With the arrival of the second day of February, the New Year is over, one day in early March of the fourth year of the Great Cause (608 AD), Qingli took Chu Mofeng to the valley under Qilian Mountain, at this time the grass and trees in the valley gradually sprouted, the whole valley was filled with the breath of spring, there was a big tree in the middle of the valley about one zhang high, Qingli led Chu Mofeng to the big tree, and handed Chu Mofeng a wooden sword for the Emei competition.

Immediately, Qingli said to Chu Mofeng with his hands behind his back: "You have been practicing basic skills for a while, from today onwards, I will intersperse with teaching you the straight stab in the Emei swordsmanship, the straight stab is the most basic element in the Emei swordsmanship, the emphasis is on how the sword tail swings, the tip of the sword must always be facing the center of the enemy, generally Emei's sword is a soft sword, given that your burning sky is a four-edged hard object, so I took you a wooden sword than the trial, and I will show you the straight stab of the Emei swordsmanship, you look at it carefully." ”

Random Qingli demonstrated the Emei swordsmanship he had learned to Chu Mofeng, only to see Qingli raise the sword in his hand and ask to get up casually, holding a sword flower in his hand, the unfamiliarity that had not been tried for a long time made the figure look a little stiff, turning around, jumping up, picking up the sword, stabbing straight, the one move in the dusty memories slowly flowed out, and the dance style was also a little smooth, Zhan Qing's sword body dances with his arm, his daughter's sword dance is not as strong and domineering as a man, but the sword dance also has the evil aura of shocking the enemy, with the flow of the sword moves, he can't help but speed up the pace, the sword qi breaks the wind and the body moves under the tree, sometimes light as a swallow back to the sword and rises Sometimes suddenly like thunder and falling leaves, I saw that on the trunk of the towering tree that was used as a target by Qingli, sawdust kept flying, if someone looked closely, it would be found that there was always only one wound on the trunk.

After the demonstration of a set of sword moves, Qingli put Su Wen back into the sheath and said to Chu Mofeng, "Do you understand?" Chu Mofeng shook his head in confusion.

Seeing this, Qingli smiled and said to Chu Mofeng: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, I didn't understand it when my master first demonstrated it to me, but now the important thing is that you need to practice direct stabbing, because I have also seen your weapon Burning Sky, and the four-edged blade in front of you is only suitable for the move of direct stabbing, so now you have to practice diligently." Let's start, start stabbing at the tree, the basic action is to stand, stab, and retract the sword, and so on, until you can use the wooden sword in your hand to pierce the tree as the target. ”

After that, Qingli kicked his right foot sideways, took advantage of the situation to jump to a tree next to him, and sat on the branch with his legs suspended and began to close his eyes and recuperate. Seeing this, Chu Mofeng picked up the wooden sword on the ground and began to stab at the big trees beside him.

At first, when the first sword stabbed out, it was shocked back by the hard tree trunk, and the hand holding the sword was faintly painful from the tiger's mouth to the wrist, and with Chu Mofeng's straight stab of a sword, the pain on the wrist became more and more intense, after stabbing 100 swords, Chu Mofeng's whole person felt that his wrist could no longer be raised, and he couldn't help but pestle the tip of the sword on the ground, and his hand held the hilt of the sword and panted.

At this time, Qingli's voice floated from the tree: "Our master accepted a disciple a few years ago, and practiced 1,000 straight stabs on the first day, and then added 50 more times a day, and now although she doesn't practice straight stabs, but the last time she practiced was 20,000 times a day, if you feel that you are not as good as a woman, you will lose your sword and continue to rest." ”

Chu Mofeng suddenly lost his temper when he heard this, and immediately picked up his sword and continued to practice straight stabbing, this year is worse than anyone else, and it can't be said that it is worse than a girl, Qingli saw Chu Mofeng start to practice straight stabbing again, and secretly smiled in his heart: Don't use your daughter-in-law to stimulate you, you really don't know how to work hard.

Then I heard Qingli shouting: "Every sword stab must be powerful, don't look weak and weak, every sword stabbed on the trunk must have a sound, don't be lazy, continue." ”

Hearing this, Chu Mofeng began to stab hard with a sword, and as time passed, it was seven minutes in a blink of an eye, at this time Chu Mofeng had stabbed more than 300 times in a row, and the feeling in his right hand had changed from pain to numbness, and an extreme feeling of exhaustion in his whole body hit him instantly, and at this time, Qingli had already jumped down from the tree and came to Chu Mofeng's side.

Looking at the trunk of the tree in front of him that had been pierced out of a small nest, Qingli smiled and said, "Okay, it's morning for the horse, practice here first, rest for a while, I'll teach you some skills for survival in the wild, and then continue to practice after noon." ”

Hearing this, Chu Mofeng asked: "What is the skill of survival in the wild?" Qingli smiled and said: "It is to tell you what you can and can't eat when you are in the wild, how to find a water source, how to find a place to rest, and how to avoid tigers, leopards, wolves and insects." ”

Chu Mofeng rested for a while and then stood up, Qingli saw this and said: "I'll tell you carefully, you must remember, because we walk outside all the year round, not every time we come and go by horse, sometimes in order to go into the mountains to collect medicine, or to find a certain master in the mountains, or to be chased and killed by the enemy, in short, you will always encounter no inn, no carriage, no food in this life, at this time, the skills of survival in the wild can help you, and even save your life at a critical time, now I say you listen." ”

Then he cleared his throat and said: "First, the fire fold is a must-have, it is best to prepare two or three at a time and put them in different places on the body in case of emergency;

Second, don't drink the water that flows out of the weeds, and don't drink the water in the river or the lake when you encounter it, dig a small pit at a distance of three to four feet on the side, and wait for the water to be full, but if the stones in the river are brown or yellow, the water here cannot be drunk;

Third, whether it is a poisonous snake or not, as long as the head is cut off, you can eat it, try not to eat it raw;

Fourth, when encountering jackals, tigers and leopards, light the fire first, because wild beasts are afraid of fire, if they really can't hide from it, kill it, but after killing, they must leave quickly, so as not to attract other beasts to the smell of blood;

Fifth, don't rest under the tree on a rainy day, try to rest in the tree on a sunny night, and light a bonfire underground, many wild beasts are afraid of fire and will not climb the tree, and you rest in the tree, if the enemy comes to look for you, generally will not look at the tree first, which also gives you the opportunity to be vigilant.

These are all the experiences I have accumulated over the years, and I hope you will remember them. ”

Chu Mofeng listened to all his thoughts and said: "Master Qingli, I remember, then what are we eating now?" Qingli heard that he took out a water bladder and two Hu cakes from the cloth pocket beside him and handed them to Chu Mofeng and said: "Eat this today, practice quickly after eating, don't think about being lazy, before you go back, you have to prick it 1000 times, hurry up and eat." Then he took out a cake and a water bladder, and ate it to himself.

Chu Mofeng rubbed his sore wrist while chewing the Hu Cake, and poured a few mouthfuls of water into his mouth from time to time to avoid choking on the Hu Cake, and after eating hastily, Chu Mofeng couldn't wait to pick up the wooden sword and continue to practice.

Until the beginning of the unitary period, Chu Mofeng, who was easily stabbed 1,000 times, was dragged back to the Yanyu Courtyard by Qingli like a dead dog, and after being forced to eat dinner, Chu Mofeng was thrown into the ear chamber on the edge of the east wing by the fish intestines.

It turns out that this place has been transformed into a bathing place, there are several braziers lit in the house, a huge wooden barrel in the middle of the room is full of hot water, there are various medicinal herbs floating on the top, and there is a fire on the bottom, the fish intestines will Chu Mofeng be stripped of a fine light, casually thrown into the wooden barrel, and put down the sentence 'Don't show the water except for the head' The words went out, Chu Mofeng soaked in the bucket, and slowly felt that the soreness and numbness in his body disappeared little by little, replaced by a kind of comfort that penetrated all the bones.

After a while, Chu Mofeng suddenly felt that the water temperature was a little hot, so he shouted outside the door: "Uncle Fish Intestines, Uncle Fish Intestines, I'm going to be cooked, come quickly." He was about to get up and jump out of the bucket, when the fish intestine walked in with a bucket of water.

Seeing that Chu Mofeng was about to jump out of the barrel, he hurriedly shouted: "Retract, otherwise it will be in vain just now." Hearing this, Chu Mofeng hurriedly retracted again, and the fish intestines poured the water he was carrying into the big wooden barrel one by one, and in an instant, the temperature of the big wooden pass was no longer as hot as before.

Then the fish intestine sat in front of Chu Mofeng, and slowly said to Chu Mofeng: "This medicinal bath must be soaked every two days after that, it can enhance your physique, and it can also relieve the pain of your daily practice, child, practicing martial arts is the same as reading poetry and books, you need to be diligent, practice well, tomorrow Jizo will take you to practice martial arts, as for what to practice, I don't know." ”

Chu Mofeng, who had finished taking the medicinal bath, instantly felt a wave of tiredness welling up, and then fell asleep on the bed.

At the beginning of the second day, Jizo stood at the door of the east wing, with a pair of round gongs behind him, and a pair of wooden four-edged gongs in his hands, and was about to open his mouth when he saw Chu Mofeng already wearing his practice clothes and walked out, glanced at Jizo and said, "Master Jizo, what are we practicing today?"

Dizang said with a smile: "I have been thinking about it for a long time in the past few days, and I have also passed on a few friends on the rivers and lakes, and after careful inquiry, I learned that your burning sky is a side branch of the gong, because there is no blade in front of the gong, and your burning sky is open and has a blood groove, so I thought about it and taught you the four Shaolin gong method, which was taught to me by the master of the Shaolin stick method back then, when the master only passed me the four X moves, I also had practice later, and now I will pass it on to you, let's go, let's go to the valley in the west together." ”

When he came to the valley to the west, Jizo handed Chu Mofeng the wooden four-edged mace in his hand, and then took off the round mace on his back and said:

"I'll show you the four Shaolin techniques now, and you'll look at them carefully. ”

Then Jizo Adachi-figure, chest straight, hands holding the wedge bent on both sides of the chest, the tip of the wedge upward. Looking ahead, he made a gesture and said to Chu Mofeng, "Be optimistic about my every move." ”

Immediately raise the left knee, bend the elbow of the left hand to close the outer side of the rib guard, and move the tip forward. The right hand was raised from the bottom to the top right, and the tip of the gong was backwards, and he said to Chu Mofeng: "This move is called hitting the horse in battle." ”

Then step forward with your left foot into a left lunge. At the same time, the left hand is pierced from the bottom to the front, the tip of the mace is up, the right hand is smashed from the top to the bottom, the tip of the mace is forward, and then the right foot steps forward into a right lunge. At the same time, the right mace is pierced from the back to the front, the tip of the mace is upward, and the left mace is bent from the front to the elbow to retract the outside of the left rib, and the tip of the mace is forward. said to Chu Mofeng: "This trick is called destroying horses and rushing to the camp. ”

Immediately after taking a half step forward with his left foot, he raised his right knee into an independent position, and at the same time raised his head with both gongs, and the tips of his gongs were obliquely backwards, shouting: "This is called the overlord lifting the crown." ”

Finally, the right foot falls in front of the left foot into a right lunge, and at the same time, the double mace is smashed from top to front, and the tip of the mace is obliquely forward and upward, and shouts: "Mount Tai presses the top." ”

I saw that the trunk of the tree opposite was shaken by this last move, and the newly grown leaves fell one after another with the trembling. Chu Mofeng was stunned when he looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help asking, "Master Jizang, how should I practice?"

Hearing this, Jizo turned his head and said, "First practice the two basic movements of splitting and sweeping, and then practice the four moves I taught you." Then he pointed to a big tree opposite and said, "Use the four-edged wedge in your hand to start practicing against the tree, I have no other requirements, you can only practice diligently." ”

Chu Mofeng came to the big tree with the four-edged wedge in his hand, only to hear Jizo shouting again: "After standing still, the lunge is raised forward and the double mace is raised above the head, and the downward swing is called splitting; ”

Immediately, Chu Mofeng started a day's tree cutting exercise according to Jizang's requirements, and at the end of the day's practice, the whole arm felt like it was about to fall out of the shoulder blade, and the person was carried back by Jizang, and he lay on the bed after eating hastily and was unwilling to move, looking at the roof helplessly, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but sigh: "Practicing martial arts is really not an easy task, but for the sake of my father, I have to persevere." Then he fell into a deep sleep......