Chapter Twenty-Six: Fortunately, It's Quick
Speaking of the Central Plains martial arts in this world, although there are also many types and different methods, they are always changing, and there are always rules to follow. If you want to become a top master among many martial arts cultivators, you must achieve the same cultivation of qi, mind, style, and form, and to cultivate these four things, you can't do without the mind, gong, technique, and body.
The first is the mind. Before talking about the heart method, I have to mention the meridians, whether it is the practice of literature or the cultivation of martial arts, the meridians are fundamental.
By cultivating the mind and directly improving the star position of the meridians, the literati can significantly improve their perception and learning ability, so that they can learn and create a large number of classics and historical classics and strategies of war. Therefore, in addition to learning some specialized techniques, literati only need to concentrate on cultivating the meridians in their lives, while martial artists are different.
When a martial artist cultivates the mental method, he must not only improve the meridians, but also take into account the cultivation of the sea of qi. However, the ascension of the sea of qi is at the same time limited by the meridians. For example, if a martial cultivator cultivates the meridians to the third star rank, then his qi sea can only be cultivated to the third level at most. At the same time, because the repetition of the sea of qi determines the level of martial arts, the meridians are equivalent to indirectly limiting the improvement of the level of martial arts. What distressed the martial artists the most was that because the martial arts mind method had to be cultivated at the same time as both the meridians and the qi sea, the effect on the improvement of the meridians was far inferior to that of the literati's cultivation.
So here's the problem. Is it possible to practice two mental methods at the same time, one focusing on cultivating the meridians and the other on cultivating the Qi Sea? Theoretically yes, but in practice it doesn't work. People's time and energy are limited, and martial arts are the fundamental foundation of martial arts. A person may learn a lot of exercises, techniques, and body methods in his life, but only the mental method must be consistent from the beginning of cultivation, and changing the mental method in the middle of martial arts cultivation is tantamount to abandoning martial arts and starting all over again. This kind of starting over from scratch does not mean that the fruits of the previous cultivation will disappear, but it means that it is necessary to give up a lot of time and energy from the previous cultivation method to cultivate the second mental method from scratch, which is really not worth the loss.
To put it in more detail, the result of the mental method cultivation that focuses on cultivating the meridians may be that the meridians are faster than the Qi Sea cultivation, and when the cultivation reaches a certain stage, there will be a progress gap between the progress of the meridians and the progress of the Qi Sea. However, due to the restriction of the meridian cultivation process on the cultivation process of the Qi Sea, the final cultivation result of the mental method that focuses on the cultivation of the Qi Sea is only the same as the progress of the Qi Sea and the meridians, and there will never be a phenomenon that the Qi Sea is faster than the meridian cultivation, and at the same time, because the cultivation of the Qi Sea focuses on the Qi Sea, the speed of the meridian cultivation slows down. This is equivalent to practicing the meridians first, and then stopping and waiting for the mental cultivation of the slow meridian cultivation speed to start from the beginning, and then slowly catch up, a normal person would not do this. (PS: This is talking about normal people.) )
Some people may be wondering, can we first cultivate the meridians to the point of penetration, and then start cultivating the Qi Sea? Of course you can, and the effect of cultivating the Qi Sea after the meridians are penetrated is many times faster than before the meridians are penetrated. But the question is, who are the people who can cultivate the meridians to the core?
Some people focus on meridian cultivation and leave enough space for the Qi Sea to cultivate, but due to the lack of the Qi Sea, the martial arts enter the realm slowly; There are also people who focus on cultivating the Qi Sea, but because the speed of meridian cultivation has always restricted the cultivation of the Qi Sea, the martial arts progress is also slow. This is why the vast majority of people's martial arts can only stay in the "Condensing Qi Realm" and cannot enter the "Imperial Qi Realm", because crossing the martial arts realm requires a huge sea of qi to provide vitality support, and the more you go to the later realm, the greater the demand for vitality.
As for which mental method to cultivate, how to choose? That is the benevolent see the benevolent, and the wise see the wise. In short, if there are no meridians, there will be no sea of qi, and if there is no sea of qi, there will be no vitality, and without the exercises learned by the vitality, it will not be able to be used smoothly, and this will seem like an endless cycle.
So is there a way to have both of them? Yes, but very few. That is a kind of martial arts mind method that can increase the cultivation speed of the meridians and qi sea at the same time, although it cannot be compared with the cultivation speed of the literati who only cultivate the meridians, but for the martial arts heart method, it is very rare. It's a pity that there are too few of them. The people who can create this kind of mental method are all born masters who have read all the lives, comprehended the world and the world, and forgotten both things and me. Are there many of them? Not much. So is there a lot of this kind of mind? Naturally, there are not many.
Here's what to say. There are not many top-quality martial arts internal skills in the world, and Shao Xi now has one in his hand. "Taichang Heart Sutra" is known as the world's only internal strength of the heart naturally has his reason, as the Wulong Mountain Taichang Sect of the real person Xu Changsheng, is a rare strange person in this world. He poured out all his life's learning, feeling, and understanding to create this Heart Sutra, which was intended to let the people in the sect cultivate their minds and cultivate their minds, and stay away from the troubles of the world. Since the advent of the "Taichang Heart Sutra", the Taichang Sect of Wulong Mountain has become famous in the martial arts of the rivers and lakes, and the martial artists of the world have flocked to it, and they are all fascinated.
At this moment, Shao Xi was holding this book of the world's first heart method, thinking about whether to tear a few pages from it to get a large number, and finally chose to give up because he disliked the paper being too hard.
The second is the exercises. The practice of the exercises is the meaning, and the meaning is the basic form of martial arts. When the cultivation of internal strength and mental method raises martial arts to a certain level, what will be followed is the artistic conception. Yi is the embodiment of qi, and qi can only show the form of qi in martial arts through the release of yi.
Different martial arts have different exercises, and different exercises have different meanings. For example, the sword has sword intent, and the sword has sword intent, and ...... is the form of the sword qi and the sword gang that is released. When the martial arts realm is low, it may just be an arc of qi, but when the martial arts reach a higher realm, there will be a more specific form presented. The "Thousand Mountains Flying Feathers" performed by Yuan You, the head of the Thousand Feather Sect, was the exercise of high artistic conception displayed by the high-level martial arts.
The same type of martial arts also has different exercises, and the artistic conception displayed is also different. For example, if it is the same swordsmanship, the artistic conception displayed will be different due to different exercises.
Within the same realm, different exercises have different requirements for the sea of qi when the martial arts level is raised. Some exercises have low requirements, so they can be raised quickly, and some have higher requirements, so they are slower, but the point is limited to being within the same realm. When faced with the ascension of the realm, no matter what kind of exercises, the requirements for the total amount of qi and sea are basically the same. Therefore, some martial arts seem to improve their level quickly, but they actually do not have an advantage when improving the realm, and the advantage only exists in the comparison within the same realm.
But there are always exceptions. There is such a unique exercise in the world, but it can improve the realm by a whole product in advance, and that is the secret weapon exercise of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong. In fact, strictly speaking, this kind of exercise of the Tang Sect suffered a lot in the later stage. Because the realm of the early stage is improved faster than others, but in fact, when the level is raised later, the requirements for the sea of qi are much higher than others.
For example, others have to raise the rank to the fourth rank before they can enter the "Imperial Qi Realm", but the Tang Sect Exercises can enter the "Imperial Qi Realm" when they advance to the third rank. It seems that the ascension of the realm is one grade ahead of others, but in fact, in the cultivation stage from the third rank to the fourth grade, the requirements for the qi sea for the grade improvement are in accordance with the requirements of the "Imperial Qi Realm". In other words, it is also necessary to be promoted to the fourth rank, and the cultivation difficulty of the Tang Sect at the stage of the third rank is much greater than that of others.
By analogy, we can know that the more Tang Men goes to the later ranks, the more difficult it is to improve. However, the Tang Sect exercises are mainly based on external objects, and the cultivation of internal skills and mental methods is relatively lacking, so it has caused a situation that seems to be very strong in the early stage and gradually weak in the later stage. Therefore, in the later stage of the "Transformation Qi Realm", the people of the Tang Sect are either rare to see, or they can only be at the bottom in this realm.
The study of the exercises depends on the tricks, formulas, tips, and secrets, but the names are different. There may be no mental and physical methods in a martial arts cheatbook, because these two usually appear in the form of cheats alone, but there must be techniques and exercises in it, that is, genealogy and tricks in the general sense. For example, in a sword book cheats, there will be a sword book and a sword trick, the sword book records the techniques and moves, and the sword recipe records the key points of the sword technique. So strictly speaking, the trick is the core element of a martial arts cheats.
Along with the exercises, the techniques are recorded in the secret book. Techniques refer to martial arts moves, and the main role of techniques is to guide. After the intention of the exercise turns the vitality in the sea of qi into a specific form, there should be a technique move to guide the direction, or through the technique to increase the external release of the intention to add more changes. For example, if a martial artist wants to swing the sword after concretizing the qi in the sea of qi through his intention, then the direction and trend of the sword gang, including many of the changes in it, depend on the technique. However, in the later stage, when some martial arts masters cultivated their martial arts to the realm of transformation, the existence of the techniques and moves was of little significance. Because at this time, it has reached the realm of winning without tricks, and it can truly "turn qi with intention and resist the enemy with qi".
Finally, there is the body. In martial arts, the body method has always been defined as a kind of auxiliary kung fu, but in fact, the importance of the body method cannot be ignored. There is also a classification of body method, and in summary, the body method pursues three words: high, fast, and spiritual. High refers to the limit height that can be crossed, which plays a decisive role in climbing over the wall and crossing the ridge and flying the cornice. Fast refers to the speed of movement, as long as you move fast enough, the opponent will not be able to capture your body, and if you want to catch up with the other party, it will become twice the result with half the effort; Agility refers to flexible movement, changeable movement, and dexterous body shape changes.
If you practice a good body style, you can attack and defend. And the spirit in the three-character formula can make the changes of the moves more smooth and smooth, so as to drive the moves to produce more unexpected changes, which plays an important role in self-evident. Therefore, body style is indispensable in the process of becoming a top master. However, with the same fate as the technique, when the martial arts of the martial arts master reaches the realm, the body technique also becomes less important. Because at this time, it is already possible to volley, teleport, and face the enemy head-on, and the requirements for body skills are not so much.
To sum up: to form the belt, to the style of introduction, to the intention of the gas, to the air to resist the enemy.
Belch! Mention it. Shao Xi was about to tear up the secret book of "Flying Feather Sword Technique" at this moment, because he felt that the books that women read had delicate and soft paper, which was especially suitable for opening large sizes.
Alas——! Fortunately, Lao Wu is quick to ......