066: Cutting the Muscles and Washing the Wolf Spirit
The Red Keep's patrols are actually not very tight, after all, it has been fourteen years since Robert Baratheon defeated Prince Rhaegar Targaryen and overthrew the Mad King to take the Iron Throne, and after the Iron Isles Rebellion set off by Baron Greyjoy, there has been no war in the whole of Westeros for ten years, and now Westeros is peaceful.
This peace lasted for ten years, and the 'golden robes' of the capital guards of Westeros inevitably became lax and coping with the long peace, especially their commander Genus Sterling, who was known for taking bribes and selling his official beard as the commander of the golden robes, and now half of the officers in the capital guard force had to take a portion of their salaries and give them to Genos Sterling as his 'right-deserved' favors.
In such a situation, the capital garrison under the command of Genos Sterling will naturally quickly corrupt and degenerate, coupled with the peaceful environment without war, the capital garrison 'Golden Robe' has long since lost the combat effectiveness it had at the beginning.
During the day, when the 'golden robes' patrolled the most closely, Liu Jian could easily find a vacancy to climb over the city wall and sneak into the Red Fort. When the night came, these city soldiers who might not have experienced war in their lives were even more blatantly piled up around the bonfire drinking and gambling to kill time, and it was even more impossible to have the opportunity to find Liu Jian's traces.
According to the memories he had discovered during the day, Liu Jian easily avoided the deaf golden robe with his eyelids and looked tired, and turned into the Prime Minister's Tower. During the day, he had quietly searched the entire Prime Minister's Tower, so at night, he easily found the room where Arya lived.
Arya was lying on the bed, dressed in a nightgown, and the candle had long since been extinguished. But in the darkness, she still stared at the ceiling that made her uneasy, quietly waiting for the man of the day to come and travel her own agreement. For Arya, who had been rebellious since childhood, everything that happened today seemed so new to her, and she couldn't wait for the knight who suddenly appeared with her during the day and then suddenly disappeared to knock on her door.
"Knock~~~Knock~~~~~Knock!"
Three voices came, from the other side of the door, as agreed, with a knock at the door at intervals of a breath. Arya immediately got up from her bed and was about to rush over and open the door. But as if she had suddenly remembered something, she stopped, straightened her hair and clothes, and then walked softly to the door, and opened it gently.
"Huh!" Arya looked out of the door with a look of surprise, there was nothing outside the door, the cool corridor sank in a dark shadow, not to mention people, not even a mouse could be seen.
Arya closed the door, her brow furrowed. Holding on to the door with one hand, she suddenly felt a wave of grievance and anger.
"Nasty, liar." Arya's face was full of displeasure, and she muttered, "Whoever doesn't keep his promise will become a pig." ”
At this moment, a strange and familiar voice came from behind him.
"Who are you scolding, Arya?"
The familiar voice made Arya turn her body violently, and Arya was surprised to find that the guy she had seen during the day who called himself a wandering knight didn't know when he was sitting on his bed with his legs crossed and looking at him with a smile like that.
"How did you get in?" Arya asked in surprise, her voice not even suppressed by the excessive surprise.
"Ahh How did I get in? Liu Jian laughed, and his smile suddenly became extremely eerie. Even his tone was low, with a cold and piercing taste: "Little girl, actually, I'm a ghost." When you weren't looking, I floated in through the door. ”
Even a big grin, Arya Stark, was terrified of the subject, but she quickly noticed the flirtatious smile in Jian Liu's eyes. immediately woke up and realized that Liu Jian was deceiving her. Arya immediately patted Liu Jian's thigh unhappily, and said angrily: "It's not funny at all." ”
"Ha, no kidding, I came in through the window." Liu Jian looked at Arya's puffed appearance, and the gloom that he had just pretended to be suddenly disappeared. He gestured to the window behind him. The window was open: "Little girl, remember to close the window at night." Otherwise, if some dangerous person climbs through your window, it won't be good. ”
"No one dares to climb into my room, and if anyone dares to do so, I'll pierce him." Arya took out the thin sword called the sewing needle hidden under the clothes and waved it at Liu Jian twice: "And I'm not called Little Girl, my name is Arya." ”
"Oh, that's good, that's good. The little girl just has to hold on to the weapon to protect herself. Okay, good...... I'll call you Arya. Liu Jian teased Alia for a while, and his face gradually became serious: "Now, I can teach you something." But Alia, before I begin, I want to make sure that you really want to learn these tricks from me. You know, these skills are powerful, and they are not something that ordinary people should play. And you have to endure a lot of pain to learn these things, have you really decided? ”
"Can you kill Joffrey?" Arya didn't answer Liu Jian's question directly, but asked a question instead, mentioning the name of the king's son, Joffrey Baratheon, and a look of hatred appeared on Arya's delicate little face. Then as if worried that Liu Jian didn't know who Joffrey was, he emphasized: "Joffrey is the king's son." ”
"Whether he is the son of a king or a commoner, he is only a human being. If you do it, killing Joffrey will be an easy thing for you to do. It's like ants, by the way, did you ever run an ant under a tree when you were in the north? When Arya nodded in affirmativeness, Liu Jian continued, "At that time, it won't take more effort for you to kill Joffrey than it would be to crush an ant." ”
"Then I'm going to learn." Arya said firmly.
"Well, since you're so determined, then follow the rules." Liu Jian smiled: "Kneel down and kowtow to me three times." ”
"Why?" Arya asked curiously.
"This is the rule, it means that you have become my apprentice and I will become your master, and I will teach you my skills."
"Oh, okay then." Without thinking, Arya knelt on the floor of the woolen carpet. He bowed to Liu Jian three times and then stood up, and Liu Jian asked her to sit on the bed.
"Not to sit like you, but to sit like me." Liu Jian sat cross-legged and demonstrated to Alya in a five-hearted pose, and the instructor made the same move.
"That's right, the waist should be straight. Whether it is the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet, they should be facing the sky. Very good...... That's good. Now start relaxing, take it easy, don't think about anything in your head, and let your mind go free. It took a while to correct Arya's movements, and then used hypnosis to guide Arya into a state of calm quickly. Only then did Liu Jian raise his right hand and put it on the Baihui acupoint above Arya's head, and the incomparably pure innate dragon elephant Prajna True Qi poured into her body along the Baihui acupoint on the top of Alia's head.
"Arya, feel the true qi I have injected into your body, don't resist it."
At this time, Arya only felt something seeping into her body along the top of her head. Wandering around in your own body. At first, Arya instinctively feared and resisted this kind of thing that she had never experienced before, but at this time, Liu Jian's gentle voice as if carrying some mysterious power came into her ears, which immediately calmed Arya's flustered heart, and immediately emptied her mind as Liu Jian had just requested, and felt the true qi that was wandering around in her body with all her might.
In the past year, he has been teaching many people to practice martial arts, and Liu Jian has long discovered that he wants people in this world to understand what the meridians are. What is acupuncture is very difficult, they simply don't have that kind of knowledge. There is not even such a concept, and it is too difficult for these people to understand the concepts of the so-called meridians, acupoints, five elements, and Zhou Tian, and it is not something that can be done in a short period of time.
In the end, Liu Jian thought of a tricky way to inject a true qi into these people's bodies, and then let them practice and carry it according to the trajectory of this true qi running in the body, and there was no need to know what meridians and acupoints. Just remember the trajectory.
Liu Jian was going to do the same thing to Alia, but compared to others, this time Liu Jian decided to do it more thoroughly, using his true qi to help Arya open up the blocked meridians and acupoints, and give her a complete version of the tendon and marrow washing.
The pure true qi broke through one acupoint after another. Broaden the meridians. Arya didn't know anything about it, she only knew where these mysterious powers called 'True Qi' that entered her body swam, and she felt extremely comfortable in any place, as if she was soaking in hot water, and her whole body was stretched.
At this time, Liu Jian frowned.
What made Liu Jian frown lightly was not that Alia's talent was excellent, but that with the input and exploration of his true qi, Liu Jian realized that there was another force entrenched in Alia's body. A special power that is different from True Qi, it is magic!
"Is it, is this the root of Arya's wolf spirit ability?"
Speaking of which, in the original book, several children of the Stark family, except for Robb's early death, are indeed veritable protagonists.
The six children of the Stark family, except for Robb who died early and Sansa who died early of the ice wolf, one of the remaining four is counted as a 'wolf spirit', the so-called alien, a person born with magic and can perform magic. The wolf spirit's abilities allow them to manipulate animals and even humans, in addition to which they can have 'prophetic dreams'. Bran Stark and his brother Rickon Stark, who live in Winterfell, both have dreams about the death of their father, Ned Stark.
Arya also has this ability, but it seems that she is much weaker because she has not actively trained like Bran and Jon did.
At this moment, Liu Jian, who had infused true qi into Arya's body, had undoubtedly come into contact with the essence of the Stark family's mysterious ability. He could feel a magical power entrenched in the dantian on Arya's eyebrows, this magic power was not powerful, but it was extremely special.
After a slight hesitation, Liu Jian manipulated his true qi and carefully probed into Alia's upper dantian.
Arya, who was feeling the warmth and comfort of her whole body, suddenly seemed to fall asleep, she felt that she suddenly began to dream, she dreamed of her own ice wolf Namelia, and even she felt as if she was not just dreaming of Namelia, she seemed to have become a part of Namelia.
She saw a pack of wolves across from her, a very large but smaller one howling at her.
She suddenly felt angry, so she rushed up and fought the wolf, and bit it, the wolf was very fierce, it was not as big as Nymeria, but it fought back without the slightest fear, until she pounced on it and pressed it to the ground and bit its throat, and felt the stench of wolf blood enter her mouth and be swallowed by herself, and the wolf finally quieted down. The other wolves were backing away, but they soon stopped, lying on the ground, their heads bowed to her, and their mouths whining.
She knew it meant they would listen to her in the future.
Then she had a new feeling, and it was a strange feeling, like pain, like a lot of pride. Under the influence of this emotion, she craned her neck, opened her mouth, and howled at the moon in the sky like a silver plate!
Then Arya opened her eyes suddenly, and then she saw Liu Jian sitting on the edge of her bed and looking at her with a smile: "You're finally awake, Arya." ”
Sitting up from the bed, Arya rubbed her eyes: "What happened?" ”
"It may be that you are too tired, so you fall asleep, and cutting tendons and marrow is a great drain on a person's energy." Liu Jian casually made an excuse to cover up this matter, and then said: "What I should have done yesterday is almost done, and now, it's time for you to feel the difference in yourself." ”
Arya got out of bed, and she soon found herself different. In fact, now she felt as if she had an inexhaustible amount of strength, and she immediately rushed to a corner of the room where the wooden sword that Celio had used to teach her the Dance of Water was placed.
Hollow, filled with lead, is very heavy for a girl, and it is even more difficult to hold it with one hand.
But now, Arya holds the wooden sword. She couldn't even feel the weight of the wooden sword she was holding, she felt like she was holding a feather.
Arya excitedly waved the wooden sword in her hand, and the wooden sword made a powerful sound, and the power infused into this sword was by no means that a young girl could have.
Liu Jian smiled and looked at the excited Alya for a while, and then said, "Feel your new power and adapt to it." As for me, I'm going to leave while it's still dark. ”
Arya, who was excited, heard Liu Jian say this, immediately stopped and looked at Liu Jian, and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Will you still come?" ”
"Of course, the master will not abandon his disciples." Liu Jian smiled: "I will come over tonight and teach you how to cultivate the true qi you have and make it stronger." Then I'll teach you some techniques so that you can better control and use your True Qi. ”
Hearing Liu Jian say this, Arya nodded with satisfaction: "Then I'll wait for you." ”
Saying goodbye to Alya, Liu Jian climbed out of the Prime Minister's Tower, returned to his room the same way, and then sat cross-legged on the bed. Although Liu Jian's need for sleep has been greatly reduced now, he is still a little tired after a whole night of busy washing the muscles and marrow for Arya last night, and he is still a little tired, using the dragon elephant to restore the true qi he consumed last night, Liu Jian silently feels the newly acquired mysterious power in his body. When Liu Jian's true qi came into contact with Arya's wolf spirit power, he not only helped Arya successfully activate her wolf spirit ability, so that she could feel Namelia's presence in her dreams, and even became one with Namelia. At the same time, when Liu Jian's internal force withdrew from Alya's body, the wolf spirit's ability also seemed to affect Liu Jian's true qi. (To be continued.) )