Start from miscellaneous fish to gain experience and cultivate immortality

Chapter 4 Floating Corpse
  "It's the method you taught me." Wang Shen said with a smile.

"I have been practicing for more than three years, and you can beat me after only three months of training. This is unreasonable!"

"Gan Luo paid homage to the prime minister at the age of twelve, and Taigong met King Wen at the age of eighty. Some people are young and talented, and some are late bloomers." Wang Shen stretched his muscles as he spoke.

"You mean you are a young talent and I am a late bloomer?" Chen Zheng blinked, wondering what Wang Shen meant by what he said.

"No, you are also a young talent. I think you have the appearance of an emperor." Wang Shen patted Chen Zheng on the shoulder and said seriously.

"What does the posture of an emperor mean?"

"It means awesome, which means very powerful. However, your shortcomings must be corrected. I told you that you should not just practice to death. You must be diligent in thinking, good at summarizing, and constantly correct and improve.

The muscle-splitting and bone-splitting hand training involves finger strength, wrist strength, and arm strength. You are still a little behind on these. Every time you do it with me, you have to lock the throat, grab the shoulder, or twist the hand. It’s a typical three-axe, with no tricks at all. , we must have innovative thinking.

And have you learned all about the hand that separates tendons and bones? "

"How did you know that I didn't learn everything? My cousin was afraid that I would bite off more than I could chew, and there were some moves that he didn't teach me?"

"Let me tell you, I always feel like I'm missing something when I use the moves."

When he first started practicing, Wang Shen didn't notice it, but as the practice time accumulated, he kept thinking and pondering on weekdays. He had noticed this problem in the early days. Chen Zheng didn't learn it all. Just the footwork and the moves on hand are not complete.

"Okay, no more chatting. Just keep an eye on me. I'm going to find a place to read." Wang Shen said.

“I only know how to read books all day long, what’s so interesting about it?”

"You don't understand, please let me know."

After speaking, Wang Shen ran to a hidden corner and began to read the Taoist scriptures.

Not far from the warehouse, the river flows quietly, and occasionally ships pass by. A quiet environment is most suitable for reading and practicing.

Wang Shen always felt a sense of urgency after seeing Lei Liang slap a cow away with his palm. He was thinking about what he would do if one day he had to face an opponent like Lei Liang? What's more, there are people stronger than Lei Liang in this world.

Therefore, he has not slacked off at all since time traveling, nor does he dare to slack off.

He has no one to rely on in this world and can only rely on himself. Therefore, he is kind to others, never shows off, and is cowardly. He practices hard in secret while looking for opportunities.

I don’t seek to be invincible in the world, but I seek to have some means of saving my life.

I recited the sutra silently several times, but still couldn't understand the cultivation techniques and couldn't even get started. However, my whole body became quiet, and I responded to the word "pure".

After these days of repeated recitation, Wang Shen found that concentrating on reciting the sutras could quickly calm him down, and the mental drowsiness caused by practicing Qigong would also be greatly alleviated.

In the afternoon, he found a stone and hung it on his arm with a hemp rope to practice his arm strength.

Seeing how hard he worked, Chen Zheng, who was staring at the river in a daze with a dog's tail grass in his mouth, also started practicing.

The days passed like this, and after more than ten days, it was Wang Shen and Chen Zheng's turn to guard the warehouse at night.

There are four people guarding the warehouse, two of them are on the west side and the other two are on the east side. Several of them were related, and Wang Shen had taken advantage of Chen Zheng.

The warehouse is afraid of fire. Besides, this is the territory of the Qinghe Gang, and there is nothing of value. No thieves will come here, so at night there are two lanterns far outside the warehouse. Wang Shen and Chen Zheng take turns keeping watch. Sleeping part of the time.

In the early morning of this day, before it was completely bright, Wang Shen had already gotten up, started practicing, and then walked around the warehouse.

Huh?
  He noticed that something seemed to be floating in the river not far away. As the water rose and fell, it was drifting to the shore. When he got closer to the shore, he saw a corpse.   Water ghost?

He immediately thought of the uproar about water ghosts that had been reported these days, and hurriedly observed the river surface carefully, but only saw the river water rolling away, and there was no sign of any water ghosts.

Seeing the body float to the shore, Wang Shen hesitated for a while and then found a hemp rope from the warehouse, tied it with an iron hook, and pulled the body ashore.

There were many wounds on the body, the most obvious of which were two. One was on the belly, which was torn open directly, and the other was on the Tianling Cap, where a hole was opened. In addition, there were some bits of food on the body. signs.

Wang Shen looked at the wound on the abdomen of the corpse and fell into deep thought.

He has seen dead people, whether in the past life or in this life, and has seen them more than once, but this is the first time he has seen such a way of death.

After a while, he took a wooden stick and slowly opened the wound on the corpse's abdomen and looked inside carefully. Then he looked at the wound on the corpse's forehead.

After doing all this, he stayed for a moment, threw away the wooden stick in his hand, stood up and took a few steps back, staring at the quietly flowing river not far away, and stood there for a long time. There was sweat beading on his forehead.

When he went back, he happened to see Chen Zheng waking up.

"What's wrong with you? You look ugly?" Chen Zheng asked with concern when he noticed that Wang Shen's face was not looking right.

"There is a corpse over there." Wang Shen raised his finger and pointed to the shore behind him.

"Corpse, water ghost?"

Wang Shen nodded silently. Chen Zheng went to take a look curiously, and his face turned pale when he came back.

"This is scary!"

Wang Shen sat on a bench and said nothing. The corpse was still in his mind.

The wounds on the corpse were a bit strange, especially on the abdomen. Although they were horrific, they didn't feel like they were bitten by monsters, so he thought of a possibility, a possibility that was heartbreaking.

"The last time the water ghost appeared was six years ago, why do we have to wait six years?" he thought to himself.

"Brother Shen, this warehouse is too close to the Qinghe River. Do you think the water ghost will come ashore? We can't do this job! I will go find my cousin today and ask them to find another job for us." Chen Zheng said with some fear.

"Is it because of water transportation?" Wang Shen turned to look at Qinghe.

"A Shen, what do you think we should do? Why don't we go to the gambling stalls and check out the action, As Shen?" Chen Zheng gently pushed Wang Shen, who was looking out in a daze.

"The gambling stall, why go to the gambling stall? It's good here." Wang Shen said hurriedly after he came back to his senses.

"The corpses are floating here. Maybe the water ghost is nearby. What day will it land?"

"Come ashore, water ghost? It won't come ashore. The mystery is the scariest thing." Wang Shen said quietly.

"What?" Chen Zheng was stunned when he heard this.

"Believe me, if you are really scared, just change your job. I will be here to look after the warehouse."

Wang Shen felt that the job of looking at the warehouse was really the best. It would not delay him at all from practicing and reading. It would not be so leisurely if he went to the gambling stalls to look at the venues, and there would be many pairs of eyes staring at him.

(End of this chapter)