Chapter 73: Learning Boxing

, Crossing the River

"Have you finished reading the preface?" Lei Xiaohuan tapped the table with her fingers, "What do you think?"

Qi Xuansu replied, "I admire you."

Lei Xiaohuan sighed, "It is indeed a great admiration, and it makes people yearn for the era of heroes competing for supremacy. Maybe the Taoist sect at that time was just a grass-roots team, far from being comparable to the Taoist sect today, but there were no less heroes."

Pei Xiaolou said, "That's why Xuansheng invented the 'Xuansheng Card', which can be regarded as a kind of remembrance of the past."

Lei Xiaohuan said, "Hearing what you said, I am a little curious about this 'Xuansheng Card'. Can you teach me how to play it?"

Pei Xiaolou nodded in response.

Qi Xuansu smiled secretly in his heart.

Pei Xiaolou may not be the kind of person who likes to be humble to women, but looking at him like this, it is probably because he really can't beat Lei Xiaohuan, rather than the so-called mentality of a real man giving in to a weak woman.

Thinking of this, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but think of himself.

If Pei Xiaolou can't beat Lei Xiaohuan, can he beat Zhang Yuelu? Probably not.

It's very difficult to catch up with Zhang Yuelu.

Qi Xuansu is not thinking about attacking Zhang Yuelu, but thinking about how to protect himself.

Because in the Taoist sect, there are many cases where couples are at odds and fight with each other, and it can even be said that it is very common. That is a real fight between husband and wife, and there is no such thing as beating the wife. After all, they are all cultivated, and the difference in strength between men and women is nothing. Men may not have the advantage, and there are many people who are beaten by their wives.

The great masters of the Taoist sect in all dynasties did not prohibit such fighting for some considerations, but only required that no one should be killed.

Because of this kind of competition in cultivation, there are also many cases where immortal couples become resentful couples, such as the Chongyang Patriarch of the Five Patriarchs of Quanzhen Taoism and a strange woman.

Both of them are geniuses, and they were originally a pair of lovers made in heaven.

There was no third party, male or female, to stir up the sea of ​​love between the two, nor was there any hatred and entanglement between relatives and friends. Chongyang Patriarch had been concentrating on resisting the Golden Horde and other major events before, and had no time to care about his children's private affairs. However, when the righteous master was destroyed and lived in the ancient tomb, he came to comfort him, with tenderness and righteousness, which was really touching. At that time, there was no reason for good things not to be harmonious, but they still ended up with long-lasting love and hatred. One became a Taoist priest, and the other disappeared.

The disciples of Changchun Zhenren and other disciples did not know the reason, and even the two people themselves could not explain it clearly, and they could only attribute it to the word "no fate". However, they did not know that no fate was the "result" rather than the "cause". The two people's realm of cultivation was high, and their arrogance became more and more serious. Whenever the love sprouts gradually grew, the competition when discussing Taoism and skills would arise. They were always at odds with each other, and there were not a few fights. The two people continued to compete until their death.

It can be seen that having a good relationship is one thing, and fighting between husband and wife is another. After all, husband and wife are two completely different individuals, not one is the vassal of the other, and some bumps, conflicts and disputes are inevitable.

If the two have a dispute and it is difficult to tell who is right or wrong, Zhang Yuelu proposes a competition, whoever wins will listen to the other, should Qi Xuansu agree or not? If he agrees, he can't beat him, if he doesn't agree, he can only obey.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuelu is reasonable.

Qi Xuansu can only comfort himself in this way.

But then again, Qi Xuansu laughed at Pei Xiaolou in his heart for being a crow landing on a pile of coal, but if Pei Xiaolou knew what Qi Xuansu was thinking at this time, he would also laugh at Qi Xuansu. Isn't it too early for you to start thinking about these things before the marriage of the two has even started? Just like some young men, who have just met the girl once, they have even thought of what name to give their children.

Qi Xuansu gathered his thoughts, turned over the title page, and began to look through the boxing manual.

To be fair, the language of the boxing manual is very refined. For people with sufficient basics, it will be very comfortable to read, but for people with no basics, this boxing manual has a threshold, and the threshold is quite high.

To give the simplest example, a Taoist basic Qi training formula begins with sitting with five hearts facing the sky. People from the Wanxiang Taoist Palace can understand at a glance that the palms of both hands, the palms of both feet, and the top of the head are the five hearts. But ordinary people without basics will inevitably be confused. What is the five hearts facing the sky? There is only one heart in the human body, where do the five hearts come from? Facing the sky? This will make it impossible to practice, and this is the threshold.

What's more, if you can't read a single big word, you are blind. The threshold is even higher.

This is also the reason why the Wanxiang Taoist Palace offers ancient Chinese courses. Many ancient classics are recorded in ancient Chinese. For example, the ancient witchcraft classics are mainly in oracle bone inscriptions. The characters used in ancient Taoist documents are also very different from the characters commonly used today. It is always better to read the original text yourself than to read other people's translations.

The same principle applies to the boxing manual. Tan Taiyun is not like Xuansheng who made up teaching materials and created a huge system from acquired knowledge to immortality. She is just recording and summarizing her own feelings, more like a casual note, and naturally does not consider whether it can be understood.

However, there are a lot of annotations in the blank space next to the original boxing manual, which should be from Lei Xiaohuan. Looking at the handwriting, there are new and old, circles and dots. This is not Lei Xiaohuan's intention. It is probably the experience and feelings left when she was learning boxing.

With these annotations, Qi Xuansu finds it much easier to understand and can understand most of it. Even if there is something he doesn't understand, he can always ask Lei Xiaohuan who is right in front of him.

The martial artist's spirit and body are integrated, as if he has no soul, just like the stars and mountains and rivers. His energy and blood flow all over his body, creating an aura as high as the mountains and the abyss. This is different from the unity of heaven and man as a Qi practitioner, but another feeling. It is like an isolated mountain peak piercing the blue sky and reaching into the sky. It gives the impression that it is not one with the heaven and the earth, but that the sky is about to fall. It is all thanks to this mountain supporting it like a giant pillar that the sky will not collapse.

This kind of aura that is clearly a dead thing but still competes with the heaven and earth is the aura of a martial artist.

Therefore, the most common description of the fist intention is "the fist intention is like a mountain". It is not as sharp as the sword intention. It must be thick and powerful, like a mountain or a ridge, which cannot be broken by ten thousand people, rather than charging into the battle.

Because of this, warriors in the innate human stage mainly rely on the reality of blood and energy to fight against alchemists. After reaching the heavenly and human stage, the alchemist's spells escape from reality and become reality, getting closer and closer to reality. The reality of blood and energy alone can no longer be restrained, and warriors can no longer control it. You must resist with your fists.

As for how to condense the fist's intention, the key lies in the warrior's state of mind connecting to the heavens corresponding to the stage of returning to true form.

The Qi Refiner refines essence and transforms Qi, and refines Qi and transforms it into spirit. The martial artist concentrates his essence and blood but does not turn it into true energy, and uses the essence and blood to strengthen his body. Even his soul and body are integrated into one body. Unless he transfers to the earthly immortal path or the divine immortal path, he can no longer be separated.

In this case, the warrior's body is equal to the soul, and the soul is equal to the body. To strengthen the body is to strengthen the soul in disguise. It is equivalent to the warrior skipping the process of transforming Qi and refining Qi, and directly going from refining to transforming into God. The transformation of the warrior Shen is both the physical spirit and the fist spirit that "sees God and is not broken".

The meaning of the fist comes from blood, but not blood. It is like a Taoist priest refining an elixir. The raw materials and the elixir are two completely different things, but they are closely related. How to arrange and combine the raw materials to refine the elixir is the key.

"Tantai Boxing Yi" bluntly stated that this arrangement and combination is to imitate the power of mountains, rivers and stars. Beginners to boxing can learn from monkeys, insects, tigers and dragons. From high to deep, they can learn from mountains, rivers, and stars and seas. .

When Qi Xuansu saw this, he suddenly had an enlightenment and remembered the scene when Wu Luo appeared.

A huge phantom of a woman stands tall against the sky. It is not her real body here, but an outline composed of clouds, mountain peaks, lakes, rivers, and the earth, filled with a wild atmosphere.

In other words, as long as the direction and angle are slightly changed, the outline of this woman will no longer be visible. Only at a specific angle can this scene be seen.

One advantage of such an image is that it has no substance and cannot be contacted, just like a mirage.

These methods have the same effect but different approaches.