Chapter 17 The body is forged with thunder and fire, and the ultimate realm of skin refining! (5400)
Chun'an and Taizhou are hundreds of miles apart, but due to continuous heavy rains and poor roads, if you really want to rush there, you will have to walk thousands of miles.
With Xu Xing's level of boxing skills, if he were to go on the road alone, running around day and night, the journey would be nothing.
But after all, he also brought a group of apprentices with him. Although he was lightly dressed and simple, he was still a little slow.
Among the thirty-eight people who were rescued from prison by Xu Xing, thirty of them who were able to move normally and practice martial arts actually chose to follow him on the road.
Coupled with the accompanying Xiao Yu and Qi Dazhu, as well as the four nursing instructors sent by Shen Yishi, the momentum of their group is indeed not small.
Fortunately, the paths Xu Xing chose were mostly in the mountains, so they didn’t attract much attention.
There has been so much rain these days that the mud washes down the hillside and gathers into a flood, destroying all the winding paths in the mountains and forests.
Everyone could only climb up the steep cliffs and jagged green rocks. The mountain path was even more dangerous and narrow. Rain fell like waterfalls from all directions, hitting the mountain walls and shattering into mist, blocking their sight.
A blind man riding a blind horse, walking into a deep pool in the middle of the night, is nothing more than this.
If you don't pay attention, your steps will tremble, and your body will roll down the mountain stream, falling to pieces and falling into pieces.
Although these thirty men all pride themselves on being brave and brave, when they climb such a steep mountain, they are all sweating profusely, their hands and feet are numb, and they are breathing heavily.
The four instructors also had pale faces, and their usually rock-steady postures were slightly stiff.
Only Qi Dazhu, who had gone through a life and death experience and vaguely touched the threshold of "bone refining", and Xiao Yu, who had been refining his body for the second time, could deal with it calmly and feel as if he was walking on flat ground.
As for Xu Xing...
Not only did he feel as if he were walking on the ground, he was like a bird in the sky and a fish in the sea. As soon as he got into the forest, this man disappeared, free and indulgent.
Only when these disciples' feet slipped and were about to fall into the abyss, Xu Xing would show up, give them a little help, and then jump away again.
This is the practice method of "stealing heaven's secrets" in martial arts. The essence of this practice method is to put people in the great terror of the edge of life and death, raise all their spirits and tighten their heartstrings to inspire courage.
The excitement and fear that this cultivation method can bring will never be inferior to that of actual life and death combat.
It's just that for ordinary people to practice, the risk is too great. Even if they are really courageous, they will inevitably make mistakes.
But with Xu Xing's boxing skills, he could easily protect everyone.
In the previous bloody battle in the prison, although these men had experienced a life-and-death fight with real swords and guns, the main force was still Xu Xing and Qi Dazhu after all, and the time was too short and the excitement was not enough.
Xu Xing wanted to train these apprentices again on this journey using the method of stealing heaven's secrets.
After all, if you go to Taizhou, you may encounter unexpected events. Since there is an opportunity to improve their skills, Xu Xing, the owner of the gym, will naturally not miss it.
The reason why warriors throughout the ages have called this method "the magic way" is not only because it is extremely dangerous to practice boxing with your head held high, but also because when you practice like this, your progress is really fast.
After all, even if you practice boxing to the highest level, you will never be able to escape the words of life and death, and you will have to figure it out.
During the break, these apprentices chatted about the owner and even argued.
Some people say that this is because the master of the hall has mastered the eagle-shaped kung fu to such an extent that he can transform into an eagle.
Some simply said that Xu Xing was a thousand-year-old demon in disguise, and that his so-called boxing and martial arts were just a way for him to cover up his own magic.
No matter what, they all had a common thought when it came to Xu Xing.
No matter what kind of existence this museum owner is, in short, it is absolutely, absolutely impossible to be a human being!
Qi Dazhu repeatedly banned such remarks and could only let them go.
After hearing it too much, even his disciple couldn't help but be shaken.
Thinking of Xu Xing's mysterious behavior over the years, disappearing for three to four days, or even ten days and a half, Qi Dazhu couldn't help but become suspicious.
Isn't there really some kind of monster under the master's scholarly skin?
Xu Xing was completely too lazy to care about these things.
After becoming a master, Xu Xing's momentum in performing boxing was a bit scary, and it was inconvenient to perform it in front of everyone.
Now that these apprentices were tired from practicing, he happened to climb to the top of the mountain rock to study boxing skills on his own.
After giving instructions to Qi Dazhu and throwing the iron rod to him, Xu Xing jumped up, stepped on the steep mountain wall, and flew towards the top of the peak, his robes billowing like clouds and mist.
After becoming a master, Xu Xing's kicking skills can no longer be described as "hard and soft".
It is simply otherworldly and superb!
Xu Xing took one step at a time, climbing almost vertically. After a while, he rushed more than ten feet and reached the top of the cliff.
When you set foot here, you can walk slowly and look far into the distance.
I saw piles of cumulus clouds, as if condensed into a dense iron wall, covering the mountains and mountains, thunder and lightning rising and falling, and heavy rain pouring down like a waterfall.
It's like dozens of dragons and snakes gathered here, tearing a hole in the sky, causing the Milky Way to pour into the world.
After the boxer enters the room, he will understand the changes in the human body through the natural changes of heaven and earth, which is an inevitable process.
Especially for the powerful masters who have already dabbled in the "Path of Sincerity", it is a noble and upright path to use celestial phenomena to cultivate their fist spirit.
Without a majestic mind, how can one achieve world-shaking boxing skills?
This kind of heroic spirit can naturally only be obtained through the tempering of the nature of heaven and earth and the hearts of people in the world.
Yes, this kind of place and this kind of weather are just right for practicing boxing.
Xu Xing took a deep breath, faced the violent storm, and played the seventy-two moves recorded in Lei Bin's "Continuous Short Play" booklet.
His figure moved sideways, turned around, and moved his hands along with his steps, peeling, chopping, and thrusting. His shoulder sockets were sunken like pits, and a very light blue-black color appeared on his skin.
Since Xu Xing received the Sanfeng Blood Meridian, he has always wanted to understand its profound meaning.
However, these two scriptures are mostly covered with cryptic words in alchemy. Although Xu Xing has read a lot of poetry and books because of his uncle, it is still difficult to understand the true meaning.
However, although he could not read the content, he could understand the profound meaning contained in each glyph and stroke through the master-level boxing realm.
This meaning of Taoist boxing can be used to sharpen Xu Xing's boxing intention, add power to his master's boxing style, and also make his spirit sharper and his understanding of the world more profound.
After stepping through the profound barrier of life and death, and having his Qi and blood penetrate the heaven, Xu Xing's mental acuity was already better than that of his fellow masters.
Now that he has been tempered like this, that mysterious feeling is even stronger.
Even the number of times the mirror image can be condensed per day has been increased by one, from three times to four times, and the efficiency of martial arts deduction is several times higher than before.
Therefore, although the weather of heavy rains is evolving every moment, Xu Xing can still catch the faint rhythm and resonate with it through his own energy and blood circulation. His muscles and bones respond to the rolling thunder, and his organs are beating and vibrating.
Even though Xu Xing didn't use any force deliberately, he just performed his martial arts one move at a time.
However, the rain all around him was still swept away by this shock, creating a white "rainless zone" in the wind and rain.
Everyone in the world knows that if you want to be a martial artist, your body and spirit must be in a state of purity and purity.
The physical body is the actual pole of yang, and it must be able to "see the gods and not be broken"; the spirit is the imaginary pole of yin, and it can "break the void".
The combination of the two is the complete martial arts immortal.
Warriors throughout the ages have their own answers as to what path they need to take to cultivate their physical body to the point where they can see God and be indestructible.
Taoist boxing, represented by Wudang, combines alchemy with boxing. It is to transport the essence of water and grain, combine it with the body and body, reach the point of mercury marrow and silver paste, and finally condense the vitality into a point and rebel against the innate nature.
Therefore, this way is called "Jade Liquid Returning Pills".
Buddhist martial arts, represented by Shaolin, use many esoteric methods to stimulate the human body's potential, turn decay into magic, and train the physical body into various different forms to become an incorruptible golden body.
Therefore, this path is called "Real Vajra Phase".
Spiritual practice is even more elusive, with no universal path at all.
The masters of the past can only simply divide the spiritual realm before breaking through the void into three stages.
One, and the most basic, is called borrowing.
The borrowing method in boxing is to use mental thoughts to hypnotize oneself and stimulate the human body's potential, so as to punch stronger.
This method is also called divine beating.
But if you want to become a master, a boxer must be honest with himself and his boxing skills. Otherwise, he will not be able to connect with others and condense his own boxing style.
This is the second realm, which is the so-called way of sincerity.
Therefore, the master's boxing state is also called "Sincerity and God", which means that there is no need to ask for help from others, but if you are sincere enough to yourself, you will naturally become a god who controls your body.
The third realm is also a change in the way of sincerity.
The Grandmaster's "Man and Fist Seal" is essentially to draw inspiration from one's own experience and extract real and true power to strengthen the fist.
If you want to go further, you need fists and heavenly seals. This state does not rely on hard work to achieve achievement, but on grabbing enough insights from the nature of heaven and earth.
In this way, a boxer can grasp the thin connection between the human body and heaven and earth, diffuse his mind, and connect with the world around him.
This is also known as "reflective void".
The so-called breaking of the void means that you must first diffuse your mind and reflect the void, and then you can attempt to "break" the word.
Although Xu Xing's "sincerity is like a god" has not yet reached its peak, he has already touched a glimmer of the secret of "reflecting the void" through this kind of chance coincidence.
Moreover, although he did not have any boxing secrets from the Buddhist and Taoist schools at hand, after Xu Xing became a master, he also had his own understanding of the realm of "seeing the gods and not being evil".
When he reached the completion of the Four Refinements, Xu Xing originally thought that he was close to perfection in the cultivation of skin, flesh, muscles and bones.
However, after becoming a master and awakening to the Stone Mirror, Xu Xing gradually discovered through desperate practice and deduction that his skills in details were still far behind.
Whether it is skin refining, meat refining, tendon refining, or bone refining, there are deficiencies that can be made up for.
Everyone in the martial arts knows that the four exercises of skin, flesh, muscles and bones have the same name, but each method is different. After the final exercise is successful, the results are also different.
For example, Xu Xing used the "Iron Cloth Shirt" Kung Fu that matches the eagle claws to refine his skin. When he reached the highest level, his whole body would become black and blue, like an iron suit covering his body.
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The technique used to refine the skin by playing with a flat sheet is to make the skin look like a lotus leaf, flawless and flawless, to the point where "a feather cannot be added and a mosquito cannot fall".
And once this kind of physical training is achieved, it will not turn back unless it is old and infirm, and naturally there is no talk of changing its ways.
But now Xu Xing is trying to see if he can combine two completely different or even completely opposite methods of skin refining to retrain his body and push his physical strength to a higher level.
This kind of refining method has never been seen before in the history of martial arts in this world.
Xu Xing also vaguely felt that the so-called "Four Refinements" was actually just a popular term.
The completion of the Four Refinements just means that the boxer's body is ready to try the human and fist seals, and there is no need to worry about lack of mental strength. It means that the boxer has just stepped onto the threshold of the master.
In fact, there is still a lot of room for improvement in skin, flesh, muscles and bones, but it is difficult for ordinary boxers to train it.
Before the master level, there was still a popular Yangguan Road in martial arts, so martial artists of all ages would not waste time.
But Xu Xing has a stone mirror in hand, and he can use the mirror's shadow to deduce martial arts and simulate spiritual practice, so he can explore more on this dangerous path.
After spending two lives, Xu Xing has found an effective path and is about to put it into practice.
If this hardness and softness can be truly integrated, then his level of body training will definitely transform again.
This state may be called the ultimate state.
Xu Xing just wanted to retrain his skin, flesh, muscles, and bones to see if this road could lead to "seeing God and not being bad".
This is the unique advantage that Shi Jing brought to him.
Xu Xing always has the confidence to try every possible path and extract experiences and insights that others may not be able to obtain in their lifetime.
After performing the seventy-two hands three or four times in a row, Xu Xing's mind was already immersed in the boxing technique, and he fully demonstrated the principles of twisting the skin into a whip and using the flesh to generate strength.
Even if Lei Bin comes back to life and sees his achievements, he will still shout that it is impossible.
But Xu Xing always felt that he was still a little short of the realm he imagined, so he continued to fight.
Explosions sounded one after another, continuously, like rolling blue thunder exploding in the sky.
The mountain wind carried the heavy rain, roaring like a big tide against the shore, and poured into Xu Xing's heart, making his chest full of gloomy tide, as if he was being pulled and entangled by countless threads.
The more Xu Xing beat, the more he felt stuffy and unhappy, and the skin all over his body shook violently and turned red.
Not happy, very unhappy.
Xu Xing glanced at the dark abyss at his feet and the cold sky in the distance from the corner of his eye. He felt like he was a broken-winged eagle that had fallen into the cliff and was struggling to survive.
He wanted to fight against the sky, but in the end he couldn't get it and could only be tied up between heaven and earth.
An idea suddenly came to Xu Xing's mind.
If the sky can be torn apart, the heavy rain can tear it apart, and a bright and clear sky suddenly emerges, and Yuyu can clarify, that would be truly happy!
At this moment, Xu Xing seemed to have some kind of interaction between heaven and earth.
So, as soon as the idea came up, God noticed it, and wanted to wrath it with thunder, so that this madman could understand the mighty power of God!
A flash of lightning appeared in the sky, and the branches of the lightning spread out like a thunder tree taking root from the clouds. The light was dazzling, making the dark sky and earth as bright as day. A "branch" struck Xu Xing head-on!
At this moment, Xu Xing just put on the posture of a continuous fist, extending his right fist flat to strike, turning his left hand to pull, inhaling suddenly from his chest, tightening his lower abdomen, and urging his shoulders forward to hit.
This stance is called "Knife to Sheath". It can wrap the opponent's punch with skin and flesh, and then use its own power to blow it out. It is an integrated offensive and defensive posture that can only be achieved by masters of leather refining.
As the saying goes, no matter how hard I fight, no hero will be afraid of me.
Xu Xing's move was as if he wanted to use his body as a sheath, regard the thunder of heaven and earth as a sword, and put the sword back into its sheath!
boom! ! !
Everyone who was resting at the foot of the mountain felt the movement and stood up one after another, looking up at the highest point of the cliff.
But I saw the figure on the top of the independent mountain, bathed in the thunderous light, never bowing down even when facing the power of heaven, with his back as straight as a spear.
This unruly and wild look is like a demon born deep in the mountains, trying to fight against God!
After a while, the lightning disappeared and the person was nowhere to be seen.
At the foot of the mountain, Qi Dazhu and others fell into deathly silence.
In their eyes, this is not a scene that martial arts can create, but a complete myth.
After a while, a charred black figure with white smoke on his head, ragged clothes, cracks on his skin, and a smell of paste slid down the mountain wall.
He glanced at the inexplicably shocked crowd and said strangely:
"We have to travel tomorrow and you won't even sleep?"
As he spoke, his body buzzed and vibrated, and pieces of dead skin peeled off on their own, revealing his true appearance and his jade-like skin.
Even a well-informed boxer like Xiao Yu was dumbfounded at this time and only murmured:
"Monster, the monster sheds its skin."
Xu Xing frowned and corrected:
"It's not a monster, it's a boxing technique."
Everyone who was in extreme shock did not notice that as soon as the raindrops touched Xu Xing's skin, they bounced out like mud balls hitting the skin of a drum.
Every time he breathed, the pores all over his body opened and closed, as if dozens or hundreds of people were breathing at the same time, mixed with the sound of the mountain wind blowing through the forest and beating leaves, and mixed into the sound of the surging waves of a river.
After Xu Xing went through the thunder and fire body refining process, he finally broke through the barrier between hardness and softness, allowing all the pores in his body to open and close to breathe, inhale and exhale energy, and respond to the changes in the world.
The trembling rain drops and the dew falls all over the sky.
It’s for the extreme realm of skin refining!
After all these twists and turns, although Xu Xing had already given an explanation, the apprentices looked at him with strange eyes.
Everyone has obviously decided that the master of the hall is a great demon who can withstand the power of heaven.
Some people even secretly asked Qi Dazhu, when did our master become a Taoist, and has he been a Taoist for a thousand years?
Qi Dazhu was so annoyed that even a cold-tempered swordsman like Xiao Yu couldn't help but cover his mouth and chuckle.
However, after this setback, these apprentices, together with the four nursing instructors sent by Shen Yishi, were in awe of Xu Xing from the bottom of their hearts, and they practiced harder and harder.
——Let the demons be demons. Even thunder from the sky can’t do anything to us, the owner of the museum. What’s so scary about becoming a demon?
I would rather become a monster than be bullied by the government!
Under the influence of this trend of thought, the enthusiasm of all the disciples to practice boxing was unprecedentedly high. When they accepted the test of "Stealing Heaven's Secret", they also showed extraordinary enthusiasm. It is not an exaggeration to say that their courage doubled.
Therefore, it took them only five days to cover a distance of about 800 miles.
The eight-hundred-mile journey sounds simple, but everyone has to walk through dangerous trails through mountains and ridges, climb rocks, brave pouring rain, and have many poisonous insects and beasts blocking the way.
For most people, this is the longest and most arduous journey they have ever taken in their lives.
If it weren't for the grandmaster Xu Xing accompanying him, I'm afraid not many of the more than thirty apprentices would be able to leave.
Even though the process was arduous, the final result was quite gratifying.
The temperaments of these apprentices who survived the disaster have all changed, their eyebrows are lifted, they have a sense of rebirth and hard work, and their boxing and martial arts have also made considerable progress.
Now, they finally came to the official road.
Although the rain has stopped, after days and nights of torrential rain, this road, which is in excellent repair and can allow several riders to ride side by side, is full of mud and potholes.
Before he even set foot on the official path, Xu Xing noticed something strange. Since he achieved the ultimate level of skin refining, he seemed to have opened a divine bridge connecting heaven and earth, and his perception was so sharp that it was completely inhuman.
Xu Xing concentrated for a moment and gathered his ears, and then he heard the sound mixed in the wind and coming from a very far away place.
"Hahahaha, Xiangshan has been broken, how long do you expect Taizhou to last?"
(End of chapter)