Cultivation: When you do things to the extreme

Three days later, in a simple thatched cottage, smoke drifted up along with the aroma of rice.

Next to the stove, Xu Yang, who had been cleared of the suspicion of being a "corpse", opened the lid of the pot and poured out a bowl full of brown rice. There were also pieces of bacon buried in the rice. The fat melted into the rice, adding a strong aroma to his nose. .

Xu Yang picked up the chopsticks and sat down by the stove to eat without moving much further.

After a while, a large bowl of rice mixed with bacon went into his stomach.

After eating, he didn't wash the dishes. He just put down his chopsticks and went to the courtyard to start a boxing set on the spot.

I saw him walking like a tiger, moving like a dragon, and punching like wind and thunder. He was really majestic.

It is the unique skill of martial arts, which is included in the "Gong Zi Volume", the thunder-dispelling and electric-power technique.

This technique originally came from the idea of ​​"Tian Lei Body Tempering", which was very crude and not suitable for practical use.

It wasn't until Xu Yang obtained the supernatural power of "driving thunder and raising lightning" by virtue of his body as a fish and dragon, and gained a deep understanding of the nature of thunder and lightning, that this method was completely transformed and became a magical skill with astonishing power and no hidden dangers.

It eliminates the dangerous shortcomings of "the sky thunder initiation, disappearing into ashes", and gradually masters the power of thunder and lightning in a step-by-step manner. Externally, it can temper the physical body and practice the method of "body training". Internally, it can enhance the inner energy and achieve "martial arts". Zhi Gong is a unique skill that combines two major systems and cultivates both internal and external.

According to Xu Yang's vision, after practicing this skill to a certain level, it can even take over the creation of heaven and earth. Without the need of Zhuang Zhou Mengdie's transmission, he can develop the magical power of "driving thunder and raising lightning" and mastering the power of thunder and lightning.

But that’s not the main reason he’s boxing at the moment.

The skill of dispelling thunder and raising electricity also belongs to the martial arts system. It can be practiced both internally and externally, and it can also be done while sitting.

The reason why Xu Yang chose to practice boxing and "moving posture" instead of meditating and practicing "static posture" is because the conditions for static posture practice are insufficient.

The so-called static position means sitting in meditation, with the body sitting cross-legged and motionless, and the inner breath being circulated with one mind. It not only requires considerable internal strength control, but also requires certain external conditions to support it, such as the power of heaven and earth Yuanling.

Only by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, or swallowing a panacea, and converting external forces into the body into food and energy, and having considerable internal control, can the efficiency of static practice be greater than that of moving practice.

Xu Yang has just arrived and has only been in charge of this body for three days. Where did he get his internal strength?

Not only are the internal conditions unattainable, but external demands are also difficult to satisfy.

In Xu Yang's perception, this world, this world, can only be described in two words.

poor!

Extreme poverty!

Not to mention the black water world where gods and Buddhas filled the sky before, it was far inferior to the Zhou Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, as well as the ordinary world in the world.

The Great Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, as well as the ordinary places where the real body is located, although there is no spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they just do not have pure spiritual energy. Ordinary vitality of heaven and earth is still there.

This world is different. Not only is there no pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but even the ordinary vitality of heaven and earth is extremely thin.

The vitality of heaven and earth is the foundation of all things. The result of thin vitality is the poverty of the world.

This poverty is manifested in many places, the most obvious being the quantity, quality, lifespan, etc. of living things.

According to the memories of the original owner compiled in the past three days, as well as Xu Yang's own insinuations and information learned from reading books, the world is indeed in an extremely poor state.

Let’s just talk about life span. The life span of ordinary people in this world is extremely short, and they can only live for fifty or sixty years at most.

Taking the Ma clan as an example, Xu Yang secretly checked the genealogy and found that the family has been passed down for more than ten generations for hundreds of years. There are only five people over sixty years old.

This is not normal, very abnormal.

Although the average life expectancy in ancient times was extremely low, generally between thirty and forty years old, this was mostly due to population decline caused by war and poverty, which lowered the average value. It was not that the life span of ancient people was that short.

In the Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, there was also the mortal world. As long as they did not engage in life-extending hard work such as "forging iron, punting boats, and selling tofu", a mortal could live to seventy or eighty years old without any illness or disaster, or even one year. More than a hundred years old.

But that's not the case in this world. Even if the average person is pampered and free from illness and disaster, it is difficult for them to live past the age of sixty.

Why?

Without him, Yuanling is lacking, heaven and earth are barren, and the world is difficult!

Regardless of the innate source or acquired supply, there are serious deficiencies, and life span is naturally limited.

Not only the source of life, but also the quantity and quality. Humans, animals, creatures, vegetation, and all living things are all in a state of severe poverty, with short lifespans, low quantity, and low quality.

This is the feeling that this world, this world, gives Xu Yang.

poor!

Poor!

difficult!

This reminded him of the two major hypotheses of Taoism and Buddhism.

The end of heaven and earth!

The five turbid evil world!

In the final tribulation, all spirits will be silent and all dharmas will be destroyed!

Among the five turbidities, life span is greatly reduced, and those who are hundreds of years old are rare!

During this calamity, in this world, evil laws will surely arise everywhere and the world will be in chaos.

Xu Yang doesn't know whether the world is in chaos or not.

But according to the situation he has come into contact with so far, this world is indeed in such a state of apocalypse. The spirits are thin and the heaven and earth are poor. It is very unfriendly to practitioners like him and ordinary people.

Fortunately, he combines the strengths of hundreds of schools and practices all kinds of methods, and does not completely rely on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for cultivation. If he were a cultivator in the real world and traveled to this world, he would definitely be blinded and become a useless person who cannot practice.

If you don’t have spiritual energy, how can you practice cultivation?

Even he was severely weakened and affected.

The Martial Arts just does not rely on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and cannot replace the spiritual energy of heaven and earth out of thin air.

In all things, energy is conserved. Martial arts can be practiced without the help of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but it still needs to rely on ordinary vitality and food supplies to absorb nutrients and nourish oneself, so that one can become strong.

It is impossible to create something out of nothing. It is completely unreasonable to rely on drinking the northwest wind to practice peerless magical skills.

The vitality of heaven and earth is lacking, and all things are malnourished. He has just arrived, and there is no sufficient supply of resources, so his practice will naturally be greatly affected.

How much nutrition can that bowl of brown rice and a piece of bacon provide?

It is simply not enough to support the static posture, so you can only move, move the posture and punch, digest the nutrients provided by the food, convert them into the power of qi and blood, transport them throughout the body, and gain a little bit of practice.

Extremely difficult!

In this regard, Xu Yang currently has no good solution.

If the power of the soul is sufficient and the various skills and characteristics of the body are transmitted, it can break through the limitations of the world, ignore the poverty of the world, and speed up the practice of martial arts.

But if this is not true, the current soul cultivation level of the main body will not be able to transmit those high-level and efficient skill characteristics.

He can only rely on "himself!"

It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Faced with the current predicament and unknown enemies, he didn't have any good countermeasures.

We can only explore step by step and try a little bit.

…

After finishing a set of boxing skills, my body's energy and blood boiled, and it improved a lot.

Because the original owner was assassinated, Xu Yang was in urgent need of self-protection. After the suspicion was cleared, he took out his meager savings and purchased some meat, grain, and rice as a supplement for martial arts training.

Unfortunately, his savings were too meager and he only bought enough grain, rice and meat for three days, so the meal just now was his last.

In this way, the effect of martial arts training is not too strong, and it can only be barely improved to the point where it is equivalent to that of ordinary adults.

There is no way, the original owner is a weak scholar, unable to carry his shoulders or lift his hands, and has been in a sub-healthy state for a long time. In three days, it would be good to be able to improve to the same level as ordinary people.

Xu Yang returned to the house, took out the four treasures of the study, ground ink, laid out paper, picked up the pen, and started writing. In an instant, the article was beautiful.

In this world, there are many weird people, strange phenomena, strange things and strange stories!

For example - the development of literary and ink writing.

In this world, the world is poor, everything is difficult to grow, and various resources are limited. People have no clothes and no food to eat. It is normal for people's livelihood to be difficult.

According to common sense, if people's livelihood is so difficult, then the path of literature and ink must be even more difficult to climb, because there is a lot of money spent on studying. The four treasures of the study, classics and classics are all precious things. How can ordinary people afford it?

But this world is different.

The price of literary works is extremely low!

Whether it is the four treasures of the study such as pens, inks, paper and inkstones, or ordinary printed standard books, the prices are extremely low, and even ordinary people can easily consume them.

For example, the "original owner" Ma Wencai was a poor scholar. His parents died young and he was left alone. He relied entirely on his clan for support. As a result, his family had a large collection of books. There was no shortage of four treasures in the study room, and there were even several spare sets.

This is obviously unreasonable!

There must be a reason for rumors to come out of nowhere, and there must be a monster when something goes wrong!

There must be a reason for this.

As for the reason...

Xu Yang is not sure yet.

But the leopard can be seen in the tube, and it can be seen!

In such a poor world, the price of literature and calligraphy is so low. Even ordinary people can become famous through writing and calligraphy. It even has a sense of "the world is good at writing and everyone is like a dragon"...

This reminded Xu Yang of what he did in the Great Zhou and Tang Dynasties.

When he was in the Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, in order to gather the wisdom of all living beings to deduce the martial arts, he used iron-blooded means to complete the public ownership of land, liberate the people's power, improve production and other national policies, so that ordinary people can have food and clothing without worries, have sufficient resources, and have enough time to practice martial arts. Strengthen your body.

At that time, the prices of meat, rice, paper, books, medicines, and all kinds of materials related to "martial arts" in the Zhou and Tang world were all "increased production", "price supervision" and "strictly prohibited from manipulation". Methods such as "universal popularization" were implemented abruptly so that everyone can benefit from it.

For this reason, he killed many people, many, many people, which made a large group of businessmen, dignitaries, aristocratic families and other interest groups intolerable. They tried to rebel against him again and again, but in the end he killed heads and left corpses everywhere. .

It can be said that the prosperous martial arts era of the Great Zhou and Great Tang Dynasties was entirely built on his unparalleled martial arts, iron-blooded skills, and the blood and corpses of countless interest groups.

To be honest, such a system is not a correct strategy for governing the country, because it seriously goes against human nature. If anyone had done this, it would have been overthrown by various power groups, and the country would be destroyed.

That is to say, he is the one who dominates the world with his invincible martial arts. With the blessing of many skills and characteristics, he has cultivated a group of disciples who are almost die-hard and work for him. Only in this way can he suppress the dissent of all parties and promote the "martial arts". The national policy is to spread the world.

Even so, there are still a group of people who do not know whether to live or die.

It can be seen that the implementation of this method is difficult and touches too many interests. Unless there is a force that is too powerful to resist and cannot resist, it is impossible to succeed.

Then the problem arises.

The Zhou Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty spread their power over the world, and he was the promoter behind it.

What about this world?

Who promoted the "Way of Literature and Ink"? Who made those businessmen, powerful people, aristocratic families, and Confucian and Legalist schools not control the upward path of "Literature and Ink", not earn huge profits from it, and sell literary and ink items at such low prices? , even ordinary people can study and achieve such a prosperous literary age?

who is it?

Xu Yang doesn't know.

But he can be sure that there must be an extremely powerful force behind this, an extremely powerful extraordinary force.

Only a power beyond the ordinary can suppress "human nature" selfish interests and force those interest groups to make such concessions as bloodletting and flesh-cutting.

How powerful is this extraordinary power?

Xu Yang still doesn't know.

But taking his own "powerful power to spread the world" as a reference, Xu Yang can be sure that this force is either a super powerful individual that is powerful enough to suppress everything and sweep everything, or it is an interest group that everyone is attracted to and the general trend.

The former can use his personal power to suppress the dissent of the group and force the world to follow his will and develop.

The latter means that major forces and groups have common interests and needs, forming an inevitable trend of cooperation.

Is it the front or the back?