Chapter 8: Martial Arts Realm

Through this boxing book, he finally learned a little bit about martial arts.

Martial arts are divided into four realms:

The lowest realm is - "refining the body";

Then came - "forging bones";

The third is - "condensation";

The highest is - "turning strength".

And in each realm, it is divided into four small realms: the early stage, the middle stage, the late stage, and the peak.

For example, He Feng, although he and Lu Zhan were in the same realm of body refining, he was only in the middle stage, and after Lu Zhan had an adventure in the mountains, he almost reached the peak state of body refining.

In this way, the strength between the two is two grades different at once, plus Lu Zhan has the bonus of the powerful power provided by the mysterious crystal in his body, then the outcome of the actual fight can be imagined.

That's why He Feng, who is the head of the Lu Mansion Nursing Hall, will look so unbearable, and the end will be so miserable.

The Black Tiger style in "Black Tiger Heartsnatcher" is an external boxing technique that can be completed by skill and strength alone. The heart-grabbing style pays more attention to the cultivation of qi in the body.

Therefore, in the last part of the book, the method of exhaling and absorbing the qi in the body is explained in detail.

The practice method of the Breathing Method seems to be very simple, it is nothing more than sinking the dantian, relying on internal visualization to circulate the blood and veins between breaths, so as to achieve the effect of improving the physique, accumulating essence and qi and then turning it into qi circulation.

However, the seemingly simple method depends on long-term and unslackening practice, and the influence of some external reinforcements (such as pills) in order to grow step by step.

Therefore, the qi in the body can never be cultivated in a short period of time, and some people with poor qualifications may not be able to achieve high achievements in their lifetime.

But Na Lu Zhan is a special existence.

After an adventure in the mountains, the qi in his body was close to the realm of forging bones. It's just that he doesn't know how to use the abundant energy in his body.

It's like a person who owns a mountain of gold, but doesn't know how to trade it for what he wants.

Ever since he learned the knowledge of the Tuna Method, Lu Zhanfang realized that this method was called "visualization" when he looked at the golden vein diagram on the stone wall in his sleep and imagined that he had the same vein in his body, and then turned from virtual to real, and the veins seemed to really appear in front of him.

When you become proficient in the practice of "visualization", you will be able to move your mind and your qi at will, and you will be able to control the operation of your body's qi as you like.

A higher level than visualization is called "inner vision", which means that when you close your eyes and meditate, you can see the internal organs, veins, muscles and bones, and qi flow in your body, so as to achieve the purpose of examining your own meridians and strengthening your practice in a targeted manner.

The reason why the legendary top masters at the level of the Transforming Strength Grandmaster were able to continuously develop new martial arts techniques was because they worked hard with the help of internal vision.

Lu Zhan practiced breathing in the manner described in the book, exhaling and breathing, and the speed and frequency were much slower than usual. After this practice, he immediately noticed a strange change in the golden vein diagram he had visualized in his sleep.

It turns out that the golden characters in the vein diagram are all circulating in a clockwise direction, but since the practice of using the breath, the direction of circulation is still clockwise when inhaling, but when it comes to exhaling, the direction of circulation Huo Ran flows backwards in the opposite direction.

Once a person's bloodline runs backwards, the resulting situation is very terrible, and there is a saying in martial arts that "go crazy and die against the blood", which is the truth.

However, Lu Zhan's physique has already surpassed ordinary people a lot, and such a retrograde blood and qi has not hurt him at all, but the discomfort caused by the reversal of blood is very strong, especially the constant replacement of positive and negative effects, which is even more painful.

Therefore, at the beginning, Lu Zhan almost wanted to give up practicing with the Tuna Method, but he found that after using the Tuna Method to practice the golden vein diagram on the stone wall, his strength and qi had improved surprisingly, so he decided to continue to practice.

However, in order to reduce this discomfort, he had to try to slow down his breathing, take a longer breath in, and take a longer breath to exhale.

In this way, his breath became longer and longer, and if anyone observed from the side, they could see that his chest and abdomen rose and fell very slowly, so slow that they would even suspect that he was already out of breath and was about to die.

Such a long breath has its own benefit, that is, those golden words circulate in one direction for a longer period of time, the qi flows more smoothly, and the cultivation effect received is also better.

After practicing like this for more than a month, he was able to vaguely see the scene in his body and reached the realm of "inner vision"!

He could see his internal organs, blood and bones, and even his dantian, there was a little crystal light flickering!

"Huh, what kind of brilliance is this?" Lu Zhan thought in surprise, "I haven't heard that martial arts practitioners will glow in their bodies? Could it be that this star-like light is the reason for the change in his physique?"

At this time, he recalled the wound in his abdomen when he fell into the hole in Yunmeng Mountain, and a glowing crystalline object burrowed into his body from that wound. Could it be that the luminous body at his dantian was the small crystal that pierced into his abdomen?

In addition to the luminous body in the dantian, there was another surprising transformation in his body, that is-

The color of his bones began to change, becoming more and more polished and crystalline like jade. He judged according to the four rules of realm evolution described in the book-

This is a sign of evolution towards the realm of "forging bones"!

Once he enters the realm of "forging bones", the density of his skin and bone will change substantially. So there is such a saying in martial arts:

"Refining the body is like a pine",

"Forging bones like steel",

"Condensation is like a glow",

"Turn your strength into nothing".

Means:

When a martial artist is in the realm of refining the body, his body is as strong as a pine tree and has a long life.

When he reached the realm of forging bones, his skin and bones were as hard as steel, and he was invulnerable.

When entering the realm of condensation, you can turn the true qi in your body into clouds and mist, release it from afar, and hurt people with your qi in the air.

After reaching the realm of transforming strength, he has been able to control things in the air, and long-distance control weapons can be like arms and fingers, and perform various strange killing methods.

If a martial arts practitioner reaches this realm, all martial arts moves are irrelevant.

And the top masters who are lucky enough to reach this level have the strong strength to create a dynasty to become Taizu and inherit it for hundreds of years!

As for the powerhouses of the higher realms, there are only some ethereal folk legends, and there is no conclusion, and most of them are rumored to be immortals.

In the evening of that day, Xiao Yan walked to the mill with a bamboo basket on his shoulder, stood outside the fence and shouted to the mill door: "Brother Zhan, I have come to see you." ”

But there was no response in the mill, except for the "crunching" of the wheels of the water.

Xiao Yan shouted twice, but she still didn't see Lu Zhan answer, so she had to push open the fence gate and walk into the mill by herself.

She put the bamboo basket on the table and walked around the mill, but she didn't see Lu Zhan.

"Strange, where did Brother Zhan go?"

She walked out of the mill and searched along the path in front of the mill. After walking about 100 steps, I heard the sound of rushing water on the river not far ahead.

Xiao Yan quickened his pace and approached the embankment, brushed aside a bush in front of him, and looked into the river.

But I saw Lu Zhan standing in the turbulent river, with his upper body **, most of his healthy body was submerged in the water, and his arms were holding circles in the water.

I saw that the muscles on his arms were knotted, and the green tendons were like small snakes as thick as a finger, and there was hot steaming between the exertions, and a thin mist shrouded him in them, and he couldn't see his face clearly.

"Ahh

After a while, she couldn't suppress the thought in her heart, and couldn't help poking her head out again, looking out into the river through the gap in the branches and leaves of the bushes.

I saw Lu Zhan swinging his arms in a circle in the river, and the river water was stirred up into a large whirlpool with a circle of several zhang in circumference, and the scene was very spectacular. But Xiao Yan was not interested in the vision in the water, she was secretly surprised by Lu Zhan's physique.

In the past, Lu Zhan was a thin and thin young man who was dry and black, and his limbs were as slender as reeds. However, at this time, Lu Zhan's physique was much stronger, his whole body was covered with bulging tendons, his skin was fair and shiny, and his thick green tendons crawled on the surface of his skin like an electric snake.

At this time, the season has entered autumn, and the river water is cold, but Lu Zhan in the white mist exudes a majestic momentum like an ancient beast, and he can see the little inkstone like a deer.

The exercises that Lu Zhan practiced in the river were the whirlwind hammers in the three styles of "Black Tiger Heart-Snatching Fist", this whirlwind hammer was practiced to the extreme, and the fists drawn out of the two arms could form the shape of a whirlwind, and the moves were very strong. But Lu Zhan hadn't reached that step yet, and he could only stir up a large whirlpool in the water.

Seeing that it was getting late, he finished his cultivation and walked up to the river embankment, and suddenly heard a slight breathing sound behind a bush not far away, "Who?" His figure flickered, Huo Ran jumped up, ran over the bushes, and stopped in front of a girl.

"Is that you, Xiao Yan?" Looking at the girl in front of him whose neck was red, he said curiously, "Why are you here?"

"Brother Zhan, I'...... Hmm......" Xiao Yan hesitated for a long time before he spit out with difficulty: "I brought something to eat." ”

"Oh, yes, I haven't eaten yet. Lu Zhan put on a thin shirt and walked towards the mill.

Xiao Yan followed behind him, was silent for a while, and said to him worriedly: "Brother Zhan, can you wear such a little on such a cold day? ”

"It's okay, I'm still feeling a little hot. Lu Zhan pushed the door and walked into the mill, pulled open the cotton cloth covering the bamboo basket, and saw a lotus leaf chicken, a pig's trotters, a bowl of braised fish, and a few big white buns in the basket.

"Hey, that's hearty. Lu Zhan sat down at the table, unceremoniously grabbed the pig's trotters and gnawed them.

Xiao Yan sat down opposite him, looking at him with watery eyes, and after a while, she said in a low voice: "Brother Zhan, I see that there are two big stone locks outside the mill, as well as sandbags and wooden figures, are you practicing martial arts?"

Lu Zhan nodded, "Yes, I want to be fit, the work I do now is too heavy, I can't get strong if I don't get strong." ”

Xiao Yan grabbed a white bun, tore off a piece of dough and stuffed it in his mouth, chewed it for a while, and then said, "It's a pity that you are just practicing blindly by yourself, and you can't learn anything famous." Unlike our young lady, there are three or five coaches waiting for a person, boxing and knives and guns, and playing with hidden weapons. ”

Lu Zhan asked with interest, "Your fifth lady also knows martial arts, what kind of exercises does she practice?"

Xiao Yan shook his head, "Who knows, it looks pretty powerful anyway." For the past two days, she locked herself in her room, saying that she was going to retreat and practice, and that she was going to take the 'martial arts examination' in the house in five days, so I had to run out to see how you were doing at the mill. ”