Chapter Ninety-Eight: Cultivation II
There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Zhang Xiu got up to practice. In fact, Zhang Xiu had a plan for this cultivation, and since he left the school, Zhang Xiu has experienced a lot of large and small wars, and it is easy to say when facing the Qiang people at that time. During this period, I saw many fierce generals in the world, such as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, as well as Hua Xiong and Sun Jian, who were similar in strength to themselves. may be because the strength of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei has not yet reached its peak when they first met them, and because they are competing in martial arts, they also have reservations, Zhang Xiu felt that although he was not as good as Guan and Zhang, the difference should not be too far. But over the years, I have seen many famous people in the future, and the recent battle with the world's first fierce general Lu Bu has intensified Zhang Xiu's sense of crisis.
So Zhang Xiu wanted to take advantage of the time when he was punished by Dong Zhuo to strengthen his martial arts, so as to meet the battle of the princes of the Eighteenth Route against Dong. In fact, Zhang Xiu did not pull down the cultivation for several years, and usually lifted the stone lock and ran with weight to exercise his strength, but the progress was slow, and in the spearmanship, the Hundred Birds Chaohuang Gun has been completed, and the usual practice can only be familiar with the marksmanship routine, and the Hundred Birds Chaohuang Gun is heavy, with the continuous improvement of Zhang Xiu's physical fitness, the power is enhanced, so the Hundred Birds Chaohuang Gun will not improve too much in the Hundred Birds Chaohuang Gun.
When fighting with Zhang Fei, the Tai Chi learned before crossing was turned into marksmanship, but the Tai Chi marksmanship formed was half a bucket of water, with many shortcomings. The first one is that there is more defense than enough offense. It is already very face-saving to say that the offense is insufficient, and if you talk about the point, it is simply no offense at all. And it is not invincible in defense, Lu Bu just shortened the distance between the two that day so that Zhang Xiu could not perform, fortunately Lu Bu did not have a red rabbit horse at that time, otherwise Zhang Xiu would not die that day and be seriously injured, so Zhang Xiu decided to take advantage of this time to find a way to completely integrate Tai Chi into the marksmanship and complete the marksmanship created by himself.
Enhancing strength and perfecting Tai Chi marksmanship are the main goals of Zhang Xiu's cultivation in Beibi Mountain.
Since ordinary means cannot greatly increase Zhang Xiu's strength, he can only use some more extreme means. Zhang Xiu thought of the paragraph of Yang Guoshui practicing martial arts in Jin Yong's book "The Condor Heroes" that he read before crossing, because it was the first attempt, so he found this small waterfall on the Beibi Mountain, if the effect is obvious, Zhang Xiu has a better place to practice.
The biggest problem in practicing martial arts in the water is to solve the problem of underwater breathing, and Yang Guo in the middle is not a problem in this regard because of his internal strength. Although Zhang Xiu didn't know whether internal strength existed or not, he couldn't, so he had to find another way.
I saw Zhang Xiu biting a long bamboo, and then dragging Hu Che'er's mace "plop" and jumping into the small lake below the waterfall. Zhang Xiu knew how to swim before the crossing, and did not leave it at the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Xiu sank directly to the bottom of the lake after falling into the water, and then the long bamboo bitten in the mouth worked, one end of the bamboo was bitten by Zhang Xiu, and the other end was exposed to the water, so that Zhang Xiu could breathe under the water.
Zhang Xiu, who sank to the bottom of the lake, felt that the mace in his hand was not as heavy as on the ground, and he could hold and wave it with both hands with Zhang Xiu's strength, so Zhang Xiu waved the mace while feeling the flow of water and walked towards the waterfall. Coming to the bottom of the waterfall, feeling the impact of the waterfall more than ten zhang high, Zhang Xiu stood firmly in the lake under the waterfall and kept waving her mace.
The so-called strength, but it is subdivided into two kinds, one is the strength of his own body, which is fundamental, as if Hu Che'er was born with divine power, and being able to lift 500 catties is the strength of his body. Although the strength of the body can be enhanced, it is still determined by the person's physique, and the talented ones can increase more after the acquired exercise, while the poor ones cannot be as good as the people who are born with divine power like Hu Che'er no matter how they practice.
The increase in the strength of the body itself may be limited, but there is a way to increase the strength indirectly, and this is the method of transport. The more subtle the technique, the more you can wield the power of your body. For example, two people like Hu Che'er and Dian Wei are both born with divine powers, but why is Hu Che'er not even a first-class military general in history, and now because Zhang Xiu tailored a weapon suitable for him to wield, he is barely a first-class military general. This is related to the method of transporting capacity, Hu Che'er has not formally learned martial arts, and the power used can only be regarded as brute force, and it is already good that ten percent of the power can be wielded eighty percent. Dian Wei is different, all the generals who use halberds are either top or not in the stream, this is because halberds are the most difficult weapon to learn. Dian Wei's weapon is a double halberd, which can also indirectly show that his martial arts are extraordinary, Dian Wei, who has studied martial arts, naturally knows the means of transport, and then with his natural divine power and exquisite moves, so Dian Wei can enter the ranks of first-class fierce generals, as for Dian Wei is a first-class general, it belongs to the lower or middle level, Zhang Xiu did not dare to make a conclusion.
And because Zhang Xiu's Hundred Birds Chaohuang marksmanship is mainly based on degrees, the explosion of strength is somewhat insufficient, and it also causes Zhang Xiu's strength to be insufficient due to this reason.
In the water, Zhang Xiu is not only practicing strength, but also learning a lot of methods and some inspiration to perfect Tai Chi marksmanship by constantly feeling the flow of water.
In this way, Zhang Xiu used two hours in the water to practice strength with a mace every morning, and after two hours, Zhang Xiu returned to the shore to practice the spear with a tiger's head golden gun on the mountain wall, while Hu Che'er went into the water to practice the mace, but Zhang Xiu hoped that Hu Che'er could understand a few tricks from the change of the water flow The use of the mace.
In the afternoon, Zhang Xiu fell into the water with a tiger's head and a golden gun to practice marksmanship under the waterfall, while Hu Che'er stayed on the shore. The two took turns to go into the water, but they were afraid that some fierce beasts and bandits would find themselves here and hurt Chen Yao, Zhang Xiu was cautious, and he had already prepared for this move.
And every five days, Hu Che'er would go into the city to get food, and Zhang Xiu also rested for half a day on this day, accompanying Chen Yao to talk or tease her, and she lived a very happy life. Every time Hu Che'er entered the city, he brought the latest news to tell Zhang Xiu, as if Dong Zhuo abolished the young emperor and set up Chen Liuwang. When Zhang Xiu heard that Dong Zhuo had abolished the legislature, he remembered something and immediately ordered Hu Che'er to find Xu Huang and Hu Zhen, explaining that if they received an order to hunt down Cao Cao in the future, they should show mercy to their subordinates, and if they could, it would be best to help Cao Cao.
In this way, the first snow soon ushered in, and in winter, due to the cold weather, the waterfall also froze, which made Zhang Xiu, who had been practicing for about two months, feel that his strength had improved a lot, and he was depressed. However, fortunately, due to the practice for about two months and the change of the water flow, Zhang Xiu had some new insights into Tai Chi and Tai Chi marksmanship, so Zhang Xiu did not return to the comfort house in the city in the winter, but insisted on staying in the Beibi Mountains to practice.