It is said that it has been more than a month since Wang Liang and Gongsun Chi went to the capital, and finally arrived in Wangcheng on the day of early June.

Gongsun Chi took Wang Liang back to the mansion, prepared a banquet, and asked while eating: "At the last auction, Brother Wang bought a good sword, but I don't know if Brother Wang is planning to learn swordsmanship?" ”

"Exactly, since I saw Uncle Gong fighting with the assassin, I have been fascinated by swordsmanship for a long time, so I want to buy Zhulong, I don't know if there are any sword masters in the palace?"

"Hahaha, my master is the number one swordsman in the palace, and all my skills are taught by him, why don't you also worship my master as a teacher, wouldn't it be wonderful to be my junior brother, you wait a while, I'll go and invite the master." After speaking, he got up and left, and before leaving, he called a dancing girl, "Good life to serve Brother Wang, I will go and go back." ”

Wang Liang had to wait while drinking, and after about half an hour, he heard a shout from outside the door: "Brother Wang, I'm back." ”

As soon as Wang Liang went out, he saw Gongsun Chi running in, followed by an old man with a mediocre appearance. But Wang Liang was not sloppy at all, and he bowed his hand to the old man, as if he had said hello.

But the old man's face did not change at all, as if there was no one in front of him, Gongsun Chi saw this and hurriedly introduced: "This is the head of the palace forbidden army Gao Lao, this is my savior, Wang Liang, thanks to Brother Wang's uneven road, pull out a knife to help, I can return to the capital, Wang Liang has been yearning for martial arts since he was a child, this time he came to the capital to find a good teacher, and asked the master to accept Brother Wang as an apprentice." ”

But Elder Gao didn't agree at all, and said coldly; "When he is over three or five years old, his body has stopped developing, and he has not played the foundation of martial arts when he was young, what reason do I have to accept him as an apprentice, His Royal Highness wants to repay the grace of saving his life, just give him a glory and wealth, not everyone can learn martial arts."

"But, Master, Brother Wang's whole family was killed by horse thieves, and practicing martial arts is also to avenge this great revenge, and it is not for the sake of bullying and dominating the market, and I hope that Master will accept Brother Wang."

"Your Highness doesn't need to say much, my swordsmanship is not something anyone can teach, today's matter will end here, you can find someone else as a teacher, why bother to be attached to me."

Wang Liang's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he thought that the prince would respond to his requests, but he didn't think that this old man would look down on his talent so much, so he knelt down and shouted: "The boy knows that his talent for martial arts is unsightly, but his parents' revenge will not be avenged for a day, and it will be difficult to sleep and eat. After speaking, he was already in tears, and kowtowed three times in a row.

Seeing that the two of them begged for him like this, and Wang Liang lowered his requirements so much, he also made this big gift, so he agreed to Wang Liang's request. So he nodded and said: "Seeing that you are vengeful, and you have great kindness to Your Highness, it is not impossible to promise you, but I will only teach you one hour a day, and the rest of the time you only need to practice according to the method I gave you, but you only have one year, and after a year, no matter how you learn, you will have nothing to do with me, how about it?" ”

Wang Liang was overjoyed when he heard this, so he bowed again: "Thank you for your success." ”

Seeing that Wang Liang was overjoyed, Elder Gao said, "Then let's start today." Wang Liang was a little scared, but when he thought that it was impossible for Gao Lao to harm himself, he couldn't help himself, so he couldn't shout out, wanting to improve his image in Gao Lao's heart.

After a while, Elder Gao stopped in a courtyard and said to Wang Liang: "In the future, you will wait for me in this gym every afternoon, and you can show me things like boxing." Wang Liang said: "I don't know boxing, this is my first time practicing martial arts. ”

"You can listen well, the realm of martial arts is roughly divided into four stages, the first stage is called technical attack, which means that one or two martial arts can be used, this is the lowest realm, excellent cultivation, but this realm is cultivated to the depths, that is, the proficiency of the graduate students in martial arts moves, ordinary soldiers know some technical attacks, and the technical attack to the extreme is the ultimate in horizontal kung fu. When you reach the extreme of horizontal kung fu, you will practice your own internal skills from the outside to the inside, which is the second stage: internal breath. At this stage, you need to contact a specific mental method, each martial arts has its own supporting mental method, but most of them are controlled by the sect, and generally the people at this stage are already the leading figures in the rivers and lakes, and they are all young heroes of some rivers and lakes. And the third stage is to gain momentum. The so-called gain is that the people who practice martial arts have reached the level of familiarity with martial arts to the feeling of becoming accustomed to nature, and they are not sticking to the moves, all the shots are arbitrary, and the reaction to the sword is much higher than that of ordinary masters.

As for the fourth stage called the unity of heaven and man, the people who have reached this realm are no longer called people, they have understood the way of heaven, and they have the power of heaven in their gestures, but this is the realm of legends, there has been no one in the world for hundreds of years, the highest is only to gain power, as for you, it would be good to reach that inner breath within three years, the general martial arts disciples are the first stage and the second stage to learn together, but you are not my door wall, my mind can not be taught to you, After you have learned martial arts, you are making plans, I will teach you a set of boxing techniques first, you need to do it three times in the morning and evening, it has the effect of relaxing the muscles and activating the body, and it can slightly improve your physical condition" After that, he began to box, the boxing method was not fast, but the seemingly slow fist had terrifying power, Wang Liang could clearly feel that the air around him began to converge towards Gao Lao, and the whole set of boxing techniques was only twelve styles, and Gao Lao quickly finished fighting. Then he said: "This boxing is called Taijiquan, this boxing method is ultimately to eliminate all distractions in the heart when boxing, Taijiquan is not fighting but to cultivate the body, you must insist on not slacking off every day, and finally achieve the effect of being able to be distracted anytime and anywhere is considered a great success, such a state of mind is not a lot of help for practicing martial arts or practicing the mind." In addition to that, you need to follow the methods on this list every day. As he spoke, he threw Wang Liang a list.

Wang Liang took it and looked at it, and it said that it was an unachievable task of running around the city ten times and swinging his sword three hundred times. Looking at Wang Liang's ugly look, Gao Lao said, "It's done before noon tomorrow." "Just walk out the door. Only Wang Liang, who was at a loss, was left alone. Since I have such a good opportunity to take revenge, I still don't cherish it, I am really ashamed of my dead parents, and I will definitely learn to take revenge! Wang Liang secretly made up his mind, strode out of the martial arts hall and went straight to the city gate. As soon as he got out of the city gate, he took a deep breath and started running to the left.

Wang Liang has liked to run since he was a child, always shuttling back and forth between the village and the fields, running around the city for a few laps is no problem at all, but before he reached the fifth lap, Wang Liang began to panting, but thinking of his parents who died tragically, he still gritted his teeth and pursed his lips to force this to run, and when there was only one lap left, Wang Liang could only run with his consciousness, his mouth kept panting, his nose greedily breathed air was still not enough, and his brain seemed to be empty and couldn't think of anything, just relying on muscle memory step by step, When he first arrived at the door, he couldn't stand anymore, and collapsed directly to the ground, Wang Liang wanted to stand up against the wall, but suddenly his eyes were black, his head sank, and he sat down, and he staggered back to Gongsun Chi's mansion after a while. As soon as Wang Liang got out of bed, he felt unbearable hunger in his belly, and when he looked up, he saw a box containing rice on the table, as well as a stone sword and a letter.

"Seeing that Brother Wang is working so hard, I specially ordered someone to sit on a table of good food and good food for you to make up, don't practice your body, in addition, the stone sword on the table is for my brother to practice martial arts back then, I think the master should also arrange a task for you to swing the sword, this sword will be lent to you to practice first."

Wang Liang was deeply moved after reading it, and silently recited, "Brother Gongsun, I will definitely repay your kindness in the future" After eating, Wang Liang went out to practice with a stone sword.

But swinging a sword is not an easy task, and it requires five hundred on each of the left and right arms. After Wang Liang finished practicing, it was already the middle of the night, and his hands couldn't move, but Wang Liang was also relieved and finally completed the task of the first day. He fell into a deep sleep.

Waiting until the next morning, Wang Liang dragged his sore body to get up, and finally had breakfast with the support of the maid, and thought of boxing again, so he could only endure the pain in his body and began to fight boxing in the yard, but the severe pain in his body made him forget what Elder Gao said when boxing, he should empty his mind and achieve the purpose of stopping his heart like water. Wang Liang just punched roughly, thinking that he could finish his homework quickly so that he could go to Gao Lao to learn martial arts.

When Wang Liang finished boxing and arrived at the martial arts hall, it was already close to noon, but half an hour before Elder Gao also arrived, Wang Liang saw Elder Gao coming, and immediately got up and stood in front of Elder Gao: "I've seen Elder Gao, I have completed the tasks arranged yesterday." ”

Gao Lao didn't answer, just reached out to hold Wang Liang's wrist, Wang Liang didn't know what Gao Lao's move meant, just stood obediently, but soon Wang Liang felt a warm current coming out of Gao Lao's hand, and entered Wang Liang's body along his wrist, Wang Liang was shocked, and his hand wanted to take it back uncontrollably, but Gao Lao's hand was like an iron arm that could not be broken.

Feeling Wang Liang's somewhat tired meridians, Elder Gao knew that Wang Liang's tasks were all completed, and his impression of Wang Liang's half of the disciples had changed a lot, although the qualifications were mediocre, but the task I arranged yesterday may not be completed even if it is an adult, he can only complete it at the age of fifteen, it seems that perseverance is indeed outstanding, and it is not impossible to train it well.

Elder Gao showed a satisfied smile: "Yes, it is indeed completed according to my instructions, although the body is still very problematic, but the perseverance is outstanding, and it is worthy of praise." You don't have to continue yesterday's training today, come with me into the house. With that, he took Wang Liang and walked into the house.

Wang Liang followed behind Elder Gao, and was very curious about everything just now, only feeling that his body had recovered as before in the place where he was passed by Elder Gao's warm current just now. I think that the ancients said: sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask. Thinking of this, Wang Liang opened his mouth and asked, "Elder Gao, I don't know what the thing in your hand that flowed into my body just now?" I felt as if everything I was flowing through had become more powerful. ”

"This is the second stage of internal breath cultivation, and you need to learn the mental method to be able to generate a breath of qi in the body, which is called internal force. The role of internal force is to strengthen people's moves, muscle strength, and also help people recover from injuries and other effects, internal force, it is too early for you. First of all, from today onwards, you spend an hour with me every day to learn herbal medicine, you must remember that those who practice martial arts must first understand pharmacology, and practicing martial arts is not only to exercise their own body, but also to torture their own body, but at the same time, they must also love and condition their body. For example, if you practiced yesterday, it has exceeded the scope of exercise, and has damaged your body to a certain extent, but only if you lose will you gain something, after your body is damaged, if you use precious herbs to condition your body in time, not only will you recover as before, but your body will also have greater ability and potential. ”

As he spoke, Elder Gao had already led Wang Liang to a stone barrel, which was already filled with a blue-green liquid, and there were several herbs next to it. "Strip naked and go down" Gao Lao pointed to the stone bucket and said, Wang Liang did not twist, he directly stripped naked into the barrel, as soon as he entered the barrel, he felt as if there was a flame drilling into the pores, first of all, the sharp pain in the muscles, Wang Liang couldn't stop trembling, followed by a pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, as if someone was pulling his tendons and picking his bones. At this time, a big hand appeared on Wang Liang's head, it was Gao Lao's hand, Wang Liang once again felt the warm current flowing from Gao Lao's hand to his body, and where the warm current passed, the pain was greatly reduced. At this time, Zhou Lao's voice came: "I am dredging the meridians of a big Zhou Tian for you, once a week, with this barrel of medicinal bath, it can help you lay a solid foundation and make it easier for you to practice martial arts in the future." ”

After Wang Liang heard this, he hurriedly sat up straight, forced his body not to tremble, and remembered in his heart where the heat flow passed. In a short time, Gao Lao had already dredged up. After sending his hand away, he threw Wang Liang a book with the "Hundred Herbs Sutra" written on it. Now you take the medicinal bath, and other than that, three times a day, and from tomorrow onwards, I will order someone to send the prepared herbs to the palace.

Today I will explain to you the mechanism of medicinal herbs, let's first start with the herbs used in this barrel of medicinal bath, first of all, the mandala flower, this flower can loosen the muscles, relax the body, so that the body can better absorb the medicinal bath, but the mandala flower in addition to the leaves are good medicine, no matter the seeds, leaves, roots, fruits are highly toxic, among which the fruit is the most.

The color is mostly yellow, and the more flowers there are, the bigger the year, and the more toxic they are. The second is Prunella vulgaris, which is the thing of the sun, which sprouts in late spring and bears fruit at the end of summer, and is born by absorbing all the essence of the summer sun, and is the main source of medicinal effect in medicinal baths, which has the effect of expanding the meridians and repairing muscles, and is a necessary thing for all major schools.

After waiting for an hour, Wang Liang was already dizzy by Gao Lao's words, but although his body was soaked in the medicinal bath for an hour, the strength in his body seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and when Gao Lao left, Wang Liang only felt that he had inexhaustible strength after getting dressed, and suddenly wanted to carry out yesterday's training, and went straight to the city gate when he got out of the martial arts hall.

After running 20 laps, although Wang Liang still felt that life was worse than death, he was no longer able to get up like yesterday. When he returned to the palace, it was already past dinner time, Wang Liang didn't bother Gongsun Chi, thinking that the prince would be busy every day.

Wang Liang went straight back to his room and began to fight, but this time because his physical condition was better than yesterday, Wang Liang did not perfunctory, since the medicinal bath is so useful, this set of boxing methods explained by Gao Lao should also have a lot of use. So he let go of his mind and boxed wholeheartedly, with only twelve styles of boxing, Wang Liang actually fought for nearly half an hour. By the time he came back to his senses, it was already dark, but Wang Liang was not sleepy at all.

"Sure enough, the things taught by Gao Lao are all good things, this ordinary boxing method is so magical, I want to come to Gao Lao to teach himself pharmacology or have Gao Lao's own intentions, or review the herbs taught by Gao Lao."

But what he didn't know was that his state just now had already reached the state of no distractions, although he did not take the initiative to achieve it, and only passively entered the initial state of distraction because of the soreness of the muscles of the whole body, but if he wanted to take the initiative to achieve his current state, he could only succeed if he practiced for more than half a year and was in excellent physical and mental condition.

Everyone has their own things to be good at, for example, Gao Lao is a martial arts genius, and he is already a master of the third realm as early as the year of knowing and standing, and Wang Liang's talent is probably to do things seriously, as long as he doesn't think about anything in his heart and focuses on one thing, Wang Liang's perseverance is very terrible, just like now, it seems that Wang Liang has a lot of things every day, but there is only one thing in his heart, that is, to kill the enemy and avenge his parents. And after seeing the magic of Gao Lao's medicinal bath today, Wang Liang immediately realized that the daily practice of boxing should never be ignored, which is also a reason that cannot be ignored.

And Wang Liang was reading "The Book of Hundred Herbs" in the house, and he was already fascinated. "This way of herbs, but not simpler than martial arts, but more profound and profound, even the same herbs, the same collocation, as long as the technique and the order of putting in is different, the effect is completely different. Types, dosages, techniques, sequences, and mechanisms, if you don't consider anything, you will ruin all herbs. It's like breaking the temple overnight, if it weren't for Uncle Gong's poison from the assassin, how could he be chased and killed so far, and it would be impossible to give Wang Liang a chance to save Gongsun Chi. Therefore, Wang Liang knows the importance of pharmacology, and he thinks that this will heal himself and poison the enemy, which is often the key to defeating the strong with the weak and turning defeat into victory.