Chapter 5 Martial Arts Practice
Tide watching pavilion.

Zhang Qingxu stood in front of the stone table and picked up a white piece at random.

"Use the stone table as a circle of ten steps. Use the body movements and footwork I taught you to take the white piece. I will leave the circle and you win."

A hand stretched out, but was knocked down by Zhang Qingxu in a few seconds.

The willow forest outside the Tide-Watching Pavilion.

Seeing the strong wind coming, Gu Qingyuan subconsciously closed his eyes and was knocked to the ground by a punch.

Zhang Qingxu, who showed no signs of gentleness, yelled, "What did I teach you? You closed your eyes when the attack came? Get up and stare at me!"

"It hurts? How can it not hurt when you're boxing? Just bear with it. How can a martial artist be afraid of pain?" After saying that, he threw another punch.

The morning's martial arts class was replaced by sharing experiences in the martial arts world.

"In the wilderness, a woman in disheveled clothes, being chased by robbers, comes to you begging for help. What should you do?" Zhang Qingxu asked.

"Ask the reason?"

"Wrong, run as far as you can. How could there be a weak woman in such a remote place? She might be colluding with the robbers to deceive a rookie like you."

"Someone has a grudge against you and wants to fight you. What should you do?"

“Be well prepared!”

"Wrong, you must find your master first, that is me, and then I will contact three or five friends to surround and kill him before the fight."

"In a big war, you wiped out an entire family, what do you do after that?"

"Notify the Master, and then escape."

"You need to finish off the enemy. There are many martial arts in the world, and they are very magical. The human body is even more different. There are many cases where the ventricle is on the right. You should chop off the head and pierce the heart. You should also wait and see from a distance to see if there are any fish that have escaped and come back so that you can kill them all at once!"

evening.

"This is today's share of elixirs. You are not allowed to go to bed before midnight." Zhang Qingxu placed the elixir that was hard to come by at a high price outside the window and turned to leave.

Gu Qingyuan was like a sponge that fell into deep water. Under Zhang Qingxu's rough teaching, he absorbed all the knowledge to enrich himself and grew rapidly. Finally...

With one hand he took away the white piece, and with the other hand he gently pushed it, and Zhang Qingxu was already outside the circle.

The two fingers were only half an inch away from Gu Qingyuan's eyes, but he didn't care. He stared at the attacker's waist, shoulders, legs and other force points, and clenched his fist with one hand to block the attacker's heavy punch. When the two fists collided, blood flowed and the joints creaked.

Looking at the young man who got up again in front of him, Zhang Qingxu sighed.

"I have nothing more to teach you in terms of techniques. The rest is just a matter of time. Go to the Sutra Library and read the works of the predecessors to achieve your own martial arts."

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The door of the Sutra Repository was closed, leaving Gu Qingyuan alone.

What caught his eyes were rows of bookshelves. Gu Qingyuan picked up a book at random, "Breathing Method", which was a method of using breathing to drive true qi. It was filled with an outline of qi circulation and the circulation of meridians, and there were also annotations by predecessors in the blank spaces.

After finishing a book, flashes of inspiration collided in Gu Qingyuan's mind. His breathing changed several times and then he mastered the trick. With slight gasps, the true energy in his body slowly circulated. After a week, the true energy became stronger.

Looking at the bookshelves filled with books, Gu Qingyuan couldn't help but feel very proud. It's just a matter of hard work, so let me work hard and become the best in the world!

Gu Qingyuan was determined to be crazy and live a life of his own. So he lived in the Sutra Library. Apart from his daily eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, he devoted himself to martial arts.

Even Zhang Qingxu was somewhat afraid of Gu Qingyuan's crazy state, fearing that his newly-accepted disciple would disappear in a flash.

half year later.

A loud laugh echoed through the valley. Gu Qingyuan pushed open the door of the Sutra Library and saw Zhang Qingxu, who came in after hearing the sound.

Gu Qingyuan was unkempt and emaciated, but his eyes were frighteningly bright. He had the aura of a skinny tiger or a hungry eagle. With a wave of his hand, the green Qi turned into flying needles, which flew straight into the trees in the distance and pierced through several willow trees. Qi takes shape!

Looking at Gu Qingyuan, Zhang Qingxu exhaled deeply, as if he couldn't believe it, and squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Heavenly man."

There was a rumbling sound in the usually quiet willow forest.

It was as if a disaster had occurred. Willow trees fell down one after another. The green light blades collided with the golden light blades, causing gusts of wind and waves, uprooting mountains and trees, and destroying everything in their path.

"How is it, Master, I didn't disappoint you, did I?" Gu Qingyuan said, and punched Zhang Qingxu hard in the face.

Zhang Qingxu was not willing to be outdone, and hit Gu Qingyuan in the ribs with his knife, "You are good, kid, not only did you not disappoint me, but you scared me, an old man!"

The battle ended as the sun was setting. The old man and the young man turned around and walked out of the woods, leaving behind a mess.

Gu Qingyuan propped up the half-fallen willow tree and hummed a little tune: Daiyu frowned when she heard this, and gently held the weeping willow with her jade wrist, uprooting it and destroying it like a dead tree, making the world tremble, and flipping it with her hands, as agile as a swimming dragon...

"My dear disciple, what are you singing? Why have I never heard of this?" Zhang Qingxu's voice came.

"How old are you? How many years have you listened to operas? In the bound volumes, the Crimson Fairy Grass uproots the weeping willows and the Leopard Head climbs the Lingshan Mountain on a snowy night." Gu Qingyuan spoke nonsense.

"Hey, you're a bit against the grain."

The setting sun shone obliquely, making the two people's backs look very long.
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Since the day Gu Qingyuan came out of retreat, Zhang Qingxu had to resume his teaching career.

"Today we are going to talk about the magic weapons. The founding ancestor of the Great Xia conquered the world with the magic weapon, the Dragon Sparrow Sword. It is said that each magic weapon is a symbol of dragon energy. Whenever a country is about to perish, a magic weapon will appear. Each soldier will lead the magic weapon to conquer the world and finally decide who will be the common ruler of the world."

Zhang Qingxu, who had nothing to say, began to talk about unofficial history.

"Um, Master, is this the magic weapon you are talking about?" Gu Qingyuan took out a long knife from behind.

Zhang Qingxu's numb face showed some emotion. He said in shock: "Where did you get this thing? And where did you take it out?"

Gu Qingyuan said calmly: "I picked it up."

This talent for picking up things is outrageous. Gu Qingyuan has picked up a lot of things these days, ranging from broken bottles, chicken feathers, and silver to whole animal skins and chairs. What's outrageous is that Gu Qingyuan also picked up a live rabbit that can spit fire. This is not the most outrageous thing. Just a few days ago, Gu Qingyuan picked up a ring, which was confirmed to be a storage ring.

Then there is the knife I just picked up today.

Zhang Qingxu accepted the fact that Gu Qingyuan often picked up random things, which was a good way to broaden his worldview.

Taking the long sword, Zhang Qingxu looked at it carefully and said, "I heard that the magic weapon can help the master of the weapon to practice. Did you find anything unusual when you picked it up?"

"Yes, when I got it, a stream of true energy flowed into my body, but I blocked it out." With Gu Qingyuan's current level of cultivation, it was easy for him to block out the true energy.

It's so funny. Who would allow the true energy of unknown origin to enter the body?

As far as Gu Qingyuan knows, practicing conflicting true qi together without dying is euphemistically called the harmony of yin and yang; picking up half of a magic spell and daring to practice it directly without fear of being stuck in cultivation; and encountering a crisis and shouting "Break it for me" to turn disaster into blessing are all standard features of the protagonist. Gu Qingyuan knows that he is not destined to be the protagonist, so it is better to avoid it.

"It seems to be a real magic weapon. The appearance of this magic weapon..." Zhang Qingxu paused and the master and disciple looked at each other.

"So, Daxia is going to be gone?" Gu Qingyuan finally spoke first.

"It's hard to say, but I think once the news of the magic weapon comes out, the world will be in chaos." Qingxu twisted his beard subconsciously, "I don't know much about this magic weapon, so I'll go down the mountain to get some information, and you wait here for me to come back. If nothing goes wrong, I will definitely be back within a month."

Gu Qingyuan was speechless. If nothing went wrong, something would definitely go wrong.

"How about, Master, I go down the mountain with you?" He said, shaking the magic weapon in his hand, indicating that he was already in the game.

Zhang Qingxu hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay."

So after several years, the cowardly Gu Qingyuan brought his heavenly master down the mountain to venture into the world. This is a cause for celebration.

(End of this chapter)