Modern longevity: starting from Baduanjin

Chapter 24 Compensation
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Looking at the broken bamboo, Zhou Shen couldn't help being shocked.

If you were talking about chopping off a bamboo as thick as your arm with your hands just now, you can say that a person with great strength can do it, but now you can smash the shaking bamboo joints with your fist, this is not something that only strength can do.

This is external skills, or in other words, both internal and external cultivation, something that can only be achieved after practicing to a very high level.

Zhou Shen couldn't help being fascinated.

"How great would it be if my external skills could reach Daoist Zhang's level? With such strength, I don't have to worry about bottlenecks in my internal skills in a short period of time."

After regaining his senses, he suddenly remembered that he was a person with an attribute panel, and it shouldn't be long before he reached Daoist Zhang's level.

Thinking of this, his heart suddenly became extremely hot.

Daoist Zhang continued to explain below.

Explain and practice at the same time.

Zhou Shen watched carefully without blinking his eyes.

After rehearsing and explaining all the five exerting techniques and postures of Xingyiquan, Zhang Daochang said: "Okay, come here, and practice the movements I just rehearsed."

So Zhou Shen walked over and began to practice splitting.

After practicing for a few times, Zhang Daochang couldn't help but said: "No, chopping is not smashing, chopping is faster and more brittle than smashing, and there should be not only downward chopping strength, but also forward cutting. force and backward pulling force, like this..."

Zhou Shen followed Zhang Daochang's instructions and punched again.

After Zhou Shen learned the movement and posture of splitting fist, the next step was Bengquan.

In addition to half-step Bengquan, Bengquan also has several different footworks, such as bent-step Bengquan, smooth-step Bengquan, step-step Bengquan, and quick-step Bengquan.

Under Zhang Daochang's guidance, Zhou Shen practiced repeatedly.

Then there are [Drilling Fist], [Pao Fist], and [Horizontal Fist].

There are many variations of each power-generating technique.

Zhang Daochang took the trouble to explain it over and over again.

"Okay, let's stop here today, and practice more when we go back! Come over tomorrow morning to practice the twelve-shaped boxing."

"Thank you Daoist Zhang, then I'll go first!"

After speaking, Zhou Shen bowed slightly to Daoist Zhang to thank him.

Zhang Daochang turned around with his hands behind his back, and walked slowly towards the house.

Zhou Shen ran home hungry.

Grandma has already gone to the street to sell vegetables.

Looking at the time, it was almost seven o'clock.

After practicing for a full hour and a half, no wonder he felt so hungry.

But this morning I have to go for a checkup, so I can't have breakfast.

He called the driver of the black car he had contacted in the town last night, and the other party said he would be there soon.

Then he went to the utility room to have a look. There were a lot of pigeons, sparrows, and turtledoves in the straw cages, at least enough for him to eat four or five meals.

He then took the medical card and the loving breakfast box prepared by his grandma, which contained steamed buns and soft-shelled turtle soup, which he ate after drawing his blood.

Turtles are not turtles.

Nor is it the kind of Chinese soft-shelled turtle that is farmed.

It is a real wild soft-shelled turtle, which my grandma bought specially from a familiar fishmonger yesterday afternoon.

It is very small, weighing less than a catty, and looks like seven or eight taels.

You must know that big crabs weigh six or seven, and this wild soft-shelled turtle is only a little bigger than crabs.

Just such a big soft-shelled turtle cost 100 yuan.

Now wild turtle is too expensive.

Zhou Shen locked the door and waited for less than 5 minutes at the intersection before the driver arrived.

After he got into the car, the car drove quickly towards the county in the east.

……

Only after Zhou Shen got into the car did he have time to open the property panel to take a look.

He saw at a glance that there was an extra skill in the skill column: Xingyiquan Beginner (1/100).

"Hey, have you already learned it?"

Zhou Shen was pleasantly surprised.

He has only learned the five kinds of strength techniques of Xingyiquan, and he has not yet learned the twelve-shaped boxing. He did not expect to have already obtained the skill badge.

Immediately after that, all the attribute points of 0.4 were added to [Xingyiquan].

Xingyiquan proficiency immediately soared from 1/100 to 41/100.

To Zhou Shen's disappointment, the improvement in skill proficiency did not help his lifespan in any way.

However, his stamina increased by 0.1, from 9.4 to 9.5.

Energy hasn't changed.

"It seems that if you want to increase your lifespan, you can only practice internal exercises such as the Longevity Jue. Before that, you need to strengthen your muscles, bones, skin, etc.!"

Various thoughts flashed in his mind, and with the soaring proficiency of Xingyiquan, countless techniques and movements about the five power exerting techniques of Xingyiquan flooded into his brain.

He instantly changed from a "Xingyi Quan Xiaobai" to a "Xingyi Quan Senior Apprentice".

He has a thorough understanding of the changes, beginnings, and turns of each movement, such as splitting fist, collapsing fist, drilling fist, cannon fist, and horizontal fist.

If you don't talk about actual combat, just talk about drills, he feels that now that he is on stage, he can at least win the runner-up in the Xingyiquan exhibition competition.

While Zhou Shen was excited, he practiced in the car.

The thirty-something driver in the front driver's seat glanced at the rearview mirror and asked with a smile, "What kind of boxing do you practice?"

Zhou Shen said casually, "Xingyi."

The driver laughed and said, "Xingyiquan, I've heard of Xingyi Bagua, right?"

"Um……"

Zhou Shen was perfunctory in his mouth, but he was thinking in his mind, how to combine inner strength and Xingyiquan?
Thinking of the airflow that naturally appeared on his fingers when practicing Baduanjin, he stopped talking to the driver and closed his eyes to meditate.

Soon a weak air flow gathered on the palm of his hand.

Then he practiced Beng Quan slowly, pushing his palms out gently like Tai Chi, pressing against the plastic board on the back of the co-pilot.

I imagined in my mind that my palm pierced like a sharp arrow.

"puff--"

"Crack!"

Half of his fist hit the co-pilot's seat, and the fabric in front of the co-pilot's seat bulged a large piece.

Before Zhou Shen could be happy, the driver saw this scene with a sudden jolt, and shouted, "Hey, what are you doing?"

The driver then pulled over quickly.

When Zhou Shen found a hole in the plastic part behind the seat, he immediately glared and said, "Why did you break my car?"

Zhou Shen quickly apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I lost my strength just now. I'll pay you how much."

The driver was speechless when he heard the words. He had chatted with the other party about martial arts just now, but he didn't expect the other party to damage his car in the blink of an eye. It didn't take long, and now you broke it..."

Zhou Shen didn't wait for him to finish, and interrupted again: "How much is the master, I will pay you now. I am rushing to the hospital for a medical examination. I didn't eat breakfast. I am almost starving to death."

The driver said: "Then I want to ask the 4S store."

"Then get in the car and ask, let's go."

The driver got into the car at Zhou Shen's urging, and made a phone call while driving.

The phone is connected to the car's Bluetooth, and the driver can clearly hear the conversation with the person in the 4S shop through the voice in the car.

The driver explained the situation again, and finally quoted 1200 yuan over there.

"Now, you heard that too."

"Okay, no problem. I'll pass it on to you now."

Although Zhou Shen thinks that a low-end Buick LaCrosse co-pilot cloth seat is not worth 1200 yuan, not to mention that there is only a hole in the back, as long as it is covered with a seat cover, it will not affect the use at all, and there is no need to replace it entirely.

But he didn't want to argue with the driver anymore, after all, he was in the wrong.

After transferring the 1200 yuan and the 100 yuan fare to the driver, he never practiced again.

And even if he wanted to practice, he couldn't do it, because the skin on the back of his hand was torn in a big piece just now, almost breaking the bones.

This is the end of not practicing external strength.

Kong has a very penetrating internal strength and a skilled form of Xingyi boxing, but the muscles of his body are loose and loose, and he can't cooperate at all.

Just like a tractor running on a highway with no speed limit, if its own conditions are not good, even if the accelerator is stepped on the fuel tank, it will not run 50 yards.

……

When I arrived at the county hospital, I registered, lined up, drew blood, and took a film.

There is only one hospital in the county, and there are too many people.

I was so busy until 9:10 or [-]:[-] that I finally finished everything. I finally had soft-shelled turtle soup and hot steamed buns.

Because the results won't come out until the afternoon, Zhou Shen wandered around the commercial street in the county and bought some summer clothes.

Underwear, shoes and socks.

He came back in a hurry, and a lot of clothes were thrown in the rented house in Modu.

Of course, I also bought a lot of clothes and shoes for grandma, all branded, young and fashionable.

Because I was worried that I bought the wrong one, I called my grandma and asked about it.

Originally, he bought it for her when he was going to take his grandma for a medical examination tomorrow, but considering that she was too old to go shopping with him for a long time even if she came, so he bought some for her in advance.

If you come back tomorrow, just take her to buy some underwear.

Had lunch in the county seat at noon.

When I returned to the hospital at three o'clock in the afternoon, all the checklists came out.

Zhou Shen checked the parameter table by himself, and was pleasantly surprised to find that all the values ​​of blood routine, urine routine, stool routine, liver and kidney function, blood sugar and blood lipids, etc. were within the standard values.

Then I looked at the most important alpha-fetoprotein quantity and liver elasticity index, and found that the values ​​were completely normal.

As a patient with advanced liver cancer, this should not be the case, but it actually happened.

The only thing is the B-ultrasound of the chest and abdomen, which still shows that he has liver cancer, and the specific situation needs further examination.

However, Zhou Shen has long been psychologically prepared for this and is not worried.

With a smile on his face, he came to the trash can, tore up all the checklists, and threw them in.

Turning around, carrying the big and small bags of clothes and shoes, I came to the gate of the hospital and called a taxi to go home.

(End of this chapter)