Volume 1 The Years of the Mountain City Chapter 69 The Ancient Martial Arts of the Flower City
The next day, Team Wu left. When leaving, he patted Ling Lang's shoulder and smiled rarely. Between his eyebrows, he showed appreciation for the first time.
On the third day, Li Mingyi also left with Li Xuanliang. In the middle, Li Xuanliang and Ling Lang met a few times, but they didn't talk to each other. When leaving, Li Xuanliang walked in a tiger's step, and there was an inexplicable momentum around him. Even the big back, which is obviously very earthy, no longer hinders outsiders' perception of him. The charm is profound, and the demeanor is extraordinary.
Ling Lang stayed. After the three of them left, almost every morning or evening, Elder Tian would take his spirit to swim to the cloud platform, and let him face the direction of the main city of the ancient city, or the Zhenhai Tower in the distance, instead of facing the morning sun or the sunset, exhaling and breathing, and cultivating the soul and body.
Occasionally, Elder Long would also give him a hint on his martial arts. Elder Long told him that ancient martial arts are divided into physical arts and martial arts, and there are also seven realms - hammer bone, easy tendon, quenching marrow, dangang, rebirth, broken void, and supreme.
Physical skills are what the world calls internal strength, and martial arts are some kung fu moves and luck skills.
Body art and soul art, different paths to the same end, in the end should be about the same, of course, the supremacy of body art to the pinnacle, has not appeared since ancient times, so there is only theoretical speculation.
After arriving at Yi Jin, he can be regarded as a person with advanced physical cultivation. And those who are highly skilled are not afraid of soul cultivators in the same realm. Because they have a firm mind, a stable soul sense, and are confident that they can hit the sky with their fists, ordinary soul body people can't affect them at all. The two fight against each other, and the ancient warrior can control his own heart, and he does not enter the soul domain at all, and he can directly lean on his body and knock down the body of the soul body in three or two strokes.
Before the Four Realms, when the two were fighting, the ancient warriors of the same realm would lose less and win more. In the Five Realms, because the soul body has been able to directly influence the essence and mobilize the vitality of heaven and earth, the two are roughly indistinguishable, and the ancient martial artist still has a slight upper hand.
And in the sixth realm, one has to break the void and shatter the heavens and the earth with one shot; Who is high and who is low can no longer be said in one or two sentences, and at that level, any detail may affect the ending. As for the final supreme and mixed elements, it is impossible to talk about the ten thousand worlds.
Unlike those teenagers who were born in the dragon soul, since they were young, they will be pushed by the dragon soul according to each person's talent.
Ling Lang had already missed the best polishing period, and the soul body had reached the four realms, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the physical training technique was no longer very useful, and the gains outweighed the losses. On the contrary, it is better to practice some skills, not only to understand how to use strength reasonably, but also to improve the control skills and attack methods of soul objects. No matter how bad it is, it can deal with some small thieves, and it won't be a soul out of the body at every turn.
Although after reaching the four realms of the soul body, the soul mind is extremely powerful, and it can already control the physical body with a trace of soul thought, but after all, the soul cultivator's body is still a big weakness.
Ling Lang would hardly train at the same time as the rest of the Dragon Soul, this was Elder Tian's order. The younger generation of the Dragon Soul also slowly learned that this guy from the Dragon Group had defeated Fang Cheng, and had also used one to four, strictly speaking, one to five, and he was not left behind, and even when he was competing with Long Tian, the genius of the Dragon Soul, he could still have the upper hand.
Everyone obeyed Elder Tian's instructions, of course, because of Elder Tian's majesty. But in addition to this reason, more people are thinking that this is actually Elder Tian protecting everyone, warning everyone, if you can't do it, don't run up, let people slap their faces. As for those more perverted demons, they are arrogant, and there must be some who are not convinced, but it is estimated that they have to weigh whether they are sure of victory before they make a move.
Therefore, every time the Dragon Soul people finished training, many people liked to gather around that clearing and watch Ling Lang stand on his feet and practice his asanas under the supervision of Elder Long. Then looking at Ling Lang's clumsy appearance, in their words, this was Elder Long's deliberate manipulation of him, this is called "playing monkey", the profligate people laughed proudly, and the subtle ones were all smug.
But Ling Lang didn't care about this, he really felt the benefits of practicing martial arts. His original physical fitness was fed by the soul body, and he was nourished by various spiritual energy, which was already far better than ordinary people. So even if it was just some of the most basic things, it also made him feel that after practicing, his body was warm, his meridians were active, and his hands and feet were agile and much more convenient. In addition, he has always only pursued his own heart in doing things, and under normal circumstances, he rarely takes the opinions of others into account. This is especially true of those who are "hostile" to themselves.
More than half a month has passed. On this day, Ling Lang and Elder Tian said that they wanted to go to the flower city for a walk. After all, it is a provincial city, and after coming here for so many days, I always feel a little regretful when I don't go to see it.
Elder Tian was also open-minded, and he didn't think much about it, so he agreed, as if this was a matter of course. At their level, looking at things and people may be very different.
Wanglongju is not afraid of people knowing, the people inside won't say it, and the people outside can't find it. Those who have the ability to break the maze of guarding the mountain, unless they are crushed by wind and thunder, they will come to the kitten three or two, and they will not only face the siege of a group of soul people, but also the net composed of many secret treasures, talismans, and spiritual objects. Conspiracy and trickery, and even yang conspiracy can also be played, anyway, everyone has always blocked each other like this, but both sides have a bottom line, they know each other, whether it is a preemptive strike or a counterattack later, no one dares to tear their faces until they have to.
Elder Tian also introduced a "tour guide" to Ling Lang, a girl named Yuan Yuan from Huacheng.
Ling Lang thinks this name is very good, especially the word "source", which is very interesting, the origin of water, called "source".
Yuan Yuan was also a Heavenly Soul Person, and of course Ling Lang was no longer surprised.
The Heavenly Soul is relatively powerful as soon as the soul body is born, and the Dragon Soul has a special person who has a unique way to detect their existence. If it weren't for some people from the family, they would send someone to use the soul sealing technique, first cover it up temporarily, and then absorb it into the dragon soul when the time is right. As for the general earth souls, they are managed by the dragon group.
But Yuan Yuan is a Heavenly Soul of the next generation, and her great-grandfather used to be a Heavenly Soul of the Dragon Soul, but he was sacrificed during a mission. Then his grandfather was also an earth soul, and his soul body only awakened when he was nearly fifty years old, and then the dragon soul dragon group did not force him, let him get away with the system, and finally died. Her parents are ordinary people, her father is a university professor, and her mother is a civil servant. And she didn't grow up in the dragon soul since she was a child, and already worked in an accounting company. Only on Sundays will Dragon Soul come to report on training.
Yuan Yuan was five years older than Ling Lang, and the first time he saw Ling Lang practicing boxing, sweating profusely and trembling all over, he also used to smile, but then he stopped laughing, so Ling Lang didn't resist her very much.
Yuan Yuan is a very cultivated girl, and her temperament is also very good, after all, she can be regarded as a scholar. Ling Lang is more earthy, especially his hairstyle, which is basically not very well taken care of, and he has a casual short hair, and sometimes he trims it himself. The clothes are also very ordinary, usually T-shirts, jeans, shirts are casual, and wearing the tunic of the dragon group should be the most presentable. After Team Wu went back, two more sets were sent.
The people of the dragon group are basically uniformed in retro-style tunics, and the dragon soul is not very particular, some wear Taoist robes, some Tang costumes, some loose sportswear, and even one-piece suits like martial arts master Bruce Lee.
Yuan Yuan is very tall, Ling Lang is 1.75 meters, standing next to her in flat sneakers, he actually feels that the two of them are shoulder to shoulder. And the woman was already tall, and Yuan Yuan was the kind of thin and tall, standing far away, the figure was very conspicuous in the crowd, a little taller than Ling Lang.
Yuan Yuan is not a beauty, and her facial features are ordinary. Just has a pair of eyes like a crescent moon, and when she smiles, she feels that her whole person is blooming like flowers. When she doesn't speak, she has short fluffy hair, which sets off the bookish atmosphere on her body, lazy and quiet.
From the bottom of Wanglongju to the foot of the mountain, there is still a small road to get to the main road. Seeing that Yuan Yuan, who had already walked to the side of the road, was still walking forward with a cloth bag on his shoulder, Ling Lang couldn't help but ask where he was going to go?
Yuan Yuan turned around and chuckled and said to him, when you come to Huacheng, you have to start from the most basic things to experience the city.
Ling Lang asked, what is the most basic?
The answer is to squeeze the bus, take the subway, go shopping in the pedestrian streets, eat the snacks on the streets, and then those high-rise buildings and historical sites. He also said that it was a pity that it was not March or April, otherwise the kapok in the city would bloom, and he could really understand why Huacheng was called Huacheng.
Because of the remote location and the first few stops, there were not many people on a bus stopped by Yuan Yuan.
After paying four yuan and getting into the car, the two also found two seats in the back door. Ling Lang thought to himself, it doesn't seem to be so serious, do you want to squeeze?
But after a while, Ling Lang realized what it meant to "squeeze the bus". In the middle of the journey, there are people on the bus, including the elderly or those with babies, and some people in the carriage will stand up to give up their seats, and of course some people will turn a blind eye. Yuan Yuan also stood up naturally and made way for a woman with a small boy. Seeing this, Ling Lang also simply stood up, and after the woman thanked her politely, she said that she could hold the child and sit on it, just a seat. Ling Lang looked directly at the "scenery" along the way outside the window, and asked Yuan Yuan to go politely.
There are more and more people in the carriage, and I feel that I have been getting on people, and when the rear door is opened, I can't see how many people are getting off at all. Sometimes people crowd together when they pass through a roadblock or the driver suddenly brakes, step on their feet, touch their belongings, and occasionally push each other. There are a lot of people, the air in the carriage is fresh and circulating, it always seems to be half a beat slower, and the smell of sweat, body odor, sundries, and perfume smells really mixed.
When he was studying in Panzhou, Ling Lang took a minibus and a minibus, and this bus was really the first time. Seeing Ling Lang shook his head gently, Yuan Yuan chuckled and said, It's still good now, sometimes when it comes to the rush hour of commuting, she has a colleague jokingly said: "I just hung up on the bus~~~", and the place of the station was gone, so I had to hang it.
Looking at the crowds in the car, and then glancing at Yuan Yuan, who was about to be pressed to stand close to him, Ling Lang thought to himself, could it be that your figure has been "squeezed out" for so many years?