Chapter 6: The Depths of the Desert

This is the sun and moon mixed yuan exercise taught by my father, it is said that it is an hour before and after the sun, and it is the time when the yin and yang qi of heaven and earth is the most intense and pure. Those who learn martial arts practice at this time, they can get twice the result with half the effort, and in the long run, the dantian will be condensed and their strength will be greatly increased. Duan You has been practicing since he was five years old, almost every day.

After practicing the Sun and Moon Mixed Yuan Gong, Duan Youxun dug up some cistanche and Suoyang, folded a bundle of firewood, and returned to the nest shop. In the afternoon, he practiced the Duan family stick skills for an hour, and then went to look for Cistanche Suoyang, sand rice, and collect firewood. Take advantage of the autumn to prepare food and firewood, especially firewood. The old man does not carry much flint, so he needs to store the fire and cannot let the fire go out, so he uses a large amount.

More than 20 days later, Tenzin the black mastiff has fully recovered, and he follows Duan You every day, running like flying. Duan You went to catch rabbits with Tenzin in the afternoon. There are a lot of rabbits, you can catch three or four a day, Duan You has dried a lot of rabbit jerky, and occasionally you can catch yellow sheep.

Duan You also gradually came to know: this place is called Qingtu Lake, between the Tengger Desert and the Badain Jaran Desert, and the old man's name is Wei Tuo, a man from the Kathmandu River Valley in the extreme west, who came to Middle-earth with Tenzin ten years ago, came to Liangzhou three years ago, was robbed by a group of soldiers and bandits, and was chased and killed by Maitreya followers, and fled here. One day, when picking sea buckthorn fruit on a sandbag in a swamp by the lake, he was bitten on his left leg by a locust snake, and his strength was greatly reduced. Later, the poisonous gas spread and could not be lifted, so Wei Tuo had to cut off a whole left leg and gnashed his teeth, although he saved his life, but the poison had invaded the internal organs, and his body was extremely weak.

Although the old man's expression was calm when he said this, Duan You was thrilled to hear it, and his heart palpitated when he thought of the tragedy when he cut off his leg.

Duan You asked Vedic to take him and Tenzin to the swamp, and it didn't take much trouble to find the locust snake. The locust snake and the locust are about the same size, the body shape is also the same, but the head is slender, brownish-black, usually in the waterside hole, as soon as there is a stimulus, it swims, the speed is like an arrow, the range of activity is not large, within a few feet. Later, Duan You took Tenzin to go a few more times, and he always felt that this locust snake venom could be cured, but he couldn't think of a way, so he had to give up.

Duan You practiced every day, and gradually felt that his body had changed, his lower abdomen was warm, his legs and feet were vigorous, he wanted to jump at any time when walking, and his strength in his hands seemed to be increasing rapidly. Duan You didn't know, a big reason for this is actually Cistanche and Suoyang, these two desert treasures, as long as they take one of them several times, ordinary people can be full of energy, and people who practice martial arts can greatly increase their strength.

When Duan You was practicing, the old man Wei Tuo had been looking at it with a smile, and on this day, he suddenly said to Duan You: "Chen Daoyou, I can't understand the Sun and Moon Mixed Yuan Gong that you practiced every morning, and we practiced martial arts there from the beginning of quenching the body." ”

"What is a quenching body?" Duan is quite interested.

"Quenching the body is about building muscles. "When quenching the body, first wrap a cloth on the body, beat it with a wooden stick, the skin will slowly harden, continue to beat, the skin will slowly become softer, and then do push-ups, sit-ups, lift stones, after a few years, the body is solid, have large muscles, and the strength is also great, before practicing the moves." ”

Wei Tuo's words seemed to open another door to martial arts practice for Duan You, Duan You was born with a strong comprehension of martial arts, and he immediately thought of combining what his father taught and what Wei Tuo said!

The next day, after practicing the Sun and Moon Mixed Yuan Gong, Duan You took off his strips and practiced "carp fighting" on the sand slope, which was taught by his father when he was five years old. After practicing 36 strokes of "carp fighting", Duan You practiced "Tenzin Fighting Wolf" - this is the name of his self-created move - spreading his body, pounced forward, slid on the sand for a certain distance, did three push-ups, did not stand up, like Tenzin, put his hands together, stretched his feet and hands, and then slid forward, then did three push-ups, and then slid forward, and so on thirty-six times. Duan has a hot chest and back, and his arms are sore.

Tenzin had been jumping with Duan You, but when he saw that he had a single movement, he was no longer interested, so he ran to the nest and grabbed a stick, threw it in front of Duan You, and jumped left and right, intending to play with him. In normal times, when practicing Duan's stick technique, Tenzin often chased the stick and bitten, and Duan You played with it a few times, but he was sleepy and didn't want to move. When Tenzin saw that Duan You ignored him, he roared in a low voice and was about to pounce. Duan You sat there, raised his stick, intending to bluff Tenzin, but Tenzin pounced and snatched the stick from Duan You's hand, and the person was also knocked and rolled down the sand slope.

Duan You stood up and saw Tenzin standing on the sand beam, looking at him, majestic and arrogant. Duan Yi pointed at it and said, "Evil Tenzin, you come really, good, good, we will fight for thirty rounds." As he spoke, he walked over and picked up the stick, and swept it away, and Tenzin jumped to avoid it, and swept it again, and avoided it again. Duan You gradually increased his strength, but he still couldn't touch Tenzin's fur, but he was knocked down by it and grabbed the stick again.

Duan You suffered losses again and again, and he was already angry in his heart, so he performed the Liangzhou stick technique, with the Duan family's stick technique, sweeping, picking, pointing, teasing, winding, and hitting - attacking Tenzin with his head and face, with the intention of hitting once and saving face. Unexpectedly, his stormy attack still couldn't help Tenzin, Tenzin dodged a few dodges, saw a flaw, and pounced quickly, knocking him down again, and the stick in his hand was out of his hand again.

Duan You screamed in frustration, and Tenzin saw that his face was not good, so he ran back to the nest with a stick in his mouth, and drilled behind Wei Tuo, a thief.

The next day, Duan You challenged before quenching the body, but he was still defeated, and he didn't even touch Tenzin's hair. Day 3 & 4...... After seven days of fighting, the result was exactly the same as the first and second days.

Duan You calmed down.

After thinking about the reasons carefully, Duan Youde came to the following conclusions: first, he did not have enough strength to resist Tenzin; second, he had no strength in his hands and could not hold the stick firmly; third, he was not fast, and he could not catch up with or avoid Tenzin.

To find the cause, it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine.

So Duan You, under the guidance of Wei Tuo, outlined the practice plan: every day for one hour, the sun and the moon mixed Yuan Gong, 36 times "carp fighting", 36 times "Tenzin pounces on the wolf", 36 times to hold up a big stone, the left and right hands to throw 108 small stones according to the target, and the left and right fingers to play the small stones 108 times according to the target; at the same time, every time the hand touches the ground, you must deliberately use your fingers to stick to the ground, grasp the sand, and climb up from the sunny side of the sand dunes every day. Thirty-six jumps, and half an hour a day with Tenzin in the water in the green soil lake, except in winter. The rest of the time, in addition to collecting firewood, digging Cistanche Suoyang, catching rabbits, roasting meat, etc., Duan You competed and fought with Tenzin.

In the process of Tenzin's fighting, Duan You gradually integrated the Liangzhou stick technique with the Duan family's stick technique, and pondered some moves by himself. The battle with Tenzin also slowly turned from a defeat at the beginning to being able to fight for less than half an hour, although he was still knocked down by Tenzin, but he was knocked down less and less, and the chance to be robbed of his stick became less and less, and he could occasionally hit Tenzin.

One day, Duan You persevered for more than half an hour before he was knocked down by Tenzin. But when Duan You fell to the ground, with a flick of his hand, a fist-sized stone smashed on Tenzin's leg, Tenzin screamed exaggeratedly, dodged far away, and when he pounced again, Duan You flew another stone and hit Tenzin, Tenzin was in pain, angry eyes, but he didn't dare to pounce. Duan Youfei chased after him, and Tenzin fled.

Duan You was proud. Finally won!

Unexpectedly, this day turned out to be a watershed, and since then, Duan You has never been overthrown by Tenzin! When he saw that the situation was unfavorable, he flew the stone so that it could not get close. Later, the stone turned into a stone bullet, and the effect was the same, and then Duan You was able to force Tenzin with only a stick.

Before you know it, eight years have passed.

Duan You has become a strong young man, his skin is as black and red as copper, his muscles are massive, hard and protruding, and he cannot be pierced by a knife, his fingers are like swords, he seems to be able to penetrate everything, and he wants to leap when he walks, and he walks on the sand dunes as if he were walking on the ground. Especially in the dantian of the lower abdomen, he is really full of anger all day long, and he wants to squirt. The stick in the hand has made it possible to move at will, and it is proficient. Tenzin is no longer an opponent, he has been flawed in his eyes when he attacks, and his speed is not fast enough when he dodges, and the black mastiff that was extremely powerful in front of him is now a sick cat under his feet!

Duan You was excited, and he felt that he could defeat any opponent!

Just as Duan You was thinking about walking through the desert with Veda and Tenzin, a person suddenly floated in, causing an unexpected change.

At dusk on this day, Duan You was roasting rabbit meat and fish, and suddenly saw a camel walking from the sand slope in front of him, and a person was riding on the camel, with one eye covering a mirror-shaped black cover, and his face was full of meat.

This one-eyed ghost was hired by a lot of money back then, and led the white tiger, black tiger, red tiger, and green tiger to Liangzhou, intending to create a world in the northwest, but unexpectedly made a disgrace when arresting Duan Zhen's family, not only did not catch one person, but also broke four people one after another. At that time, he was the only one left in the five tigers of Mobei, who was terrifying in the desert and made people talk about it. After a few years, he was so happy that he didn't say goodbye, grabbed a camel, crossed the desert, and returned to Mobei. After walking in the desert for two days and one night, when I passed by Qingtu Lake to rest, I saw the nest shops of Duan You and Wei Tuo.

The one-eyed tiger saw that it was a black-faced young man with a waist circumference, and there was a sick and wilting one-legged old man sitting next to him, and a tall black mastiff, so he shouted at the camel to the nest, jumped off the camel, and said that the barbecue is really fragrant, uncle, I am really blessed, so he stretched out his hand to grab the barbecue.

Duan You had been looking at the one-eyed ghost coldly, and at this moment he suddenly shouted: "One-eyed ghost, don't you know the master? As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows and pointed at the one-eyed ghost.