Chapter 05: Breathing Guidance
The sun rises, and everything begins.
Kitano Xuan cultivated the Mangniu Body Refining Technique, but found that there was no progress in the slightest. This is not the first day. Since returning from the old man of the Beicheng clan that day, Beiye Xuan has been restless, and it is even more difficult to make progress in cultivation.
"Your heart is in turmoil," Tuo Feng's expression was serious, his tone was heavy, and he said slowly: "In the past half a month, although you are still as diligent as in the past, the more you practice, the more impetuous. I don't care what the reason is. You must know that cultivators, you must always maintain a heart that is neither arrogant nor impatient. ”
Taking out a small animal skin scroll from his bosom, Tuofeng handed it to Kitano Xuan, and said, "Originally, this thing will not be used until you have cultivated the Mangniu Body Refining Technique to the fifth or sixth level. But your cultivation time is too short, and your age is too old, so your mind is a little more complicated. If you don't understand anything, you can come to me at any time. ”
This is the third time Takumine has taught Gen Kitano. Kitano Xuan unfolded the animal skin scroll in his hand, but saw that it was a set of breathing guidance techniques, which was the so-called qi cultivation technique. There are only nine simple diagrams, and these nine diagrams constitute a cycle of qi cultivation techniques. He knew that this should be what those young people who sat cross-legged on the stone platform cultivated.
Listening to the meaning of the master's words, those teenagers of the same age only began to practice this set of breathing guidance techniques when they had achieved something in their body refining. As for himself, Kitano Xuan smiled helplessly, he was only at the second level of refining his body, and he needed to nourish his qi.
Some of the qi cultivation methods are profound, and some are crude. The advanced Qi cultivation technique can cause the cultivator to fall into a deep dormant state and forget about the others. And the crude qi cultivation technique can only calm the cultivator's mind and overcome the impetuousness in his heart.
The drawings on the animal skin scroll are very detailed, and the main meridians and routes of the human body are marked in detail. Gen Kitano first compared the running route on the picture with his own body one by one, and then began to slowly cultivate.
Before cultivating the Qi cultivation technique, people's breathing was natural and did not pay too much attention to it. It seems that from birth, it will be natural. And after researching a new set of breathing methods, Kitano Xuan painfully found that the originally natural breathing was no longer natural! He finally calmed down and followed the practice route of this nameless qi cultivation technique.
This practice is a whole morning. When Kitano Xuan adopted the Qi Cultivation Technique, the original natural breath returned to his body. He stood up, faced the scorching sun, calmed down, and rehearsed the Mangniu Refining Technique, although he also didn't feel much progress, but compared to the countless times he had cultivated in the past half a month, he was most satisfied with the effect this time.
After obtaining the Nameless Qi Cultivation Technique, Kitano Xuan's cultivation finally changed. Whenever he was impetuous, he could calm down again as long as he ran the Qi cultivation technique a few times. And the reckless cow refining technique, which has been without any progress, has finally loosened. It's one step closer to the third layer of the Mangniu Body Refining Technique!
That night, after practicing for most of the night, Kitano Gen returned to the stone house he shared with Takuyan. I found that Tuoyan, who fell asleep early in the past, was particularly energetic tonight. Moreover, the way the other party looked at him made him feel creepy.
"What's wrong?" asked Gen Kitano.
"Of course," Tuoyan sat cross-legged and said seriously: "I see that you have been cultivating for more than half a year, and at the earliest, as long as you take two mouthfuls of elephant bone soup, you can eat enough." More than half a year has passed, and with the growth of your body, the progress of your cultivation, and the fact that you have cultivated harder than others, even two large bowls of thick soup will not be able to meet your daily needs. Isn't it?"
This is indeed a fact. The problem faced by Gen Kitano is also the problem faced by most people in the entire tribe. The population of the Black Flame tribe is tens of thousands, and the warriors who go out to hunt every day are less than 7,000. Each time the prey is brought back, there is more or less. In order to protect against unknowable dangers in the future, the tribe must store a portion of its food. As a result, there are not too many prey, and even less is distributed to everyone.
It has been more than half a year since Kitano Xuan came to the Black Flame Tribe. He was not treated unfairly. Like the people of the tribe, they eat two meals a day.
Breakfast, usually bone broth and bread. The maximum size of the bone broth is two large bowls, and the bread is only one bowl. There is also occasional meat, but most of this meat is distributed in family units, and due to the strength of Takumine, it often performs well in hunting. Therefore, the rations of Tuofeng's family of four are relatively large. A large bowl of animal meat is often distributed. A big bowl of meat seems to be a lot, but how can it be enough for four people? This is still a lot of portions, and those families who have less animal meat can also eat some minced meat.
Dinner, perhaps not quite right, because the tribesmen usually eat this meal around four o'clock in the afternoon. Generally, the boiled animal bones are boiled for a second time. The essence and nutrients in the animal bones were removed by **10% as early as the first boiling. After the second boiling, what can be obtained can only be reluctantly called animal bone broth, or it is more appropriate to call it clear soup. Such a beast bone broth will not give people a feeling of fullness at all.
Of course, the tribe also picks some wild fruits and grows some millet, but these are more limited.
When Kitano Gen was taught by his master, he heard the master say - "internal needs and external supplements". This means that when the body lacks vitality and energy replenishment due to cultivation, it needs to rely on external objects to replenish it. The beasts outside are treasures! Beast flesh, blood, and bones all contain tremendous vitality and energy. Even if you cultivate to a half-dead state, and the vitality and energy in your body are close to exhaustion, as long as you can get the replenishment of the flesh and blood of the desolate beast, you can quickly recover.
Having said that, there are very few people who practice as crazy as Gen Kitano. This is because Kitano Xuan's cultivation is still shallow, and the vitality and energy that needs to be replenished are limited. But others are different, such as Tuoyan, although he is only ten years old, he has already cultivated to the fifth level of the Mangniu Body Refining Technique. If he also cultivates like Kitano Xuan, the vitality and energy in his body can't keep up at all, and his cultivation can only retreat more and more as he practices!
At the end of the day, it's still too little food!
Kitano Xuan's cultivation time is too short, and he hasn't discovered this problem yet. Now listening to Tuoyan say this, I can't help but fall into contemplation. After a long time, he asked, "Do you have a solution?"
Seeing that Kitano Gen was successfully moved by his words, the excitement on Tuoyan's face became even stronger, and he said, "There are strict rules on hunting in the tribe. If you can hunt a black skin with your own efforts, then you have the right to share a whole hind leg of this black skin!"
Black skin, is a wild boar-like beast, as big as a cow, hard as iron, and a body of steel hair, very difficult to deal with.
Kitano Xuan instantly understood that Takuyan wanted to go out hunting privately! There are rules in the tribe that those who go out hunting without permission will be severely punished! Moreover, they are young and have low strength, so even if they go out hunting privately, it will be difficult to obtain the desired harvest. It is more likely that there is a great chance of encountering a powerful desolate beast and dying!
"What, you're scared?" said Tuoyan excitedly.
Afraid? Gen Kitano does have a reason to be afraid. Compared with the cultivation of the fifth layer of the Tuoyan Refining Body, Kitano Xuan's strength is completely insufficient. If Tuoyan still hopes to get away with picking up a small black skin, then he can also deal with a pheasant! Unless there is a prey that has been killed or seriously injured for him to pick up, otherwise, it is completely more than worth the loss for him to go out hunting privately.
But Kitano Xuan did not back down, he had already realized that food would become the biggest obstacle to limiting his strength in the near future! If this problem could not be solved, then everything else would only be delusional to him!
Kitano Xuan smiled, as if putting life and death aside, and said, "Since I came to this world, I have nothing to fear!"
In a word, Tuoyan's favor for Kitano Gen has greatly increased!
"Don't worry too much, though. Tuoyan was relieved: "We didn't blindly go out to die. Instead, go out and pick up wild beasts!"
"Picking up wild beasts?" Kitano Xuan was stunned, is there really such a good thing?