Chapter 4 The Martial Arts
After a while, I saw a middle-aged man walking out of the chaimen with a wooden stick, and said with a smile: "Just use this wooden stick when you practiced the circumcision method as an example." Let's put it this way, it is difficult for ordinary people to break such a thick wooden stick, but it can be easily broken by people with great strength.
However, ordinary people can easily break this stick if they pay attention to the size and direction of the force. Therefore, the practice of martial arts is not about the size of the strength, but about the mastery and understanding of the strength.
The threshold for practicing martial arts is not strength, but qualification and ability. For example, when fighting, a person with more strength may not necessarily be able to win against a person with less strength.
At the end of the day, it depends on how they wield their power. Therefore, the practice of martial arts cannot rely on brute force.
The so-called practice of martial arts is the practice of martial arts. There are many different types of practice, and in some respects, the term 'martial arts' is less practical than 'cultivation'.
For example, some Buddhist monks can exercise their physique through penance to make their physical bodies reach the strength of being inferior to swords and guns, and undefeated vajra. However, few of them deliberately delved into martial arts.
Most of their cultivation and strength come from eating fasting and reciting the Buddha and contemplating the path of enlightenment on weekdays, and accumulating 'cultivation' over time.
In the same way, the practice methods of the people in the three teachings of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are very different, but their origins are the same. The way they gain strength is much the same, but in fact, they are all inseparable from the word 'cultivation'.
Another special method of practice is sword training. By cultivating sword intent, tempering swordsmanship, and studying swordsmanship, you can comprehend the way of heaven and achieve the realm of unity between heaven and man.
As the king of a hundred soldiers, the sword is the most psychic of all weapons. The avenue is invisible, and the sword is also a carrier of the avenue, and there is no so-called limit in itself.
In addition, the shape of the sword is the shape of the legendary celestial pillar, which is said to connect the heavenly realm with the human world. Legend has it that those who have mastered the way of the sword can return to the basics and open the gate of heaven by themselves.
As for cultivation, I think that with your current level and ability, you have to start with the most basic martial arts. You can choose to practice swords, cultivate sword intent, and at least have the means to protect yourself when you encounter danger in the future.
Most of the realms reached through the cultivation of the three sects are borrowed from the Heavenly Dao, restrained by the Heavenly Dao, and have moisture.
Among them, except for a very small number of people, most of them are higher realms, but the less inferior they are to the rank of martial artists. Therefore, there are very few people in the three sects who can reach the pinnacle of the first-grade realm - the Mixed Yuan Mirror.
Of course, your father and I will not let you become a monk or a Taoist priest, nor will I let you be a weak scholar. We don't have much money, so we can't buy you that many books.
You can only use the stupidest methods and take the most difficult paths to become a powerful master.
So, practicing swords is your best bet. If nothing else, just this shadow trolling sword sent by someone else is a small superlative, and it is estimated to be good to use.
If you practice other weapons, there will be all kinds of shortcomings, it is better to practice swords, which can allow you to exert your maximum ability and allow you to break through the limit. Especially with my ring cutting technique, when you have two swords, your strength can be increased by several percent.
People who practice martial arts are divided into these realms: the ninth to fifth grades are one realm, and the number of armor breaks is progressively with one blow;
As the name suggests, it is the vitality that enters the acupoint, opens up the meridians, and can call its own breath;
There are two realms of the three products, one realm is called Guiling, which can not only store its own breath, but also a hundred swords, which can control a hundred flying swords in half a burnt incense;
There are three realms in the second product, which are called the wind, the easy festival, and the return to the yuan.
The wind and the festival are easy to understand, that is, they can fly against the wind in a stick of incense and change the celestial phenomena in a radius of five zhang in half a stick of incense respectively.
Therefore, the Yijie realm can reach the level of resonance with a small world, which is similar to the pure yuan realm in a product, so it is called the small pure yuan.
The Guiyuan Realm is a transitional stage, a stage in which the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi and Heavenly Insight absorbed by the Yijie Realm are used for one's own use. This is also a bottleneck period, and not many people can cross the Returning Yuan Realm and go further.
Guiyuan Realm goes one step further, it is a product. A product of the first Yuan realm, can integrate its own breath into heaven and earth, can use the vitality of heaven and earth to resist the enemy, and secretly combines the great wisdom of Buddhism.
A product of the spiritual realm, can borrow a heaven and earth for their own use, can observe up to the smallest, unpredictable prophets, the first exploration of the mandate of heaven, implying Taoist truth.
A product of pure Yuan realm, thinking about the pure Yuan, can make a side of the world for their own use, and the world has a strong resonance, a hundred zhang in a circle, moving the wind and changing the knot, easy as a hand, obeying the way of heaven, becoming a small world by itself, born from the Confucian spirit.
As for the highest level of the Mixed Yuan Realm, it is a person who has integrated the true recipes of the three sects, used them freely, and has achieved great martial arts cultivation. As far as I know, there is no master of this realm on the rivers and lakes.
The characters who reached the mixed yuan realm, seventy years ago, there was the Dunjia god Zuo Ci, that is, the ancestor of the first emperor and the first Hualing King's teacher, who taught the secret method of Qimen Dunjia and then went into hiding, and it is rumored that he died in a nine-colored thunder when he crossed the catastrophe and ascended, which is embarrassing.
Two hundred years ago, the masters of the Mixed Yuan Realm had the son of Wuyang, the martial saint Qi Dongjiang. During the same period, there was also a Confucian saint named Lin Fan. After the first battle, the two were seriously injured, Qi Dongjiang soon fell, and Lin Fan was killed by Qi Dongjiang's disciple Xu Gong.
After the death of Qi Dongjiang, the Wuyang Kingdom rapidly declined, and since then it has been in decline. Therefore, some people attribute the reason for the decline of Wuyang State to the battle of Qi Dongjiang.
As for Xu Gong, history has no record of his deeds after killing Lin Fan. Since he shot after the Confucian Saint Lin Fan suffered a heavy blow, no one knew exactly what his strength was and whether he had reached the Mixed Yuan Realm.
Five hundred years ago, when the Zhou Dynasty was prosperous, thirteen Mixed Yuan Realm powerhouses appeared one after another, and the four strongest of them were known as the Four Great Grandmasters;
At that time, the most praised were the big and small sword immortals: the big sword fairy Ye Xiyan and the little sword fairy Luo Xiang. Among them, the Great Sword Immortal is known as the "first person after Tianzun", and the swordsmanship of the Little Sword Immortal is also considered to be second only to Tianzun and the Great Sword Immortal.
During the three hundred years of chaos before the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, although there was no grand occasion of the Zhou, there were also several mixed Yuan immortals. Especially the Eight Great Immortals at that time, it was rumored to be enough to match 100,000 soldiers and horses.
Of course, if you want to talk about the limits of the world, you have to look at the following one.
A thousand years ago, there was a Taoist who almost single-handedly integrated the three religions, and was the first to truly achieve the unity of the three religions and be invincible in the world.
He once bestowed benevolence on Confucian sages, enlightened Western Buddhas with Bodhi, and gave future generations of Taoists infinite luck and infinite opportunities. Including the Tao Te Ching, which I asked you to read, is also his work.
This 'he', that is, the 'moral Tianzun' and 'Lao Tzu' Li Er, is the ultimate goal of martial arts climbing.
Tianzun had three long swords, three riding green oxen, three stepping on the dust to cross the sea of clouds, nine into the gate of heaven and coming back, treating the immortals as nothing. After leaving the gate of heaven, he pulled the heavenly breath to the mortal world, and fought three million heavenly people, and he was the only one in the world. ”
Hearing his father say so much in one breath, Li Tianhua's head was big. After being silent for a long time, he asked, "Since there are no mixed yuan masters in the rivers and lakes now, who is the strongest?" ”
The middle-aged man suddenly smiled, pointed his finger in the northwest direction, and said: "At the foot of Kunlun Mountain in the northwest, there lives the number one in the world today: Martial Emperor Mu Feixing. ”
"Ah, the current number one in the world turned out to be a woman." Li Tianhua couldn't believe it.
The middle-aged man smiled dumbly, and only after a while did he explain: "Mu Feixing is a man with a handle, but his name is a bit like a woman. ”
Li Tianhua was stunned for a moment, and then fell silent.
The middle-aged man stopped laughing and continued: "When there are ten people today, they are Martial Emperor Mu Feixing, Xiaoyao Sword Immortal Ye Yang, Longquan Mountain Liu Fuling, Desert Zhang Zilai, Merry Qingyi Wei Chen, Mandarin Duck Sword Luo Chan, Mad God Wu Zitong, Taihang Mountain Qiao Gubei, Tianyi Pavilion Xiao Mou and Lotus Peak Changyi. ”
Li Tianhua was so dazed that he didn't remember a single name, and asked, "How can I remember so many names?" How does your level compare to theirs, Daddy? ”
The middle-aged man said seriously: "Your father and I must be better than all of them, there are only ten people in the world, and I don't care about your father." ”
Li Tianhua laughed out loud, and looked at his father with strange eyes: "You have such a thick skin, and you don't care about being the first in the world." That's right, that's my dad's style anyway. ”
The middle-aged man stretched his waist and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy, believe it or not, anyway, I have taught all the knowledge, and how to digest the rest depends on your own ability." Today you continue to practice ring cutting, perform well, and I will teach you swordsmanship tomorrow. ”