After two or three minutes, the light on Shi Bingbing's body gradually disappeared, and she opened her eyes.
Just by looking inside the car, and then at the broken door and Yan Liqiang and Lian Wushuang standing outside the car, Shi Bingbing understood what was going on.
She jumped off the carriage and smiled apologetically at Yan Liqiang and Lian Wushuang, "I'm so sorry, I don't know if I hurt the Supervisor and Senior Sister Lian just now?"
"Nothing!" Lian Wushuang shook his head indifferently, his eyes swept across Shi Bingbing's face, and he was secretly surprised. In just a short while, Shi Bingbing's face was full of energy and smooth, as if her cultivation had improved a step further.
"I'm fine too, it's just that your Qi suddenly surged and scared us!" Yan Liqiang also shook his head and said, "Looking at the appearance of Master, it seems that your cultivation has just made a breakthrough. It's really cause for celebration!"
"I used to practice a secret technique from my master's sect. This technique had a barrier that took me years to break through. I just heard the poem recited by the Supervisor, 'If you have died, you will be reborn, and if you are born, you will die again. Ice and water do not hurt each other, and life and death are both beautiful.' I suddenly understood and broke through the barrier in an instant. I would like to thank the Supervisor for his help!" Shi Bingbing said, and bowed solemnly to Yan Liqiang again. Her beautiful eyes glowed with a soft light, and she looked at Yan Liqiang intently, feeling grateful, and more of curiosity. Shi Bingbing herself did not expect that the barrier of practice that had troubled her for years was broken by a poem by Yan Liqiang after only being with Yan Liqiang for one day. This was a rare situation.
"Miss Shi, you don't have to be polite. Perhaps this is fate. Miss Shi is destined to be with this poem!" Yan Liqiang said with a laugh. It was already late at night, and the place where the car stopped was not a busy road. There were few pedestrians on the street, but there were still a few people. Yan Liqiang looked around and found that although there were police officers on both sides of the street asking people not to come over to watch, after a while, there were still seven or eight people gathered, looking over here curiously from a distance, pointing and talking. "Well, let's not talk here, let's get in the car and talk!"
"Okay!" Shi Bingbing nodded, and the three of them got back into the car.
One of the doors of the four-wheeled carriage was broken and fell to the side of the road, but the carriage was still intact and could run normally. Even with the curtains lowered, the entire carriage was still relatively quiet.
The three of them got on the carriage. Yan Liqiang waved to Hu Haihe, and Hu Haihe ran over, jumped on the carriage, and continued driving the carriage towards the Zhong family's house.
"The poem that the Governor just recited has a profound artistic conception, and it gives a sudden enlightenment about life and death. I have never heard of it before, nor have I seen it circulated. I wonder if it was written by the Governor?" Shi Bingbing continued to ask curiously after the carriage started moving again.
Yan Liqiang rubbed his face. No matter how thick-skinned he was, he was too embarrassed to say at this moment that he wrote this poem. He saw this poem in his previous life. The original author was the poet monk Hanshan. He remembered it because he liked the open-minded attitude towards life and death in this poem. "Master, you've stumped me a little. But to be honest, this is the first time I've said this poem, but I didn't write it. I heard a monk recite it in my dream, so I remembered it. It seems that the monk I met in my dream wanted to let Master hear it through my mouth, hahaha..."
"So that's it?" Shi Bingbing stopped talking, because she had heard countless people talk about the legend that Yan Liqiang could meet fairies in his dreams, and judging from what Yan Liqiang said, he didn't seem to be lying.
"By the way, Miss Shi, is it really that difficult to break through your secret barrier that has not been broken for many years?" Yan Liqiang quickly turned the topic to Shi Bingbing.
"This barrier of secret techniques is also a barrier to cultivation. Perhaps you haven't encountered it yet, but once you encounter it, you will understand. This barrier may appear at a critical juncture in the secret techniques, or at a critical juncture in the realm of cultivation. Once it appears, you will feel as if the realm ahead is within reach, but it's like there's an invisible wall or an invisible mountain in front of you, blocking you. No matter how hard you try, no matter how you want to move forward, you just can't make any progress. You can only vaguely see the things in front of you, or even touch them a little, but you can never get them, and you can never hold the key things firmly in your hands. This is the barrier to cultivation. Once this barrier to cultivation appears, it is definitely more serious than being possessed by a demon. Many practitioners may be blocked in front of a certain barrier to cultivation, unable to break through this barrier and take that critical step, and their cultivation for a lifetime will stagnate. This barrier to cultivation is like paper when it can be passed, and a mountain when it cannot be passed!"
When Shi Bingbing said this, her face was very serious. Yan Liqiang heard this, and for some reason, his heart skipped a beat, because what Shi Bingbing said reminded Yan Liqiang of his archery realm. His current archery practice has reached the peak of the seventh level, and he has just touched the edge of the eighth level. He will soon take this step and enter a new and higher level, but for some reason, he has stayed in the seventh level for a long time. It is as if there is an invisible wall in front of him, which allows you to see the edge of the eighth level, but no matter how hard you try, you can't reach it. It always feels like something is blocking him.
Before, Yan Liqiang always thought that he had not accumulated enough and that everything would come naturally. But when he suddenly heard what Shi Bingbing said, he suddenly realized that the problem he was facing now might be the barrier to practice that Shi Bingbing mentioned.
"Could it be... that the Supervisor has also encountered a barrier in his practice?" Shi Bingbing had just finished speaking when she noticed that Yan Liqiang's expression was different, so she couldn't help but ask.
Yan Liqiang touched his nose and said, "I have never encountered any barriers to cultivation before. I felt that cultivation was smooth sailing, so I didn't know there was such a thing as a barrier to cultivation. Just now, after hearing what Master-sister said, I realized that my archery skills have been at the peak of the seventh level for a long time. It's like there is an invisible barrier in front of me, blocking me from reaching the seventh level of archery. I don't know if this can be considered a barrier to cultivation..."
“Master Supervisor, please don’t be careless…” Shi Bingbing looked at Yan Liqiang with an extremely serious expression, her tone was also unprecedentedly solemn, “This cultivation barrier, the higher the realm, the greater the possibility of encountering it. If the cultivation barrier cannot be broken through for a long time, in the end, a demon in the heart will definitely arise. This is the so-called demon before the wall. The demon before the wall is the mortal enemy of cultivators, and it is also the first demonic obstacle to reaching the peak. Practitioners of the demon before the wall will either become possessed by the devil and lose their power and become ordinary people, or fall into the devil’s way, lose their mind, and finally die and never recover!”
Yan Liqiang's expression changed, "Then how do we break through this cultivation barrier?"
"There are only two ways to break through the barriers of cultivation. One is to do what I did today, by chance, and to break through with an epiphany after hearing a poem by the Protector-General. The second is to get a chance to break through in the midst of fighting and training. The latter is exactly the method that the Mingwang Sect has always adopted. The disciples of the Mingwang Sect encounter the fewest barriers to cultivation among the disciples of the four major sects, because the disciples of the Mingwang Sect all pursue cultivation in the midst of life and death training, to see their true nature in the midst of great terror, and to break through this barrier..."
"Well, maybe this is not a barrier to my cultivation. It's just that I made too fast progress in the early stage. After reaching the seventh level, the accumulation is not enough, so my cultivation has not improved for the time being!" Yan Liqiang comforted himself.
Lian Wushuang suddenly spoke, his tone still without much warmth, seeming cold and indifferent, "What you said does make sense, but whether it is a cultivation barrier or not, there is actually a way to test it. When the bow cultivation reaches the seventh level, it can already resonate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and produce unique cultivation phenomena. You can try it yourself. When the cultivation phenomena of your bow realm occur, use the energy of the Dantian Qi Ding to divide it into two streams and inject it into the Guanyuan and Zifu acupoints. If your cultivation phenomena still exist at this time, it means that the accumulation you mentioned is not enough, and your cultivation is temporarily stagnant. If the cultivation phenomena dissipate and cannot be maintained, then this is a cultivation barrier. If you don't break this barrier, over time, there will be endless troubles..."
Shi Bingbing also nodded beside her.
"Do you two know this method?"
"When the disciples of the four major sects reach a certain level of cultivation, the elders of the sect will naturally tell them about this knowledge!"
Damn, I am also a disciple of the Yu Luo Sect, why didn’t Cui Lichen tell me this? Does he think he already understood it
Yan Liqiang muttered to himself, he didn't know about the cultivation barrier before, but now that he knew, for some reason, he felt a little worried.
The carriage soon arrived at the Zhong family's mansion and drove directly into the Zhong family's courtyard. Yan Liqiang had just got off the car when a housekeeper who was familiar to Zhong Ruolan was already standing beside the carriage waiting for him. However, the words of this housekeeper ruthlessly extinguished the idea that Yan Liqiang was about to make.
"My young lady said that she and Miss Lu had a very pleasant conversation today. The two young ladies will sleep on the bed together and talk by candlelight tonight. It is not convenient to invite you. If you come, please go to the guest room in the side hall to rest tonight..."
After two women got together, they left me out in the cold. How could that be possible
Yan Liqiang was stunned for a moment, then he said helplessly, "Well... I just came to take a look... Since your young lady and Bei Xin want to have a candlelit night talk, I won't disturb them. Goodbye!"
In desperation, Yan Liqiang had to let Hu Haihe drive the carriage back to the Inspectorate.
Along the way, Lian Wushuang's cold gaze and Shi Bingbing's strange, half-smiley gaze fell on Yan Liqiang, making Yan Liqiang feel even more embarrassed.
"Okay, I know you want to laugh, so just laugh..." Yan Liqiang said, spreading his hands.
The two beautiful guards finally couldn't help laughing...
However, Yan Liqiang couldn't help but think of the method that Lian Wushuang had just mentioned to confirm the practice barrier...
God bless me, please don't let me encounter any obstacles in my practice. The word "demon before the wall" is terrifying. If I lose all my power or become a madman, how can I defend Qiyun County...
Yan Liqiang prayed silently in his heart.
(End of this chapter)