Chapter 85: Martial Arts Prodigy
Chapter 85: Martial Arts Prodigy (Subscription Request)
The moves of the Five Tigers Breaking Door Knife are not complicated, and are even surprisingly simple.
"It's not that it's easy, but my hand-eye coordination and muscles have reached this level, so I find it easy to do these moves."
The Crane Shape Technique, Eight Diagrams Swimming Palm, Bull Demon Powerful Fist and Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist that Xu Qing learned are all skills that focus on building the foundation of martial arts and body techniques. Any one of them can lay a solid foundation for the martial artist himself.
What's more, Xu Qing practiced four techniques at the same time.
Ordinary warriors, when learning a weapon, will only focus on training the related muscles and bones.
Because weapons can amplify a person's lethality several times, if the main purpose is to kill, then spending hard work to practice other parts of the body is obviously asking for trouble.
For many people, learning martial arts is not for physical fitness, nor is it necessary to pursue the essence of martial arts, but to kill the enemy and gain power, which requires risking one's life.
Moreover, even if Xu Qing had so many benefits, if he did not have the bronze mirror and the absolute focus plug-in, he might not be able to master the Crane Shape Technique now.
Compared with the progress of ordinary people in martial arts training, Xu Qing can be said to be quite extraordinary.
In a state of "absolute concentration", he memorized every move of Zuo Qianhu. And after Zuo Qianhu performed the Five Tigers Breaking the Door, he truly discovered the mystery of the Five Tigers Breaking the Door Knife.
"King Lin and Eunuch Zhao both learned other people's martial arts. Even if they have practiced to their limits, there is always the shadow of others, so there are flaws in the artistic conception of their own moves. Zuo Qianhu is different. He first had the artistic conception, and then combined it with what he learned in the Qing Palace Martial Arts Academy on Laoshan Mountain to create the Five Tigers Breaking Gate Sword Technique. This sword technique not only has flesh and blood, but also his soul injected into it."
“But I am not him, so I have to practice the Five Tigers Breaking Gate Knife to the same level as Zuo Qianhu. I need to comprehend the artistic conception of the Five Tigers Breaking Gate Knife myself, and no one can teach me this.”
"After comprehending the artistic conception, one even needs to fine-tune the sword techniques to make them suitable for oneself. After all, Zuo Qianhu's sword techniques were created for himself. If used on others, they will naturally be inappropriate."
He knew clearly that artistic conception was just artistic conception, and it was still a long way from the real "boxing intention", but it was the foundation for practicing "boxing intention".
The "boxing meaning" here does not refer to the artistic conception of "boxing" alone, but is a general term.
Just as the ancient Chinese word "禽" means "抓", it means to capture animals, so in the ancient sense it is a general term for animals, not just birds.
For example, in the Five Animal Exercises, the "birds" include animals such as tigers and bears.
Similarly, fist is the foundation of all kinds of weapons, and the use of any sword, spear, sword or halberd is derived from the changes of "fist". Moreover, the human hand not only has strength and speed, but also has infinite changes. It is the most comprehensive of the limbs and various joints of the human body.
Once you comprehend the true "fist intention", when you apply it to swordsmanship it will naturally be "sword intention". The same goes for sword intention, spear intention...
It can be said that the biggest benefit of Zuo Qianhu teaching Xu Qing the Five Tigers Breaking Door Knife was that it opened the door to the "fighting method" in martial arts. Because before, he had been focusing on "training methods", and fighting methods were not without them, but they were indeed his current relative weakness in martial arts.
Moreover, the way the Five Tigers Breaking Door Sword generates force and applies energy contains the boxing theory of the Shangqing Palace Martial Arts Academy in Laoshan, which is the theory of the superior martial arts of Taoism. It is helpful for Xu Qing to comprehend the upper-middle level of "Ming Jin" kung fu.
Because Ming Jin itself has three levels: upper, middle and lower.
When he first punched out, he made a sound that was considered “worth a thousand gold coins” in boxing. It was the lowest level of Ming Jin. Only after practicing the Niu Mo Da Li Quan did he approach the middle level of Ming Jin.
Of course, this does not mean that the Ming Jin of the Bull Demon's Great Strength Fist cannot be trained to a higher level. On the contrary, the limit of the Ming Jin of the Bull Demon's Great Strength Fist even exceeds that of the Five Tigers Breaking Door Knife.
However, the tricks here lacked the basic mysteries that Xu Qing could understand, and instead hindered Xu Qing from fully comprehending the mystery of the Bull Demon's powerful fist.
The Five Tigers Breaking Door Sword provides this kind of thing.
It's like, Five Tigers Breaking Door Sword is a middle school textbook, and Bull Demon's Great Fist is a high school textbook. Although they cover the knowledge of the middle school textbooks, they are not too detailed, and it is assumed that you already understand them.
In other words, the basics should have been taught by the master.
However, Xu Qing has no master.
On the other hand, the Bull Demon's Great Strength Fist itself is designed for those with extraordinary talents. The higher the default talent, the closer one can get to the upper limit of this boxing style.
In fact, this is true for all martial arts schools. They all place great value on martial arts talent, so they recruit many disciples. The more people there are, the greater the probability of having a talented disciple.
Some martial arts schools that claim to have been passed down from generation to generation often have to find successors themselves because it is extremely difficult to even get started with their martial arts, and they have no power.
Since I did it myself, the efficiency is too low. It took me a lot of time to find one, and I really don’t have the energy to find a second one...
If we are unlucky, it will be lost.
After Xu Qing watched the complete moves of the Five Tigers Breaking Door Knife, he thought of a lot of things at once.
At this time, Captain Zuo said, "Mr. Xu, come and try to see how many of the moves I just performed you can remember."
"it is good!"
Xu Qing picked up the sword and performed it according to his memory.
Captain Zuo next to him was more and more surprised the more he looked at it.
A full quarter of an hour passed before Captain Zuo said excitedly, "You actually remembered everything."
Prefect He laughed and said, "Gongming is a good reader, so it's no wonder that he has a photographic memory."
Captain Zuo shook his head, still a little excited: "There are two kinds of memory, one is physical memory, and the other is our ordinary memory. Xu Shengyuan obviously has both. He is a martial arts genius that is one in a million."
After he finished speaking, he sighed.
To teach talented people is one of the greatest joys in life.
Fortunately, Xu Qing had the right path to take in the imperial examination, otherwise he would have been dragged into the Shangqing Palace Martial Arts Academy in Laoshan to specialize in studying martial arts.
For example, the Dachan Temple has a special Dharma Academy to house "disciples" with amazing martial arts talents, allowing them to concentrate on studying martial arts. These disciples also include those from outside.
It is precisely because of Dachan Temple's philosophy of gathering martial arts talents from all over the world that there is a rumor in the martial arts world that "all martial arts in the world come from Dachan Temple."
At all times, talent is the foundation for the development of martial arts.
It is precisely because of these talented people that Dachan Temple has been able to improve the martial arts within the temple generation after generation, making the various unique skills within the temple the result of thousands of refinements and can be called “indestructible” martial arts.
Therefore, the martial arts in the Great Zen Temple have always been coveted. Over the past thousand years, countless masters have sneaked into the temple to learn martial arts.
These people are often discovered.
The attitude of the Great Chan Temple was to accept most of these people into the temple, allowing them to integrate their lifelong learning into the martial arts of the Great Chan Temple in the name of studying Buddhism.
This makes the martial arts system of Dachan Temple more and more perfect.
Captain Zuo suppressed his excitement and regret and said, "Mr. Xu, you have already learned this set of sword techniques. Next, I will explain to you the method of exerting force and moving the energy..."
"Then there's Mr. Lao."
Zuo Qianhu now feels as excited as if he is carving a piece of peerless jade with his own hands.
He is also a genius in martial arts, so there is some sympathy between them.
What's more, Xu Qing is a scholar, the type of person he most likes to make friends with.
It has to be said that he is an outlier in the factory.
Logically speaking, such secret agencies are often the mortal enemies of civil officials and scholars, and are regarded as the eagle claws of the court by scholars. However, the people that Zuo Qianhu respected most in his life were scholars and the loyal and righteous people praised by scholars.
Well, if Captain Zuo knew what Xu Qing had done, he would definitely not think so.
However, when your heart is full of a person's strengths, you cannot see his shortcomings at all.
Even if I see it, I will take the initiative to make excuses.
This is also true, because people will instinctively protect the beauty in their hearts and deliberately beautify them. After Zuo Qianhu explained the tricks of using the sword, he randomly selected key points and asked questions, and Xu Qing could answer them at will.
He asked Xu Qing to demonstrate on the spot.
Except for the use of strength in some places, which Xu Qing could not do perfectly because his muscles and bones had not been trained enough, in other aspects, he could use it easily.
"My master once said that a truly wise person can understand everything he learns at a glance and become a master in a short time. I thought my master was joking at the time, but I didn't expect that there really are people like Xu Shengyuan in the world." Captain Zuo looked at Xu Qing with envy and jealousy.
Xu Qing thought: "If you have 'absolute concentration' and your soul is strong enough, you can do it too."
However, the cheat itself can also be attributed to his own talent.
Right, a bronze mirror.
You are mine, what is yours is mine, you are a part of me.
You are me!
The beauty is complete, the beauty is complete.
Xu Qing said modestly: "I have not yet comprehended the artistic conception of your swordsmanship, so I cannot say that I have mastered it."
Zuo Qianhu: "If you can comprehend this level, you will definitely comprehend the artistic conception in the future. I also have something to say to you."
"Sir, please speak."
Zuo Qianhu said sternly, "In the way of martial arts, the first-class people are judged by their talent and physique, but the first-class martial arts masters are judged by their mind and bearing. My master also warned me that people who practice martial arts must be tolerant, but cannot be humiliated. Mr. Xu, do you understand what I mean?"
Xu Qing thought for a moment and said, "Your Excellency means that we should be broad-minded. We should not make enemies easily. Otherwise, even if we feel happy for a while, we will cause ourselves a lot of troubles and inevitably get into trouble. But we should also respect ourselves and not be humiliated. The so-called martial arts is to stop the war. Martial arts is mainly about self-protection, not letting people take the initiative to harm others."
“The fact that you can think of this level has already surpassed the ninth level of martial artists in the world. But…” Captain Zuo suddenly drew his sword and slashed at Xu Qing. Xu Qing was startled and dodged subconsciously, but was still hit on the shoulder by Captain Zuo with the back of the sword.
He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. If it was a knife, he would lose his arm.
Magistrate He was not wrong; Captain Zuo was indeed a top-notch master of the time.
He still had a long way to go before he could become a world-class expert, but Xu Qing believed that it would not take too long.
All in all, he has been learning martial arts for less than a year.
His current progress is already astonishing.
Zuo Qianhu said: "Kung Fu is always a killing skill, real and fake, true and false. We should comprehend the great principles, but we should not be bound by them. You see, I am usually neither hot nor cold, and I treat people kindly, but who would have thought that I would suddenly explode and kill people?"
Xu Qing nodded: "Knowledge of the world is knowledge, and understanding of human nature is writing. The way of martial arts is also hidden in the way we treat people in our daily lives."
"What a wonderful saying, 'Knowledge of worldly affairs is learning, and understanding of human nature is writing'. This sentence should be made clear."
He Zhifu's eyes also lit up, and he said, "Is Gongming's learning gifted by heaven? Otherwise, why can he always say such profound sentences?"
"This saying was not coined by students. I just saw it when I occasionally read some miscellaneous books."
"That's because you are well-informed and have a good memory, and you can apply it in your daily life." He Zhifu smiled indifferently, but he didn't quite believe it in his heart. He had read a lot of miscellaneous books.
He has also read some unpopular novels such as "The Unofficial History of the Embroidered Couch", "Night Talks by Lamplight" and "The Monk by Lamp Cao", but he has never seen the words that Xu Qing said.
In fact, he was also quite interested in Inspector Wu's book Thirty-Six Styles in the Cave. Originally, the old man was going to give it to him, but later, when Old Man Wu was promoted, he stopped mentioning the matter.
This is a good example of the fickleness of the officialdom, the fawning on the powerful, following the famous and stepping on the unfavorable...all kinds of despicable behavior.
Lord He himself wanted to climb the career ladder in order to clarify the administration of officials and correct this kind of atmosphere.
Captain Zuo then invited Xu Qing and Magistrate He to have a drink together.
In official circles, entertaining and seeing off guests at the dinner table is inevitable.
Xu Qing has gotten used to it.
He didn't like this kind of socializing before, because he was just a supporting role, and the benefits had nothing to do with him, but he might be remembered if someone took the blame.
Even in the eyes of some people, being able to take the blame for others is an opportunity for advancement.
They couldn't even memorize it if they wanted to.
But anyway, he definitely doesn't like this kind of thing.
It’s different now. His status and identity are different. In this kind of social gathering, Xu Qing is at least an important role, not a minion. With a sense of participation and involvement, it’s naturally different.
So for the same thing, those in a higher position can speak many great truths and teach people how to behave, but those below them can only taste the bitterness and pain, and have to agree in humiliation as if they were being raped.
The cups clinked and the wine flowed along the winding stream.
Have fun and return home!
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"Master, I deserve to die." After Guo Zhuang knew that the matter was exposed, he knelt in front of Xu Qing and slapped himself repeatedly.
After a while, Xu Qing said calmly, "Captain Guo, this is not your fault. There are only a few people who have contact with the prisoner. As long as there is suspicion, we can always find out. This is also my carelessness. I should not be so anxious to kill him and just let him remain unconscious."
Guo Zhuang: "It's all my fault for not thinking of this, otherwise I should have reminded you."
Xu Qing smiled slightly: "Get up. It's okay to make mistakes. We are different from the government. In the government, if you make a mistake, it is easy to ruin your career, so many people would rather do nothing than make a mistake. But in this world, we have to move forward, how can we not do anything? We have learned a lesson this time, so we must remember it and reflect on it, instead of just not doing it."
He pulled Guo Zhuang up and said softly, "Don't be afraid of making mistakes, as long as you do things in moderation."
It would be easy for Xu Qing to kill Guo Zhuang, but what would happen? If he killed Guo Zhuang, would his brother Guo Li be resentful? Should he be killed as well?
If you don't kill, then you marginalize.
Will he feel resentful if a confidant he has cultivated with great difficulty is suddenly marginalized?
It's better to do the right thing than to do the right thing.
As long as he can grow from his experience and lessons, he is a good helper. If he makes mistakes again, it is not too late to be marginalized, and he will be convinced by then.
What's more, Guo Zhuang has done a lot of things in the past. We cannot deny his past contributions just because we didn't do one thing well. That is not the way to behave.
In addition to using power and tactics, shouldn't those in power also be responsible?
If the leader is irresponsible, how can the people below be willing to work hard?
As a person, remember not to be too narrow-minded.
Then Xu Qing threw out a secret book, "This is a set of sword techniques found on the rebels of the Lotus Sect. It's called Sad Wind Sword. Take some time to learn it."
"Thank you, sir. I can only repay you with my own death." Guo Zhuang couldn't help but choke up. He didn't expect that even though he had messed up the job, the young master was still willing to teach him a set of swordsmanship.
It was a blessing that he had accumulated over several lifetimes to be able to follow such a master.
Xu Qing smiled and said, "Why would I want your life? If you can do a good job, that will be the best reward for me."
"Yes." Guo Zhuang knocked his head hard on the ground again.
He made up his mind to place people in the government and county governments in a more covert and in-depth manner.
Never make the same mistake again, even if you die.
(End of this chapter)