At night, the night breeze on the city wall was slightly cool, and it was pitch black without any firelight.
From time to time, takraw balls would be thrown from behind the city wall and hit the front. The blazing flames could last as long as a cup of tea, allowing pairs of eyes crouching on the dark city wall to see what was happening outside the city wall at night.
Today is the turn of Zhang Yan's team to be on night duty. It's fine during the day, and it's not too cold here in Yubei Mountain, but it's quite chilly at night, especially if you stay by the wall for a long time without moving, your hands and feet will be cold in the second half of the night.
Zhang Yan tightened his armor tightly, held the spear in his arms, put his hands into balls in front of his mouth and kept breathing. His eyes were restless, and from time to time he would follow the fire oil takraw balls thrown out to see what was happening under the city wall.
The situation is used as a warning. Not far to the left is the position of Hua Gou. At this time, you can faintly hear snoring, and it seems that he is squinting. Previously, Hua Gou asked Zhang Yan to keep an eye on him, saying that the night watchman would come over later.
Always remind him to avoid being caught and whipped.
Zhang Yan is not as big-hearted as Hua Gou, and Hua Gou is now a formal soldier of Yubei Mountain Fortress. Even if he is caught sleeping in front of the battle, he will only be woken up with one or two whips. But Zhang Yan is now a criminal soldier,
Anyone who dared to squint and doze off would be severely beaten. On the second day after arriving, he saw an unlucky guy who was also a criminal and was caught by the night watchman for dozing off. He was whipped more than ten times and his face was covered with blood blisters. However,
The unlucky guy did not survive the third day and is now gone.
"Breathe...breathe...breathe...breathe..." In order to keep himself awake, Zhang Yan breathed out the breath that he had not practiced for many years.
Nafa picked it up again, breathing in and out according to a special rhythm, while calmly feeling the subtle changes in each breath.
The breathing technique practiced by Zhang Yan is called "Liu Tian". It is a breathing technique that is said to be very domineering. It was also the core breathing technique that was only open to the masters of Longhu Mountain in the past. Later, Longhu Mountain declined and spread to Zhang Yan.
He is the only one left in Yan's generation.
This is not the first time that Zhang Yan has used the Breathing Technique since he came to the Wild Sky Realm. He has used it before and it has been effective, and the effect has increased slightly every time.
The feeling was very strange, as if the air he exhaled contained some dirt that he had never noticed before, and the air he inhaled contained something that made him feel alive.
According to the records in the classics in Longhu Mountain, those "spiritual things" should be the "spiritual energy" that wanders everywhere in the world, and also formed the foundation of the legendary era of the earth.
Taking spiritual energy into the body, and then slowly retaining it in the Dantian, forming a cyclone, is the first step in martial arts practice, and it is also the first step in Shinto practice.
Of course, this is still far from Zhang Yan. At best, he has just taken the first step in practice. He only needs to move these spiritual energy along the meridians around the sky, and finally gather them in the lower Dantian, and then he can take his time.
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However, this process should have been simple, but Zhang Yan encountered undue trouble.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, there was a slight tremor in his chest, and in an instant, all the remaining spiritual energy that Zhang Yan had breathed out during his cycle was drained away, leaving no trace of his Dantian.
The spiritual energy was withheld like this, blatantly.
"What on earth are you going to do?" Zhang Yan asked speechlessly in his mind more than once. Unfortunately, he would not get an answer.
At this time, there was a pendant under Zhang Yan's armor. On the pendant was a colorful bead the size of a grape. It was this thing that blocked Hu's spiritual energy.
This bead is not the legacy of the body's predecessor, but was brought by Zhang Yan when he traveled across the earth. Even the reason why he was able to travel across time was because of this bead.
This bead is called the "Wanxiang Bead". It was dug out by Zhang Yan from a jade scroll of sect rules and ancestral instructions passed down from Longhu Mountain. At that time, he was going to clean the scroll, but by chance, he opened the top one.
A secret mechanism to get this bead from inside.
The beads were colorful and flashing, and they were not ordinary at first sight. They were almost exactly the same as the "Wanxiang Pearl", the treasure of the town that was mentioned many times in the Longhu Mountain classics. So Zhang Yan inlaid it in a
This necklace is always worn close to your body.
A few days ago, Zhang Yan was invited to an underground palace in the Kingdom of Tianzhu to help people see the murderous intentions of the ground. As a result, he lost his hand and was swallowed by the poisonous mist sprayed by a mechanism. Just when he was about to lose his soul, a wound on his chest
Wan Xiangzhu took a deep breath of the poisonous mist, and then seemed to get more energy. He hit Zhang Yan on the forehead and took his soul away. After that, Zhang Yan went to the Wild Sky Realm and became a criminal like he is now.
soldiers.
After that, Wan Xiang Zhu followed Zhang Yan all the time. The only change was that every time Zhang Yan relied on breathing skills to condense a trace of spiritual energy, he would be intercepted by Wan Xiang Zhu the moment before it flowed into his lower Dantian. Without exception.
Although Zhang Yan didn't know what Wan Xiang Zhu was doing to cut off his spiritual energy, he didn't have much resentment in his heart. He was just confused and curious. He always felt that Wan Xiang Zhu was like a sponge that had been dry for too long and needed to absorb water.
Only then can the true face be revealed.
Don't be in a hurry, just wait for now. Zhang Yan's mentality is actually very peaceful.
With such an interruption, Zhang Yan suddenly felt sober from his original sleepiness. While continuing to get used to the breath-taking technique of "Lifting the Sky", he was preparing to make it a normal thing to replace his previous breathing rhythm. At the same time, he was also thinking in his heart.
Thinking about how to establish a foothold in this wilderness in the future.
According to some memories of his predecessor, he was charged with the felony of arson. According to the laws of the Nanyuan Kingdom, he should have been beheaded, but just when the demon soldiers were rising, he became a criminal soldier. In total, he escaped.
One calamity.
However, in my memory, my predecessor did not set a fire, and I always thought that I was wronged. After all, a coward who could scare himself to death at the sight of a killing array is indeed unlikely to have the courage to set a fire and kill people.
"Redress the injustice? Forget it, think about how to survive first, which is the top priority."
I originally thought that by relying on breathing skills to step into the threshold of martial arts cultivation or Shinto as soon as possible, some of the methods passed down from Longhu Mountain could be used to save Zhang Yan's life. But now because of the relationship between Wanxiang Pearl, this
The road is temporarily impassable.
"Taoist divine spells seem to be useful these days. The "Golden Light Divine Curse" can bless one's body, strengthen one's strength, stabilize one's mood, and slow down physical consumption. The "Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Curse" can have similar effects on monsters.
Or the reaction ability is greatly weakened. This shows that without the blessing of spiritual energy, the power of the divine curse itself can be generated by the resonance of the heaven and earth alone. So can similar methods be tried?"
It seems that Taoist methods have a strong restraint effect on the demon clan in the Wild Sky Realm. After all, in the legendary era on earth, Taoist monks also had a name called "Demon Demon Slaying".
I just don’t know the difference between this “demon” and that “demon”.
Zhang Yan then had a new idea in his mind. When he was traveling around the world, he could not only recite incantations, he could also draw talismans.