This place is fun

Chapter 115 Cultivation
The flower hall is warm and quiet.

After talking with Pingting and Huamei for a while, Su Daoshan lay on the Arhat bed and flipped through the book "Records of Strange Martial Arts".

Pingting and Huamei were tying their laces on one side, whispering something in each other's ears from time to time, and then pushing each other or pinching each other. With red cheeks, they secretly glanced at Su Daoshan, with shyness and joy in their eyes.

The two small jade coins in their pockets were originally cool against their bodies, but now they were warmed by their body temperature. What made them feel even hotter was their hearts. It was as if a fire was burning. They felt nothing but peace and joy.

They have already agreed that when they are free tomorrow, they will take turns going home.

Pingting's family is large. Grandma, parents, three brothers and a sister. The whole family depends on Sujiabao for their livelihood. The mother does laundry and sewing, and the father drives the cart. One of the brothers burns charcoal, one works in the fields on the family farm, and the other works as a clerk in the family business in the market town.

In the early years, the family had many laborers and life was OK. But later, the eldest and second brothers got married and had children. The two sisters-in-law, plus three nephews and a niece who came to the family one after another, made the family of more than a dozen people, and life suddenly became tight.

In addition, the Su family had been going from bad to worse in the past few years. After the weaving and dyeing industry in Jinse Town outside the city was burned down, my father's job as a cart driver and my third brother's job as a clerk in a business were also gone. They could only make a living by doing odd jobs. Life became increasingly difficult.

In the past, Pingting didn’t dare to go home.

Firstly, she herself was already short of money and could not give much to the family. At most, she could only have some snacks and cakes left in her mouth, which she asked someone to bring to her nephews, nieces and sister, but she was unable to give anything else.

Secondly, the master she followed was also a well-known nerd in the Su Family Fort. The lower the level of people in the fort, the worse the evaluation. On the surface, she was a close maid for a young master, and she had risen to a high position. But in fact, she was mostly looked down upon and ridiculed.

Once, when Pingting came home, she heard someone next door scolding the young master by name. She was so angry that she wanted to fight with the other person, but was stopped by her mother.

"Since you have followed this master, you should accept it. This is your fate. If you are happy, we will not say anything. But there are more than a thousand people in Sujiabao, and I think they can't rely on him. If he does something bad, everyone will talk about him behind his back. Can you shut them up?"

"You can stop one person today, can you stop a hundred? Besides, even if you scold all the neighbors, your master is still a fool. Not only will he not stand by you, he might even blame you for causing trouble. Besides, our family still has to live here. We know you are in trouble, and we don't ask you to help the family, so why do you cause more trouble for the family?"

Finally, Pingting cried and came back, but she never came back home again.

She knows the hardships at home.

Especially when Su Daoshan ran away from home a while ago, and caused the fort to lose ten carts of food for the winter, she was too ashamed to go back. She was afraid of being ridiculed by others: "You defend your young master so much, why did he run away from home and leave you behind too?"

I originally thought that these grievances and pains would be buried in my heart forever, and would never see the light of day. But I didn't expect that this time when the young master ran away from home, he came back as a different person.

Mingming was still as dull and stubborn, and acted capriciously and liked to show off. But compared with everything he brought to Sujiabao, these were not shortcomings, but rather proof of his natural extraordinaryness. Those aunts and uncles who used to call him a nerd now forced their own children to read.

Not to mention the people outside, let's just talk about the little bitches in the mansion. They used to avoid the young master when they walked, but now they come to the courtyard for no reason. The way they talk has also changed.

"Humph, don't tell me, I've long felt that the Second Young Master is different from the others."

"The Second Young Master is a man of few talents. Those gossipers who say he is stupid really think he can't hear them? He just doesn't bother to pay attention."

"The way the Second Young Master was absorbed in reading a book... oh, I can't describe it, but I just love reading it."

"That's called elegance!"

Pooh! shameless!
In short, the Su Family Castle not only escaped the oppression of the aristocratic families, but also became one of the most powerful families in Yishan City, and was thriving. The family took over the Mi Family's land, divided up the family property, and took back the industries that had been squeezed out in the past. Life was about to get better.

A few days ago, the fort held a buffet, so that my nephews and nieces could have a good meal of meat. In the past few days, some rice and flour were distributed, and the family finally had a better life.

Pingting planned to bring two gold stones back this time. One of them would be used to buy some winter clothes for her parents, sister and children. The rest could be exchanged for 100 kilograms of grain, enough for more than a dozen people in the family, with more than 10 kilograms left over for each person. There would always be one more bowl for each meal.

Or maybe some lard. Having oil in your stomach will make the winter easier.

In addition, I will exchange one gold stone for fifteen silver buckets. Ten silver buckets will be kept for the third brother. Now that the clan has taken over the Mi family's business, our own weaving and dyeing will also be revived, and my father and the third brother's work will be looked after. The third brother's long-delayed marriage must be put on the agenda.

With these ten silver buckets of 120 jin of second-grade grain, it would be enough to marry a wife, and it wouldn't cause the family to starve just as they were getting better off.

Finally, I took five silver coins and gave them to my mother for emergency. This arrangement was perfect, and I still had three gold coins left. With such a sum of money as a backup, what difficulties could the family not overcome?
The more she thought about it, the happier and sweeter she felt in her heart.

The same was true for Huamei beside her. When she lowered her head to weave, her eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles. Compared with Pingting, her parents died early and she only had one brother. Because she got married earlier and bought a mud house in the third block, she owed a lot of foreign debts. She worked hard alone, but she didn't pay much back.

Now that I have money in my hands, I can pay off all my foreign debts. My brother doesn't have to work day and night, and his life can be more relaxed. My sister-in-law can also give birth to a fat nephew earlier, leaving a descendant for the Liu family. In this way, my parents can rest in peace in heaven.

More importantly, whether it is Pingting or Huamei, they both know that there is no one out there who doesn’t miss the kindness of their own young master.

Even sitting here now, they could imagine what their family members would say. As for those people who had said cold words to them back then, they didn't know what their faces would be when they saw them again. They were probably like the girls in other rooms, envious to the point of drooling.

I don't know what she thought of, but she burst into laughter and whispered something in Pingting's ear. Pingting pushed her away coquettishly.

The two of them couldn't help themselves when they saw Su Daoshan looking at them blankly. They lowered their heads with red faces and shrugged their shoulders.

******
Half an hour later, Su Daoshan changed into his training clothes and entered the training ground.

Although Su Daoshan was almost unscathed by the dust storm and the mad puppets this time, thanks to the exorcism talisman and the extraordinary skills of his profession, he also found that his martial arts realm of the eighth rank was too low. If he encountered a real master, he might not even have a chance to fight back.

"We still need to improve our strength quickly."

Standing in the center of the venue, Su Daoshan took a deep breath, circulated his internal energy, and began to stand in a stance and light the dragon lantern.

Su Daoshan had been in this world for more than ten days. On the first day, after experiencing the bone-cleaving and marrow-cleaving of the life force contained in the Dao Seed, his martial arts realm jumped from the lower ninth level to the upper eighth level.

Such an improvement may be a step to heaven for ordinary warriors, but it is normal for extraordinary warriors. Because the ninth and eighth grades are the stages where warriors continuously strengthen their physiques. And the Dao Seed's bone-cutting and marrow-cleansing is equivalent to directly improving the physique to the top. But having a physique is not enough. If you want to become a real warrior, you must break through to the seventh grade to transform the power contained in the body into strength to fight out.

In order to break through to the seventh level, the internal Qi technique must reach the minor success stage.

Su Daoshan had broken through to the mastery level of the "Haoran Zhengqi Jue" he was practicing a week ago. This inner Qi mental method had twelve acupuncture points in one small cycle at the coarse mastery level. When he reached the mastery level, he broke through eight more acupuncture points.

There are a total of twenty acupoints, and each acupoint has different effects. The more acupoints there are, the more places where qi and blood can blend. When qi and blood blend, the more muscle fascia and bone positions in the body are affected through the acupoints, thus bursting out more powerful power.

To Su Daoshan, it felt like the atomization, ignition and explosion of engine fuel.

The most important thing is, after being promoted to the mastery realm, the broken intermediate, Changqiang, Yaoshu, Yangguang and other acupoints connected the Ren and Du meridians together. Although it is still a long way to go to completely open up the more than 50 acupoints of the Ren and Du meridians, it also allows Su Daoshan to practice the most important dragon lantern for warriors.

Lighting the dragon lantern is to practice spine training.

The human body is like a bow, and the spine is the bow body. This position cannot be casually hit and trained. It can only be tempered by lighting the dragon lantern.

During these days, Su Daoshan had never stopped practicing, whether at home or in the military camp. Whenever he had time, he would do two things: either practice inner qi, or stand still and light the dragon lantern.

These two are the most time-consuming skills in martial arts training. But the advantage is that they can be practiced anytime and anywhere, and they complement each other. A week of hard work, coupled with the spiritual millet he took, made his progress very fast.

Now, the first section of the spine is about to be successfully refined and the first dragon lantern will be lit.

Su Daoshan held his hands in a circle, his legs half-crouched, and circulated his internal Qi. After a big cycle, his Qi and blood were like boiling magma. As his body shook violently, all the acupoints and pores in his body suddenly closed, and the power of Qi and blood was like a ball of fire, burning continuously along his spine.

Half an hour later, Su Daoshan opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of foul air. The air column was like a dragon, and it only sprayed four meters away in the winter cold.

Lighting the dragon lantern consumes the most internal energy.

After only half an hour, Su Daoshan's internal energy could no longer be sustained, and his body muscles became sore, numb, and soft, as if he had lost his strength.

"Just a little bit more!" Su Daoshan said secretly in his heart.

Relying on the unique characteristics of an extraordinary reader, he can observe every detail of himself during cultivation through reading. Therefore, he knows his own progress very well.

The human body pillar was completely disassembled, with a total of thirty-three pieces. What he was cultivating now was the coccyx.

This part is triangular in shape and consists of four sections. With his unremitting efforts, the first section of the small coccyx at the bottom is only a little short of lighting the dragon lantern.

This bone is located at the upper end of the inguinal groove. Most people can feel it with their hands. This is where you feel uncomfortable if you sit on a hard stool, are too thin, or have an incorrect sitting posture. Don't underestimate this small part. It is attached to ligaments and gluteus maximus, and is also related to the internal organs. Once tempered successfully, not only can this bone itself be as hard as steel, but it can also be as soft as cotton. The benefits it brings are even greater.

The first benefit is that the power of Qi and blood in the lower limbs is stronger. This can make the warrior faster, the lower body more stable, and the attack power of the kick is more terrifying.

The second benefit is that the coccyx is the location of the Changqiang acupoint. It is the starting point of the Governor Vessel and the lowest foundation of the entire spine. Therefore, once the refining is successful, when the Qi and blood stimulate the strength through the Changqiang acupoint, it can withstand greater force.

Originally, when the internal Qi entered the Changqiang point, it was able to penetrate the back, just like adding a supporting exoskeleton to the body. Now this exoskeleton will be tougher and stronger.

And the most important thing is, in martial arts, this coccyx is also called the fixing star!
The balance of the human body is like a spinning top. Usually, a warrior relies on standing still with both feet, exerting force under the feet, to make himself as stable as if rooted to the ground. But in a fierce battle, the center of gravity of the body is changing at any time, and the center point of this spinning top is not necessarily only in the feet.

For example, if an ordinary person's left shoulder is pushed hard by someone, the center of gravity will be unstable, and he will subconsciously tilt his shoulder to relieve the force and take a step back. At this time, the intersection center of the entire force is at the coccyx. The movements of the body and the legs are connected and balanced through this point. It is just like the fixed star on the left and right of the weighing beam balance. This is also the reason for its name.

There is a martial arts mantra since ancient times that goes: A towering building rises from the ground, a dragon lantern lays the foundation, and the universe is built on the fixed star!

Now, with success in sight, how could Su Daoshan be willing to accept this?

If it were any other warrior, they would have given up at this point. Unless they had high-quality elixirs, practicing again when their physical strength and internal energy were already exhausted would not only be useless, but would actually damage their bodies.

However, although Su Daoshan did not have elixirs, he had his own way.

Su Daoshan did not hesitate to let his consciousness enter the sea of ​​​​consciousness and picked a Lingyun fruit from the Tao seed. The next second, under the urging of his divine thoughts, ten coins of Lingyun turned into life force and spread into his limbs and bones.

If there were other extraordinary warriors present at this time, they would probably want to strangle this kid to death.

It is well known that it is difficult to obtain spiritual essence, and there are too many places where spiritual essence is needed.

Spiritual energy is needed to perform special arts; spiritual energy is needed to grow Dao seeds; spiritual energy is needed to enter the spiritual realm; spiritual energy is needed to cultivate war spirits; spiritual energy is needed to refine the heart furnace; spiritual energy is needed to feed secret weapons, and even the future mountain climbing assessment on Tiandao Mountain will require spiritual energy.

Because of this, extraordinary warriors would like to spend every penny of spiritual essence in half, and save as much as possible on weekdays. As long as the goal can be achieved through other means, spiritual essence will not be used. In a situation like this where physical strength and internal energy are exhausted, just eat a full stomach and sleep. The more extravagant ones will just spend money to buy some pills to replenish vitality and restore physical strength to speed up the recovery.

Unless it was a life-or-death situation, no extraordinary warrior would use his spiritual essence to restore his physical strength. That was not a waste, but a crime!
But Su Daoshan had no such awareness. The first time he entered the spiritual realm, he robbed 460 coins of spiritual essence. What's the harm in spending a little?
"Not enough."

Su Daoshan felt the changes in his body. Although his strength and internal energy had recovered a lot, he was not yet in a state of full energy. His hands and feet were still a little weak, and his muscles were a little sore.

Pick another one.

"That's fine."

Su Daoshan nodded with satisfaction, clasped his hands, continued to stand in the stance, and lit the dragon lantern.

(End of this chapter)