Eternal Night

Chapter 13 Enter
Wu Xianxiao fell asleep in a curled up position.

This is actually a kind of training method in the Tiger Demon Kung Fu, called the Tiger's Den Style.

Tiger Demon Kung Fu is actually a variant of Xingyiquan. Its shape is like a tiger, and its intention is like a demon, but this is the key to practicing the skill. When cultivating and practicing the method, most people try to imitate the shape of a tiger, or take the tiger's fierceness and strength as the main purpose.

The Tiger's Den Pose looks like an unhealthy sleeping posture. Ordinary people will either suffer from muscle and bone paralysis or fall off their pillow if they sleep like this. In short, there is no way to be comfortable and it is also harmful to the body. However, he uses it to secretly move Qi and blood, comprehend the micro-manipulation of controlling Qi and blood, and make further progress on the basis of dark power, accumulating little by little to reach the level of transforming power.

Chinese martial arts require intention. To go from obvious strength to dark strength, one must have this intention.

If it is other countries' martial arts, no matter it is Xingyi, Bagua, Tai Chi and the like, to comprehend this meaning is a bit of a gamble. One has to either experience life and death, or seek it in everything, or it can be a sense of family and country, or a concern for the common people, or the trivialities of life. This meaning will accompany the martial artist who practices Chinese martial arts throughout his life. Once the meaning is damaged, his strength will decline, and he may even suffer from the reflux of qi and blood, leading to sudden death.

However, the Tiger Demon Art is a different kind of art. It is extremely difficult to get started, and nine out of ten people will die suddenly. But once you have comprehended it and have a little spiritual awareness among the countless distracting thoughts, then the intention is actually successful. Once you have mastered it, it will be natural for you to move from the obvious to the hidden power.

Wu Xianxiao slept for ten hours. After he stood up and stretched his body, he felt refreshed.

He had been busy before, either trying to survive in the dream world, fighting Yasha, coming back for treatment and awakening, and facing deformed bodies and parasites. He had no spare time to carefully organize his gains, and he didn't even have time to rest.

After ten hours of sleep, Wu Xianxiao felt as if he had been reborn. There was a crackling sound in his joints. He slowly began to practice tiger claw, tiger leap, tiger tail, and after several moves, he felt that his arms and legs had endless strength, and his whole body felt refreshed. He could not help but roar to the sky, his voice like thunder and a tiger's roar.

After a long time, Wu Xianxiao finally stopped his posture and slowly moved his qi and blood back to normal.

He has already comprehended the true meaning of the Tiger Demonic Art.

Repression!

Suppress distracting thoughts, evil thoughts, and evil thoughts.

There is a little bit of spiritual consciousness that is not asleep. This spiritual consciousness is him, and the countless negative, distracting and evil thoughts are this world.

The form is like a tiger, the mind is like a devil, and the ego suppresses both the tiger and the devil together!
In this way, I finally understood the true meaning of the Tiger Demon Art and had the resources to continue to advance.

When Wu Xianxiao came to his senses, he saw Yamade and Xu Shilan watching him quietly from a distance. They smiled at him when he looked at them. At the same time, Xu Shilan came over with a notebook and said, "Yesterday you mentioned several types of weirdness, namely distortion, pollution, erosion, and parasitism. Except for distortion, which is a purely physical change in the body and consciousness, what are the characteristics and differences of pollution, erosion, and parasitism?"

Wu Xianxiao recalled the information he had obtained from his predecessors, and he answered casually: "Pollution is the type of pink snake we encountered before. Its mere existence will cause changes in the surrounding environment, causing all life and non-life in this environment to converge towards it."

Xu Shilan asked seriously, "Is it radiation? Or microorganisms? It can't be an intelligent nanosystem, right?"

Wu Xianxiao spread his hands and said, "I'm sorry, I don't know what it is specifically. I only know about the pink snake because the seniors mentioned it so many times. It is the closest to our area, and I just happened to encounter an awakened person parasitized by it. Otherwise, I have never encountered a polluted existence."

Xu Shilan nodded and recorded: "Pollution is a subtle change to the surrounding environment and life. Is it okay to record it this way? Then what is erosion?"

Wu Xianxiao said, "Curse... You must have seen The Grudge, right?"

Yamade and Xu Shilan shook their heads at the same time.

Wu Xianxiao covered his head and said, "Yes, you are all people from hundreds of years later... It is probably similar to a curse effect without a physical body. It is not obvious at first, or the signs are very slight, but as time goes by, the erosion effect will change into various horrors, or even reverse cause and effect. For example, the erosion will turn into an invincible evil ghost, kill you, and then teleport your body back to the day when you were eroded, so that you can eat it and be infected by the erosion, thus forming a similar time loop. In short, I have never encountered erosion, but this thing has no specific subject, it is something like a curse."

Wu Xianxiao originally thought that the two would not understand, but when he finished speaking, their expressions changed and they both looked serious.

“Memes.”

The two of them pronounced these two words in unison.

However, the two seemed to have some taboos, or they didn't want to talk about it in depth, so Xu Shilan continued to ask: "Distortion, pollution, erosion, these three are all there, then what about parasitism?"

Wu Xianxiao continued to recite according to the information in his memory: "The so-called parasitism means that when you are not aware of it, the terror will attach itself to you, and then absorb your nutrients, and eventually consume you completely."

The two of them understood this very well. Xu Shilan said as she took notes: "Is it something like a microbial infection?"

Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "No, it means everything, material or non-material. For example, parasitic horror can parasitize your shadow, voice, and even memory, and it doesn't just extract flesh and blood. I heard from the predecessors that someone was once sucked by a parasitic horror to the point that even the concept of existence disappeared. Then the predecessors forgot who that person was and what he had done. The only thing they remembered was that a parasitic horror killed a non-existent person among them."

The two were stunned for a moment, and then they both felt creepy from the bottom of their hearts.

Xu Shilan wanted to ask more, but Wu Xianxiao shook his head and said, "Let's put this aside for now. We have to go to the dream world right away."

They both nodded, but Xu Shilan still asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Wu Xianxiao led the two to the hibernation cabin, saying as they walked: "This is also a lesson learned. I guess you are all hungry now, right? I am too, and very hungry. Some of my predecessors had a painful lesson before. They had to enter the dream world after being hungry for several days, but they were attacked as soon as they entered. Although they were not strange, monsters, or terrifying, even if they were just ordinary people, they were starving and had no strength, and it was almost impossible to resist. So we must enter now while we have the strength to deal with the unknown of the dream world." The two understood, and then they followed Wu Xianxiao to the hibernation cabin, watching Wu Xianxiao lying on one of the empty seats, and then Wu Xianxiao motioned for the two to lie on it as well. When the two did so, Wu Xianxiao said: "Master brain, start the dream world downward penetration, team mode."

The voice of the mastermind also rang out on the retinas and in the minds of both men.

"Open the dream world and penetrate downwards. Do you agree to form a team? Do you want to open the penetration?"

The three of them chose to confirm at the same time, and the next moment, the three of them disappeared into the hibernation capsule at the same time.

"Red cloak, red light, support the Qing and destroy the foreigners with magical powers!"

"Magical body protection, invulnerable!"

"Aries is born, and the law of nature returns. The hometown of Zhenkong, the Mother of No Birth, has granted me supernatural powers to save all living beings."

April 1900, 4, outside the city of Xuanhua Prefecture of the Qing Dynasty.

In the dream world of baseline reality 0.9, the master brain will inform the maintenance personnel of the time and place when they enter the dream world, but this is not available in the world below baseline reality 0.9.

Wu Xianxiao and the other two were standing on the main road outside Xuanhua City. They and a group of thin villagers watched a group of women wearing red clothes and red pants and holding red lanterns as they entered Xuanhua City while shouting slogans.

"1900? Red Lantern Society?"

Wu Xianxiao stroked his chin and recalled carefully.

After practicing Chinese martial arts, he is not only physically strong, but also mentally clear and can easily recall many past memories.

"April 4rd... there are still three months until July 3th when the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Tianjin. So this time should be the honeymoon period for Cixi and the Boxers."

Wu Xianxiao was not a professional history student, but this was the knowledge he learned from his history textbooks in junior high and high school.

In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, first conquering Tianjin on July 7, and then conquering Beijing on August 14, which led to Empress Dowager Cixi's escape to the west, and the Eight-Nation Alliance burned down the Old Summer Palace...

Wu Xianxiao still remembered all this information. He also knew about the Boxer Rebellion and its branch, the Red Lantern Society. Before the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, these militia organizations were valued by the Empress Dowager Cixi and were considered semi-officially recognized civil organizations. They were believed to be a force that could fight against foreigners. However, after the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, Cixi changed her initial attitude. Fearing the powerful force of foreigners, Cixi issued an order to join forces with the foreigners to wipe out the Boxer Rebellion and the Red Lantern Society.

However, before that, the Boxers and the Red Lantern Society were able to move freely in the Zhili area. Of course, this may also be a historical deviation, a singularity of this world.

Gulu.

Wu Xianxiao's stomach made a rumbling sound. He rubbed it and stopped looking at the Red Lantern Festival team. He turned to Yamade and Xu Shilan and said, "Let's go into the city to eat."

The two of them naturally didn't care.

They are too far away from this era, unlike Wu Xianxiao who had to learn about this history in school. For example, Yamade is a veteran who was born, grew up and survived on the battlefield. He is proficient in weapons and combat, and is also familiar with some knowledge about weapons and biochemical beasts. But if you ask him about history... he probably only knows about the East University and the West University where the Third World War broke out.

As for Xu Shilan, she probably knew about this era, but she was eight or nine hundred years away from this era, and the Fourth World War broke out during her era, so she probably didn't learn any historical knowledge about this era.

The two were not familiar with this dream world, so they could only follow Wu Xianxiao.

As they were walking towards the capital, Yamade asked, "We have no money, how are we going to eat?"

Xu Shilan also said: "Or should we make money first? What are the characteristics of this world? What is the fastest way to make money?"

Yamade looked at the crowd around him and the walls of this classical city. He took a deep breath and said, "I smell the scent of war. If it's a war, then we will either be arms dealers or mercenaries. These two are the most profitable. So let's become mercenaries."

Wu Xianxiao shook his head. He led the two of them towards the city gate and glanced somewhere in the crowd.

There were a few people who were obviously not villagers. They were looking at Yamade with hatred. Two of them had long arms and legs. Although they deliberately lowered their bodies, they were obviously taller than the skinny villagers. There was a divine light in their eyes and calloused palms...

A martial artist.

"Don't worry about the money..."

"It will come to your door."

(End of this chapter)