Chapter Seventy-Three: Getting Started
On the way down the mountain, Chief Xinyun asked about the basic situation of his family, and when he knew that he was not the kind of child of a rich family, he was just born in an ordinary rural family, and the money was earned by himself, so he had more good feelings.
Daoist Xinyun took him to his separate practice room and said, "You practice Hongquan once first, let me see it." ”
"Okay. Ma Guo knew that Xinyun Daoist wanted to see what level he had practiced, and wanted to give him guidance, so he naturally would not let go of such an opportunity, and he saluted Xinyun Daoist with his fists, and began to practice one move at a time.
Daoist Xinyun nodded slightly after seeing it, and said, "Yes, in just one month, we have reached the realm of entering the hall. ”
Ma Guocai heard the Taoist chief say this, and his heart was also a little low. Although I have read some basic books, I don't know much about the realm of martial arts, so I can't help asking: "Master, what are the realms of martial arts?"
Xinyun Dao Chang pondered for a while, and said: "This is really hard to explain, the small one is like a beginner's practice, the first glimpse of the door, the entrance to the house, etc., if you really want to talk about it, there are only three realms of martial arts, the first martial arts are in the technique, only know how to practice and use according to the moves, no matter how skilled you practice, it is only a skill; and the second martial arts has a potential, like a tiger fist, which can play the momentum of a tiger attack, and in terms of momentum, it can shock the enemy; the third martial arts has reached the heart, self-cultivation, body and heart are compatible, and art is in harmony with heaven and earth. You're still in the first realm, it's all about the use of skills, knowing how to exert power, how to practice. If you want to raise. It still needs to be practiced continuously. Go and feel it!"
"Thank you, master, for your advice. Ma Guocai thought to himself, is it impossible to practice tiger boxing, but it seems that pictographic boxing is imitated from animals, and it is not possible to observe these. But in today's society, you have to watch tigers fight for food. I can only go to the African savannah. The tigers in the zoo are now very obedient, how can they still have the momentum of the overlord in the mountains.
Leader Xinyun began to point out some deficiencies in his movements, and at the same time dismantled with him, telling him how to use his moves. The routine is not really like what others think is the fist embroidered legs, this is a systematic action composed of fighting techniques, and when the real fight is made, it is not fought according to the routine, but needs to be improvised. When practicing routines, you must often dismantle them with others. to master the fighting skills so that they don't become dead routines. It's really a fist embroidered leg.
After lunch at noon, the chief of Xinyun Dao told him to go to the place where the ancestor was enshrined at four o'clock, Ma Guocai rested for a while, and then went to Du Feng and asked him about some procedures for apprenticeship, and only after asking did he know that now the apprentice is not as strong as the legend, he only needs to incense the patriarch, give the master tea, and then add the name to the roster of the sect, and announce it to his disciples.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, He Du Feng arrived at the place where the ancestor was worshiped on time, and some disciples had already arrived first, and there were not many disciples who came, that is, more than a dozen. The apprenticeship procedure is really as Du Feng said, Xinyun Daoist first offered incense to the patriarch, accepted the disciple Ma Guocai, and asked him to come to the incense, and then gave tea to the master. Then it was announced that he would be accepted as the 271st disciple. Next to him, an uncle who was in charge of sect management, registered him on the roster.
Du Feng helped to give a brief introduction to several senior brothers around him, and Ma Guocai bowed his hand to the senior brothers one by one.
When Ma Guocai called out to a teenage P child, it really made him depressed. It turns out that he is in this position.
After saluting the senior brothers, Ma Guo found that there were only a dozen senior brothers here, and he was ranked 271, and asked Du Feng next to him in a low voice in curiosity, where are the other senior brothers?
Du Feng told him that many of the other brothers and sisters had left the mountain and were busy with their own careers, so they rarely came back.
Only then did Ma Guocai understand why among these disciples, all of them who could be seen now were about the same age as him, and there were some reasons younger than him, they were all busy with their careers, and he thought that the disciples were practicing martial arts every day in the mountains!
Everything is over, and the next time is for the disciples on the mountain to collectively go to the martial arts hall, and the head of the Xinyun Dao will personally guide and supervise the practice.
Ma Guocai learned through the mouths of his senior brothers that every Monday, Daoist Xinyun would take an afternoon to guide and inspect in the drill hall, and his disciples would go. As for the usual times, they all practice separately, or two or three together, and practice against each other.
This martial arts hall is equivalent to a sect's classroom, and it is not only Xinyun's head who teaches here, but also other apprentices brought by uncles. Think about it, how can a sect have only one head and disciples!
As for the first-level characters of the ancestor, most of them do not live here, but live in another house, most of them are eighty or ninety years old, don't look at eighty or ninety years old, according to Du Feng, even if the head of Xinyun Dao is now demolition, he can't get any benefits, and he is flexible.
The Qingcheng faction looks at whether a person's cultivation is high or not, not to see how strong your martial arts are, but mainly to see how long you live. Well, it is said that there are also old-timers in their hundreds.
The next day, Du Feng told him some of the rules of Taoist disciples, and asked him if he would like to convert to Taoism.
Ma Guocai didn't know much about refuge, and asked him curiously what refuge was.
Du Feng explained: "Conversion refers to returning home and having a home, while dependence refers to the child's dependence on the mother and throwing herself into the mother's arms. Therefore, our refuge is a spiritual refuge, not a formal refuge. You can also understand it as the pursuit and belief in the Tao, and most of our disciples have converted to Taoism. ”
"Oh, I see! No problem, is there anything that needs to be done?"
Du Feng said: "That's not true, after taking refuge, you will be considered a disciple of the Daomen, and I will give you the refuge certificate in a few days, there are some precepts on it, you must abide by it." ”
Next, Du Feng began to hand him a copy of "Xuanmen Taiji Body Cultivation Gong" according to the request of the head of Xinyun Dao, Du Feng told him that this kung fu is the foundation of cultivation, this is the real Qingcheng school of kung fu, and Shaolin's marrow washing and easy tendons have the same effect. Let him practice well, and then if there is anything he doesn't understand, you can ask him first.
Ma Guocai waited for Du Feng to leave, and then looked at this Xuanmen Tai Chi body cultivation exercise, at first he was similar to the Tai Chi outside, but after looking at it, he realized that he was very wrong.
As introduced at the beginning, this kung fu includes qigong, kneading, guiding, massage, massage, mallet, pinching, buckling and other kung fu, as well as practicing refinement, qi, and spirit, as well as the techniques of replenishing essence, qi, and spirit.
There are four parts of this skill, divided into upper, middle, lower Yuan Gong and Shen Yuan Gong, and Shen Yuan Gong has now been lost, and the lower Yuan Gong is also slightly incomplete, the fourth Shen Yuan Gong is equivalent to refining the god and refining the void.
Ma Guocai could only secretly scream in his heart that it was a pity that he had a good step. (To be continued......)