Volume 1 Chapter 12: Balance
Three days later, the caravan left the border of the Great Shang Kingdom and entered the Murowei steppe.
Murwei is actually a relative of Great Xia, the so-called four white wolves and four white deer who guard Great Xia, and Murwei is one of the four white wolves, but he has been in the bitter cold land of Mobei for a long time, and has little contact with the native of Great Xia.
"Yunmeng, you said that this Wei Ben is also a descendant of the State of Etiquette, how can he be so barbaric and backward, every time he passes by the Mu Wei Prairie, there are more horses than birds in the sky. In the evening, it was raining lightly, and Xu Minghui was in the tent, roasting sweet potatoes while complaining to the clouds.
Yunzhong said with a smile: "On the prairie, life is bad, the people of Murowei can't support themselves and their families by herding cattle and sheep, so they naturally need to find some sources of livelihood, one is a businessman, in fact, the caravan of Murowei is also famous all over the world, and the other is more straightforward, the white knife goes in and the red knife goes out, kills people, and robs supplies." One is to go to the neighboring villages in groups to rob, every year whether it is the big business, the Tang Dynasty or the Rakshasa are harassed by these Murwei people to a headache, the border defense of the big merchants is relatively flawless, and it is quite stable, but during the war in the past few years, the Murwei people have taken advantage of a lot of loopholes, like the Rakshasa with relatively loose border defense, in the past 20 years, because of the cross-border robbery of the Murwei people, the loss of people is no less than two million, and the loss of property is countless. ”
The black-faced man said, "In this way, these Murwei people have killed a lot of Rakshasa people for us." ”
Yun Zhong said: "On the one hand, it is to kill people and sell goods, on the other hand, the Murwei people often plunder the population as slaves in the Rakshasa and the Great Shang, a small half for their own use, and most of them are sold to the countries of Great Xia or the Western Regions. ”
Anger appeared on everyone's faces, and Yun Zhong continued: "However, there are also many dangers in cross-border robbery, for example, my great merchant will kill at least hundreds of Murowei marauders every year, and if the army allows, he will also cross the border to sweep the lair of these robbers, killing all their young and middle-aged men, and bringing back the old and weak women as slaves, so the Murowei people prefer to rob passing caravans, such as us." Yun Zhong showed a helpless smile on his face, "This year, the spring of the Murowei Prairie is particularly cold, the six animals are not thriving, and many tribes will starve to death if they don't come out to rob, which is why it is particularly dangerous to do business in Murowei this year." ”
Everyone heard this, and their faces showed a solemn expression, even the one-eyed man under Cao Hua, his face was not very natural, he had been doing business on this road for many years, and he knew the fierceness of the chamber Wei Xiangma.
In order to ease the atmosphere, a female guard said with a smile: "What are you doing with this, the soldiers are coming, the water is coming to the earth, I'm afraid of him as a ball!" stepped forward and grabbed Yunzhong's arm, "Young man, come, dance with the eldest sister!"
Yun Zhong smiled shyly, secretly suppressed the churning blood, stood up, and danced with the female guard by the firelight.
In the afternoon, when he was pushing the cart, he secretly used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Dafa to disperse again, and his cultivation was only left with the Yellow Rank Ten Heavens, but fortunately, in the past few days, I don't know how many small pills he chewed, and the meridians had already been strengthened to the limit, and under such heavy internal injuries, he still talked and laughed as usual, and even pushed the truck to walk like flying.
It wasn't until the second half of the night that the caravan left two people to stand guard, while the rest rested.
Seeing that it was not yet dawn, a loud noise suddenly woke everyone up from their dreams, and everyone hurriedly got dressed, picked up their weapons and ran outside the tent, only to see that Yunzhong was already standing there, looking at a boulder not far away.
The one-eyed man shouted, "Yunmeng, what's the matter?"
Yunzhong seemed to be frightened, and said softly: "It seems to be a landslide." ”
The one-eyed man was furious: "What a landslide, inexplicable." Before he could finish speaking, he saw that the boulder suddenly broke away from the middle, and the upper half rolled to the ground, and there was a loud bang.
Everyone was speechless.
After a long time, I heard Cao Hua's voice sound: "This place is weird, we can't stay for a long time, let's set off immediately." ”
No one objected, everyone sorted out the goods in a hurry, and hurriedly continued to set off eastward, not even daring to turn back along the way.
The female guard walked to Yunzhong's side and patted Yunzhong on the shoulder again: "The young man seems to be scared, don't be afraid, it may be an earthquake, it's not a big deal." ”
Yunzhong nodded at her and didn't say anything more.
No one knew that at this moment, the heart of the cloud had changed from shock to ecstasy.
More than five months ago, Yunzhong bought a silk painting from an old man, the painting was yellowed, and it was very old, at least hundreds of years ago. The silk painting vividly depicts a samurai with a feather ornament on his head, a naked body, and a leopard skin around his waist, shooting at a monster with a bow that looks like a human, but the living has a blood-red face, more than two feet long fangs sticking out of his mouth, and a huge tail behind him.
Yun Zhong didn't see that this painting was extraordinary at the time, but the little fox on his shoulder seemed to be greatly stimulated when he saw this painting, jumping up and down, excited. Yun Zhong then took the painting home, originally with a playful mentality, found a hard bow, and opened the bow and arrows according to the appearance of the samurai in the painting, but found that even if he used all the true qi of his body, he could not shoot an arrow perfectly.
At first, Yun Zhong thought that his cultivation was not enough, and his true qi was insufficient, but more than a month later, he rose from the Fourteenth Heaven of the Xuan Rank to the Fifteenth Heaven of the Xuan Rank, and Yun Zhong was surprised to find that the power of that arrow not only did not rise, but declined.
After shooting tens of thousands of arrows repeatedly, Yunzhong finally found a pattern, it turned out that in order to shoot a perfect arrow, he had to achieve a perfect balance of the eight veins in his body, and he was majoring in the Qianmai and Kun vein, and also cultivating the Kan vein and the Limai, and there was a serious imbalance between the eight veins, and he couldn't achieve perfection at all.
At that time, Yun Zhong's first reaction was not to practice this archery, but he immediately thought that if the archery method was like this, whether other martial arts would be the same, and after finding the balance of the eight veins, he could exert the greatest power. After many studies, Yun Zhong came to the conclusion that although various martial arts have a focus, for example, the Tiger Spirit Sword Technique he practiced himself is biased towards the dry veins, and the Reflecting Moon Sword Technique is biased towards the Kan veins, but if the eight veins are balanced, the eight elements complement each other, and the power of the martial arts can indeed be multiplied, for example, the Tiger Soul Knife Technique, what is indeed needed most is the indomitable attack power of the dry veins, but if it is combined with the agility of the Xun pulse and the explosive power of the shock pulse, if the three reach a balance point, the power can be more than doubled, and it is more difficult to resist.
The Tiger Spirit Sword Technique is just a yellow-level high-grade martial art, and after reaching the balance of the three veins, it can exert the power of the Xuan-level high-grade martial arts, and if it is a higher-grade martial art, after reaching the balance of the relevant veins, the power bonus is even more considerable.
After some careful consideration, Yunzhong decided to follow the path of eight-vein balance. What he wants to do is to be truly strong, knowing that there is a way to become stronger, and he will never give up on it. It's just that this process did make him suffer enough, the so-called balance of the eight veins is not simply to train the eight veins to the same level, because even if the eight veins are practiced to one level at the same time, due to the cultivator's own physique, the affinity for the eight elements is not the same, so the strength and width between the veins are not the same, and if you can't find that balance point, although the power of the martial arts is also improved, it can't have that kind of reborn effect.
In the end, Yunzhong adopted a rather violent and stupid method: using the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Dafa to smash the nodes of the veins that had been cultivated one by one, and then re-cultivating them so that each node of each vein could reach the most strengthened state of perfection, so that in actual operation, the required balance point could be achieved by controlling the true qi operation of the veins.
After several months of torture-like cultivation, yesterday, after consolidating the cultivation of the Yellow Rank Ten Heavens, Yun Zhong finally found the balance point of his heart and mind, so in the middle of the night, Yun Zhong, who couldn't bear it, secretly walked outside the tent, took out his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at a boulder of several thousand catties, using all his true qi, making such a big movement.
According to Yun Zhong's own judgment, that arrow can only be sent by a master at the peak of the earth rank, and the martial arts level must at least reach the lower grade of the heaven rank.
"That kind of archery technique is at least a top-grade martial art of the Heavenly Rank, and it may even surpass the Heavenly Rank. Yun Zhong secretly pondered, although the blow was shocking, but after all, he was only a Yellow Rank Ten Heaven cultivator now, if his cultivation could be restored to the late Xuan Rank, the power of that arrow would increase by at least a hundred times, even if he was a master of the late Heaven Rank, under his own long-range sneak attack, there was a possibility of falling.
With this move, the difficulty of killing the BOC is greatly reduced. ”