Having made up his mind, Zhang Xiaohua set out to give it a try. Firstly, he imagined his pores were filled with yuan qi and then he took yuan qi into the meridians in his body in accordance with the Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method; secondly, he made the imperceptible yuan qi run along the meridians. According to his understanding, yuan qi went back to his Middle Dan Tian after running a circle in his body at last. Instead of continuing to train himself, Zhang Xiaohua sensed his body first and found nothing strange, which meant imagination did no harm to his body, though he didn’t know if it was effective.
Therefore, Zhang Xiaohua continued his training and stopped after yuan qi had run in a circle in his body for 36 times.
When he opened his eyes, it was already night. Thinking that he didn’t practice his fist martial arts and sword stance yet, Zhang Xiaohua walked out of the straw shed and practiced his sword stance and Heavenly Dipper fist in the dim light of night. It was cloudy outside and he could hardly see the moon or stars. Zhang Xiaohua felt extremely comfortable when the cool current ran around his body.
After practicing his fist martial arts, Zhang Xiaohua met a new problem. He used to think the flow driven by his fist martial arts was in the meridians, but today he had imagined the flow of yuan qi in accordance with the meridians in the Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method that was quite different from meridians involved in his fist martial arts. How could this happen?
Furthermore, the sword stance taught by Elder Yu could drive the warm flow of energy when he performed it with his left hand, but the flow did not run around his entire body, instead, it ran in his left arm. Maybe it was part of the meridians, but it was not recorded in the Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method. Why?
In order to find out the cause, Zhang Xiaohua had practiced his Heavenly Dipper fist several times, trying to feel the place where the flow ran. After he finished practicing, he thought about it carefully and suddenly realized the place where the flow driven by the Heavenly Dipper fist ran was not the meridians in his body, or more precisely, the flow had run through his bones.
Each move in 108 movesfist martial arts led the warm flow of energy through a bone. When the fist martial arts was finished, the flow just ran along all the 108 bones!
Zhang Xiaohua couldn’t understand now. The fist martial arts he pieced up had such an effect? What was the purpose of this fist martial arts?
Was it refining his bones?
This was a question without an answer. No one could answer him.
Zhang Xiaohua stopped poring over it while touched his smooth jaw. Knowing that no one he could turn to, he didn’t want to make things difficult for himself.
As a Chinese old saying goes, why should a woman give a hard time to another woman?
Then why should he embarrass himself?
So Zhang Xiaohua would not take the sudden warm flow of energy led by sword stance into consideration.
Zhang Xiaohua returned to straw mat shed with an inexplicable mood.
Uneasy? That’s impossible! The Heavenly Dipper fist was named by himself. He had been practicing for so long without feeling discomfortable. Why should he be uneasy?
Ecstatic? Just a little. Both He Tianshu and Elder Yu advised him to practice external martial arts instead of the inner energy cultivation method. This cultivation method refining his bones must be a kind of external martial arts, so there was nothing which he could be proud of or feel happy for.
Secretly delighted? Haha, that’s for sure!
Zhang Xiaohua though of some masters mentioned in wuxia novels. All outstanding talents had developed a new method of their own. Practicing both inner and external training was one of these new methods. He Tianshu also told him “Inner training from a breath, external training on the bones, tendons and skins.” His Heavenly Dipper fist was on the bones, tendons and skins, while his Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method inner training was from breath; this was just the way for him to become a master!
Zhang Xiaohua couldn’t help but dream more about his future, and his little tail slowly rose up (In Chinese, one’s tail rises up means one feels complacent about oneself).
However, when he sat on the ground in the straw mat shed, the coldness of the soil brought him back from his dreams about becoming a hero. He might not understand it correctly, and he just sensed qi but still missed the inner energy. Was there any necessity to think so much now? As the old saying goes – 10,000 years is too long, you just need to seize today.
So first, he decided to focus on his own job.
Zhang Xiaohua lit up the oil lamp in the straw mat shed and picked up a book, reading it with relish.
Multi-skills is no burden, if he could learn more, he would have more ways to make a living. If he had no big achievement in practicing martial arts, planting herbs could also make him live comfortably for a lifetime, no worry about lacking braised pork.
This was the great ideal of Zhang Xiaohua!
After reading for a long while, Zhang Xiaohua closed the book, seeming not to read enough. Knowledge is the best possible spiritual food for human beings, Zhang Xiaohua couldn’t agree with that more. But the intuition of the body told him clearly that – it was late, midnight was around the corner, you should close the book and prepare to rest. Zhang Xiaohua then packed up his things and blew out the oil lamp.
Zhang Xiaohua used to live in Guo village before, and he slept very early. He didn’t know he would definitely fall asleep at midnight. After coming out and having experienced a few times, he realized that his body naturally had adaptability – when it came close to the awaking hour, although night watchman didn’t chime, he would know what time it was.
After packing everything, Zhang Xiaohua went to the middle of the straw mat shed, sitting cross-legged, his palms faced up and practiced “nine shallow and one deep” method of breathing. In a short time, he entered the realm of emptiness and began to absorb the qi into his body as usual.
Star River – Wangmamaread
Having made up his mind, Zhang Xiaohua set out to give it a try. Firstly, he imagined his pores were filled with yuan qi and then he took yuan qi into the meridians in his body in accordance with the Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method; secondly, he made the imperceptible yuan qi run along the meridians. According to his understanding, yuan qi went back to his Middle Dan Tian after running a circle in his body at last. Instead of continuing to train himself, Zhang Xiaohua sensed his body first and found nothing strange, which meant imagination did no harm to his body, though he didn’t know if it was effective.
Therefore, Zhang Xiaohua continued his training and stopped after yuan qi had run in a circle in his body for 36 times.
When he opened his eyes, it was already night. Thinking that he didn’t practice his fist martial arts and sword stance yet, Zhang Xiaohua walked out of the straw shed and practiced his sword stance and Heavenly Dipper fist in the dim light of night. It was cloudy outside and he could hardly see the moon or stars. Zhang Xiaohua felt extremely comfortable when the cool current ran around his body.
After practicing his fist martial arts, Zhang Xiaohua met a new problem. He used to think the flow driven by his fist martial arts was in the meridians, but today he had imagined the flow of yuan qi in accordance with the meridians in the Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method that was quite different from meridians involved in his fist martial arts. How could this happen?
Furthermore, the sword stance taught by Elder Yu could drive the warm flow of energy when he performed it with his left hand, but the flow did not run around his entire body, instead, it ran in his left arm. Maybe it was part of the meridians, but it was not recorded in the Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method. Why?
In order to find out the cause, Zhang Xiaohua had practiced his Heavenly Dipper fist several times, trying to feel the place where the flow ran. After he finished practicing, he thought about it carefully and suddenly realized the place where the flow driven by the Heavenly Dipper fist ran was not the meridians in his body, or more precisely, the flow had run through his bones.
Each move in 108 movesfist martial arts led the warm flow of energy through a bone. When the fist martial arts was finished, the flow just ran along all the 108 bones!
Zhang Xiaohua couldn’t understand now. The fist martial arts he pieced up had such an effect? What was the purpose of this fist martial arts?
Was it refining his bones?
This was a question without an answer. No one could answer him.
Zhang Xiaohua stopped poring over it while touched his smooth jaw. Knowing that no one he could turn to, he didn’t want to make things difficult for himself.
As a Chinese old saying goes, why should a woman give a hard time to another woman?
Then why should he embarrass himself?
So Zhang Xiaohua would not take the sudden warm flow of energy led by sword stance into consideration.
Zhang Xiaohua returned to straw mat shed with an inexplicable mood.
Uneasy? That’s impossible! The Heavenly Dipper fist was named by himself. He had been practicing for so long without feeling discomfortable. Why should he be uneasy?
Ecstatic? Just a little. Both He Tianshu and Elder Yu advised him to practice external martial arts instead of the inner energy cultivation method. This cultivation method refining his bones must be a kind of external martial arts, so there was nothing which he could be proud of or feel happy for.
Secretly delighted? Haha, that’s for sure!
Zhang Xiaohua though of some masters mentioned in wuxia novels. All outstanding talents had developed a new method of their own. Practicing both inner and external training was one of these new methods. He Tianshu also told him “Inner training from a breath, external training on the bones, tendons and skins.” His Heavenly Dipper fist was on the bones, tendons and skins, while his Worry Free Heart Sutra’s cultivation method inner training was from breath; this was just the way for him to become a master!
Zhang Xiaohua couldn’t help but dream more about his future, and his little tail slowly rose up (In Chinese, one’s tail rises up means one feels complacent about oneself).
However, when he sat on the ground in the straw mat shed, the coldness of the soil brought him back from his dreams about becoming a hero. He might not understand it correctly, and he just sensed qi but still missed the inner energy. Was there any necessity to think so much now? As the old saying goes – 10,000 years is too long, you just need to seize today.
So first, he decided to focus on his own job.
Zhang Xiaohua lit up the oil lamp in the straw mat shed and picked up a book, reading it with relish.
Multi-skills is no burden, if he could learn more, he would have more ways to make a living. If he had no big achievement in practicing martial arts, planting herbs could also make him live comfortably for a lifetime, no worry about lacking braised pork.
This was the great ideal of Zhang Xiaohua!
After reading for a long while, Zhang Xiaohua closed the book, seeming not to read enough. Knowledge is the best possible spiritual food for human beings, Zhang Xiaohua couldn’t agree with that more. But the intuition of the body told him clearly that – it was late, midnight was around the corner, you should close the book and prepare to rest. Zhang Xiaohua then packed up his things and blew out the oil lamp.
Zhang Xiaohua used to live in Guo village before, and he slept very early. He didn’t know he would definitely fall asleep at midnight. After coming out and having experienced a few times, he realized that his body naturally had adaptability – when it came close to the awaking hour, although night watchman didn’t chime, he would know what time it was.
After packing everything, Zhang Xiaohua went to the middle of the straw mat shed, sitting cross-legged, his palms faced up and practiced “nine shallow and one deep” method of breathing. In a short time, he entered the realm of emptiness and began to absorb the qi into his body as usual.
Star River – Wangmamaread
