Chapter 13: Stealing the Sky
Early in the morning, in the Eight Immortals Mountain in the northeast of Tianjin.
The mountains are steep, cutting clouds and fog
Eight Immortal Mountain, formerly known as "Eight Immortals Table", according to legend, Tie Guan Li and other eight scattered immortals traveled through the East China Sea through here, attracted by the strange peaks, canyons, secluded forests, and beautiful waters covered by clouds and fog here, so they descended auspicious clouds, and had a picnic next to a boulder that was two meters square, and later people called this boulder "Eight Immortals Table", and this 10,000 acres of mountain forest was therefore named "Eight Immortal Mountain".
At this moment, there are no gods in the mountains, only two men and a woman walking in the mountains.
Tang Weilu walked in front, carrying a bow on his back, and Zhou Zhou and Sun Hongmei followed. From time to time, apes leaned out from the woods beside the road to observe Tang Weilu and them.
Zhou Zhou followed briskly, and the sound of the summer cicada chirping in his ears made him gradually fall into memory.
In the blink of an eye, Zhou Zhou has been in Tianjin for half a month. In this half month, Zhou Zhou learned splitting boxing, collapse boxing, and drilling boxing. But what surprised him was that although all his movements were up and running fast with the help of NTZ pills, he couldn't practice and there was always something wrong. Tang Weilu also pointed out that he was in vain.
Zhou Zhou, who practiced boxing to no avail, began to be upset, so Tang Weilu proposed to take him to Baxian Mountain to climb the mountain to relax.
"Why do you keep following us?" Zhou Zhou suddenly stopped and said to Sun Hongmei behind him. She always followed him quietly like a ghost, and although it was an honor to be followed by beautiful women, it was too weird to be like this all the time!
"Oh is your partner!" Since hearing Zhou Zhou use the word partner for the first time, Sun Hongmei has used it from time to time: "Only with communication can there be progress." Russia resolutely supports the initiative of the Samurai Association. ”
Zhou Zhou sighed and said, "But I'm just a rookie, and I don't have anything worth communicating at all?" ”
Sun Hongmei pursed her lips and said, "Who said I want to learn from you." Of course, I was communicating with Master Tang. ”
Tang Weilu smiled and said, "The exchange is good." Always welcome. ”
The group just walked and talked. Soon came to the top of the mountain.
Zhou Zhou and the others took a deep breath and felt a sudden brightness in front of them.
I saw that above the top of the mountain was a green meadow, and the wind blew the meadow, setting off waves of grass, and the dark green grass wave line flowed into the distance, extending to the end of the meadow. It was a cliff with a flat boulder on top of it.
Tang Weilu took Zhou Zhou and walked straight to the direction of the boulder, Sun Hongmei followed, and soon they came to the end of the cliff, next to the boulder.
Tang Weilu twisted his neck and motioned for Zhou Zhou to stand on the boulder.
Zhou Zhou looked at the stone, then looked at Tang Weilu suspiciously, and the wind blew Sun Hongmei's long hair.
"I know what you want to ask. What is this practice, right? Tang Weilu's voice came with the sound of the wind.
Zhou Zhou nodded again and again.
"Ever since I started teaching you Xingyi, I've found that you haven't learned the essence of all your movements, and I've been wondering what went wrong. Then I found out that you can't use all your strength. It's like there's a lock that restricts you. I'm here to unlock this lock on you. This practice is called Heaven Stealing. Because it's very dangerous, I won't let you practice this until I have to. Okay, now stand up and you'll know where all your strength has gone. ”
―――――― kidding! Is this practice?! It's terrible!
Zhou Zhou shook his head again and again: "Master, you don't know. I have a very severe fear of heights. Faint when you are high. ”
"Stand up."
"Are you scared?" Sun Hongmei suddenly sneered on the side: "Don't worry, I won't dislike you for peeing your pants." ”
―――――― despised by beautiful women!
Being provoked like this, Zhou Zhou took a deep breath and jumped on the boulder violently, because his strength had grown too fast recently, and he couldn't control his strength for a while. Almost fell off a boulder.
As he staggered out half of his body, he saw the cascades of trees beneath the cliffs, like matches in the distance.
The wind whistled on his back, and the boulder shook slightly, and a stone fell and turned into a speck of dust for a long time.
In an instant, Zhou Zhou felt a coldness rushing up from his spine, and the muscles of his whole body tensed and froze for a moment, he felt that he was the Monkey King under the Five Finger Mountain, and he couldn't use any strength.
Wrong! It is all his own power against himself!
At this moment, he realized that his strength was so strong, and the power he could have emitted was only twenty percent at most. It's just that this force is in the wrong direction and completely suppresses its actions.
Zhou Zhou twisted his head slightly with all his strength and opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say a word. He tried to take a breath, but found that the muscles around his chest were tense, and his lungs could not expand, so he could only breathe carefully, making a hoarse sound like a duck.
He twisted his waist and shook his head, wanting to look at Tang Weilu, but his body seemed to be completely half rusted, bulky and sluggish.
Zhou Zhou had a flash of inspiration in his mind and knew the meaning of stealing the sky.
In fact, everyone cannot use all their strength. When the human body exerts all its strength, the human body cannot bear it on its own, and there will be muscle strains and ligament tears, so the brain automatically produces a self-protection mechanism to prevent itself from exerting its full strength.
The muscles of the brain control the whole body to balance each other, so that the human body can only exert part of its strength. It's like a partial balance of muscles, so that even if you throw a punch, you won't fall due to inertia.
This is also the reason why zombies walk unbalanced but powerful. Their brains are emptied, they have no consciousness to maintain balance, and naturally there is no mechanism to limit their strength.
The Heaven Thief Machine strengthens and activates this self-protection through people's natural fear of heights, so that Zhou Zhou can clearly feel those muscles that balance each other.
"Okay, now remember the muscles that are straining you. Remember this feeling of the mountain pressing down on you. ”
Zhou Zhou closed his eyes and meditated carefully, feeling every rusty muscle.
"Then relax, from top to bottom, forehead, eyes, mouth, neck, inch by inch. Tell me when you're completely relaxed. ”
Zhou Zhou constantly combed his muscles.
One minute
moved his cheeks;
Two minutes
Zhou Zhou was able to move his fingers freely.
After five minutes, Zhou Zhou felt that he had relaxed his whole body.
Tang Weilu unloaded the bow on his body, handed it to Zhou Zhou, and motioned for him to pull it away.
Zhou Zhou carefully took the bow. Looking down at the bow, I suddenly remembered a cartoon I watched a long time ago. Shoot without shooting.
The story introduces the story of Ji Chang, an archery master in the Warring States period, who went around to learn archery and eventually became a marksman. In one of the scenes of the story, there is a scene where the mysterious old man teaches Ji Chang to shoot arrows on the cliff. And Ji Chang only has a bow. When the mysterious old man demonstrated, he "shot" a wild goose with an arrowless bow.
Zhou Zhou raised his head and looked for geese in the air.
Coincidentally, a flock of geese flew in a herringbone pattern.
Zhou Zhou slowly raised his bow to aim, put his right index finger and ring finger on the bowstring, and pulled it hard.
The bowstring gently bends in an undetectable arc. Sun Hongmei sneered and smiled.
Zhou Zhou's head was bruised, and he used all his strength.
This time it was even worse, the bowstring didn't move.
"Relax!" Tang Weilu shouted.
Zhou Zhou felt that a string in his mind broke, and with a slight force in his hand, the bowstring was pulled apart.
Zhou Zhou grinned happily, his feet were weak, his knees bent, and he slid down the boulder.
"Be careful!" Tang Weilu shouted in horror.