Chapter 42, The Valley of the Valley
This is an open-air pit with an entrance to the ground so that sunlight from entering the valley can shine directly into the cave. It is also a very old cave, and it has an old atmosphere inside.
In the cave, there are many ancient fruit trees, and there is a smooth stone next to the fruit tree, on which are carved several traditional Chinese characters "Lingyun Cave". The fruit trees were arranged in a regular pattern, and they must have been planted by someone, and they were full of fruit.
Houtu was pleasantly surprised to find that those fruits were all kiwifruit. Kiwi fruit is the king of fruits, eat it every day, and the more you eat, the healthier it becomes. There are also stone beds, stone benches, stone chairs and stone tables in the cave, indicating that people once lived here.
"Hiss, hiss......" The python put down the back soil and crawled to a small stone house.
Houtu put down his backpack and followed curiously, this is a very special stone house, the whole looks like a big coffin.
Inside the stone house, he saw a skeleton and looked closely, revealing that his leg bones and hand bones had been fractured.
The python lay quietly next to the skeleton and made a muffling sound.
Houtu guessed that this skeleton should have been the owner of the python during his lifetime, and the python was probably raised by his owner here. After the skeleton owner died first, he left behind a lonely python. The python lives in the waterhole next to it, just to guard this place.
"Well, maybe I'll be like him," Houtu suddenly felt deeply, and slowly stepped forward, bowing deeply to the skeleton.
Suddenly, he noticed a small stone plaque next to the skeleton. He walked over and wiped off the thick dust on the stone plaque, only to see two lines of words engraved on it: "The fifty-ninth generation head of the Lingxiao faction, the tomb of Lin Chun".
Beneath the stone plaque, he found a small wooden box, covered in a thick layer of dust. He just wanted to pick up the wooden box, but found that the small wooden box had rotted.
Immediately, he found that there were two books in the small wooden box, one was paper, as if it had been soaked in tung oil, and the book was called "Shenlong Gong", which was estimated to be a book of the Lingxiao faction; The other is a bamboo book, which looks like it has been smoked with black smoke, and the age is even older, and the book is called "Linghuang Sword Method", which is an ancient collection of books.
He picked up the book "Shenlong Gong" and found that it was already a broken book, and the back part of it had rotted. He looked through it with great interest and found that the "Shenlong Gong" was divided into six volumes, and only the first and second volumes were still intact.
"It's a pity, there are only two volumes," Hou Tu sighed.
Randomly, he was deeply attracted by the content in "Shenlong Gong", the first volume is "Hidden Dragon on the Earth", the second volume is "Xianlong is born", each volume is divided into nine chapters, and the cultivation methods in the book are similar to the "Tianlong Gongfa" he has practiced.
He studied it selflessly, and read the two books three times in one sitting. In the end, he seriously doubted that the person who wrote the "Shenlong Gong" and the person who created the Tianlong Gong must have a very deep origin.
Then, he took out the book "Linghuang Sword Technique" from the small wooden box. The swordsmanship mentioned in this book is very exquisite, the core is to take the heart as the sword, the sword as the heart, and finally the heart and sword are one.
In the book, it is specifically mentioned that knowledge is the essence of the mind, what is sent by knowledge is the meaning, what the meaning refers to is the sword, and what the sword points to is the qi. The strong will hurt people with the sword qi, which is far greater than hurting people with the blade of the sword, so the main body of the sword is the heart of the person who uses the sword, not the sword itself.
Hou Tu was very amazed, this sword skill seemed to be specially tailored for him. His previous swordsmanship was completely self-realized, not only simple and crude, but also could only move with the enemy, so more often than not, he was on defense. As a result, he can easily be led by his opponents.
And this swordsmanship is based on the heart, both offensive and defensive, not controlled by the enemy, and can control the enemy first. In other words, this swordsmanship clearly tells Houtu: If you attack him like this, he can only defend like that, otherwise the opponent can only be defeated by him.
It's a pity that most of the sword skills part of this book has been blurred. Although, this book has been treated with special carbonization methods, but after all, countless years have passed, and the places that cannot be seen clearly can only be realized by himself.
After reading the book, he looked down at the python and found that it was still lying there, motionless, as if it was hibernating. He didn't bother it, but came outside the stone house.
Outside the stone house, the sun has just left, and the kiwi fruit on the ancient tree is exuding an attractive sweetness, and the smell is ripe at this time.
Houtu was a little hungry, so he picked a few from the tree and held them in his hand, although it was still a little hard, but it felt sweet and sour in his mouth.
After replenishing enough energy, he began to concentrate on cultivation, inhaling, absorbing, and accumulating true qi. The aura here seems to be not bad, the air is very pure, and he can let go of it.
After a while, he made a new discovery, and the true qi in his body always seemed to be filled. In other words, his dantian resembles a huge bag, as if it can hold very well. Could it be that after falling into the pool, what has changed dramatically?
He sensed himself with all his strength and found an anomaly, the position of his dantian did not seem to be fixed, one would be down, one would be above, one would be left, one would be on the right, and one would be in the middle.
"Wouldn't it? Am I a monster? He laughed at himself inwardly. He thought about it, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with turning from a disaster star to a monster.
When the true qi in his body was very full, he decided to immediately cultivate the Divine Dragon Gong. For him, cultivating Shenlong Gong is a familiar road.
The first volume of Shenlong Gong is divided into nine chapters, including lying, crawling, walking, winding, winding, soaring, moving, flying, and jumping. Since the mental method is the same as the Heavenly Dragon Exercise, he is naturally handy when he cultivates.
Before dark that day, he had completed the cultivation of the first volume of the Divine Dragon Gong. At night, he continued to feed on kiwi fruit and continued to absorb true qi.
Sleepless all night, he was still in good spirits the next day. So, he practiced the second volume with joy. The nine chapters of the second volume are the mouth, the left eye, the right eye, the left ear, the right ear, the left corner, the right corner, the dragon claw and the dragon god, etc., and the cultivation is all Xingyi.
Shape and meaning are not first tangible and then intentional, but need to be intentional and then tangible. In the end, qi, intention and formation are integrated, formed by qi, and intentional in the form; With the intention to resist the qi, the air has its own meaning.
This volume was more difficult, and it took him three days to grasp the general gist of it.
"Boom ......" When he first completed the cultivation of the second volume, a vaporized divine dragon was formed. The dragon is very realistic, the dragon is majestic, and the dragon roars in the mountains.
Houtu was very satisfied, and if the full score was ten, he decided not to score, and the fool gave himself a score.
During this period, he went to see the python many times, but it was still lying motionless in the stone house. He thought that the python was also old, and the best way to live a long life was to move less or not like a turtle.
In the cave, it was too boring, and he could only pass the time by cultivating. In his spare time, he would occasionally climb to the top of the cave to take a look, and the cave was surrounded by cliffs, like a patio, and the lowest part was nearly a thousand meters high. The cave where he was so in was at the bottom of the patio.