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Dongfang Xiaohan sat in the room, thinking about today's battle.

In today's battle, he only took out about seventy percent of his strength, but after all, it was a real battle, and the effect was still better than his own cultivation on weekdays, and he now felt that his strength had improved a little.

Dongfang Xiaohan used the hammer method in Taijiquan today, after all, his true qi is still only the peak of the third rate, so don't take it out and be embarrassed. The Tai Chi hammer method is extremely fierce, and the current Wudang School Tai Chi style is completely different, there is no second person in the world today, there is no need to worry about being exposed, and it will not let the Wudang faction carry the black pot. After learning Neijiaquan for so long, he still has a lot of respect for Zhang Sanfeng, who is known as the ancestor of Neijiaquan, and naturally he doesn't want to hate Wudang Pyra for nothing.

The Sun Moon God Sect is the overlord of the Demon Dao, the hierarchy within the sect is strict, and the strength is supreme, and without strength, it is impossible to be in the top position. In the Sun and Moon Divine Sect, the martial arts of the elite sect must reach at least the third rate, the incense master and deputy incense master of the provincial altars, the martial arts are at least the early stage of the second rate, the flag master, the deputy flag master, the martial arts are at least the late second-rate stage, the general flag master and the deputy chief flag master, the martial arts are at least quasi-first-class, as for the hall master, hall elders, and elders, without first-class mid-stage martial arts, it is absolutely unacceptable.

In the original book, Xue Hua was just the incense master when he was killed by Ren Xing a few years later, and the original middle and high-level of the Sun Moon Divine Sect at that time were cleaned by Yang Lianting a lot, and there was no shortage of positions, but Xue Hua, who was an undefeated descendant of the East, still did not rise, which shows that his strength is indeed not strong, at most he can reach the peak of the second rate.

However, Xue Hua practiced pure foreign kung fu such as iron cloth shirt and iron sand palm, and it is difficult to improve this kind of kung fu, which is basically a water grinding effort. And at that time, he was already in his forties, and his body had begun to decline, although he had been practicing for a long time, but the pressure on his body was already great on his body, so on the whole, even if he was stronger than now, it was estimated that he was limited. Dongfang Xiaohan has already heard in Heimu Cliff, and Xue Hua is now a second-rate master in the rivers and lakes. Dongfang Xiaohan himself estimated that Xue Hua should be at the level of the second-rate mid-term in the rivers and lakes.

Here we want to talk about the generally recognized division of strength on the rivers and lakes.

On the realm, external skills can be divided into entry, skilled, small, proficient, large, self-explanatory, touch-bypass, and no tricks. However, the general characters in the rivers and lakes only know the realm of Dacheng, and only the high-level leaders of the first-class factions in the rivers and lakes will know the realm behind them, and the highest realm of no tricks will not exceed the number of people in the entire rivers and lakes.

However, if you only practice external skills, you will not be able to practice internal skills, unless the external skills have been practiced to a very high level, otherwise you can only be regarded as not entering the stream. Only practice external skills, reach the realm of Xiaocheng is regarded as a third-rate master of the rivers and lakes, and proficient can be regarded as a second-rate master of the rivers and lakes, which must also be practiced The external skills practiced have enough power. Therefore, there are few masters on the rivers and lakes who only practice external skills.

In terms of internal strength, it can be divided into several realms: entry, Tongmai, Xiaocheng, Huajing, and Dacheng. After that, there are self-emergence machines and touch bypasses, as well as higher realms, which are not known to ordinary people.

In fact, there is also a Great Perfection realm above Dacheng, which refers to the limit that can be reached by a set of internal strength. However, most of the Dzogchen realm of internal strength is actually the conjecture of the person who created the internal power for the realm after the Dacheng, and the creator himself may not have reached it, and "The Great Shift of Qiankun" is the best example. As long as a person who cultivates the same internal skill is not killed halfway, at least three or four out of ten will be able to achieve Dacheng, but there may not be one out of a hundred who can practice to Dazogchen. Therefore, the Dzogchen realm cannot be used as a reference standard for the realm of internal strength at all. If you want to reach the Dzogchen realm, you have to explore your own cultivation methods, and it can be said that the Dzogchen realm is the same as the self-emergence machine.

Because of the importance of internal strength, the rivers and lakes generally regard whether or not they can feel the sense of qi and nourish the qi as the boundary between the three streams and those who do not enter the stream. People who do not enter the stream, the internal strength can not feel the sense of qi, or just to boil the body, strengthen the foundation, the external strength is just familiar with the foundation, the introduction is just to do a complete set of external skills and people to dismantle the moves, and will not hurt themselves.

If the dantian has practiced the sense of qi, it is the realm of internal strength. If the sense of qi is enough to convert the qi and blood in the body into true qi, and can freely carry it into the twelve righteous meridians, it is the realm of the Tongmai, and it is already a third-rate master in the rivers and lakes. If the true qi runs through the three main paths, it is the early stage of the third rate; It has penetrated the six canons, and it is the middle of the third rate; has run through the nine canons, and it is a third-rate late period; All of them are connected, and it is the peak of the third rate.

There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that if it is general, it will not be painful, and if it is painful, it will not be understood. From birth to death, all the meridians are actually unblocked. However, this kind of unobstruction is for the basic physiological needs of the human body, although it can also run true qi, but it is very reluctant to use martial arts.

Therefore, those who systematically cultivate internal qi will use their true qi to warm, dredge, and expand the meridians after cultivating their true qi, so as to prepare for the use of martial arts in the future.

Moreover, once a person becomes an adult, the meridians are basically fixed, and the amount of true qi that can be carried through is certain, and even after getting old, the meridians will become less due to atrophy. In particular, the various acupoints on the meridians, you can hear the clues from the name, the acupoints and acupoints, but only one acupoint, very narrow, if you do not carry out special exercises, the amount of true qi that can pass is very small.

Therefore, the apprentices of the various major sects of martial arts are basically admitted to the door in their teens or even a few years old, and they began to practice internal strength when they were young, because the meridians and acupoints at this time are very plastic, and the cultivation of internal strength can improve the possibility of a person becoming a master. After the age of twenty, the basic disciples can only be outer disciples,—— Lao Denuo in the original book is an exception, at that time Huashan declined too much, and he was not qualified to pay so much attention to it, and similar to the "Nine Yin True Scripture" in the "Yi Muscle Forging Bone Chapter" The kind of magic that can expand and strengthen the meridians and improve the potential in adulthood is unavoidable.

As long as the amount of true qi is sufficient, once it runs into the twelve righteous meridians, it will make the twelve righteous meridians continue to be squeezed from the inside out and become thicker, but this is only a temporary phenomenon, as long as the true qi flows back to the dantian, the meridians will slowly return to their original appearance. Therefore, people who practice internal strength will use certain methods to slow down or even stop the recovery of the enlarged meridians, and then continue to expand, which is called dredging the meridians. At the same time, because the 12 Righteous Meridians are connected to all parts of the body, the true qi runs in them, and it can also absorb the free energy from all parts of the body, and gradually grow stronger.

In terms of external skills, third-rate peak players have at least a few sets of martial arts that have reached the realm of proficiency, and one set of martial arts is small, which can be used to defeat the enemy in combat.

A third-rate expert is already the elite of ordinary disciples in the various sects, and if a disciple can enter the third-rate before the age of fifteen, he will definitely become a key training object in the sect.

After the true qi penetrates all the canons, as long as you continue to accumulate the true qi, when the amount of true qi is enough to run on more than one of the twelve canons at the same time, forming a cycle, it is the realm of internal strength, and you are a second-rate master in the rivers and lakes. can run two canons at the same time, which is the early stage of the second rate; Six canons, which is the middle of the second rate; Nine canons, which is a second-rate late period; And when the true qi can run in all the twelve canons, and the true qi is all withdrawn from the dantian, the dantian has a sense of fullness, that is, the true qi has stored the dantian, which is the realm of internal strength, and it is the master of the second-rate peak.

The second-rate peak is the general internal strength on the rivers and lakes, as well as the limit of the basic internal strength of each major sect. Dongfang Xiaohan's current cultivation of "Taihe Gong" is like this.

The external skills of second-rate masters have at least several sets of small achievements, one set of proficientness, and can complement each other, and they can freely choose martial arts routines and moves according to the situation when fighting.

Second-rate masters are the backbone of each sect. The number of second-rate masters determines the overall strength and status of a sect in the rivers and lakes. In the first-class sect, only disciples who have reached the second rate are qualified to go down the mountain and walk on the rivers and lakes.

For the second-rate and above sects, the elite disciples they focus on cultivating can basically reach the second rate before the age of twenty, such as Qingcheng Sixiu of the Qingcheng faction, Linghu Chong of the Huashan faction, Shi Dengda and Di Xiu of the Songshan faction, Xiang Danian and Mi Weiyi of the Hengshan faction. Linghu Chong, who just appeared in the original book, is almost the peak of the second rate, which can be regarded as the dividing line between the second rate and the first-class.

If you can dredge the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, so that the true qi between the eight veins of the Qi Jing and the dantian and the twelve canons can be swallowed, then you will be a first-class master.

The eight meridians of Qi Jing are a category of the meridians of the human body. The eight veins of the Qi Jing are the general names of the Du pulse, the Ren pulse, the Chong pulse, the belt pulse, the Yang vein, the Yin vein, the Yin vein, and the Yang vein. They are different from the twelve canons, neither directly to the viscera, nor have no relationship between the outside and the inside, "don't do strange things", so they are called "strange scriptures".

The eight veins of the Qi Jing are staggered and distributed between the twelve meridians, and their functions are mainly reflected in two aspects. First, it communicates the connection between the twelve meridians. The eight meridians of the Qi Meridian connect the meridians with similar parts and functions to achieve the function of controlling the qi and blood of the relevant meridians and coordinating yin and yang. Second, the eight veins of the Qi meridian have a regulatory effect on the accumulation and infiltration of qi and blood in the twelve meridians.

For the people in the rivers and lakes, there is no doubt about the importance of the eight veins of the Qi Jing. After cultivating internal strength, if you want to go further, you must cultivate high-level internal strength, such as the "Yijin Sutra" of Shaolin Temple, the "Pure Yang Wuji Gong" of the Wudang School, etc. The reason why these high-level internal skills are called high-level internal skills is due in part to the fact that cultivating them can open up the eight veins of the Qi Sutra.

A normal person has accumulated a large amount of qi and blood in the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, and its stout degree is much greater than that of the Twelve Righteous Meridians at the beginning, but the acupuncture points on it restrict the operation of qi, blood and true qi. Therefore, once one of the eight veins of the Qi Sutra is opened, whether it is the running speed of the True Qi, the cultivation efficiency of the True Qi, the total amount of the True Qi, or the quality of the True Qi, there will be a qualitative change. There are also some internal strengths, every time one of the eight veins of the Qi Sutra is opened, there will be some magical changes in the nature of the true qi. For example, the "Cold Ice True Qi" of Zuo Lengchan of the Songshan School, if you don't open up the Yin Dimension Vein or Yin Seesaw Vein in the Eight Veins of the Qi Sutra, you can't practice it at all.

For this reason, starting from the practice of the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, the gap between the various internal skills has really widened, and the realms between different internal skills are very different. Some internal skills can only get through one miracle scripture even if they are completed, and some can get through three or four, or even all of them.

To evaluate the depth of a set of internal skills is to look at the realm that it can reach after it is completed.

Once a person in the rivers and lakes opens up one of the eight veins of the Qi Jing, it is like a carp jumping over the dragon gate, not only will his skills increase greatly, but also his value will be doubled, no matter which sect he is in, he will become a member of the high-level, and he is also a first-class master in the rivers and lakes. Those who have not opened up the eight veins of the Qi Jing will have less than two percent of the odd chances against the master who has opened up one of the eight veins of the Qi Jing. The master who has opened up two strange scriptures also has a great advantage in the face of the master who has opened up one strange scripture. However, if you don't consider the special attributes of the exercises, the more Qi Sutras you can open up, the smaller this advantage will be, but even if it is small, it is obvious.

Open up a strange meridian and eight veins, that is, the first-class early stage, the representative figures are Tiansong of the Taishan faction, the white-headed immortal Weng Bushen of the Songshan faction, the vulture Sha Tianjiang, the strong and the general flag master of the Sun and Moon God Sect are basically at this level. In terms of external skills, first-class beginners can practice at least one martial art to the fullest, and can make subtle changes to the moves according to their own situation to make it more convenient to use. Those with high talent can already make their own efforts in external skills.

Open up the two strange scriptures, it is a first-class mid-term, the representative figures are Yu Canghai of the Qingcheng faction, Tian Boguang who travels alone for thousands of miles, Ning Zhongze of the Huashan faction, the six immortals of Peach Valley, and the black and white son, bald pen Weng, and Dan Qingsheng in the four friends of Jiangnan. In fact, the internal strength that circulates in the martial arts, even if it is superior internal strength, most of the highest realms are also at this point. Therefore, there are many people in the rivers and lakes who have come to this point and will come to an end, and they will not be able to go further in the future, such as the night owl in the evil way, the ancestor of the Yellow River, the peak of the camel wood in Saibei Ming, etc. The strong among the Sun Moon God Sect's chief banner masters, the hall elders, and the weak among the hall masters, and the heads of the general righteous path second-rate sects are basically at this level. Because it is difficult to break through the internal strength, people at this level have a lot of effort in the external strength. People who have been through the two strange scriptures for more than ten years can basically reach the realm of self-emergence with external skills. It is also for this reason that the person who opens up the three strange scriptures does not have such a great advantage over the person who opens the two.

Breaking through the three is a first-class late stage, and the top few elders and Dharma protectors of the first-class sect are basically at this level. The representative figures are Liu Zhengfeng of the Hengshan faction, Ding Mian, Fei Bin, Lu Bai of the Songshan faction, the monk who does not prescribe, Huang Zhonggong, the boss of the four friends of Jiangnan, and others, and most of the ten elders and elders of the Demon Sect are also at this level.

Open up the four, it is the peak of the first-class, the head of the first-class faction of the righteous path of the rivers and lakes, as long as the talent is enough and the cultivation time is long enough, it can basically reach this level, such as the Hengshan faction at the beginning of the plot in the original book, the Taishan faction Tianmen, the Huashan faction Yue Buqun, the beggar gang to solve the wind, the Kunlun faction Zhenshanzi, the Sun and Moon Divine Sect Xiang Wentian, Tong Baixiong, and the Shaolin faction Fang Sheng. Yue Buqun can be regarded as the strongest person at this level, followed by Xiang Wentian, Mo Da and Zhenshanzi, and Tianmen can be regarded as the worst person at this level. In terms of external skills, the first-class peak can basically be bypassed.

And if you open up the five strange meridians and eight veins, you will be a super-first-class master; If you get through the six, you will be a top master; If you get through all of them, you will be a grandmaster. It should be pointed out that if you can't reach the realm of self-emergence in terms of internal strength, then unless you practice peerless divine skills like Jiuyin and Jiuyang, you will definitely not be able to become a grandmaster.

In the original work, the three masters of the righteous path, Fang Zheng, Chongxu, Zuo Lengzen, and Let Me Go, are all top masters who have opened up the six strange scriptures. As for Dongfang Undefeated, Dongfang Xiaohan thinks that he should also be a top master, and he has not yet become a grandmaster, but because the speed advantage is too obvious, he seems to be super strong. The wind is clear and unknown - he has never really done it, he can't judge.

As for the realm after opening up all the strange scriptures, I'm sorry, Dongfang Xiaohan hasn't heard of anyone in the rivers and lakes who can get to this point, it is said that no one in the rivers and lakes has reached this realm for decades, and the last one to reach this realm so far is still the head of the Wudang faction in the orthodox to Tianshun period. However, Dongfang Xiaohan guessed that the next thing might be the legendary innate realm.

Of all the martial arts people who mix the rivers and lakes, in fact, fifty to six CD are not in the stream, about thirty percent are third-rate, about one percent are second-rate, and the rest are first-class and above masters.

There is a saying that "boxing is afraid of being young and strong", and there is also a saying that "old people don't take their muscles and bones as energy". These two sentences are indeed wise sayings on the rivers and lakes. As people get older, their potential is gradually exhausted, their meridians are fixed, their muscles and bones are relaxed, and the older they get, the more difficult it will be to break through the realm. Especially for internal strength, as we get older, the body's absorption capacity will decrease, and in order to maintain true qi and physical fitness, the energy consumed by the body will increase, while the efficiency of refining true qi will become lower and lower. In fact, if you can't break through to the first-class realm before the age of thirty, the chance of breaking through will drop to thirty percent, and if you can't break through at the age of forty, the chance of breaking through in the future will be less than one. Of course, this refers to the pure martial arts internal strength, if it is the authentic internal strength of Taoism and Buddhism, although the early cultivation speed is slow, but because of its thick accumulation, the characteristics of nourishing the body and protecting the body, the aging speed of the body will be greatly slowed down, even if you are old, the possibility of breakthrough is not low. But even so, if you can't break through to a first-class master at the age of fifty, it's basically impossible.

Therefore, the second-rate is already the limit of most people in the rivers and lakes, and people who have reached the second-rate for more than five years, such as Lin Zhennan in the original work, Wang Bofen, Wang Zhongqiang and others of the Luoyang Golden Dao King family, have been able to become famous in the rivers and lakes. Even the most famous sects on the rivers and lakes, ordinary disciples who have not been carefully cultivated, if their qualifications are worse, they will be at this level for the rest of their lives.

However, some second-rate peak masters, although they have not opened up any of the eight veins of the Qi Jing, but after years of cultivation, the dantian and the canon have been independently broadened by the true qi, and the amount of true qi is no worse than that of the first-class masters in the early and even middle stages, and the speed of the operation of the true qi is not inferior to the first-class masters, and there are some people who have unique external skills and light skills. The combat effectiveness of these people is not worse than that of the average first-class early or even mid-stage, so they are called quasi-first-class masters.

Today, Dongfang Xiaohan only used seventy percent of his strength to beat Xue Hua to the point that he couldn't find the north at all, and it was difficult to even parry. Therefore, Dongfang Xiaohan estimates that the inner fist in the early stage of dark energy is conservatively estimated to be quasi-first-class in the rivers and lakes. If you add the true qi and the golden bell jar of the second layer, as well as the first-class hidden weapons and light skills of the rivers and lakes, Dongfang Xiaohan's current strength can be regarded as a good hand in the early stage of the first-class, and the master in the middle of the first-class period will suffer a big loss if he underestimates him.

Dongfang Xiaohan fought this fight happily, he was actually addicted, and he also wanted to know where the highest level of his martial arts was, so he simply went down the cliff every once in a while to fight with those middle and high-level members of the Sun Moon God Sect who left or came to the Black Wood Cliff.

In three months, Dongfang Xiaohan played seven times.

The first two times he picked the strongest of the incense masters, only with the inner fist, all the strength is within fifty moves to solve the battle, this is still only defeat and not killing, if you want to kill, he can definitely solve it within thirty moves.

From the third to the sixth time, he picked the flag master, and the order was from weak to strong, or only with the inner fist, and the result was to solve the battle with ninety-seven moves, one hundred and twenty-eight moves, and two hundred and eighty-three moves, only defeated and not killed, of which the sixth time was to face the stronger of the two flag masters.

The last time, Dongfang Xiaohan picked Shangguan Yun.

Shangguan Yun, the master of the rivers and lakes gave the nickname "Eagle Hero", his martial arts are both high, and he is extremely upright, and he is very popular among the members of the Sun and Moon God Sect, and he was just promoted to the master of the White Tiger Hall half a year ago. The tip of this person's nose is hook-shaped, like a carved beak, and he is good at using strong eagle claw skills, and his light skills are also extraordinary, so he has the nickname of "Eagle Man".

However, this time Dongfang Xiaohan almost kicked the iron plate.