The first three layers of the martial arts realm are: strengthening the body, relaxing the muscles, and nourishing the qi.

To put it simply, strengthening one's own muscles and strength, relaxing tendons is exercising one's body tenacity and learning strength skills, and cultivating one's qi is cultivating one's inner true strength, so that the physical body can gradually transform to a higher realm.

For ordinary martial artists, these three realms are gradual.

If you don't have a healthy body and enough strength, you can't talk about exerting your strength; if you can't control your own muscles, you can't talk about refining your qi by relying on your inner fist; and if you just rely on meditation and breathing to nourish your qi, the effect is bound to be subtle.

But from another point of view, the gradual progress of these three realms is also relative.

Basic training improves one's own strength, and naturally requires higher force skills to adapt; with better force skills, you can cultivate more powerful true strength; true qi feeds back to oneself, turns into stronger strength, and then learns higher force skills......

It's a cyclical process.

Even to the higher realm of martial arts, the cultivation process is still a continuous cycle of this process. It's just that the body of the martial artist at that time has undergone a metamorphosis, and it is incredibly powerful, so that layman bystanders ignore the cycle of the basic process.

So, why do the warriors of the world divide this inseparable cycle into the three initial realms of the warriors?

The answer is: inheritance.

Ordinary martial artists don't have a good inheritance, or have a good enough inheritance but can't learn it at all.

For example, Yan Li's "Cloud Crane Palm", which is a first-class introductory palm technique of the immortal family, is wonderful. But let a strong man with an elm head learn and practice hard for thirty years, he may not even be able to learn the most basic strength, it is better to stand on a horse and drive a stake.

Therefore, most of the martial artists in this world started to learn from standing on horses and driving wooden stakes.

The horse step must first be steady, and then it must live.

The most basic requirement is to be able to stand steadily for two hours horse steps, and then learn to vibrate under the horse steps, just like riding a horse, and then the horse steps at the same time punch, if you can transfer the power of the horse's toes to the fist, even if you learn to make strength, relax the muscles.

With standardized strength skills, and then learn stable boxing to exercise the five internal organs and cultivate true qi, it is the third realm.

It's really stupid.

There was once a landed talent who threw a pen from Rong and wrote a limerick poem to describe the first three layers of martial arts training:

"Twelve years of boxing and strong bones, three years of dantian qi beginning. The night penance is never lazy, and the crown ceremony is still in front of the transdermal. ”

The four lines of poetry can be regarded as a portrayal of the practice of most martial artists.

Due to the weakness of children's muscles and bones, except for the simple basic skills of keeping muscles and bones active, other kung fu must be taught after the age of twelve.

As written in this poem by Xiucai, he began to practice boxing at the age of twelve, and in less than a year, he had solid bones and completed the foundation of physical fitness. However, after three years of practice, the basic skills of horse steps and boxing were practiced, and it was only at the age of fifteen that he developed his first true qi.

The ancients had a twenty-year-old crown ceremony, representing the adulthood of men. The meaning of the last two sentences is that he began to nourish his qi at night at the age of fifteen, and he did not miss the wind and rain for five years, and until the completion of the crown ceremony, he did not reach the realm of quenching skin.

Because of this, Han Lin was considered a genius at the peak of his qi cultivation at the age of fifteen, and Duan Yan's breakthrough at the age of eighteen was considered to be an innate hope.

Yan Li was close to sixteen years old before she began to practice martial arts, many years late. But he has been a human being in two lives, and he has a demon surname, and he has immortal inheritances such as "Cloud Crane Palm", and he can break through a limit.

Regardless of the rest, his power skills alone have reached a very high level, but he is limited to the strength of this body, and it is difficult to exert it, so he can rely on his artistic conception to comprehend and learn "Cloud Crane Palm" in a quarter of an hour.

In other words, the power skills that an ordinary martial artist must spend a few years, or even more than ten years to temper, can easily step through and go straight to the two-line cycle of strengthening the body and cultivating qi.

Moreover, he also has the biggest magic weapon - the high-grade Qi Nourishing Pill.

Yan Li asked for a bottle of Qi Nourishing Pill from Guiyun, which was also of the highest grade. As for favors, anyway, he already owes Yu Qingyue and Guiyun a lot of favors, and this one is not bad. With his qualifications, he has the ability to repay in the future. But now that the danger is lurking, he needs to have the ability to protect himself as soon as possible - if he can't fight back, why fight with a group of clowns who jump off the beam?

After taking the Qi Nourishing Pill, Yan Li calmed down and practiced the Cloud Crane Palm.

The Qi Nourishing Pill enters the abdomen, turns into a clear stream in an instant, and runs the whole body with the palm technique. Yan Li only felt that her body felt light, as if she had really become a crane, fluttering her wings and flying, playing freely among the white clouds.

The Yunhe palm is originally taken from the artistic conception of the crane game Yunjian, and the longer the practitioner stays in the air, the better the cultivation effect. Immortal cultivators like Guiyun, if they weren't specifically demonstrating to Yan Li, the entire set of palm techniques could be completed in mid-air, and there was no need to land at all in the process.

Such a vacating effect, of course, Yan Li, who has no cultivation, can't do it. With the strength of his legs now, he needs to land once for each move.

After three palms, he made a decision on the spot, silently felt the endless air flow in his body, and suddenly realized again:

The twelve styles of the cloud crane palm, from the first move of the crane to draw the clouds into the air, to the tail of the crane to capture the dragon and land, the middle ten moves, exactly two rounds of white and red Xuanhuang Qing, is opposite to the five elements, and takes the road of the five elements of refining. The first and last two moves are the whole story of the incarnation of yin and yang.

He practiced three times in a row, although the real qi in his body was circulating, but the muscles were weak, it should be that the yin and yang were not in tune, and the water and fire were not in harmony, and the most perfect exercise effect had not yet been achieved.

Thinking of this, he immediately slowly raised his hand and played a slow Tai Chi.

The rhythm of Taijiquan is completely different from the cloud crane palm that advocates the elegant and soaring air, not to mention the slow rhythm, and the occasional force is not a violent action, but the whole body strength is sent to the micro end, shaking the bones of the whole body. From a physiological point of view, it is suitable for regulating physical fatigue after strenuous exercise.

From a metaphysical point of view, Tai Chi is the best way to reconcile yin and yang, intercourse with dragons and tigers, and straighten out the five qi in the body, which is a profound method of health preservation.

On this trip to Tai Chi, Yan Li's true qi flow in her body became more rounded, and the fatigue of her body muscles gradually balanced.

The connection between Yunhezhang and Taijiquan is quite perfect.

If Guiyun saw this scene, he would definitely be stunned again, and took out the "most useless magic weapon" five-color wind lantern to carefully measure the changes in the aura around Yan Li's body.

After slowly finishing Tai Chi, Yan Li exhaled and returned to the bed in the room to sit cross-legged.

This is the end of today's workout.

There are many martial artists who advocate asceticism and practice martial arts to work hard, and even some people directly use masochistic methods to improve their strength, but they forget that relaxation is the foundation of health.

If you study hard and practice to the point of self-abuse, you can become a peerless master?

Those are all inspirational stories.

To take the simplest example: students start reading and writing from an early age, and for more than ten years, they have been immersed in hard reading, reading a lot of words every day, and they are using their eyes. According to the theory of asceticism, they should have extraordinary eyesight, and if a fly flies a mile away, they can distinguish male and female. But in fact, the college entrance examination system of the Earth Celestial Empire has been around for decades, and the eyes have not noticed it, and the thick spectacle lenses at the bottom of the bottle are all over the street.

When a person's muscles heal after a strain of transitional movement, they will indeed be stronger and stronger than ever, but at the same time, they will also leave indelible dark wounds and even irreversible failure. Look at the Olympic champions who have been working hard since childhood, how many are healthy after middle age?

Relying on desperate penance and self-abuse to improve strength? If it weren't for the fact that there were various authors who opened the protagonist template, those who did so would definitely be disabled and bedridden for life, without exception.

If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and the church of the ancients is the truth.

Cultivation must also be relaxed!

Yan Li understands this reason. Moreover, after reading a lot of medical techniques, his understanding of cultivation was even comparable to that of an innate grandmaster. He knew very well that as long as he maintained his current cultivation rhythm and worked hard for a few days, he would be able to heal his injuries. At that time, with the help of the martial arts experience of the previous life, the cultivation of penetrating strength is effortless.

And the cultivation of the first breath of true qi required for qi cultivation, the test is the cultivator's heart surname, and it is necessary to practice martial arts with penetrating strength, while having a clear mind, and being integrated with the inheritance of fist intent. Ordinary martial artists need a long comprehension here, but in front of the Yuan Shen masters, this is as easy as breathing!

Strengthening the body, relaxing the muscles, and nourishing the qi are equivalent to a level for Yan Li. With the efforts of other martial artists for several years, he can rely on the accumulation of his previous life to step over in one step.

After meditating for about an hour, Yan Li heard Duan Yan's footsteps again.

"Brother Yan, Brother Yan!" Duan Yan rushed in with an excited face, "Good news, great news! Tomorrow, I will Hengjiang help Jianchuan branch rudder to hold a banquet in Jiantao Pavilion, and I will be shocked, and I specially invited Boss Yan to help cheer up! Hehehehe...... Boss Yan personally took the stage, and when the time comes, the chivalrous girls who come to have fun can go all the way to the other side of the Jianchuan River~~"

The so-called boss is the most famous actor in Jianchuan City.

In a place like Jianchuan City, even the drama must be full of masculinity, and the master Hua Dan may be praised by others, but it will definitely not become popular. Shang Shaoyan is the first martial artist in Jianchuan City, not to mention handsome, the key is that the performance is chic and chivalrous, which can be called a must.

His name, Yan Li had heard of it when he was in the Iron Cloak Workshop. At that time, he had a low status and never had the opportunity to meet this big star in the martial arts.

As for now, how can Yan Li, who is a human being in two lives, be interested in Jianghu opera. He just nodded slightly, and said indifferently: "Well, I know." I wish Brother Duan a beautiful woman in his arms. The little brother won't go to join in the fun......"

"Hey~~ My Brother Yan, Master Yan, Divine Doctor Yan, Young Master Yan! Junior Brother is willing to bow down, don't you play with me?" Duan Yan said with a sad face, "I have been in the Hengjiang Gang for two years, and the number of times I have seen the helmsman can be counted on one hand. Even if I make a breakthrough, he can't make a big scene to shock me. He made it clear that it was you who invited you. I just made a package ticket in front of my brother, and Master Yan will definitely be there tomorrow, will you give your little brother a face?"

Yan Li looked at Duan Yan's expression, immediately smiled, and nodded, "Of course, of course." What Hengjiang Gang, what Shang Shaoyan, Yan doesn't recognize anyone. But your brother's face is bigger than the sky, how dare the younger brother shirk, how dare he shirk?"

"If you say yes. You don't know how much the Hengjiang Gang gives face! They originally arranged for a banquet tonight, but when I said you want to rest, I immediately changed it to tomorrow at noon. My top boss, who is often the deputy incense master, has never been so easy to talk to. He has always commanded, and I only have to nod my head......" Duan Yan said excitedly, as if in his eyes, the top boss Chang Deputy Incense Master was more terrifying than the people of Su Fengzhai, Gu Yueju, and Tieyi Fang.

For teenagers, this is normal. The so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and the power of the boss is an insurmountable mountain.

However, Duan Yan broke through the Quenching Realm, and with a sword-forging master like Yan Li behind him, even if he stayed in the Hengjiang Gang, he would quickly climb to the head of Chang Vice-Xiang.

At noon the next day, Yan Li and Guiyun, under the leadership of Duan Yan, rushed to Jiantao Pavilion, the largest restaurant in Jianchuan City, as scheduled.

This is Yan Li's first appearance in Jianchuan martial arts.