Chapter 16 Martial Arts Cultivation
"Hengshan Tinna Method" is the introductory mental method of the Hengshan School. The highest achievement of cultivation can only maintain health and prolong life. According to the division of the world, any third-rate martial artist who has practiced boxing and kicking for two years can beat the master who has practiced "Tinna Method" for decades to find teeth.
When Hengshan disciples entered the school, they did not mainly practice this, but followed their master to stance and root bones. The "Teng Na Method" is only a basic method to regulate breathing and cultivate qi sensation.
When Liu Zhengfeng heard that Chen Ang was going to learn this kung fu, he said bluntly: "My benefactor, this breathing method is just a superficial technique of qi training. The inheritance of major sects and even street martial arts schools is almost the same. If Mr. Benefactor wants to, the "Three Yang Heart Method" passed down by my family, and even the secret "Hengshan Heart Method" passed down to his benefactor!"
"The tree that is embraced together grows from the thin blades; the nine-story platform starts from the soil; a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Chen Ang sighed quietly and looked back at Liu Zhengfeng, "The art of internal cultivation originated from ancient times! Snorting, taking, guiding, and visualizing, it has been thousands of years since the "Inscription on Xingqi", and it has been 5,000 years since the Yellow Emperor!"
"The way of martial arts is not to fight for strength and victory, and to fight. This is the way of beasts, not the right way of martial arts. If I want to show off my might, it is naturally the more mysterious the internal skills are, the better the better. But I ask the great way to seek the right way of ancient martial arts, fight for fate with heaven, and surpass myself, and I have to find the answer from the wisdom of the ancestors!"
After hearing this, Liu Zhengfeng was stunned and said in a daze: "Sir, before asking me to find the Taoist priest who received the disc and the monk who was refined. Is this the reason?"
Chen Ang smiled and looked at him, "Do you know the "Nine Yin Scriptures"? Do you know the 72 unique skills of Shaolin Temple?"
"I heard a little about the "Nine Yin True Sutra". It is said to be a top martial arts treasure book. It has something to do with five senior masters who are called the Five Great Masters. It has caused a big storm in the world! The 72 unique skills of Shaolin Temple are even more thunderous!" Liu Zhengfeng answered honestly.
Ordinary people in the martial arts world may not know about these things, but the Hengshan Sect has also been passed down for hundreds of years. They still have some understanding of these old news in the martial arts world.
This also confirms Chen Ang’s conjecture that the world of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" is indeed closely related to the four plots after "The Dragon", and is mostly a world on the timeline.
"The "Nine Yin Jing" is divided into two volumes, and is a set of peerless martial arts learned from the Wanshou Daozang in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the martial arts world at that time, it was not an exaggeration to call it the world's number one martial arts treasure book. And this earth-shaking martial arts volume once fell into the hands of two Taohua Island disciples who were mixed with the name "Black Wind Double Evils".
Liu Zhengfeng listened quietly, and his face showed a look of surprise. Such secrets of martial arts world were unheard of in his identity. Perhaps only Shaolin Temple has been passed down for thousands of years and will have clear records, which made him feel more and more mysterious about Chen Ang’s identity.
"The process in this process has quite some heroic stories, but it has nothing to do with us, so there is no need to say more. Just say that Mei Chaofeng, among the two evil spirits of the Black Wind, has practiced the "Nine Yin True Sutra" for more than 20 years, and her legs were paralyzed because of being possessed by the devil. It was a good practice of "Nine Yin Divine Claws" and made her become such an inappropriate thing as "Nine Yin White Bone Claws"!"
"Nine Yin White Bone Claws!" Liu Zhengfeng said in horror, with an extremely moved look on his face! Chen Ang couldn't help but laugh. Many martial arts skills were not passed down and were all silently unknown. But a bad martial arts skill that had been practiced is even more famous than the genuine "Nine Yin Divine Claws".
"You just need to know that "Nine Yin Divine Claws" are ten times more powerful than "Nine Yin White Bone Claws" practiced by Mei Chaofeng. If Mei Chaofeng meets someone who has truly mastered this martial arts, he is afraid that he will be caught as a bone if he can't get through both moves!" Chen Ang said calmly.
"The same is true for the seventy-two unique skills. Many Shaolin monks have to spend their whole life thinking about a set of unique skills. Some people can practice more than a dozen in one breath. This is true for Murong Bo and Xiao Yuanshan in the Northern Song Dynasty. But in their later years, they had to join Shaolin and practice Zen! Why do you think?" Chen Ang asked back.
"Maybe it was Shaolin that hides some key tricks that make them have hidden dangers in practicing kung fu?" Liu Zhengfeng, who was from the Five Yue Sword Sect, really had no good feelings for Shaolin and speculated without hesitation.
"Haha! The trick!" Chen Ang laughed and said, "If you say this, you underestimate Bodhidharma too much. Zhang Sanfeng is a martial arts expert. They wish that the whole world would know their martial arts skills and the understanding of the great way. How can we hide this statement?"
"But there is no problem with you saying this! There is indeed a secret in it." Chen Ang looked at Liu Zhengfeng and stopped talking, shook his hand to stop him, and continued.
"Whether it is the "Nine Yin Sutra" that is obsessed with the evil spirit or the "Seventy-Two Special Skills" that lose its essence, although it is the author's vocabulary difficult and hidden references, it is actually the practitioner's lack of martial arts cultivation."
'Martial Arts and Cultivation' is an extremely obscure noun. Many people use combat power to measure the level of martial arts masters, but they do not understand why the sweeping monk, Dugu Qiubai, was powerful all his life, but only Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng can bear the title of "Grandmaster"! Why is the Beiming divine skill overwhelming all the heroes, and the six-mechanical divine swords are famous, but only "Yi Jin Jing" and "Tai Chi" can achieve the highest reputation of martial arts.
The invisible and intangible thing like "martial arts cultivation" is the main factor. In Chen Ang's understanding, martial arts cultivation is the combination of everything about martial arts wisdom, understanding and knowledge. It is like a huge net, connecting martial arts with all aspects of the wisdom of the ancestors.
The secrets such as "Tai Chi" and "Yi Jin Jing" are the highest manifestations of this wisdom. Just as those who study "Laozi" may not understand the wisdom of the "Tao Te Ching", and those who study "Confucius" may not know "Ren". Rather than saying that this wisdom is a secret book, it is a reading outline.
Zhang Sanfeng studied Taoism, wrote "Tai Chi", Bodhidharma realized Buddha, and wrote "Yi Jin Jing", probably only sorted out their martial arts thoughts into an outline. The real content was also learned from Buddhist scriptures, Taoist books, and classics. Huang Shang was able to understand the "Nine Yin Sutra" from "The Daozang of Wanshou", and this is the same principle.
Therefore, Chen Ang never expected that he would bring out one or two "peerless secret books" from the martial arts world, and then practice hard, and then become transcendent. On the contrary, he decided to calm down, feel the world, read this atmosphere, and absorb the foundation of a world. This is the true value of a world.
Learning secrets is the way for masters, and learning martial arts is the way to evolution.
Chen Ang worked hard for three months in medicine, treated countless martial arts people, learned and understood hundreds of live secrets, and was proficient in most third-rate martial arts in the martial arts world. In order to accumulate a relatively solid martial arts cultivation, he began to practice. Liu Zhengfeng was his scheduled leader.
He also thought that he would express the research and understanding of the human body by martial arts in later generations, but when he thought about it, he still thought it was a pity that he did not have enough scientific accumulation. Even if he created such a set of martial arts, it would be just a unique skill such as "Bei Ming Divine Art" and "Six Mechanisms". It is far worse than the "Tai Chi" and "Yi Jin Jing" that inspired a Taoist tradition.
Even the "Nine Swords of Dugu" that has accumulated the world's sword skills may not be comparable.
It may be invincible in the world in terms of power, but if Chen Ang pursues power, why not leave a laser weapon or a human body transformation drug? In this way, those who get it can become the world's number one strong man. Martial arts that cannot promote the evolution of the essence of human life are meaningless to Chen Ang.
Chen Ang didn't say anything more. He mentioned a yellowed Song-book scripture and smiled at Liu Zhengfeng: "If I say that I can understand the "Yi Jin Jing" from these scriptures, do you believe it?"
Liu Zhengfeng was shocked. He carefully looked at the book "The Adoration of the Fahua Sutra" and confirmed that it was just an ordinary scripture. He asked in a low voice: "I will definitely not believe it when others say it, but after my benefactor said it, I still have seventy-sixth doubt in my heart."
"Before Bodhidharma wrote the book, there were a hundred volumes of true scriptures that told him the truth he learned. After Bodhidharma wrote the book, there were tens of thousands of scriptures that told him the truth he understood. After learning these wisdoms of Bodhidharma, can't he even understand the "Yi Jin Sutra"?" Chen Ang laughed.
Seeing his lightness, Liu Zhengfeng just smiled bitterly in his heart, "Bodhidharma's wisdom is scattered in the vast Buddhist scriptures like a sea of smoke. If you want to sort it out, you don't know how powerful wisdom and amazing perseverance you need. Perhaps only gods and demons can do it!"
I immediately stopped asking more questions, and honestly accumulated over the years, understood all kinds of martial arts, and even some stories and allusions, one or two points of the master when practicing martial arts, and a few words he thought were true teachings, and told Chen Ang in full. As a result, Chen Ang was not very interested in the method he thought was true teachings. Instead, he pointed out one or two mistakes, or even imperfections, and was particularly interested in some details and well-known things in the martial arts world.
Chapter completed!