At the beginning of July, the news of Wang Qinian's death was announced to the whole town, and almost all the people in the town attended his funeral (Wang Xiangfu did not attend due to illness, and only Xueren presided over the ceremony for him). His body was buried on a hill facing the Central Plains, which is also the collective cemetery of the people of Shunshui Town, where all the Chinese people who have died for the past thirty years have returned.

The death of the Jindan warrior and the respected elder temporarily filled the people of Shunshui Town with grief and panic, and there have been no radical incidents in the town so far, but the faces of the people in the town inevitably leaked the undercurrent of surging.

Wang Qitai took over the army patrolling the mountains in Dazhai on the southern slope, and the four strong generals communicated well with him, and the morale of the army was inevitably low, but it did not reach the point of collapse.

In the past few days, the natives have also sent a team of men and horses to shout and invite battle in front of the Dazhai on the southern slope, and they carry the iron spine spear, the relic of Wang Qinian captured by Aung San, to show off their might. One of the four warriors in Shunshui Town was provoked into battle, stabbing to death a native Tsukiji warrior in thirty rounds, but failed to recapture the Iron Spine Spear, and was shot back to Dazhai by the rain of poisonous arrows from the natives.

However, this small victory also slightly boosted the morale of the lower army.

Aung San Baoyan has not been seen since he killed Wang Qi. There has been a major personnel change among the indigenous tribes, and many pro-Chinese elders have been publicly executed or disappeared.

――The above is a paraphrase we heard from Xueren in the stone tower.

I guess there is a trick in Wang Xiangfu's art of war. Wang Xiangfu's powerful Jindan warrior card was hidden, and it created an atmosphere of mourning among the soldiers and civilians in the town, which could paralyze the natives, and he would definitely stand out on the day of the blood sacrifice.

So far, there is no sign of turmoil in Shunshui Town, and I judge that Wang Xiangfu secretly communicated with several minor elders in charge of general affairs, and on the surface, the atmosphere in the town has been tense since Wang Qinian's death, but in fact, the people who are really in charge have taken a reassurance.

During this time, Murong Zhi and I didn't care about idle things, and concentrated on reading and practicing in the stone pagoda.

What we concentrate on is physical exercise for one hour a day.

-- This is the root of a qiē martial arts, spells, and so on.

My father once told me that spells and martial arts are supported by vitality, and only by practicing the body well can you accumulate a large amount of vitality. External skills seem to be the most basic entry, but in fact, they are the foundation of all skills, and you can't slack off every day.

An hour is not a long time, the key is the quality is not the quantity, when practicing, you must not be wandering, you must devote yourself wholeheartedly.

The second item is to maintain a state of "absoluteness" at all times in my daily routine, sitting and lying - not to the state of being a "living dead" when I was in a small dark room, but to remain in the state of a person who has never practiced external exercises, and to breathe as naturally as I would have been.

The third project is that Murong Zhi practices the Thunder Mantra, and I practice Xiao Wuxiang Gong.

The styles of the dragon palm and the small Wuxianggong are very different.

The Dragon Descending Palm is the simplest method of resisting qi: rigid, soft, medium, and absolute to deduce endless changes of imperial qi.

And Xiao Wuxianggong is a tireless complex change, and slowly summarizes the limited and fundamental methods of qi control.

From the eight books of the ancient book "Xiao Wuxianggong" to the two volumes of the present book, in addition to the outdated content, the fundamental change is only a change in the notation method, and the substance has not been much less.

- So the more I learned, the bigger my head became, and the summary of the various uses of qi in "Xiao Wuxianggong" was as meticulous as combing the hair of a cow, and I had to practice it with the mentality of counting the stars.

In the process of studying, I found that Murong Zhi was secretly hiding secrets: the four tricks of rigidity, softness, middleness, and absolute that she had learned before I learned to descend the dragon palm. If it weren't for Wang Qinian's passing on of the arts, I would have to ask her in a cheeky manner when I encountered practical problems--if she took the opportunity to blackmail me into something, it would make me stink.

Both exercises can quickly and efficiently train the practitioner to control his own qi.

In addition, the biggest practical application of the Dragon Descending Paw is to strengthen the physical ability of attack and defense.

On the other hand, Xiao Wuxiang Gong is a simulated qi, which is the characteristic of other human beings.

The Murong family's transfiguration technique and human skin mask are disguised as other people's faces, while Xiao Wuxianggong is another face disguised as an adult: the characteristics of qi.

After Wang Qinian's training, I have good luck in the middle level of internal strength, although I have only learned Xiao Wuxianggong for a short time, but now if I have the heart, I can pretend to be familiar with the qi, such as Wang Qinian, Wang Qitai, Wang Xiangfu, etc., but the scale of qi can only be equivalent to my own qi.

Aung San Bao Yan's qi characteristics are distinctive, and people can't forget it once they feel it, but it's very weird, and I can't simulate such a complex qi at the moment.

- Finally, I fully understood the principle that Murong Zhi could learn my spells.

Although she had never been trained in spells, she only had to simulate my qi, and then follow the way I described it, and completely reproduce in her mind the extremely complex runes I had drawn (which she could barely recite if she didn't know much about it) to cast the wind spell.

In essence, this is just a pseudo-wind spell, just like a child copying calligraphy, without his own experience, although vivid, but lacking the most fundamental essence.

That's how she copied my thunder spell and fire spell in turn.

- I suddenly remembered that Murong Zhi's calligraphy was the same as Xiao Wuxianggong's, she could write many, many fonts that I had never seen before, but I had never seen her own style.

- What is Murong Zhi's own style? Or does she not have her own font at all?

As expected, the thunder spell and fire spell that Murong Zhi learned were not as agile as ever.

And with her best efforts, she could only make three breaths and send out a spell that was less powerful than mine.

It's not about her talent.

I really don't know any suitable way to teach her.

There's an invisible chasm there.

This is not a lack of personal wisdom, but a gap between the wisdom of a person and countless cultivators over thousands of years.

How can one person overcome it?!

If there is a regular cultivation sect to teach us, even if it is not a giant like the four major cultivation sects, we only need the guidance of second- or third-rate minor sect cultivators, and it will be very easy to master these spells - now we can only rely on our own little talent to grope around.

Forget it, when we encounter a dust-eating worm, I'll be in charge of using the thunder spell to attack quickly, and she will only need to assist, just like the division of labor we used to use the wind spell at sea.

-- Exchanging exercises and practicing spells with each other was done secretly at night.

During the day, Murong Zhi and I spent our time in the library of the fourth-story stone pagoda.

The library has a huge collection of books, far beyond the scope of the books left by my mother in the ring. The classification of the library is led by Confucianism, followed by the criminal masters who formulated laws, the vertical and horizontal masters who combined vertically and horizontally, the soldiers who mainly attacked the affairs of warfare, the goods breeders who ran the industry, the farmers who specialized in the art of agriculture and mulberry medicine, and the Mohists who manufactured machinery, and the hundred schools of scholarship -- this is the library of secular wisdom accumulated by mankind since the era of civilization, and it was collected and annexed by the Confucian sect after the emperor of Middle-earth respected Confucianism alone.

Xueren was a Confucian bibliophile when he was in the Central Plains, and every book here has been proofread by him.

Legend has it that some cultivators can practice into Jindan just by looking at some of the Dao treasures that have flowed out into the world. Xueren is not that kind of pervert, but he also has the realm of building a foundation.

-- He seems to be middle-aged, but in fact, he is more than 80 years old, and he has been by Wang Xiangfu's side since he was middle-aged.

During this time, he handled Wang Qinian's funeral on behalf of Wang Xiangfu, and he was not allowed to be idle, so he handed over the key to the library to us, and we searched it in the library at will.

Murong Zhi and I focused on the eighth school of thought, Taoism, in the library.

This is the ancient name of the cultivators in the era of civilization, and their knowledge belongs to the study of the outside world, because they pursue the Tao of immortality, which is different from the interests of the secular people.

Now it is the civilization that dominates the world.

My method of finding books is that there is no way, wandering aimlessly in the library pavilion, and turning through the pages when I encounter a desirable and novel - I have seen a lot of wild history notes since I was a child, and there are often legends about a certain scholar who encountered a peerless technique in the pile of ancient books, and then swept the world. Intellectually I don't think it's possible, but I don't rule out that I've been lucky enough to stumble into such a good thing, and I'll carefully check the pages and covers of ancient books.

Murong Zhi's method of searching for books is to memorize all the "Catalogue of Collected Books" compiled by Xueren herself (anyway, she knows how well she knows, and she never forgets to read), and then according to the catalogue to move all the books she needs to the case. Among them, there is the history of the four major schools of cultivation, the deeds of cultivators who slay demons and eliminate demons in the world, a summary of the magic circle from ancient to modern times, and a brief introduction to Dongtian.

-- Of course, most of these are from the records of secular schools such as Confucianism.