Dead.

Zhang Chu stood in his yard, practicing pile skills.

His eyes were closed, his firm chest heaved greatly, and with each inhalation, it seemed as if he were going to suck all the air in the courtyard into his belly.

If anyone could see him at this moment, they would be surprised to find that every time he inhaled, his bare hands and neck would float with green tendons as thick as little fingers, just like under his skin, there were countless small snakes swimming, terrifying and abnormal.

But if you see that he is a person who has entered the stream and practiced martial arts, you will recognize it, which is the characteristic of boiling muscles and bones.

The body is like a pine and cypress, and the tendons are like a bow!

If we divide the foundation of martial arts into three stages, this is the first stage.

Zhang Chu has stood on the pile for more than ten days, and now he has steadily entered this stage.

I don't know how long it took, Zhang Chu, who had consumed more than half of his qi and blood and was unsustainable, woke up from the state of visualization.

He opened his eyes, slowly collected his strength, and carefully sensed his body for a while, and the progress of the dark path was not as great as before.

The most obvious evidence is that the sour smell on the body is not as strong as it was at the beginning...... This means that there are not as many impurities in his body as before.

He sighed lightly, walked into the kitchen, and after a while, he came out with a dustpan of steamed buns and a large bowl of gruel.

The steamed buns and gruel were prepared for him by his wife before going to bed, and they still exuded a hint of heat.

He sat down, took a mouthful of steamed bread and a mouthful of gruel, and put it in his mouth.

As a large amount of food entered his abdomen, he soon felt a hot stream gushing out of his abdomen, and the sour and astringent feeling quickly receded.

The flesh is restored!

Soon he will be able to continue standing on the pile.

But thinking of the pile work that is getting smaller and smaller, he couldn't help frowning, "We must enter the stage of taking root and not moving like a mountain......

He knew that Liang Wufeng didn't tell him the answer directly, let him think about the answer by himself, and it wasn't all jealous of him and teasing him.

There must also be a meaning of cultivating his understanding.

The master led the way into the door, and the cultivation was in the individual.

It's just that......

"The question of 'why does a person's body sink after death' is too embarrassing, isn't it?"

He felt that the whole person was not good.

"Let's think about it......"

"Indeed, the body of a dead man is heavier than the body of a living man. ”

"A living person of 100 catties, a normal person can still walk for a while on his back, but a 100 catties of sand and gravel, even if a normal person can get up, he can't go far......"

"Why is that......"

Zhang Chu's gaze gradually became deeper, and suddenly, he had an idea, as if he had thought of something.

"That's not right!"

"Little old man, this is digging a hole for me!"

"Live and die, can be a verb or a noun!"

"A living man, a living creature!"

"Dead people, dead things without life!"

"Living and dead......"

Zhang Chu threw down his chopsticks and wandered around the principle on his back.

"What's the difference between a living thing and a dead thing?"

"One can move by himself, and the other can't. ”

"When a person dies, the weight becomes heavy, but it is only the illusion of man, the real weight, and it is not lightened. ”

"Illusion ......"

"Is it difficult or psychological?

"No, it's not psychological!"

"Indeed, a living creature of the same weight is lighter than a dead creature!"

"Living and dead......"

Thinking about the problem here, it seems that we have entered a dead end again.

Zhang Chu's brain began to ache again.

I have the heart to kill personal experiments and field experiments......

He wandered with his head down, forcibly suppressing the urge in his heart to run to Liang's house overnight to smash the door and ask for answers.

He took one step, the soles of his feet just hit the ground, his eyes inadvertently swept the distance between his legs, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Balance?"

"Center of gravity?"

"Could it be...... While a person is alive, the human body itself can automatically adjust its balance and center of gravity. ”

"And after death, the body loses this ability to adjust its balance and center of gravity, and the center of gravity is automatically dispersed to every corner of the body. ”

"Balancing ......"

"Center of gravity ......"

"I'm grass Nima, tumbler!"

Zhang Chu can't wait to slap himself!

Such a simple truth, he has had a headache for so long!

At the same time of shame, a feeling of happiness welled up in his heart.

The pleasure of overcoming difficult problems without the help of any external force!

"Then the new problem is again, the excavator technology ...... Ahh ”

"The weight of the body must be heavier than the weight of the legs......"

"Could it be...... Qi and blood?"

"Try it!"

Try is try!

Zhang Chu spread his legs and shoulder-width apart, visualizing his own qi and blood like a long river, and after a while, his qi and blood were like wild horses that had escaped, rushing along the meridians of his body.

He tried to mobilize his qi and blood and sink to his legs.

This process is more difficult than he imagined!

In the past, he practiced pile gong only to strengthen his qi and blood, so that his qi and blood could nourish his muscles and bones on his own in high-speed operation, but he did not exercise his control over his own blood and qi.

Therefore, now the mobilization of blood and qi sinks, and can only rely on breathing, and the effect is extremely limited.

He worked hard for a long time, but he could barely sink one-tenth of his qi and blood to the lower half of his body.

"A tenth is a tenth, try it!"

He tried to lean forward slightly.

85°。

80°。

78°。

At this time, Zhang Chu already felt the pain from the ligaments in his legs.

In the pain, there is also a hint of burning.

It's the flesh that is boiling the muscles and bones of the legs!

It had been a long time since he had felt the burning sensation of this blood qi as it boiled his muscles and bones!

Moreover, he clearly felt that he could continue to lean downward!

"You're on the right track!"

"That's the trick to taking root and not moving like a mountain!"

Zhang Chu was ecstatic!

"No wonder, taking root and not moving like a mountain is the second stage of pile work!"

"The muscles and bones have been boiled to a certain extent, and the passive nourishment of the qi and blood flow alone is no longer enough to make the muscles and bones continue to become stronger!"

"In the words of those Xianxia novels on Earth, this is ...... bottleneck"

"We must concentrate our qi and blood and increase the dose in order to break through the bottleneck and make our muscles and bones continue to grow!"

"Also, since qi and blood can adjust the center of gravity, and concentrating on the legs can shift the center of gravity downward, what if the qi and blood are concentrated on the fist?"

"Isn't it possible to make a more powerful punch?"

Thinking of this, Zhang Chu suddenly recalled Liang Wufeng's comments to Jiuliu when he was apprenticed.

"The nine-rate name is called KONE, the body is like an iron bucket, through the whole body, can condense the strength of the whole body into one point, and punch it out, it is into the ninth stream. ”

"Where does the power come from?"

"Without him!"

"The blood is full, the muscles and bones are strong!"

Zhang Chu only felt suddenly enlightened.

"Muscles and bones are the source of strength!"

"Qi and blood are also the source of strength!"

"On the premise that the muscles and bones are strong enough and the qi and blood are strong enough, if you can condense the qi and blood of the whole body and punch it out, it is a ninth-rate!"