Since the Tang Dynasty Wu Zetian called the emperor, opened the martial arts examination, until the Qing Dynasty Guangxu period to terminate the martial arts examination, after the Tang, Song, Jin, Ming, Qing dynasties for more than 1,000 years, although the content of the examination has changed in each dynasty, but the consideration of martial arts, probably inseparable from the "bow, knife, stone, horse and arrow", that is, foot shooting, horse shooting, open bow, dancing knife, stone.

Open the bow, that is, to pull the hard bow with great force, the force is divided into three grades, selected by the candidate, and three full times are qualified. Dancing knife, the knife is divided into three grades, and the knife is shaped like a green dragon glaive knife. Candidates must be able to dance the knife several times on the front and back of the chest. Stone, stone is divided into three grades, candidates choose any first-class stone, candidates will raise the stone pier to the chest, and then the bottom of the stone pier left and right are exposed once, called "offering seals", just like looking at the seal left and right, complete once to be qualified.

These five contents comprehensively examine the candidates' archery skills and strength, including the assessment of martial arts and physical fitness. The martial arts examination of the Ming Dynasty focused on the bow and horse, and also took the strategy. At the beginning of the course, the first comparison was mounted shooting, the second was infantry shooting, and the third trial strategy was discussed: two strategies were examined, and one was discussed.

This is related to the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's hope to cultivate both civil and military talents' leading ideas, and to Chongzhen four years, Fang in the horse arrow, step down the arrow on the basis of the increase of the sword and stone examination, this is the Ming Dynasty "bow, stone, horse and arrow" of the official beginning, but the reform, has turned the fate of the decline.

Following the sprinting exercise of physical fitness, the students were divided into groups for training in weapons, strength, and reflexes, but with the blessing of Han Jingxuan's years of experience in the battlefield, the basic training was as breathless as Mount Tai's overpower, and the most terrifying thing was that every time the training had reached the limit and wanted to rest-

Mu Jingwu was born in the house of Jinyiwei, and his physical fitness was higher than that of ordinary people, and at this moment, he had already pulled the one hundred and twenty hard bows and hands three times, who knew that just about to put it down, Han Jingxuan kicked it, "Pull it ten times!" The originally benevolent and generous face instantly revealed a murderous aura, which was the breath that precipitated from the bloody wind and rain.

Mu Jingwu shrank his neck in fright, even if his father had served as the commander and manager of Jinyiwei, he was definitely not as good as Han Jingxuan, "Ten ...... Ten times?" Mu Jingwu's eyes widened in disbelief, and her opening doubled her usual limit.

"Do you have an opinion?" the second ...... - "Don't, no! Ten times is very good, very good!" Mu Jingwu hurriedly interrupted, as soon as the word "two" came out, wouldn't the next word be the word "four"?

"Why is Instructor Han so strict with this freshman?" the old students whispered. Who knows that this Mu Jingwu also has an extraordinary background, his father is Mu Bin, who was quite praised in the Jinyiwei of the previous dynasty, and is known for his fairness and benevolence, and even because of Mu Bin, the first emperor Xiaozong canceled the plan to ban Jinyiwei.

In the sixth year of Hongzhi, Li Mengyang was appointed as the head of the household department at the beginning, and wrote "Ying Zhao Refers to Chen Shu", which directly pointed out that Shouninghou "recruited scoundrels, made profits and thieves, seized people's land, demolished people's houses, captured people's children, intercepted commercial goods, occupied salt classes, ran rampant rivers, played yellow flags, and was as powerful as a winged tiger", so he attracted the disaster of killing.

During the prison period, Mu Bin was not afraid of the power of the Zhang family, governed the prison fairly, took care of Li Mengyang, and changed the impression of Jinyiwei inside and outside the government, but replaced it with the glory of "justice" and "benevolence". Therefore, Han Jingxuan also attaches great importance to Mu Jingwu and often sends extra care. The hard bow flew out, and was pulled back by the string in Mu Jingwu's hand, hitting him in the face, and laughter rang out for a while.

"Hmm!" Han Jingxuan just nodded, snorted lightly, turned around and left, looked back at Mu Jingwu, rubbed his face without saying a word, and continued to make up for those two times with his bow, but the tenacity of his heart also gave encouragement to his classmates.

On the side, Qin Mufeng held a wooden knife and slashed in the air one by one, the moon stick knife is a lifelong gun, the difficulty of practicing the knife can be imagined, the stick is held with both hands, and the two complement each other, but the knife is practiced with one hand, at this time, the first time to make the knife, just from the gesture of holding the knife, it feels awkward, the chopping is powerful, it must be the tiger's mouth gripping the handle, and the first time the knife is used, the posture of the whole person seems to be twisted and funny, Han Jingxuan only knocked on it with a chestnut.

Qin Mufeng was stunned, and his heart instantly flashed with the past when he was practicing martial arts at home, and unconsciously, there was a faint flash of polish in his eyes, Han Jingxuan was also stunned when he saw this, and then frowned slightly, "Very aggrieved?" In his heart, he only connected Qin Mufeng with those rich children.

"The instructor misunderstood!" Qin Mufeng hurriedly said, and he wanted to give up his hand to ask for the guilt, but he was stunned for a short time, but his hands were like lead poured into them, and he was only sore when he lifted them halfway, and he was half held there, which caused a lot of laughter.

"It's just a matter of giggling normally, but when you practice, you know my rules!" Han Jingxuan said solemnly. Here, Qin Mufeng had no trace of secret luck, and nourished his arms with internal strength, and his symptoms decreased slightly, "Instructor, I just remembered what happened when I was a child, and I couldn't restrain myself for a while, don't blame it!"

"Well, but when you practice, you have to be determined. Han Jingxuan seemed to accept this explanation, and said, "If the mind is not there, the breath is not there, and if the breath is not there, the footwork is not there, the footwork is not there, and ......the life is safe!

Before he finished speaking, his arm hooked Qin Mufeng's neck, and he turned sideways at the same time, "Idiot!" Han Jingxuan reprimanded, "You have a good body, but you use your internal strength to relieve the pain, you are stupid!" - "Good scolding!" "Good scolding!" Gloating in his heart, Qin Mufeng didn't know how to respond for a while, when he was practicing, he had always done this, and he never knew what the problem was, so he had to respectfully ask Han Jingxuan.

"The body can only be strengthened by the self-healing of the body, this is a long and full of suffering," Han Jingxuan said, "I am in this academy for a day, and your basic cultivation cannot use internal strength!"

"Overbearing!" he interrupted, "but I like anything that makes you feel uncomfortable!"

"Now when you feel tired, you will be relieved by melting internal force, once a habit is formed, the muscles will become inert, and even wait for the internal force to relieve it every time, thus affecting its self-growth, then no matter how you cultivate your body, you will get twice the result with half the effort - just imagine, can your external injuries be healed with internal force?"

"I see, instructor, I was wrong!" Qin Mufeng replied sincerely.

"Look at Mu Jingwu, he used to pull the hard bow up to five times, but today he pulled it eight times, and in a few days, his limit will definitely exceed five times! You are in this academy for three years at most, and my task is to develop your physical functions to perfection in these short three years, and then you can fuse your internal force into it, so that it will have miraculous effects. ”

Only by constantly challenging and surpassing their own limits can people leap forward!

"Then, if I want to pranayama...... "You kid! Pranayama is just to guide the internal force to flow along the tendons and veins, and to expel the turbid qi from the body, and it has no effect, why do you practice internal force, you don't know this?"

"Yes!" Qin Mufeng was embarrassed for a while, it was true that he had only relied on the way in his memory to improve himself, but fortunately, there was no problem with learning the martial arts "Curling Autumn Moon Jue" in his family, not like Zhang Nanxing's tragic end, but it was difficult for him to understand it by himself after taking a detour, until he met Jiang Xuan, but after a short period of getting along, he couldn't do everything after all, so he only knew that cultivation could be improved, but he didn't know the details.

"Today's task, swing the knife a thousand times, don't wave your feet, don't sleep, anyway, you will breathe!" Han Jingxuan said a word, turned around and left, Qin Mufeng followed and walked out, and continued to wave the wooden knife clumsily, only three hundred times, only to feel that his arm was sore, and his head was swollen, but when he thought of going beyond the limit to practice a perfect body, he gritted his teeth and continued to chop.

One hand slashed vigorously, and the other hand was raised flat to maintain the balance of the body, and gradually became a soulless mechanical movement, but at this moment, there seemed to be a force in the body condensed in the arms, only to feel that the burden between the arms was much lighter, and the body gradually became decent.

This is the effect of opening up the second pulse of Ren Du, quickly adapting and adjusting the balance of the body by itself, it is an opportunity that everyone dreams of on the way to martial arts cultivation, others have a spear for a lifetime, and Qin Mufeng used to make the stick only a few days to become proficient, and then it is a process of continuous improvement in skills.

After swinging a thousand times, it is already sunset, and when I stop at first, my arms dance uncontrollably, and I only feel embarrassed, but the comfort brought by exceeding the limit seems to be a refreshing experience that I have never experienced in this life.

Heart, slowly calmed down, constantly thinking about Han Jingxuan's words, Qin Mufeng really felt justified in the cultivation of the body, and couldn't find fault with it, but he said that the boxing method was useless, and he was noncommittal, after all, Jiang Xuan's eight-pole boxing method was fierce and domineering, not to mention killing Liu Huyuan in one blow, and he was invincible under the siege of the three masters of Zhan Laigang, Lian Haisheng, and Zhou Yun.

"Brother Yifeng!" While thinking about it, Mu Jingwu's hands hung weakly, one shoulder hit Qin Mufeng's shoulder, the soreness on his arm went straight to his heart, Qin Mufeng grinned, and then looked at this Mu Jingwu, he also had the same expression, the two immediately laughed at me like children, I laughed at you, and then patted each other's arms, and grinned again.

"Tell me about the rivers and lakes. Under the starry sky, the two of them have become acquainted, and Mu Jingwu said expectantly, "In exchange, I will also tell you some stories about the court." ”

"The rivers and lakes are just places where people's complexes and desires are entangled. Qin Mufeng said in an old-fashioned manner, in fact, how much did he know about the affairs of the rivers and lakes? "Well, the court, it's just a deception. Mu Jingwu said with a smile, as if he was taking revenge on Qin Mufeng, but he just heard some stories from his father.

"What do you think of Instructor Han's training methods?" Qin Mufeng spread his doubts to himself. "It's a bit bitter, but if I'm not mistaken, he should be one of the few people in the Ming Army who have reached the peak of the day after tomorrow. ”

"The peak of the day after tomorrow?" Qin Mufeng had never heard of this word, so he brought it up with interest, "What do you say?"

"I have heard that there are several people in the army who have reached the pinnacle of foreign achievements, all of them are characters who are unruly in their careers, and one of them is surnamed Han, who has killed the masters of the Heavenly Trench Realm, yes, do you know what the Celestial Trench Realm means?"

"That's a character who is about to cultivate into an immortal, and he can still walk in the air!" - "It's really fake!" Qin Mufeng pretended to be stupid.

"Then there can be fake, I can see it with my own eyes in the capital!" Mu Jingwu said proudly, his waist stood up involuntarily, and then he gasped, and the whole person stiffened again, "I tell you, don't believe it, it's like a fairy descending to earth, walking in the air by himself, no matter how others exclaim and bow down, he ignores it!"

"Okay, stop, let's not talk about this realm, can the soldier surnamed Han also go to the sky?" Qin Mufeng continued to pretend to be stupid.

"So he's amazing, kill the immortals!" Mu Jingwu said excitedly, "This surnamed Han became the peak master of the day after tomorrow, and it is said that he relied on constantly challenging his patience, but later he offended Qian Ning and was expelled, so he disappeared." ”

"You are talking so much!" Qin Mufeng was helpless, "You haven't said what kind of realm the peak of the day after tomorrow is!"

"Anyway, it's my goal!" Mu Jingwu's sentence made Qin Mufeng even more helpless, and after talking for a long time, he didn't know anything about this point!

"Breath!" Qin Mufeng sneered, "Why don't you make the Heavenly Trench Realm your target?"

"Eh?" Mu Jingwu rolled his eyes and sighed in surprise, "Hey! Yes! Heavenly Trench Realm! Okay, I've decided, I want to cultivate to the Heavenly Trench Realm and live a fairy addiction, haha!"

"You two are really a pair of mung beans, you are eye-catching!" The emptiness in his heart began to spoil the atmosphere again, but Qin Mufeng was speechless, the partner in front of him was indeed a little cute, but the tenacity of not giving up during the day was really admirable, and he had a good impression in his heart.

"Heavenly Trench Realm. Qin Mufeng looked at the starry sky and smiled, but he didn't even know what he was thinking.

"I hope that Instructor Han is really that military soul, so that we will make a lot of money!" Mu Jingwu said with a smile, looking up at the starry sky together.

It seems that the people in the rivers and lakes don't know much about the affairs of the court, and in turn, the people in the court also know very little about the rivers and lakes, Qin Mufeng really can't bear to tell Mu Jingwu anymore, in fact, there is still a realm that everyone in the rivers and lakes dreams of above the heavenly moat, and that is the real peak - for the people in this world.

"Good brother, promise me, no matter how hard and tired you are, hold on, and we will achieve our goal together!" Mu Jingwu said firmly, looking at Qin Mufeng, holding the other arm in one hand and raising it halfway to his chest.

"Good brother!" Qin Mufeng was inexplicably a little happy, learning from Mu Jingwu's appearance, he also held his hand on his chest, and the two half-raised hands gradually approached, and then clasped tightly together, "Together, we will surpass our own limits and move forward towards our goal!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, looking at each other with all their hearts.

I don't know who was tired of lifting, and the two hands that were clenched shook slightly at the same time, and for a while, moans and laughter mixed together, echoing under the night sky.