was endless, and the body was full of power to be sprayed out, only to see a light in front of him, with hundreds of limbs and bones, and everywhere was qi, and he couldn't help but let out a whistling sound in his mouth, this sound was like a dragon roaring Daze, a tiger roaring deep valley, and it was teleported far away.
This sound reached more than ten miles, and Chen Ang, who returned to Wanling from the Zehu outpost, heard this whistling sound several miles outside the city, and couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, thinking: There are people in the city who have broken through the qi barrier, and it is undoubtedly a big help in this time of emergency.
Chen Ang went ashore from the Fengling Ferry, changed his fast horse, and rushed to the Governor's Mansion in the north of the city.
Four days ago, I received news that the righteous messengers had woken up, but the military affairs were cumbersome and they couldn't get out of it.
Three major battles took place in the spring on the western side of the lake, and the two sides had to retreat and repair. Yi Chongwu, the commander of Longya in Qingzhou, led 40,000 troops to be stationed in Yixing Bianyi City, and his uncle Yisde, the commander of Huya in Qingzhou, led 30,000 elite soldiers to garrison Bayang, and the two cities were less than 200 miles away from Zedangyi in the northwest of Zehu, and the cavalry could reach it day and night. However, over the past few years, the East China Sea and Qingzhou have repeatedly had bad relations, and most of the battlefield will be in the area of Zedang, Bianyi, and Bayang. The 20,000 soldiers stationed in the garrison have experienced a hundred battles, riding and shooting bravely, and the four battalions of the Pingyi Water Battalion have entered Zehu to assist in the defense, Zedang can be described as impregnable.
Half a month ago, Captain Qi Chuan, Zeng Yixing, sent an urgent letter to report that Yongyang and Baishi had plotted against the East China Sea, and then escorted the messenger to Wanling. Chen Ang intuitively felt that there would be an earth-shattering change in the forces of the world, and for the first time, he felt a sense of powerlessness. In the past ten days, he has been running between the various towns of Wanling and rearranging the defense. Two battalions of sailors were also transferred from Pingyi to enter Zehu, and half of the 10,000 Xinfengyi in the southeast of Zehu were transferred to strengthen the defense of Qichuan. Everyone understood that once the enemy army pressed the border, Chen Ang would first abandon Xinfengyi and go all out to defend the four cities of Zedang, Qichuan, Wanling, and Pingyi. These four cities are connected by Huaishui and Zehu, and the Pingyi Water Camp is sharp and difficult to be in the world, but in fact it has become a military defense whole. This is also the original intention of Xu Xing to build the water camp in Pingyi back then, with the support of powerful water camp warships, the four cities are interconnected, and it will never become a lonely city trapped in the enemy's territory, unless the enemy army has the strength to launch an offensive against the four cities at the same time.
The three families of Yongyang, Baishi, and Qingzhou should have this strength, and this terrible reality has been pressing on Chen Ang's heart for decades. Fortunately, someone delivered the news in time, so that Tairu and Biling had the strength to maneuver, and they could resist the offensive of nearly 100,000 elite soldiers in Yongyang and Baishi in the south. However, the families of Tairu and Biling have never had a battalion army, and it is unknown how long they can resist with only 50,000 guards guarding the eight cities. Although he wrote to suggest that his troops be reduced to the two fortified cities of Tairu and Biling, after all, he could not directly intervene in the defense of the two prefectures. The families of the two provinces are scattered in the eight cities, the city is destroyed, and the families facing the north near Wanling Mansion do not need to directly face the enemy's attack, and can also send troops to strengthen the defense of Tairu and Piling; However, in the south, they were faced with the families of the near Yongyang, but they were unwilling to give up their family business rooted in Si, abandon the city, and avoid Tairu and Biling. Only the Xinziwei family immediately retreated after confirming the news, entered the city of Biling, and donated all the 2,000 war horses they raised to form the first cavalry camp in Piling.
Shang Ruo said that the crisis in the East China Sea is difficult to solve, and the person who made the first contribution is the person who reported the news. This precious time enabled the three prefectures and thirteen towns to take precautions in time, so as not to be caught off guard by the Meixu coalition army. Chen Ang was grateful to him, and he felt even more righteous when he knew that he had traveled thousands of miles to deliver letters in a hurry, and his essence was exhausted. As long as he rushes back to Wanling, Chen Ang will take a step back to see Xu Ruyu and use Dan Xi to recuperate for him. When Wanling sent a message that Xu Ruyu had woken up, Chen Ang was discussing defense priorities with the two heads of the Biling Long and Wei families in Xinfeng. The Long and Wei families have already submitted to Chen Ang, hoping to get Wanling's assistance. Of course, Chen Ang knows that he is now facing the reality of both prosperity and decline, and he does not shirk it. Therefore, it had to re-strengthen the defense of Xinfeng, so as to prevent the Qingzhou army from attacking the belly and back of Biling from Xinfeng. It wasn't until yesterday afternoon that I had to get out.
When Chen Ang arrived at the Governor's Mansion in the north of the city, he was slightly surprised to see several generals who stayed in the city gathered in front of the council hall, and said, "When did you know that I was rushing back to Wanling today?" ”
The generals hurriedly greeted him and replied, "I heard someone snorting and howling, thinking that Lord Du Wei had returned, but now I know that there is another person. A bearded veteran continued, "When I arrived, the whistling had not stopped, and it came from the Inner House. We were about to send in to report it, when the lord returned. ”
Chen Ang was surprised and said, "Oh, you go to the council hall to sit down first, I'll go in and have a look, and I still have important things to discuss with you later." After that, he was about to walk towards the inner mansion when the sound of horses' hooves came from the door of the mansion. Chen Ang and everyone looked at each other, and they didn't know what was going on. Only the messenger with the urgent paperwork could gallop to the Governor's Mansion.
A man in gray clothes and black scarf turned over and dismounted, and rushed to the house. Chen Ang recognized him as a spy sent to Yongyang, and waved his hand to let him come closer. The spy touched the ground on one knee, presented a sealed letter with fire paint, and said, "Yongyang's inner line is secret." ”
Chen Ang checked that the seal was undamaged, opened the letter and read it, and doubts gradually appeared on his face. Seeing that all the generals looked at him with suspicion, he smiled and said, "It's not a close military situation, don't be suspicious." Then he handed the letter to the middle-aged general beside him and said, "Zi Pre, Su'er, you come in with me." ”
Chen Yu is Chen Ang's younger brother, Fang Su is Chen Ang's third disciple, everyone knows that what the secret report said is Chen Ang's family matter, so they don't say anything more, and enter the council hall to wait.
Chen Yu read the letter while following closely behind Chen Ang, with surprise on his face, and said, "Mei Tierui was injured by the Surprise Divine Technique?" But in addition to the eldest brother in the clan, I am the only one who can barely use the last shocking form of the yin and yang attack, is the news wrong? ”
Fang Su was confused when he heard this, Chen Ang signaled that he would hand it over to him, he took it for a moment, and said, "The letter said that the news was confirmed by Uncle Yun himself, so there should be no mistake. ”
Chen Yu said: "Yun Qingxu has always been cautious, but the person who sent the letter knows the secret art of our clan, and it is really difficult to think about. ”
Chen Ang's face was happy, his eyes were bright, and he said loudly: "I passed on the amazing magic trick to one person five years ago, do you still have an impression?" ”
Chen predetermined that he was overjoyed, grabbed Chen Ang's arm, and said, "You said that the person who sent the letter is more vulgar?" ”
Chen Ang said: "Yes, when I saw him, I thought of Zixing's appearance when he was young, but the internal injuries he suffered when he was in Bayang and Jiangjin made it hard to believe that he still had a chance to survive, and I saw that his meridians were very different from usual, only when he was a person who looked similar to Zixing." Now I finally know that he is my fateful god. Speaking of this, his voice trembled uncontrollably, his eyes were full of tears, he shook Chen Yu's hand, and nodded to each other with satisfaction.
Chen Yu said excitedly: "The sky is pitiful, and the child has a future." After thinking about it for a while, he continued: "The right talent is long howling and subduing Ruihao endlessly, but it is actually yin and yang breathing out of the body at the same time, which seems to be more vulgar in luck." It's rare for him to have such cultivation at such a young age. ”
When Chen Ang heard this, he couldn't help but be happy again, and he didn't speak, and pulled the two of them to the second west wing and hurriedly walked to the west wing.
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