Zuo Qingcang nodded, then took a jar and took out the jelly-like object inside. However, this time the jelly was not a mass of mucus, but a relatively complete corpse. It was a dark green dwarf, whose body was only the size of a palm, and his body was covered with wrinkled thick skin. He looked like a deformed human, extremely ugly.

The old man looked at the corpse in Zuo Qingcang's hand and said, "This is probably buried in recent years. If you can't speak, just change it."

Zuo Qingcang did not change it, but asked: "The more complete the body is, is it better? Does it have any impact on practicing Taoism and martial arts?"

"There is one thing that affects one thing. After all, the higher the integrity of the corpse, the richer the spiritual power and the more nutrition it is, and it is more beneficial for practicing martial arts and Taoism."

After hearing this, Zuo Qingcang nodded: "Then I understand, I will eat this." After that, he took a bite and bit off most of the head of the corpse.

I don’t know if the dwarf spirit died or the way to preserve the corpse, but after biting it, Zuo Qingcang felt like he was biting a piece of paste, without any force at all. It was crisp and soft in one bite, and he swallowed most of the dwarf spirit’s head.

But the foul smell was beyond imagination, just like something exploded from Zuo Qingcang's tongue. If it weren't for his strong self-control, he would have spitted it out immediately.

Even blue veins popped up on his forehead. After more than ten seconds, Zuo Qingcang barely swallowed it.

The old man next to him was a little gloating and said with some concern: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay." Zuo Qingcang let out a breath, and the stench immediately caused the old man to dodge repeatedly, but he had no intention of staying at all, and immediately took a bite. Because he knew that this was the cemetery of the dwarf spirit since ancient times, and every second that he stayed here would endure a second of danger.

So even though he knew that the things in his hand were extremely stenched, even worse than feces, Zuo Qingcang still seized the time to eat the dwarf spirit's body in two or three bites. He had no time to complain or curse the difficulties in front of him. Compared to dying in such an unknown corner, the mere stench and disgust were nothing to Zuo Qingcang.

As a result, in the end, Zuo Qingcang even ate the corpse in his hand first than the old man. Then, under Zuo Qingcang's repeated urging, he quickly ate the corpse in his hand with tears. Finally, the two of them put the jar back in place, drilled into the passage, and then hid the exit again with the previous mound of soil.

After returning to the cemetery hall, the old man touched his stomach and lay directly on the ground.

"I'm so tired today, let me have a good sleep first."

Indeed, today he first saved Zuo Qingcang under the Yin Nv's men, and then fought against the corpse monster with Zuo Qingcang. He walked back and forth in the corridor for several hours. Judging from his age, he did consume a lot of energy.

Zuo Qingcang glanced at the other party. Although he wanted the other party to teach his Taoist skills immediately, he did not stop the other party from resting. Even if he had food and drink, he would probably be under great pressure in such an ancient tomb for a long time. He might need more rest than in the outside world.

In this case, let alone practicing Taoism and martial arts, the most common people may do is lying on the ground and staring blankly. Because most ordinary people do not have the kind of self-control that can still not give up and work hard in a closed environment.

Those who are able to not be discouraged in desperate situations, but instead stimulate potential, are in thousands. Moreover, this kind of potential stimulated temporarily can often last for one or two weeks, one month or two months, but it is difficult to persist.

The old man has been locked up here for so many years, but he has not gone crazy, committed suicide, and even made progress in Taoism. It can be called perseverance.

But Zuo Qingcang is different. His calmness, rationality and self-control come from his innate nature and half from acquired cultivation. This kind of calmness and courage that is engraved into his bones has allowed him to overcome one difficulty after another and has also become his instinct.

So after discovering that he became Liu Zhicheng, he accepted calmly. After entering the ancient tomb, he was never arrogant or impatient. Even now, there are crises around him, and the possibility of escaping from the island is so small that he cannot see it, but he still did not show any irritability, anxiety, or despair.

He did not have the courage to do it for a while, and he would not be depressed or give up hope. He just did it step by step at his own pace.

Now that the old man is going to rest, Zuo Qingcang sat on the ground and decided to recall the martial arts learned by Liu Zhicheng first.

As an ordinary sergeant of Zhenbei Army, Liu Zhicheng only learned one martial art called Kunlun Palm. This set of martial arts is extremely simple, and it is almost a big road product that everyone in Zhenbei Army can practice.

Zuo Qingcang recalled it and felt that the Kunlun Palm seemed to be nothing special. It only had a few simple movements. After all, this set of martial arts is not used to fight the enemy within the Zhenbei Army. It is a set of martial arts used to strengthen the body and exercise.

Its concept and significance are a bit like Zuo Qingcang's previous life's yoga, aerobics and other things, with the purpose of training rather than fighting against enemies. As for the ground, lower-level soldiers like him practice only some simple collective coordination actions such as chopping and puncture.

After all, in the army, such actions are more efficient, so how can we teach them the fighting skills in the world?

After pondering Kunlun palms from beginning to end several times, but not finding anything special, Zuo Qingcang simply stood up and planned to type them on himself to try the effect.

The movements of Kunlun Palm are quite simple and direct. Basically, they are trained through a complete set of palm techniques to exercise the muscles and ligaments of their hands, feet, chest, back and waist. They can allow themselves to exert greater strength during battles.

Liu Zhicheng has practiced this set of palm techniques for many times. Although it was the first time Zuo Qingcang practiced it, he felt extremely familiar on his body. Every movement was so smooth and relaxed. In less than two minutes, he completed the entire set of palm techniques.

After practicing a set of Kunlun Palm, Zuo Qingcang felt warm all over his body, as if a stream of heat was running around. He knew that this was because the muscles in his body were emitting heat after exercising.

‘Or according to this world, am I exuding spiritual power?’

However, after Zuo Qingcang practiced this, he found that the effect of this palm technique was better than he thought. He almost trained more than half of the large muscle group on the human body, and it was also very strong. After practicing it, the muscles on his shoulders felt sore.

This shows that the shoulders are a relatively weak part of his body, and the lactic acid is the first to secrete and the muscle fibers are the first to start breaking.

According to Zuo Qingcang's memory, he usually practices Kunlun palms fifty times every day, for about two hours. At that time, his limbs were sore and he basically had to rest for a whole day before he could recover. At this level, he was already very hardworking in the Zhenbei Army.

Then Zuo Qingcang practiced Kunlun Palm more than ten times, and could feel the heat all over his body and sweating. He did not stop, but continued to practice. For Liu Zhicheng, this was just the beginning, and for Zuo Qingcang, this amount of activity was even more common.

He already planned to exercise after cooking Kunlun palms.

Two hours later, thin layers of heat were constantly emerging from Zuo Qingcang's body, which was also because Liu Zhicheng's original muscle strength was already very strong, so he had this effect.

But the difference from the past is that when Zuo Qingcang plays a Kunlun Palm, he can feel a stream of heat coming out of his stomach and crawling into his limbs and bones.

That was the nutrients or energy absorbed from the dwarf corpse before, which was being transported to various parts of his body through the blood circulation system. However, Zuo Qingcang, who had never felt this clear sense in his previous life, was as if he could feel that he was getting stronger all the time.

The place where the heat flow gathers the most is the part of his chest, which is like a ball of fire, becoming hotter and hotter.

He didn't know whether this was caused by the corpse of the dwarf spirit or the special nature of the human body in this world. But this did not prevent him from being immersed in this feeling. This feeling of becoming stronger all the time made him extremely intoxicated.

Just after Zuo Qingcang practiced Kunlun Palm over and over again, he felt that almost no muscles on his body were sore or painful. An unprecedented fatigue invaded. He knew that this was almost at its limit, so he immediately slowed down and stopped slowly.

Seeing him stop, the old man who had woken up for a long time said, "This palm technique is good, but it feels like it is still unfinished. It seems that many key parts have been deleted and modified, and are only used as an effect for ordinary people to strengthen their bodies."

Zuo Qingcang nodded in agreement. Obviously, the court would not teach the soldiers the so-called true martial arts casually. After he stopped and let out a few breaths, he immediately told the old man what he had just felt.

The old man smiled and said, "This is the effect of directly absorbing spiritual power by swallowing the corpse of a dwarf spirit." He stood up, stretched his waist, and explained to Zuo Qingcang: "The biggest difference between Taoist martial arts and ordinary exercises is the first of all the skills of visualization and meditation. This is a step that no other exercise does not have."

"Seeing visualization from the outside is the basic skill of Taoism, while taking meditation from the inside is the key to sublimation of martial arts."

In the old man's explanation, Zuo Qingcang learned that if you practice Taoism, you can obtain spiritual power through life clusters. This is energy. Practice the mind power through visualization, but the power of mind power is very weak, so you can only do some fine operations, and his function is more of an introduction.

Then, using spiritual power as the source, mental power as the guide, and adding external Taoist materials as ammunition is Taoist.

For example, the simplest flame Taoist art, the Fire Dragon technique, is to use the flame spiritual power in one's body. According to Zuo Qingcang's understanding, it is a person who can absorb heat radiation, release heat radiation to stimulate the flame, and then ignite the fire powder as the Taoist art material, and then control the fire powder to turn into the fire dragon attack. This is naturally countless times more powerful than simply relying on the flame spiritual power in one's body to burn people.

Such a fire dragon that can fly freely in the air is the simplest attack method among Taoist techniques, called "Directional objects". It is also the most common attack method used by all Taoist priests before the cultivation of Taoist techniques reached the "Cultivation of Heavenly Palace".

But even this simplest method is enough to make a Taoist priest a human-shaped artillery on the battlefield.

Of course, the old man naturally didn't know where Zuo Qingcang's understanding had fallen. He continued: "In this way, martial arts are naturally different. Taoist abilities rely on the power of thought and spiritual power to influence the body, while martial arts rely on the innate qi to influence the body.

The so-called mortals practice martial arts is nothing more than practicing muscles, skin and bones, and they do not have the innate qi to penetrate, so no matter how they practice, they cannot break through the limitations of the body."

"But practicing true martial arts can strengthen the innate qi and improve the body. In the end, not only can you have the power of dragons and elephants, but you can climb up to the duckweed and cross the water, and it is also easy to get in trouble with swords and guns."
Chapter completed!