Since the beginning of winter, the days have become shorter, and the weather in Changsha has become colder and colder day by day.

On the night of the winter solstice, heavy snow fell, and snowflakes were sprinkled all over the sky, wrapping the ground and houses of the entire town in a thick layer of silver.

In the northwest corner of the Jiang family's mansion, a remote courtyard far away from the main courtyard.

Jiang Chen stood alone in the middle of the snow in the courtyard, with his feet tied to a horse step, his left hand placed horizontally on the dantian at his waist, but his palm was half-supported upward, and there seemed to be a vast artistic conception that supported the sky.

This is the most commonly used technique in the ancient Dan Dao practice, the method of holding the Dantian.

Dantian is the place where people who practice martial arts exert their strength, and it is also the foundation that determines the level of martial arts practice.

If you practice martial arts without alchemy, then any martial arts moves will be rootless water and sourceless wood, and can only become a fist embroidered leg without strength, and it will fall apart after a fight.

There are nine main ways to exercise dantian, which are bumping, holding, turning, shaking, rubbing, kneading, hitting, folding, spraying, and lifting.

Among them, the method of holding the dantian refers to the martial artist holding the dantian in the lower abdomen with one hand when standing on the pile, and the transport capacity is integrated with the dantian, and the upward hug is lifted, so that the qi and blood of the whole body are stable, and condensed into a bright and round not bad golden pill, so as to play a role in cultivating qi.

Jiang Chen held the dantian in his left hand, and pinched his right hand into a sword finger, standing firmly three inches in front of his chest.

His mind was faint, parading the world, only in his two eyes, a spoon-shaped light was reflected.

On a snowy night in the depths of winter, thinking about the Seven Stars, this kind of cultivation method inherited from the ancient Taoist sect is a spiritual secret method that he learned from Zhang Heyun, the Taoist master of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, when he visited Dao Dragon and Tiger Mountain last month.

In the middle of this winter night, when the four realms are lonely, the cultivator has the starry sky above his head, and visualizes the light of the Big Dipper shining into his body, turning into a seven-star divine sword, cutting off the filthy qi in his body and spirit, and thus touching the incredible realm.

Jiang Chen is not a Taoist priest, but he is a martial artist.

What is martial arts?

Courage and perseverance are martial arts.

Meaning the rock, ten thousand catastrophes are not moving.

The heart is like a sword, and cutting off entanglements is martial arts.

Outstanding, rather bending than bending is martial arts.

Since ancient times, the way of the literati has been to live with the light, seek perfection from grievances, hide in the mundane, rely on the elevation of the people, and control the power of the group for their own use.

However, the way of the warrior only pursues his own strength and individual detachment, and he is uninhibited, crisscrossing the wilderness and wandering outside the four seas.

There are two kinds of people, one visible and one hidden, one bright and one dark. One rules over all people, and the other cultivates his own body.

However, people's hearts are unpredictable, and external money and power are difficult to keep a day, and they will eventually be empty. It is still a martial artist who relies on hard cultivation to obtain his own strength, which will never be deprived and will never be moved.

In fact, in Jiang Chen's view, whether it is practicing hard to fight against the enemy, or practicing meditation to become a Buddha and enter the Tao, in essence, it is almost the same thing.

Weak beings gradually strengthen themselves step by step through the method of cultivation, civilize their spirits, and barbarize their bodies.

Martial arts cultivation is difficult and deep, and both physical and spiritual aspects cannot be relaxed. Only by training the body externally to kill strong enemies, and cultivating the spirit internally to kill the demons in the heart, and finally returning to the same place and becoming one, can we break the void and spy on that supreme realm......

Jiang Chen had been standing in the snow for two or three hours. However, he seemed to be tireless, his eyes were always fixed on the starry sky, and he did not even notice that snowflakes the size of goose feathers were piled up all over his body.

It's just that if someone observes his eyes at this moment, they can see that in the depths of his eyes, there is a glimmer of enlightenment.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was densely covered with dark clouds, obscuring the moonlight and starlight overhead.

And at this moment, his body, which seemed to be immobile for eternity, finally shook half an inch slightly, shaking off a few pieces of snow on his body.

"Whew!"

Jiang Chen shook his head, and all the snow flakes on his head fell down.

As soon as he exhaled, his throat was like a thunderclap, and bursts of white heat poured out.

The waves of air blew on the snowflakes, and before they could fall, they evaporated into steam again in mid-air.

As soon as he breathed, the heat churned, and within five feet of his body, it was like a warm spring coming in an instant, and he became free of the slightest chill.

Jiang Chen's eyes returned to reality from the starry sky, but there was a hint of regret in his eyes: "Hey, it's a pity, it's a pity." In my current realm, I still can't reach the level of meridian access, and I can only practice shirtless martial arts for two or three hours in this winter snow, and if I continue to do so, I'm afraid I will suffer minor damage. ”

Bathing in the snow and spirit, this is the method of the ancient qi refiner, which can dredge the five treasures and purify the spirit, but with his current body, he is far from being able to persist for a long time.

If one day he can stand in the snow without drinking or eating, sleeping or sleeping, and persist in standing in the snow for 7749 days and nights, then he can be regarded as reaching the highest level.

Jiang Chen shook violently, and the vertebrae behind him were like a big dragon, and with a violent swing of his tail, he immediately shook off the snow all over his body, revealing his strong flesh and skin.

Then he turned and went back to his room, pushed open the door of the hut, and took a sweat towel from behind the door to wipe it.

There was a look of frustration on his face, but it was only for a moment, and then he was calm again.

......

Martial arts cultivation has a triple realm from ancient times to the present.

The first weight, known as Wai Jin, is also known as Ming Jin in the Boxing Sutra. Warriors practice skin and meat, and the skin on their bodies is extremely tight, the muscles bulge like lumps, and the bones become as hard as iron.

The second is called internal energy, also known as dark energy. This word "dark" represents the strength from rigid to soft, from the sledgehammer and spear held by open flames to a small and sharp dagger, as if the angry King Kong has become a low-eyebrow Bodhisattva, crossing people to kill people, only in a blink of an eye.

And the third layer is the realm of the divine "through the meridians", which can also be called the realm of transformation. After the martial artist reaches this level, almost every part of the body is hidden with the power of a thousand catties, and any position can turn into a fist to hit people.

They walk the world like gods. A feather can't be added, and mosquitoes and flies can't fall. You can even make exhalation and picking flowers, treading water and crossing the river, and other miracles that ordinary people can't imagine.

There was a legend that a certain master of the transformation realm, walking alone in the barren mountains and wild roads, encountered dozens of bandits besieging him.

One of the thieves swung a big iron stick and smashed it into the lower abdomen of the master, but the stomach of the master of the transformation realm was not injured, but a counterattack force came out, shaking the thief who smashed the person to death, bleeding from the seven orifices, and all the internal organs and bones and meridians became sparse.

This rumor also shows that the realm of the master of the transformation realm has actually crossed the threshold of heaven and reached the level of "half immortal".

"Transform the environment, transform the environment...... With such an immortal-like realm, I don't know when I will be able to successfully cultivate. ”

Thinking of the legends he had seen in the past, Jiang Chen muttered to himself, yearning for that mysterious realm.

He practiced martial arts at the age of eight, and now he has eleven or twelve years of time in the year of the weak crown, and now he is already a martial arts master at the peak of dark strength, but there is still a line of distance from the supreme step leading to the mystery and the mystery.

However, he knew that this distance could no longer be accomplished by closed-door penance, but it needed a trace of opportunity to break through the final threshold of life and death......

Knock knock!

Just then, there was a knock on the door outside, breaking his musings.

Jiang Chen pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

It was two men and a woman, outside the courtyard, arguing through the gate.

"No, my young master is practicing now, you can't go in!" an angry voice sounded.

It was his personal maid, singing, speaking loudly inside the gate of the courtyard.

"Miss Yongge, please don't make it difficult for us. Tonight, the master personally gave an order, and asked the second young master to go over and talk about it, saying that there was something important to discuss......"

Two more powerful male voices retorted.

These two men, with loud voices and full of energy, are masters of training their five internal organs to be extremely strong, and it is not a problem for one person to fight four or five ordinary big men.

Jiang Chen heard it, they were all the number one family members in the mansion, and they basically only followed the lord in the mansion on weekdays, and their status was even higher than that of ordinary concubines.

It's so late today, and the two of them suddenly came here, and they don't know what happened.

"Huh?"

But at this moment, Jiang Chen frowned, as if he felt a strange premonition rise from the bottom of his heart.

Whim!

His eyes flickered, his thoughts flickered, and his body left the room.