September twenty-three.

In the early morning, Guan Luoyang and his coach said goodbye to Tian Gongyu and embarked on the road to Guangzhou.

The coach's original attire was really too eye-catching, so this time he went on the road and changed into blue coarse cloth clothes.

Those are Tian Gongyu's clothes. Tian Gongyu is shorter than the coach, so the clothes are a bit tight on the coach.

However, these days, there are many people without clothes. As far as Guan Luoyang saw with his own eyes, there were not a few naked bodies that were starving and freezing to death on the roadside.

The coach's clothes were only slightly ill-fitting, but that didn't arouse any suspicion. He hid his roster and sticks himself, and he didn't know where they were hidden. Anyway, he moved freely and couldn't be seen at all.

On the contrary, Guan Luoyang's long sword was a bit difficult to deal with. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided not to bring it.

The sun has not yet risen, the sky is dim, and two people are walking and chatting on a path in the wilderness.

"Lei Gong was a master of both fists and swords back then. The efficiency of killing enemies with a set of grappling hands is almost as good as that of sword skills. You don't carry a sword, but you don't know how much skill you have learned from him in your fists and feet?"

"I have been learning the five skills of grappling for longer than the sword skills. It's just that my master was a master of bone training back then, but I was a master of skin training. I don't know who is stronger or weaker than him when he was at his peak."

The five-part grappling hand, as the name suggests, is a set of grappling hands divided into five parts.

Arhat, eagle claws, wrapped with silk, crane broken, open back.

If we use the most popular and concise language to summarize, Arhat refers to the method of using strong force to capture the joints of the limbs of the human body, dividing the tendons, dislocating the bones, and cutting the flesh.

The move that twisted Zhu Changshou's right arm was from the first episode of Arhat.

The eagle claw is used to practice one's own wrist and finger strength, mainly targeting the enemy's facial features, lower back, vaginal vitals, etc. The target can tear out the eyes and ears, press the lips and hook the face.

Silk wrapping is a method of pulling and dragging to destroy the enemy's balance. It targets the ears, fingers, hair, clothing and other ends, and often relies on hitting and injuring people.

Crane Duan pays attention to its own unique way of exerting force, and pursues unique training results such as palm insertion, index fingering, and inch strength. It is roughly selected from some of the essence of Crane Fist.

Tongbei is to practice one's own breathing, to shoot long and far, with long-lasting power. At the same time, it is mixed with hypnotic techniques that have evolved from the Boxer God's fighting method. It seeks to confuse the enemy at the critical moment, distract it, and launch a surprise attack.

effect.

According to Tian Gongyu, this set of grappling hands was first passed on to his master from the generation where his master passed down the art, and then to him. After passing through the Tianjin Huimeng, more than a dozen great boxers exchanged it with each other.

Only precious manuscripts are truly perfect.

"It took thirty years of hard work for your master to achieve the mastery of bone training. It only took you six years to reach the stage of mastery of skin training. Not only is your talent amazing, but he also teaches students according to their aptitude. Disciple.

You don’t have to be inferior to your teacher, you don’t have to be inferior to your teacher.”

The coach was given this nickname because he was a good teacher in the Boxer Rebellion and mentored many rising stars.

When he came here today, he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​​​pointing to the younger generation again, and said, "But since you are practicing the five-step grappling hand, you have grabbed a lot of essence from the manuscripts of your colleagues back then. While you are perfecting the skin, you can also train the tendons.

Bones and Qi, I must have achieved quite a lot."

Guan Luoyang is not a person who likes to be modest. He told the truth: "I can exert force at will to reach more than two thousand kilograms. I can hold my breath for more than a quarter of an hour. I bow my head and bend over, hold my knees with my hands, and curl up like a ball all night. I never relax, and my cervical and lumbar spine are...

No soreness at all. This was a test I did around May this year.”

Is this really just a matter of six years of practice?

The instructor couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and said: "It seems that you may be able to give it a try in the near future and step into the threshold of Qi training."

Qi training in boxing and martial arts in this world refers to breathing training.

When Tian Gongyu explained the so-called "Four Exercises" to Guan Luoyang, he once said that although each of the four exercises requires talent and diligence, if you insist on comparing them with each other, it can be said that it is bone training.

It requires the most hard work, and practicing Qi requires the most talent.

The air flow in and out between the mouth and nose is so weak that even if you blow with all your strength, it may not be able to move the two ounces of pork on the chopping board.

However, after these airflows are transformed by breathing and enter the human body, they can drive a human body weighing one hundred kilograms, two hundred kilograms or even three hundred kilograms to perform various violent movements.

In this process, the effectiveness of these weak airflows is magnified hundreds of times!

The process of Qi training in martial arts is to explore the mystery of the transformation of breath.

But to be honest, the various descriptions of the mysteries of Qi training in those boxer manuscripts were too abstract in Guan Luoyang's opinion.

In the past six years of practicing boxing and martial arts, he has made great progress in other aspects. However, in terms of Qi training, apart from increasing lung capacity, he has not found any other training direction at all.

Guan Luoyang explained his confusion.

The instructor smiled and said: "Practice qi is not a foolhardy exercise, nor is it just about increasing the strength of the heart and lungs. The so-called talent that matters most in qi training is to see whether you can capture a certain special state during long-term practice.

Some people will never encounter this state in their lifetime, while others will encounter it three or five times in a year. The latter will naturally be considered to be more talented and it will be easier for them to reach the peak of Qi training.

But in fact, if there is a person who is a master of qi training and teaches through words and deeds, then the apprentice’s chances of being exposed to this state will be greatly improved."

As the instructor spoke, he slowed down his pace, lowered his voice, and said, "Follow me, pay attention to my breathing, and watch the rise and fall of my chest and abdomen when I walk."

Guan Luoyang stood sideways and listened attentively.

breathe--

breathe--

The instructor faces south, raises his arms slightly and slowly lowers them.

The sound of breathing fell clearly into Guan Luoyang's ears. He exhaled and inhaled, went in and out, and the sounds of exhalation and inhalation were distinct.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, and in the wilderness, the cliffs in the distance are steep, covered with moss, and densely rocky.

The nearby jungle is jagged and weeds are everywhere, and the dew is about to fall in the morning, and it is green and green.

The two of them stood in this green wilderness, and the breeze blew the dew off the branches, bringing a bit of coolness to Guan Luoyang's face.

At some point, Guan Luoyang suddenly realized that he couldn't tell whether the instructor was exhaling or inhaling.

The two voices are entangled together, the differences are getting smaller and smaller, and they are becoming more and more consistent.

Guan Luoyang frowned and looked intently.

The instructor's face was camouflaged with ointment and powder. It looked like his skin tone was much darker and there were many pockmarks. When a person inhales, his nose wings retract and when he exhales, his nose wings open. Originally, in this close situation,

With Guan Luoyang's eyesight, it should not be difficult to identify.

But he couldn't tell whether the instructor was breathing or breathing at this moment.

The last thing he heard in his ears seemed to be a long, endless breath.

At this moment, the coach stepped forward.

Guan Luoyang was confused and had no choice but to follow him. He was walking sideways, his eyes constantly looking at the trainer's chest and abdomen.

There was no obvious rise and fall in the instructor's chest, but the layer of clothing that was tightly stretched over his chest and abdomen had very subtle ripples.

It was obviously made of coarse cloth, but when it was worn on the instructor's body, it looked like silk that had been wrinkled by the breeze, with ripples blooming from places where the source could not be identified, and the waves kept rippling.

The more Guan Luoyang wanted to observe, the more difficult he found it to understand.

Unknowingly, they walked from early morning to noon on the same day. The dozens of miles of mountain road had many steep and muddy places, and they crossed it leisurely.

The instructor's breathing sound was still harmonious, as if it was going in but not coming out.

When he reached a river, the instructor stopped, turned to face Guan Luoyang, and pointed at his neck and flank.

Guan Luoyang understood and pressed his hands on those two places respectively.

A very low-amplitude tremor came from his palm.

The instructor was not a master of skin training, but at this moment Guan Luoyang suddenly had a feeling that the instructor's skin's resistance ability would definitely not be lower than his own if he stayed in this state.

The instructor asked him to touch his chest, then his back, his shoulder blades, and his lumbar spine. There was a similar tremor everywhere.

This subtle feeling cannot be seen with the naked eye. It can only be felt by touching it with your hands, and you can clearly feel that the tremor frequency is exactly the same everywhere. It will not be different just because there are more bones and less meat, or less bones and more meat.

Differences occur.

After a while, the instructor raised his hand to signal him to get out of the way, then turned his head to face the water and exhaled slowly.

The other person stood upright, and his mouth was at least two meters away from the water. However, when he blew out the breath, it hit the water, leaving a small obvious dent, pushing away the waves.

After exhaling this breath, the instructor's breathing sound finally became obviously different again.

"Qi Lian Dacheng is a kind of rhythm. Just like what you just felt, it is a unified rhythm that runs from the mouth and nose, from the heart and lungs to the ends of the body. The skin, muscles, blood, and bones are originally just a whole. Qi Lian

, is to make people feel the existence of this connection more clearly.

It is said in the ancient theory of innocence in "Su Wen" that exhaling the breath, guarding the spirit independently, and the muscles are as one, maybe this is the state it is talking about."

Following the instructor's words, Guan Luoyang fell into deep thought. Sometimes he clasped his hands to cheer up and looked at the muscles on his arms. Sometimes he turned his hands over and pinched his knuckles to feel the pressure on his bones and joints.

After a long time, the instructor was already sitting there eating dry food.

Only then did Guan Luoyang come back to his senses and said, "I seem to understand why it is said that the four major exercises become more difficult as you go up."

The four major exercises of muscles, bones, skin and qi are one step at a time, one mountain and one sky.

In recent hundreds of years, there have been dozens of boxers in each generation who have achieved mastery in the first level, but the number of masters in the second level has shrunk tenfold.

There may not be one person who achieves great success in three exercises in a hundred years, but there may only be one person who achieves great success in four exercises, like the legendary Zhang Sanfeng.

It has always been difficult for Guan Luoyang to understand before. After all, objectively speaking, the stronger a certain quality of the human body, the easier it should be to improve the shortcomings in other areas.

But in addition to objectivity, subjective feelings also need to be taken into consideration.

Ever since Guan Luoyang became a master of skin training, he has felt that his whole body is solid and indestructible. No matter how hard his skeletal muscles exert force, his skin is strong enough to bear it and explode.
To be continued...