Cosmic Demon

Chapter 8: Eight Sections and Nine Sections, Capturing the Qi

Lao Liang felt his pocket, took out a shriveled cigarette box, shook it twice and found it was empty.

He shook his head and handed a few small bills to Qin Shi:

"Run an errand for me. Buy Bao Limin. I want a soft one."

Qin Shi was also very smart. He took the money and ran away.

When he was taking the driving test in his previous life, he bought water and cigarettes for his instructor many times, which helped him accumulate rich experience.

"Mr. Liang, your cigarette."

"Huh? You are a very cunning kid."

Looking at the soft-shell Hanhua sent by Qin Shi, Lao Liang raised his eyebrows.

A pack from Limin costs just over 15 yuan, while a pack from Hanhua costs at least 70 yuan.

He's quite capable and much smarter than those bastards I taught!

"I didn't hold back when I was twisting your muscles yesterday because I wanted to make you suffer enough so that you would give up.

I didn’t expect you to be so strong. Not only did you hold on, but you also have a good physique that can withstand training.”

Lao Liang did not refuse and took the "Huazi" that old smokers liked the most. He opened it in front of him and took a puff of smoke:
"When you have time, come here once a day and do some coiling after practice. The more you coil your tendons, the tighter they will become, and your strength and stamina will also increase."

Qin Shi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally being accepted by Lao Liang.

This physical education teacher at Zidi No. 9 Middle School has real skills.

If you value yourself, it will definitely be more useful than spending a lot of money to go to a gym in the urban area!
"Where did you say just now?"

"Real and fake."

Lao Liang asked the other students to run laps to warm up, and led Qin Shi into a teaching building.

As he walked, he said:

"The so-called 'Xu' refers to the Qi in your body, which grows between your flesh and blood and is nurtured in your bone marrow.

In the old martial arts, coiling the tendons and stretching the back is a method of transforming the human body. In the earlier old era, it was a secret recipe that was not passed on to others.

Nowadays, almost everyone practices martial arts, and there is no such emphasis on this. If you want to really start practicing, the first step is called "catching the feeling of qi".

You have to grasp that energy steadily, guide it, and make it flow along the predetermined route, only then can you be considered to have entered the door."

Lao Liang put out his cigarette, took out the key and opened the training room.

The empty room of about 100 square meters was covered with cushions. There were several redwood stakes as tall as a person placed in the corners. A human anatomy diagram with densely packed red dots and text was hung on the wall.

"The void is air. Now let me test you, what is the solid?"

Qin Shi thought carefully after hearing this, his eyes swept across the extremely detailed human body diagram, and blurted out:

"It's the torso, it's the limbs!"

Lao Liang couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the schools for children of children in Jiuchang Street couldn't recruit good talents.

Those who are a little bit better are admitted to the Tai'an metropolitan area.

Among those who remain, there are few good ones.

This was the case during the Qin Dynasty.

He would be an absolute top student in No. 9 Middle School and among the top ten in the grade.

But if he were thrown into Xinyi Middle School, he would never be able to compete with the rich kids with abundant resources.

It will only bury it and waste talent.

"That's right. Capturing the Qi, opening the joints, and forming a cycle, in the past martial arts circles, was called 'small circulation'.

If you can complete the small cycle twenty times, your vitality will definitely exceed ten points, which is enough for you to pass the test for the fixed level. "

Lao Liang folded his arms, with a scrutinizing look in his eyes.

Coil the muscles and stretch the back, capture the Qi, open the joints, and complete the circulation of Qi.

He has been running a cram school for several years, but only a few students have successfully passed these four levels.

In the first and second steps, the elimination rate is as high as 80 percent.

Coiling the muscles and stretching the back are too painful, and grasping the sense of energy is even more ethereal and difficult to understand.

Furthermore, the children of workers have a hard life these days, have many worries, and become restless.

If you don't see any results in ten days or half a month, you will naturally become too lazy to persist and will slack off and give up.

Qin Shi said in a deep voice:

"Teacher Liang, I want to try."

This old martial arts method may have been eliminated by the times.

But right now, this is the only way to develop vitality that he can access!

We must seize the opportunity!

"it is good."

Lao Liang nodded in agreement. Since he was offering courses and classes, he didn't have to hide it or put on airs.

It is no longer the time of the old era to open a martial arts school to teach disciples and keep everything in reserve.

Now it’s just a matter of collecting money and doing things.

"Just like yesterday, stand firm in horse stance. I'll teach you how to open your limbs.

The human body has eight sections and nine joints. The former are the calf, thigh, forearm, upper arm, waist, back, shoulder and palm.

If you use your strength, its root is in your feet, beyond your legs, controlled by your waist, and expressed in your five fingers. The eight parts are combined into one, and the force is powerful and heavy!"

Lao Liang demonstrated in person. He suddenly raised his hand and swung his arm like a whip, forming a line and exploding with a crisp "crackling" sound.

The speed is so fast that it almost leaves an afterimage!
"Hiss, so fast!"

Qin Shi only felt his face tighten and a strong wind blew, making him feel numb as if he was electrocuted.

My eyelids were twitching wildly and I felt as if my head was going to explode!
"This punch took almost twenty years of hard work. If your vitality is less than 15 points, you will die instantly if you are hit in the vitals!
This is how old martial arts are, it is common for blood to be drawn and fatal injuries to be inflicted. "

Lao Liang stopped his posture and continued:
"The nine sections are divided into 'three gates of the hand', 'three gates of the foot' and 'three gates of the back'. In order, first the wrist, then the elbow and then the shoulder; first the hip, then the knee and then the ankle..." Qin Shi listened to the class carefully. Fortunately, he had a good learning ability and remembered it after one explanation.

"I've told you everything I need to say. From now on, this training room belongs to you. Everything in it is school property. Don't break anything, or you'll have to pay for it."

Lao Liang limped away with his hands behind his back.

This kid has a physique that can withstand training and can handle the muscle-coiling, but I wonder how his comprehension is.

If you can't grasp the energy within five days, you can only do physical exercises like the students outside to improve your vitality.

"Haha, old martial artist, a family of one hundred people may not produce two or three good seedlings. It deserves not to be passed down!"

Lao Liang walked out of the corridor, lowered his head and laughed at himself, with a trace of melancholy in his heart.

Just think of the glorious days when the first generation of ten heroes dominated the scene. Each martial artist was like the blazing sun that illuminated the world, and people looked up to them in admiration and yearning for them.

"It's a pity that the training method that has been passed down for thousands of years has been cut off in my hands."

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"Capture the Qi, eight sections and nine stages. Compared to the basics taught in the school's fighting classes, these old martial arts are indeed obscure and difficult to understand."

Qin Shi faced the wall, doing horse stance, his eyes fixed on the human anatomy diagram that filled his field of vision.

"What exactly is the sense of Qi? Lao Liang said that the muscles should be tight, the breath should be relaxed, the mind should move the Qi, and the Qi should move the body..."

He pondered the meaning of it carefully. The purpose of stretching the back and bending the muscles was to make the body less stiff and more flexible.

Only when the body is "alive" can the energy surface.

"Yesterday, I used muscle memory to replicate the coiling technique. The feeling of heat gathering and surging like a spring, could that be the feeling of Qi?"

Qin Shi thought for a long time. Although he only had a little more than eight points of vitality, he quickly caught a wisp of floating breath that seemed to be there and not there.

But it is always intermittent and has no continuity, like a trickle of water that cannot be controlled at all.

"I wanted to rely on my own efforts and talent, why are you pushing me?"

Qin Shi sighed helplessly.

In this case, he simply stopped pretending.

Let me be frank, I'm a cheater!
Monument, start!
call!
suck!
In an instant, with the precise reproduction of muscle memory, Qin Shi's body image was awakened.

The tendons, bones, and muscles began to stretch and contract as if they were alive!
They are tightly intertwined, extremely harmonious, and form a whole!
A dense and fine stream of heat flowed in from all directions, concentrating in the chest and abdomen, rising and falling in rhythm with the breathing.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

"It's done!"

Nearly twenty minutes passed, and Qin Shi’s energy was almost exhausted.

His eyes lit up and the veins on his forehead throbbed violently.

call!
There seemed to be a flash of inspiration, and that faint breath vein was finally captured!

It's like fingers holding a silk thread and passing it through tiny needle holes.

The process is convoluted, tedious and laborious.

It requires extremely keen perception and amazing patience to achieve this!

"Don't rush! Remember this feeling! Remember it with your heart!"

Qin Shi calmed down, his breathing became steady, his body remained steady, and his feet seemed to have taken root without any shaking.

The breath became clearer and clearer, starting with burning and stinging, itching and numbness, and gradually becoming milder.

Like water flowing to moisten the taut tendons and swollen muscles.

Comfortable!

I never thought that practicing martial arts could be so enjoyable!
"It turns out that this is the function of Qi. Qi can nourish the body and relieve fatigue from excessive exercise. It is similar to the state of deep sleep."

Qin Shi suddenly realized that the monument panel on his retina flashed information -

【Completed a set of exhaustion training】

[Growth +50]

"Exhausted?"

Before Qin Shi could react, his legs trembled violently, his posture instantly loosened, and he fell backwards on his back.

At the same time, Lao Liang pushed the door open and looked at the disheveled young man who was sweating and had red skin.

He frowned, obviously noticing that Qin Shi's breathing rhythm had changed.

After being stunned for a few seconds, the physical education teacher showed an expression of disbelief and shock.

"You, have you caught the feeling?"

"Ah."

Lao Liang's throat rolled, and hesitantly asked again:
"What does it feel like?"

Qin Shi put his hands on the ground:

"Hungry, very hungry, very hungry!"

Lao Liang limped and stood at the door in a daze.

He stared at Qin for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter:

"I've been unlucky for half my life, but I finally got lucky! What's your name?"

"Qin Shi."

"Qin Shi...what a good name!"

Lao Liang held a cigarette in his mouth, and his back, which was originally hunched due to his lameness, seemed to straighten up a little.

"Haha, follow me, the teacher will treat you to a meal!"

(End of this chapter)