Chapter 8: Cultivation in Ruins
In a dormitory at a temporary resettlement site, Poplar re-entered the state of cultivation.
It is said that he has been cultivating for a few days, and he also feels that his physique has improved a lot, but Poplar just can't verify his cultivation results, which makes him feel quite powerful and untouchable, and Poplar is uncomfortable.
He wanted to ask the ancestor if there was a solution, but no matter how Bai Yang called in his heart, there was no response, thinking that this old guy was really stubborn, and he didn't know how to work around after living for so many years, so he really abandoned him.
"There it is." Just as Poplar was meditating, he suddenly thought of a solution that could be grudgingly solved.
"Now the rescue in the depths of the disaster area has basically reached the final stage, and at night it is like a no-man's land, so I can go there to see it."
Bai Yang made up his mind, and then continued to practice and waited for the night to come, during which he got up and went to the cafeteria with Yu Lei to have a meal, and when he came back, he continued to lie down and pretend to sleep. And Yu Lei is not surprised by this, he reads high school books by himself, and he looks serious as if he is going to take the college entrance examination tomorrow.
Time flies quickly, and a few hours have passed in the blink of an eye in the middle of cultivation. Because there was no entertainment, Yu Lei put down the book at eight or nine o'clock after nightfall and began to sleep, and after feeling Yu Lei's even breathing, Poplar got out of bed and quietly flashed out of the dormitory, and ran to a relatively hidden wall of the school.
The speed of the poplar was not put to the maximum, but he still felt that his body was as light as a swallow, and there was no sound under his feet, which gave him a preliminary understanding of his skills, and his heart was even more excited.
Poplar soon came to the bottom of the wall, thinking how many years he hadn't done such a thing, remembering that the last time was in college, but when he revisited it now, he didn't expect the world to change dramatically.
Patting his head to shake away these thoughts, Poplar's eyes became more determined, and he was determined to make a difference in this new world that was about to come.
Thinking about this, he looked at the wall in front of him about 3 meters high, it is naturally a little difficult for ordinary people to climb this, but Poplar is full of confidence.
Poplar's knee was slightly bent, and then he jumped violently, and his right hand hit the wall, and with a little force, he took his body to "whoosh" and jumped outside the wall, and fell to the ground steadily.
"It's easy." Poplar is a little complacent, seeing that since he has been cultivating, his physical strength, strength, speed and bounce have improved a lot, it seems that the polishing and amplification effect of purple qi on the body is comprehensive, and it will not focus on a certain piece.
After a moment of pride, Poplar also knew that this was not even a warm-up, so he immediately paid full attention, and the next road from here to the depths of the disaster area should be his warm-up stage.
In the first half of this road, there should be a lot of people, they are all professional rescue teams in the overnight search and rescue, after these days of searching, they have advanced from the depths of the disaster area to the middle of the rear position, so Poplar should try to avoid them and go deeper.
Fortunately, the purple qi that was still strong now gave him a good cover, and even if the poplar quietly appeared not far from these people, it was not easy to be discovered.
"Alright, let's get started."
"Oh, I'll go."
However, when Poplar thought he was well prepared and rushed out at a sharp speed, because he was not fully familiar with the changes brought about by the enhanced physique, he did not grasp his balance for a while, and the next moment he fell into with a "bang".
"You can't rush it." Poplar stood up with a disgraced face, sighed helplessly, and said, "I can only come step by step." ”
The area ravaged by the tsunami is now full of debris and ruins left behind by the receding water. The streets that used to be neat and clean are completely indistinguishable, and the mixture of garbage, damaged vehicles, and debris of collapsed houses is a mess and a terrible scene.
And among the endless ruins, a figure is shuttling rapidly, sometimes tossing and jumping, sometimes sprinting straight, like a cheetah.
This figure is naturally Poplar, he has basically let go of his speed and skills at this time, and there is no stagnation between the movements, obviously he is already familiar with the new physical fitness, not as embarrassed as at the beginning.
"Haha, fun." Poplar couldn't help but laugh out loud, and the "power of the desolation" that had been buried in his body for a long time also completely exploded, making the speed go up another notch.
"I haven't seen the rescue team for a while, so I think I'm already in the depths."
Poplar pondered, and then jumped onto a small half-collapsed building, standing on the top of the half-short building and looking into the distance.
But no matter how much Poplar frowned and stared, he could only see things within a range of about 100 meters, and beyond that range, it was much more blurry.
"My eyesight is a little bit better than before."
"Now let's try the power." Poplar looked around and found some cement slabs scattered after the collapse of houses not far away, and then jumped to the side, lifted one side of a not complete cement slab, and then supported the center position with his left hand, grabbed the edge of one side with his right hand, and exerted force with both feet and arms at the same time, slowly lifting the two-meter-long, nearly 1-meter-wide cement slab over his head, just like a weightlifter.
After staying for a while, Poplar put down the cement slab again, and estimated slightly according to its length, width and thickness, even if it was not complete, the cement slab should have weighed three or four hundred kilograms. And he also felt that this had not reached the limit of his strength, and that he still had some power to use.
"Three or four hundred kilograms, it is already far beyond the limit that ordinary people can reach. And I feel that if I use all my strength, 500 kg should be fine. ”
Bai Yang was also a little surprised, after cultivating for so many days, he really had a lot of results.
"How about trying my striking skills next."
Then Poplar squatted down, clenched his right fist, the muscles in his arms, shoulders and waist were in a tense state, and then he exerted his strength violently, and his fist quickly bombarded towards the cement slab.
Just listening to the sound of "boom", the cement slab was instantly cracked by the powerful impact force, and there were obviously fist-sized potholes at the place where the hand fell, and many cracks spread from the hole, but the cement slab did not break.
"Ah, it hurts, it hurts." After a moment of silence, Poplar suddenly clutched his right hand and cried out in pain, his grinning appearance completely lost his previous smug confidence.
He had forgotten that there were still steel bars in the cement slab, and he had withstood most of the force of the blow, otherwise the slab would have broken into several pieces by now.
Even though his physical strength has increased now, it can't compare to the strength and toughness of reinforced concrete, so this blow also taught Poplar some lessons, and he has a more practical understanding of his current strength.
"It's a bit too much." Poplar said helplessly, but fortunately, his right hand was only a little broken, and it didn't hurt his muscles and bones, which made Poplar breathe a sigh of relief.
"There's still a long way to go." Poplar shook his right hand and sighed in his heart.
"But now that I have a lot of power, it seems that I can only use brute force to exert it, so isn't it too inefficient?" Bai Yang immediately thought of such a question, "And how can the purple qi accumulated in my dantian be taken out and used for my use?" ”
Thinking about it like this, Bai Yang is really facing a lot of problems now, not only sighed and said: "What ancestor led into the door, cultivation is personal, it's all nonsense." Bai Yang complained a little, as if he had forgotten that it was he who said this in the first place, and immediately couldn't help but sneeze himself.
"Cultivators, you should first cultivate your mind and cultivate your virtues, and then you can achieve great success."
Just when Poplar was worried, the voice of the ancestor suddenly sounded in his heart, like the deafening sound of the Hong Bell, Poplar was stunned at first, and then suddenly overjoyed.
"Ancestor, is it you, I know that you will never ignore it, can you teach me some more methods of controlling power, as well as methods of using the power of dantian."
Bai Yang was a little impatient at this time, and said his current problems and needs in one go, for fear that he would miss a trace.
"Cultivators, you should first cultivate your mind and cultivate your virtues, and then you can achieve great success." But Old Ancestor did not respond to his question, but repeated the original words again.
"Ancestor?" Poplar was a little puzzled, not knowing what the ancestor meant.
"Cultivators, you should first cultivate your mind and cultivate your virtues, and then you can achieve great success." However, after waiting for a while, Bai Yang heard the exact same words from the ancestor, and even felt that his tone had not changed.
"No, Ancestor, you repeat the machine." Bai Yang smiled bitterly, could this old guy be stunned.
Bai Yang sighed, knowing that it was useless to say more, and concluded that the true body of the ancestor must not have appeared, this must be a consciousness left by the ancestor before.
"Why did the Ancestor remind me like this?" Poplar thought about it before he paid attention to what the ancestor said.
"Cultivating the mind, cultivating virtue?" Poplar muttered to himself, he seemed to be too anxious and impetuous, and it was naturally easy to mess up his work, and he might not be able to do it well. Didn't I have this problem before, and I was too anxious to achieve results, which led to some bad results.
"I still have to be calm and rational." Poplar seemed to understand something, and then gradually relaxed his mind, sat down cross-legged, and then began to meditate.
This is the first time that Bai Yang has seriously meditated according to the mental method said by the ancestor, and at this moment he finally understood that the intention of the ancestors to formulate the first half of this set of mental methods is completely used to calm the mind and self-discipline the practitioners, and prevent them from going to two extremes, one is lazy, and the other is impetuous.
At this time, when the ancestor in the hidden place saw the poplar like this, he also smiled and nodded, and said with a rare praise: "The son can be taught after all." ”