Book 2 - Chapter 12 – Faking Death to Escape (1/2)
Book 2 Chapter 9 – Early Glimpse into The Mystery
By the time Yun Yuzhen and the troops under her coging the sacks of salt into square-shaped piles that was eth exhausted, they entered the square and immediately fell into a deep slumber
By that afternoon, voices from the shore have woken them up The two boys crawled up and saw more than a dozen fast boats anchored on the shore What attracted their attention the most were Han Gaitian and the pretty nun Terrified, the two boys shrunk back and returned to the forest
Fortunately Yun Yuzhen had given them direction earlier; otherwise, this tis have been plucked and not able to fly
The two boys did not even have the courage to go outside to pick wild fruits Even when the voices have gone, they still hid inside their cozy nest
That evening suddenly a rain carass mixed with mud, which was able to deterwater inside their nest was still bearable
Kou Zhong happily said, “This rain is so tiround; that Han Pudi ht that we are already far away froai tian – covering the sky, pu di – falling face down on the earth/ground]
Xu Ziling could not help laughing, “Gai Tian Pu Di, these na reached out to stroke the alhed and said, “Xiao Ling, you look a bit more macho now, it’s just that your beard is a bit shorter than mine Do you want me to pull them clean by my miraculous hands, so that you’ll beco pushed his hand away and said, “When our beard grew until we can’t even recognize ourselves, then we can go sell our salt for profit Do you understand?”
Kou Zhong slapped his thigh in praise; but then he said in distress, “Is our ? Why did we clearly feel in our heart that ould be able to block our beautiful shi+fu’s jade move, but our hands and feet did not want to obey us?”
Xu Ziling ht about that Inpower fro Life’, but we still cannot apply it to the moves Moreover, each type of weapon has its own unique characteristic, which we have not grasped yet Naturally we cannot use it as our hearts’ wish”
Kou Zhong raised his thu, he actually came up with the same idea I did This proves that your natural endowood as mine!”
They chatted and joked until darkness fell, and then the two boys slipped out After they saw that the Haisha Bang people have left and not a single one reer under the cover of darkness
After that, the two boys tore each other apart on that beach and sparred against each other in high spirit They thought that they ht as well take off their clothes and just wore shorts, playing in the sea waves joyfully It was not until Xu Ziling accidentally ’s ar on the beach, the two boys found their interest waned, because no ent they trained, the true qi within their body and the styles of theiron how to use their weapons, it could be said that they did not gain anything
Not too long afterwards, the two boys fell asleep
When Xu Ziling awoke, bird songs entered his ears He opened his eyes and looked up, and happened to see a seagull circling over the sea, its bearing natural and graceful, it looked so carefree and happy The seagull suddenly dove down at an angle into the water When it reappeared, there was a wriggling, struggling s’sat his side and said in hoarse voice, “I understand it!”
To his surprise, he was grabbing an e all around, he did not see any trace of Kou Zhong Xu Ziling ju!”
Suddenly so He saw on one hand Kou Zhong was holding his sword, on the other hand he had a big fish Immensely proud of himself he called out, “Today on’t have to nibble those bird’s tasteless wild fruits”
Xu Ziling did not say anything He fetched the short halberd lying beside hi from the sea to the beach “Kid, take this!” he shouted
Kou Zhong laughed aloud while brandishi+ng his sword tofor death!”
At this tie of the trajectory of the seagull swooping down into the sea, his heart and ether, he co’s sword move whistle, while iull’s trajectory, the short halberd drew an arc in the air
Thehappened
The sole of his left foot heated up, but the sole of his right foot turned incomparably cold; exactly the opposite of what usually happened during his training, where the sole of his right foot would heat up first
The a was not limited to this at all Previously, the heat would appear first and then the cold This tiether Followed by two separate strea Quan [gushi+ng spring] acupoints on the soles of his left and right feet, passing through the Yin Qiao channel on the inside of his legs, and reached the Sheng Si orifices on his crotch, passing through the Chong channels on his left and right chest, and returned to the Jiang Guan position below his heart, the cold and hot qi converged to beco toward the s the Du channel toward his shoulders, and rushed down via Yang Shu channel on the outside of his elbow The true qi flowed naturally, without human interference at all [Sorry, I a of Chinese roan, the pal’s hand was jolted open, his sas thrown backward
The two boys stopped instantly and just stared at each other blankly
Meanwhile, the strange qi within Xu Ziling’s body kept flowing along the Yin Shu channel on the inside of his elbow, and returned to Jiang Gong, down to Sheng Si orifice, following the Yin Qiao channel inside his leg It flowed back to the Yong Quan acupoint before vanishi+ng
Kou Zhong tossed away the fish he caught and used that hand to hold his other hand, which was very painful, while he squatted in the shalloater “What bird’s thing was that?” he cried out [Translator’s note: I just realized that Kou Zhong used the word ‘bird’ a lot …]
Xu Ziling plopped hiot it now! Niang, Du Fuwei, our beautiful shi+fu Bangzu, were right ‘Secret to Long Life’ does not have anything to do with martial art, however, it is the key to unlock the mystery of the universe We have heard it before that human body is a small universe, while the world outside our bodies is another universe Therefore, as long as we can grasp the natural essence of these two universes, inner and outer universes will ether, and will be fused into one entity Just like the move I have just launched”
This rezi [see Book 1, Chapter 1] came back to life would he be able to infer it clearly However, even if top-notch expert listened to this, he ht still be confused As a hest, most ideal principle of oneness of heaven and hu arrived at this conclusion and simply blurted it out, but he did not know that his re point of their journey to becoe in the future
Throughout history, no one has ever obtained this comprehension Of course, one of the ined that they would blindly and rando to the ‘Secret to Long Life’ either
Xu Ziling explained what he saw about the seagull Kou Zhong was greatly delighted; he picked up the sword and roared, “Try it again Remember that you can only strike this ed the order Grasping the short halberd, he repeated his strike just now
‘Ding!’ Kou Zhong blocked it with all his strength
Xu Ziling was disappointed, “How come this time it didn’t work?”
“Go back to the beach,” Kou Zhong instructed, “Rush forward just like you did last tih heat in your body”
Xu Ziling thought itinstructed Who would have thought that it was still coone
Afterwards, no matter how they trained, they could not reproduce the formidable power of that one strike Finally the two boys lay down dejectedly on the beach, extre turned around to lie face down on the fine sand, with his fist he haround, “What is the proble had a brainwave, “That day when Li Dage was seriously injured and lost consciousness, you went out to find a e’s ‘bloody Battle Ten Styles’ That time Jiejie was scared and told me to stop, because my saber eht the eneenerate either hot wind or saber aura Worse yet, as soon as I met the enemy face-to-face, ure out why it was so, ’s spirit was greatly aroused; he sat up and asked, “When you practiced your saber play that ti the situation that ti I just wanted to practice e and Jiejie, and not let the said, “I got it It’s what Niang told us about forgetting everything, inside and out; no-man no-self, the borderline betith and without intention Just now you when you attacked me, basically you did not expect that it could be that formidable, hence you were able to reach the realed co said, ‘forgetting everything, inside and out’ Afterwards, you had the intention, hence you could not achieve the same real ten days or so, the two boys practiced fro they failed to achieve the effect they wanted, that strike that was as if a divine being was behind it
However, they were, after all, young boys They were accustozhou; unexpectedly, they stopped training altogether, and just spending their days hunting for fish in the ocean, feeling totally free and at leisure, and very cheerful
One day, when they returned fro said, “Did you notice how the fish escape our catch? At first they concentrated their attention completely, and then with a flick of their tail, they slipped away at an unile, and it also made full use of the stream characteristics If we could copy some of successful skill, even if our beautiful shi+fu returned, perhaps it wouldn’t be so easy for her to beat us askew to the left and collapse to the right”
Chapter 9, Part 2
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Xu Ziling’s spirit was greatly aroused, “I have not thought about that Come! Let us find some fish and learn from them”
And that was how they spent their days The two boys integrated frolicking and trainingGradually they returned to the lifestyle of when they lived in that small valley; they talked less and less
When Kou Zhong trained internal strength, he would walk back and forth on the beach, while Xu Ziling would lie down un, the other still; each one had his own interest
One dayblack carp when Kou Zhong slashed with his sword The slash plainly missed, but to his surprise, the black carp was jolted, turned belly up, and died There was no scar on the outside, but when they cut it open, unexpectedly its internal organs were ruptured
At first the two boys were startled, and then their shock turned into great delight; henceforth they trainedpreferred to eulls, and learned fro, on the other hand, observed and learned from all kinds of fish; he also watched how the crabs e, and their tactics in attack and defense It could be said that the two boys were addicted to what they were doing
Even while eating, they exchanged what they had learned, as well as sparred against each other They also ’s ‘bloody Battle Ten Styles’ to fit their own style better However, all along they still failed to attain the thunderous strike Xu Ziling previously produced Nevertheless, the two boys were very happy, since they were much closer to achieve the ‘what the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes’ level
One day they woke up and walked to the beach, to their a side by side on the sand Inside they found two sets of clothes, and a couple of war
They found written on the sand: ‘When the et to put on clothes shi+fu’
It was only then did the two boys realize that their clothes were tattered beyond repair They looked at each other with a ht and worry
What did she want?
That night Yun Yuzhen indeed caolden trim, her hair was rolled up in a bun on top of her head like a man, tied with yelloarrior band All in all, her appearance cried out heroic, straightforward, melancholy, but there was also a beauty in it that dazzled and stunned others Just like last time, she also carried an exquisite wind lantern in her hand, and the long copper flute on her back
She had the two boys to sit cross-legged first, and placed the wind lantern between thereat astonishment, “We have not seen each other for only two rew a bit of dignified,is totally different Just by looking at your eyes, I can tell that you have y cultivation”
Kou Zhong stroked his thick beard and said with a laugh, “Just by relying on this guy, I look a lotand Kou Zhong saw each other every day, naturally they did not pay particular attention to the changes in the other’s appearance; but in Yun Yuzhen’s eyes, the changes indeed cause her to have a whole new level of respect for them
Moreover, the two boys’ temperament and de appeared to be ly talented, he had the refined, scholarly yet unrestrained te lacked But he did not have the brutish, wild and lazy i looked boorish, but heroic and relaxed