Chapter 3 The Sword Contest in the Backyard

Looking back, the Vajra sword method was created by Master Hui Ke a thousand years ago, when Master Hui Ke broke his arm to seek the law, got the true transmission of the Dharma Patriarch, and taught Zen to the public in Shaolin, and at this time, it has been more than hundreds of years since Shaolin opened the mountain to build a temple, Shaolin Temple in the pilgrims under the support, how much also accumulated some gold and silver and valuable things, helpless when the times were troubled, Shaolin thus became the object of robbers, many times robbed by a large number of bandits, so that the monks of Shaolin Temple are miserable, in order to prevent thieves, maintain normal Dharma transmission activities, Hui Ke began to have the monks of the monastery practice martial arts to defend against the enemy.

Before Hui Ke entered Shaolin, he was a general in the Western Jin Dynasty, who learned martial arts since he was a child, not only strong in martial arts, but also familiar with military books and war strategies. Bodhidharma Patriarch came from the West, although it is to spread Buddhism, but also brought the yoga exercises of Indian monks, Hui Ke will be his own martial arts and Indian yoga exercises blended, self-created a number of Shaolin exercises, and the Vajra sword method, is the first creation of Hui Ke that year, through many generations of Shaolin monks increased and decreased.

After Hui can, the monks of Shaolin Temple protect Zen with martial arts, promote martial arts with Zen, and practice martial arts are correct, so as to continue the millennium incense of Shaolin Temple, which not only magnates Zen law, but also achieves Shaolin martial arts.

Although the moves are simple and easy to learn, but to achieve the realm of ease, it needs the support of internal and external skills.

King Kong Moon Gaze moves are mediocre, but the emphasis is on winning quickly, often making people unguardable, it can be described as a big coincidence, it is the thirty-fifth move of King Kong swordsmanship, and it is also one of the most powerful killing moves.

In terms of moves and swordsmanship, Kong Xi and Zhu Yu are comparable, but unfortunately Kong Xi's internal strength is poor, and the sword lacks speed and momentum.

Zhu Yu saw that the tip of the empty sword was about to stab his forehead, flashed back, dodged the empty sword, and stabbed the air with a sword, wanting to close the sword to stabilize his body, but he had no choice but to use too much force, and the momentum of leaning forward was not gone, Zhu Yu seized this fleeting opportunity, and it was also a move King Kong Wangyue, and stabbed the sword upwards to the empty regret, seeing that the empty pity was too late to dodge, Zhu Yu raised the sword a few inches, the tip of the sword brushed the top of the empty regret, and the figure quickly retreated after holding a sword flower, steadily retracted the sword, and inserted the scabbard.

Zhu Yu's counterattack made Kong Xi break out in a cold sweat, and when he saw Zhu Yu withdraw his sword, he calmed down, stepped aside, and said: "Senior Brother Zhu's swordsmanship cultivation is masterful, and I am willing to lose." ”

Zhu Yu's victory is expected by everyone, but Zhu Yu won a pity, it can be seen that Zhu Yu's internal strength and understanding of swordsmanship are higher than ordinary people, if this continues, within ten years, Zhu Yu will definitely be able to become a leader among the younger generations of Shaolin.

Next, it is Lan Ling'er and Kong Ling to test swordsmanship, the two have entered Shaolin to practice martial arts with Master Kongxin, often learn together, and naturally know each other's roots.

As soon as Lan Ling'er came up, she glanced at everyone very confidently, slowly pulled out her sword, and brushed it, pointing the tip of the sword to the ground, facing the empty man on the opposite side.

At this time, Lan Ling'er has become a slim girl, with willow eyebrows, phoenix eyes, and red lips showing the softness of women, long hair, snow-white skin, and pointed chin, revealing a kind of otherworldly beauty, plus a light red suit, in front of the Shaolin monks, it is undoubtedly a beautiful scenery. Of course, Zhu Yu is not a person who has been ordained a monk, but he has lived in the temple for many years, but there is not much difference between his dress, words and deeds and that of a monk, and compared with Lan Ling'er, he is not conspicuous.

Seeing Lan Ling'er's sword pointing at the ground, Kong Ling knew that she was conceited and would not take out the sword first, so she also sacrificed the sword, and under her feet, her body flew upwards more than a zhang high, and raised her sword to stab at the top of Lan Ling'er's head.

The Wind Chasing Sword Technique and the King Kong Sword Technique are also divided into thirty-six moves, the difference is that the King Kong Sword Technique is thick and heavy, and the Wind Chasing Sword Technique is light and agile.

This move is called Cold Snow Flying Flower, which means that when the attacker's body falls, he must instantly stab thirteen swords at the top of the opponent's head and shoulders, and the tip of the sword is like a flower and like falling snow.

Lan Ling'er saw that Kongling's sword arrived, and he didn't dodge, but he was short, and he drew a circle upwards with his sword, which just blocked Kongling's sword, and the two swords intersected, only listening to the sound of "dang", Kongling's sword was knocked off, and his body had to fall to Lan Ling'er's side with the sword.

Lan Ling'er's move is called sinking fish and falling geese, it is the move to dismantle the cold snow flying flowers, it turns out that the thirty-six moves of chasing the wind swordsmanship, the first eighteen moves are offensive moves, and the last eighteen moves are defensive moves, each attack has a defensive move, and the offensive moves and defensive moves can be transformed into each other, which is really the upper level of Shaolin swordsmanship, which may be the reason why the monks of Shaolin Temple have created countless swordsmanship, but the wind-chasing swordsmanship can last for a long time.

Lan Ling'er solved the empty Ling's moves, taking advantage of the moment the empty Ling landed, he made a sideways move to wrap his waist around the waist, and the sword stabbed to the ribs of the empty Ling, and the empty Ling saw that Lan Ling'er's sword arrived, raised the sword from top to bottom, and slashed on the sword body of Lan Ling'er.

Lan Ling'er and Kong Ling dismantled seven or eight moves in an instant, and they saw that the surrounding senior brothers and uncles applauded again and again, and the two of them also aroused their fighting spirit, and their sword moves became faster and faster, and after a while, they dismantled more than ten moves.

Seeing that the two of them had dismantled more than 20 moves, Kong Xin was worried that the two would fight and hurt others, so he had to let the two fight and make peace.

Next, the disciples present tried the swordsmanship again, and each won or lost, so there is no need to repeat it.

The martial arts assessment greatly increased Zhu Yu's confidence in practicing martial arts, but he also knew that Shaolin martial arts was broad and profound, and it was difficult to learn it thoroughly without hard work, especially the cultivation of internal strength and light skills, and he was still far from his brothers and uncles.

That night, Lan Ling'er, Empty Pity, Empty Ling, Empty Yuan, and Empty Ying gathered in Zhu Yu's meditation room again.

"If it weren't for the concession of my junior sister, I might have been defeated by your sword with one move of the Divine Rabbit returning to the moon today." Sitting cross-legged on the ground, the empty man said.

"This is natural, Senior Brother's dismantling move Chang'e shook the tip of his sleeve sword by half an inch, I could have flashed sideways, and stabbed you in the throat with a move of Yushu Linfeng, but I was afraid that you would be embarrassed in front of all the senior brothers and brothers, so I didn't make this move." Lan Ling'er, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, said.

"Senior Brother Zhu is very skilled, and a set of Vajra swordsmanship has been practiced perfectly, and I hope that my subordinates will be merciful in the future." There was a look of admiration in his eyes.

Hearing such compliments, Zhu Yu blushed, and said with some embarrassment: "I, I just followed the practice taught by the master, and there is nothing outstanding about it. ”

"Senior Brother Zhu's comprehension is higher than others, everyone can see this, so don't be humble." Hearing Lan Ling'er say this, Zhu Yu's face turned even redder, and he was speechless all of a sudden.

"I wonder when Senior Brother Kong Ying and I will be able to achieve such skills as yours?" Empty Edge sighed.

Kong Yuan and Kong Ying, who sat cross-legged on the ground next to Kong Xi, were the latest to practice martial arts, and their qualifications were not as good as Kong Ling and Kong Xi, and they were even worse than Zhu Yu and Lan Ling'er, and they were often reprimanded by the master, and they were also ridiculed by the senior brothers, so they had this to say.

"It's okay, martial arts training is not something that can be achieved in three years or two years, diligence can make up for clumsiness, as long as you two can endure hardships, there will always be a day of success." Lan Ling'er comforted.

"By the way, Senior Brother Zhu Yu, you have been in Shaolin for five years, we still don't know where your family lives, and whether your parents are safe?" Kong Xi suddenly asked about Zhu Yu's family affairs, but Zhu Yu couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "My parents have been arrested by the official army for nine years, and I don't know if they are dead or alive. ”

Kong Ling said: "Senior Brother Zhu Yu, have you ever inquired about their whereabouts?" ”

"After my parents were arrested, it was Master Kongshi who raised me in the Lion Rock Zhengxu Zen Temple, and the master also asked someone to look for my parents, but he said that my parents are very likely to be locked up in the Jinyi Guard Prison in the capital, but it is heavily guarded there, and it is inconvenient to go in to investigate, unless I have practiced peerless martial arts." Zhu Yu began to sob.

"Senior Brother Zhu Yu, you don't have to worry, another day I will beg my father to bring someone to the Jinyi Guard Prison, so that I can know the whereabouts of your parents." Hearing Zhu Yu say this, Lan Ling'er began to be a little angry.

Looking at Zhu Yu looking at Lan Ling'er suspiciously, Kong Xi explained: "Lan Ling'er's father is the head of the Tianlong faction, the largest sect in the world, so he is naturally not afraid of people in the imperial court, and his elder brother Lan Tian has also gone to Shaolin to practice Shaolin kung fu with Master Kongwu for many years. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yu suddenly realized that Lan Ling'er had such a father to break the taboo of Shaolin kung fu passing on men but not women, and came to Shaolin alone to learn martial arts.

A few people, you say a word, I say a word, unconsciously, when the time comes, everyone is tired, Lan Ling'er and Kong Xi and others said goodbye and went back to the meditation room to rest, Zhu Yu also closed the door and prepared to go to bed, but I heard a voice on the roof really came to my ears: "Zhu Yu, follow me." ”

Zhu Yu pushed the door out of the house and looked at the roof, only to see a figure flashing on the roof in the moonlight, flying towards the outside of the temple.

Although Zhu Yu is still not waiting for the fire, but the upper room jumps over the wall is not a problem, he lifted his breath, went to the roof, and saw a black shadow standing on the outer wall of the temple not far from the room, the black shadow seemed to be waiting for Zhu Yu, seeing that Zhu Yu had gone to the roof, the black shadow went down the courtyard wall, and rushed to the outside of the temple, Zhu Yu also crossed the courtyard wall, and followed the black shadow to the outside of the temple.

The light skill of the black shadow is obviously much higher than Zhu Yu, he has to stop from time to time, wait for Zhu Yu, and wait until Zhu Yu is only more than ten zhang away from him, and then run wildly, and after a while, the two have come to the mountains a few miles away from the Shaolin Temple.

Through the bright moonlight, Zhu Yu saw the black shadow come to a mountain cliff, and when Zhu Yu was about to reach the cliff, the black shadow turned around, flew up the cliff, and disappeared.

Zhu Yu to Shaolin practice for several years, light skills have been a small success, although not as the person in front of him directly flew up the cliff, but climbing the cliff is not a problem, I saw him lift, hands and feet at the same time, after a while came to the cliff between a few zhang wide platform, a look up, see an old monk is sitting in the middle of the platform, no need to ask, it is the old monk in front of him to lead himself here, but I don't know what he wants.

Zhu Yu stood firm on the platform, looked at the old monk carefully, and found that it was the Kongkong Master he had met before, so he knelt down and kowtowed, and said: "The junior Zhu Yu has seen the Kongkong Master, I don't know what the master has to tell the junior to lead here." ”

Master Kongkong smiled and said: "Nephew Zhu doesn't have to be formal, I called you here tonight to teach you a Shaolin technique, called Shaolin Rulai Vajra Palm, as long as you learn this palm technique, there will be few opponents in the rivers and lakes." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yu couldn't help but be overjoyed, knelt down again, and said, "Apprentice to see Master." ”

"Nephew Zhu Xian, there is no need to apprentice, please get up quickly!" Master Kongkong stepped forward to help Zhu Yu up. "From now on, for three months, you can come here every night to practice."

"Master Kongkong, my nephew is unknown, why do you want to pass on my martial arts alone?" Zhu Yu got up and asked.

"Zhu Yu, you are still young, the master of the time will tell you the answer in the future, now, you just concentrate on cultivation." After the master of the sky finished speaking, he stood up and took Zhu Yu to a hole in the cliff wall, the hole is not big, several zhang square, and there is a stone platform more than half a person high in the middle, and the stone platform has traces of grinding, which looks very smooth.

"A thousand years ago, Patriarch Bodhidharma faced the wall here for nine years to explain the essence of Zen, and the shadows have been shining on the stone wall." Master Kongkong said as he pointed to the stone wall behind the stone platform.

Through the moonlight shining into the cave from outside the cave, Zhu Yu really saw a lifelike figure on the stone wall.

In addition to the advocacy of Master Hui Ke, it is that Shaolin is mainly practicing Zen, and the monks can calm down and practice martial arts wholeheartedly." The Master of the Sky said thoughtfully.

"Zhu Yu must devote himself to cultivation and live up to the expectations of his masters." Zhu Yuxi said.

With the teachings of Master Kongxin, and now with the blessing of Master Kongkong, Zhu Yu is full of confidence in learning Shaolin Kung Fu.

If you come to the Hercules palm is one of the Shaolin masters, never passed on, each generation of disciples, at most only two or three carefully selected people can get the true transmission, because this exercise is huge, if it is learned by outsiders, there will be endless troubles.

Different from the general palm method, such as the Hercules palm, do not pay attention to moves, pay attention to the practice of internal force, after practice, according to the situation, as you like, but the difficulty of practicing internal force is quite high.

Empty let Zhu Yu sit cross-legged on the stone platform facing the wall of Bodhidharma, and teach him the heart method of the Hercules palm, Zhu Yu wrote it down one by one, because the practice method of the Hercules palm is very different from the general exercises, the qi is gathered from the spring point on the sole of the foot, and absorbs the qi of heaven and earth, and the qi of oneself and the qi of heaven and earth are gathered from the center of the foot from the jade pillow point to the Baihui acupoint, and then from the Tanzhong acupoint down to the sea of qi gathering, when the qi gathers to a certain extent, it can be sent out from the palm.

In the blink of an eye, an hour passed, Zhu Yu had kept the practice of the mind in mind, Master Kongkong asked Zhu Yu to go back to the temple to rest, and let him go to the cave every night to practice qi for an hour, because in the process of practicing the Hercules palm is easy to go mad, can only practice under his care, at the same time, can not practice the practice of the mind to anyone, on the one hand, it is confidential, on the other hand, it is worried that others will go off and endanger their lives when they practice.

Of course, because the qi of heaven and earth in this cave between the cliffs is strong, practicing qi here, the speed of qi acquisition is several times that of the outside.

In this way, after every night after the second hour, Zhu Yu quietly avoided the monks on duty, jumped out of the courtyard wall, and went to the cave to practice the Hercules palm with Master Kongkong, and in a blink of an eye, more than two months had passed.

On the evening of this day, Zhu Yu listened to the sound of monks walking and talking in the temple in the meditation room, so as usual, he slowly pushed open the door of the meditation room, bypassed the meditation room with light feet and hands, and came to the wall of the courtyard behind the house.

Zhu Yu didn't expect the other party to suddenly attack him, in a hurry, he unconsciously used the power of the Hercules palm and hit the other party, but he heard a "bang", and the person on the opposite side swiped his left palm lightly, unloading Zhu Yu's strength, and said with a smile: "Zhu Xiao donor has been practicing the strong King Kong palm method in just two months, and it is really a martial arts wizard. ”

At this moment, through the hazy moonlight, Zhu Yu saw clearly that the person opposite was the Shaolin abbot Master Kongwu, and he knelt down and bowed: "The junior Zhu Yu has seen the abbot master." ”

"Master Zhu Xiaoshi, please hurry up, the old man is here to bother you to tell Uncle Kongkong, let him see me in the back mountain tomorrow morning, I have something important to discuss." After the Master of Emptiness finished speaking, he disappeared into the night in an instant.

Zhu Yu has always thought that for a long time, he has secretly practiced the matter of the powerful vajra palm with the master of the empty sky, no one in the temple knows, and he never thought about it, but the abbot of the master of the empty sky knows it clearly, and what makes Zhu Yu even more strange is that the master of the empty space wants to find the master of the empty space, but he wants to let himself bring the letter, and the place to meet is also outside the Shaolin Temple, which I don't know what secrets are hidden.

Zhu Yu ran wildly with questions, and after a while, he came to the cave where Master Kongkong was practicing.

Seeing Master Kongkong, Zhu Yu told him what the abbot of Kongwu said, and then asked: "Master Kongkong, why don't you live in Shaolin Temple, you want to be cold and cold in this remote cave, and Master Kongwu wants to see you, but you have to be outside Shaolin Temple?" "This question, Zhu Yu has had it since the day he met Master Kongkong, but he felt that it was impolite to ask, so he never asked, and today Fang Zhuang had the courage to ask.