Two days later, a small apprenticeship banquet was held in Luo Tuan Village. Inside the hall, Zhang Jingxing, the fourth-generation grandmaster of the Baji Gate, sat at the head, and then Li Shuwen. It also invited the portraits of the first generation patriarch Wu Zhong, the second generation patriarch Wu Rong, the third generation patriarch Zhang Keming and Li Dazhong, and the deceased fourth-generation patriarch Huang Sihai.

Under the guidance of a special person, Su Ming knelt down to the patriarch one by one, then worshiped Zhang Jingxing, and finally worshiped Li Shuwen, and then served tea to the patriarch Zhang Jingxing and the master Li Shuwen. Li Shuwen read out the ancestral teachings of the Baji Gate to Su Ming, and then drank tea, which represented that Su Ming was included in the door.

After receiving the apprentices, in the following days, Li Shuwen taught Su Ming quietly, teaching him the essence of Bajiquan little by little. Most of Li Shuwen's disciples have gone out to wander now, and there are only two people around. One is Liu Yunqiao, and the other is Li Jianwu, who is about the same size as him. The two of them are still young, and they can't practice playing now, so they can only practice Liangyi piles and small frames. Li Shuwen spent almost all his energy on Su Ming.

Su Ming still gets up at three o'clock in the morning every day, and then walks around the village, practicing the two yi piles and the eight-pole small frame while walking, and trying to integrate the true meaning into his ordinary actions. When the sky brightened, Li Shuwen began to teach Su Ming the basic exercises of Bajiquan.

In the basic exercises of Bajiquan, the basic skills of practicing the method are the two instrument piles and the small frame. There are many basic skills in the playing method, such as kneading hands, brushing hands, three arms, three arms, walking three arms, kneading legs, hanging feet, rubbing and so on. After practicing these basic skills, start practicing the six major openings. At this time, Li Shuwen practiced with Su Ming himself, so that Su Ming could grasp the mystery most accurately.

The six openings are the introductory boxing methods of Bajiquan, but they are also the foundation and essence of all Bajiquan fighting methods. The six basic methods of "topping, holding, bearing, lifting, carrying, and wrapping" are the matriarchy of various actions.

"Top" is the cross force of the upper collar, sinking, left top, and right pulling in all directions; "Hug" is a tightening of a ball, pillow Ge is ready to go, attacking in defense, and attacking in defense; "Dan" is a fist wheel as the force point, from top to bottom cover, smashing fist method; "Mention" refers to the change of the leg method; "Shoulder" is a short strike and a quick throw with a curved arm; "Wrapping" is divided into sizes, small wrapping wrists, and large wrapping arms.

After practicing the basic skills of playing, Su Ming had to learn from Li Shuwen his world-famous "Liuhe Big Gun".

Since the first ancestor Wu Zhong, Bajimen has been proficient in marksmanship. During the Yongzheng period, the first ancestor Wu Zhong broke into the Shaolin Temple three times, and none of the hidden weapons were touched. A big gun pierced all over the south, north and 63 provinces, and was invincible all over the world, and was known as "Nanjing to Beijing, the number of magic guns Wu Zhong". After the first ancestor, the ancestors of all generations were proficient in the Liuhe big gun. Li Shuwen's marksmanship has reached the realm of gods and peaks, and he is respected as the "magic gun" by people in the martial arts of the Republic of China.

The ancients said: The gun is the king of a hundred soldiers, and some people say that the gun is the thief of a hundred soldiers, which illustrates the horror and strength of the gun in the ancient cold weapons from both positive and negative aspects. In ancient times, a fierce general, a horse, a gun, a horse stepped on the company camp, and the spear pierced the enemy's head. Everywhere the men and horses went, the ghosts cried and the wolves howled, and the blood flowed like rivers. With a horse and a gun in his hand, he can be crowned a king and a marquis, and achieve immortal achievements!

Su Ming followed the teachings of his master Li Shuwen, little by little, from the most basic things to stop the gun, hold the gun, split the gun, pick the gun, and pull the gun. The Liuhe big gun he practiced was more than a zhang long, weighing about eight catties, and the head of the gun was more than a foot. But that's just the gun he used when he first started learning. As the realm and strength increase, the guns used will become heavier and heavier.

Once, Su Ming was curious and tried his master Li Shuwen's gun. With one hand, you can only just lift the gun off the ground, let alone flatten. Let's just say that Su Ming practiced with a three-meter-long wooden pole, which can be easily lifted by a person in the middle, but it must be held with one hand and held up flat. That's difficult, few people have this kung fu.

People who practice guns are to hold them like this, exercising their wrist strength and the balance of the whole body. When someone comes home from gun practice, a big pole holds the gun handle flat and puts a bowl of water in the middle of the pole, and it does not splash out. It's easy to shake the gun, but it's not usually difficult to control the body of the gun from shaking.

And the gun used by his master Li Shuwen was not a wooden gun, but a genuine pure steel gun. Su Ming's wooden gun is about eight catties. And Li Shuwen's steel gun weighs seventy or eighty pounds! Seventy or eighty pounds of steel guns, in Li Shuwen's hands, are as light as nothing, you can tie incense to extinguish the fire without breaking the incense, and pierce flies without breaking the window paper!

Such a skill can be called a magic spear!

With such a famous teacher, Su Ming is naturally full of energy and works hard to study. His physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary people, and his mind is more flexible, and he can understand it at all. Li Shuwen couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this good apprentice. One of them taught the rise, and the other learned quickly. Su Ming has been practicing boxing since three o'clock in the morning every day, and even when he eats and goes to the toilet, he is asking for advice or thinking. At eleven o'clock in the evening, I will go to bed. When sleeping, Li Shuwen would hit some acupuncture points on Su Ming's body with palm power. Although he only slept for four hours every day, Su Ming felt that he was full of energy every day, and his fatigue was completely relieved after waking up.

Before you know it, three months have passed. Li Shuwen saw that Su Ming was really talented, and he was more strict with him than the rest of the disciples, and his requirements were even stricter. Just the basic skills of playing, I practiced for three months. Seeing that Su Ming's basic skills had been practiced very solidly, he began to teach Su Ming the true Bajiquan fighting style.

The fighting style of Bajiquan is also called a big frame of Bajiquan by outsiders. In the Baji Gate, there is no such name, it is called Baji Boxing, or Baji Docking, which is divided into upper and lower shelves.

For beginners, learn singles first and then learn sparring. When fighting, the first one attacks first and then defends, and the latter defends first and then attacks, and the twenty-four actions are repeated endlessly. Start practicing your tricks and my style, and slowly get started, which is called "feeding hands"; After being proficient, he realized the "six major openings" and the "joint force" formula, and the technique of dismantling the trick at the beginning is called "dismantling"; Dismantling from slow to fast, from coarse to fine, "six open and eight dozen" is used freely, called "sought-after"; From the inevitable change of "sought-after" to the natural change of "conditioned reflex", it is called "no trick and no style", and gradually enters the realm of "invisible".

The practice of playing is far more painful than the practice. The practice method is used to nourish the body, and the more you practice, the more comfortable it will become. The style of play is used to defeat the enemy, how fierce it is. In the practice of playing style, Su Ming was beaten many times and was covered in injuries, and even many times his bones were almost broken. However, after each injury, Li Shuwen carefully used his dark strength to help Su Ming dredge the meridian blood, and the injury healed quickly. This is the soft energy in the dark energy, which can help people dredge the blood veins, dispel diseases and prolong life.

Although it was hard, Su Ming enjoyed it, as if he was crazy. Get up at three o'clock in the morning every day, practice the Liangyi pile and the small frame while walking, practice the Bajiquan style in the morning, practice the Liuhe big gun in the afternoon, and practice back to the Liangyi pile and the small frame in the evening. Many times, Li Shuwen will also tell him about the characteristics and fighting styles of other boxing techniques. Li Shuwen has traveled south and north all his life, and has met countless enemies, but he has never been defeated. There are almost no exercises of various sects that have not been seen. He will also imitate the fighting style of other boxing techniques to fight Su Ming. In this way, it invisibly gave Su Ming a lot more experience in fighting the enemy.

Practice like this every day, and time flies. Su Ming only remembered that when he first came to Luo Tuan, it was still early summer. Then the weather got colder and colder, and he passed his first Spring Festival in the Republic of China. Then the weather gradually warmed up again, and it was time for spring to bloom. If you count it today, it is already the beginning of March 1920.

In the past nine months, from the first six major openings, to the eight pole docking, and then Li Shuwen passed on Su Ming's eight styles and eight major moves.

The Vajra Eight Style was originally not the ancestral practice of Bajiquan, but when the ancestor Zhang Jingxing was in Tianjin, he exchanged skills from Li Ruidong, the ancestor of Li School Taiji. Li Ruidong, nicknamed "Nose Li", is the founder of Li School Taijiquan, and his skills are amazing. When Zhang Jingxing went to Tianjin, he didn't know Li Ruidong if he didn't fight, and he changed his art to get this King Kong Eight Style.

King Kong eight styles are divided into hammer (collapse bow and arrow urgency), descending dragon (five mountains to the sky cone), Fu Hu (Liuhe fluttering the ground brocade), splitting the mountain palm (splitting the mountain axe plus steel), exploring the horse palm (mountaineering and exploring the horse accurate), tiger hugging (circle blocking the tiger hugging urgent), bear squatting (bear squatting hard to squeeze), crane step push (crane step pushing the mountain stable).

The eight major moves are the secret of the eight pole boxing, and the eight killer moves to defeat the enemy, namely: Hades three-point hand, the tiger climbs the mountain, the door is three disregarded, the overlord is hard to fold the reins, the wind and the sun are palms, the left and right hard doors are opened, the yellow warbler hugs his claws, and the cannon is on the ground.

In the past nine months, Su Ming has practiced and played Bajiquan, and the various techniques of the Liuhe big gun.

That night, after Su Ming finished practicing the Liuhe big gun, Li Shuwen took him to the house, inspected the practice in recent days, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "You have almost learned the practice and fighting style, and the kung fu of Yi Gu and Yi tendon has also been practiced almost, if you want to go further, you need to enter the dark energy." ”

After practicing for most of the past half a year, Su Ming only felt that his physical fitness had improved to a higher level, and even Li Shuwen said that he could be comparable to ordinary dark energy masters, but he never stepped into the dark energy. At this time, he hurriedly asked, "Master, how can I practice from bright energy to dark energy?" I know the truth of the inner triad, and I also understand what the dark energy is about, but I just can't break through this level. ”

Li Shuwen said: "It's one thing to know, but it's another thing to really understand. The inner triad says that the heart and the mind are together, the mind is in harmony with the qi, and the qi is in harmony with the force. Do you know what the mind is, what the mind is, and how to practice the mind and the clear mind? ”

Su Ming opened his mouth, but he couldn't answer.

Li Shuwen said lightly: "To practice boxing, not only must you indulge in it, but the most important thing is to have spirit and will." ”

Su Ming slowly chewed the truth in it, and seemed to understand something, but it was as if he didn't understand anything.

Li Shuwen continued: "If you look at the famous poems and nouns of ancient times, you can feel the author's feelings and artistic conception when you read them. For example, if you look at the famous paintings and calligraphy that have been handed down from generation to generation, you can also feel the author's mood and feelings in them. Everything must be integrated into your spirit, your will, your heart, and your thoughts, so that you can be alive, spiritual, and immortal! ”

"Without spiritual will, even if you continue to practice, boxing is like a dead stone, and you can't enter the supreme realm of boxing! It sounds mysterious, but it's a real thing. ”

"One day, you will figure it out and really understand, that is when you step into the dark energy!"