In the eleventh year of the great cause, in the golden autumn and September.

In a manor on the outskirts of Yangzhou, Ji Ning woke up from a nap, yawned and stretched his waist, and slowly walked out of the room and came to the courtyard.

The beautiful trees in the courtyard are verdant, the strange flowers are sparkling, a clear stream is zigzag from the depths of the flowers and trees under the stone gap, a rockery sits north to south, flat and wide.

There are flying towers on both sides, a stone bridge with white stone as a fence surrounds the edge of the pond, and there is a pavilion on the bridge, there is a stone table and stone bench in the pavilion, and there is a reclining chair made of bamboo and rattan next to the table.

Ji Ning lazily lay on the rattan chair, then took out a book woven with black gold thread from his sleeve and flipped through it casually.

When dusk came, he walked out leisurely.

In the east of Yangzhou City, there is an abandoned manor overgrown with weeds, most of the buildings have long been in disrepair, wind and rain erosion, ants and insects gnaw and collapse and collapse, only a small stone house is lonely and shrunk, and the pierced tile roof is sealed by wooden planks, barely a shelter.

This is the future "Yangzhou Shuanglong", the residence of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling.

Both men were hard-working children, and their parents were orphaned by thieves who fled the war and became orphans.

It is also the fate of heaven, two twelve or thirteen-year-old boys happened to meet together, like-minded, and they depended on each other for their lives, more than brothers.

Kou Zhong is older, sixteen years old this year, and Xu Ziling has just turned fifteen.

A gust of wind blew, and Ji Ning quietly appeared outside the stone house.

In the house, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were chatting again, and the two of them imagined the future, and when they had saved enough, they would abandon the darkness and join the rebels.

At this time, the Great Sui court was unable to suppress the peasant uprisings in various places due to Yang Guang's three expeditions to Goryeo, and the spark had become a prairie fire.

The most important thing is that the officials and families in various places have also begun to be uneasy about their duties.

People of insight understand that the future will inevitably be a situation of chaos in the world and a group of heroes competing for the deer.

"Tuk Tuk!"

Ji Ning knocked on the door.

"Who?"

Kou Zhong was excited, turned over and sat up, thinking in his heart, if he wasn't approached by the fat sheep he touched this morning, then he would have suffered.

Ji Ning said: "In Xia Ji Ning, there is no malice, please come out and see each other." ”

The two of them quickly went out, and when they saw Ji Ning dressed gorgeously, they immediately learned the appearance of people in the rivers and lakes, and said, "Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling have seen Ji Gongzi." ”

Ji Ning waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite. ”

After looking at the two teenagers in front of him, he nodded and said, "Sure enough, it's two pieces of jade." ”

Kou Zhong asked cautiously, "I don't know what Ji Gongzi has to tell the two of us to find us." ”

Ji Ning said: "This is not the place to talk, come with me." ”

So saying, he walked out of the courtyard.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling hurriedly followed with a stomach full of doubts.

Since the other party came to the door, they could only see the tricks and adapt to the situation.

If you hit it hard, it will only be you who is unlucky.

The two of them understood this a long time ago.

Ji Ning took Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling all the way to the manor on the outskirts of Yangzhou.

This manor is located by the river, surrounded by green willows, and the shade of flowers is continuous, which is very elegant and quiet.

After entering, the whole manor is separated into a small world by mountains, rocks, grass and trees, and there is a garden outside the courtyard, and there is a courtyard outside the garden.

Kou and Xu followed Ji Ning along the outer corridor of the Zhou Hui, meandering through the beautiful scenery of the garden, and finally came to a courtyard.

"I don't have any servants here, you two go boil the water yourself, and then you both take a bath, and I'll go get you some clothes."

After Ji Ning finished speaking, he left the courtyard.

Kou Zhong waited for Ji Ning to walk away before he said in surprise: "In such a big place, I actually live alone." Xiaoling, what did you say that person invited us here for? ”

Xu Ziling said: "How do I know? We have no money and no relatives, and we are not afraid of what he covets. You go to chop wood, I go to make a fire, there is a saying, if you come, you will be safe. ”

The two men moved quickly.

When Ji Ning came to the courtyard with his clothes, he heard a sound coming from the wing.

"Xiaoling, be harder."

"Okay, a little further down, yes, this is it."

"Ah, it's so comfortable. Come on, change your tummy ......"

Ji Ning stepped forward, knocked on the door, and then handed the clothes in his hand in.

After a while, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were neatly dressed and walked out one after the other. The clothes were a little bigger, but they were countless times better than the beggar's outfits they had worn before.

There was a stone table and stone bench in the corner of the courtyard, and after Ji Ning sat down, he said to Kou and Xu, "Sit." ”

After the two of them sat down, he asked, "Do you want to learn martial arts?" ”

"What?"

When Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling heard this, they were very shocked, and they were immediately overjoyed, and the two immediately left their seats and knelt down and shouted, "Master." ”

Looking at Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling's eagerness, Ji Ning was very emotional, these two people are indeed smart and clever, and they know how to seize opportunities, no wonder they can become great grandmasters as gangsters.

No one is more hungry for power than they are from the lowest level, and the two have never been ordinary people.

In the original book, when the two were gangsters, they knew how to go to Shilong's dojo to learn martial arts, and later met Fu Junwu and Li Jing, all of whom wanted to apprentice at the first opportunity, and their desire for martial arts can be seen from this.

Ji Ning stretched out his hand to help the two of them up, and said, "The two of you are both unique in the world, and your qualifications and talents are first-class in the world, and you are rare martial arts wizards. It's a pity that martial arts training has to start from the baby, and the two of you have missed the best time.

The way of martial arts is like climbing a dangerous peak, and the most important period of time is the ten years from the age of five to fifteen.

Once this period of time has passed, if you are at a dead end on the dangerous peak, no matter how diligent you are, you can only wander in the middle of the stream, and you can't climb to the top, let alone the scenery above the peak! ”

Kou and Xu's faces changed several times, and in despair, they suddenly grabbed a flash of spiritual light, and said, "Please give me advice." You came to the two of us, and you said so much, you must have something to worry about. ”

Ji Ning nodded, took out a strange book supported by Xuanjin silk thread and put it on the table, and said: "This is the recipe for longevity of one of the four great strange books in the world, combining yin and yang, deriving the five elements, seizing the creation of heaven and earth, and invading the mystery of the sun and the moon!"

If you can understand the mystery of this book, it is just an ordinary thing, and it is not impossible to enter the supreme heavenly realm.

It's a pity that this "Recipe for Longevity" can only be practiced by people who have never practiced martial arts, and those who cultivate must have the best qualifications and excellent understanding, so that there is so much hope for 12 out of 12.

That's what I've called for the two of you. Now, you two tell me, would you like to give it a try? ”

"Yes." Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling said in unison.

Ji Ning opened the longevity recipe on the stone table and watched it with Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong.

I saw that the first few pages were full of words, which looked a little similar to the talisman drawn by the Taoist priest on the street, and the two of them were suddenly dizzy, and one head was two big.

"The secret of immortality is rumored to be left by the ancient immortal Guangchengzi, these ancient characters, few people in the world can understand them, the key is the humanoid diagram in it.

Each picture is a method of luck exercise, the upper line is the meridians, and the points are the acupoints, like the roads and towns of the human body.

Before everyone practices martial arts, they must know the meridian acupuncture points of the human body, which is basic common sense. From today onwards, you will follow me every morning to learn how to recognize the meridians and acupoints.

After you have some understanding, choose any picture that looks pleasing to the eye and practice according to it. ”

After Ji Ning finished speaking, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling claimed "yes" together.

From this day on, Kou and Xu lived in the manor and followed Ji Ning to learn the basics of martial arts.

These two people are extremely talented, super perceptive, they can learn as soon as they learn, they can understand a little, and the most rare thing is their unbridled imagination, and they often ask some strange questions.

Some of them just play the piano indiscriminately, but some of them can bring Ji Ning a lot of inspiration.

Half a month later, Ji Ning brought back a little lady, who was delicate and lovely, petite and exquisite. Although he is dressed in a jingchai cloth dress, he can't hide a charming demeanor in his bones, which is heartwarming.

The little lady was older than Kou and Xu, so Ji Ning asked them to call them "sister-in-law".

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the spring of the twelfth year of the great cause.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling live in a manor on the outskirts of Yangzhou, they are really happy, their diet is taken care of by the ingenious Wei Zhenzhen, these days, not only have they grown a lot taller, but their bodies are also much stronger.

It's just that the book-like longevity recipe of that day, the two of them meditate hard every day, but they couldn't figure out anything.

On this day, Kou Zhong was lying on the bed in a loose robe, holding the elixir of life, and studying the portraits and figures inside over and over.

Xu Ziling sat on the floor, his hands around his bent legs, his back against the wall, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After a while, Kou Zhong suddenly spoke, "Xiaoling, do you think we can really practice this immortal technique?" ”

Xu Ziling sat quietly, as if he hadn't heard it.

After a while, Kou Zhong threw away the "Recipe for Longevity" in his hand, walked to Xu Ziling's side, sat down, and stopped talking.

The room suddenly fell silent, and after a long while, Kou Zhong gritted his teeth, stood up and took the longevity formula, and looked through it again.

In the next few days, in addition to eating and sleeping, the two of them meditated and practiced according to their images, but not only did they fail to achieve any fame, but their complexion was vain and their temperament was very abnormal, and even Kou Zhong, who loved to talk the most, became silent.

The two of them studied the secret of longevity with one mind, and Kou Zhong practiced an image that seemed to be walking, and the meridian acupuncture points were marked with red dotted dots, which seemed to be the thick black arrow at the beginning, aligning the Tianling acupoint on the top of the head.

Since then, the following arrows are divided into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple colors, and each color of the arrows seems to say a completely different set of exercises, not only with different paths, but also with very different acupuncture points.

Many of these acupoints were not mentioned by Ji Ning at all, or they were mentioned when they were not related to practice.

Xu Ziling's practice is a supine image, the thick black arrow at the beginning points to the right foot Yongquan point, and the seven-colored arrow finally boils down to the left foot Yongquan point, unlike Kou Zhong's picture, which has to return to the Tianling point above the head.

The two pictures are in opposite ways, but the complexity is not comparable.

At night, suddenly there was a thunderstorm, and the two of them could sleep, so they got up to practice.

Kou Zhong walked in the courtyard as usual, while Xu Ziling simply lay on the ground, practicing the Fa separately. The mind naturally followed the instructions that I had already memorized to roll the claws and pass through the meridians, sometimes practicing the red arrow, sometimes practicing other colors, although there seemed to be no special effect, but they were all persevering.

Later, Kou Zhong suddenly woke up and walked around the courtyard with his eyes closed and walked around the courtyard in the posture of walking according to the image, while Xu Ziling had to lie down to feel comfortable, moving and still, each with different interests.

The thunder roared, and all thoughts were extinguished.

After a while, both of them forgot about themselves and entered a strange realm that seemed to be asleep but not asleep, and would not wake up.

And wonder came.

Xu Ziling's heart was hot, burning like fire, and then the heat scurried, pouring into all the large and small veins, that feeling, so uncomfortable that he almost wanted to commit suicide, but fortunately, the cold rain entered through the window and hit his face, extinguishing the pain a little.

Xu Ziling blessed his soul, neither paying attention to the pain in his body, nor paying attention to the true qi running around in his body, calming his mind and worrying, and only keeping to one.

Kou Zhong was in a different situation, a strange cold true qi penetrated through the top, and then flowed into all the large and small veins, freezing him almost to death, and he couldn't help but run, so that the qi and blood could still be kept smooth.

The two of them just held on hard for two hours, and when it was dawn, Kou Zhong finally couldn't support it anymore and fell to the ground softly, and at this critical moment, all the meridians of his body seemed to explode, and then he passed out, and he didn't know who he was.

Xu Ziling found that the heat in his body that almost burned him to death quickly subsided like a tide, and he was unable to settle for a while, and he also lost consciousness.

At noon, Kou Zhong woke up first, only to feel that his body was soaked in cold, not afraid of the fire and poison of the sun, and he was extremely comfortable.

He still couldn't figure out what was going on, and he sat up blankly when he remembered what had happened last night.

At a glance, I saw that the whole world was much clearer, not only the colors were rich, but also many subtle situations that he usually ignored, and he also felt them one by one, and even the subtle changes in the wind that he usually ignored could not be missed by his sensitive hearing.

The strangest thing is that no matter heaven or earth, a stone or a small grass is alive as if it is connected to him, and he has become a part of them, and he is no longer unrelated.

Kou Zhong was stunned for a moment, and then an indescribable ecstasy surged into his heart, causing him to jump.

Kou Zhong first thought of Xu Ziling, shouted, and shouted, "Xiaoling, I've practiced." Look, how light my body is and I can do somersaults. ”

After two somersaults in a row, he rushed to find his good brother.

Xu Ziling heard Kou Zhong's call, and gradually woke up, only to feel warm all over his body, not cold at all, got up and walked out of the door, and then knelt down with a shock, looking at the beautiful world in front of him in disbelief.

"Heaven and earth are all transformed, heaven and man are one, the same origins from the Tao, and the assimilation is in the qi!"

Ji Ning, who has been paying attention to the situation of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, did not miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The veil of mystery shrouded in "The Secret of Longevity" was removed, and at this moment, countless inspirations suddenly poured out of his heart, "The innate way originates from one qi, one qi derives yin and yang, day and night, and the cycle rises and falls.

Yin and Yang, the way of heaven and earth, the outline of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death......"

In the next few days, under the guidance of Ji Ning, Kou and Xu quickly mastered the true qi of immortality in their bodies.

Xu Ziling is happy and quiet, but what he cultivates is a scorching true qi, while Kou Zhong is active, and what he cultivates is an extremely cold true qi.

The two true qi come out of the same source, yin and yang are mutually beneficial, and the magic is endless.

(Also available at night)