Shinto rewards

Chapter 49
The air in the morning is unusually fresh. For every martial artist, the short time between sunrise and breakfast is the most precious. Whether it is cultivation base or martial arts, during this period of cultivation can benefit a lot. to the best effect.

In Qingfeng City, in the martial arts arena in the Li family compound, a pair of boys and girls are wielding weapons to compete with each other. Standing on the periphery of the circle are two middle-aged men and a young man respectively. Watching their competition with interest.

However, the girl looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, her swordsmanship was elegant and agile, but her moves were fierce and fierce. Every sword she swung went straight to the vital parts of the young man's body, giving the impression that she had already beaten the young man opposite her. You only have the power to parry but not the power to fight back.

But no matter how hard she tried and how her moves changed, she still couldn't break through the youth's seemingly understated, but actually impenetrable, seven-foot gun circle.

In the blink of an eye, the two had fought for more than thirty moves, and the girl still couldn't rely on her fierce swordsmanship to gain half of the advantage, so she stomped her feet angrily, and said angrily, "Second brother, you are bullying!"

Hearing the words, the young man couldn't help laughing and said: "Yao'er, what you said is a little unreasonable. From the time we fought to the present, I have been beaten all the time, 37 moves in a row, and I didn't even return my hands. How can I bully you? "

"That's why you bully people the most!" The girl said angrily, "Why don't you try to fight back and see if I can catch a loophole in your counterattack and defeat you?"

"Okay!" The young man's mouth curled into a smile, and he suddenly turned from defense to offense with the spear in his hand.The first shot was just right where the girl's long sword was close to the hilt, and she swung it away skillfully, and as soon as the spear was sent, it stopped three inches in front of the girl's throat.

Spike!

The boy with the gun was Li Chou.The girl fighting against him was Li Yao, the younger sister of his third uncle's family, and the three people watching the battle were Li Chou's elder brother Li Luo, his uncle and third uncle.

"Wow! Second brother, your marksmanship is so powerful. Even if you suppress your realm to the same level as mine, you can still defeat me so easily. How did you practice? Can you teach me?" After being defeated by Li Chou , Yao'er not only did not show any frustration, but seemed extremely excited.

"There is no secret or anything, but if you want to make progress in martial arts, you must first understand your own problems and correct them." Li Chou retracted his spear, then smiled and said: "And Yaoer, you His flaws can be seen just from his face."

"Oh?" Yao'er hurriedly asked: "Second brother, you can still meet each other, that's amazing! Help me find out, what's wrong?"

Li Chou rested his finger on the girl's forehead, pushed her pretty face away, and said seriously: "I see that you lack the sense of the five elements, and you are sleepy in your life, and you still have a pair of dark circles under your eyes. The mental state is not good. , Practicing kung fu is bound to get twice the result with half the effort, and it is a strange thing to be able to make some progress."

Hearing what Li Chou said, Yao'er argued unhappily: "But the college competition is about to start. They also want to live in time before the competition to improve their strength, even if their cultivation base or swordsmanship can be better. It is also good to score one point, maybe relying on this little improvement, you can get a good ranking in the big competition."

"Haste makes waste." Li Chouyu said earnestly: "The foundation of martial arts should be to strengthen the body and cultivate the body and mind, rather than blindly pursuing strength to be brave and ruthless, let alone squeezing or even overdrawing the body's potential. For a martial artist, the best way to work and rest is to be in harmony with nature."

"Fit with nature?"

"That's right." Li Chou continued to explain: "Natural changes, every day is a small cycle, and every year is a big cycle. At dawn, the sun is warm but not strong, and the body's functions will also wake up at this moment. The most suitable time for cultivation, the effect of cultivation at this time will be much better than usual."

"When you are tired from training, you need to take a proper rest. At this time, you can read books and enrich your knowledge reserves. It should be noted that [-]% of the energy in the body needs to be consumed through physical training, and the other [-]% needs to be consumed through mental training. To consume. Cultivation and study also need to be carried out alternately in an orderly manner, and the time should be arranged reasonably according to one's own situation, so that the body and mind can be exercised at the same time, without damaging the fundamentals due to excessive consumption."

"The so-called way of civil and martial arts, one piece of one piece, one piece of relaxation, is talking about this truth."

"Every day after sunset, the yang energy between the heaven and the earth turns weak and the yin energy gradually increases. It's time to rest. After dinner, practice a few times of swordsmanship to exercise your muscles and bones, and then you can go back to your room to rest. If you can't sleep You can read a book for a while first, but the time must not be too long. Because the quality of rest at night will directly affect the effect of your cultivation the next day."

"More broadly speaking, it is the changes of the four seasons. The physical training martial arts taught by the academy are almost all derived from the changes of the four seasons. Only when you have your own understanding of the changes of the four seasons can you hope to make the physical training martial arts truly Even to the Dacheng realm. But before that, you must first adjust your work and rest time."

"Like what you are doing now, if you are exhausted every day without getting enough rest, not only will the effect of practicing Qigong be twice the result with half the effort, but if things go on like this, it will even damage your foundation and cause endless troubles."

When Li Chou said these words, Li Tianyang and Li Tianxing couldn't help but feel that the aura of their nephew seemed to have undergone some subtle changes at the same time, but when they realized this and wanted to observe further, they couldn't I found that Li Chou seemed to be the same Li Chou, something had changed, but nothing seemed to have changed.

Amidst their doubts, the two involuntarily exchanged a look, and they both saw deep doubts in each other's eyes.

Could it be that we were wrong, and it was just our own illusion?
But the question is, is it possible for two acquired masters to have the same illusion at the same time! ?

In fact, what Li Chou just said was exactly what he had learned from practicing the "Body Nourishing Gun Art" these days. Regarding these, he was also in a state of ignorance before, as if he understood the truth, but he was not very clear .

It wasn't until just now, taking the opportunity of pointing Yao'er, to sort out his feelings carefully, that he said the truth.

It was precisely this lecture that not only benefited Li Yao a lot, but even Li Chou subconsciously sorted out his previous perception completely, and gained a clearer understanding of the connection between the body and nature. Know.

Even compared to Yao'er, Li Chou's benefit from this lecture is the greatest!

"Master!" Just as everyone in the Li family was amazed at Li Chou's words, the old housekeeper Li An suddenly ran in, bowed and bowed to the five of them, and then said to Li Tianyang, the leader: "Master, Ruya from the Gong family The young lady came to visit and said that she wanted to see the second young master."

(End of this chapter)