When Meng Xiuyuan woke up again, he was lying on the bed in his room.
Master and senior brother Song Yuanqiao were standing not far from his bed, talking without hesitation. As Meng Xiuyuan's consciousness recovered, although he still did not have the strength to open his eyes and move, the sounds of the two talking and hitting gradually got louder.
into his ears.
"Master, junior brother...what's going on with him?" There was obvious concern and anxiety in Song Yuanqiao's voice.
"Oh, I was negligent." Zhang Sanfeng sighed softly and said with some regret:
"At that time, I wanted to test how strong he was, so I deliberately didn't use my strength and took his punch forcefully.
But what I didn't expect was that there was not only physical strength in his punch, but also a faint surge of true energy on the edge of the fist.
When I was completely unprepared, the true energy in my body was stimulated by him, and it came out naturally, and I knocked him out at the moment when my fists and palms met. Fortunately, I stopped my hand in time, and Xiuyuan was injured.
It's not a serious injury, so I think it won't be a big deal if I take a day and a half to rest.
But what still puzzles me is that Xiu Yuan clearly had no martial arts skills when he went up the mountain half a year ago, and he only learned Wudang Changquan and Meditation Breathing Technique for half a year, how could he develop true energy?"
At the end of the sentence, Zhang Sanfeng also hesitated.
After all, as mentioned before, the so-called calming and breathing method is not an internal skill, nor can it produce true energy. At most, it can only lay a foundation for learning internal skills in the future. Wudang Changquan is a simple introductory external skill.
The formula only contains some movement essentials and breathing techniques for exerting force. It is completely incomparable with the seventy-two unique skills of Shaolin Temple that integrate the inside and outside and can directly develop internal strength.
If there wasn't something unusual that he didn't know about, Meng Xiuyuan definitely shouldn't have developed the inner strength of his true energy in the past six months.
"Master, the eighth junior brother is diligent and studious, and has always been very interested in the internal cultivation of qi. When he first came to the mountain, he proposed to learn the basic internal skills and mental methods of our Wudang sect from me. I thought that Master, you said that he would
I taught him personally, so I rejected him on the grounds that his foundation was not solid enough.
Maybe he heard the third-generation disciples below talk about practicing internal skills, and couldn't help but be curious for a moment, did he secretly practice it in private?"
Song Yuanqiao thought about it briefly and tentatively said to Zhang Sanfeng. His tone was quite relaxed when he spoke, and he did not think it was a serious matter.
The Wudang sect has fewer disciples, and strict selection of character and moral character when entering the school. It is an elite education, so learning martial arts is not as restrictive as other sects like the Shaolin Temple.
Wudang disciples are generally taught in accordance with their aptitude. The master will teach the disciples whatever martial arts they can learn. They only look at their personal talents and qualifications. There are no restrictions except for a few unique skills. They will not be beaten just because they secretly learned martial arts like Shaolin.
The killing was so serious.
Besides, Meng Xiuyuan was Zhang Sanfeng's direct disciple. Not to mention the basic internal skills and mental methods, what advanced martial arts in the Wudang sect he couldn't learn? Even if he really learned some martial arts privately without going through Song Yuanqiao, it can't be regarded as stealing.
When it comes to learning, it can only be said that children are too impatient and don’t have the patience to learn the basics.
"If that's the case, it's not a big deal, but things are not that simple." Zhang Sanfeng shook his head and continued towards Song Yuanqiao:
"When I had just exchanged fists with Xiu Yuan, I felt that although his true energy was still thin, he had a vague sense of forcefulness, and he was not following the path of my Wudang Xuanmen internal skills.
Later, after he fainted, I used my qigong to carefully explore his body, and found that his true energy was a little scattered, permeating his meridians and Dantian. It had not been properly sorted out, and it was obvious that he had not learned the inner qigong method.
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"Master, what do you mean, Master, Xiu Yuan has never practiced internal strength? But if that's the case, then where did the Qi in him come from?" Song Yuanqiao asked in confusion.
Zhang Sanfeng stroked his beard, thought for a moment, looked at Meng Xiuyuan who was lying on the bed and said:
"If I guess correctly, the Qi in Xiu Yuan's body should come from the Wudang Changquan he practices."
"Master, can Wudang Changquan practice true energy?" Song Yuanqiao felt that what the master said was a bit beyond his understanding.
"Yes, of course it can. After all, martial arts all over the world reach the same goal through different paths. If you practice external skills to an extremely high level, you can also generate true energy in the body from the outside in.
The person represented by this is Senior Hong Qigong, the leader of the Beggar Clan, one of the Five Masters of the Jianghu a hundred years ago.
It is said that all his kung fu started from his fierce external skills. In the end, he naturally worked from the outside to the inside and gathered a surging energy, which was not inferior to other top masters of the year.
The internal power generated by practicing external skills is powerful and domineering, but if you don't know how to regulate qi and luck, it can only be scattered and stored in the body's meridians, which is indeed similar to Xiu Yuan's current situation."
Zhang Sanfeng patiently explained it to his eldest disciple Song Yuanqiao, but Song Yuanqiao, who was standing opposite him, still found it difficult to accept it.
"But, Master, back then, Senior Hong was practicing special skills such as the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and he worked hard for decades before he could develop a deep internal skill from the outside in.
Although our Wudang Changquan has its own secrets, in the end it is just an introductory martial arts for new disciples to exercise and build their foundation. Not to mention whether the eighth junior brother has the amazing external skills talent of Senior Hong.
Even if you have it, you should never be able to practice it to the point of generating true energy in half a year..."
Don't blame Song Yuanqiao for not believing it. Everyone on Wudang Mountain has learned this Changquan technique for as little as one and a half years, and as long as three to five years, but no one has really developed Qi because of this boxing technique.
When Zhang Sanfeng heard his question, he did not refute it. Instead, he nodded and said:
“This is exactly what I don’t understand.
Xiu Yuan's bones and muscles are very ordinary, and his martial arts understanding is also average. He is not a genius in martial arts.
Although the zhenqi in his body is very shallow now, I estimate that if an ordinary person wants to use Wudang Changquan to practice such zhenqi, it will take at least ten years of hard work day and night, cold and hot.
Although Xiu Yuan has the help of my Wudang Sect’s method of meditation and breath regulation, which speeds up the process of generating true energy, there is no way he can achieve such an effect after only half a year of practice..."
After Zhang Sanfeng said these words, the two people in the room fell into silence, and for a while they couldn't figure out what was going on.
After a while, Zhang Zhen was still very generous and open-minded. If he couldn't figure it out, he just stopped thinking about it. He laughed and said to his eldest disciple:
"Yuanqiao, if you can't figure out something like this, just let him go.
Xiu Yuan has a mysterious origin, and it is normal for him to have some extraordinary things about him. We don't need to bother ourselves, we just need to be happy for him.
As long as he is kind-hearted, chivalrous and ambitious, the higher his martial arts will be in the future, the more he will become a member of the Wudang Sect and a blessing to the people of the world.
Why do you need to understand where his martial arts comes from?"