In the original world, internal strength was first developed by Taoist meditation, Taoist cultivation and life refining techniques, first pay attention to dispelling illness and strengthening the body, followed by prolonging life, and finally pursue longevity, so it is not an exaggeration to say that internal strength is the Taoist method of building a foundation.

Therefore, the cultivation of internal strength is first in the breath and meditation, and the breath is also breathed, that is, the turbid qi is exhaled, and the pure qi required by the human body is incorporated into it, so as to help cultivate the true qi inside the human body, and achieve the purpose of cultivating the true nature and prolonging life.

As for the world of martial arts, it is naturally impossible to cultivate immortals and become enlightened, but meditation and tuna have gradually evolved into another system, which is what we call internal strength.

As a Songshan school with Taoist origins, its internal strength and heart method are extracted from the Taoist classics of self-cultivation. For Lin Han, who accepted the internal strength system for the first time, the words in Songshan's mental method are a little profound, because as an adult, his cognition of the second generation of the world has been basically perfected, and in the final analysis, there are too many distracting thoughts. It is said that it is beneficial because the more you think about it, the more you can skillfully practice and use martial arts. It is said that it is harmful because it is easy to go crazy if you think too much.

If it is a teenager whose outlook on life and world view is not perfect to learn martial arts, such as Xu Zheng, maybe he doesn't understand the meaning of the words in the mental method, but he can also learn step by step according to the teacher's teaching, and slowly become proficient. And like Lin Han, because he has the soul of an adult, when learning martial arts, he often has to ask for an understanding, and he will learn it after understanding, in this case, it is very likely that nothing will be achieved, of course, the greater the risk, the greater the gain, once he learns, he can use it for his own use.

Lin Han has encountered this situation now, looking at the Songshan mental method in his hand and smiling bitterly, remembering that he has only barely memorized the first layer of mental method at the end of the day, this is still because he is bullying Ding Mian for a long time. Thinking of Ding Mian's explanation over and over again with a dark face, in the end, he couldn't bear it anymore, found a Taoist classic and threw it in Lin Han's arms, and said in a low tone: "Take it, read this book thoroughly first, and then practice internal strength, and ask me if you don't understand." ”

In the following days, Lin Han was alone in a secluded corner of Songshan Mountain to read the book "Daozang", and after a few days, he finally found something, and basically figured out what was going on with meditation, tuna, dantian, meridians and acupuncture points.

After that, Lin Han impatiently picked up the manuscript of Songshan's mental method, memorized the first layer of mental method carefully, recited it silently several times to confirm that it was correct, and then put on a posture of meditation. I saw him sitting cross-legged on his chest, his hands spread on his thighs, palms facing the sky, his eyes slightly closed, looking inward with light, looking at his nose, his nose looking at his heart, and his heart looking at the dantian. When the eyelids are slightly closed, the eyelids naturally droop, so that they can see what is in front of them but cannot distinguish them. Therefore, the reason for the slight closure is that it is easy to breed distracting thoughts when the door is opened, and it is easy to fall asleep when the door is closed, which is not conducive to nourishing qi.

At this time, Lin Han said according to "Daozang", but the two ear tragus were disturbed by the outside world, such as entering the realm of silence, condensing and listening. First open your mouth, slowly exhale the turbid qi in your body, and then inhale Qingqi from your nose, and intentionally swallow it into the lower dantian (three inches below the umbilicus, the same size as the body) to replenish the exhaled qi. The breath will be exhaled, and the breath will be full. When you inhale, the lower abdomen is rounded, and when you exhale, the lower abdomen is retracted, which is called smooth breathing. It is the beginner breath must be like this, so that the mouth and nose are inhaled three times.

Then the mouth is closed, the tongue is on top of the palate, and the watch is listened to. Snuff in and out, exhale and inhale, all make you enter and exit the dantian. Be sure to lead the qi with the heart, follow the heart with the air, inhale at will to bet on the dantian, and exhale with the mind to lead out of the body, which is said to be dependent on each other.

In this way, Lin Han gradually abandoned distracting thoughts, unconsciously integrated into it, and fell into the ethereal realm. I don't know when, there is gradually a trace of warmth and anger in the dantian of the lower abdomen, and he does not live in the dantian, Lin Han's expression moved, and when he woke up, that ethereal feeling no longer existed.

Lin Han recalled the feeling before, overjoyed, and knew that he had finally taken the first step. Just as it is said in the "Daozang" that qi is the first step of immortality, the foundation of all cultivation, and only immersion in the microcosm can be regarded as stepping on the threshold of cultivation.

After that, what we need to do is to continue to familiarize ourselves with the existence of the sense of qi, and finally raise that trace of the sense of qi in the dantian, and when it grows to a certain extent, guide it to form a weekly circulation in the meridians, and then you need to use the internal strength of the heart. The meridians and sequences in which the true qi of different mental methods run are different, the thickness is different, and the power is also different.

There are many sects in the rivers and lakes, and there are millions of exercises, and the reason for this lies in the way the true qi runs in the meridians. In martial arts, the number one taboo is to steal the martial arts of other sects. The reason why there is such an unspoken rule is that it is difficult to explore the meridians, and in the process of running within the meridians, as long as you go to the wrong meridian or the order is rarely wrong, you will go crazy, and the martial arts will be completely wasted, and the body will explode and die. No one wanted their sect's True Qi operation method to be easily stolen by other sects at the cost of their lives, so over time, there was this unspoken rule between them.

When Lin Han woke up from his meditation, he found that the sun had already set, and night was gradually falling. Thinking that he could find a sense of qi in one day, his qualifications were definitely not bad, and he might even exceed the expectations of Ding Mian and others. Fortunately, Lin Han spent several days reading the "Dao Zang", and Ding Mian would not know how much time he spent on "Dao Zang", he would only guess that his childish nature must be in a hurry to cultivate Qi after reading it once or twice, and he would not know that his qualifications were so rebellious.

Sure enough, when Ding Mian heard that Lin Han had found Qi Sense the next day, he didn't have too many doubts, but just reminded him to work hard to get familiar with Qi Sense and reach the standard of learning internal skills as soon as possible.

In the next half a month, Lin Han still didn't go to the school to practice with those new fellow disciples, but just cultivated his sense of qi alone, and occasionally asked Ding Mian if he didn't understand. The reason why he wants to be so maverick is because he can go to Ding Mian and Fei Bin for advice at any time before he can practice internal strength, so there is no need to practice with others; On the other hand, it also deliberately attracted the attention of Ding Mian and the two of them, and then it was more convenient to ask the two of them for advice alone.

A few days ago, Lin Han finally felt that the qi in the dantian was gradually full, and there was a faint guess in his heart, when he asked Ding Mian for advice alone yesterday, Ding Mian also confirmed his guess, and reminded him to be ready to hit the first layer of Songshan Mental Method.

So early this morning, Lin Han came to the school to practice. Later, the other disciples also came to practice in the morning one after another, but they were all surprised by his behavior, after all, Lin Han had hardly been to the school since he entered the Songshan Sect. At this time, Xu Zheng, who was quite familiar with him, walked in front of him and greeted him: "Lin Han, why are you here too?" ”

Lin Han faced this person, and finally had a little smile on his indifferent face: "Well, there is something to come to find Master Ding." ”

When Ding Mian and the others came, Lin Han didn't say anything immediately except for bowing and saluting. Ding Mian also knew his intention, and motioned for him to follow everyone for morning exercise first.

At the end of an hour's morning exercise, the sun gradually warmed up. After Ding Mian got rid of the advice of several disciples, he came to Lin Han and said, "Come with me." ”

Lin Han saluted respectfully: "Trouble Uncle Ding." ”

Then Ding Mian took Lin Han to the backyard of the Songshan Sect Hall, and asked with a smile, "Xiao Han, why do you want to deliberately avoid your senior brother?" ”

Lin Han looked up at him and muttered for a long time before explaining: "Maybe it's my brother's departure, I feel like I've grown up a lot at that moment, and I don't want to waste my time anymore." I didn't feel like having my brother in front of me to protect myself from the wind and rain, but now I realize how naïve I was before, and I don't want to do anything but cry weakly in front of reality, that feeling is very bad, and I don't want to do it again in this life. ”

Ding Mian saw that he was talking heavily, so he didn't interrupt him, just listened quietly on the side.

Lin Han continued: "From that moment on, I told myself that I must learn martial arts well, protect the people around me, and never want any accidents to happen to our Songshan faction again. The Demon Sect outside noticed that I had no reason to be lazy, and only by practicing martial arts could I take revenge. Look, this is just my personal thoughts, I know my qualifications, my martial arts will definitely improve by leaps and bounds, I don't want there to be jealousy between my brothers and sisters in the future, that will make me very sad. ”

Ding Mian looked at Lin Han differently, he didn't expect him to have such an idea, maybe it was really the tribulation that made people grow. Ding Mian agrees with Lin Han's thoughts, just like their generation, there should never be any dirt between brothers and sisters, only when brothers are of the same heart, their benefits can be broken. At this moment, Ding Mian only felt that Lin Han was very angry with him, and he was finally relieved to look at him differently.

Lin Han didn't know that his words at this moment could be recognized by Ding Mian, which was also an unexpected joy. Lin Han continued: "Maybe one day, when I have such achievements as Master Ding, I will try to accept them. At that time, perhaps because the gap is too big, there will be no more jealousy in their hearts. ”

Ding Mian nodded: "You are very good, I never knew that you would have such thoughts, even if it is me, if I see the people around me surpassing me little by little, I will also feel jealous, that is human nature, maybe it is really only when there is a world of difference, that jealousy will be transformed into admiration." ”

"Therefore, I implore my uncle not to talk about my affairs in the future, at least not to let our generation of disciples know about it before the martial arts are completed." Lin Han said in Ding Mian's tone.

"Hehe, how can you have faith?" Without waiting for Lin Han to answer, Ding Mian continued: "Judging from your temperament and qualifications, your future achievements will be limitless, fortunately, at least it will not be leaked to the second-generation disciples, and this can still be guaranteed." ”

"It's just a second-generation disciple, I never thought of hiding it from all the masters." Lin Han said.

Ding Mian took a deep look at Lin Han and found that he could no longer treat Lin Han with the eyes of a child. Lin Han's scalp was numb when Ding Mian saw it, and he said in a hurry and uneasy: "Very good, it is precisely because of what I said just now that I can believe you, I am not worried about your future martial arts, but about your attitude towards the Songshan faction." ”

Lin Han didn't expect that there was this stubble among them, but fortunately he never had any other thoughts, and said categorically: "For our Songshan faction, the disciples have no second thoughts, and my roots are in Songshan." ”

Ding Mian disappeared: "Yes, our roots are in Songshan, okay, there is no need to say these anymore, adjust your emotions first, and hit the first layer of the heart today, there is a master and uncle to protect the law, don't worry." ”

Bowing again, Lin Han took a deep breath and took a meditative posture, his mind gradually sinking into the ethereal.