There were sonorous footsteps outside the tent, and Wu Dao, who was as vigorous as a tiger, walked in just in time as if he had calculated the time precisely.
"woke up?"
"Yes, Master, why am I here?" Zhu Li asked in confusion when he saw Wu Diao.
"Of course I will bring it here." Wu Dao glanced at him unhappily, "To learn my martial arts, you must push yourself to the limit every time you train. Without the support of medicine, even the strongest body can be crippled."
"Ah" Zhu Li was startled, his eyes widened, looking at Wu Diao in disbelief. Although martial arts were good, no one wanted to cripple himself by practicing martial arts.
"Don't be surprised. Although I don't know how martial artists practice nowadays, the principles of martial arts training are the same. They are all for breaking through the limits and allowing physical fitness to soar to another level. If you are poor in literature but rich in martial arts, without precious elixirs to assist in conditioning, martial arts training cannot be sustained for a long time because the body cannot bear it."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Li lowered his head thoughtfully, looked at the water around him, and asked curiously, "Is this the medicine?"
"Of course, this is the medicinal bath. The first step in martial arts training is to consolidate the foundation. To put it simply, it is to 'train the spirit, energy and spirit internally, and train the tendons, bones and skin externally'. This process is also called the internal and external strengthening stages of training. After the body has been overloaded and broken through the limit, the medicinal bath must be taken to repair the wounds and nourish the deficiencies, thereby achieving the effect of consolidating the foundation and strengthening the source."
Zhu Li nodded in agreement. He seemed to be dying of suffocation yesterday, but after waking up, he was back to normal without any discomfort. This showed that the medicine was indeed miraculous. He murmured, "It should be very expensive."
"Of course, but don't worry. I have wanted to take in a disciple for a long time, but I just haven't met the right person. The spiritual medicine I have in stock is enough for you." Wu Dao said confidently, and then continued: "What you consume now is not a big deal. When you reach the limit-breaking period, medicine will be expensive. The second stage of martial arts training is to break the limit. Break through the various limits of the body as much as possible. There are many limits in the human body that can be broken through acquired efforts. Every breakthrough will lead to a leap in one's own strength. Therefore, this stage is also the stage where strength grows fastest. I have seen your teeth and bones. You should be only eleven years old. As long as you are willing to work hard, there should be no problem in reaching the limit-breaking period."
"No, Master, I'm thirteen." Zhu Li was stunned and immediately retorted.
"Hmm? What's your birth date?"
"The fifteenth day of the winter month in the ninth year of Xiantong (868)." The eight characters were engraved deep in his memory. Having inherited the memory of that young boy, Zhu Li answered without hesitation.
"That's right. When ordinary people calculate their age, they always have to add two years to their virtual age. The life marks in your bones and teeth are the actual age of your body." At this point, Wu Dao looked a little surprised and continued, "From your body shape and appearance, even I couldn't tell that you were so young. I thought that even though you practiced martial arts with me, due to your age, even if you achieved something, you could only reach the peak level of a second-rate general at most. Now it seems that although it is a little late, it is not impossible for you to catch up with me."
"Of course, this depends on your understanding and luck. As long as you can break through the bottleneck period, catching up with me will not be a problem. The bottleneck period is the third stage of martial arts training.
At this stage, the limits that are easy to break through in the body have almost been broken through. As the physical fitness improves, it will reach a great limit, resulting in a slow increase in martial power. Most people will not be able to make any progress for decades. But once they break through this great limit, they can become an unparalleled warrior. However, if they cannot break through, they will waste their lives and at best become a second-rate peak warrior. "
"Master, what does the big limit mean?" Zhu Li was very curious.
"What it is specifically, there are different ways of describing it depending on the martial arts that are practiced. In my opinion, it is evolution, the evolution of the life level. All aspects of the body's functions enter a brand new realm. Warriors call it the Heavenly Gate. After breaking through the gate, you will be an unparalleled warrior." Wu Dao frowned slightly and explained in detail.
"Heavenly Gate?" Zhu Li still seemed confused.
"Okay, don't worry about it. When you reach that level, you will naturally know what the Heavenly Gate is. If I explain too much now, you will not understand it clearly. After becoming a peerless warrior, if you want to improve further, you will reach the fourth stage of cultivation. This stage is called entering the Mystery. Whether a peerless warrior can become a peerless warrior depends on whether he can enter the Mystery, 'the Mystery of the Mysterious, the Door to All Wonders'. I cannot teach you this realm. It can only be understood, not explained."
"In general, you are now in the stage of consolidating the basics. If you can break through this stage within one or two years, you will have the hope of becoming a powerful general." Wu Dao patiently explained to Zhu Li. He believed in this young man. Although this belief was a little blind and even unreasonable, he just believed that Zhu Li should be extraordinary.
Except for the routine camping and rest at night, the army heading south almost never stopped for a moment. Zhu Li followed the army south while practicing martial arts with Wu Dao. He had basically no time to be lazy. He worked himself to the point of fainting every day, and woke up every time from a medicinal bath.
Wu Dao's sword technique is called "Nine Styles to Kill Di" and his spear technique is called "Thirteen Spears to Break the Enemy". Both of them are brave and domineering, with great momentum and invincibility.
Whether it is the sword or spear skills, Wu Dao's martial arts are simple, direct, sharp and effective. There is a charm of turning decay into magic and returning to nature, but the power is fierce and sharp.
These are two sets of skills, both of which were created specifically for fighting on the battlefield. When practicing normally, Zhu Li can only separate the moves and practice from the most basic movements.
The sword techniques only practice basic movements such as sweeping, chopping, flicking, slicing, raking, hanging, chopping, and thrusting; as for spear techniques, Wu Dao used a double-edged spear, and the spear techniques he taught Zhu Li were of course also double-edged spear techniques.
A double-edged spear is different from ordinary snake spears and long spears. It has spear heads on both ends. The basic movements not only include the stabbing, picking, stabbing, and slashing of ordinary spear techniques, but also the basic movements unique to the double-edged spear, such as: one-handed rotation, two-handed rotation, waist rotation, knee rotation, pointing, flicking, throwing, thrusting, etc.
The reason why the spear was replaced in the Tang Dynasty was that it was not as flexible as the gun, but the flexibility of the double-edged spear is not inferior to the spear. Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to practice, master it, and master it.
No matter how you look at it, a spear is at most an ordinary weapon, while a lance is a heavy weapon. An ordinary spear has a slender blade with raised grooves on it. The spear shaft is mainly made of hard wood such as jujube, or steel. It is mainly used for stabbing, and is supplemented by picking, stabbing, and scratching, etc. Therefore, a general who is good at spears must have amazing arm strength, such as Zhang Fei in the Three Kingdoms.
The training of double-edged spear requires much more arm strength than that of long spear. After practicing the basic movements of double-edged spear for the first time, Zhu Li's arms became swollen. This was because the extent of the training had already exceeded the limit of what his arms could bear.
The shoulder was swollen, and the Classic of Mountains and Seas appeared in my mind again. At the same time, a loud voice like a huge bell sounded: "Water flows out of the mountain where you pray, and flows southward into the sea. In the water there is a tiger dragon, which looks like a fish body and a snake tail. It sounds like a mandarin duck. Those who eat it will not get swollen, and it can cure hemorrhoids. The strange beast tiger dragon blesses and possesses the body."
When the strange beast with a fish body and a snake tail flashed in Zhu Li's mind and then turned into a bright light that sank into Zhu Li's body, the red and swollen shoulders melted away like snow in spring and immediately returned to their original state, leaving Zhu Li confused and bewildered.
This was not all. When he was brandishing his double-edged spear and felt his strength was running out, the Classic of Mountains and Seas would appear in his mind again, and a loud voice like a huge bell would ring out at the same time: "On the Zhongqu Mountain, there is a tree. It is shaped like a tangerine, but has round leaves and red fruits that are as big as a tree claw. It is called a wood. Eating it will increase your strength."
Then a red fruit like a papaya would flash in his mind, and then turn into star-like points of glowing light, which penetrated into every part of Zhu Li's body. The glowing light disappeared, and then a great force suddenly arose, causing his strength to increase dramatically out of thin air.
This increase in strength is permanent, and makes him stronger and stronger. At the beginning, Wu Dao was afraid that he did not have enough strength, so he used a double-edged spear with a jujube wood handle for him to practice. However, in less than four or five days, he had to change to a pure steel double-edged spear, and the weight of the double-edged spear increased little by little.
At first, the double-edged spear used for practice weighed only ten pounds, and then gradually increased to twenty pounds. Until recently, Zhu Li has been able to wield a fifty-pound fine steel double-edged spear, and can practice for several hours at a time without feeling any effort.
No matter how heavy the double-edged spear Wu Diao gave him, Zhu Li was never polite and never refuted, because once he was out of strength, the fruit would appear, and every time the fruit turned into a light spot and sank into his body, his strength would be permanently increased. In less than half a month, the pure steel double-edged spear was as easy to wield as a wick in his hand, which almost made Wu Diao, his trainer, stare blankly.
After a period of exploration, Zhu Li seemed to have found the rules of this magical "Classic of Mountains and Seas". If his body was not strong enough or there was something wrong with his body, it would possess him with a strange beast to increase his body strength. If his strength was not enough, it would produce a fruit that increased his strength to increase Zhu Li's strength.
Although he didn't know whether there was any harm in doing this, he was still calm and sound until now, so he was too lazy to explore the secrets of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". He just treated it as a part of his body and let it go.
In the past half month, with Wu Dao's daily medicinal bath care, Zhu Li has almost changed his appearance. Although he is only thirteen years old, he looks like fifteen or sixteen years old. His height has increased by half a head and he is now almost as tall as Pang Honggu.
The food when staying with Wu Dao was not bad either. Zhu Li had meat in almost every meal. Even the little girl Zhu Ning'er's face became fatter. Moreover, the little girl no longer stuck to her big brother. She would surround Pang Honggu every day, calling her "Sister, sister..." happily.