Chapter 10: Vitality
"Uhhh
As the vomiting bone gathered qi to the belly button, a slight mist was produced in the dark secret room, like a hole in the mutter, and the small light blue sparks seemed to be a little brighter than before.
"Huh?" Surprised, he gathered his breath on his belly again, this time a little more than the last time, and the mist produced in the dark chamber was a little thicker, like a hazy veil lingering around small sparks.
"Uh-huh-"
The small light blue spark that had been ethereal before had condensed into substance, no longer weak, no longer swaying, and was already a magnificent blooming spark.
"It really works!" Overjoyed, Tu Gu, who was looking inward, decided to gather his strength again, and this time by increasing his strength.
"Whew!" A mist as thick as white silk was created in the dark chamber, and it swirled slowly around the great spark.
"Uhhh
Like a withered lamp filled with oil, a bright tongue of fire sprang up from the spark, and the large spark grew into a candle flame, and even the dark secret room was illuminated for a few minutes.
Tu Guhun was overjoyed in his heart, and wanted to increase his strength again, but his strength was exhausted, so he could only give up. After a little relaxation, Tu Guhun found that his normal strength could only maintain a slightly smaller candle form, but this result made him very satisfied.
When Tu Gu opened his eyes sweating profusely, the sky was already slightly dawning, and several early risers had already begun to prepare breakfast, and a "cooing" sound came from his stomach, Tu Gu felt an unprecedented hunger, so he got up and returned.
"Hun Ball, are you hungry?"
When Tuguhun returned to his tent, the old man was stirring the bonfire and roasting a large piece of tenderness. The juicy steak asked when he saw the spit bones returning.
"Hmm." Spit bones and answer honestly.
"Here, take it, eat it while it's hot!" The old man cut off a large piece of roast meat from the steak that was sizzling with oil, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and stuffed it into Tuguhu's hands.
"Where's the steak?" Tugu Hun asked.
"Don't steal or rob, you can eat the income from your hard work." The old man smiled,
Tu Gu Hun was already extremely hungry, so he opened his mouth to eat the barbecue, and said vaguely while eating: "Master...... I feel ...... today The sun ...... from the west It's out! ”
The old man smiled and waved his hand, and said seriously, "I know that you practice hard, so I will give you more food every day from now on." ”
"Huh? Why? Tu Gu Hun spit a piece of hard bone in his mouth to the side and asked.
"You are now in the stage of laying the foundation, and you have to keep up with the nutrition," the old man said, "There is an old saying: 'People live a breath', 'people take food as the sky', if you can't eat enough, how can you replenish your vitality?" Slowly you will understand. ”
"Refueling? What is Genki? Tu Gu nodded as if he didn't understand, but he asked himself in his heart, in the past, he only knew that he was thirsty to drink water, hungry to eat, and sleepy to sleep, as for the vitality replenishment that the master said? Whatever.
"By the way, have you gained anything in the past two days?" The old man asked.
"Yes," Tu Gu said, munching on the roast meat, gesturing at his belly button, "I see something very strange here." ”
"There is the Qi Sea Acupoint, also called the Xia Dantian Acupoint," the old man glanced at the Gu Hun Cave, "You can feel the existence of the Qi Sea Acupoint, which means that you have stepped into the threshold of cultivation, if I remember correctly, the scriptures and classics here should call your stage the first realm of 'Qi Induction', and in my hometown, calling your stage 'Star Level' means just getting started." ”
"Master, what are you talking about?" Tu Gu was puzzled, "What 'Qi Sea Acupoint', 'Lower Dantian Acupoint', as well as the 'Qi Induction' First Realm, 'Star Level' or something, I don't understand any of them?" ”
The old man seemed to suddenly remember something, and he patted his head and said, "Wait, I'll find something for you." Honestly, you people in Bear Village really don't miss out of the dungeon. ”
The old man said "move" and didn't say "steal", it was a face, and when he heard this, he was embarrassed and muttered in a low voice: "It's the bad thing done by the uncles of the Qinghe team...... I didn't do it......"
The old man walked to the place where the luggage was stacked and rummaged for a while, and after a while he took out a piece of animal skin from a certain package and returned it, and threw it to Tu Guhun, "This is the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", we will start translating when we are full in a while, and then follow the old rules." ”
"I know, I know," Tuguhun took the animal skin and muttered, "Don't you just copy it ten times and draw it ten times, I'm not afraid!" ”
In the following journey, Tu Guhun practiced every day, constantly gathering energy to feed the small candle flame in the dark secret room, and followed the master to translate the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", which took the two of them a full week to complete.
After the translation of "The Inner Diameter of the Yellow Emperor" was completed, Tu Guhun once again started the crazy copying mode, and after copying it from beginning to end four or five times, he roughly understood what Master meant by "Qi Sea Acupoint" and "Yuan Qi" earlier.
According to the definition in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", the Qi Sea Acupoint was originally a very important human body acupuncture point recorded in ancient medicine, and was later extended and borrowed by ancient martial arts practitioners, who regarded the Qi Sea Acupoint as a place to store vitality, so it was called "Qi Hai", which means "the sea of Yuan Qi", which has the meaning of gushing endlessly; The Yuan Qi is also known as the true qi and internal force, and the Yuan Qi is defined in the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Diameter" as the energy contained and controllable by all things in heaven and earth, which is the sum of the energy of the innate qi and the energy of the acquired qi.
Innate qi is the life qi that the living body still has in the "tadpole" stage, that is, "vitality", such as people describe living things as "vigorous", referring to this meaning, dead things such as stones, sediment, etc., are not "vigorous", innate qi is a living thing is innate, so it is called innate qi.
After the life form is conceived and matured in the mother's body, it is born in the natural world without the mother's body, absorbs the air in the natural world through the respiratory system for metabolism, generates qi or energy, and controls these energies through its own body, such as muscle force, limb movement, etc., these qi or energy are called acquired qi.
Since ancient times, countries and places on the earth will always give birth to some so-called "strange people" or "geniuses" who are gifted with divine power or high IQ since childhood, and such people are often called "congenitally good", "good qualifications", and "good roots"; Correspondingly, there will always be some so-called "mediocre talents" and "waste materials", who are born weak and sick or even disabled since childhood, or born dull, such people are often called "congenital poor", "poor qualifications", and "mediocre roots".
People who are congenitally good, if they don't cherish that gift from God, don't be strict with themselves since childhood, don't train hard, and may still become mediocre when they grow up, for example, there is a strange text in the classical book "Hurt Zhongyong", which describes the story of genius becoming mediocre; People who are congenitally poor, if they don't bow to fate, act against the sky, lay a solid foundation and train hard, they can still accumulate over the years, and have the ability to destroy the world. It can be seen that "congenital" and "acquired" are both mutually reinforcing and complementary.
"According to the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", can you think that the dark secret room is the Qi Sea Cave, and the candle flame and mist are the vitality?" Only then did he roughly understand what the master meant by "a person lives a breath" that day, and that "one breath" refers to that breath of vitality.
As his studies deepened, Tuguhun gradually understood that what he was learning from his master Hongyi was not "magic", but an ancient martial art, and the master was not a "magician", but a hidden martial arts master. What makes Tu Guhun wonder is where the master is sacred? Although the master was rescued from the Qinghe dungeon by his father, Tuguhun never believed that the dungeon was the master's home, because Tuguhun heard from the big men in the team that there was no food in the dungeon, not even a grain of rice! If you don't have food, you can still live, either a god or a ghost.
With the "Xuanwu Ding" such a spitting technique as Zhuyu in the front, and the "Lingshu" and "Suwen" of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Diameter" supplemented by theoretical guidance, coupled with the master's daily delicious barbecue to supplement the vitality and nutrition, the cultivation of Tu Gu Hun has made rapid progress, and the body has become taller and stronger, the mist produced in the Qi Sea Cave is getting richer and thicker day by day, and the candle flame in the center of the Qi Sea Cave is also growing day by day.
After tasting the sweetness of copying books, Tu Gu Hun thoroughly learned, no, two days ago he turned out the "Diamond Sutra" and "Five Fowl Play" animal skins from his luggage, such as a treasure; Later, he heard that there was a piece of animal skin in Xiong Yao's family, and he borrowed it after grinding it for three days; There is Xiong Haijia's "Tai Chi" that he exchanged for two hares, and the loan period is five days.
Because the ancient books of animal skins are written in Xia Jomon, at the beginning of Tu Gu Hun still need to rely on the master to translate, and then he was troublesome, so according to the first few animal skins accumulated that little vocabulary, comparative study, just half a decade later, he became an expert in Xia Jomon, except for the occasional rare words need to ask the teacher, he read and write the ancient books of animal skins no longer difficult.
The old man saw the "crazy copying of books" by the old man, but he did not stop it, but just told him: "The ancient martial arts are like a sea of smoke, it is a good thing that you have a wide range of interests, and the ancient books of animal skins have also been translated and copied by hand, as the so-called 'travel thousands of miles to read thousands of books', I have seen more, and naturally touch the bypass, and there is a saying in martial arts that 'one pass is a hundred passes', but please be sure not to be greedy and miscellaneous, and it is counterproductive to chew it lightly!" ”
"Yes, Master!"
Hong Yi's words are chiseled, and the bones are scorching.