There is a village in Bipu County, the capital of Jianzhou on Pingnan Middle Road of the Great Qian Dynasty, called Linhai Village. The village is two miles to the southeast of the South China Sea, and is surrounded by a series of sandy beaches with occasional reefs. Thirty miles to the north is the Biyi Mountains, which stretch for hundreds of miles, and to the west is a mountain range that branches horizontally from the Biyi Mountains, which the villagers call Wutong Ridge. Wutong Ridge stretches into the South China Sea for a few miles and then comes suddenly, forming a cliff as high as 100 zhang, which is called Baizhang Cliff.

The village was built at the foot of Wutongling Mountain, with about 300 households. A small street in the middle divides the village into two parts, east and west, with most of the fishermen living in the east of the village and most of the hunters living in the west of the village. Probably because the side street is connected to the official road fifteen miles to the north, the name of the small street is called "official street", and the official street is lined with medicine shops, blacksmith shops, butcher shops, fish shops, rice shops, and vegetable stalls...... There is a wide range of livelihoods. There are 20 alleys that cross with Guan Street, the east and west of the village have their own names, and the alleys on the east side are mostly called "Aotou Lane", "Fish Maw Lane", "Longyin Lane...... The alleys on the west side are mostly called "Mawei Lane", "Sheep Intestine Lane", and "Luming Lane...... It's very distinctive when you hear it.

Luming Lane is in the middle of Guan Street, and the south-facing courtyard with three main rooms and one east wing in the westernmost part of the alley is Chen Fu's home.

Chen Fu had no brothers and sisters, and when he was three years old, his mother died of illness, and his father, Chen Xuan, was both a father and a mother, pulling him while hunting. Fortunately, there are a lot of prey on Biyi Mountain, and although Chen Xuan occasionally has small injuries, he finally often has a harvest. Not only did the father and son have no worries about food and clothing, but they also saved some money to pay for him to go to school in the first month of the year when he was seven years old.

In his spare time, Chen Xuan also taught Chen Fu to practice a set of boxing techniques called Chongxiao Boxing. This is also common in Linhai Village, where most of the people are fishermen and hunters, whether they are fighting against the wind and waves in the sea or fighting with wild beasts in the mountains, they must have a good body, so the children in the village have been cultivating or practicing martial arts since they were young.

In this way, Chen Fu practiced boxing while studying. If nothing else, Chen Fu will follow Chen Xuan to the mountains to hunt after finishing school, and his son will inherit his father's business in the future. Or finish the school to read Chinese studies, finish Chinese studies and read Taixue, and then embark on a career in office.

In the summer when Chen Fu was ten years old, Chen Xuan was carried home by two hunting companions, and he was already dying. After Lang Zhong from the village came to see it, he shook his head, and only helped scrub the blood stains on his body, without prescribing medicine.

Chen Fu later learned that Chen Xuan was hunting in Biyi Mountain when he encountered a demon beast. At that time, Chen Xuan and his companions had already dispersed, alone, unable to resist, although they seriously injured the beast, and they were also knocked off the cliff. The companions did not wait for him at the agreed rendezvous, but searched everywhere and finally found him at the bottom of the cliff. The group asked two people to carry him back to the village, and the rest of the people followed the blood of the demon beast and found the beast that day, and slaughtered it together.

Before dying, Chen Xuan took the hand of an old man who came to visit him, looked at Chen Fu with pity, and said intermittently: "The child is too young...... Alone...... I hope you are old...... Take care of it!" he said, looking at the old man, his eyes full of supplication.

The old man is a fisherman, named Song Yuge, and Chen Fu usually calls him Grandpa Song. He was the eldest man in the village, no one knew how old he was, and the villagers respected him.

Song Yuge held Chen Xuan's hand, muttered for a while, and said, "I will pass on some of his skills to settle down, don't worry." ”

Under Chen Xuan's reluctantly condensed gaze, Chen Fu respectfully kowtowed to Song Yuge, straightened up, and saw Chen Xuan close his eyes, his hand loosened, his head tilted, and he fell asleep for a long time.

After burying his father next to his mother's grave, Chen Fu also dropped out of school, although the family still had some money, after all, he couldn't sit on the mountain, he had to find a livelihood.

Chen Fu didn't know what he should do, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was more appropriate to go fishing with Grandpa Song. Song Yuge said that he was still young and couldn't withstand the turbulence of the sea, so he would go with him to ask for the sea in a few years, and let Chen Fu temporarily go up the mountain to collect medicine and sell it to Qi Zhuli.

After that, Song Yuge took him around Wutongling and Biyi Mountain for half a month and got to know some medicinal materials. After descending the mountain, Song Yuge and Qi Zhuli asked for a set of "Biyi Materia Medica" for Chen Fu, so that he could compare and identify the medicinal materials by himself in the future.

After another half a month, Song Yuge said that he was going to sea, and the day before leaving, he took Chen Fu to the top of Baizhang Cliff.

Baizhang Cliff is like a big stone that has been split in half, the cliff wall is a straight stone wall on the whole side, and the top of the cliff is also a bare stone lawn, and the edge is covered with plane trees. The two stood on the stone floor, and Song Yuge said to him: "Child, you are the only seedling left in your family, Grandpa Song hopes that you will live a long and healthy life, and pass on the ancestry to the old Chen family." In this world, if you want to strengthen your body and prolong your life, the best way is to cultivate the Tao. Whether or not you can become a cultivator depends on whether you have a sense of qi or not. ”

"Qi sense is the perception of the vitality that exists between heaven and earth. With a sense of qi, we can know the amount and strength of the vitality around us, grasp the laws of the flow of vitality, and be able to communicate with it, guide it, control it, and absorb it. ”

"Yuan Qi is a kind of life energy, and a cultivator can absorb a large amount of Yuan Qi and refine it, which can make him stronger, reborn, and even immortal. ”

"It takes about five years to practice the guiding skills for a long time to have a sense of qi, and it usually takes about five years, and it takes two or three years for the fastest. There are only a few talented and strong people who are born with a sense of qi. However, the vast majority of people are hopeless for life. ”

"With a sense of qi, it means that you have entered the first level of the realm of cultivation: the Ming Yuan realm. ”

After saying the above words, Song Yuge taught Chen Fu a set of mantras for guiding exercises, and did not say what the name of this exercise was. After Chen Fu memorized the formula, he showed him on the spot. This is a set of exercises with movement and static, Song Yuge first poses a stake posture, and then breathes for a while, and stretches his fists and feet for a while. After Chen Fu followed the drill, Song Yuge gave some pointers, and asked him to bring up what he didn't understand and explain it to Chen Fu in detail. This was repeated several times until Song Yuge was satisfied.

Subsequently, Song Yuge instructed again: "This set of exercises should be practiced when the sun is just emerging from the sea, and the effect is the best." That is to say, starting from about the time of Mao Zheng, a little earlier in summer and a little later in winter, it is enough to practice for half an hour every day. ”

Then, Song Yuge took out a silver rope out of nowhere, handed it to Chen Fu, and said, "In the future, you will come here early every day, and climb this cliff up and down before sunrise, which can not only enhance your physique, but also improve your agility." However, there is a danger of falling off the cliff, and I will go to sea tomorrow, and I will not be able to take care of you, so you can keep you safe by tying one end of the rope to the tree and the other end to your waist when you climb the cliff. ”

Chen Fu held the rope in his hand, which was only a foot long and chopsticks thick, looked at Song Yuge with blank eyes, and muttered, "So short! So thin......"

Song Yuge stretched out his hand and patted him on the top of his head, Chen Fu only felt a "buzz", something in his head flew into the short rope from one end, and then flew back from the other end.

Song Yuge smiled and said, "This is a spiritual soldier, refined with the silk of the South China Sea merman, you can call it 'shark silk rope'." Now that you have a connection with this rope, just meditate on the 'long', 'short', 'thick', 'thin' in your heart, and it will change according to your mind. Song Yuge paused for a moment, and then said solemnly: "It also has a function, as long as you silently say 'tie' to someone, it will fly out by itself and tie that person up." Don't use it indiscriminately until it's critical. ”

Chen Fu answered, and quickly silently recited in his heart: "Long, long, long...... Thick, thick, thick, thick" The rope suddenly became a zhang long, as thick as the mouth ......of a bowl. He was startled, and hurriedly and slowly silently recited: "Fine...... "When the silk rope was reduced to the thickness of his thumb, he tied one end of the rope to a plane tree on the edge of the stone lawn, and the other end to his waist, while silently reciting "long............ Long ......" walked to the edge of the cliff, turned his back to the sea, bent down, clasped his hands on the protruding place, and carefully climbed down with his feet touching the stone wall, only to see that the rope followed Chen Fu's footsteps, getting longer and longer, but it could always be just right to relax.

With this silk rope tied, the more Chen Fu climbed, the more he felt that there was no danger, the more relaxed his mood became, and his speed became faster and faster. After two quarters of an hour, Chen Fu reached the bottom of the cliff, he was out of breath, and walked several laps on the beach before calming down, turning around and climbing up to the top of the cliff. After another quarter of an hour, he returned to the stone lawn.

Putting away the silk rope, Chen Fu tied it around his left wrist, and has been inseparable from it ever since.

The next day, Song Yuge went to sea. Since then, Chen Fu will practice every day according to his instructions, and also practice the boxing techniques taught by Chen Xuan. I went to Baizhang Cliff on a sunny day, I was at home on a rainy day, and I practiced in the mountains when I was collecting medicine, and I didn't pull it down for a day.