Chapter 10: Winter is coming
Crawling back to his lair and eating the last prawn he had stored before, Tang Yun sighed slightly, it was becoming more and more difficult to find food in this winter, although there were still a lot of fish in the swamp, but every time he went down to the water to catch fish, he had to endure a baptism of ice water, and the taste was not good at all.
Slowly crawled to the water's edge, curled the tip of his tail and went into the water for an interview.
"Shhh...... It's cold!"
As soon as his tail touched the water, Tang Yun reflexively pulled out. It had just snowed, and the water was very cold and exuded a biting chill.
"Nima, how do I catch fish?"
Tang Yun was struggling with whether to go into the water to catch fish or go to the depths of the forest to catch two rats when a high-pitched eagle roar suddenly came into his ears.
The eagle snake is a natural enemy, as soon as he heard this eagle roar, Tang Yun immediately became nervous, his whole body subconsciously coiled into a mess, raised his head and nervously looked at the direction where the eagle roar came from in the sky.
In the distance, Tang Yun saw a black shadow flying in the sky. However, the black shadow didn't pay attention to Tang Yun in the snow, but spread its wings and flew away.
Looking at the distant black shadow in the sky, Tang Yun breathed a sigh of relief, and then remembered that in this winter, if it snowed, his little black snake was really conspicuous in the snow, and at that time, all the leaves on the tree should have fallen off, and the large predators flying in the sky could easily see him.
Thinking of this, Tang Yun's heart jumped, and he said secretly, he had to find a way to store some food, otherwise it would be very dangerous to wait until the snow was piled up and then come out to look for food.
With a plan in his heart, Tang Yun did not hesitate, glanced at the cold swamp water, shook the scales on his body, and got into the water with a "plop".
His body was washed by the cold water, which stimulated Tang Yun's whole body to tremble, and he floated on the water with his belly turned over for a while before he finally adapted to the temperature of the water, and the whole person was ...... Oh no...... Only then did the whole snake regain some of its spirits, and as soon as its head was planted, it dived into the water.
After diving all the way to a depth of more than two meters, Tang Yun suddenly felt the water beside him warm.
In this deep water, the temperature is much higher than the surface of the water, and some of the fish that used to like to float on the surface of the water have sunk into the deep water, making the fish density here much greater than usual. Tang Yun didn't spend much effort, he grabbed several palm-sized silver carp and swallowed them alive into his stomach.
With some stock in his stomach, Tang Yun suddenly felt a lot more comfortable all over his body, and the venom flowed down his esophagus into his stomach, quickly decomposing and digesting the silver carp that had just eaten his stomach, turning it into nutrients and energy to nourish his body.
After eating and drinking, Tang Yun did not waste time, twisted his body, and dived to the bottom of the water.
There are a huge number of loaches and eels hidden in the silt at the bottom of this swamp, these are nutritious food, some of them are as thick as a baby's arm, and some of them are good things to replenish qi and blood, and more importantly, there are not many of these huge yellow eels in this swamp silt.
It didn't take long for Tang Yun to find a big yellow eel, and he didn't delay too long, he pounced and bit the yellow eel's neck, and the deadly venom was quickly injected into the yellow eel's body, but in a few moments, the huge yellow eel that looked very vicious lost signs of life.
Biting the big yellow eel to death, Tang Yun didn't eat it immediately, but swam towards the water with his mouth, this yellow eel was the first wintering prey he caught today.
In the following time, Tang Yun was like a hard-working squirrel, collecting food all the time to prepare for his wintering. When the whole world was covered with a snow-white quilt, he had stored a large pile of food in the cave where he lived, enough for him to eat for two or three months.
Looking at the snowflakes flying outside the cave, Tang Yun shrunk his body, and the whole snake sank into the quilt made of soft dead leaves.
With thick dead leaves to isolate the cold breath, Tang Yun felt that his whole body was warm, he comfortably coiled his body around the city, stretched his head, and picked up a big frozen eel from the side of the quilt, and swallowed it into his stomach with a "grunt".
The frozen eel is like a stick, cold and hard, swallowed in one bite, the upper half has reached the stomach, but the lower half is still outside the mouth, that sour, that posture, it is simply ecstatic, and it is very evil, but fortunately there are no other creatures here to watch, otherwise even if he starves to death, he is not willing to use this posture to eat.
With his mouth open, he turned his belly and stood up in the dry grass for more than half an hour, and finally swallowed a long, hard, thick yellow eel into his stomach.
Eating a meal was like a battle, Tang Yun panted and lay in the dry grass pile, it took a long time to come back to his senses, cross his body to calm down, and began to silently condense his qi and blood true qi. When his mind was completely calm, he concentrated on controlling the true qi in the dantian towards his lungs, and continued to condense the acupoints in his lungs.
After the acupuncture points of the heart and spleen were condensed, Tang Yun clearly felt that as time went by, his heart became more and more powerful, and after the valve in the center of the heart that was naturally cracked closed under the stimulation of true qi, this strength became more obvious.
Every beating of the heart will send blood to all parts of the body, moisturizing the muscles and internal organs of the whole body, so that his body is strengthening every moment.
And after he condensed the tricks of the spleen, his own immunity became stronger and stronger, and the immune system in his body became more balanced and active.
And with the condensation of the acupoints in his lungs, Tang Yun clearly felt that his lungs seemed to gradually wake up from his slumber, and many alveoli that had not been used were activated, which not only increased his lung capacity, but also made the efficiency of oxygen exchange for each alveoli become higher, allowing him to expel the waste gas in his body at a faster rate and inhale oxygen that was beneficial to himself.
The order of condensing each viscera and acupoint on the Supreme Qi Refining Technique is specific, and the first to start cultivating is the heart, which theoretically belongs to fire and is the power center of the whole body.
The subsequent cultivation is the spleen, which is the immune center of the whole body, and the spleen belongs to the earth, and under the five elements of fire and earth, after cultivating the heart, it will be twice the result with half the effort.
In the same way, the lungs belong to gold, and the native gold, after the spleen has been condensed, it will be much easier to cultivate the lungs.
After the condensation of the knots in the lungs was completed, the next organs that Tang Yun had to cultivate were the kidneys and liver, as long as the knots on these two organs were condensed, the five organs in his body would form a most basic five-element cycle, so that his five organs would continue to strengthen in the true qi circulation of the five elements.
When all the five organs in the body are successfully condensed, you can start to condense the points of the six intestines, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, the corresponding six organs also have their own five element attributes, gallbladder wood, small intestine fire, stomach earth, large intestine gold, bladder water. As for the trifocal in the six viscera, it actually refers to the conjunctiva that connects the six viscera organs.
Until all the acupoints of the five internal organs and six organs are penetrated, it is necessary to condense the one hundred and eight acupoints above the thoracic and abdominal diaphragm, so that the true qi that can only be seen in the chest and abdomen can run unimpeded and connect with the qi of the chest and abdomen.
The five internal organs of the whole body plus the chest and abdomen diaphragm, each organ needs to condense one hundred and eight acupoints, a total of 1,296 acupoints, after all of them are condensed and penetrated, the internal organs become formed into a large circulation, and truly reach the realm of the Great Zhou Tian of True Qi.
It was also at this time that the monk's true body reached a state of perfect balance, cold and heat were not taboo, and all kinds of diseases were difficult to invade.
You must know that the five internal organs and six internal organs have their own attributes of the five elements, but they are not exactly the same as each other, in addition to the five elements, the five internal organs and the six internal organs are divided into two genera, yin and yang, of which the five internal organs belong to yin and six internal organs belong to yang.
And when it comes to the realm of the Great Zhou Tian, the five elements of yin and yang in the body will form a perfect cycle, reinforcing each other and restraining each other, and maintaining the health of the body in the dynamic at all times.
However, for Tang Yun now, there is still a long way to go to reach that realm, after all, he is only now starting to condense the tricks of the lungs, and he has not even been able to cultivate the small circulation of the five organs.
Exhaling lightly, Tang Yun shook off the distracting thoughts in his mind, and concentrated on controlling the true qi in his body to flow towards his lungs, with the moisturization of the true qi, the lungs that were originally frozen by the cold air and a little numb gradually began to become warmer, and the whole person was as if he was soaking in a hot spring, extremely comfortable.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, as the true qi in his body was consumed, this warm feeling gradually subsided, and the cold once again took over, freezing the blood all over his body as if it were about to coagulate.
"I'll go ......" scolded secretly, Tang Yun's head shrank, and he got into the haystack, trying to resist the cold of this pit father with the withered grass.
However, it was obvious that the heat preservation ability of these dead grass was so insignificant in the face of the cold, and after a while, Tang Yun came out of the dry grass pile again, wandering back and forth in the cave, and from time to time he grabbed a stone and strangled it, trying to use the movement of his body muscles to generate more heat to resist the cold weather.
It worked well, but as the night wore on, he discovered something that frightened him: exercise generates heat, but what does he do while sleeping?
At this moment, Tang Yun was extremely nostalgic for the earth kang on the earth.