Two days later, Shi Pojing took Zhao Shi and Zhao Qiding to the upper courtyard. The upper courtyard was diagonally above the lower courtyard, and it took half an hour to arrive.

Along the way, Shi Po smiled and was extremely polite to the two. Two subordinates came to pick him up, and Shi Po was shocked and retired.

One of them took Zhao Shi up, this side was not built on flat ground, but built on the mountain, and they were all independent courtyards.

The side of the courtyard is very dense with trees, and when you open the door in front, you can see the far away place in front of the mountain, the environment is claustrophobic and the view is very open.

Inside the courtyard are two huts, a living room with a bed and a bookcase, and a quiet room with nothing but flooring.

The subordinate who led the way was about the same age as Zhao Shi, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he gave Zhao Shi a salute:

"Master, my name is Pingsi, you can call me Xiaosi, and I will serve you in the future."

After speaking, he pointed to the three signs hanging on the inside of the courtyard gate and said:

"Master, these three signs, if you hang "Jing" outside the door when you are practicing, if you go out, and I can clean up the house, hang "OK", if you go out, you don't need me to clean up the house and hang "closed", there is a rope here."

After speaking, he pointed to the eaves, and Zhao Shi saw a rope hanging a stone ring, and the other side passed through a hole under the eaves to the outside.

The next man continued:

"If you have something to say, pull the rope, I live in a hut outside, you can walk around, but don't go too far, you can only go down, don't go up the mountain, there are many places where there are taboos",

After saying that, he gave a salute and retired.

The next day, Zhao Shi got up, and the subordinate knocked on the door to deliver the meal, which was very rich, and the subordinate said:

"I will see you in the afternoon, and I will take you there when the hour comes",

Zhao Shi nodded, and in the afternoon Zhao Shi followed, walked up the mountain for about half a mile, and arrived in front of a two-story building, and then went back.

There are no doors or windows on the first floor of this small building, and an outside staircase leads directly to the second floor, with a plaque hanging on it, with four words written on it: Zheng's Jinglou.

Zhao Shi went upstairs and pushed the door in, and the two old men were playing chess. Seeing Zhao Shi coming up, one of the thinner ones said, "Don't move, I'll come back later."

The old man was unkempt, his hair was disheveled, and his clothes seemed to have been polished after not being changed in years. After greeting the other old man, he took Zhao Shi inside.

Zhao Shichong followed in with another arch hand. I went in and walked through a house and began to go down, only to find that it was a cave, with oil lamps lit on both sides, and the hole was very narrow, only enough for one person to pass through.

After walking dozens of steps, I entered a stone house, which was not big, with seven or eight small holes in a circle, and wooden boxes were placed in it. The old man said:

"In the middle of this cave is the Taoist method of cultivation, and on both sides are various exercises, the upper courtyard and the lower courtyard are different, at the beginning, no one taught them, and they learned by themselves.

The sect leader said that if this exercise is taught by people, he will lose his ability to think, and his achievement will not be high.

Therefore, they all practiced by themselves, and when they practiced to a certain extent, they could worship the master in a few offerings with your path.

There will be a trial every two months, and the seven worshippers of our Zhou Gate will go, and if they practice well, they will worship the master.

It's not always possible to come here, there are more than a dozen people in the upper courtyard, only two can come at a time, if you don't understand, you can ask me, if you want to worship the master, you can let the master bring it at any time.

Look here, you can't copy it, practice one kind of exercise first, have a small success, and then practice the next one, don't be greedy, do you understand? ”

Zhao Shi smiled and said, "Understand, teach your surname?" ”

The old man was amused when he heard it: "The method of this upper courtyard does not need to be taught, and when it is taught, there will naturally be a master to teach it." I'm just an old man at the door, and I'm exempt from stammering."

Zhao Shi said respectfully: "How can there be idle people who can sit in the scripture building, you are laughing."

"My surname is Cao, it's useless to compliment me, what to do is what to do" "I don't want to ask for anything, but I am respected when I am older, then I will choose first"

After saying that, he walked away and looked, and the old man came over and said:

"But it seems like it's been a few years, and you're the first one to ask me my last name or something, and if you don't ask, I'm afraid I'll forget it.

Our Tongtian Sect has eight techniques and six methods, what you learn in the outer gate is the eight skills, and there are six methods in the inner door here: splitting the empty palm, ghost trace, burning the sky finger, flying fairy sword, iron mountain leaning, you can choose one to practice"

Zhao Shi walked over and was about to take it, but the old man said,

"Splitting the empty palm is a palm technique, and it can hurt people every twenty or thirty zhang when practiced. The Flying Immortal Sword is a flying sword, about half a foot long, and it can kill people in a hundred steps when practiced.

These two kinds of entry are easier, and the entry is almost the same, but the back is broad and profound, and our five doors are different, each with its own emphasis, that is, what each master teaches is different in the end.

The lion's roar is a roaring exercise, which can stun people at intervals of more than ten zhang, which completely depends on the depth of your Taoism, and it is difficult to get started.

There are a lot of people who practice the Burning Sky Finger, but there are few who have practiced it, and it is the door fire method, and it is extremely difficult to get started.

Ghost Trail is a door footwork, and the practice is instantaneous displacement, which is difficult to practice and difficult to refine, and there are fewer people who practice.

That iron mountain relies on practicing copper-headed iron arms, steel and iron bones, it is a hard skill, the entry is simple, but it requires great perseverance, there are not many people who practice, and those who are born in the army prefer it, who wants to stand and be beaten.

Therefore, it is generally the first one to choose one in the Splitting Hollow Palm and the Flying Immortal Sword, and there are many offerings to these two specialties, and it is easy to apprentice, so I will explain it to you, you can choose it yourself."

Zhao Shi thought about it again and again, but still chose the ghost trail. He felt that his current skills were all in his legs, and everything was not as good as the same.

The old man opened the wooden box, took out the two books inside, took him to the first floor outside, opened a room, lit the oil lamp, and told

He only had two hours. Then he locked the door and walked away.

There was a book case in the house, and Zhao Shi couldn't wait to sit down and open the book. Zhao Shi didn't know any of the words on it, all of them were like tadpoles, but they were not alphabetic words similar to English, and after turning a few pages, there were several human body drawings with various lines drawn on them.

Flip back and you'll be told. I wrote the method of running Danhua, and then explained how to use Danhua to erode the legs from the waist down to the feet, and wrote in great detail.

And the descriptions are all straightforward, so I probably know that the practitioner may not have much literary talent. Zhao Shi wrote it down carefully while reading, and after reading it, Zhao Shi knew that this was the unknown text in front of the translation.

Then I opened another book, but it was written by another person, and he used a different method of operation, and went down the line, and the method was described in detail, and finally said that the power was slightly weaker, but it was extremely fast.

Turning it back is another person's description, and the rest is all about it, some people write more, and some people just Liao Liao a few sentences. Either talk about the way to improve, or talk about how to solve the problem.

Zhao Shi found that the latter ones were actually extremely useful, they were simply the previous instructions, but there were many explanations, and they were not the same, and they should all be summed up by the later cultivators.

At two hours, the old man came to open the door, retrieved the book, returned to the building with Zhao Shi, and asked casually:

"Boy, what techniques do you practice from the outer door?"

Zhao Shimeng paused: "I haven't practiced"

The old man turned around and asked, "Haven't you practiced a course?" It's always going to be gone, right? ”

Zhao Shi smiled bitterly: "It's not that I haven't practiced, it's that I haven't practiced, and it's the inner door of Baoju below."

"It's just nonsense, isn't this a building in the air, don't come here again in the future"

The old man was so angry that his beard was cocked.

"Who protected you? I'll go and ask him."

"He is the Great Elder of the Sect."

After hearing this, the old man was about to leave, and another old man who was playing chess with him spoke: "How are you going?" ”

"Of course, I questioned him"

"What happens after questioning? Still think you're not free enough? Looking for a more tranquil spot? ”

The old man tapped on the chessboard: "Let's play your chess and drink your bar." If you don't reduce your supply, don't do much."

The old man surnamed Cao snorted after hearing this, came back and sat down angrily, and said to Zhao Shi:

"If you don't practice the basics, if you go to school, no matter how wonderful the exercises are, they will be useless."

"your, play chess"