Chapter 7: Awakening

In the next few days, Yun and Jiang Yuan continued to get together to study and refine their plans, and also took the opportunity to deepen their understanding of each other.

When he first entered the ice field, the clouds had increased his travel speed to the extreme, but Jiang Yuan could follow him without falling behind, sometimes because of the terrain, he would suddenly change direction, but the unprepared Jiang Yuan naturally followed him, like a shadow, without a pause. Yun couldn't help but ask curiously about Jiang Yuan's body.

Speaking of body method, Jiang Yuan couldn't help but feel a little proud: "My body method originated from an ascetic, which is the unique skill that he relies on when he travels the world. By chance, my father saved his life, so he agreed to teach me kung fu for a few years. But since I was a child, I have been very reluctant to fight and kill, and I am unwilling to endure hardships, so there has been no progress in martial arts. So my old man was ruthless and said that if I couldn't learn, I wouldn't give pocket money. I had no choice but to learn this method, and I didn't think that one day I would use it to save my life, but I just thought that it would be good if I didn't have to do it with people. This set of body methods focuses on regulating people's breathing and body coordination, and also contains the formation of Tiangang Beidou. Back then, I worked hard, and before dawn I would go to the mountain behind my house with lead tied to my legs to run laps, and I wouldn't eat if I didn't run for more than two hours. In the afternoon, I would go to the wild pine forest and run around the trees for another two hours, and if my clothes were scratched, I would not be given dinner. In those years, I didn't suffer less, I didn't suffer less, I didn't go hungry! Now that I think about it, thanks to those years of hard training, I can really save my life at critical moments. If I wanted to run, there really wouldn't be many people who could catch me. What, do you want to learn?"

Yun shook his head: "Forget it, your set of exercises is so complicated but not necessarily suitable for me, I still think that the body technique I practiced by chasing rabbits in the mountains all day long is more practical." ”

"Whatever you want, ask me when you want to learn. Jiang Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said with a little regret

At this time, a family member ran in and bowed down and said, "Young Master Jiang, my family is invited." ”

"What's the matter?" Jiang Yuan asked.

"It seems that the search party sent by the master has returned. ”

Both Jiang Yuan and Yun couldn't help but feel an inexplicable panic. It's been nine days! Although they both felt that the fifth master had little chance of surviving, they also secretly prayed with the mentality of luck. But after so many days of no news, their hopes became more and more diminished. Now that the person in charge of the search has returned, Jiang Yuan is a little afraid to look at it. Yun nudged him: "Let's go, go and see." Whether it is a blessing or a curse, we should always face it, and escape is not the way. So the two of them came to the main hall with their heads in mind. At this time, Lord Wang was already waiting here, listening to the guard's report, and his face was pale.

The two of them chuckled in their hearts at the same time, they were really afraid of something, and I am afraid that the situation is not good!

Seeing them arrive, Lord Wang stood up and said in a low voice: "Big nephew, I have found the dart team of the four seas." Just five miles into the ice field. No one survived. Lao Wu also found it, was stabbed seventeen, broke three ribs, and gouged out his eyes. It seems that he was tortured and questioned before he died. There were too many corpses, and my men couldn't bring them back, so they had to be cremated on the spot. This is their ashes, take them to Hengcheng when you leave, and let them return to their roots.

Hearing this bad news, looking at the ashes in Lord Wang's hand, Jiang Yuan pounced and fell to his knees and wept silently.

The clouds stood still, their expressions constantly changing. Anger, sadness, helplessness, and all kinds of negative emotions continue to come to my heart. The heartstrings that were already stretched because the old guy was killed broke instantly after hearing the tragic situation of the fifth master being tortured and killed. The fifth master's kind smile, his respectful teachings and the rickety figure in the wind and snow when he left appeared in front of him. Although the contact time was not long, the courage, integrity and selfless spirit of the old man deeply infected him. In his heart, he has long respected the old man as an elder. At this moment, the respected elder turned into a handful of dust in front of him.

I want to be stronger! I want to be strong! I want to take revenge! Even the sweat pores on his body exude a violent and murderous atmosphere. Old fellow, Fifth Master, you wait, watch me sacrifice you with the head of the enemy.

"What's wrong with you, wake up!" looked at the clouds, his eyes suddenly red, his teeth clenched, and his ten fingers clenched and fell into the flesh. A substantial murderous aura seemed to freeze the air. The oppressed person cannot breathe. Jiang Yuan shook Yunyun's arm vigorously in panic.

Yun was startled and suddenly sobered up. But he was sweating profusely, his muscles ached, as if he had experienced a dangerous struggle, and he had no strength at all. Looking at Jiang Yuan's frightened and concerned gaze, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm just a little tired, go and rest first." After speaking, he bowed his hand to Lord Wang, gave Jiang Yuan a comforting look, and staggered to his room.

"This son is not simple!" Looking at his back, Lord Wang couldn't help but sigh.

As soon as he returned to the room, he felt that there were thousands of gases scurrying through his meridians and limbs, like a wild horse that had escaped from control. The pain was like a spasm in the internal organs, and the body seemed to rise from the inside, and it was about to break through the skin. Yun had heard the old guy say that this was called true qi, and it was the product of internal cultivation. I remember that the old guy once said that the way of practicing martial arts is divided into two kinds: external strength and internal strength, external strength as the name suggests is to cultivate the body, practitioners exercise their bodies all year round, there are many ways to increase their strength and endurance including weight-bearing long-distance running, swimming, lifting heavy objects, etc. Or even hit your own body to increase the toughness of your muscles and bones. For example, the iron sand palm is to beat the iron sand every day, so that your hands are as hard as the iron sand in the end. When working with people, pay attention to stability, accuracy, and ruthlessness, and directly attack the enemy's vital points. Try to kill with one hit. Those who are recruited present with open trauma, often with broken bones and tendons. Therefore, when the external skills are cultivated to the extreme, the fists, palms, fingers, knees, feet and even the head can be used as weapons to open mountains and crack rocks. And the whole body is as hard as an iron knife and invulnerable.

And the internal strength is much more profound. The main thing is to cultivate the various organs inside your body and develop your potential. According to the old guy, cultivating to the highest level is the unity of heaven and man, and even moving mountains and reclaiming the sea. At that time, Yun scoffed and thought that the old guy was drinking too much and bragging, and wouldn't he become an immortal when he got to that point.

Over the years, I haven't relaxed and exercised, although I don't know how far I have come, but my body is strong and long. I am not very tired from walking hundreds of miles of mountain roads in a day, and I have never been sick or sick. But the old guy has never taught it, and he hasn't practiced it himself. But today, why did you suddenly have the legendary signs of cultivating internal strength and going crazy? What should I do? My body became more and more uncomfortable, as if it was about to explode from the inside. The consciousness of the clouds is also becoming more and more blurred. He bit the tip of his tongue hard to keep his brain awake, and suddenly a flash of inspiration occurred in his mind, and the human skin left by the old guy seemed to be a set of internal exercises, so it was better to take it out and take a look. The human skin cloud hadn't moved since the last time it was roughly glanced, and it had been running for its life and didn't have time to take a closer look. The second is that I feel a little weird, and I don't want to look at it. The night before leaving Ping'an Town, he was personally collected by the silver ticket and the jade pendant exchanged for a few hundred taels of silver. Now that it is taken out, it still carries his body temperature slightly, and at this moment, the human skin in Yunyun's hand is not disgusted at the beginning, but there is an inexplicable sense of intimacy. The three words presented in front of his eyes made him feel a little awkward. Turtle breath, return to the west. It seems that this time I can't do it myself, and I'm going to return to the West. He shook his head self-deprecatingly and felt his physical condition, which was on the verge of collapse. No matter, let's be a dead horse as a live horse doctor. A quick glance at the general outline, this set of exercises is divided into nine folds. I don't have time to start from scratch and see if there is a solution to the symptoms. One is to accept the anger, and now I am about to explode, and I am still angry. Skip looking at the double, the double is for qi control. This one is a bit of a counterpoint, so let's leave it at that. Yun sat cross-legged on the ground with his legs together, his hands on his legs down, his eyes closed, his tongue pressed against his palate, and his breathing rate slowly lowered. From forward breathing to reverse breathing, the muscles of the whole body contract inward, force the qi into the bones with the power of the chest and abdomen, and try to communicate the scattered true qi in the body to gather to the dantian according to the branches of each meridian. At this time, Yun Yun was secretly glad that he was careful enough when he listened to the old guy talk about the structure of the human body's meridians, otherwise he really didn't know where to start now. Slowly, several scattered true qi in the body no longer rampage, but gathered together, like a river entering the sea, from the limbs to the chest and abdomen, and finally sank into the dantian, forming a cyclone, and constantly rotating. I felt my body relaxing, and my mood gradually calmed down. When the last wisp of true qi returned to the dantian cloud, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. There is no longer a feeling of discomfort, but I feel deaf and clear, and there seems to be an aura seeping into the world from the pores, wandering all over the body, and finally entering the dantian. As the cyclone in the dantian continued to accelerate and rotate, he was warm and indescribably comfortable. Yunyun, who was still struggling on the edge of life and death just now, relaxed his expression, and immediately felt that he had lost his strength and fell to the ground and fell into a deep sleep.