Chapter 5: Practice
It has been a month since that day with the clan uncle Fakong monk and returned to Shaolin Temple.
Although Fakong has already become a monk, it stands to reason that Jiang Ji should be treated equally.
However, people's hearts are made of meat, the love of the same race, coupled with Jiang Ji's miserable life experience, the monk Fakong takes care of Jiang Ji very much.
Now Jiang Ji has officially shaved his ordination and has become a small novice.
The original meaning of novice in Sanskrit is to be diligent and compassionate, that is, to be diligent in the encouragement of the Master and to stop evil and act kindly.
In Jiang Ji's view, even the monk reserve of Shaolin Temple must also be subject to the jurisdiction of the "dependent master", that is, the master, and he doesn't even have his own legal name!
Only after receiving the official "bhikshu ordination" and giving the Dharma name can he be regarded as an official Shaolin Temple monk.
That is, Jiang Ji, who is innocent and knows the roots, can be regarded as a person who knows the roots, so quickly shaved and become a member of Shaolin.
If ordinary people want to become a monk in Shaolin, they must also send someone to find out their life experience, and it is best to be an orphan and someone who has nothing to worry about.
Of course, there are no absolutes in everything, if you are rich and powerful, and you are generous, you can also meditate in Shaolin and study Buddhist scriptures.
However, if you want to get in touch with the core of Shaolin, or obtain advanced martial arts, it is impossible, these are the roots of Shaolin Temple.
After shaving, Jiang Ji had two choices, one was to learn Buddhist scriptures, participate in Zen meditation, and the other was to practice martial arts and boxing, of course, learning Buddhist scriptures is also essential.
Jiang Ji naturally wanted to learn martial arts, so he was arranged to carry water and chop wood every morning, followed by morning classes, and then various chores, such as sweeping the floor and watering the vegetable fields, and evening classes.
At the beginning of martial arts, it is to polish the body, pull out the muscles and bones, and accumulate essence.
Carrying water and chopping wood are the introductory practices of Shaolin Temple.
Early in the morning, the novices carried two wooden barrels with pointed bottoms, fetched water from the bottom of the mountain, stretched out their arms all the way, held the buckets flat, and lined up in a neat line up the mountain to fill the large water tanks in various places.
At first, because this physical foundation was not very good, Jiang Ji was still a little struggling, but after only a few days, he got used to it.
And the strength is increasing, the original yellow muscle is thin, and the thin body like a match is gradually hung with meat, and it swells up like a balloon.
After doing his usual work, Jiang Ji came to the dining hall.
A white and chubby monk handed Jiang Ji a wooden tray: "Senior brother, your lunch." ”
Jiang Ji folded his hands and saluted: "Thank you, senior brother." ”
"You're welcome, Uncle Fakong wants me to take good care of you. ”
Jiang Ji took the tray with both hands and thanked him again.
There wasn't much food on the wooden tray, but it was one-third more than the others, and it smelled of medicine and made people lose their appetite.
However, Jiang Ji seemed to be eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, and ate all the food in a big gulp.
Martial arts practice refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, where does this essence come from?
Naturally, it is only consumed from the diet.
For Jiang Ji, who is committed to martial arts cultivation, he will not waste a little resource.
Monks who want to learn martial arts, in the initial period of boiling their bodies, must take the herbal diet prepared by the medicine monks of the Medicine King Buddha Hall every day to make up for the loss of the body, otherwise, I am afraid that the martial arts have not been practiced, but will collapse themselves first.
And Jiang Ji has the care of the monk Fakong, and the medicinal diet is not only more than others, but also the medicinal power is stronger.
Coupled with Jiang Ji's hard work and excellent qualifications, in a month's time, he has been reborn and judged like before.
After lunch, Jiang Ji returned to the meditation room.
The meditation room is not big, only two beds, and some daily necessities.
There are only two people living in this meditation room, Monk Fakong and Jiang Ji.
This also allowed Jiang Ji not to have to sleep in the Chase bunk like other little novices.
Sit cross-legged on his bed, and then Jiang Ji began to cultivate.
Shaolin Temple naturally did not teach any advanced martial arts at the beginning, only the most basic cultivation methods and light skills to improve the longitudinal technique.
In a month, coupled with the guidance of the Fakong monk, Jiang Ji has been very proficient in practicing the two.
He kept making strange movements, and his breathing rate and rhythm vaguely matched the movements.
Jiang Ji's qi and blood ran with the movements, circulating endlessly, and his body was faintly hot, and his whole body seemed to be soaked in warm water.
This is a method of transporting qi and blood and adjusting the internal breath.
It's not uncommon, and there are all kinds of sects, but the degree of finesse and emphasis is different.
For example, Jiang Ji's current method of forging muscles and bones is golden, with a total of 9981 movements, which can exercise the bones, tendons, and muscles of the whole body, which can be said to be very powerful in laying the foundation.
Although this forging tendon and easy bone golden body method does not even have an internal force running route, strictly speaking, it is not even an internal strength method, but it makes Jiang Jiru a treasure.
He could feel that his body had undergone such a big change in such a short period of time, in addition to the talent of innate divine power, it was probably because of this method of forging muscles and bones.
Jiang Ji was sure from the trial order that he had brought the talent of innate divine power over, and of course he could bring it back.
This made Jiang Ji extremely happy, which meant that he would be able to "open up" every time he tried in the future, and it would be much easier to try with these martial arts talents.
For example, now, in just one month, he is worth more than a year of cultivation for ordinary people.
And he guessed that the reason why the forging muscles and bones golden body method was so effective for him was probably because of the talent of innate divine power, otherwise the progress of other little novices in the same period would not be so slow.
As time passed, Jiang Ji felt that his energy was becoming more and more abundant, and the qi and blood in his whole body seemed to be boiling.
This gave Jiang Ji the urge to get up and vent.
But he soon realized that something was wrong, and understood that his current situation was the same as that of Monk Fakong.
"If I get up and vent now, I'm afraid that my cultivation over the past few days will come to naught. ”
Forcibly suppressing his restlessness, Jiang Ji emptied his mind, breathed slowly, and did all kinds of movements in the forging tendon and bone golden body method as usual.
The restless qi and blood also became calm, and then with a mysterious feeling, Jiang Ji felt a wisp of internal force to the essence and purity of the internal force floating in the lower dantian.
This means that Jiang Ji has officially entered the threshold of a martial artist and has become a martial artist!
"I didn't expect to get to this point so soon. ”
Jiang Ji let out a long breath and a smile appeared on his face.
Even if the talent is slightly better, it generally takes about three months, with various medicinal diets and exercises, to reach the level of perfection of essence.
People with average talent take more time, and it can take a few years.
And if you can't pass the level of self-metamorphosis internal force, you will have to spend a lot of time accumulating essence.
But it only took Jiang Ji a month to officially become an acquired martial artist.