Chapter 10: Vitality
"Uhhh
As the vomiting bone gathered qi to the belly button, a slight mist was produced in the dark secret room, like a hole in the mutter, and the small light blue sparks seemed to be a little brighter than before.
"Huh?" Surprised, he gathered his breath to his belly button again, this time a little more than the last time, and the mist produced in the dark chamber was a little thicker, like a hazy veil lingering around small sparks.
"Uhhh
The small light blue spark that had been ethereal before had condensed into substance, no longer weak, no longer swaying, and was already a magnificent blooming spark.
"It really works!" was overjoyed as he was looking at the inner breath, and he decided to gather his strength again, and this time by increasing his strength.
"Whew!" a mist as thick as white silk was generated in the dark chamber, and slowly swirled around the large spark.
"Uhhh
Like a withered lamp filled with oil, a bright tongue of fire sprang up from the spark, and the large spark grew into a candle flame, and even the dark secret room was illuminated for a few minutes.
Tu Guhun was overjoyed in his heart, and wanted to increase his strength again, but his strength was exhausted, so he could only give up. After a little relaxation, Tu Guhun found that his normal strength could only maintain a slightly smaller candle form, but this result made him very satisfied.
When Tu Gu Hun opened his eyes sweating profusely, the morning sun was already shining on the horizon, and a "cooing" sound came from his stomach, Tu Gu felt an unprecedented hunger, so he got up and returned.
"Hun Ball, are you hungry?"
When Tu Gu Hun returned to his tent, the old man was stirring a large piece of tender and juicy meat steak over the campfire, and he asked when he saw Tu Gu Hun return.
"Hmm. Tu Gu replied honestly.
"Here, take it, eat it while it's hot!" the old man cut off a large piece of roast meat from the steak that was bubbling with oil, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and stuffed it into Tu Gu's hand.
"Where did the steak come from?" asked Tu Gu Hun Qi.
"Don't steal or rob, you can eat the income from your hard work. The old man smiled,
Tu Gu Hun was already extremely hungry, so he opened his mouth to eat the barbecue, and said vaguely while eating: "Master...... I feel ...... today The sun ...... from the west It's out!"
The old man smiled and waved his hand, and said seriously, "I know that you practice hard, so I will give you more food every day from now on." ”
"Huh, why?" asked Tuguhun as he spit aside a piece of hard bone in his mouth.
"You are now in the stage of laying the foundation, and you have to keep up with your nutrition," the old man said, "There is an old saying: 'People live with one breath', 'people take food as the sky', if you can't eat enough, how to replenish your vitality? ”
"What is the replenishment of vitality?" Tu Gu nodded as if he didn't understand, but he asked himself in his heart, he only knew that he drank water when he was thirsty, ate when he was hungry, and slept when he was sleepy.
"By the way, have you gained these two days?" the old man asked.
"Yes," Tu Gu said, munching on the roast meat, gesturing at his belly button, "I see something very strange here." ”
"There is the Qi Sea Cave, also called the Lower Dantian Cave," the old man glanced at the Gu Hun Cave, "You can feel the existence of the Qi Sea Cave, which means that you have entered the threshold, if I remember correctly, the scriptures and classics here should call your stage the first realm of 'Qi Induction', and in my hometown, call your stage 'Star Level', which means just getting started." ”
"Master, what are you talking about?" Tu Gu was puzzled, "What 'Qi Sea Acupoint', 'Lower Dantian Acupoint', as well as the 'Qi Inducing' First Realm, 'Star Level' or something, I don't understand any of them?"
The old man seemed to suddenly remember something, and he patted his head and said, "Wait, I'll find something for you." Honestly, you people in Bear Village really don't miss out of the dungeon. ”
The old man said "move" and didn't say "steal", it was a face, and when he heard this, he was embarrassed and muttered in a low voice: "It's the bad thing done by the uncles of the Qinghe team...... I didn't do it......"
The old man walked to the place where the luggage was stacked and rummaged for a while, and after a while he took out a piece of animal skin from a certain package and returned it, and threw it to Tu Guhun, "This is the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", we will start translating when we are full in a while, and then follow the old rules." ”
"I know, I know," Tuguhun took the animal skin and muttered, "Why don't you copy it ten times and draw it ten times, I'm not afraid!"
In the following journey, Tu Guhun practiced every day, constantly gathering energy to feed the small candle flame in the dark secret room, and followed the master to translate the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", which took the two of them a full week to complete.
After the translation of "The Inner Diameter of the Yellow Emperor" was completed, Tu Guhun once again started the crazy copying mode, and after copying it from beginning to end four or five times, he roughly understood what Master meant by "Qi Sea Acupoint" and "Yuan Qi" earlier.
According to the definition in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", the Qihai acupoint was originally a very important human body acupuncture point recorded in ancient medicine, and was later extended and borrowed by ancient martial arts practitioners, and the Qihai acupoint was regarded as a place to store vitality, so it was called "Qi Hai", which means "the sea of vitality", which has the meaning of gushing endlessly;
Innate qi is the life qi that the living body still has in the "tadpole" stage, that is, "vitality", such as people describe living things as "vigorous", referring to this meaning, dead things such as stones, sediment, etc., are not "vigorous", innate qi is a living thing is innate, so it is called innate qi.
After the life form is conceived and matured in the mother's body, it is born in the natural world without the mother's body, absorbs the air in the natural world through the respiratory system for metabolism, generates qi or energy, and controls these energies through its own body, such as muscle force, limb movement, etc., these qi or energy are called acquired qi.
Since ancient times, all countries and places on the earth have always given birth to some so-called "strange people" or "geniuses" who are gifted with extraordinary talents since childhood, or have natural divine powers, or have extremely high IQs, and such people are often called "congenitally good", "good qualifications", and "good roots"; correspondingly, there will always be some so-called "mediocre talents" and "waste materials", who are born weak and sick or even disabled or born dull since childhood, and such people are often called "poor congenital", "poor qualifications", and "mediocre bones".
People who are congenitally good, if they do not cherish that gift from God, do not be strict with themselves since childhood, do not train hard, and may still become mediocre when they grow up, for example, there is a strange text in the classical book "Hurt Zhongyong", which describes the story of genius becoming mediocre; It can be seen that "innate" and "acquired" are mutually reinforcing and complement each other.
"According to the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", can you think that the dark secret room is the Qi Sea Cave, and the candle flame and mist are the Yuan Qi?" Tu Gu asked himself, and then he roughly understood what the master meant by "a person lives a breath" that day, and that "one breath" refers to that breath of vitality.
As his studies deepened, Tuguhun gradually understood that what he was learning from his master Hongyi was not "magic", but an ancient martial art, and the master was not a "magician", but a hidden martial arts master. Although the master was rescued from the Qinghe dungeon by his father, Tuguhun never believed that the dungeon was the master's home, because Tuguhun had heard from the big men in the team that there was no food in the dungeon, not even a grain of rice!
With the "Xuanwu Ding" such a spitting technique as Zhuyu in the front, and the "Lingshu" and "Suwen" of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Diameter" supplemented by theoretical guidance, coupled with the master's daily delicious barbecue to supplement the vitality and nutrition, the cultivation of Tu Gu Hun has made rapid progress, and the body has become taller and stronger, the mist produced in the Qi Sea Cave is getting richer and thicker day by day, and the candle flame in the center of the Qi Sea Cave is also growing day by day.
After tasting the sweetness of copying books, he spit out the bones and learned it thoroughly, no, two days ago, he turned out the "Diamond Sutra" and "Five Fowl Play" animal skins from his own luggage, such as a treasure; later he heard that there was a "Washing the Marrow Sutra" animal skin of Xiong Yao's family, and he had to grind it for three days and borrowed it back from Xiong Yao's family; there was Xiong Hai's "Tai Chi" that he exchanged for two hares for a period of five days.
Because the ancient books of animal skins are written in Xia Jomon, at the beginning of Tu Gu Hun still need to rely on the master to translate, and then he was troublesome, so according to the first few animal skins accumulated that little vocabulary, comparative study, just half a decade later, he became an expert in Xia Jomon, except for the occasional rare words need to ask the teacher, he read and write the ancient books of animal skins no longer difficult.
The old man saw the "crazy copying of books" by the old man, but he did not stop it, but just told him: "Ancient martial arts are as vast as a sea of smoke, it is a good thing that you have a wide range of interests, and the ancient books of animal skins have also been translated and copied by hand no less than 100 books, as the so-called 'travel thousands of miles to read thousands of books', I have seen more, and naturally touched the bypass, and there is a saying in martial arts that 'one general is a hundred passes', but please be sure not to be greedy and miscellaneous, and it is counterproductive to chew it lightly!"
"Yes, Master!"
Hong Yi's words are chiseled, and the bones are scorching.