Xiuwu Lonely Road 4 apprenticeship

Mu Bai's response was quite swift, just over the weekend.

On this day, the genius was revealed, and Wu Changkong and Mu Bai were riding bicycles on the road in the suburbs. Wu Changkong did not exercise early, which is rare. Originally, I thought that Mu Bai would drive a sports car or a famous car or something, but who knew that he asked Wu Changkong to ride a bicycle. Wu Changkong had no choice but to borrow Zhu Zide's bicycle, which can be regarded as owing this kid a favor. Two big men, no fragrant cars, pedaling bicycles on the road in the suburbs. Why is the gap so big in reality?

"You, don't have a famous car?" Wu Changkong couldn't help but ask Mu Bai. It stands to reason that there should be a car, an entourage, a bodyguard or something?

"Yes, I'm riding my BMW right now. Mu Bai smiled proudly: "I see that although you ride a bicycle on the ordinary road, you will pay attention to your breathing and rhythm." But you won't be able to grasp the bumpy road. The usual road is active, and the bumpy road is passive. People cannot always be in an active position, so they must quickly adapt to the passive environment. Let the rhythm of others be your own as well. ”

"It makes sense, it seems that I will have to climb the mountain by bicycle in the future. Hearing Mu Bai say this, Wu Changkong understood one of his flaws.

"Look at the car, if something really happens, it's hard to escape. You know? The car starts, and the various parts and runs required are too complicated. People sitting in the car have no control at all. You can't know when and where parts will go wrong. Exceeding our control is a taboo in our martial arts. If you practice like this, you should do things like that. This is the true martial arts. The bike is relatively simple and uses fewer parts. In this way, we can all control the operation of the various parts of the bike through force. Over time, you'll be in control of your bike. Which part is going on? Where are the screws loose? You can feel it as soon as the bike moves. Whatever happens around us, we can get out of the way at any time. The surroundings of the martial arts are always in danger. ”

"By the way, why don't you have a mobile phone? What age is it? Will there be people who don't have a mobile phone? It can't be that the family has no money? In this case, I happen to have an extra mobile phone at home, and I'll give it to you another day. Mu Bai remembered that Wu Changkong didn't have a mobile phone, so it was not very convenient to connect. Now that we're talking, I'll ask Wu Changkong by the way.

"It's useless to ask for that, no one calls. ”

"It may not have worked before, but it may have to be used in the future. I couldn't have said anything. However, Western firearms used to be a great threat to those of us who practiced martial arts. Now it is no longer the dynasty of cold weapons, and modern guns can easily kill us. At the beginning, those old guys scoffed at guns, and they paid the price of blood. The world is changing, and martial arts will perish if they don't change. Okay, we'll use it, it's a normal choice. Mu Bai also wants to see how Wu Changkong reacts, if he is not happy with his preaching, then he is not a good candidate.

"I see. Wu Changkong thought of the confusion he was encountering now. The world is changing, yes. I came to this big place from a small place, that is, the environment is changing. If you don't change, then you will become more and more out of place here. If the environment is not suitable, how can it grow? This is the most natural truth.

Not long after leaving the city, I had to ride the mountain road for more than half an hour. Although Wu Changkong had practiced his best on the mountain road, he still couldn't master the slightest breathing rhythm when he reached his destination. Without the rhythm of breathing, you can't have a good grasp of force at all. The amount of energy consumed is too large. Although I am not out of breath, the rhythm of my heartbeat is no longer the rhythm that I can control.

This is still Mu Bai slowing down. According to him, it is normal to have a speed of 40 kilometers on a mountain road when there is no one, and it is not surprising that it is more than 80 kilometers on a road, even if it is more than 100 kilometers. It's flat speed, and it's a normal bike.

Really, fake? Perverted! Wu Chang wiped it on an empty stomach.

Mu Bai took him to a mountain temple. A mountain temple with incense and Taoist priests. The small temple is not big, and it is too late to have it. Wu Changkong is not surprised that there is such a small Taoist temple or mountain temple in his hometown. Even if science is developed and knowledge is popular, these beliefs or superstitions are still preserved in many areas. Regarding gods, ghosts and immortals, Wu Changkong has always maintained a vague attitude. Do you believe it or not? Do you have it or not? The more you practice martial arts, the more doubts you have.

There was no one in the temple, so Mu Bai took Wu Changkong and walked straight to the backyard. This is a simple small courtyard, unlike the usual courtyard in the mountains, where miscellaneous everything may be piled up in it. There was an old locust tree by the wall, and under the tree there was a thin old man who was sitting on a couch with his eyes closed. There was a clay teapot on the small table next to it, and a bowl was upside down on the table.

The old man can't see that Wu Changkong is not very good at looking at people. I didn't see gray hair, I don't know if I had dyed it, and I didn't have many wrinkles. Nothing special other than these special.

"Uncle, I brought someone here. Entering the courtyard gate, Mu Bai waited a little and then talked to the old man.

"Uncle?" Wu Changkong was a little uncomfortable. Relatives? The main thing is that the latter sentence "I brought people here" is how to listen to and feel uncomfortable.

The old man opened his eyes and looked at Wu Changkong. didn't see any movement, and the whole person rose into the air and pounced on Wu Changkong. That gaze locked on Wu Changkong was like an eagle staring at a chicken.

Wu Changkong didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and when he saw the old man's movements, he first jumped sideways to dodge.

But the old man did not pursue. Standing where Wu Changkong was standing just now, he nodded: "Well, yes, it's a bit of a reaction." ”

Wu Changkong muttered in his heart, damn, the novel is still a bit right, and there is really a sneak attack on the apprentice. "Where, to be honest, I read too many novels, and it's just a conditioned reflex. As soon as I walked in the door, I wondered what would happen if it was as written in the novel, and it turned out to be what I wanted. ”

"Hehe, the young man has a future. These days, there aren't many people who tell the truth. Knowing that I am an elder, I am obviously ready to be my apprentice, and I dare to talk to me like this. Not bad, not informal. The old man grinned, and his originally godly eyes narrowed into a line: "If my eyes were stared at by ordinary people just now, they would react half a beat slower." But you can react in time, I wonder if you can tell me why?"

"I don't feel that. If I had to say anything, I think it might be that I had too many nightmares and became numb. Sometimes it feels real in my dreams. All kinds of fierce gods and evils, demons and monsters have been encountered. Sometimes, even when you wake up, you can feel that the ghost in your dream is staring at you. Wu Changkong said while thinking.

"Is there such a thing?" the old man obviously felt that Wu Changkong's answer was strange, but he didn't show any suspicion.

After thinking for a while, the old man made a decision: "I can accept you as an apprentice, if you want." If you don't agree, that's fine, just be friends. I'll also tell you the truth, I'm currently the most wanted gunman in the country. Whether you want to apprentice or not, you have to think about it. Don't worry, if you don't apprentice, you won't be killed and destroyed. ”

No wonder I said that this old man has some impressions? It turned out to be a wanted notice posted in the academy. "So, can I know what happened?"

"Yes, dare to ask. has its own principles and personality. The old man sat back on the couch, and Mu Bai also took out the bench and the two sat down at the table.

"It's not a big deal. The son of a county magistrate wanted to insult a little girl from other places. I couldn't look past it, so I stepped in to stop it. As a result, the other party called a bunch of ruffians first. In order to save the little girl, I had to defeat the ruffians. Unexpectedly, the county yamen actually accepted the police again. I had no choice but to run away with the little girl. Unexpectedly, in a few days, I would be wanted. It's really fast! Hmph, I didn't even use a gun at the time! Those dog officers, you can make up anything to get me wanted. At that time, I didn't kill anyone, and I definitely had broken arms and legs. After speaking, he glanced at Wu Changkong: "To deal with those people, I still need to use a gun? However, when it comes to killing, I do have a lot of lives on my hands. You don't have to ask me if I killed good or bad people. I only kill those I want to kill. If you take this path, there is also a chance that you will kill people in the future. So you have to think about it. ”

The old man was silent for a moment and looked at the sky: "We practice martial arts, not only to strengthen our bodies and pursue the true meaning of martial arts, but also to not be bound. We should be free, not driven by the use of others, not to live for the preferences of others, and not to be burdened by worldly fame, benevolence, righteousness and morality. And my eagle claw skills, like an eagle, soar in the blue sky, overlooking the earth, everything is in my eyes. ”

"I never promise anything, and I don't promise anything. Not in the past, not now, and not in the future. For some reason, I don't have any other hobbies or goals, but I feel that once I don't practice martial arts, I feel like I've lost something. I don't know what the ultimate martial arts is, and I don't know what the highest level is. I'm just used to practicing martial arts. However, I do want to fly freely like an eagle. When I was in elementary school, I had a chicken at home, and in front of my eyes, an eagle flew down from the sky and grabbed it. I was in the house. Later, after the poultry was captured many times in the village, the village organized people to round up the eagle many times. Finally killed the eagle. After being wounded in the mountains, the eagle struggled to fly and finally fell and died. It fell right in front of me. There was a hint of unwillingness in that look. I was sad for the chicken that was eaten by the eagle, and I hated the eagle. But when the eagle died in front of me, I grieved for the eagle even more. It is in the nature of eagles to eat chickens, and people eat chickens too. Later, I picked up a dropped book "Eagle Claw Gong" in the back of a collection of tatters. I remembered the eagle and thought God meant to let me practice this book. So I followed the book. When I grew up, I saw a movie and realized that many of the books on practice were fake. My book should have been fake, too. But for some reason, I really got the strength to jump very high and far. So I continued to practice, and now I can catch cracked boards. What is the purpose of all this? Is there really a providence in the dark?" Wu Changkong looked at the sky, as if the clouds in the sky were passing with the wind. If you look closely, it's only slowly changing.

"Providence? Don't talk so mysteriously, like a novel. However, it's a miracle that you didn't practice like this, and you didn't go crazy. You may not know that if you don't have a master by your side, ten out of ten will be wrong. This is also the reason why there are so few people who really know martial arts now. Mu Bai shook his head.

"I teach you no promises, no conditions, no requirements. You want to learn, I want to teach, it's as simple as that. If you don't want to learn one day, just talk to me. Or one day I don't want to teach, I'll talk to you too. And you can also worship others as teachers. I teach you because I hope that there will be a inheritance of Eagle Claw Gong. If you meet someone you can teach in the future, you can also teach others to pass on the eagle claw skills, and if you can't meet them, don't force them. Everything is days. The old man picked up the clay pot, poured a bowl of tea and drank it slowly. Squinting at the clouds of distant mountains or Tianshan Mountains.

Mu Bai and Wu Changkong also picked up the bottled mineral water they brought and drank it slowly.

"Do you want any apprenticeship ceremony? What kind of meeting ceremony do you want, do you want apprenticeship ceremony?" Wu Changkong thought that if the apprenticeship ceremony was too troublesome and complicated, or he would take the opportunity to charge for something and he would not learn it.

"It's not that complicated. I'll teach you if you want to. You can just call me a master. ”

"Master, disciple Wu Changkong wants to learn martial arts from you in the future, please teach me. Thank you!" Wu Changkong stood up, clasped his hands into fists and bowed to the old man. Wu Changkong didn't know what to do, and remembered that Mu Bai and himself met with a fist to salute, so he also hugged his fist and bowed. If you have to bow down, Wu Changkong's character is also unwilling, and he would rather not learn. In fact, Wu Changkong didn't believe that it was that simple, so he called the master first and then saw what happened later.

"Good. The old man stood up, his eyes cracked, and he swept Wu Changkong: "Old man Lu Tianqing, I will teach you martial arts when I have time today." "It's not loud, but it's powerful.

"I don't have any dogma in the hawks. In martial arts practice, you can't progress at all without a state of mind. As for becoming a demon and becoming a benevolent person in the future, that is a matter of cultivation. Those who practice martial arts don't have much time. So time is precious to us. In order to practice martial arts, I can give up a lot of things, including likes and enjoyment. In other words, practicing martial arts is my preference and enjoyment. So hurry up and start now. The first one I teach you, don't trust anyone. This includes your relatives, friends, brothers, lovers, and yourself. It also includes the master me and Mu Bai, this kid. So if so, who else can you believe? What to believe? I don't know. I can't do this either. That's what my master passed on to me. In fact, this is not unique to the sect, but is known to all those who cultivate martial arts. This is a consensus. However, if no one told you, you wouldn't know that there is such a thing as martial arts practice. As for understanding, everyone has everyone's understanding. I'm just responsible for telling you that understanding is your personal business. ”

The old man paused, glanced at Mu Bai, and said to Wu Changkong: "He brought you, as long as I teach you, he can watch from the side." ”

I see, no wonder the old man didn't have any scruples about Mu Bai, an outsider, watching from the side. Wait? Is this also the reason why Mu Bai is enthusiastic about introducing the master to me? It seems that it is really difficult to say. Is he really a martial arts wizard? Mu Bai told the old man to introduce him to be an apprentice. In return, Mu Bai can watch from the side?

"You don't have to wear that weight-bearing change again. Although your idea is good, at some point, this iron suit will be an obstacle for you. So from now on, you don't even wear any weight-bearing clothes. Unless it's heavier than this one, it's okay if you wear it once in a while for training. ”

Wu Changkong heard this, thought about it, and didn't understand. But he still unbuttoned his coat and pants as he said, and took off the weight-bearing iron jacket and the weight on his hands, feet and legs. Boom, that pile of things was thrown in the corner by Wu Changkong.