Volume 1 Uncle Nine's World Chapter 44: Qiu Sheng
There were plenty of empty rooms in the charity cemetery. Wencai was in a difficult situation, so without Uncle Jiu's instructions, he got up and went to prepare a room for Jiale.
Nothing happened that night. Before the sun rose the next day, Jia Le had already gotten up to practice. He waited until the sun rose in the east and absorbed the purple energy before returning.
Uncle Jiu had just gotten up. When he saw Jiale coming back from outside with traces of training on his body, he immediately smiled with satisfaction. He liked people like Jiale the most when recruiting disciples because they were not only talented but also hardworking. Thinking of his two disciples, Uncle Jiu couldn't help but feel angry.
"Wencai, get up and prepare breakfast."
After hearing the loud shout, Wencai woke up from his dream. He quickly agreed and got up to prepare breakfast.
In the yard, only Jiale and Uncle Jiu were left.
"Jia Le, the last time your master came here, he asked for the Baguazhang training method for you. Your master is no longer here, so I offered sacrifices and let your master take you away. It's been almost two years now, I wonder how your training is going?"
Uncle Jiu also wanted to test Jiale. After all, Simu's letter had already stated that he wanted Jiale to stay here for a while longer so that he could teach him. Now that he saw Jiale's talent, he was even more interested.
Upon hearing this, Jiale understood Uncle Jiu's intention of testing him and did not dare to be careless.
There is no need to say much about Uncle Jiu's abilities, as evidenced by the fact that he has managed to keep Qiu Sheng and Wen alive until now.
Jia Le's Baguazhang has been progressing well, but he has been practicing it behind closed doors after all. Even with the guidance of his master, there are still many details that are not clear. Now he is going to ask Uncle Jiu for advice to perfect Baguazhang.
"Uncle Master, I will demonstrate it first. Please give me your guidance."
Uncle Jiu saw Jiale was so confident and nodded, "Let's get started!"
Jia Le did not delay. He concentrated his mind and purified his soul. The essence of Baguazhang flowed through his heart. For two years, Jia Le practiced Baguazhang day and night without stopping. He had already engraved Baguazhang into his bones and deep into his heart. He could practice it as soon as he had a thought.
The fist moves with the heart, the heart moves with the steps, the Bagua Dragon Step comes first, and the Bagua Palm is slowly punched out, one hexagram, two hexagrams, and in a blink of an eye it is the sixth hexagram. There is no obstacle during the process and it is done in one go.
Uncle Jiu's eyes became brighter and brighter as he watched, and he was actually a little excited.
As the saying goes, the inner gate focuses on the skills, while the outer gate focuses on the excitement. Uncle Jiu has already mastered Baguazhang, and all the sixty-four Bagua palms are within his grasp. However, it is precisely because he has practiced it that he knows more about the difficulty of practicing Baguazhang. The Lightning Thunder Fist, which is a combination of the two major magics and martial arts of Maoshan, requires even more qualifications. If one does not have enough qualifications, one cannot even enter the gate.
Baguazhang is different. Baguazhang relies more on perseverance and the flash of inspiration during practice. Otherwise, even if one has the best aptitude, one cannot practice it. Wencai, the two disciples he accepted, has dull aptitude. Although his uncle has already passed down Baguazhang, neither of them has yet mastered the art. Qiu Sheng's aptitude is not much different from Wencai's, but Qiu Sheng has a pure yang body and is most suitable for practicing Baguazhang, which combines magic and martial arts.
However, after five years of learning, I am still only at the entry level and cannot achieve any success.
Even for Uncle Jiu, it took him twenty years to reach Jiale's level, which is more than ten times that of Jiale. This shows Jiale's talent and hard work in practicing Baguazhang.
Jia Le finished practicing the Six Trigrams and Forty-Eight Palms and was about to call it a day, but Uncle Jiu suddenly said, "Keep practicing, don't stop!"
Jiale understood immediately and started over again without asking any more questions.
"Punch from the heart, if you are too slow, the Kun hexagram will hit, you should hold back a bit..."
Next, Uncle Jiu just watched Jiale practicing boxing and gave him on-the-spot teaching. Jiale practiced Baguazhang over and over again, and under Uncle Jiu's guidance, he became more and more smooth. Unknowingly, he entered an unknown space. His boxing skills kept improving, and he actually had Bagua in his mind and the universe in his eyes. He had the attitude that everything in the world can be dealt with with just one boxing.
Gradually, the seventh hexagram was also slowly played out, and he became more and more proficient at it, until he could send and receive it freely from his heart. He was only one step away from perfecting Baguazhang.
"Okay, let's stop here for today."
When Uncle Jiu's voice came, Jiale seemed to sense something and withdrew from the unknown space. He bowed to Uncle Jiu and said, "Thank you for your teachings, Master."
Uncle Jiu's face was full of admiration, and just as he was about to speak, someone else spoke first.
"Master, who is this? His Baguazhang skills are almost as good as yours!"
Jiale looked in the direction of the voice and saw a tall, well-proportioned young man in long clothes standing at the door. He looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. After a moment's thought, Jiale guessed that this man should be Qiu Sheng. Compared with Wencai, Qiu Sheng was definitely a handsome guy. And unlike Wencai who was an orphan, Qiu Sheng had an aunt who sold rouge and powder in Renjia Town.
You have to know that rouge and powder were luxury items at that time. Qiu Sheng's aunt's family was quite wealthy and was very good to Qiu Sheng, so if you look closely, Qiu Sheng was wearing much better than his uncle Jiu.
However, Qiu Sheng was obviously shocked by Jia Le's Bagua Zhang at this time. He looked stunned. Wen Cai, who was standing at the kitchen door, was not much better. He opened his mouth wide and looked frightened.
"You must be Junior Brother Qiu Sheng, I am Jia Le!"
Knorr!
Qiu Sheng seemed to have remembered something, and immediately pointed at Jia Le and said, "You are the disciple Jia Le that Uncle Simu mentioned. How could you be so powerful?"
It was obvious that he couldn't accept this fact and couldn't even speak clearly.
Uncle Jiu glared at Qiu Sheng and said, "Why don't you go meet your senior brother? This is really embarrassing. Jia Le has only been practicing Baguazhang for two years and he is almost catching up with me. Even with my personal teaching, you are still crawling like a snail. You are like a piece of mud that can't be helped."
As the saying goes, comparing goods will lead to throwing them away, comparing people will lead to death. When Uncle Jiu sees Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai now, he wants to whip them twice. How come they are both apprentices, but there is such a big gap between them?
Hearing Uncle Jiu's words, Qiu Sheng looked at Jia Le and shuddered when he thought of what he and Wen Cai had said before about playing a trick on Jia Le and making Jia Le learn a lesson. At this moment, Qiu Sheng had no doubt that Jia Le would not even need to throw a second punch at him.
"Hello, Brother!"
Jiale smiled and said, "Junior brother, you don't have to be so polite. When I came here, I brought you a piece of clothing. I don't know if it will fit you. I'll ask Junior Brother Wencai to give it to you to try on later!"
Listening to Jiale's words and looking at his kind appearance, Qiu Sheng suddenly felt that he didn't have such a big grudge against Jiale anymore.
"Thank you, Brother!"
Uncle Jiu was also very pleased to see the harmonious scene between Jiale, Qiu Sheng and Wencai. It seemed that he remembered the time when he and his fellow disciples such as Simu were practicing together.
"Okay, let's eat!"
While eating, Qiu Sheng and Wencai learned that Jiale was only twelve years old and had only been practicing for two years, but he had already broken through to the Qi Transformation Realm. They were extremely surprised and became more and more convinced.
During the day, Uncle Jiu taught Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai how to draw talismans. Jia Le also joined them and beat them up again.
The talismans that Uncle Jiu knew were a bit miscellaneous. Simu taught Jiale nine talismans at the beginning. It wasn't that Simu didn't want to teach anymore, but that Simu was only proficient in those nine. Seeing that Jiale only knew the talisman for protection, the talisman for exorcising evil spirits, the talisman for sharing the same body, the talisman for suppressing corpses, the talisman for suppressing ghosts, the talisman for suppressing demons, the talisman for suppressing monsters, the talisman for driving away corpses, the talisman for summoning gods and the five thunder talismans, he did not hide anything and started teaching Jiale the other talismans.
