Chapter 3 Martial Arts Practice
Although Qingcheng Mountain is a famous Taoist mountain.

It is also the place where Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling practiced and preached.

But things and people have changed dramatically.

After 1,500 years of changes, there are now more than a hundred Taoist temples of various sizes on Qingcheng Mountain.

Almost all of these Taoist temples belong to the Quanzhen sect.

Taoist priests of the Quanzhen sect are forbidden to marry and can only eat vegetarian food.

So the food at Songfeng Temple is not that good.

However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the lower-class people lived in misery, and ordinary people were lucky enough to have food to eat and to be alive.

The reason why Chu Yuan was sent to the mountains to learn Taoism was because there were too many children in his family and he could not afford to support them, so his parents sent him to the mountains to become a Taoist priest.

The meal is sorghum rice.

The dishes include pickled radish, cold bamboo shoots, and some stir-fried vegetarian dishes such as baby cabbage and cabbage.

Although there was no meat, at least I could eat my fill and didn't have to go hungry.

After dinner, the silver moon was already high in the sky.

Hong Renxiong arranged accommodation for Chu Yuan and sent him there.

Chu Yuan's residence was in the south wing of the backyard of Songfeng Temple, a small courtyard with its own entrance and courtyard.

According to the rules of Songfeng Temple, new disciples must live in a room with six other fellow disciples in the temple.

However, the rules are only used to restrain ordinary disciples. Since Chu Yuan is of a higher generation, the same generation as the head master Yu Canghai, Hong Renxiong did not dare to neglect Chu Yuan, so he arranged a separate courtyard for Chu Yuan.

"Little Master, you should rest early. If you want to practice sword fighting with the disciples of Songfeng Temple, you can continue to go to the square tomorrow."

"If you don't want to practice sword fighting with ordinary disciples, you can wait for two days until Master has made arrangements. After Junior Master Uncle becomes Master, we or Master can teach you martial arts on your own."

After making the bed for Chu Yuan and telling him some things to pay attention to in Songfeng Temple, Hong Renxiong left a word, closed the door and left.

In the room, apart from the flame of the bean-sized oil lamp and the faintly flickering dim light reflecting Chu Yuan's back on the wall, there was only Chu Yuan left.

Chu Yuan took a quick look and saw the room fully equipped with tables, chairs, beds, cabinets and other furniture.

He placed the standard Qingcheng Sect sword that Hong Renxiong had given him during the day on the bedside.

He lay on the bed, looking a little dazed.

Chu Yuan didn't expect that he would actually join the Qingcheng Sect.

On the first day of joining the sect, he learned the Qingcheng Sect's swordsmanship.

"In the beginning, I wanted to join Wudang, Shaolin, or even Huashan, Songshan, or Hengshan. It's good to lean on a big tree for shade. To get involved, you need a background."

"Unfortunately, in this martial arts world set in the Ming Dynasty, these sects are thousands of miles apart from each other. Not to mention a child like me, even for an adult, if you don't have the ability to protect yourself, it would be very dangerous to go on a long journey."

Chu Yuan lay on the bed thinking.

It was for this reason that he took a step back and begged his master, Taoist Ziyun, for help.

He introduced himself to Yu Canghai, the leader of the Qingcheng Sect who was nearby.

"The Qingcheng Sect and my senior brother Yu Canghai, in order to seize the "Bixie Sword Manual", wiped out the entire Lin family. This is indeed not a right conduct."

"If there is an opportunity in the future, I can guide Qingcheng Sect onto the right path and prevent people from seeking revenge after Qingcheng Sect commits evil deeds."

"It's such a famous Taoist mountain, and it's also the place where Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling practiced and preached. It would be such a pity if it was destroyed by someone."

"I don't know what stage the plot has reached in this timeline!"

"Has the battle of sword energy in Huashan already ended..."

Amidst his wild thoughts, Chu Yuan gradually closed his eyes and fell asleep.

However, Chu Yuan, who was asleep, was not really asleep.

In his dream, he came to a pitch-black space that was as deep as the universe.

In this dark space, Chu Yuan can think freely.

This is a wonderful state where one is neither asleep nor awake, and Chu Yuan can wake up at any time as long as he wants.

"I've entered the dream world again."

Chu Yuan wakes up.

Chu Yuan felt that this state was a bit like a dream, so he called it falling asleep.

In the dream state, he seemed to have been buffed and his mind was quick.

Many problems that you can’t figure out during the day can be figured out once you think about them.

He could easily memorize the obscure Taoist scriptures that he was unable to recite in just one night.

It was precisely because of this that he was called by Taoist Master Ziyun a rare talent in the field of Taoism that is rarely seen in a century.

He even made an exception and personally accepted him as his disciple.

"Let's practice the sword skills we learned during the day!"

Chu Yuan said in his heart.

In this dark space, Chu Yuan is the only exception.

There was some light around his body.

In addition to being able to think, you can also move freely and without restrictions, just like in reality.

Chu Yuan immediately started practicing the sword technique he had learned during the day.

Although there is no sword in the dream state, it does not prevent Chu Yuan from using his fingers as a sword and practicing swordsmanship in the dream state.

"Qingfeng Sword Technique"!
There are twenty-four styles in total!

After all, it is just the entry-level sword technique of the Qingcheng Sect, and the moves are extremely simple.

The first move of "Qingfeng Sword Technique": A gentle breeze is coming!

Under Chu Yuan's practice, this sword technique that he had only barely learned during the day improved rapidly.

By the time dawn came, he had truly mastered the technique.

You can use it even without thinking about it.

……

The next day.

early morning.

In front of and behind the Taoist temple, there are the chirping sounds of birds.

Chu Yuan came out of the dream, opened his eyes, and woke up from the dream state.

"It seems that I have completely learned and mastered this sword technique."

After Chu Yuan sat up from the bed, the memory of practicing swordsmanship in his dream state last night emerged in his mind.

Normally, when ordinary people wake up from a dream, their memory will be a little fuzzy, and as time goes by, they will completely forget it.

But Chu Yuan, who was in a dream state, was different.

Chu Yuan had tried it before.

All the memories he had in the dream state in the past would appear in his mind after he woke up the next day, and he would not forget them, as if he had really experienced them. In addition, this dream state could also replace his rest.

In theory, ordinary people need to rest for at least three hours at night to ensure that they are energetic during the day.

However, when Chu Yuan was in a dream state, he only needed to rest for an hour and a half at night to ensure that he would be full of energy throughout the day.

Because of this, Chu Yuan felt that entering the dream was the golden finger for him to settle down in this world.

"It's a pity that I didn't have this talent in my previous life, otherwise maybe I could become a time management master like Master Luo?"

Chu Yuan sighed in his heart.

After getting up, Chu Yuan glanced at the table.

The oil lamp on the table went out at some point, leaving a few specks of ash on the edge of the table from the burning wick.

After Chu Yuan got up and washed, he went to the kitchen to have breakfast, then picked up his sword and went to the square early to wait.

Chu Yuan is full of energy. Now that he has joined the Qingcheng Sect as he wished, it depends on himself whether he can learn martial arts in this martial arts world.

Could Chu Yuan not work harder?

At sunrise, the younger generation of Taoists from Songfeng Temple arrived in groups of three or four.

The one who came to teach martial arts to the young disciples of Songfeng Temple today was Yu Canghai’s fourth disciple Luo Renjie.

Not long after, Luo Renjie arrived.

Luo Renjie is short, dark and thin, only slightly taller than Yu Canghai.

He is a typical Bashu man.

Even though he was wearing a Taoist robe, he still couldn't conceal the fierce aura of a Bashu man.

"Little Master, I heard from Senior Brother that you learned a move of the Qingfeng Sword Technique yesterday. How is your practice going?"

However, Luo Renjie's attitude towards Chu Yuan was very respectful.

Before he started teaching his young disciple martial arts, he came over to ask about Chu Yuan's martial arts training.

"It's OK. I've barely learned it."

Chu Yuan nodded.

"If you don't learn it right away, it doesn't matter. Junior Master can come and ask us for advice at any time."

Luo Renjie comforted Chu Yuan.

They are the direct disciples of the headmaster Yu Canghai, and they know the difficulty of practicing martial arts.

They have achieved their current martial arts skills through more than ten years of hard training.

For ordinary people to learn martial arts, even the simplest "Qingfeng Sword Technique", it takes at least one or two years to master it and use it smoothly. It takes at least three or four years to practice it to a certain level and use it to wield the sword against the enemy.

Fortunately, Junior Uncle Chu Yuan was still young when he entered Songfeng Temple. It would have been too late for him to become a disciple and learn martial arts in two years.

I'm afraid their master Yu Canghai may not agree to accept them as his disciples.

After chatting with Chu Yuan for a while, when almost everyone had arrived, Luo Renjie began to teach swordsmanship.

Chu Yuan also studied hard, not trying to truly learn it, but at least he could barely memorize the moves.

When you go back home at night, practice in your dreams and quickly learn and master it.

Frankly speaking, practicing martial arts is not easy and is very tiring.

It was just like the headache Chu Yuan had when he was in school studying math, physics and chemistry before he traveled through time.

Sometimes, Chu Yuan watched Hong Renxiong and Luo Renjie, who taught him the Qingfeng Sword Technique, do the movements once, and then when he tried to do them himself, he found that they were not quite the same.

Either they forgot one of the moves, or they performed it but the movements were not standard and were completely distorted.

Before traveling through time, when Chu Yuan was in school, he couldn't even do a set of radio gymnastics correctly. He felt that practicing martial arts was a hundred times more difficult than doing radio gymnastics.

Fortunately, Chu Yuan did not really rely on his own hard work and practice.

He has the golden finger of entering dreams, so he can practice in dreams.

Otherwise, after practicing martial arts for more than ten years, you might just be a third-rate person in the martial arts world, like Yu Canghai's disciples, Hou Renying, Hong Renxiong, Yu Renhao, and Luo Renjie.

……

In the blink of an eye, five days passed.

During these five days, Chu Yuan learned the complete "Qingfeng Sword Technique".

Although he has not officially started yet, Chu Yuan is not idle.

He is about to join the Songfeng Temple of the Qingcheng Sect and become Yu Canghai's junior fellow apprentice.

It doesn't matter whether you learn martial arts early or late.

Why not learn it earlier?

Hou Renying, Hong Renxiong, Yu Renhao and Luo Renjie also said that if Chu Yuan had any questions, he could go to them for advice.

Anyway, they will be in the same sect in the future, and they are still his nephews, so Chu Yuan is not shy about it.

Whenever Chu Yuan had nothing to do, he would go to his four nephews, Hou Renying, Hong Renxiong, Yu Renhao and Luo Renjie, to ask them for advice on the Qingfeng Sword Technique.

After memorizing the sword techniques, he would practice them in his dreams when it was late at night and everyone was asleep.

It is because of this that Chu Yuan was able to learn this set of sword techniques in such a short time.

At the beginning, Hou Renying, Hong Renxiong, Yu Renhao and Luo Renjie thought that their junior uncle was too impatient in practicing martial arts.

He is so eager to practice martial arts even before he officially starts learning the sword technique.

But Chu Yuan will become their elder sooner or later, it’s just a matter of time.

Considering Chu Yuan's status as the future junior master, since he had some requests, even though they felt that it was inappropriate to do so, they had to try their best to satisfy him.

Yu Canghai originally said that he would accept Chu Yuan as a disciple on behalf of his master and let Chu Yuan officially join the temple on the second day after Chu Yuan arrived at Songfeng Temple.

But there was no movement in the next few days.

Chu Yuan asked several of his fellow apprentices, and Hou Renying seemed to know something about the situation. He said that his master Yu Canghai seemed to be busy with something these days and was delayed.

Chu Yuan was not in a hurry and was very calm.

Anyway, whether he becomes a formal disciple or not will not affect his martial arts learning.

Day and night, he silently practiced the Qingfeng Sword Technique he had just learned.

this day.

Chu Yuan was practicing sword skills with the Qingcheng Sect disciples in the Songfeng Temple square.

"Uncle Junior Master, Master wants to see you."

Junior nephew Hou Renying said to Chu Yuan during the break.

"Yu Canghai finally remembered me as his junior brother."

Chu Yuan's heart moved.

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