Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 32 Spells and Martial Arts
Guan Luoyang followed Qiudi to visit various places. He didn't feel any better, but Qiudi became impatient.

"Hey, Brother Guan, it's not a good time for you to come here. The earthquake hasn't been long yet, so there's nothing to see here now."

Qiu Di complained a few words, then suddenly thought, "Oh, by the way, you are a martial arts practitioner, let me take you to Qiannichiyuan to have a look."

The two of them went straight down the back hill.

It was said to be Sennichiin, but when I walked there, I found that there was no walled yard at all, it was a piece of compacted and flat land, and a wooden sign was written with the words "Sennichiin".

There are weapon racks on the flat ground, as well as stone locks, millstones, wooden stakes, archery targets, and scarecrows, each standing in one place, which is clearly a martial arts arena.

Dozens of thick black vests hung on the nearest wooden frame.

Guan Luoyang took two steps closer, stretched out his hand and pinched it, and knew that it was something made of iron sand poured into the thick leather and worn on the body to practice strength. A vest weighed at least fifty catties.

Under the wooden frame, there are stacks of iron tiles. There are holes in the tiles, and strings pass through the holes, the kind that can be tied to the calves and thighs.

Qiu Di smiled beside him and said, "Well, this place is more to your liking than those high-walled statues just now."

"Ha, that's good, but don't you all learn magic, and practice this too?"

Guan Luoyang walked to the stone lock. Several stone locks were put together, and an iron chain extended from each stone cable. The end of the iron chain was a ring the size of a head.

He put the five rings on the five fingers of his right hand respectively, and when he raised his arm, the iron chain was tightened, and he pulled up the five stone locks together, shaking and colliding with each other, making a muffled sound.

"what?"

The veins on the inside of Guan Luoyang's right wrist protruded slightly, and the weight of these five stone locks was much higher than he expected.

Moreover, it is several times more difficult to lift heavy objects with fingers than with palms.

"The stone locks are all filled with lead, and each one weighs more than three hundred catties. You can use your fingers to pull, hiss, and only the master can practice like this in the entire Tianzun Temple."

Qiu Di was amazed for a while, and then continued, "Warlocks practice martial arts, this is a long story..."

According to Qiudi, in ancient times, those who studied magic looked down on boxing skills.

The warlocks at that time believed that martial arts practitioners worked hard and sweated their bodies, and they could only work hard to eat at the end of the practice. Occasionally, a few people who made a name for themselves on the battlefield would eventually accumulate hidden injuries and suffer in old age.

And as long as you practice a few spells, you can change people's fortunes, help them attract wealth and wealth, get promoted and have more children, or make others have bad luck and fate. Techniques, murder and death, use Fengshui tombs to learn, and you will be full of people, and you don’t have to meet them face-to-face, so you will kill your sons and grandchildren.

These kinds of abilities are regarded as living gods wherever they go, and those who are smarter can rise to the top and serve the emperor, how happy are they?

Apart from having fun, he can even communicate with ghosts and gods, drive all beasts away, and seek longevity.

But it turned out that in the troubled times when wars are everywhere, people who only learn magic arts and despise the flesh, when they meet that fast horse and long knife, they will cut them into two pieces with one knife.

So later, especially in the last hundred years, Taoist and Buddhist orthodox sects have also paid attention to it. In addition to learning spells, you must train your muscles and bones diligently, cast spells quickly, and be agile.

Those evil warlocks are the most extreme. Some of them will even directly use some methods of ghosts, poisonous spells and painting skins to tamper with their own bodies.

Guan Luoyang asked suspiciously: "If you learn magic and kung fu, you'll be distracted and multi-purpose, so aren't you afraid that everything will be loose?"

Qiudi said: "Spell cultivation is closely related to spiritual cultivation. People who have mastered spells are more likely to enter a state of concentration, and then learn martial arts, and naturally they will be able to practice real kung fu. Besides, our martial arts training is after all an auxiliary, and we have never thought about it." Practice martial arts to be better than magic."

Guan Luoyang's expression moved slightly: "Then if someone who is good at kungfu wants to learn magic, can he get twice the result with half the effort?"

Qiudi hesitated for a moment, then said truthfully: "This is not necessarily the case."

Guan Luoyang: "Why?"

Qiu Di cleared his throat, put his hands behind his waist, and walked slowly, imitating what his master explained to him back then.

"The essence of mana is borrowing power. A mana practitioner, after reaching a certain state in his spiritual practice, borrows a certain kind of power from somewhere in the world with the help of strict rituals such as mantras, utensils, patterns, and mudras. Corresponding powers, such as heaven and earth, sun, moon and stars, ghosts and spirits."

"The one who can keep a certain kind of magic power in the body must be enough to understand this kind of power. Normal people, even if they want to understand the most simple type of ghost-controlling magic power, they must at least read hundreds of Taoist books first, and memorize it by rote. Five years of memorization and three years of half-reading and half-doing can barely reach the threshold."

"Confucius read the Book of Changes, and Wei compiled the three masterpieces. He read it too many times, and the leather strips that bound the bamboo slips were worn out. If we really want to learn magic, this aspect is not far behind. A brand-new Daoist book learning Down, the paper is wrinkled and rolled too many times, and often the thickness of the side of the page will appear to be several times greater than the spine."

This is troublesome.

Guan Luoyang's understanding of the vitality of the blue bird is almost zero, but this power still exists in his body, referring to the situation of the British, perhaps the upper limit of this vitality will slowly increase over time.

In other words, the vitality of the blue bird and the magic power of this world are probably not the same thing, so even if you forcefully study the legal codes and Taoism books here, it may not be of much use.

It seems that if you want to make greater progress in a short period of time, you have to focus on boxing and martial arts.

While flexing and stretching his elbows, Guan Luoyang took those stone locks to exercise, and said, "I don't have much experience, and I haven't seen it with my own eyes, and I haven't seen it with my own eyes. Daoist Jiuhe promised the medicine bath, but only by those few stones. A pill, I'm afraid it's not enough, right?"

"Yin fir wood can only be used as an introduction... Hey, what do you care about this, anyway, the little guys are already sorting the medicinal materials, and in seven or eight days, the medicinal materials will be ready, and then they can cook you in the pot .”

Qiudi made the hero smile.

Although Taoist secret medicine is very beneficial to kung fu, it must be practiced to a certain level.To be able to use it, Qiu Di's senior brothers also took a medicinal bath at the beginning, and they were able to hold on at the beginning, but they all screamed like pigs butchers.

Guan Luoyang sighed pretentiously: "It seems that I can't pay back the cost of a medicinal bath. If I can't repay it, I feel uneasy. If there are things like exorcising monsters and fighting zombies, you must take them with you." Come to me, so that I can contribute a little bit."

While talking, the sound of gongs and drums clearing the way came from the front mountain.

Curious, Qiu Di went around to look for a while, and after a while, she came back and said: "There seems to be some trouble in the commander's house, so I sent someone to invite Master to come, and the uncle left the house earlier, your medicine bath Things may have to be delayed for three or two days."

Guan Luoyang didn't care. Many of the instruments in the Thousand-day Courtyard were practical, such as playing with stone locks, lifting a millstone, and practicing footwork on sharpened bamboo stakes. Only when his hands and feet became hot and his whole body was sweating slightly did he feel satisfied. .

At that time it was already sunset, Qiudi took him to dinner, halfway through the meal, a carrier pigeon flew into the hall.

A yellow talisman was tied to the pigeon's feet, and a line of small characters was scrawled in cinnabar on the back of the talisman paper.

"Qiu Shi is in danger, master and uncle, come as soon as you see the letter!" '

(End of this chapter)