Volume 1: Wild Beasts, Changes Begin Chapter 54: Teaching
Cut a piece of white cloud to mend your clothes; invite the half moon to read the scriptures.
This couplet hanging in the guest room in the mountains is made of fourteen pieces of wood, with one word written on each piece. They are strung together with two red ropes and hung on both sides of the door. It has not been replaced for several years and there has been no obvious change.
But the weather has changed during this period. Since the beginning of summer, the sun has been scorching hot every day, and insects and birds are chirping in the mountains. There is no time when it is completely quiet day and night.
In this kind of weather, even if the monks in the temple changed into light clothes, they had no leisure to cut the white clouds or invite the bright moon. They would sweat like rain if they did the slightest work.
Under this sun that felt like it was scorching the skin, Yue Tianen had already stood for half an hour without a single sweat on his body.
He didn't just stand there. Instead, he held an iron chain in both hands and started by tying and contracting his abdomen. He tightened the chain with both hands, and then used his breathing and abdominal muscles to loosen the chain little by little.
First the abdomen, then the chest, and then the neck.
The human neck is a vital part of the body. After being strangled by a rope, before suffocation and cervical fracture, the first problem that occurs is compression of the vagus nerve, which can cause the person to lose control of his or her body, unable to lift his or her hands or struggle.
Therefore, if a person who hangs himself is not rescued by others, he often has no room for regret.
However, for Yue Tianen, this was not a fatal threat.
The eighteen muscles in the average person's neck are slender, and carrying the normal movement of the head is already a considerable burden. However, Yue Tianen's neck muscles are well-trained like a circle of iron plate. When he exerts his muscles, the seemingly normal neck immediately bulges, and gradually becomes thicker than the head. At the same time, the muscles on the shoulders and back of the neck bulge to protect the neck. At first glance, the head and shoulders are directly connected, and the neck seems to have disappeared.
Even if the iron chain is wrapped around and tightened, it is impossible to truly suppress such muscles and damage the fragile nerves protected by such muscles.
On the contrary, this iron chain, which was as thick as a thumb, gradually showed a tendency to be unable to bear the pulling force of Yue Haiwang's hands and the expansion of the muscles in his neck, and each section of the chain began to stretch and deform.
Finally, it collapsed completely!
Ding~
When the sound of the chain breaking was heard, Gongsun Yiren and her brother just looked up and went about their own business.
They had no idea how many times they had seen this kind of thing since they were little. It was a normal exercise for Yue Tianen, just like ordinary people doing some chest expansion exercises after getting up in the morning. However, after the onset of the disease, this exercise was put on hold and was only restarted today.
"Grandpa, it's only been half a month and you've gotten much better." Gongsun Yiren came over with the filtered medicine.
“Indeed.” Yue Tianen threw the broken chain into a clay pot nearby and said, “This kind of power called internal force is indeed magical. However, when he doesn’t use this internal force, the strength of his limbs is almost the same as that of an ordinary person. I think this power does not come from flesh, blood, tendons and bones. Could it be from the internal organs…”
Gongsun Yiren pushed the medicine bowl forward and said, "Grandpa, drink the medicine first."
Yue Tianen came back to his senses, picked up the medicine bowl and drank it in one gulp, smacked his lips, and said, "The effectiveness of this medicine is far inferior to that kid's healing method."
"But he also said that a two-pronged approach would be more effective." Gongsun Yiren took the empty bowl and said, "Also, it seems that the replacement formula that Master Lingmiao researched has been successful. We can try the new medicine this afternoon."
"Yeah." Yue Tianen nodded, "I'll go see that kid."
The place where Fang Yunhan and Ziyun lived was separated from the guest room courtyard by a low mountain. Yue Tianen jumped directly onto the cliff from the courtyard and climbed over the mountain.
As soon as he reached the top of the mountain, he saw people practicing martial arts over there.
Fang Yunhan stood in the middle of the yard.
He squatted slightly with his feet, his back straight, his eyes looking into the distance, his hands as if holding an invisible pillar, his index fingers naturally extended, the middle fingertips of his two palms touching each other, as if he was bowing.
Standing still is the foundation of all the boxing and martial arts of Da Qi, but the stance that Fang Yunhan stands in is a little different.
He stood there, with his wrists, ankles, knees, waist, and neck tied with a hemp rope.
There were eight hemp ropes, each more than five meters long. The other end of the ropes were held by eight guards, who stood in a circle around Fang Yunhan.
This is the training method that Yue Tianen taught Fang Yunhan. Ropes and chains are the most suitable for confrontational exercises and are also the fastest way to train your limbs.
Swinging the rope can train the arms, pulling the rope can train the shoulders and back, hanging the rope can train the head and neck, the rope for dropping objects can train the spine, the four-way rope can train the waist and horse, and the winding rope can train your breathing.
This training method, which requires the cooperation of eight people, can train balance, muscles, breathing, endurance, and tendons, and has extremely comprehensive effects.
When Yue Tianen came over here, he happened to see the guard in charge of Fang Yunhan's left wrist suddenly pull the rope.
Fang Yunhan's left wrist was suddenly pulled outward about an inch and then suddenly stopped.
The guard tried his best and his whole body began to lean backwards, but there was no way he could move his wrist at all.
That hand seemed like a block of cast iron. No, although it did not move outward, it was gradually returning to its original position.
The guard's efforts were like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. His tilted body and his toes pushing against the ground left a slightly concave mark on the ground, but it still failed to stop Fang Yunhan's left hand from returning to its place little by little.
When the other seven people saw this scene, they looked at each other and nodded, and exerted their strength at the same time.
Suddenly, Fang Yunhan's hands were pulled outwards, his ankles were pulled backwards, and his knees were pulled forwards, and his waist and neck were pulled backwards at the same time.
The air became even hotter and the sound of insects chirping became audible. The faces of the eight guards turned red one after another, and this time, Fang Yunhan didn't even hesitate at all .
It is as steady as Mount Tai and not a bit moved.
Fang Yunhan hunched his chest and stretched his back, with his head held high. Apart from the fine beads of sweat on his forehead and some conspicuous light red marks on his neck, no one could even tell that he was fighting against the strength of eight people.
"Tsk." Yue Tianen clapped his hands unconsciously.
Fang Yunhan's progress is really huge.
Because during training, Fang Yunhan wanted to get the maximum physical training effect and would not use his internal strength to fight against the strength of others. His own physical strength was not even as good as those of the guards. On the first day, if any guard pulled him, he would stagger and lose his balance.
But by the fifth day, his physical fitness had surpassed those guards.
Today, which is only the fifteenth day of this kind of training, his physical fitness is already no less than that of a real martial artist, that is, someone who can defeat a hundred people alone, bare-handedly, relying solely on physical strength.
Yue Tianen watched for half a minute, and the eight dedicated guards relaxed their strength and could not hold on any longer.
The tension in Fang Yunhan's neck disappeared. He coughed lightly and remained in the same position, but his aura suddenly changed.
Under the scorching sun's light, one can see that some dust that approached Fang Yunhan's body was suddenly blown away by a "wind" surging out of his body, and the marks on his neck became lighter and almost invisible in the blink of an eye.
This is the main reason why Fang Yunhan has made such great progress.
The training plan formulated by Yue Tianen is actually very strict.
Except for the neck which is relatively loose, the ropes on other parts of the body would almost cut into the flesh just by tying them. Ordinary people could not even think of exercising in such a condition. As long as one leg was tied like this, the blood circulation would be blocked. After more than two quarters of an hour, the limbs below the binding part would turn purple, lose touch, and become necrotic, and would have to be amputated.
Therefore, beginners, no matter how talented they are, can only train for a quarter of an hour a day at most. Then the rest of the day is spent on applying various medicinal liquors, cupping, and recuperation.
However, Fang Yunhan possessed extremely deep internal strength. Whenever his limbs were injured so badly that he could no longer continue training, he would simply use his internal energy to heal his wounds and recover in a matter of moments.
Therefore, on the first day he participated in this kind of training, the intermittent training time accumulated to four hours, and then it was increased to six hours.
Quantitative changes accumulate into qualitative changes. The effect of his training in one day is equivalent to the hard work of an ordinary person in a year.
Fifteen days is no less than fifteen years of hard training.
"Well, this training won't do you any good."
Yue Tianen walked forward, waved his hand, and asked the guards to untie all the ropes and take them away.
Fang Yunhan let out a breath slowly and straightened out the wrinkles on his clothes caused by the rope.
He still looked like the young man with slender limbs, but in fact, after fifteen days, his originally thin body had developed extremely obvious muscle lines under the clothes.
Seeing that the training was over, Ziyun, who was guarding a stove nearby, immediately took out a few pieces of meat from the casserole protected by the fire, put them in a bowl, and gave them to Fang Yunhan.
During these fifteen days, Fang Yunhan killed many mutant creatures that ran towards him. Most of them were small creatures, but there was also a calf.
Inspired by Gongsun Yi's idea of using the mutated evil tiger to make medicine, Fang Yunhan collected these mutated creatures. After having Master Lingmiao check whether they were toxic, he asked him to prescribe several recipes for medicinal foods.
Although Master Lingmiao knew how to prepare this kind of medicinal food, he himself did not eat meat and did not allow the monks to be responsible for cooking it, so these tasks were left to Ziyun.
Fang Yunhan's physical fitness improved so quickly, partly because he ate enough nutritious food.
Yue Tianen also ate something similar in the morning. After he finished eating, he said, "I didn't expect that my illness hasn't been cured yet, but you've drained all the ink in my stomach. You've already made some progress in training your muscles and tendons. From now on, you just need to increase the moves, you have them yourself. So this is probably the only thing I can teach you next."
The old man said to the guards and Ziyun around him, "Stay away. You won't be able to learn what's coming next, and you won't be able to listen to it."
Fang Yunhan nodded to Ziyun, and everyone left quickly.
"Listen carefully." Yue Tianen took a deep breath, but after saying these three words, he closed his mouth and did not move.
Fang Yunhan was a little confused at first, then his pupils shrank and goose bumps appeared on the back of his hands.
He heard a sound like the roar of a dragon, the howl of a tiger, the roar of a lion, which seemed to be there and not there, and it made him feel a slight itch in his bones.
"snort!"
Yue Tianen blew air out of his nose, causing his beard to fly and making a short sound.
The crowd, who had retreated more than thirty meters away, suddenly felt a stuffy sensation in their ears and looked at each other in surprise.
Only then did they vaguely understand that the so-called "cannot listen" did not mean keeping it secret, but in a literal sense - can't listen!
Fang Yunhan's face became solemn. He carefully felt the sound and even closed his eyes in order to capture the subtlest feeling.
Seeing him close his eyes, Yue Tianen nodded slightly and suddenly opened his mouth.
"ha!"
Crack! Bang!
The casserole on the fire exploded out of nowhere, the soup put out the fire, and a choking smell suddenly filled the entire courtyard.
Thick white smoke rises up.
