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The sudden arrival of the three jade cards caused the monks around the capital to become restless. Although some people wondered why this blessing came so suddenly, no one could answer it; after all, no one could touch the thoughts of the ancestor of the Xian Family to be clear.

The matter of choosing three monks to scare the terrace has been finalized, but this matter has nothing to do with Zuo Lingquan, and he does not take it to heart.Leaving the Imperial City, the sun has already set and the scattered buildings on the south bank of Wende Bridge are bathed in the red sunset.

Zuo Lingquan returned to the Zuo Mansion, went to the back house to report safety to his three uncles and three aunts, and when he passed the veranda, he suddenly heard a soft 'shua, shua, shua' sound from behind the east courtyard wall—the sound of swinging a sword!

Zuo Lingquan's footsteps paused. He had been practicing swords for 14 years, and he was too familiar with this voice; the source of the voice was the East Residence where the young master lived. He turned around and walked through the corridor to the courtyard where Zuo Yunting lived.

The courtyard was cleaned up by family members, but it was fairly clean, but at this time, a black donkey was pesting in the middle of the courtyard, nibbling on the flowers in the bonsai leisurely, destroying the original elegant mood of the courtyard.

Zuo Lingquan entered the courtyard, looked up and saw under the steps of the main house, Zuo Yunting was wearing a robe of a son, holding a wooden sword in his hand, playing Wang Bajian without any rules.

Since Zuo Yunting claims to be 'inexperienced and incompetent', he must be incompetent in both civil and military affairs.But this is not stupid, but simply delicious and lazy, and refused to learn since childhood.

Zuo Lingquan was naturally surprised when he saw that Zuo Yunting came out from the west and started practicing swordsmanship.In a blink of an eye, I found that Lao Lu, who I had just met for a while, was also in the courtyard, sitting under the eaves with a tea bowl, watching Zuo Yunting play with his sword.

Zuo Lingquan didn't disturb Zuo Yunting's swordplay—mainly because he had no rules, he couldn't predict his next move at all, and it was difficult to get close.

He came to the eaves of the west wing, dragged a small bench and sat beside him, and praised:

"Elder Lu has a good way. The third uncle and the others invited famous teachers to teach martial arts, but the fifth brother refused to study hard. This is the first time I have seen sword practice so seriously."

Old Lu's hat hung on his back, his long sword was across his knees, and he held a tea bowl with a hoarse smile:

"To get people started, you need to prescribe the right medicine. Your brother has a loose personality and is lazy, but he likes to listen to books, and he is very interested in stories about fairy chivalry and trash's counterattack. After drinking the night before, I took your brother to chat and said that I In fact, he is the thirteenth city lord of Zhongzhou Sword Emperor City, with half a jade step, and his swordsmanship is supernatural; as long as he learns my swordsmanship, he will be able to feel proud and beat the most talented cousin in your family to let you understand What do you mean by 'Don't bully the young and the poor'. Your brother was so passionate that he couldn't sleep last night, so he got up and started learning swords."

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Zuo Lingquan's eyes were stunned, and he looked up and down at Lao Lu. He felt that his tone was joking, so he leaned a little closer and said softly:

"Finth brother, does he really believe it?"

"Do you think that with your brother's brain, I am a master, can he believe it?"

"I'm afraid it's not appropriate for Mr. Lu to fool people like this. If Fifth Brother finds out that he has been cheated in the future"

"When you find out that you have been cheated, you have learned something in your hands, which is better than being incompetent now."

Zuo Lingquan thought about it for a while, and it was true.He raised his eyes to carefully observe Fifth Brother's Wang Bajian, and after a while he said:

"Just this messy swordsmanship, can you really learn something?"

Old Lu didn't like this very much: "When you learned the sword on the first day, you were able to play well?"

Zuo Lingquan remembered things from birth, and when he played the sword for the first time, he really had an eye for it.But it's not easy to talk about it, he nodded and smiled:

"That's true."

Old Lu picked up the teacup and sipped, and said with a smile, "Don't underestimate your brother, I have lived so many years, and I have some unique skills hidden in my hands. As long as your brother studies hard, his future achievements will not necessarily be worse than yours."

Zuo Lingquan did not refute this: "If the fifth brother can cultivate true qi, it is normal to surpass me; I have not achieved anything since I was three years old, and I don't know when I will reach the threshold."

Old Lu saw the confusion in Zuo Lingquan's eyes. In fact, after getting in touch, he also saw that Zuo Lingquan really didn't know that he had already embarked on the path of cultivation.

Old Lu is not surprised by this, after all, Zuo Lingquan's cultivation path is indeed different.

At the beginning of cultivation, what people do is to strengthen the meridians and acupoints in order to refine and contain the true qi that contains the power of heaven and earth.

The most common method to strengthen the meridian orifices is to seal the sea of ​​qi into a container, and then use a small amount of true qi to stimulate the acupoints that have not been opened up like dripping water through a stone.

This method is equivalent to building a tower, one floor is used for one floor, and one floor is built up, step by step, concise and clear, and it is the mainstream of sect practice.

And Zuo Lingquan's method belongs to the one-piece method - meridian orifice points, which are originally connected to the heaven and earth; do your best to squeeze the body, speed up the circulation of qi and blood, and the speed of the aura in and out of the body will also speed up.

True qi is originally condensed from the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, the difference is that the attributes of spiritual qi are mixed and thin.

These auras that enter the body will also stimulate the second channel of Ren and Du, and the effect is similar to the first one; the difference is that the speed is very slow, people can hardly feel it, and it needs to be accumulated over time, until the small Zhoutian takes shape.

This method is like carving a high-rise building on the stone embryo. It cannot be used before it is formed. It is stimulated by the aura of heaven and earth, and the door will naturally open all over the body.

In the early days, if there is no true qi around you, you will be unable to draw talismans, alchemy, and magic. You can only rely on your body to exert a little combat power; day after day, you push your body to the limit. Not sure how long it will take.

But after Xiao Zhoutian takes shape, the two methods reach the same goal in different ways, and there is no difference between the methods of cultivation.

Most people in the world can't complete the Qi refining period in their entire life. The second method requires a hundred times more effort and risk than the first method, but the Qi refining period is no different from that of ordinary people; even if the Qi refining period is completed, the advantages are only It is formed in one piece, with a solid foundation and a solid body.

This kind of cultivation path that goes to extremes and tests perseverance, it is easy to be unable to hold on to the bamboo basket to draw water, so it needs special care, and each immortal gate generally only adopts it when training successors; if it is used on a large scale, it will not work. With so much energy in nursing, there is no immediate effect, and no one learns.If you use it less, there will naturally be less people who know it. There are only a very small number of worldly warriors who accidentally hit this path and enter the door of cultivation without relying on Qi refining.

Lao Lu guessed that Zuo Lingquan should have exercised his body too early. He practiced martial arts at the age of three, and only touched his bones at the age of six.

When groping the bones, the door of the whole body has been wide open for a period of time, and the infuriating energy leaks into the body into a sieve, so it is evaluated as 'naturally blocked meridians'.

It's no wonder that the monks here are short-sighted. After all, this kind of situation is rarely seen outside. How many three-year-old children in the world can hold their own 'heart to the Tao' without the guidance of their teachers. Practice to the death?

It can only be said that Zuo Lingquan was too sensible, too diligent, and lacked an expert to lead the way, so he took a different path from ordinary people by mistake.

However, although Lao Lu knew the reason, he did not intend to tell Zuo Lingquan about it.

It is a big taboo for an expert to arbitrarily call for a practice, because no one knows what the road ahead will be.

If Zuo Lingquan couldn't hold on to this path, he would give up, indicating that his heart was not strong. He helped this time, and sooner or later he would give up on the road in the future, because the masters would not always be by his side.

And with the experience of getting out of the fog, the next time you encounter a similar predicament, the confidence and perseverance must be much greater than ordinary people. This is the growth and transformation of the state of mind.

And it doesn't make sense to tell now.

He looked at Zuo Lingquan's physique, and his strength was comparable to that of a twelve-level martial artist, indicating that Xiao Zhoutian had already reached perfection and should soon be able to usher in that final step.

He asked Jing Terrace to recruit disciples here, but he actually wanted to stimulate Zuo Lingquan indirectly, to see if he could arouse Zuo Lingquan's desire to fight, so as to help him break through the situation.

If you tell it directly, you will be anxious when you are overjoyed. If you are eager to seek success, everything will not be achieved, but it may delay other people's practice.

Therefore, what Lao Lu can tell Zuo Lingquan now is only one exhortation from someone who has come over:

"Cultivating a single path is like walking in a long night without lights, and crossing a torrent without bridges. No one can see what lies ahead, whether there is danger or blessing underfoot. The only thing I can do as monks is to stick to the original heart. If the heart does not die, then The Great Way is immortal; when the heart dies, everything becomes empty."

stick to one's heart

Zuo Lingquan thought about it carefully, and nodded thoughtfully:

"Many thanks to Mr. Lu for his guidance, the younger generation will definitely keep it in mind."

Lao Lu smiled lightly, but after he finished laughing, he sighed secretly again—he was able to tell the truth to his juniors, but his own heart was ashamed, and sometimes it was useless to keep it in his heart