Chapter 16: The wolf's fangs crack the empty palm
Originally, he was going to report to the Lu Mansion Nursing Hall the next day, but because he lost feeling in his arm, Lu Zhan had to take leave and hide at home to rest for three days.
In this way, he also figured out the way, this kind of yellow paper can not be used casually, its use time is only a cup of tea, and after using it once, there will be serious sequelae. So Lu Zhan carefully hid it, not daring to use it easily.
Lu Zhan entered the Lu Mansion Nursing Hall with excellent results.
Among the ten people who entered the nursing hall after the "martial arts examination", only Lu Zhan was directly promoted to a black belt nursing home because of his outstanding achievements.
Not only could he get a hundred refined steel knives, a piece of soft armor, and eight "Yangyuan Pills", but he also had a chance to enter the "Golden Swallow Hall" to choose a high-level martial arts to study.
With these resources in hand, Lu Zhan felt that his certainty of revenge had increased a few points.
Four days later, he was led into Jinyan Hall.
The "Golden Swallow Hall" is the arsenal of the Lu Mansion, which is managed by the elders of the Mansion, who are highly accomplished in martial arts. There are all kinds of weapons and armor in the arsenal, as well as some elixirs. There is also a "treasure library" with martial arts secrets.
Lu Zhan followed a family member into the "Wendao Pavilion" located in the south wing of Jinyan Hall, where an old man wearing a purple robe and embroidered with a golden swallow on his chest sat in the pavilion, who was the chief examiner who supervised the "martial arts examination" in Zixia Mountain.
Now Lu Zhan already knew that he was the steward of Jinyan Hall, Elder He
Lu Zhan respectfully saluted Elder He.
Elder He nodded with a cold expression and said, "You're here." Have you received all the blades and armor?"
Lu Zhan replied: "Not yet, as soon as the disciple enters the mansion, he will first report to the Jinyan Hall." ”
Elder He said: "You have achieved outstanding results in the 'Martial Arts Examination' this time, and you can go to the 'Treasure Book Library' to choose a martial arts practice as usual. Can you tell us what martial arts you learned?"
Lu Zhan replied honestly: "The disciple originally only knew the set of martial arts of 'Black Tiger Heart-Snatching Fist'. ”
"Black Tiger Heart-Snatching Fist?" Elder He asked in a little surprise, "You can get the first place in the 'Martial Arts Examination' just by relying on this martial arts?"
"Yes. ”
Elder He looked Lu Zhan up and down incredulously, the Black Tiger Heart Snatching Fist was only a martial arts technique dedicated to the body refining realm, and it was not a profound martial art. Generally speaking, the primary nursing homes in the nursing hall will have two or three martial arts.
And the young man in front of him can achieve such a high attainment and achieve such good results with just one martial art, then his qualifications are really a little unimaginable.
He pondered for a while, and then asked, "Then you have the opportunity to enter the 'Treasure Library' this time to select martial arts, fists and feet, blades, hidden weapons, light body exercises and other types, which type do you want to choose to practice?"
Lu Zhan thought for a while: "The disciple still likes fist and foot martial arts, and if it is possible, I want to pick this kind of martial arts to practice." ”
Elder He nodded: "Well, there is a specialization in art, and it is rare for young people nowadays to have the martial arts cultivation spirit of 'not trying to do many, but specializing in one industry' like you; ”
After speaking, he stood up: "Let's go, follow me to the 'Treasure Library'." ”
The two walked out of the "Wendao Pavilion", walked through the armor of weapons, and came to a large three-story attic located in the northeast corner of Jinyan Hall.
Elder He unlocked the door, pushed open the heavy door, and said to Lu Zhan: "Go up to the second floor, the two rows of books on the left hand side are all about martial arts of fists and feet, and the front row is suitable for body refining and bone forging realm cultivation. I'll give you a quarter of an hour to pick and choose the books, take them down, and I'll wait for you downstairs. ”
After speaking, he sat on a Taishi chair in the lobby on the first floor, closed his eyes and recuperated.
Lu Zhan walked up to the second floor and saw that there were more than a dozen rows of bookcases in the building, and each bookcase was neatly stacked with cabinets with small doors, and each small door was marked with a label, indicating the name and type of martial arts exercises hidden in the cabinet.
In the face of this endless treasure of martial arts, Lu Zhan was a little itchy and unbearable, and he really wanted to live here and study well for a few months. It's a pity that Elder He only gave him a momentary time limit, and he had to hurry up and pick out the most suitable martial arts for himself.
He followed Elder He's instructions and walked to the two rows of bookcases on the left.
According to Elder He, the first row is suitable for the martial arts of the body refining and bone forging realms, so the latter row should be suitable for the martial arts of the Qi Condensation and even the legendary Transformation Realm, right?
Lu Zhan couldn't help but be curious, wanting to see what the martial arts of the latter two realms looked like, so he walked to the back row.
How do you know that there are only a few four cabinets on the bookcases in the back row, and each cabinet has a big lock hanging on it.
Lu Zhan honestly returned to the front row, the cabinets in this row were not locked, and he looked at the labels on those cabinets one by one:
"Hundred Flowers Without Shadow Fingers", "Brocade Scale Water Cloud Palm", "Danhe Tianji Step", "Iron Leopard Piercing Cloud Legs", "Wolf Tooth Cracked Empty Palm", and even "Black Tiger Heart-Snatching Fist......
It seems that there are all kinds of footwork, fingering, palming, and leg techniques in fist and foot kung fu, and the categories are very complete. So Lu Zhan decisively found a few martial arts according to his surname and flipped through them briefly.
He originally preferred the kind of martial arts that was full of offensive and neat moves. So soon, he decisively picked out the "Wolf Tooth Cracked Empty Palm" dedicated to the Bone Forging Realm.
Lu Zhan walked down the stairs with the copy of "Wolf Teeth Cracked Empty Palm" and handed it to Elder He for a look.
Elder He took the secret note and looked at it, glanced at Lu Zhan in surprise, and muttered, "Are you sure? This is something that can only be practiced by those who have attained martial arts attainments and reached the realm of forging bones." ”
Lu Zhan nodded affirmatively.
Seeing that he was so sure, Elder He said again: "According to the regulations, the secret notes in the 'Treasure Library' can only be borrowed from the library for ten days at most, and they must be returned here after ten days. So in the past ten days, you have to take this secret book home, whether you copy it or memorize it in your head, and after ten days, you must return this secret book, otherwise, you will be severely punished. Remember?"
Lu Zhan nodded and said, "I remember." ”
Before leaving, Elder He said again: "Don't look at this "Wolf Tooth Splitting Empty Palm" move is very simple, in fact, it is very difficult to practice in the back, even if it reaches the middle or even late stage of bone forging, it can only be practiced until it is a small success, and very few people in the Lu Mansion are willing to choose this martial arts to practice." Do you really insist on practicing this martial arts technique? If you change your mind, I can make an exception and give you another chance. ”
"Yes, I insist. Lu Zhan replied firmly.
After leaving Jinyan Hall, Lu Zhan followed a family member to report to the Nursing Hall.
The nursing hall is located in the southeast corner of the Lu Mansion, and there are several rows of large wings in the hall, all of which are inhabited by the nursing homes with martial arts cultivation.
When Lu Zhan walked into the gate of the nursing hall, in the open space in front of the atrium in the hall, there were more than 20 martial artists with upper body ** and a blue belt tied around their waists practicing martial arts.
The guide Ding took Lu Zhan to the front steps of the "Welcoming Drawing Room" and said to him, "You wait here, I'll go in and report to the Jade Elder of our Guardian Hall." After speaking, he lowered his head and walked quickly into the "welcome living room".
Lu Zhan stood in front of the steps and suddenly heard bursts of cheers coming from the open space behind him.
He turned and looked out into the clearing.
The martial artists in the open space formed a half-circle, watching a bald man practice martial arts.
The bald man was about thirty years old and had a sturdy build. I saw him wrapping a black metal sphere around his hands, and his hands were coiled left and right, allowing the black ball to roll between his palms.
Lu Zhan saw that the black ball was about three feet in diameter, glowing with a metallic luster, and when he looked closely, it was actually a lead ball. Such a large solid shot put ball weighs hundreds of pounds, and it is very easy to roll in the hands of the bald man.
Suddenly, I saw that the bald man held the lead ball on his left palm, and then raised his arm flat, parallel to the ground, and held this movement for three breaths. The crowd applauded, and the one-arm ball showed the strength of the bald man's strong arms.
Then, I saw the bald man stretch out his right arm, and the two arms were in a "one" shape, and then leaned back, so that the lead ball rolled from the left palm to the chest, and then to the right palm. Then bend your waist and let the shot put roll from your right palm to your shoulder.
When the shot put rolled to the position between the shoulder blades of the shoulders, the bald man suddenly collapsed his shoulder muscles, and the bulging muscles and bones bounced the shot put off his back, raised about four feet high, and fell in front of him over the top of his head. In this way, one foot on the ground, one foot hook the ball, holding the posture for about five breaths, before slowly putting the shot put on the ground.
The crowd cheered.
After the bald man finished performing, he looked at Lu Zhan on the steps, and a mocking smile hung on the corner of his mouth.
Lu Zhan felt a hostility in the bald man's eyes, and his gaze fell to his waist, only to see a red belt tied around his waist, and he knew in his heart that this person was one level higher than himself in the courtyard hall.
The nursing homes of Lu Mansion are divided into three levels, the lowest has a blue belt on the waist and is the general nursing home, the intermediate has a black belt on the waist and serves as the leader of the nursing team, and the highest has a red belt on the waist and serves as the head of the nursing home.
It seems that this bald man is a red belt protector, a leader-level figure, no wonder his martial arts attainments are so high, just with the tenacity and elasticity of his muscles, he can bounce a lead ball weighing more than 100 catties up a few feet high, it seems that his strength has at least reached the level of the middle stage of the bone forging realm.
At this time, Jia Ding walked out of the "welcome living room" and beckoned to Lu Zhan: "Elder Yu told you to come in." ”
Lu Zhan walked into the "welcome living room" and saw two middle-aged men and an old man sitting in the hall, both of whom wore red belts around their waists. The old man sitting between the two red belt leaders, wearing the same splendid robe as Elder He of the Golden Swallow Hall, but there was no embroidered golden swallow on his chest, this person was the chief steward of the Guardian Hall, and he was also a few martial arts masters in the Lu Mansion: Elder Yu.
Lu Zhan saluted Elder Jade and said, "The disciple has seen Elder Jade. ”