Chapter 42: Entering the Water Again
After chatting for a while, Liang Qu went back to his room, changed his clothes and returned to the martial arts field.
"Brother!"
Hu Qi apologized to the people he was teaching and took Liang Qu to a quiet room.
There is a wooden cabinet and a low table in the quiet room.
Hu Qi took out the key to open the cabinet, took out a thin incense stick, lit it and inserted it into the incense burner on the low table. An indescribable fragrance quickly filled the room.
Hu Qi took out several booklets from his arms. The top one was a diagram of the human body. It was very detailed, showing everything from the internal organs to the blood vessels to the membranes. There were also several sheets of yellow paper underneath, covered with words, but no one knew what they were.
“Junior brother, you can take this human body atlas back and study it carefully. The remaining pictures are prescriptions, which are the supporting prescriptions for the Three Punch Method.
Master Yang’s method includes more than just the Three Punch Method, but the Three Punch Method is extremely useful for laying the foundation, so unless there are special circumstances, our disciples usually practice the Three Punch Method before breaking through the Flesh Barrier.
Junior Brother Liang, you are very suitable for the Monkey Fist. You can continue to practice this style of boxing.
I know that you, Junior Brother Li and Junior Brother Chen are from the same hometown and have a good relationship with each other, but Junior Brother, please remember that this prescription should not be passed on lightly.
You can prescribe medicine for them to take. On the other side of the prescription is another version, which contains many useless herbs in the wrong dosage. The effect is also 80%, but you must never leak the prescription."
Liang Qu straightened his upper body and said, "Brother Hu, I know."
"I think Junior Brother Liang is not someone who doesn't know the importance of things. I'm just mentioning it."
Hu Qi packed up the atlases, stacked them on the low table, and continued.
"The key to breaking the skin barrier is to stimulate the fascia and skin of the whole body with the internal energy of qi and blood, so as to achieve the effect of refining the skin. The so-called qi and blood are the energy that appears in your chest when you practice boxing. It is the essence of the human body and the foundation of life.
After breaking through the skin barrier, the skin membrane of the whole body will appear to be the same as that of an ordinary person, but in fact it will be as tough as cowhide, greatly increasing the defense. If the Qi and blood are stimulated, it can be even better. "
"Then how do we use the internal energy of Qi and blood to stimulate the fascia and skin of the whole body?"
"This is hard to explain, and it's not easy to do either. I'll show you how to do it, and you'll understand. Start with the Ape Fist."
Liang Qu did as he was told.
When the fourth standing posture was about to end and the fifth one began, Hu Qi stepped forward and pressed his palm on Liang Qu's chest.
Liang Qu suddenly felt a warm air flow into his chest, directly combining with the air in his chest, carrying the air in his chest and flowing towards his limbs and bones. Finally, when it reached the fascia and skin, it turned into a hot current and disappeared.
Gradually, Liang Qu's skin began to heat up. It was fine at first, but then it started to get hot, and finally it became incredibly hot!
Sweat is rising from my whole body like a steamer!
Hu Qi said in a deep voice: "Don't be discouraged, the burn is a normal reaction, it's your blood tempering your skin!"
Liang Qu almost cried out in pain, but after hearing this, he clenched his teeth and endured it.
He could feel his skin contracting and tightening with the beating of his heart. It was not until a quarter of an hour later that the burning sensation gradually disappeared and his skin relaxed again.
"Do you remember the feeling of conducting Qi?"
“Only remember half of it.”
"It's okay, let's do it again."
With the experience of the first time, Liang Qu was much more calm the second time.
It seemed that because the air in his chest was consumed in a short period of time and had not recovered, his skin did not feel much when it happened again. Instead, Liang Qu remembered better how to diffuse the air and integrate it into the skin.
He vaguely grasped the answer to why one must have qi and blood as thick as a little finger in order to break through the barrier.
“You can feel it, right? If your Qi and blood are not at a certain level, the effect of breaking through the barrier will be minimal. On the contrary, Qi and blood will be consumed continuously due to skin refining, resulting in the Qi and blood not being able to grow, and the body will be deficient.
Senior Brother Xu had taught this several times in advance when he was in the martial arts school. Many people were unwilling to fail, and continued to try after leaving the martial arts school, which ended up damaging their bodies. So later on, unless your qi and blood are reached, the martial arts school generally will not teach you how to refine your skin.
Try it again and see if you remember it."
Liang Qu nodded, closed his eyes, and practiced the Monkey Fist. After stimulating a trace of Qi and blood again, according to the feeling previously conveyed by Hu Qi, he instantly dispersed the Qi and blood in his body and slowly guided it to the fascia and skin.
The blood and qi melted and submerged, Liang Qu's skin became slightly warm, and a skin refining was completed. He opened his eyes: "Thank you, Senior Brother Hu, I have remembered it."
"That's good. What I just lit was the Concentrating Incense, which will make it easier for you to guide your Qi and blood. Without the Concentrating Incense, it may be more difficult to guide your Qi and blood.
If there is enough food, Junior Brother Liang should be able to break through within twenty days, and then he will be a true warrior."
Twenty days is not a long time.
Liang Qu really wanted to know what it would be like when he actually became a warrior.
"Junior brother, do you want to continue practicing here, or go back to practice? If you are going to go back to practice, you can take the Concentrating Incense with you."
"Third Senior Brother asked me to go to his house tonight to look at the blueprints. Let's practice here. It's too far to go back and forth."
"Okay, but let's eat first. It's time for dinner."
"it is good."
It was around nine in the morning when Liang Qu came out of Yang's house. He bought some things and practiced martial arts. It was time for dinner, especially since he had just consumed a lot of energy and blood, so his stomach was already empty.
As direct disciples, what they eat is different from that of ordinary apprentices.
In a separate small room, on the square table there was a large pot of braised beef, a large pot of boiled mutton, a large pot of steamed vegetables, plus a sufficient amount of white rice, all of which were as big as washbasins and were steaming.
Liang Qu was shocked: "The three of us can eat so much!?" "What's the big deal? When you, Liang, break through the skin barrier, you will know how much you can eat. Come on, sit down. Don't be polite. We are all family."
Xiang Changsong lifted up his skirt and sat on the bench. After the bowl and chopsticks were distributed, he started to eat a bowl of rice. Hu Qi did the same.
As soon as Liang Qu picked up the bowl, Xiang Changsong put a large piece of beef into his bowl.
"Eat! The beef stewed by Chef Liu is very tender and fragrant. There is also mutton, which doesn't smell at all. Use your chopsticks more often. I will only take this one."
"it is good."
Hu Qi swallowed a piece of beef and said, "By the way, Junior Brother, I saw you fighting with Lu Tingcai and the others last night. Your fighting style was terrible. You were obviously much better physically than those seven people, but you still got hurt a lot."
Liang Qu put down his chopsticks: "I haven't learned how to fight yet, and I rarely fight. My master has mentioned this."
"No need to put down your chopsticks. We don't care about that. We can talk while we eat."
"okay."
“I know you haven’t learned it, so I want to remind you not to just learn how to practice. Warriors are created to fight with others. Even though they are strong and can fly bricks, they still need to have skills.
You are good at learning the Ape Fist, and the fighting style of the Ape Fist emphasizes the dragon-shaped snake waist, fish-scale steps, and the ground is as slippery as ice. The scraping steps and lying attack techniques in it are unique. If you could use them last night, fighting and dodging at the same time, and restraining them, you could have resolved the melee at a much lower cost."
"I remember."
“I will teach you how to fight after you pass the level in a few days. By then, it won’t be a problem for people like Lu Tingcai to double their numbers.
Don't be shy, just tell me if you have anything to say and just ask me if you have any questions. We brothers and I have all been through this.
I was brought up by Senior Brother Xu, and Junior Brother Xiang was brought up by Senior Brother Cao. Now Master has handed you over to me, and it’s the same for both of us.”
"Thank you, Senior Brother. I'll remember this."
After he finished speaking, there was a moment of silence, leaving only the sound of three grown men swallowing and the sound of chopsticks colliding with porcelain bowls.
Just over a quarter of an hour.
The three of them actually finished off the three big pots of food. Of course, Liang Qu only ate a small portion and was full.
It turns out that becoming a warrior can also increase one's appetite. If one has such a big appetite when eating crabs, wouldn't that mean that the degree of fusion has already been maximized?
Liang Qu thought.
In the afternoon, the practice continued.
After dinner, Liang Qu said goodbye to his two senior brothers and followed the address left by his third senior brother to find the house with an anvil at the door.
It is also a mansion, but at first glance it has a completely different style from the Yang Mansion. It covers a huge area and the overall style is very rough.
Standing outside, he saw several huge chimneys in the house, emitting thick smoke.
Liang Qu entered the house and was hit by a heat wave.
Several big men were working on iron with their bare chests. A huge iron furnace was burning with blazing flames. Twisted air currents could be seen everywhere, but there was no trace of the severe winter coldness to be felt at all. It seemed as if the inside and outside of the house were two different worlds.
He also discovered that what was burning at the bottom of the stove was not charcoal, but some unknown mineral, the size of a heart. It was definitely not charcoal. The black stone was covered with orange-red lines, like flowing magma.
The one using the furnace was Lu Gang. When he saw Liang Qu, he turned around, took out a stack of blueprints and waved, "Ninth Junior Brother! It's great. Come over and take a look at your spear pattern."
Liang Qu was very concerned about his spear. With the spear, his combat effectiveness in water would be greatly improved, so he hurried forward to check it out.
The drawing was made with charcoal and was surprisingly clear and neat.
Each drawing was one-to-one, with the size, shape and estimated weight of the spear next to it. There were more than ten drawings in total. Liang Qu looked at them one by one, and suddenly his attention was attracted by a drawing of a spear with exquisite patterns.
The tiger head transformed into a cloud tiger was wrapped around the neck of the spear, and the twelve-inch long blade sticking out from the tiger's mouth was like half a sharp sword.
The metal was wrapped all the way to the front of the gun barrel, nearly two feet and five inches long. The integrated long spear head made it look more like a halberd and a spear, which was more in line with Liang Qu's wishes.
"Brother, is this okay?"
"No, why would I take it out? Junior brother is a good picker and picked the best one at first sight."
Lu Gang spoke at a steady pace, neither fast nor slow, giving people an extremely reliable impression.
"The tiger-head gun is quite complicated, and it will take about twenty days. You can come and take a look at it by then. If you think it is ok, I will paint it with glue."
"Thank you, Senior Brother Lu."
Lu Gang shook his head: "We are all brothers, no need to be polite, you can walk around, I will go to work first."
Liang Qu was just about to look around when he suddenly froze for a moment and then said goodbye to his senior brother.
Lu Gang nodded, thinking that his shop was too dirty and too hot, so he just asked his junior brother to be careful on the road.
Liang Qu apologized, hurriedly left the blacksmith shop and turned to run towards Yixing City.
Shit, Ah Fei discovered another treasure fish!
(End of this chapter)
