Chapter 6: The Beginning of Cultivation

Everything is difficult at the beginning, because most of them are illiterate, new students and outer disciples need to arrange for a teacher to teach literacy and hyphenation. For three whole months, in addition to eating and sleeping, almost all of the time was spent reading and hyphenating, and finally most of them could know a lot of words and understand the meaning of words. Everyone is full of yearning for martial arts cheats, and they know all the words on the martial arts cheats well, and they memorize them like streams. Even the humble Xie Hu has done this, and Xie San and Xie Hu are also puffing up their breath and can't embarrass the village.

After three months passed, the senior brother Qi Yu finally began to arrange for some inner disciples and elders with advanced cultivation in the sect to teach these new students the key points of the exercises and the methods of practicing the dragon and tiger qigong. Dragon and Tiger Qigong as the sect disciples' internal strength method, is also a very good exercise, after all, to cultivate excellent disciples, lay a good foundation for cultivation, too poor martial arts can not be effective, the disciples of the sect are almost all practicing this internal strength method, except for some elders who joined later, almost all the disciples are practicing this exercise, even if the head of the sect is also practicing this exercise, it is considered a secret book of the town faction. New disciples can only get the acquired exercises, and the innate exercises need to be advanced to the release of innate true qi before they are eligible to practice.

Dragon and Tiger Qigong, need to imitate the posture of the dragon and tiger, equipped with illustrated explanations, a total of 14 sheets, the first six are postures, and the back eight are diagrams of the tendons and veins running acupoints. At present, there are only the first six sheets of cultivation, and they practice for one or two hours each morning and evening, depending on the situation, and persevere. So every day before dawn, there are many students in the southwest of the courtyard in the woods doing all kinds of dragon-shaped tiger materials, some of them are hideous, sweating profusely, looking very painful, and gritting their teeth to persevere. There are also some students who can't last long, and often stop to rest for a while, and continue to practice when their strength has recovered. After entering the school for three months, Xie San and his friends also began to join in.

"Cultivation needs to be gradual and gradual, and we must not be greedy for merit. When you practice Dragon and Tiger Qigong, you can only practice the first posture, and wait until you get used to the first posture and persist for at least one hour before you can start practicing the second posture, and then practice to the third posture, and after the six postures are completed, you need to change the posture in order to practice, and practice until there is a stream of heat in the dantian, so that you can guide the hot qi of the dantian to run in the tendons and veins in a certain order according to the last eight diagrams, and this heat is what we call true qi. True Qi can nourish the muscles and veins and strengthen the muscles and veins, and the true qi will become stronger and stronger through the practice of Dragon and Tiger Qigong. Elder Chuangong said eloquently.

When starting to practice, new students only need to imitate the posture of the first picture, and the longer the better. Xie San got ready, put on the first pose, and soon felt that his muscles and veins were swollen and painful, and he couldn't hold on for long, he couldn't stand it for a few minutes, gritted his teeth and persevered, and soon he was defeated, so he had to stop to rest and recover, and then continue to pose in the first pose.

The cultivation of basic sword skills is very boring, that is, the basic movements of the sword are repeated every day, stabbing, slashing, splitting, and teasing....... Xie San's goal for himself is to practice all the basic movements one hundred times a day, practice makes perfect, and lay a good foundation for practicing swordsmanship. So every day, you can see a stubborn figure, waving the sword in his hand, repeating these movements, sweating like rain.

The drill of the wind shadow step is not very smooth, the wind shadow footwork as the name suggests, such as the willow in the wind, such as the shadow with the shape, the footwork requires the action to be uncertain, but there is a certain discipline in the foothold, if the movement is like a rabbit, fast as the wind. The load on the body is very large, and Xie San is often too tired to get up. The stubbornness of the people in the mountains, Xie San gritted his teeth and insisted, recovered and immediately started to cultivate again. Everyone held their breath, vied with each other, and persevered.

At present, for new students such as Xie San, in addition to practicing Dragon and Tiger Qigong every morning and evening, they need to learn one hour of poetry and songs, and two hours of basic swordsmanship and wind shadow steps in the afternoon. Sometimes interspersed with elders' preaching, human geography, etc., can only be adjusted, and every day is full, and the life is hard and fulfilling.