The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 26: Obstacles to Perception

Ever since he inherited Wu Mianfeng's martial arts skills, Wu Chengyu has basically not seriously practiced the Bi Bo Heart Method, except for fighting with the villain in the abandoned house and using internal force to relieve the pain in his left leg from time to time.

Wu Mianfeng's aptitude was average, but in order not to disappoint his aunt, he practiced very hard for the past five years and laid a very solid foundation. He also had basic knowledge of martial arts and understanding of meridians, which saved Wu Chengyu a lot of effort. Logically, Wu Chengyu only needed to practice according to his instructions.

But Wu Chengyu could never muster up the energy, especially after he had survived a life-and-death crisis, his inner strength training progressed very slowly, and the reasons behind this were complex.

Wu Mianfeng's resistance to everything on Peach Blossom Island affected Wu Chengyu's mood. Wu Chengyu himself looked down on this kind of basic martial arts and was a bit ambitious. He always wanted to get some high-end internal skills, such as Nine Yin, Nine Yang, and Dao Heart Demon.

But the deeper reason lies in the mindset of Wu Chengyu's descendants. In that technologically advanced society, even traditional martial arts were considered mere showpieces, and no one believed in real kung fu anymore. And things like internal strength and internal power were pure fantasy, something everyone dreamed of possessing, but no one believed in them anymore after growing up.

Therefore, Wu Chengyu subconsciously felt confused and bewildered about the practice of internal energy. Every time he practiced his mental skills, he could feel the internal energy flowing in his body. Even if the internal energy was very weak, he knew how to operate it from Wu Mianfeng's memory. However, every time he finished practicing, he felt that he had done nothing.

Although he had clearly felt the real existence of internal force, Wu Chengyu always felt that it was a kind of idealistic power, inexplicable and doubtful from the bottom of his heart.

This is an obstacle to martial arts practice, a barrier to knowledge and perception. There are too many random thoughts in the mind, and the subconscious resists believing what is in front of the eyes.

In Wu Mianfeng's memory, the human body's meridians are divided into two categories, the twelve main meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians.

The twelve main meridians are divided into: Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian, Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, Hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian, Hand Shaoyang Triple Burner Meridian, Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian and Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian.

The twelve main meridians connect to the internal organs and the body surface, running throughout the body.

The eight extraordinary meridians are not affiliated with the internal organs, nor do they have any coordination between the inside and the outside. They run their own unique paths, so they are called extraordinary meridians.

The eight meridians are: Ren, Du, Chong, Dai, Yangwei, Yinwei, Yangqiao and Yinqiao.

The relationship between the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and the Twelve Main Meridians is like that between rivers and lakes. The Eight Extraordinary Meridians are the water veins of rivers. Cultivating internal energy obtains water sources. The internal energy flows repeatedly through the rivers and finally flows into the lakes of the twelve main meridians.

When the twelve main meridians are full of water, they nourish the internal organs of the body; when the eight extraordinary meridians are full, they drive the strength of the whole body. The two complement each other.

Most martial arts in the world are based on the cultivation of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, which drive the Twelve Main Meridians. This is because the Twelve Main Meridians are connected to the internal organs, and any carelessness can endanger life.

Only Taoism pays more attention to health preservation and improving body functions. Some internal skills are based on the twelve meridians for cultivation. The water in lakes flows into rivers, which is the opposite of what it used to be.

From this perspective, Wang Chongyang's Xiantian Gong was mainly based on the cultivation of the twelve meridians, so that when something went wrong in his practice, he could not recover, and the great Taoist master died early.

Some people have speculated that the Peach Blossom Island martial arts should have been partially inherited from the Xiaoyao Sect of the Tianlong Taoist sect. The reason is that the Peach Blossom Island martial arts are as graceful as the Xiaoyao Sect, especially the Falling Flowers Sword Palm, which is like falling petals, and the Jade Flute Sword Technique and the Rising Tide of the Blue Sea. Just by looking at the names, you can tell that Huang Yaoshi is showing off.

But during the second Huashan Sword Meeting, Huang Yaoshi used the Qimen Five Turns, which was a unique skill he created after years of practice and innovation. It was the culmination of the martial arts of Peach Blossom Island. Its power was unpredictable and contained hidden formations and calculations. The Qimen Five Turns actually followed the scope of the Confucian Book of Changes.

In other words, Peach Blossom Island martial arts are rare Confucian techniques, unrelated to Taoism, and primarily centered around the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. If they truly were Taoist, Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng, having studied under Huang Yaoshi for so many years, wouldn't be unfamiliar with even the most basic Taoist terminology.

However, in addition to the twelve main meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians, there are many hidden meridians in the human body. Every long-standing sect or talented person like Huang Yaoshi can discover some of the hidden meridians and combine them with their own skills, thus creating unique secret skills that are very different from each sect.

However, hidden veins are a mystery that is not passed down by various families, so it has never been possible to count how many hidden veins there are in the human body.

The martial arts of Peach Blossom Island contain six hidden veins, each with a different function. Huang Yaoshi named them after the six stars of the Southern Dipper: Tianfu, Tianliang, Tianji, Tiantong, Tianxiang and Qisha.

As the basic mental method of Peach Blossom Island, the Bi Bo Heart Method only connects the three hidden meridians of Tianfu, Tianliang and Tianji.

The Tianfu Meridian is like the sea of ​​qi, assisting the dantian in nourishing true qi. The Tianliang Meridian connects the eight extraordinary meridians, constructing a new path between the eight extraordinary meridians. The Tianji Meridian is tough and accessible, and internal force can circulate thousands of times in the Tianji Meridian. Therefore, the martial arts of Peach Blossom Island are famous for its changing moves and strange strength.

But all this is an illusion to Wu Chengyu. Wu Chengyu once read a report that one of the arguments used by Western medicine to attack traditional Chinese medicine as pseudoscience is that they have been unable to find the existence of the meridians mentioned by traditional Chinese medicine in the human body using all kinds of cutting-edge instruments of Western medicine.

It was this report that had an impact on Wu Chengyu's subconscious mind. When he practiced the Bi Bo Heart Method, he could feel the path of his internal force, but he was still unable to sense the meridians.

It was not until Wu Chengyu broke his leg again and applied the Black Jade Ointment that he had to stay in bed for the first month and could do nothing. It was only when he was extremely bored that he thought of practicing martial arts again.

At the beginning, it was still the same problem. Once Wu Chengyu started practicing his skills, his mind was immediately filled with a thousand thoughts. Even the young lady in the old video couldn't bear the loneliness and came out to dance belly dance, or the man named Xiao Shuai, who couldn't pay off his mortgage but was able to buy thousands of acres of jungle and build a wooden house in the forest to hunt during the winter.

In short, after watching too many videos, all kinds of monsters and ghosts appeared as soon as he closed his eyes, and Wu Chengyu couldn't concentrate at all.

When Wu Chengyu finally concentrated with great difficulty and felt the flow of internal force, he began to complain in his mind. Chickens don't pee, everyone has their own way, but what exactly is the way of the flow of internal force? He could only feel that something was moving, and like an old lady with bound feet, it didn't move a few steps for a long time.

Perhaps because he had nothing to do, Wu Chengyu did not give up after just one cycle as he had done before. This time, he patiently forced himself to practice the Bi Bo Heart Method for thirty-six cycles as required by Peach Blossom Island, as a way to give himself an explanation.

At this moment, the bamboo slips in Wu Chengyu's consciousness vibrated again, and the handwriting on them changed. They were no longer poems or prescriptions.

This time, a diagram appeared above, a diagram of the meridians through which the internal force was flowing. It clearly indicated in words which meridians and acupoints the internal force passed through during its flow. The meridians were blue, the acupoints were red, and small arrows indicated the direction.

Not only that, when Wu Chengyu saw the meridian map, he unconsciously used his extraordinary five senses. He used his sense of touch to feel the imperceptible friction when the internal force passed through the meridians, and used his hearing to feel the slight vibration between the internal organs when the internal force ran in the body. Finally, his uncontrollable mysterious intuition began to take effect.

A three-dimensional dynamic image of the entire structure of his body gradually appeared in Wu Chengyu's mind, including bones, internal organs, blood vessels, and meridians that he could not find.

The meaning of the bamboo slips is very clear, but you can't feel it, so I let you see it.

It is better to sign the contract. I have a lot more collections now. It is finally a good start.

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(End of this chapter)