Chapter 83, break through the difficulties and resolve the anxiety

After the Battle of Xiangyang, Mongolia struggled for power and profit, and the north was stable for several years. Eventually, Kublai Khan defeated several rivals and became the Great Khan of the Mongols.

Kublai Khan's entry into the Great Khan of the Mongols exacerbated the contradictions within the Mongol Empire, and several Western khanates began to defy Kublai Khan's will. But despite this, Li Shucheng knew that the countdown to the demise of the Great Song Dynasty had begun.

Li Shucheng knew the historical process, and the Great Song Dynasty was going to perish after all, so he took advantage of the last period of time to stay at home and cultivate with peace of mind.

The dantian is expanding little by little, the body is strengthening little by little, the stored true qi is more and more, the meridians are getting wider and tougher, and in eleven years, I feel that I have reached a limit, and the true qi is gathered in the dantian like a dense fog in winter, with a little sign of liquefaction.

According to the knowledge of physics, the liquefaction of true qi will not all become liquid as written above in Xiuzhen, after all, the space in the dantian is so large. It should be like a lighter, most of which becomes liquid under pressure, and a small part is still gas.

When the true qi reached the limit, Li Shucheng tested it according to the method of breaking through the foundation building written in Xiuzhen, which was not feasible at all. Controlling the compression of the true qi, it did liquefy, but as soon as the control was released, the liquefied true qi returned to its original state. From this, Li Shucheng concluded that the method of compression used to cultivate the qi in cultivating the foundation was not feasible. Increase the amount of true qi in the dantian little by little, and reach a critical value, and the true qi will liquefy. That is to say, there is a sudden change from gaseous to liquid state of true qi, not because of active control compression, but because the total amount of true qi increases, and the internal pressure of the dantian becomes larger, reaching the conditions for liquefaction of true qi.

In eleven years, the older generation is still gone. The first is Hong Qigong, who is the oldest, and died less than two years after leaving Xiangyang. He didn't bother Guo Jing and Huang Rong, and he just wanted to have a good meal when he came to Li Shucheng. Jiang Mingyue saw that something was wrong, and the two forced him to stay, take care of him for the last days, and only inform Guo Jing and his wife of the news after the burial.

Then three years later, Master Yideng also left, and Li Shucheng received news from Yuyin, and the two went to attend the funeral of Master Yideng. There was no descendant of the Duan family at the funeral, at this time Dali had long since perished, and the descendants of the Duan family were scattered, and I don't know if there are any descendants alive.

The year before last, Huang Yaoshi had a premonition that his time was running out, so he came out of Peach Blossom Island to see Li Shucheng. He hoped that if Li Shucheng had the opportunity to save Guo Jing and them when Xiangyang City was broken. Faced with the request of an old man who was about to die, how could Li Shucheng not agree? As for whether he could be saved, that was another matter, and what he had to do now was to let the old man leave with peace of mind. When Huang Yaoshi left, he was not a little desperate and decadent, but arrogantly said that he was the last one of the five uniques, and he had already compared the other four uniques.

Huang Yaoshi died, Guo Jing and Huang Rong couldn't leave to defend the city, so they could only arrange for Guo Poyu to take his wife and children to Peach Blossom Island. There, Li Shucheng met Cheng Ying, who was almost fifty years old, and was still alone. And Guo Xiang lost news of her many years ago.

Li Shucheng sighed in his heart, Yang Guo, this kid has no mouth, how can he let these girls be so desperate? Being handsome is sometimes a mistake! If Yang Guo looks as ordinary as himself, how can he delay the lives of these girls?

"Qigong is gone, Master Yideng is gone, and now the old Huang seniors are also gone, why don't we go to the Hundred Flowers Valley to see the old Zhou seniors." Back home, Li Shucheng sighed and said, "In the future, maybe there will be no chance." "Meeting Zhou Botong was the luckiest thing in his life, but Zhou Botong didn't allow him to call him Master.

"Okay. Jiang Mingyue said, "It's best to take him over to live, and we can take care of him." ”

The two of them had never been to the Hundred Flowers Valley, but Yang had gone over and told Li Shucheng where the Hundred Flowers Valley was, and the two entered the Hundred Flowers Valley smoothly. Sure enough, it is worthy of the name of the Valley of Hundred Flowers, and the valley is full of wild flowers, white, red, blue, and purple flowers competing to bloom, which is very beautiful.

The two were admiring the valley of wildflowers, and a figure ran close with joy, and Li Shucheng saw that it was Zhou Botong. Many seals were flying on his head, and he was having a lot of fun as he commanded to advance left and right.

"Yo he, Senior Zhou, are you hiding here and having fun?" Li Shucheng said with a distant smile.

The old urchin was directing the bees to have a good time, and when he heard someone talking, he turned his head to look at the source of the sound, and said with a smile: "It's you two little ones! No, I didn't tell you I was here, how did you find it?"

Li Shucheng said with a smile: "Didn't Yang Guo come here? We learned from Yang Guo. ”

"Yang Guo, you said that kid with a heavy sword?" the old urchin thought for a moment and said, "How do you recognize that kid?"

"We knew him for a long time, when he was three or four years old. Li Shucheng said with a smile.

"Three or four years old?" the old urchin thought for a while and said, "Are you about the same age as when I met you?" However, when he met Yang Guo, Yang Guo was already thirty-six or seventeen, of course, he was not as fun as a child, but he learned the method of beekeeping from Xiaolongnu.

Li Shucheng smiled bitterly: "I was in my twenties when I met Yang Guo, how could I play with him?"

"yes, you guys won't be fun when you grow up, unlike these bees, who can always play with me. The old urchin said, commanding the bees to divide into two waves, one flying a circle, one flying an irregular square, and laughing, "How about it, these bees are obedient!"

"Obedient and obedient, you are clever, you are using one hand to draw a circle and one hand to draw a square to command the bees. Li Shucheng said with a smile.

"Of course!" the old naughty boy smiled proudly, "This hand is only the little daughter-in-law of Brother Guo and Yang Guo, and Huang Rong and Yang Guo are not, you two can try it and see if you can." "He's done this to a lot of people, but few have been able to do it.

Li Shucheng smiled: "We have tried it a long time ago. After practicing for a while, I only barely drew it. ”

"Then you won't learn how to fight with two hands. ”

The two of them played with the old urchin for a while, and followed him to the hut where he lived, three thatched houses.

Next to it is the grave of Aunt Ying, and after the two worship, they talked to the old urchin to let him go to Suzhou with the two.

"No, I'm going to accompany Aunt Ying here. The old urchin said. Although he has been messing around all his life, he has avoided Aunt Ying for many years, because of himself, he delayed Aunt Ying for a lifetime, and only spent the last time with her when he was old. So now he just wants to guard Aunt Ying here and spend every day happily until he dies.

Seeing that the old urchin was resolute, the two had to leave helplessly after accompanying him for a few days.

"The true qi in the dantian is so thick that it is like a mist that is about to condense into water droplets, but after these two years, there is still no sign of liquefaction at all, is my idea wrong, true qi cannot be liquefied?" Li Shucheng said. At this time, two years have passed since visiting the old naughty boy, and in the past two years, the true qi in the dantian is still in the form of a mist, and there is no sign of condensation into a liquid state.

"I don't think you're wrong with your idea. From True Qi to True Yuan, this is a huge change, no more than opening up the meridians and breaking the small barriers of the entrance. We were also trapped for a few years when we opened the second vein of Rendu and broke the entrance, so we had to be patient at this time. Jiang Mingyue comforted. The liquefied true qi was named Zhenyuan by the two, which Li Shucheng borrowed from Xiuzhen.

"It's not like no one has walked this road, and I don't know the bottom of my heart. Li Shucheng said. I've been following the path opened up by my predecessors before, and although my cultivation is slow, I know that the path is right, so I'm not worried at all. But after being born, there is no way out, so you can only open it up yourself. Condensing the entrance is a step, and now the liquefaction of true qi is another step, but because the predecessors have not walked it, they are worried that mistakes will occur.

"Didn't we carefully study and deduce, and we also controlled the compression of true qi, proving that your guess is right, but the conditions for liquefaction of true qi have not yet been met. Jiang Mingyue said, "Let it be, when the conditions are reached, the true qi will naturally liquefy." ”

To appease Li Shucheng's emotions, in order to prevent Li Shucheng from falling into an anxious mood again, Jiang Mingyue would play a few tunes for Li Shucheng every day, and also actively looked for things that Li Shucheng was interested in to divert Li Shucheng's attention.

I tried piano, chess, calligraphy and painting one by one, but I didn't expect Li Shucheng to fall in love with carving in the end. Seeing Li Shucheng busy, there are many furniture and small ornaments at home, such as tables, chairs, beds, dressers, landscape ornaments, jade carvings, jewelry, etc. At the beginning, it was rude, but gradually the technique got better and better, and now it is a year and eight months, and the furnishings in the house have been changed twice, and in Jiang Mingyue's eyes, each one is no worse than the works of the world's famous masters. Especially those landscape ornaments, the mountains have mountain potential, and the water has water rhyme, just like the real landscape.

Now Li Shucheng is carving the sea with a large piece of crystal of different colors, and near the right is the cliff, and the waves crash against the cliff. If you look closely, there are several bird's nests on the cliff, and there are several seabirds flying in the sky, one is hunting on the water's surface, and the waves brought by the flapping wings are clearly visible. The deeper you go into the sea, the lighter the color becomes, and the smaller the waves, just slightly undulating. The crystal in the upper left tends to be colorless, just like the blank space of a painting.

When Li Shucheng was carving, Jiang Mingyue was standing next to him, and felt that as the carving progressed, a momentum appeared on Li Shucheng's body, and it became stronger and stronger, and the carving reached its peak when the waves hit the cliff, and then tended to calm down, until the carving was completed and had completely converged. Feeling the momentum on Li Shucheng's body just now, Jiang Mingyue didn't bother him until Li Shucheng definitely had a gain, but looked at the carving work that Li Shucheng had just completed. At a glance, a vast momentum came to his face, as if facing the real sea, and the momentum surging on Li Shucheng's body just now was exactly like this!