Chapter 47: The Understanding of Qi

The night is always full of danger and fear for the weak, because you never know what kind of danger lies under the darkness.

But for the Min people of the Great Min Mountains, that qiē is nothing: the night is their shelter, the wild beasts are with them, and the poison is their servant.

The people of Damin Mountain are the kings of the mountains and swamps, and they are born warriors!

As for the Han Chinese......

"The weak."

Or this is the evaluation of many Daminshan warriors to the Han people.

This includes Tu Mountain, the warrior of Damin Mountain.

Tu Shan, a strong warrior with a height of eight feet, much taller than the average height of seven feet in the Han Dynasty, it is difficult to imagine how a man like him can agile shuttle through the jungle and hunt fierce beasts. Perhaps this is the so-called one side of the water and soil to raise one side of the people, although the soldiers of the Damin Mountain are generally taller than the Han people, but their weight is very light. They are not good at lifting heavy objects, but their agility and excellent hunting skills help them to hunt their prey again and again in the mountains and forests.

This time, Tu Shan and the rest of the tribe's warriors arrived at Dongshi Mountain, where they wanted to help a friendly ally overthrow his country, at least by acquiring enough land to establish it.

Tu Shan didn't understand the concept of the country very well, he guessed that it was probably similar to the tribe, and the emperor, probably the chief of their tribe, also enjoyed the supreme divine power and dignity.

"Woo woo lu-"

(There are no Han warriors in front.) )

The warriors who reconnoitred at the front of the team passed the situation ahead to Tu Shan's ears.

[Warrior of the Han Kingdom......]

As a warrior of the Great Min Mountain, Tu Shan, like his companions, did not look down on the soldiers of the Han State very much. Well, it should be said that it is a warrior, because there is no concept of a soldier in Damin Mountain. Their positions are very simple: the one who can capture prey for the tribe is the warrior, the hunter, the warrior, the man and the woman, the old man and the child.

The people of Daminshan respected the powerful warriors, but the warriors of the Han Kingdom did not seem to deserve their respect, because just today, Tushan and they easily killed dozens of hostile warriors on Dongshi Mountain.

Tu Shan couldn't imagine how those weak hostile fighters, those who couldn't even bring them the slightest battle wound, were worthy of being called warriors. The group of people didn't even know how to hide their breath, and the traps they set were so shoddy that people could see through them at a glance, and they didn't have the kind of supremacy that a warrior should have under their attack.

Just this group of guys who can't even compare to the children in their tribe can defeat the Great Yue soldiers under the lord of the Yue Kingdom (referring to the Yangming Emperor Xu Zhao)?

Tu Shan, who had closed the news for too long, really couldn't figure it out, after all, in the history of their oral inheritance, their lord Yue Wang Gou Jian had destroyed the great king of the powerful enemy Wu State, and as the descendants of the Gou Jian monarch, the warriors under the lord of Yangming were too weak, so weak that even the warriors in their tribe could not compare.

But it doesn't matter, as the loyal heirs of the Great Yue Kingdom, the warriors of the Great Min Mountain are willing to assist the Yangming monarch and annex the entire Han State just as the Yue Kingdom annexed the Wu State. Although Tu Shan didn't know how big the territory of the Han Kingdom was, he had this confidence, after all, the Han soldiers he met were just a bunch of weak and incompetent guys.

Oh, and by the way, there are exceptions.

Tu Shan couldn't help but think of the strange Han man he met this evening.

The white and pure Han warrior, as if he could perform a kind of witchcraft, like a witch doctor of their tribe, sprang out of his body something that seemed to be armor, and let him blow it with a blow arrow that he was bound to get.

Recalling his frightened appearance at that time, Tu Shan couldn't help but blush a little, after all, he was also a warrior in the tribe, but he was scared away by the evil magic of a weak Han warrior, which really hindered the name of the warrior.

Looking at the short sword in his hand, Tu Shan secretly swore in his heart that this time he would kill that strange Han warrior and wash away the stains of his previous escape.

The dagger in Tu Shan's hand had been obtained from the corpse of a Guangling scout, much stronger and sharper than their tribe's bone dagger, and he felt that it was most appropriate to kill the Han soldier.

Suddenly, the abnormal behavior of the previous companions who stopped for no reason alarmed the distracted Tu Shan.

"Twitter Dripping Valley Tooth ......"

(What's going on?) )

Tu Shan frowned and asked his companion in front of him. This time, they were ordered to assist the soldiers under the command of Emperor Yangming to attack a hostile stronghold on this Dongshi Mountain, and they all hoped to end the battle before dawn, and for this reason, they did not allow any unreasonable delay.

"Tutu Haguli ......"

(There are strange things.) )

The two Da Min Mountain warriors who were on guard at the front of the team turned around and explained.

[Strange stuff?] ]

Tu Shan put the short sword back into the animal-skin dagger behind his waist, stepped forward, and glanced at the ridiculous pit between the two trees in front of him, and the sharp logs on the left and right that had been deliberately hung up.

This kind of crude trap that he could see through at a glance, Tu Shan didn't think it was a strange thing that his two companions were referring to.

"Hatu."

(Look at this.) )

As Tu Shan had guessed, his two companions did not look at the crude trap in front of them, but pointed to the strange yellow paper on the trunks of the trees around them, a kind of yellow paper painted with strange symbols in vermilion.

"Moya?"

(Paper?) )

Tu Shan had a slightly surprised look on his face. Although the civilization of Damin Mountain still stayed in the stage of turning silk into paper because of its isolation from the outside world, and even replaced it with animal skin for a long time because he did not know how to weave silk, this did not prevent Tu Shan from recognizing that the thing in front of him was called paper. After all, although the Great Min Mountain is closed to the outside world, there will still be some lost Han travelers who enter the Great Min Mountain and trade with their tribes.

As for this kind of trade, the people of the Great Minshan have always taken the approach of being friendly and welcoming if they are friends and killing enemies immediately, and they reject outsiders, but they will not kill friendly outsiders for no reason, unless outsiders pose a threat to their tribe.

"Moya Lilinasi, Tantude."

(Paper is a good thing, but unfortunately it's already full of drawing.) )

A warrior of Daminshan was full of joy and tore off the yellow paper from the trunk of the tree, after all, paper is a rare thing in Daminshan, and if he brought it back, he could show off to the women and children of the tribe.

However, at the same time as he tore the paper, the strange red symbols on the yellow paper on the trunk of the tree actually glowed with a strange red light. Even the dozens of yellow papers on the trunks of many nearby trees emitted a similar shimmer.

Suddenly, Tu Shan's cold hair stood on end, and an indescribable sense of fear and crisis appeared in his heart, and the innate strong intuition of the people of Daminshan was stimulating him with a strong sense of threat, urging him to flee from this place quickly.

"Munda!"

(Run!) )

Tu Shan shouted, and the whole person leaned to the ground in obedience to his intuition.

A moment later, only a few loud bangs were heard, and the trees covered with strange yellow paper were blown to pieces, and the broken wood chips pierced into the bodies of several nearby Damin Mountain warriors with a strong momentum. And the soldier who tore the paper was blown up and his entire body was blown up, and he slowly slid to the ground with white smoke.

"Kula's! Kula's! ”

(Witchcraft!) Sorcery! )

The only remaining warriors of the Great Min Mountain panicked, and it was hard to imagine that these warriors with extremely high fighting qualities would let out such a frightened cry, and for a while they did not dare to go deeper into the mountains and forests, lest they be hurt by what they thought was witchcraft.

And Tu Shan, the warrior of Damin Mountain, was also dumbfounded at this moment, he couldn't understand that a few small pieces of paper had such power, even more powerful than the sharp knives in their hands.

At the same time, on a certain tree not far from here, Zhang Huang glanced in the direction where the roar was heard.

He knew that it was someone who had touched the fiery talisman he had left behind. As for who it is, in fact, there is no need to guess at all, if it is not a scout of the rebels, it is the Minshan people in the mouth of Bo Chang Lu Min, a group of powerful characters who shuttle freely in the mountains and forests.

After the explanation of Lu Min, a local Huiji who probably knows the details of the Minshan people, Zhang Huang also has a preliminary understanding of the Minshan people.

The powerful warriors who dominated the jungle were more tricky than the assassins rumored to have originated in the pre-Qin period, and this was the only conclusion that Zhang Huang came to after summarizing Lu Min's words.

How powerful are the warriors of Minshan? According to Lu Min's judgment, a warrior from Minshan Mountain is normally worth about thirty scouts of the Guangling army, and this disparity in strength is even more obvious in the mountains and forests, especially at night. It was precisely because of this that Zhang Huang gave up his previous plan to find a Minshan warrior to fight alone, and used the blank rune paper on his body to temporarily draw some fiery talismans, hoping to slow down the pace of the Min warriors approaching their Dongshi Village stronghold. After all, in Zhang Huang's mind, Taoism is an extremely powerful killing move, even Wang Hu, the county lieutenant of Taishan County, who learned the rigid body, was burned to death without a whole corpse, not to mention some Externalized Yi tribes who probably didn't even know what qi was?

Thinking of the rigid body, Zhang Huang couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

He thought that after learning the rigid body, he would not need to be afraid of the poisonous arrows of the Min warriors, but the chief Lu Min regretfully told him that at his current stage, at most once he released the rigid body, the marrow qi nourished in the bones would be exhausted, because the current Zhang Huang only knew how to 'release' and did not know how to 'receive', just like this evening, in vain let the transparent armor evolved from the marrow qi dissipate outside the body. Zhang Huang thought that this was the correct way to cast it, but Lu Min told him very shamelessly, if he cast a rigid body like him, no matter how much marrow qi he had, it would only be enough to cast a rigid body once, because once the qi was lost outside the body, it would quickly dissipate, and it would be difficult to recover it, while the real rigid body would attach the marrow qi to the surface of the body, as if adding a layer of armor stronger than steel armor to the epidermis, but to do this, it was difficult, quite difficult.

"Refining ......"

Leaning his head on the trunk with his hands on his hands, Zhang Huang muttered the two words that Lu Min had been emphasizing.

The so-called refining of the body is actually a process of quantitative change, which is nothing more than a long process, so that the marrow qi in the bones is saturated for a long time, so that the overflowing vitality will begin to gradually strengthen the muscles and skin. During this period, there may also be some uncomfortable symptoms, such as soreness, numbness, weakness, etc., but once the process of refining the body is over, it will cause a qualitative change in people, which is the so-called 'integration of body and qi', and then the whole body can be regarded as a sea of qi, which can be used as a store for warming and nourishing 'qi', not to mention the strength for the time being, at least there will be no typhoid fever and cold, and the resistance will be greatly enhanced.

As for how many steps the refining body is divided into, although Zhang Huang listened to Lu Min talking about what copper skin and iron bones and the like, he didn't pay too much attention, because Lu Min said very clearly, if you want to be fast, you can't reach it, and everything must pay attention to chance: if you are vigorous, then you will naturally be full of vitality, whether it is qi induction or the process of refining the body, it will be faster than ordinary people, and on the contrary, if a guy has been suffering from various illnesses since he was a child, and his vitality is decaying, then congratulations, even if you work hard for a lifetime, I am afraid you will not reach the level of ordinary people.

In that case, what else does Zhang Huang listen to? Leave it to fate, and follow fate.

Although Lu Min also said that there are some ways to strengthen vitality in the world, he doesn't know it, which is tantamount to saying nothing.

Generally speaking, Zhang Huang is not in a hurry about this, after all, he is also initially involved in the rigid body, as long as the marrow qi is enough, he can also release the rigid body once, which is enough for him to save his life, compared to Li Tong, Chen Dao, Tai Shici, even if Zhang Huang told them the way to stimulate the rigid body, Zhang Huang is undoubtedly much luckier.

Therefore, compared with the rigid body, Zhang Huang cares more about Lu Min's description of anger.

Anger, that is, vitality, is the breath that always flows in the meridians, Zhang Huang originally thought that it was the premise of releasing the martial arts and killing moves, but through Lu Min's explanation, he felt that it was not the case at all.

It is undeniable that vitality can indeed be used to release the combat skills of martial artists such as rigid bodies, but this will consume people's physical energy, if the consumption is too strict, it will not be able to recover overnight, and it will even take three or five months to recover, and if the vitality is exhausted once, then I am afraid it is no different from what the world says about running out of oil and drying up. Although he still doesn't know much about this, Zhang Huang still intuitively thinks that it is better not to move the anger flowing in the meridians, and if something is helpless, try not to hurt the fundamentals, otherwise the trouble will be too great.

As for the by-products of the same vein as the marrow qi, it is not so particular, after all, the qi in the meridians is enough to ensure the needs of the human body, so that there will be no interception of vitality, necrosis of the meridians, and direct paralysis of the people. Of course, if there is no need, it is better not to deplete the marrow qi, but there is no damage, the problem is that if the marrow qi is abundant, the marrow qi can enhance the hardness of human bones, which can be regarded as an alternative calcium. And if a person's bones are extremely hard, it is a good and harmless thing for a warrior.

Of course, the collateral of vitality is not only a kind of marrow qi, after all, I learned from Lu Min's mouth that warming and nourishing marrow qi is only the first step in refining the body, and the second step is to warm and nourish flesh and blood, simply put, in the case of overflowing marrow qi, vitality gradually begins to strengthen people's flesh and blood, that is, blood vessels, muscles and even outer skin, which solves a puzzle that Zhang Huang once had.

Zhang Huang still remembered that his stepfather taught him Taoism, and he wondered why the cinnabar used to write the rune paper was mixed with his blood, and why the rune paper written in this way had the power of Taoism that ordinary cinnabar did not have, and now Zhang Huang understood that it was because his blood was mixed with vitality, that is, qi.

In other words, the Dao Talisman itself was just a medium for performing a certain Dao technique, and the qi contained in the blood mixed with the cinnabar was exactly what provided the Dao Talisman with the energy needed to release the Dao Technique.

Thinking about it this way, in fact, Dao Technique is also a process of equivalent exchange, and the powerful martial arts of martial artists are actually almost the same, but the storage location of the consumed qi is different, but the origin is the same, that is, the vitality of people, so it is no wonder that Zhang Huang felt tired when he forcibly performed Dao Technique, and it was accompanied by a strong tingling sensation in the head, as if he was deeply deprived of oxygen. Let me ask, if a person's vitality is depleted, can he still ensure his health on weekdays?

Suddenly figured out a question that he couldn't get an answer to after thinking and meditating in the past, Zhang Huang suddenly felt a lot more relaxed. He had to admit that sometimes it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, if he did not come to Guangling, he could not get acquainted with the chief Lu Min, how could he learn the concept of qi and its importance?

[Sure enough, that broken mountain is too small......]

At this moment, Zhang Huang was very glad that he was arguing with his father-in-law at that time, and it was said that he must go down the mountain to see the vastness of the world, no, he went to Guangling and participated in the war between the Guangling army and the rebels, and he learned a lot of things that he might not master in the mountains in his life.

[If you travel all over the world......]

As soon as this thought was born in Zhang Huang's mind, he couldn't help but feel a little enthusiastic. As many people he met along the way said, the world is very big, and there are novelties that he will find difficult to accept for a while, but it is precisely this that has a great attraction to Zhang Huang.

"No, no, it's not the time to be ambitious......"

Shaking his head, Zhang Huang forcibly suppressed the throbbing in his heart, after all, he still had the serious problem of Minshan warriors in front of him, this was a strong opponent he had encountered so far that was no less than Ma Yan, the commander of Taishan County, although those Minshan warriors did not master strong tricks such as rigid bodies, but their agile skills and endless methods of hunting enemies were worthy of Zhang Huang's learning experience.

After all, his ideal is a great hero who has attracted worldwide attention, so he must learn and master the experience that can enhance his strength.

Chivalry, first help itself, and then help the world. If even you can't ensure your foothold in this world full of strong people, how can you talk about hoeing the strong to help the weak, eradicating the evil and eliminating the evil?

And the best way to increase your strength is to fight.

"Come on, warriors of Minshan...... I'm afraid tonight is the only time you and I have left to meet in the near future. ”

Seeing the mountains and forests under the usual night, Zhang Huang muttered.

His hunch was not bad at all, with the Minshan soldiers joining the battle, it would be almost difficult for their Guangling army to survive the stronghold in Dongshishan, which meant the loss of the commanding heights of Dongshishan. And once Dongshishan is lost, if Yang Qi, the general who guards the army's field camp, does not want to be led by the rebels, I am afraid that there is only one way out of retreating to the next trap and then confronting the rebels. After all, the soldiers who served as scouts in the two armies were not at the same level at all, and there was no way to fight this battle. If you fight, you will be defeated, and Yan zhòng will even be gradually eaten away by the rebels with their overwhelming scout advantage, and eventually lead the entire army to be annihilated.

In this way, the sphere of influence controlled by the Guangling army will be greatly reduced, and a large area of land will be occupied by the rebels, who will be forced to retreat into Guangling.

What did the commander of Guangling, Shi Zangmin, think this time, Zhang Huang still couldn't figure it out, he only knew that his first army in Guangling had fallen into passivity at the moment. And if the battle situation of the other two Guangling armies is similar to here, to be honest, Zhang Huang is not optimistic about this battle.

Unless, the old thorn Shi Zang Min has some tricks to turn decay into magic.

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