Gu Shuo walked in with a large package on his back and arrived at the door of Uncle Hu's shop with ease. Seeing the two middle-aged men still playing chess, he walked into the small shop.
"Uncle Hu!"
"Coming! What did you hit today?"
Gu Shuo placed the large package on the counter and two gourds on the counter. While watching Uncle Hu inspect the goods, he asked:
"Uncle Hu, what are the backgrounds of the two uncles playing chess next to you? I've asked you several times, but you still won't tell me."
While taking things out of the package, Uncle Hu said: "I really don't know. These two people are very close to each other. I have never seen each other before. Suddenly they came to our market and bought that shop.
Boy, don’t just ask me, I also want to ask you something.”
"You ask!"
"Honestly, did you refine this body-tempering liquid?"
"Yes! What's wrong?"
Gu Shuo also knew that he could not hide it from Uncle Hu, an old man. If he only bought it once or twice, Uncle Hu would not suspect it. But he had been selling it for so long. Which Danxiang Sect disciple would keep refining the body tempering liquid for so long?
Sell it instead of refining the elixir and sell it?
"It's nothing, you, a handyman disciple, are not simple!"
"What happened to the handyman disciples? Are the handyman disciples not allowed to have ideals?"
"Yes, yes!" Uncle Hu took out six spiritual stone coins and put them on the counter: "This time, six spiritual stone coins, by the way, among the handyman disciples, you are considered rich."
"Am I rich?" Gu Shuo pointed to his nose: "How many spirit stones do I have, but you don't count them?"
"Yes! Do you really don't understand or are you just pretending? It's good for a handyman disciple to have a few spirit stone coins. You've already got the spirit stones. By the way, you're just a handyman disciple and you don't need them.
Lingshi, why do you earn so many spiritual stones?"
"I want to buy a middle-grade alchemy furnace!"
Uncle Hu looked at him with wide eyes. Gu Shuo was unhappy: "What's wrong? The handyman disciple..."
"I know, I know!" Uncle Hu waved his hands hurriedly and said, "The handyman disciples are also allowed to have ideals!"
"snort!"
Gu Shuo stuffed two empty gourds and six spirit stone coins into his backpack, and walked out of the door with the backpack on his back. Uncle Hu's voice came from behind:
"Be careful!"
"Know it!"
Gu Shuo walked out of the door, came to the chessboard, and squatted down again. Before he could open his eyes, he heard the waiter in the shop shout:
"Boss, we have big business."
One of the middle-aged men stood up and walked into the store. The remaining middle-aged man raised his head and glanced at Gu Shuo. Maybe he had nothing to do, so he said to Gu Shuo:
"What do you think is the next step?"
Gu Shuo looked at it carefully for a while, pointed to a place and said: "One piece here can lift you two pieces."
"Then take a look." The middle-aged man said with a smile.
Gu Shuo took out a black stone from the chess jar and placed it on the chessboard. Then he picked up two white stones and pinched one white stone with three fingers.
"Um?"
Gu Shuo couldn't help but look stunned. He raised his head and glanced at the middle-aged man opposite. The middle-aged man was smiling, as if he was teasing a child and watching the fun. Gu Shuo lowered his head, exerted force with three fingers, and then...
The chess piece is as heavy as a mountain and cannot be lifted.
Gu Shuo thought for a while, and then his bones, muscles and skin began to tremble.
"Huh?" The middle-aged man opposite asked in surprise.
But Gu Shuo still didn't move the chess piece, so he let go of his hand and looked at the middle-aged man opposite:
"Uncle, what material is this chess piece made of? It's too heavy to lift."
"Who did you learn the technique of holding chess pieces from?" The middle-aged man asked instead of answering Gu Shuo's words.
"I figured it out myself."
"How did you figure it out?" The middle-aged man didn't hide his doubts in his eyes.
"You know the waterfall at Chuanyun Peak, right?"
"Um!"
"I was a handyman disciple and was poor, so I wanted to practice throwing stones as a means of long-distance attack. I practiced every day, and gradually discovered that through the movement of skeletal muscles and skin, I could achieve subtle control over stones.
Now I can even throw a stone and turn a corner."
"You throw one and I'll take a look."
Gu Shuo was excited, but his expression was normal. He took out a stone from his pocket and threw it towards a tree. The stone turned a corner in the air and was embedded in the trunk of the tree.
"That's right, you haven't reached the Bone Realm yet, right?"
"No, uncle has good eyesight."
You haven't reached the bone realm, so you haven't practiced well yet. And even with muscles and skin, you haven't mastered it yet. You can't just use the muscles, bones, flesh and skin of your hands. The exercise of strength involves every bone and every tendon...
The uncle didn't know whether it was because he was extremely bored, or because he felt that Gu Shuo was a young man who could understand these things, or because in his opinion, these things were not brilliant things, just like rubbish, so he just said it.
Anyway, keep talking.
However, this was too precious for Gu Shuo. He listened extremely carefully and memorized every word. Even if he didn't understand it now, he didn't dare to ask. He was afraid that if he asked, the uncle opposite
If you lose interest and stop talking, the loss will be huge.
After talking like this for half an hour, the middle-aged man who entered the store came back. The uncle opposite closed his mouth, waved his hand towards Gu Shuo, and then continued to play chess.
Gu Shuo stood up, bowed to the uncle, then turned and left.
"What's going on with that kid?" asked the middle-aged man who came back.
"That guy is pretty good..."
Gu Shuo couldn't hear the conversation between the two people at all, and walked out of Fangshi almost instinctively, with the uncle's words in his mind. In the next few days, in addition to normal practice, he was thinking about the uncle every day.
If that was the case, he wouldn't even go to Fangshi. He hadn't yet understood what the uncle said. Even if he continued to speak, he couldn't understand it.
"Bang bang..."
Gu Shuo was sitting in a deserted forest with a bag of stones in front of him. He threw a stone and stopped to think about it for a while.
He has been completely immersed in understanding. Even if he broke through to the Bone Realm yesterday, his whole mood has no reaction. He is focused on understanding the combined force of muscles, bones, and skin.
He now understands the uncle's words somewhat. He regards the whole person as a whole. Every bone, every tendon, every muscle and skin is a part in the movement. Then these parts work together to produce the strongest energy.
Great power.
The principle is understood and the understanding is understood, but to achieve this goal, it requires repeated practice and long-term practice.
In many cases, your head thinks you can do it, but your hands tell you that it can't.