Shen Lingxiao was silent for a long time, and said lightly: "It is indeed terrifying! People say, 'Shaolin 72 stunts, who dares to see it'...... By the way, senior, Shaolin 72 stunts are the best martial arts, how many years of history?"

"What—" Hyacinth's eyes fell, "it's really hard to tell." Shaolin 72 stunts are slowly formed......"

"So...... When was it really formed?"

Hyacinth smiled and said, "For the history of the Shaolin School, the poor road is not so clear. The Shaolin sect has a history of thousands of years, and I think the formation of the seventy-two stunts should be five or six hundred years old. ”

"In the beginning, the Shaolin monks were all disciples who studied Buddhism, and there were no warrior monks. After several wars, Shaolin suffered heavy losses, not only the scriptures were greatly damaged, but even the temples were burned down...... As a result, Shaolin decided to set up a warrior monastery to train warrior monks to defend Shaolin. Because there is no own martial arts for inheritance, the way to learn martial arts in Shaolin is to send individual talented warrior monks to the rivers and lakes to study, and after they have completed their practice, they will return to Shaolin to teach the monks. ”

"Because most of the unique learning of various sects and sects is only passed on internally, not to outsiders, therefore, what Shaolin monks learn is generally some ordinary outer kung fu, and there is no advanced martial arts. It's just that, over the past hundreds of years, the types of martial arts that Shaolin has learned are not too much to describe as 'the number of sands in the Ganges'. The most commendable thing is that these martial arts have been recorded in different categories and kept in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion for the monks to borrow at any time. ”

"After generations of warrior monks have been summarized and organized, it has gradually become the prototype of the seventy-two stunts......"

"What do you mean?" Shen Lingxiao was curious.

"It means that although the name is called the seventy-two stunts, it is just that compared with the real Shaolin seventy-two stunts today, it is still far away!"

"That is to say: the initial Shaolin seventy-two stunts are not strong?"

"Yes. Hyacinth smiled, "It's more than enough to deal with ordinary martial artists, but it's just that it's comparable to those martial arts schools and martial arts families...... There was once a disciple of Wolong Villa, who defeated 36 monks with different stunts in the Martial Monastery with a single set of swordsmanship of wandering wind and dancing willows; and the stunts of these 36 monks added up to no more and no less, exactly as many as 72 kinds; that is to say, the 72 stunts of Shaolin were picked by others with a sword!"

After this battle, Shaolin was disheartened, and after learning from the pain, he decided to use all ways and means to learn from those martial arts schools and martial arts families. Of course,—— as I just said,—— if you are not a relative or a disciple of your own family, how can people be willing to teach each other? However, Shaolin has a way. For example, people like the head of the sect naturally refuse to teach each other even if they are killed, but it does not mean that their disciples will not be able to do their work. Shaolin has money, and for those who are greedy for money, they use money to buy it, and for those who have a certain preference, they will do what they like and lure them to ......"

In short, there are ways to achieve the goal. As the old saying goes, 'There are always more ways than difficulties!'......"

"Hehe," Shen Lingxiao interjected, "Listening to the seniors, the juniors also remembered an ancient saying: 'If you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves!'"

Hyacinth pretended to keep a straight face, pointed at him and said coldly: "Young man, what you said, let Shaolin hear it, you have to be chopped alive!"

Shen Lingxiao stuck out his tongue and muttered, "It's too domineering...... Obediently, don't speak ill of others!"

A smile bloomed on Hyacinth's face, and he said slowly: "Actually, although what you said just now was a little vulgar, it is not unreasonable to think about it. It is said that during the period of the Five Dynasties, there was a monk in Shaolin whose legal name was 'Yuan Idiot', and when he was eighteen years old, he liked the little Wuxiang Divine Skill of Wuji Gate and wanted to worship it under his disciple. begged for three years and four months, but Huo Xiu, the head of Wujimen, just refused. The idiot finally understands that no matter how hard you ask, it will be useless, so you have to find another way. It's just, what's the best way to do it? Hey, this guy is really ruthless......"

Speaking of this, he asked Shen Lingxiao with a smile: "Shen Shaoxia, guess what method he will use?"

Shen Lingxiao smiled bitterly: "This ...... How can the juniors guess?"

Hyacinth put away his smile, his eyes showed admiration, and said in a deep voice: "After he left Wuji Gate, he used alum oil to rot his face, and then burned his throat with red-hot charcoal, and he was afraid that his body would be recognized, so he broke his left leg alive......

Shen Lingxiao's eyes widened in surprise. The purpose of this self-mutilating act is clear, but I am amazed at his ruthlessness.

Half a year later, on a snowy winter, he disguised himself as a cattle dealer who had been robbed by a strongman, but fortunately escaped with his life, but when he fled to the outside of Wujimen Village, he collapsed from exhaustion and was about to freeze to death. Huo Xiu took pity on him and took him in to feed horses in the village. So, while he was feeding horses, he secretly searched for the secret book of Xiao Wuxiang's divine skills, and prepared to steal it, just like that, he stayed for 18 years, and still didn't find anything. ”

"Once, Huo Xiu's enemies took advantage of his serious illness and came to the door to seek revenge, but Huo Xiu was powerless to resist. Yuan was obsessed with wanting to save him, but he didn't dare to show his martial arts, so he had to risk his life and run for his life with him on his back...... Fortunately, all the disciples of Wuji Sect arrived in time and defeated the enemy. ”

Afterwards, Huo Xiu was so moved that he treated him as a brother of the opposite sex and gave him the right to go freely anywhere in the village. The idiot finally got this opportunity, and it took another sixteen years to check and turn over the Wuji Gate, but still found nothing. ”

"During the Dragon Boat Festival when he was fifty-six years old, Huo Xiu had a party with a few martial arts friends, and he was very drunk. This detachment made him discover heresy: the color of the skin on Huo Xiu's chest was different from other places! After careful observation, he finally found that it was a piece of dead skin, which was stitched on......

"How can this be?" Shen Lingxiao heard with grit.

"Hehe, you don't know this! Do you know what the first thing the head of Wujimen did after he succeeded to the throne? That is, cut off the skin on the chest, put it in a kind of embalming liquid, soak it for seven days and seven nights, and then take it out and dry it; after that, on the inner layer of the skin, copy the secret book of the little Wuxiang Divine Skill on the dead skin of the chest of the previous generation; after copying, destroy the old skin, and then sew back the chest skin of his own ......"

"So that's the case!" Shen Lingxiao was relieved, his heart was still blocked. As for why it was blocked, he couldn't quite figure it out, but he just felt that the methods used by these seniors to preserve the stunts of their own sect were a little too ruthless, not to mention others, but to themselves.

"So, the idiot took off his chest and got the little Wuxiang magic skill?" Shen Lingxiao guessed.

"The result is pretty much the same, but the process is much more complicated. Hyacinth shook his head, "The idiot first injected him with anesthetic, which made him unconscious for a day and a night. Because his family and disciples thought that Huo Xiu was too drunk, they didn't care too much. That night, when everyone had gone to rest, the idiot took off his chest, quickly copied it, and sewed it up with the original dismantled twine and stitched it up according to the original pinholes. When Huo Xiu woke up and saw that there was nothing unusual, how could he have expected that such a thing had happened?"

"High! it's really high!" Shen Lingxiao admired.

"Gao is indeed high, but the price paid is inevitably too great! Not to mention the disfigurement and mutilation, it has taken nearly 40 years! How many 40 years can there be in a person's life?!"

Shen Lingxiao sighed and shook his head.

From the eyes of ordinary people, this is not worth it, but the feeling of the idiot monk is just the opposite. ...... Alas, this is also the terrible thing about true Buddhist disciples—— Persistence! Extraordinary persistence—— I think that although we Taoist disciples cannot learn their unscrupulous behavior, we should study this spirit of perseverance!"

"Yes. Thank you seniors for teaching!"

Hyacinth nagged a few more words, and got back to business: "With such means, Shaolin has obtained several sects of the town. But there are thousands of martial arts sects in the world, and most of them have their own unique learning, and it is impossible to buy them one by one with money. As a result, Shaolin no longer adopted the method of 'buying', but adopted the method of 'exchange'. ”

"The so-called method of 'exchange' is to exchange one kind of learning for another. Didn't Shaolin already have several kinds of stalks, and began to seek out those who urgently needed them, and asked them to exchange them for another, according to the value of each other's stalks, or one for one, one for two, one for three, or two for one, or three for one, ......and so on."

"I understand!" Shen Lingxiao smiled: "As long as it is a cheat book, Shaolin has a transcript." - It is even possible that it is the transcript that is exchanged. - In this way, there will be more and more changes, and more and more will continue unabated!"

"Exactly!" Hyacinth said with a smile: "What Shaolin really paid was only the initial cost of getting those few masteries, but in the end, he got so many masteries!

"It's a good deal!" Shen Lingxiao exclaimed. "It's a good idea for them to come up with it...... Actually, we sects should do the same...... Senior, I am a little puzzled: in the martial arts, I know that Shaolin uses this method to collect other sects, so it should not be less, but why...... Don't you follow Shaolin's example?"

"It's not nothing, it's just very few!" Hyacinth's face was grim, "One of the reasons why most sects don't do this is that many people have been extremely poor all their lives, and they may not be able to cultivate the peerless school of this sect!"

"The so-called 'greedy and chewy'! So, there's no need! Senior, is that what it means?"

"Yes. Hyacinth bowed his head lightly, "In addition, there is another very important reason: the peerless learning of other sects may not be compatible with the peerless learning of one's own sect. ”

"Incompatible? What do you mean?"

"To put it simply, with the cultivation methods of one sect, it is very difficult to cultivate the peerless learning of another sect, unless it is a very similar martial art. However, if it is too similar, after cultivating, the power is also similar to that of the sect, so it is better not to practice...... There is also an even worse situation, once you can't cultivate the peerless learning of another sect, the peerless learning of the original sect that you have cultivated before will either regress invisibly, or you will lose all ......"

"Oh. ...... However, how did Shaolin solve this problem?" Shen Lingxiao was full of doubts.

"The cultivation method of Shaolin martial arts is different from most sects. Most of the sects are from the inside out, but Shaolin, on the other hand, is from the outside to the inside......"

"Inside out, outside in? What do you mean?"

"The so-called from the inside to the outside is that when you first start practicing martial arts, you will begin to practice the internal strength of your own sect, step by step, and finally you can cultivate to the highest mastery. For example, your Qingcheng faction, aren't you just getting started, and you ask to cultivate Taihe Gong?"

"Exactly. ”

"Only after Taihe Gong has cultivated to the sixth level, can you practice the Songfeng Sword and the Nine Star Sword, right?"

"That's right! When Taihe Gong has been cultivated to the eighth level, he can only practice to destroy the heart. ”

"If Taihe Gong cultivates to the tenth level, he will reach the highest realm, and then he will be able to cultivate the dragon descending technique on the "Qingcheng Secret Record", right?"

"Yes. ”

Hyacinth raised his eyelids, stared at Shen Lingxiao, and said slowly: "Shen Shaoxia, with your qualifications, Taihe Gong's cultivation should have reached the eighth level, right?"

"I'm ashamed! No!" Shen Lingxiaojun blushed and lowered his head.

"Don't be discouraged, you can always cultivate!" Hyacinth comforted gently. Let's talk about the cultivation method of Shaolin martial arts. The Shaolin Warrior Monastery is divided into three halls - Luohan Hall, Damo Hall, and Pranya Hall. ”

"What is practiced in the Luohan Hall is all kinds of outer martial arts, that is, the seventy-two stunts of the initial stage mentioned earlier. Only those who are excellent are eligible to be promoted to the Demon Hall. ”

"When you arrive at the Da Demon Hall, the elders will ask you to practice the most likely stunts according to the martial arts you are good at in the Luohan Hall, and it is only after you arrive at the Da Demon Hall that the Shaolin disciples really begin to cultivate their internal skills and really begin to choose their own martial arts direction......

"As for the Prajna Hall, what is included is the peerless learning of the various sects and sects of the martial arts, for the disciples who have been promoted from the Demon Hall to cultivate. The so-called 'stones of other mountains can attack jade', the relationship between Da Mo Tang and Prajna Hall is complementary to each other. Cultivating the mastery of another sect, or being inspired by the mastery of another sect, on the other hand, cultivating the stunt of the Demon Hall can often make people's martial arts go to the next level, and even create other stunts......"

"Shaolin's martial arts system is really good!" Shen Lingxiao praised from the bottom of his heart, "Being a Shaolin disciple is really a great blessing!"

"Who says it's not?" Hyacinth shook his head gloomily and sighed: "In the early years, Poor Dao originally wanted to emulate Shaolin, and in my Kongtong faction, he also set up three levels: low, medium, and high. Moreover, there are more than 1,000 people in the Shaolin Sect and the Martial Arts Monastery alone, and most of them are those with excellent qualifications?...... Alas—"

Shen Lingxiao also sighed heavily in his heart.

——The current situation of the Qingcheng faction, why is this not the case?

- What's more, today's Qingcheng faction is already in name only.