In Yan Liqiang's past experience, if you want to obtain things like secret manuals of magical skills, you feel that you can't say how precious the things you get are without going through a lot of difficulties. However, he didn't expect that just this morning, he found a master for the first time. The process of practicing the so-called "peerless spearmanship" taught by this master was so simple. It was just one movement, plus the four words "concentrate your mind on your ears".
Yan Liqiang held the dragon-spine steel spear and stood there for a while before he suddenly reacted and slapped himself on the head.
"You are stupid. Why do you have to go through untold hardships to get precious things? Think about the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing that no one wanted and bought for a few dollars at a street stall. Doesn't this explain the problem? Perhaps the best things are the easiest to get, and the strongest gun skills are the easiest to practice. It's just that ordinary people have bad natures and narrow vision and don't know the value of things!"
Yan Liqiang muttered to himself, and his eyes finally lit up again. He recalled the whole process of meeting Li Hongtu, and found that although his master sometimes seemed unreliable, he really did not joke with him in every process of spear training. Especially the passage where Li Hongtu just explained the theory of the hardness and softness of the spear barrel and the changes of yin and yang, which was like the style of a great master of spear skills. Yan Liqiang was suddenly enlightened. His whole thinking and understanding of spear skills were elevated to a much higher level because of that passage. The saying "listening to your words is better than reading for ten years" is really not an exaggeration.
If you want to master the yin and yang changes of spearmanship and achieve peerless spearmanship, you must start with shaking the spear.
Seeing Li Hongtu return to the hut, Yan Liqiang's eyes became firm and he made up his mind. He must persist in practicing to see what the "real skill" of the gun is like...
The pool was right in front of him. Looking at the water drops flying down from the waterfall and the two stones sticking out of the pool's surface, Yan Liqiang didn't delay any longer. He took off the clothes he had just put on again, leaving only a pair of shorts. Then, holding the gun, he walked into the pool like before, holding his breath step by step, and walked directly from the bottom of the pool to the place where the waterfall was splashing water, and then climbed up onto the stone step by step.
The stone was thick at the bottom and thin at the top, with a section of it exposed more than a foot above the water. Only a few smooth surfaces washed by water could be used for standing. The place where one could stand was half a circle smaller than the sole of Yan Liqiang's foot, and it was barely enough for a person to stand. Moreover, because of the long-term washing of the flowing water from the waterfall, the surface of the stone exposed above the water was as smooth as the surface of a crystal ball. Add to that the wet water vapor, and Yan Liqiang, who was standing on it with a 400-pound gun, just shook twice like Li Hongtu, and the reaction and vibration from the gun barrel were transmitted to his body. His feet slipped, and with a plop, he fell into the water...
A minute later, Yan Liqiang climbed up again with the rifle in his hand. Then he shook a few times and fell into the water with a splash.
Yan Liqiang climbed up again unwillingly, and then a few seconds later, he fell into the pool again...
During the whole morning, Yan Liqiang himself couldn't remember how many times he fell into the puddle. He was exhausted. At this time, Yan Liqiang realized that the seemingly simple exercise that Li Hongtu asked him to do was actually not simple at all. Not only was it not simple, but it was also a daunting challenge.
If he didn't have the spear in his hand, no matter how slippery the piece of stone above the water was, he could stand on the stone for three days and three nights without any problem. Even if he had the spear, as long as the spear didn't move, he could stand on it without any problem. However, once he shook the spear according to Li Hongtu's method, the difficulty of keeping balance on several slippery stones instantly became hellish.
Because his hands were moving, his body was moving, and his spear was also moving. Once the 400-pound spear began to shake, the vibration and rebound force from the spear shaft would be transmitted to Yan Liqiang's hands, body, and feet without reservation, just like a mad and shaking python. In this situation, if he wanted to maintain balance on the small stone surface, every muscle, every bone, every tendon, and even every cell in his body had to coordinate with the vibration and force of the spear. While his feet were still, he maintained a difficult dynamic balance, using his body to completely dissolve the force transmitted from the spear...
Such a request is simply abnormal.
Yan Liqiang applied his strength to the spear. After the 400-pound spear accumulated strength, it transmitted that strength back more fiercely while shaking. If Yan Liqiang wanted to stand firm and practice, he had to dissolve this strength while continuing to transmit his strength to the spear through shaking...
After just a few attempts, Yan Liqiang felt that this practice was like a competition between him and a master who was several times heavier than him and as strong as him. Moreover, this competition was continuous all the time...
Although the spear weighing more than 400 pounds was not as heavy as the ones Yan Liqiang had used on himself a few days ago, the physical strength and energy required for this kind of practice was more exaggerated than those practices Yan Liqiang had performed before. This was the real extreme practice.
At this time, Yan Liqiang finally understood why Li Hongtu asked him to come here to practice for only one morning every day. Because even with his strength, after persisting for a whole morning and falling into the pool countless times, he would be exhausted, and his whole body felt completely hollowed out.
The only thing that slightly comforted Yan Liqiang was that in this state of practice, he finally didn't have to be covered in sweat every day, because all the sweat that could flow out of his body had already been washed away in the pool of water.
When the sun was high in the sky, Yan Liqiang fell off the rock into the pool again, letting the spear sink to the bottom of the pool. He lay motionless in the pool, gasping weakly, and floated like a corpse for a while. After his body recovered a little strength, he finally swam to the shore, put on his clothes again, and then came back to the outside of Li Hongtu's hut.
"Master, I have finished my practice this morning. I will come to build your hut this afternoon..."
After a few seconds, a mumbling voice came from the hut, "Well, don't come this afternoon. It's a good time to take a nap. Wait until the evening when the food delivery person comes. I'll get up and eat, and you can come back to repair it..."
Yan Liqiang smiled helplessly, "Master, do you have anything else to tell me?"
"Well, that's all. By the way, from now on, when you come to repair in the morning, just go and come by yourself. You don't need to ask me for permission. Don't bother. I will call you if there is anything..."
"Okay, Master, you continue... and take a rest..."
Yan Liqiang had just turned around when the faint snoring sound came from the hut again...
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After returning to his own courtyard, Yan Liqiang continued to practice Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing...
This time, the enormous amount of energy and spiritual energy from heaven and earth that poured into his body was no less than what Yan Liqiang had received when he was in a state of extreme training.
As the huge amount of energy and spiritual energy filled Yan Liqiang's body, the spiritual energy was divided into three parts. One of the spiritual energy flowed to Yan Liqiang's hands, from fingers to forearms to shoulders, and began to strengthen. Another flowed to Yan Liqiang's feet. What surprised Yan Liqiang the most was that another flow of spiritual energy flowed to his lungs...
Thinking about how he had fallen into the water again and again this morning, holding his breath underwater and climbing up the rocks with his spear in hand, Yan Liqiang didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
Yan Liqiang didn't remember how many times he had performed the Yi Jing Xi Sui Jing. He kept doing it until the sun was about to set. He felt that his physical condition had completely recovered and even become stronger. Yan Liqiang then went back to the mountain behind the archery range to help Li Hongtu repair the hut.
In the following days, Yan Liqiang would spend every morning in the pond on the back hill of the archery range, shaking the dragon-back steel spear in his hand. In the afternoon, exhausted, Yan Liqiang would return to his residence and continue to use the Yi Jin Xi Sui Jing to restore his strength and strengthen himself.
Slowly, the time Yan Liqiang could stand on the stone became longer and longer, one minute... two minutes... three minutes...
Strangely enough, as Yan Liqiang stayed on the stone for longer and longer, although he did not deliberately strengthen his leg strength and body flexibility every day, his practice of "Cloud Dragon Ten Transformations" made rapid progress. In just one week, he actually rushed up two levels in a row and reached the sixth level. The speed was shocking...
ps: A few days ago, I read a book written by a female author for the first time, "The Abandoned Woman in Charge: Farming with Cute Baby", which I found very interesting. This book has not only the delicate writing style and emotions of the female author, but also a broad imagination and a unique painting style. I recommend you to read it. I just happen to know the author of this book, Qingka Lao Hu. She is not only a beautiful woman, but also very dedicated, with a hot personality and clear likes and dislikes. She is a tough guy who has to work in a game company in order to write game novels. She also likes to play guest roles in film and television dramas. As the saying goes, the handwriting reflects the person, and her words are also very vivid, haha...
(End of this chapter)