Chapter 3: The Hermit and the Hidden Arts

Chen Anran continued to walk forward quietly, her current IQ is only "eight years old", she is still a daughter, and it is not suitable for her to act. But she won't ignore it, and for her own safety, there are things that must be clarified. In her previous life, she was particularly interested in cryptojutsu (ninjutsu) and hermit (ninja), and she also did a lot of research, and she herself received five years of stealth training in a certain department of the General Staff. She is able to identify and respond to a wide range of crypto-techniques and hermits. Back in his bed, Chen Anran recalled the information about the hermit like a movie in his brain. In the ancient times of an island nation, the hermit had a very prosperous period, obtained brilliant achievements, and left many thrilling stories. Later, the hermit gradually faded out of the stage of history. In modern times, it is only on a very covert spy front that you will encounter the hermit of the island nation.

In ancient times, some organizations in a certain island country trained hermits as special warfare killers and special warfare spies, and most hermits began to undergo arduous training from the age of five before they could master the seemingly magical hidden arts, become outstanding hermits, and play a huge role.

Most hermits had to master excellent swordsmanship, jiu-jitsu, light martial arts and other martial arts, and then equipped with a variety of short weapons and hidden weapons (such as daggers, small bows, crossbows, ironclad hand hooks, etc.) for protection. In addition, in order to complete special tasks such as long-distance raids, secret infiltration or hidden assassinations, the hermits are also equipped with a variety of unique related props and equipment, such as various high-fidelity masks and makeup utensils, drugs with anesthetic control effects, water spiders that use inflatable skins as improvised boat gear when crossing rivers and rivers, long rope ladders to climb over the walls of the city, and necessary firearms (*, *).

In addition to the ancient martial arts actual combat techniques of various bare hands and equipment, it also includes intelligence reconnaissance and espionage, latent assassination, disguise modification, firearms and medicine, cross-country swimming, climbing and jumping (similar to the skills of light skills and nocturnal skills in traditional martial arts of the Chinese Kingdom) and all other physical and skill training related to its purpose.

Originally derived from a traditional fighting technique (assassination) in an island country, it later absorbed concepts such as the Art of War of the Chinese Kingdom, integrated the relevant mental methods and secret techniques in Shinto and Buddhism, and developed independently in long-term practice and hard training, and finally formed the hidden arts. The theoretical basis of the hidden art is the ninja in the island Shinto, the witchcraft in the Yin-Yang Dao, and the fighting mind in the martial arts, combined with Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Cryptojutsu flourished for a time during the Warring States period in the island nation because of its extreme practicality. Stealth is a complete set of espionage and intelligence technology system mastered by ancient hermits, including: tracking, reconnaissance, espionage, bodyguards, assassination and other aspects. Ninja skills are superhuman, and he is good at using various weapons such as swords and hooks, as well as hidden weapons such as darts.

The superhuman ability of the hermit was acquired through hard special training since childhood. Children of hermit families, both male and female, are required to carry on the professional traditions of their ancestors and are generally trained from the age of five. There are five types of training, namely Balance, Agility, Strength, Endurance and Special Techniques.

Balance training starts with walking on a bamboo pole until you can stand on a round bamboo pole without slipping; Raise the bamboo pole about three feet above the ground, continue to walk the bamboo pole, and practice until you can move freely; Continue to increase the height of the bamboo pole until it is thirty or forty feet high, so that the body is not afraid of height, tossing and jumping, as if walking on the ground. With this balance, you can walk on rooftops, walls and trees.

Agility training begins at an early age, and more special training for agility is carried out, such as jumping over a rope with a blade inserted into it, and speeding through the narrow passages full of sharp blades and spear tips. If the body is slightly ineffective or the reflection is slightly insensitive, it is injured by obstacles. Therefore, the sensitivity requirements of ninjutsu are very strict.

There are two types of exercises: stamina and strength. Static practice: hang your hands on a tree, support your whole body, and put hidden weapons on the ground, requiring the practitioner to never let go and jump down, exercise the method, use basic long-distance running kung fu, and have the endurance to run five or six kilometers. An excellent ninjutsu master, plus jumping, can run more than 150 miles a day.

There are many special skills training, such as diving breath holding, hand-to-hand combat, kendo, concealed weapons, masquerade, drugging, poison and detoxification, hearing and smell training...... And it is necessary to have a high level of hunger and thirst to survive in the wild.

Masquerade is a specialty of ninjas, who can create human skin fake faces and change genders. Someone did an experiment in which a ninja walked through a crowd and was identified by several people, and the results were different for each person, tall, short, fat and thin.

There is also the technique of concealment, the hermit dug a hole in the forest in advance, the hole was covered with grass ash, and the hole was covered with withered grass, and when he ran into the grove, he jumped into the hole in the ground, silently. The pursuer lost his target and thought that there was really a "stealth technique".

Unlike other martial arts schools that emphasize physical training, it especially emphasizes spiritual cultivation and bases its entire training system on spiritual cultivation beyond imagination. Because most of the tasks carried out by hermits are high-risk missions that never return, and completing tasks alone in the enemy's lair has to overcome many difficulties such as death, loneliness, darkness, and even hunger, cold, injury, etc., so having strong spiritual power is the real reason why the hidden arts are invincible.

As a descendant of a hermit family, once born, you must accept the cruel reality of fate - either become a hermit or die. From a very young age, hermits were instilled with the idea of absolute loyalty to their masters: no one but their own masters would obey orders, not even the emperor. The hermit, created by this mental brainwashing from an early age, is more fanatical and fearless than any religious believer.

The moves of the hidden art usually include the five car techniques (mental tactics) and the eight doors (bone technique, qi sealing, swordsmanship, stick technique, fire technique, spear technique, amusement art, sect and retreat technique, etc.), among which the escape technique is more commonly used. The Fire Escape technique uses things like * to temporarily confuse enemies and then run away. The art of water escape lurks underwater with special skills or items. Wood Escape Technique Skillfully use light skills, climbing and other kung fu to escape between trees and jungles. Golden Escape Technique further attacks enemies by stimulating their eyes with the luster of metal items. The art of earth escape is about digging a tunnel in advance to prepare for escape. Wind Escape Technique Sprinkle some poisonous powder, and the wind blows these poisonous powders towards the enemy, causing the enemy to faint from poisoning. The art of insect and beast escape is similar to the technique of raising insects in Miao Village, which breeds poisonous insects and hides them on their bodies to attack.

Occult techniques are very cruel to the intensity of physical training. What is included in the art of concealment, every hermit must be proficient. And every training is all death knockout, and those who can't bear it are not allowed to survive. In addition to regular training, the Hidden Arts also include a variety of "Strange Force Training", through which the hermit further hones his will, endurance, survivability, and more. This kind of strange training, such as not eating for days on end, killing one's own companions, and fighting fierce beasts, is unimaginable. Through these inhumane practices, which have a very high mortality rate, the hermit has achieved a superhuman leap from spirit to body. Gained perseverance, endurance, and combat effectiveness beyond ordinary people. The ninjas who survived through the training of the hidden arts are all absolutely reliable full-power fighting machines.

Chen Anran didn't expect that she had traveled to ancient times and encountered the terrifying thing that a hermit broke into her home, which was a very dangerous signal, and she had to do something.