In the evening, Tang Zhao planned to wait for Si Liyu to come, but he didn't come that night because he didn't know if he had something to do. Tang Zhao was a little regretful but also a little lucky. Si Liyu put much more pressure on him than Guan Lei.
When he had free time, Tang Zhao turned on the light and read, and naturally he read the newly acquired "The Sound of Thunder on Martial Arts".
"Thunder on Martial Arts" was obviously written by Guan Lei himself, recording common sense of martial arts and common sense of "learning martial arts".
The words in the book are just like Guan Lei's speaking tone, speaking in plain language but clearly. Not to mention that Tang Zhao has experienced the tempering of "Tonghua Attracts the Phoenix", even if he knows nothing about it, he can still read it smoothly.
The common sense of martial arts, such as the beginning, stage, realm of martial arts, the distinction between internal and external skills, the origin of weapons and fists, the content and connection of martial arts, martial arts, martial arts and martial ethics, etc. The common sense of learning martial arts starts from the beginning.
There is a rough but systematic introduction from stretching and pile skills to boxing, footwork, body skills, mental skills and even the cultivation of essence, energy and spirit.
Finally, there are some records of Jianghu rules and martial arts anecdotes. Although the writing is very exciting, it is short in length. Obviously the person who wrote the book did not care.
Although Tang Zhao only briefly read it once, he already guessed that Guan Lei had ambitions in writing this book. Just like a military strategist writing about the art of war, he compiled and summarized what he had learned in order to be famous for centuries, and to record the history of the gangsters and officials taking place now.
It doesn't make any sense.
From this point of view, Master Guan is a great person, ambitious and lofty.
Yuan Qing said that you don’t need to read books to learn martial arts, but maybe starting from this book, you will.
Of course, this book is still a draft, or even an outline. Many of the introductions are too rough. Only the first few chapters can be read in detail, and the rest are just names. However, even if the manuscript is completed, it is impossible to complete all the contents in the book.
, otherwise it would be impossible to finish even one million words, let alone one person.
Because it is too simplistic, I did not give this book a rating, and did not recognize it as a "gong method". I probably thought it was a "popular science book", and of course there was no annotation.
But popular science books are easier and more interesting to read than monographs, and easier to accept. The more useless knowledge is, the more interesting it is. The rules of martial arts are more interesting than the common sense of martial arts, and anecdotes are more interesting than the rules of rivers and lakes.
Let's just say that the level of martial arts masters is not as strict as in the story. It is probably that those who have only learned basic boxing and kicks are called "warriors". If they have a foundation in kung fu, simply speaking, those who can fly over walls and fly over walls can be called "strong men". Going on.
Those who reach a certain level of internal and external skills can be called "Xia Ke", and those who can establish a sect and lead a trend will be called "Grand Master". As for heroes, just like the "righteous men" corresponding to the warrior stage, they must reach the level of Xia Ke
At this stage, the government is invited to seal the title. There is only one in a county. Only if the strength, reputation, and merits can convince the public.
But this is just a conventional title, not a golden rule. In the world of martial arts, everyone talks about "master" and "hero". Except for "grandmaster", which is generally not arrogant, and heroes and righteous men must be certified by the court, other titles can be accommodated.
It is not uncommon for people to praise each other as "Xia Ke" and "Master Li" when they get together.
As for the strength of the same level, it is even more unpredictable. For the same warrior, one person may fight ten of them. And the countless figures active in the world are basically all knights at the first level, and their strength is even more different. Even if
Even if two people have the same name, they are not necessarily indistinguishable. One can be knocked down by the other's move. Even if the hero is awarded by the imperial court, he may not be stronger than the knight. It does not mean that the hero in a county is the strongest, but the imperial court certified it.
Certification, even if you beat the hero all over the head, the authority will not be transferred to you.
Finally, Guan Lei also mentioned that there is no shortage of good people in the martial arts world to rank the masters, and various lists emerge one after another. But most of them are full of errors and omissions, and are very regional. The most reference in the martial arts today is the "Hundred Soldiers Manual" of the Star Observation Tower.
", the information is detailed, the changes are rapid, and it has gradually become a public opinion. Especially the military manual is divided into states and counties, and there are various rankings, and even a complete list of first- and second-rate masters. The intention of forming a self-contained system is obvious.
And on it, there is the imperial court's Jiuzhou Loyalty List. Regardless of martial arts, only meritorious service is used to judge the ranking. It is related to the martial arts level, but it still cannot be generalized. In terms of authority, there is no one more than the imperial court. However, the government and the world have always had the same view.
There is an invisible gap. Although the government regards the people in the world as indiscriminate and reckless, how can the martial arts masters think highly of the "lackeys" and "minions" of the government? Therefore, when the Jiuzhou Loyalty Ranking was launched, not only was it not sought after by the martial arts, but it was repeatedly deliberately ignored. Especially the underworld.
, even ashamed of being on the list.
However, this phenomenon is gradually changing. Firstly, the evil has become more and more serious in recent years, and the martial arts people can no longer stay away. Even the underworld is always under the threat of evil, and not just one or two forces are wiped out. Secondly...
The court also gave too much.
In order to reward loyalty, all the righteous people on the list can redeem benefits based on their merits, including secret books of martial arts, magic weapons, tonics and wound medicines. In particular, there are "mysterious skills" and "magic weapons".
It is said that these two are the keys to transcending the realm of knights.
"Thunder on Martial Arts" is vague here. It does not explain what "transcendence from the chivalrous realm" is, nor does it explain what "Xuan Gong" or "technical weapons" are. It only says that it is not included in the discussion of "On Martial Arts".
I don’t know if Tang Zhao is a villain, but he always feels that Guan Lei’s wording here is a bit sour.
Xuan Gong...
Tang Zhao thought about it and realized that what he was most familiar with was Xuan Gong, and the only skill he mastered, "The Divine Bird Bathing in Fire Technique", was Xuan Gong.
Did it turn out to be such an advanced technique?
Although it did not involve Xuan Gong itself, he finally knew where Xuan Gong originated.
The starting point of Xuan Gong is the end point of "Martial Arts" in a general sense.
According to this book, the end point of martial arts is "perfection". This perfection refers to the perfection of the body, which is also the perfection of "essence, energy and spirit".
Reaching this point can be regarded as the pinnacle of martial arts. There are only a few people in the world. At this point, the road to martial arts has come to an end. In theory, you can still accumulate internal strength, and your internal strength will become deeper and more refined. Your martial arts will overwhelm your peers, and you will be proud of the world.
.
But this is only a qualitative change, not a quantitative change. In essence, he is still a knight. Internal strength can delay aging, but it has its limit. Eventually, the body will become weak and unable to maintain the state, and the five degenerates of heaven and humans will eventually turn into white bones.
Seeing this, Tang Zhao couldn't help but worry secretly - is the threshold for Xuan Gong so high?
To put it this way, just reaching the threshold of cultivation requires decades of effort, and it requires a martial arts genius to complete it. Then wouldn’t he, an ordinary person, have no hope in his life?
Is there no way to speed it up?
Maybe there is, but Guan Lei didn't write it in the book. He only wrote about two routes of martial arts - internal training and external training.
To put it bluntly, it means practicing internal strength and external strength.
External Kung Fu starts from the muscles, bones and skin, working from the outside to the inside, while Internal Kung Fu is the opposite, as the internal Qi is filled and the muscles and bones are strengthened. Both approaches are correct. External Kung Fu has quick results, but is more laborious and dangerous. Internal Kung Fu is better because of its long stamina, but the initial results are less effective.
.
Tang Zhaoxue's body-building exercises are preliminary exercises for external training. This is normal. His time is limited. If he uses this month to practice internal exercises, he might not even be able to master them.
It's just that he still has some regrets - the inner martial arts sounds more handsome.
Just keep practicing step by step, and the masters and famous teachers hired by others will never mislead him. What's more, he also has glasses as a supplement, and can also use the flame chart to train his spirit, so a month will not be wasted.
The next morning, Tang Zhao got up early and put on new gray coarse cloth clothes for practicing.
After finishing the stretching exercises, I walked out the door and saw that all the disciples in gray clothes in the courtyard had already gotten up for morning exercises, some were doing stances, and some were practicing boxing. Judging from their condition, it was obvious that they had been practicing for a long time.
Tang Zhao couldn't help but clicked his tongue and thought to himself: I thought I had gotten up early enough, but it turned out that so many people were earlier than me! It seems that practicing martial arts requires more diligence than studying. It is strange that the ancients said: 'hearing the chicken dance', it seems that I will be more diligent in the future
Diligence is what it takes!
As agreed yesterday, he jogged to Guan Lei's yard and ran to the door, his body already warm.
I don't know when there was a rock in the yard that was as tall as a person. It was not hollow and porous like a rockery, but a solid block that almost sunk the ground.
This person is as tall as a strong man, almost as tall as two of him!
Guan Lei stood by the rock, holding on to the rock that was half a head shorter and said: "Tang Zhao, come here."
Tang Zhao walked over and cupped his fists and said, "Good morning, teacher."
Guan Lei nodded and said: "Azhao, do you know what the strongest animal in the world is?"
Tang Zhao replied without hesitation: "Ant."
Guan Lei was stunned for a moment and said: "Well...cough, that's right. You might say they are tigers and bears..."
Tang Zhao thought to himself: I just said it was an ant.
"But those animals are just big in body. The little ant is the strongest. It can lift several times the weight of its own body. It is really powerful. And I have the longest strength in my skill, which is called 'ant'
Strength'. And you are small and weak, so you are about to learn from the ants. Let's exercise our physical strength, starting from moving the stone. First set a small goal, and ask you to move the stone in one month!"
Although Tang Zhao felt that 'Yi Li Jin' didn't sound impressive enough, he was still excited and said: "Okay!"
Guan Lei thought to himself that despite his small strength, this child was very confident. With such a big stone placed in front of him, he was not afraid of difficulties at all.
Little did he know that the ignorant are fearless. Tang Zhao had no idea about martial arts in reality, but he had unlimited fantasies about martial arts in stories. Let alone a mere stone, he would dare to move a mountain in a month.
Before hitting the south wall, Tang Zhao was a fool in martial arts.
Guan Lei asked Tang Zhao to stand in front of the boulder and push the boulder according to the posture of exerting force as mentioned yesterday.
The boulder naturally did not move at all. Tang Zhao pushed hard for a while, but he had exhausted all his strength and could no longer exert any force.
Guan Lei said: "Tired?"
Tang Zhao was covered in sweat and said: "A little bit."
Guan Lei said: "It won't last long. You can't use extreme force like this. Just use normal force." After saying that, he adjusted his stance, asked him to squat on the horse with his waist down, his arms slightly bent, and gave some instructions.
Tips for exerting force.
Following his instructions, Tang Zhao restrained his strength and continued to push. Sure enough, he saved some energy, but he was still exhausted for a while.
Guan Lei asked him to reduce his strength, but his posture remained unchanged. He just adjusted his breathing to rest. This time, the rhythm of breathing was different. He not only relaxed, but also controlled the breath he inhaled and stored it in his body for a while.
Spit it out.
Tang Zhao followed the instructions and memorized them, confirming in his mind that external training was indeed closely related to the breathing method. Every skill had its own breathing method.
After relaxing, Tang Zhao pushed the stone again, working hard and resting for a while. In the end, his arms were so weak that he could no longer lift them, and his legs were numb.
It wasn't until Tang Zhao was about to die from exhaustion that Guan Lei asked him to get up, gave him the teacup in his hand, and said, "Drink some water and rest."
Tang Zhao took a sip and felt the smell of the medicine hit his nose, making him miserable and unable to swallow it.
Guan Lei said with a smile: "Azhao has good perseverance and can endure hardships. I was worried that you were squeamish before, but it seems that I was worried in vain."
Tang Zhao couldn't help but smile and said: "It's okay, it's just average." He took a few sips.
The herbal tea was astonishingly effective. As soon as he drank it, heat spread throughout his body, and he immediately regained a lot of strength. Guan Lei was not in a hurry, and only asked him to push the stone again after he had rested enough.
In this way, I spent the whole morning squatting and pushing stones. Lunch was a large piece of meat. It looked red and oily, but tasted terrible. I didn't know what ingredients were added to it, and it was sour and bitter. Tang Zhao's tongue was numb from eating it.
.
After the lunch break, Guan Lei took Tang Zhao to the other side of the stone. The stone on this side was pitted with many shallow pits. He asked again: "What do you think is the highest jumping animal in the world?"
Without waiting for Tang Zhao to answer, he said: "Maybe you say it's a rabbit, but it's actually a grasshopper..."
Tang Zhao didn't have the nerve to correct him: "It must be a flea, right?"
Guan Lei continued: "When a grasshopper jumps, it jumps several times higher than its own height. What would it be like if a person could jump so high?"
Tang Zhao, imagine it, it’s almost like flying, right?
However, it’s normal for Qinggong to be the same as flying, right?
So, his qinggong is going to be like that of a grasshopper?
Is it called "Grasshopper Kung Fu" this time?
When ordinary people practice martial arts, they all learn from dragons and tigers, and even when they are in trouble, they still want to learn from leopards, but Teacher Guan asked him to learn from insects.
But if you think about it carefully, insects are actually more powerful than tigers and wolves, which is a miracle of nature. So what does it matter whether the name is majestic or not?
Guan Lei said: "Let's learn the grasshopper's leaping technique now, and set a small goal. Within one month, you have to jump on the same spot, without using other strength, to jump on this stone."
Teacher Guan then taught him some key points to strengthen his waist and legs. He first jumped along the shallow hole on the stone to the top, and then jumped down from the opposite side.
Practicing jumping is much more tiring and dangerous than pushing rocks. Even though Guan Lei spread a thick layer of straw on the ground, Tang Zhao fell hard. He almost hit his head when he fell several times.
Guan Lei watched from the side. If there was a risk of falling to a vital point, he would immediately come to the rescue. However, he would just ignore it if it touched flesh.
After practicing for more than an hour, Tang Zhao's legs were sore and painful. In the end, he couldn't jump even while holding on to the rocks, so Teacher Guan let him rest.
It was already dinner time, but Guan Lei didn't ask him to eat. Instead, he rushed him to take a bath. The bath water was of course medicinal soup.
Taking a bath was not just about soaking in the bath. Guan Lei taught him several techniques. During the medicated bath, he kept patting and massaging his body to relax his muscles and speed up the immersion of the medicine. He stayed in the bath until he came out before dinner. Sure enough, almost all the siltation was gone and his strength was restored.
Quite a few.
Dinner was still the stewed meat with medicinal herbs. Tang Zhao, who had worked out hard all day without complaining, felt suspicious of his life - even if medicinal herbs were added, it wouldn't be so unpalatable, right? It was like a deliberately dark dish.
Tang Zhao couldn't help but said to Wei Changle, who had not seen anyone for a day: "Can't we boil the medicinal materials directly into soup and drink it, so as not to waste the meat?"
Wei Changle was called by Guan Lei in the morning to teach separately. If a famous teacher teaches according to his aptitude, even if there are only two of them, they will make different plans. I didn't see him until dinner. He was also in pain, but he still held his nose and swallowed, saying:
"I think it would be more unpalatable if the smell of medicine hadn't been masked. The fishy smell was hidden inside..." Seeing Tang Zhao's face turn green, he said hurriedly, "But I think this should be a tonic, not an ordinary meat food."
"Haha, Changle is still knowledgeable." Guan Lei came over with a large bowl like a basin, casually sat on a stone, which was taller than the two of them standing, and said:
"These are the meat of ferocious beasts. Have you heard of them? Fierce beasts are beasts that have been transformed by the misfortune moon. They wreak havoc on the world and are far better than tigers and wolves. This area is relatively peaceful. Going further east, beyond the boundaries of Yunzhou, the market
You can often hear about ferocious beasts cannibalizing people. Now it is on your desk, turned into blood to replenish your body. Isn't this a blessing? When I was young, I was learning martial arts and was about to get some ferocious beast meat.
It's good to do it, but how pungent is the beast's blood? You have to grit your teeth and drink it raw. How can you be so rich? How much do you think a piece of meat like this would cost outside?"
Tang Zhao naturally guessed at Guili: "Ten taels of silver?"
Guan Lei said: "Almost, fifty taels."
...How close is it? Isn’t it five times worse?
Fifty taels...that is, Tang Zhao's entire wealth is not enough to last for two days! And those farmers who have worked hard for a year can't even afford the scraps of meat!
"Why don't we say that we are poor in culture and rich in martial arts?"
However, it still tastes terrible!
Tang Zhao stretched his head to take a look and found that Guan Lei's bowl was filled with fragrant chicken, duck, and fish meat. They were all normal dishes. He hurriedly picked up a piece of ferocious beast meat and said, "Teacher, please eat something good."
Guan Lei shrunk his bowl and said: "I won't eat it. It's useless for me to eat it. This thing is too unpalatable. Who would eat it if not for martial arts training?"