When Master Ji said this, a trace of blood seemed to appear on his pale complexion. His voice suddenly became solemn and he stared at Li Yan with his eyes.
"Are you willing to formally become my disciple?"
Li Yan had made a decision in his heart and no longer thought about it at the moment.
"Disciple Li Yan, meet the teacher!"
"Okay! My master has always been indifferent and doesn't like those complicated etiquette. You can kowtow to my master three times and you will be admitted."
After that, he adjusted his posture and sat upright behind the table with a serious face. The fragrance of the three pillars in the small cauldron on the table rose up in front of him, giving him the air of a master.
Li Yan stood up, straightened his coarse clothes, then knelt down before the incense table again, and kowtowed three times to Master Ji behind the table.
The third runner-up master held his beard in his hand, his pale face flushed, and his smile became even brighter.
"Haha, okay, get up!"
After Li Yan stood up, a look of joy appeared on his face. After standing up, he bowed again, and then knelt down at the table again to listen to the teachings of the third master.
"Now that you are a disciple of the Muying Sect, my master will teach you how to get started in this sect."
When Li Yan heard this, his expression was stunned. He didn't expect Master Ji to teach him the skills immediately after becoming his master. But when he thought of Master Ji's body, he felt relieved.
Master Ji saw his appearance and asked.
"Do you have any more questions?"
Li Yan was stunned for a moment and then said.
"No, please continue teaching me, teacher."
When Master Ji heard what he said, he stopped asking questions and continued.
"All disciples of our sect need to practice martial arts and herbal medicine, but strong martial arts are the foundation for our lives in the world.
Moreover, many precious plants, trees, and medicinal flowers grow in rarely visited places, which are not accessible to ordinary people. Therefore, new disciples generally have to practice martial arts to a certain degree in the first few years before they can practice herbal medicine. Door.
Martial arts are divided into internal skills and mental skills and martial arts. Internal skills and mental skills are the mother of all martial arts. No matter how familiar you are with martial arts, you will not be able to exert its true power without the assistance of internal skills.
The moves he performs are, at most, ordinary people's fights. But if you use your internal strength to attack, even ordinary boxing and martial arts can break mountains, break rocks, and pluck leaves to injure people.
Therefore, internal strength and mental methods are the foundation for each sect to settle down and establish a life, and are regarded as the most important treasures by the sects."
Master Ji slowly told Li Yan one by one. This lecture lasted several cups of tea, starting from the classification of internal skills to various martial arts, divisions of martial arts realms, acupuncture points, meridians and so on.
He also took out a small wooden figure with exquisite carvings. Its body was naked, with green and red lines crisscrossing it, and there were many dense dots on the surface of the wooden body.
There are annotations in small regular script next to the dots and lines. This wooden figure actually mapped out various meridians and acupuncture points in the human body. Master Ji explained them one by one to Li Yan in detail.
"... What is said above is the basis of cultivation. You should remember it in detail and make sure you don't make any mistakes.
Now let’s talk about the inner strength of our sect. As I told you before, internal strength is the mother of all kinds of skills, and the inner strength of this sect is divided into ten layers. It’s called ‘Mu Yin Gong’ and it’s astonishingly powerful.
When practicing this skill, it is also necessary to infuse and strengthen the physical body with the Qi of plants and trees refined by the secret method of this sect, open up the meridians throughout the body, and make the body's Qi more abundant.
This makes the accumulation of internal energy stronger and stronger, and when fighting with others, it can display super strong combat power, which is unmatched by the mental techniques of various secular schools. As a teacher, I have only reached the peak of the third level so far. "
After hearing this, Li Yan had a look of disbelief on his face. Judging from Master Ji's current martial arts, he was already an enemy of ten thousand people. He actually said that he had only reached the third level by practicing "Mu Yin Kung Fu". Wouldn't it be wrong if he had practiced "Mu Yin Kung" to the tenth level? The power of land gods.
Master Ji glanced at Li Yan and continued to speak slowly.
"However, before you can practice this skill, you must first practice the 'breath guidance technique' of our sect. This technique is to guide the essence of heaven and earth to stimulate the energy in the Dantian. Only after the Qi in the Dantian is stimulated can you formally practice the 'Muyin Skill' ".
Having said this, the third army division master flicked his long black robe sleeves, and his fair and slender hands appeared on the table.
The left hand held a book that looked like gold but not gold, and looked like jade but not jade. His right hand immediately pulled out a piece of paper from the book that was slightly larger than the page.
There are many words written densely on the paper. It is obvious that this paper is not a page in a book. Judging from the ink marks on it, it looks like it has been written recently.
Following the movements of Master Ji, Li Yan noticed that the book in the teacher's left hand had a strange material.
He has read a lot of books since he was a child, but he has never seen this kind of material, and the color of one-third of this book is obviously different from the rest, as if two books have been glued together. generally.
Li Yan also remembered at this time that from the day he met the teacher yesterday to the time when Master Ji took out the paper, it seemed that the teacher only used his right hand.
Whether he was trying acupuncture yesterday or doing other things, he never used his left hand. He must have been holding this book in his sleeve.
This couldn't help but make him curious about this book. What kind of book can make a person stay away from it for a moment. But he knew that these things were not something he could ask about now. After all, he had just started, and maybe he could satisfy his curiosity after getting familiar with the teacher in the future.
As if he didn't see the curiosity in Li Yan's eyes, Master Ji handed the paper full of words to Li Yan.
"This is our 'breath guidance technique'. I will teach it to you now, and you will study it carefully later. If there is anything you don't understand, I will answer it for you one by one.
Breath is divided into innate and acquired. When a baby is in the mother's womb, it has innate breath. It can still breathe without a mouth or nose.
After a person is born, he switches to breathing through his mouth and nose. This is acquired energy, but at the same time he loses his innate energy... "
His explanation lasted another quarter of an hour. As soon as he finished speaking, Master Ji immediately shut up and said no more.
Li Yan was already thinking with his head down, occasionally picking up the wooden figure and the "Breathing Guidance Book" to study it carefully. Master Ji hid his hands in his big sleeves, placed them behind his abdomen, closed his eyes and sat up to meditate.
Li Yan spent a long time comprehending this, and finally felt relieved after confirming that he had memorized the method of performing the exercises and the routes of some key meridians.
He was originally afraid that he had never been exposed to the art of internal strength, but now after thinking about it carefully, it might be because Master Ji's explanation was very detailed. Li Yan felt that it was understandable, and he felt much relieved.
"Maybe this is just the way to get started, so it doesn't feel too overwhelming for people to understand."
After carefully filtering the technique in my mind, I felt that there was nothing puzzling about it. Then I looked up at Master Ji and said with some embarrassment.
"Teacher, this disciple feels... that I can initially understand the method of getting started."
After hearing this, Master Ji opened his eyes, looked at Li Yan with a smile, and then slowly asked a few key points. Seeing that he answered fluently, his face was very satisfied.
"Then from today onwards, you should start practicing this method. I estimate that in as little as three to five days, and as much as ten and a half months, you will be able to stimulate the energy in your Dantian.
Also, I have already written down this piece of mental art paper and handed it over to my teacher for destruction. Unless I am my teacher, I don’t trust you. This is a common practice among all sects in the world.
Except for the original books on the exercises, everything else was taught orally and by heart. Occasionally, there were only scraps of paper, which had to be destroyed immediately afterward.
In order to prevent these skills papers from being accidentally lost or snatched away by gangsters, even the books on mental skills can only be kept by the head of the sect. "
Li Yan didn't feel anything wrong after hearing this. He also understood how something like this, which the sect relied on, could appear casually on paper, so it would be difficult to keep secrets.
He handed back the "Breathe Guidance Technique" page respectfully, and Master Ji took it with a smile and put it in his sleeves.
Then, Master Ji pointed at the little wooden man with meridians painted all over it and said.
"Take this, it takes a long time to be familiar with and memorize."
Li Yan was ordered to pick up the wooden figure on the table. He couldn't see the meridians and acupuncture points that he couldn't fully remember. He said goodbye to Master Ji and left the stone house.
After watching Li Yan leave, Master Ji narrowed his eyes and looked at the gate. After a while, he sighed quietly and said to himself.
"His qualifications are much worse than last time. I don't know how long it will take to reach the top of the first level. However, my time is getting less and less. It is becoming more and more difficult to suppress this poison. Alas!"
After that, he waved his right sleeve towards the door a few feet away, and the door was closed silently.
If this move were to be seen by Marshal Hong, it would definitely cause the three souls to leave the body in horror. Even the top transformation master in the world today would not be able to close the door with such ease from a few feet away.
If you have to achieve this step, you must at least be a master of transformation, and the distance must be reduced by about half. After the energy sinks in the dantian, the inner energy surges out. However, the door will probably be torn apart.
After doing this, Master Ji stretched out his left hand from his big sleeve, and the book that looked like gold but not gold, or jade but not jade, and the page of 'Breathe Guidance Technique' appeared on the table again.
He skillfully turned the book to the position with the color dividing line, and then laid it flat on the table.
Then, he placed his hands on the back half of the open book and poured the mysterious power on it. After a while, the book did not react at all.
After that, he changed the direction of the book several times, horizontally and vertically, and either applied internal force to it or tapped it gently, but the book remained the same and did not react at all.
Finally, he made another strange move, picked up the book, and placed the back two-thirds of the book on his forehead.
Just like when a scholar encounters a problem, he habitually puts the book on his forehead and thinks with his eyes closed.
He remained motionless like this, and after a long time, a sigh came from the room.
"It still doesn't work. I have tried various methods in the past few years and still can't open it. At what level of cultivation do I need to reach before I can have the opportunity? Maybe there is a way to solve the fire poison in my body, but alas!"
After sighing, he picked up the 'Breathe Guidance Technique' paper with his right hand. Without any movement, the paper suddenly ignited a ball of fire and turned into ashes in an instant.
"Inner Qi transforms into matter", this is a myth only heard in rumors in the world.
Even the top masters in today's martial arts can only turn objects into pieces or powder by using their internal power, but no one can make fire out of thin air.