Golden elixir of cultivation

Chapter 41 Strength of Muscles and Bones

After a few breaths, his eyes gradually brightened, and he quickly walked up to the old man, bowed, and said, "Old man, may I ask what is the power of death?"

The old man glanced at him and swept the broom in his hand hard. Instead of being swept together, the branches and leaves on the ground flew around. He said with a smile, "This is dead strength."

Bai Mo looked at the dead leaves scattered on the ground and asked suspiciously, "Is this the power of death? Since there is power of death, does it have the power of vitality?"

The old man moved casually, slowly sweeping the dead leaves together, and said casually, "This is vitality."

"Death force, vitality, energy." Bai Mo stared at the pile of dead leaves with empty eyes and murmured to himself. In his mind, the dead leaves kept gathering and scattering, scattering and gathering again, as if something was about to erupt, but it was always missing. .

"I once heard the old gym owner say that if you are too strong, you will be brittle, and if you are too tough, you will be soft. The way to be strong and soft is between life and death. If you want to live, you must die first." The old man recalled with thoughts in his eyes.

"The way of strength and softness is between life and death." Bai Mo chewed these words and suddenly said respectfully, "I dare to ask, old man, what do you mean by this?"

The old man looked at the food Bai Mo brought, his eyes softened a bit, and he smiled and said, "I won't eat your food in vain, old man. Although I don't know martial arts, I have served the old owner all the year round, and I have been influenced by my ears and eyes, so I have remembered it. Let me talk to you."

"If a man has no tendons, he will be weak; if a snake has no tendons, he will die; if a tree has no tendons, its branches and leaves will not grow." Although the old man has grown old, he has a decisive aura when he says it, "If you want to be strong and soft, To be able to combine strength, you need to first master the strength of your muscles and bones.”

"The power of muscles and bones." Bai Mo curled his palms into claws and exerted a little force. He looked at the large protruding tendons on the back of his hands and said doubtfully, "When the human body exerts force, it will naturally use the power of muscles and bones. What the old man refers to as the strength of muscles and bones." What is it?"

"As the saying goes, if a muscle grows one inch, its strength increases by three points. Ordinary people use flesh and blood to exert force, which is then transmitted through the muscles and bones. It is neither strong enough nor tough enough." The old man walked to Bai Mo's back and touched it with his hand. His spine said, "If you lose your big muscles and bones and only have a pair of flesh and blood left in your body, will you still be able to move?"

"This!" Bai Mo said in surprise, "The muscles and bones are the support of the human body. Without support, a person is left with only dead flesh and can only squirm in place. How can he walk?"

The old man nodded and said, "If you lose your flesh and blood and only your bones and muscles are left, will you be able to move?"

"With only the muscles and bones left, wouldn't it fall apart immediately?" Bai Mo shook his head, "The muscles, bones, blood and flesh complement each other and are indispensable."

The old man laughed and asked, "The muscles and bones can support the flesh and blood, so naturally there is strength in it. Since the two complement each other, why should the flesh and blood be the main one and the muscles and bones be the supplement?"

Bai Mo subconsciously wanted to refute, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly paused and began to think deeply.

"The strength of the muscles alone is dead strength, hard and brittle, while the strength of the bones and muscles alone is also dead strength, tough and soft." The old man swept away a few dead leaves and gradually walked away, "If you want to be strong and soft at the same time, you have to die. Seek life in the middle, live toward death, and after mastering the strength of the muscles and bones, let the strength of the muscles, muscles and bones complement each other, regardless of upper and lower, become stronger, tougher, and more transparent, so as to be strong but not brittle, tough but not soft."

"Death to survive!" Bai Mo came back to his senses and stared at the old man's figure. His bones and muscles were slack, his muscles were weak, and his teeth were almost missing. He was indeed an ordinary old man, but it did not prevent him from being grateful.He took a deep breath, bowed in the direction of the old man, and said respectfully, "Thank you for clarifying my doubts, old man!"

"You are born with much stronger muscles and bones. When practicing martial arts, you will get twice the result with half the effort. It will be a matter of time before you can achieve both strength and softness. At the moment, no one is just reminding you." The old man waved his hand and didn't care. He had said this before. I have also told other young people that success or failure depends entirely on themselves, but most of them are lost to everyone.

Bai Mo firmly remembered what the old man said today, and suddenly sat back in the air, taking a horse stance, then slowly closed his eyes, feeling his own strength, and imagining that the muscles in his body gradually died and disappeared, and then peeled off.

There seemed to be a void in front of his eyes. There was nothing that could reach the sky or reach the ground. There was only a pair of human bones standing in the air and walking on a horse.

After a while, the muscles on his body gradually relaxed, and his whole body swayed, but he never fell down. He seemed loose but not loose, seemed tight but not tight. There was a vague strength from head to toe, which allowed him to barely maintain this position. attitude.

As his mind gradually calmed down, the strength between the muscles and bones became clearer and clearer, gradually penetrating every joint on the body, from the soles of the feet to the hips, and then progressed along the spine, all the way to the skull, and then he Subconsciously pushing it upward, there seemed to be an extra strength on the skull out of thin air, insubstantial, but full of agility.

Viewed from a distance, Bai Mo's figure went from shaking unsteadily at first to slowly standing up, his spine straightened up little by little, and his whole body grew an inch taller.

The old man's eyes were filled with surprise. He only gave a few instructions and was able to achieve the goal of holding the void spirit. This young man has such a high level of understanding!What strong muscles!Could this be what the old gym owner often said about talent?

"The power of muscles and bones" Bai Mo slowly opened his eyes, his eyes were filled with nothingness and emptiness. He looked at the wooden figure in front of him, raised his palm slightly, and then slowly patted it out. It was gentle and soothing, and his whole body was relaxed, as if it was moving along the water. Without any effort.

Buzz! !
As the palm of his hand landed lightly on the wooden figure, the wooden figure suddenly trembled slightly and made a dull buzzing sound, like the buzzing of flies, which was completely different from the crisp sound it made when hitting hard in the past.

After a few breaths, Bai Mo moved his palm away, and there was a clear palm print on the wooden figure. The edge of the palm print was smooth and round, like a knife or an axe.

He stared at the palm prints, and was a little lost for a moment. He didn't use much strength in this palm, but it was just a step-by-step movement between the muscles and bones, but the strength was much stronger than before, like scattered grass wadding being twisted into A rope was added, or an iron spear head was added to the wooden stick.

After a while, Bai Mo came back to his senses, his eyes gradually brightened, "I understand the power of muscles and bones!!"

The old man couldn't help but nodded, "Once you have mastered the strength of your muscles and bones, and can combine hardness and softness, you can enter the door. The rest is just a matter of water grinding, using hardness and softness to clean and refine every detail of the body, forming a The instinct of the human body, when the time comes, as long as you have the strength to keep up, you will be a hero just around the corner."

In the next few days, in addition to basic meals and rest, Bai Mo focused on honing his strength. His muscles and bones were already much stronger than ordinary people, so he naturally made rapid progress. The strength between his fists and feet became more and more concentrated, and he initially achieved the goal of just hitting the target. There is softness, and there is hardness in softness.

If he encounters a zombie again, he is confident that he can achieve the same effect with only [-]% of his previous strength, shattering the zombie's heavenly spirit with one palm.

(End of this chapter)