Dreaming about the world, embarking on the path of spiritual practice

Chapter 27
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Learn martial arts in the morning and medicine in the afternoon.

Yu Liang was immersed in the fun of learning and spent five fulfilling days.

Ma Wu was deeply shocked when he saw that he had mastered breathing skills and marksmanship to a proficient level in just five days.

Sometimes being too good a disciple is also a burden.

Ma Wu originally expected to teach Yu Liang's internal skills and mental methods in a month, but now it seems that he doesn't have to wait that long anymore.

Looking at Yu Liang standing in the courtyard practicing his spear, Ma Wu walked forward and said:

"Pause!"

When Yu Liang heard this, he immediately put away his gun: "Master!"

"Disciple, you've almost mastered breathing skills and marksmanship!"

"Today, as my master, I will teach you how to condense your inner strength!"

"After you have condensed the inner strength in your body, I will teach you the inner strength and mental methods."

When Yu Liang heard this, he was overjoyed and secretly thought that he could finally experience the magical inner strength. He excitedly raised his hands and saluted, "Thank you, Master!"

"Yeah!" Seeing how excited he was, Ma Wu smiled and nodded, thinking: No matter how talented he is, he is just a beginner now, and his reaction to the internal skills and mental methods is the same as that of a normal person.

"Give me the gun!"

"Yes!"

Yu Liang handed the wooden gun in his hand to the master.

"The most critical first step in condensing internal strength is to find the 'qi sense' first!"

"What is 'Qi'?"

"To put it simply, when the body is breathing in and out, it feels the 'qi' in the body, and it moves throughout the body under the guidance of 'gods'!"

After hearing this explanation, Yu Liang felt confused and didn't know why.

What is a 'god'?
How can 'Shen' guide 'Qi' to travel throughout the body?
In Yu Liang's understanding, after the air is inhaled into the body through the mouth and nose, it can only go to the lungs. How can it travel throughout the body?

If air leaks from the lungs, wouldn't it be a perforated lung?
Ma Wu looked at Yu Liang's puzzled expression and said with a smile, "Don't you understand?"

"Yeah!" Yu Liang nodded seriously.

"Just don't understand!"

Ma Wu said calmly: "The sense of energy is inherently mysterious and mysterious!"

"If you want to find the sense of Qi, you have to understand it with your heart!"

Hearing these words, Yu Liang was stunned for a moment.

To understand with your heart?
To him, it was as if he hadn't said it at all!
Ugh!
I sighed secretly in my heart, what I was worried about still happened.

Before this, Yu Liang had imagined the cultivation of internal strength.

What he fears most is that there will be "heart" and "shen" "enlightenment" of these illusory things.

It’s mindless, how to understand it?

The breathing technique is the breathing technique of the body.

Gun skills are techniques for exerting force on the body!
Yu Liang can feel these personally.

But this 'qi feeling' really made him unable to start and couldn't understand it!
Ma Wu continued: "For realizing the 'qi sense', every martial arts has an auxiliary method that can help practitioners realize it as quickly as possible."

Hearing these words, a glimmer of hope ignited in Yu's conscience.

"Next, my teacher will teach you how to understand the 'qi sense'!"

As he spoke, Ma Wu took off his clothes, picked up the wooden gun, and assumed a gun stance.

"Actually, everything I have taught you before is to lay the foundation for understanding the 'Qi Sense'."

"Concentrate your energy and gather it, sink it into your Dantian, your breath will surge, and your back will be strong. The heavens will move around, and your energy will become one!"

Yu Liang listened to the formula and stared at Ma Wu closely.

His eyes were closed tightly, motionless, as if he had entered a meditative state.

The mouth and nose are exhaling, and the chest and abdomen are rising slightly.

His back rolled, and his whole body, including the wooden gun in his hand, trembled slightly.Suddenly, Yu Liang saw an incredible scene.

I saw a slight bulge under the skin of Ma Wu's back spine, as if there was really a ball of energy condensed here.

This bulge slowly slid down the spine, wandering around Ma Wu's limbs, abdomen, chest, and finally came to his hands!

"upbraid!"

Ma Wu opened his eyes suddenly, shouted loudly, thrust out his gun, and the wooden gun in his hand trembled violently.

click~

The wooden gun broke directly because it could not withstand the strong force.

Call ~
After performing the closing position, Ma Wu threw away the broken gun in his hand and asked Yu Liang, "Are you ready?"

Yu Liang shook his head directly
Ma Wu frowned slightly. This was the first time that a genius disciple of his shook his head at his teachings.

"Didn't see clearly? Master, I will demonstrate it to you again!"

Ma Wu took another wooden gun and repeated the teaching just now.

After it was over, Yu Liang still shook his head.

"Come and give it a try. If you find anything wrong, my teacher will correct it for you!"

Taking the wooden gun from Ma Wu's hand, Yu Liang imitated all the postures and movements he had just made.

At first, Ma Wu stood aside and nodded with satisfaction.

But when Yu Liang was talking about his luck and exerting his strength, Ma Wu immediately said: "Wrong!"

"Luck and effort should cooperate with each other. Also, your mind is unstable!"

"Wrong movements are a small problem. If the mind is unstable, the thoughts will be scattered, the thoughts will be confused, and the strength will not be concentrated. This is a big problem!"

Upon hearing this, Yu Liang immediately corrected himself.

The breathing rhythm and the force exerted by the back should be at the same frequency. This was something he had not noticed the two times he had watched it before.

However, he didn't know how to correct it for the moment, so he could only force himself not to think wildly, and focus on absorbing luck and exerting physical strength.

When the breathing rhythm and back shaking remained at the same frequency, Yu Liang only felt that his body was slowly heating up.

Especially the bulging abdomen makes him feel warm!
"stop!"

Just when Yu Liang thought he was about to feel Qi, Ma Wu stopped him.

"You are too eager, your mind is unstable, your breath is scattered, and your strength is uneven. How can you unify your energy and strength like this?"

Ugh!
Ma Wu sighed first, then smiled and said, "I'm anxious too!"

“Finding the sense of Qi is not something that can be accomplished overnight!

"For ordinary people who practice martial arts, it is normal for them to wait for a year or two. I actually thought that because you could always learn everything in one go, you would also be able to find Qi all of a sudden. I was so anxious!"

"Let's stop for a moment. We won't practice martial arts today. Let's take a rest and relax. We can practice again when we feel calm tomorrow."

Ma Wu took Yu Liang back to the house.

Yu Liang thought that since he no longer practiced martial arts, he would read some medical books.

But Ma Wu, who was sitting in a chair with his eyes closed and concentrating, suddenly asked him: "Disciple, do you know how to fish?"

"A little bit good!" Yu Liang replied a little doubtfully.

Of course he knows how to do fishing, a leisure activity like hooking and swinging a rod, but he just doesn’t know what the master means by asking this question?
"Well, stop reading and go fishing with the master!"

Bring two fishing rods!

The fishing rod is just a bamboo pole, a thin line, a fishhook, and no other things like floats.

After digging up a few earthworms, the two went to the lake and swung their rods for fishing.

Ma Wu was sitting cross-legged by the lake, holding the fishing rod in his hands on his knees, his eyes closed tightly, as if he was meditating.

Yu Liang understood that the master was using fishing to train him to concentrate.

Following the example of his master, he also started meditating and fishing.

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(End of this chapter)