Yan Liqiang certainly had reason to be excited and happy, because after today's initiation of the Heavenly Dao, he felt that his Bajiquan had been fully perfected and reached the highest level. In this world, he once again became the founder of a new martial art.
The reason why it is again is that before Bajiquan, he had already practiced Wuqinxi to the highest level. With these two secret techniques, plus the previous blowing needle technique, Yan Liqiang is already the founder of three miraculous secret techniques. If such news were to spread, it would surely shock the world.
The highest level of Five Animal Exercises is seven levels, and the highest level of Bajiquan is thirteen levels. While these two secret techniques reached the highest level, Yan Liqiang also received twenty Heavenly Dao Initiations again.
The Heavenly Dao Initiation is the fastest, most direct and most effective way for a person to improve his personal strength besides improving his cultivation realm. After these twenty times of Heavenly Dao Initiation, Yan Liqiang's overall physical fitness and strength have made a qualitative leap again compared to before he started his cultivation, and he has truly reached a new level.
In fact, before coming to this secret valley deep in Yulong Mountain, Yan Liqiang himself had never thought that he could become the founder of some secret technique. The purpose of his practice this time was to learn the "real skill" of spearmanship taught to him by Li Hongtu. At the same time, he also wanted to raise his overall level of practice by one level during this practice, from a martial artist to a great martial artist. If he was lucky or had special insights, it would be even better if his archery skills could be raised to the sixth level during this half year of practice.
During the first month after arriving in this nameless valley in Yulong Mountain, Yan Liqiang completely immersed himself in cultivation, ignoring external affairs. His life suddenly returned to an extremely simple natural state.
Here, Yan Liqiang only practices cultivation, eats and sleeps. No one disturbs him, nothing interferes with him, and he can't even find anyone to talk to. When he is thirsty, he drinks the spring water in the valley. When he is hungry, he eats Polygonatum sibiricum, truffles, Pueraria root and wild fruits in the valley. When he is tired, he returns to his cave to take a nap, or simply finds a place in the valley to lie down and rest. When he is bored, he listens to the birds singing in the mountains, the gurgling springs, the chirping insects, watches the clouds in the sky, the sunrise and sunset, and the stars in the sky. In Yulong Mountain, he lives like a savage from another world.
This was also the first time in Yan Liqiang's life that he had secluded himself from worldly affairs and practiced in seclusion. In this simple and focused state, Yan Liqiang's practice speed was indeed rapid. However, the greater change was not the increase in practice speed, but the fact that Yan Liqiang's entire body and mind were cleansed and purified, becoming ethereal and clear.
—The five colors make one blind; the five sounds make one deaf; the five flavors make one’s mouth numb; hunting makes one’s heart crazy; hard-to-find goods hinder one’s progress. Therefore, the wise man cares for his belly, not for his eyes, so he gives up the former and takes the latter.
In this ethereal and clear state of mind and body without the five colors, the five sounds, the five flavors, the hunting, the rare goods, the grudges, the plots and revenges, many things buried deep in Yan Liqiang's memory, even things that Yan Liqiang himself had not thought of, quietly became clear and began to emerge from the deepest part of his memory and subconsciousness.
—Yan Liqiang saw the old men in the park practicing Wu Qin Xi and Tai Chi every morning when he was setting up a painting stall in the park in his previous life...
—Yan Liqiang saw more than ten old "Wulin" magazines that he had bought from an old man's stall on the roadside when he was returning home from work one night in his previous life. After he took those magazines home, he put them in the bathroom. He only flipped through them when he felt bored in the toilet, and then threw them aside...
—Yan Liqiang saw that in his previous life, he was browsing the Internet and accidentally opened a Chinese martial arts forum. He then spent a night in the forum, browsing the various Chinese Kung Fu secrets introduced there with great interest. Of course, he only read and did not practice. After reading for a night, just two days later, he had completely forgotten everything. At that time, for Yan Liqiang, Kung Fu and practice always seemed a bit like a fairy tale, and had nothing to do with him...
—Yan Liqiang saw that in his previous life, he once went into a bookstore and picked up a book called “The Essence of Chinese Martial Arts” from a shelf that was filled with books on sports and competitive sports. He quickly flipped through it and then put it back…
In Yan Liqiang's previous life, I guess everyone has had such an experience to a greater or lesser extent. It is as natural as breathing. After a brief contact, it is forgotten in a few days. No one takes these things that are easily obtained and touched seriously.
That night, when his memory replayed everything Yan Liqiang had experienced frame by frame like a slow motion, when Yan Liqiang found that the things he had only seen once and glanced at reappeared in his mind word by word, picture by picture, and scene by scene, Yan Liqiang, lying on the top of the mountain, looking at the starry sky, burst into tears unconsciously.
It turns out that those most precious things have always been with me and have never left.
It turns out that deep in my memory, there is such a treasure that I have almost forgotten.
It turns out that what saints do is to develop concentration through precepts, and wisdom through concentration. Everyone has wisdom in their heart...
The various martial arts techniques in his memory were numerous, huge and complicated. Yan Liqiang roughly sorted them out in his head and found that there were at least hundreds of them.
Yan Liqiang was very excited, but also a little nervous, because he didn't know whether the things in his memories from his previous life were useful in this world, or whether anyone had practiced or mastered them. However, even if only one tenth of the things in his memories were useful and had never appeared in this world, their value and the changes they could bring to him were hard to describe.
Finally, after careful selection, the first martial art that Yan Liqiang chose to practice from his memory was the Five Animal Exercises, a traditional Chinese external martial art for strengthening the body that was said to have been invented by Hua Tuo. This was the safest, most reliable, least likely to lead to insanity, and also the simplest.
As a result, on the first day of Yan Liqiang's practice of the Five Animals Exercises, Yan Liqiang once again experienced the long-lost reward brought by the Heavenly Dao Initiation. During this initiation, Yan Liqiang obtained the blessing of the power of the tiger form. When he walked, he walked like a dragon and a tiger, and when he looked around, he was awe-inspiring...
Afterwards, during the second initiation of the Heavenly Dao, Yan Li gained the power of the deer form, and his hearing suddenly became much more sensitive, and his entire body's reaction speed and flexibility also increased...
Then, the power of the bear form was added, the power of the ape form was added, and the power of the crane form was added...
(End of this chapter)