Chapter 288

【On the other side of these two lines of text, there is also a depiction of a monkey standing on a stake, lifelike, with its posture fully revealed.】

【The monkey's arms hang down, and its body seems to be swaying slowly.】

【In the monkey's chest, there seems to be a crystal clear gas mass, which is slowly flowing.】

【From the "big dragon" spine bone that rises from the back, a crystal-clear luster can be vaguely seen.】

【And the heavy blood in the flesh around the bones is constantly surging!】

【At just one glance, you can deeply perceive... this is a treasure method for tempering meridians and reshaping bones.】

【This classic is divided into upper and lower volumes. The upper volume records in detail twelve breathing methods such as standing stake, walking stake, and sleeping stake. Each breathing method has its own uniqueness, and the posture is even more particular, and it must be exactly the same. It is precisely by relying on these twelve breathing methods that one can temper meridians, recast bones, establish the foundation of martial arts, and be as solid as a rock.】

【The lower volume is the accompanying boxing manual, named Taizu Sacred Ape Six Styles. Each style contains the spirit of the ape, combining hardness and softness, with infinite power.】

【You read it carefully, from beginning to end, without any omission, and there is a copy of annotations written by Sima Ting himself. Looking at the ink marks as new, it should be written specifically for you.】

【You are quite moved in your heart. A drop of kindness should be repaid by a gushing spring. You keep it in your heart.】

【It details the medicinal materials needed for cultivation, the daily food that cannot be missed, and the frequency of stake cultivation, ensuring that the road of cultivation is efficient without hurting the foundation.】

【It seems that money is indispensable for martial arts cultivation.】

【As the saying goes, "Poor study literature, rich study martial arts".】

【What surprises you is that this Military Governor Sima Ting's foundation of martial arts is also the "Taizu Sacred Ape Stake", which is a neutral and peaceful method of opening martial arts meridians, and it fits perfectly with any subsequent cultivation methods.】

【Among the many classics that can establish the foundation of martial arts in the lower three realms of the world, only the "Great Huangting" of the Sanzhen Sect is equally neutral and balanced, and there is also the "Innate Skill" that complements each other, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.】

【However, only by joining the Sanzhen Sect can one be qualified to learn.】

【In the Great Qi, this technique is highly respected, many children of major families choose it as the starting point of cultivation, and most martial arts halls in the folk also use it to open altars and teach disciples, spreading extremely widely.】

【It is rumored that this technique was created by the founding Taizu of the Great Qi, and later revised by two generations of masters. It is the upright method of martial arts.】

【However, it is a pity that this classic, which can be seen everywhere in the folk, only covers the three lower realms of martial arts: tendon refining, bone building, and blood qi.】

【If you want to continue to climb the peak of martial arts and explore subsequent techniques, there are only two paths to choose from: one is to join a famous family and get its true transmission; the other is to serve the imperial court and exchange merit for law.】

【As for the legendary upper three realms techniques, even among the nine great clans, there are none. Only the royal family of the Great Qi possesses such supreme secret classics, and "the law is not passed on to six ears", and it is not shown to others.】

【You just recorded the text and pictures in your mind once, you ensure it is correct, and read it again.】

【The most precious thing is the annotation left by Sima Ting. Using his current martial arts realm to "sit and forget the pavilion mountain" to look at martial arts foundation, naturally every sentence is a golden saying.】

【Without this annotation, even a person with clever talent would find it difficult to peek into the entrance and understand the true meaning.】

【The details, such as the subtle amplitude of arm twisting, the just-right tightness of bones, and the rhythm of leg swaying, all fall into your mind one by one.】

【You open your eyes and start practicing in the courtyard.】

【You start from the basic "leaning stake", you come under the Sister Wu Tong tree, lean your back against the tree trunk, hang your arms naturally, open your legs, bend your knees slightly, and beat the tree body rhythmically between breathing.】

【At first, you were still unfamiliar, but when you tried for the second time, you gradually found the trick. Between breathing, the tree trunk seemed to shake gently with your rhythm.】

【However, because you have never been involved in martial arts, tempering meridians, just for a while, your legs felt sour and numb, as if thousands of ants were biting, testing your will.】

【Only supporting for sixty breathing rounds, you had to stop...】

【At this moment, your blood was surging, your breath surged from your lungs, connected to your five internal organs, and between breathing, you spat out the first mouthful of white gas mixed with fine black ash.】

【According to Sima Ting's annotation, this is the filth accumulated in the lung mansion.】

【People eat five grains, how can they be without disease?】

【Through your breathing, you discharged part of the impurities in your body, which marks the preliminary achievement of the first stake.】

【Sima Ting once wrote that those who can learn it within half a day are considered to have the wisdom of martial arts.】

【You smiled, no one guided you, and you understood the meaning in the second time. It seems that your understanding is not too bad.】

【When you sat back in the chair, the fatigue hit like a tide, and your legs were sour and numb, as if you had gone through a mountain climb.】

【This body is still too weak, if you force cultivation again, it will only be counterproductive and ruin the foundation.】

【"Too much is as bad as too little, stop when it is enough."】

【Among the children of major families, they may have various means such as medicinal baths, martial artist massage to activate blood, and matching pills to accelerate the cultivation process.】

【You don't have such conditions.】

【Just the several big medicine production methods recorded by Sima Ting, just looking at the several familiar yam mentioned above is worth a lot. If you use it every day, how can you afford it.】

【You thought of the "Ghost-Slaying Sword" obtained in the lake of Hong Jing Yuan, and your heart moved slightly.】

【A "Yuan" character in the sea of heart emitted golden light, disassembled, and reappeared "Ghost-Slaying in the Mountain God Temple" like a phantom.】

【Once again experiencing this "Ghost-Slaying Sword", you still feel shocked in your heart.】

【Not like a sword in the world!】

【You start trying to outline a trace of sword intent.】

【The light of sword intent is bright, cold, like moonlight appearing in the sea of heart.】

【With the light of that sword intent, and the sword intent bursting out from the "Yuan" character, it becomes more and more obvious.】

【The spirit is actually a bit dizzy.】

【At the same time, you only feel that the flesh, fascia, bones, and even blood under your body have been tempered by strange power, as if roasted.】

【Making them hotter and hotter!】

【You spat out another mouthful of turbid gas, it seems that you discovered last time that this Ghost-Slaying Sword is like a "contemplation method", not only cultivating the spirit, but also seems to be able to temper the body through this sword intent.】

【It's a good news!】

【You smiled, finally found a way to stand.】 You understand that whether it is martial arts cultivation or spirit method, it requires day-by-day accumulation, water-grinding method, and it is difficult to achieve overnight.】

【Therefore, you are not eager for success, but practice patiently and work hard behind the scenes.】

【In the half year you were blind, in this stone house and wooden room, without light, a heart has been polished to be extremely calm.】

【Why bother with mountains and rivers for meditation, extinguish the fire in your heart and you will be cool.】

【You stood up and picked up the pen, deciding to try to use the meaning of calligraphy and painting to copy the sword intent in your heart.】

【Thanks to your talent of "god in the pen", your understanding of this sword intent is getting deeper and deeper, and you are progressing rapidly. In the focused writing, you feel that your originally withered spirit begins to recover. About two hours later, you feel that you can re-contemplate the "Ghost-Slaying Sword".】

【Four or five hours later, you were able to continue practicing the stake.】

【When you couldn't practice, you chose to read and write in the courtyard.】

【In the blink of an eye, it was afternoon.】

【Sister Wu Tong had already prepared the meal, and today there was a plate of fragrant beef on the dining table.】

【Sister Wu Tong only tasted the saltiness, and it was swept away by you.】

【Sister Wu Tong saw this and said: "Young Master, it seems that you need to eat meat every meal after practicing martial arts."】

【"These few days, let's see if we can bring back some meat from the kitchen. Young Master, you don't know, the price of vegetables in the market has risen again."】

【You nodded, indeed feeling that your appetite increased greatly today, realizing that you can't do without lean meat and white flour to replenish your strength after practicing martial arts.】

【Fortunately, the hundred taels of silver sent by the poetry society today should be able to support for a while.】

【You listened to Sister Wu Tong's words and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Rising price? What's going on?"】

【You must know that Bianjing has a Price Stabilization Bureau, specifically responsible for regulating prices.】

【Once the price of a certain commodity rises, the Price Stabilization Bureau will intervene. For example, when the price of pork rises, they will sell pork to stabilize the market.】

【Similarly, if the price of grain is too low and merchants try to suppress the price, the Price Stabilization Bureau will purchase at the average price and sell at the average price when the grain price rises.】

【This set of methods was written by Yan Wang Lu Chen in the "Governance of the North" years ago and has been used ever since.】

【Later generations of academy teachers tried other methods, but the effect never exceeded Lu Chen's method.】

【This "Governance of the North" written by Lu Chen has become a must-read for governing the country.】

【Before the Master left two hundred years ago, he listed "Governance of the North" after the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, which is a must-read for a gentleman.】

【This book is even known as the "Emperor's Pillow Book".】

【The Third Master of the academy even said, "Half of the governance can govern the world!"】

【Twenty years ago, in a tomb of a Great Qi Prince three thousand years ago excavated in Jiangnan Dao, a seal was unearthed, with seven small characters engraved on it.】

【"Bow down to Shenzhou for a lifetime!"】.】

【According to the historian's check of the classics, this seal was engraved by the Great Qi Jing Wang Zhou Cheng, who carried it with him until his death.】

【This seal was later collected by a mysterious noble in Bianjing at a sky-high price.】

【Regarding Lu Chen's handwritten copy of "Governance of the North", it has long become a legend. In the portraits of Lu Chen drawn by the folk, he often holds this book in his left hand.】

【Lu Chen, as the founder of the Sanzhen Sect, the first person to end the Warring States and unify the world, has many legends.】

【It is widely rumored in the folk that he is the reincarnation of the Ziwei Emperor to govern the world, and the twenty generals of the pavilion are the reincarnations of the Tiangang Big Dipper, assisting him in governing the world.】

【Sister Wu Tong sighed softly: "I heard from the old people in the vegetable market that there have been constant uprisings in the three major states in the north, and there are countless refugees fleeing."】

【"Not only are there high mountain people from Tianzhu Mountain, but also Kunlun slaves from the west, all pouring into the three states of the Central Plains."】

【"People are crowded on the road, they eat tree bark and grass seeds, like locusts crossing the border, wherever they pass, not a blade of grass grows, which is also pitiful."】

【Sister Wu Tong said with lingering fear: "What's more terrible is that in Jiangnan Dao, besides vegetable markets, horse markets, and business markets, there are even human markets, openly buying and selling people."】

【You pondered slightly, a bit surprised. In the Great Qi, human trafficking is strictly prohibited. The Great Qi people registered in the fish scale register are protected by law. Once it is found that there is human trafficking, there is no need to convict, and they are executed on the spot.】

【"I also heard from Wu Guanshi Liu that Su Xiang is asking the nine great surnames to take the lead in donating money these few days, preparing to govern the Yellow River. Last rainy season, the Yellow River changed its course, drowning countless people, and hundreds of thousands of people in Shandong Dao became refugees."】

【"The grain in the Great Qi treasury has been released to receive disaster victims, and the grain in Bianjing is controlled by the nine great surnames. The Price Stabilization Bureau has no grain, so the price has risen several times in these few days."】

【Sister Wu Tong pondered: "Young Master, I haven't been to the vegetable market this afternoon, I have to prepare more grain, just in case."】

【You nodded after hearing this. If the imperial court doesn't take action in these few days, I'm afraid the price will continue to rise.】

【For nearly two hundred years, natural and man-made disasters have occurred frequently, and demons have also appeared in the world.】

【Although Confucianism strives to impose education, it is still difficult to stop the downward trend of people's hearts.】

【Especially in Bianjing, the competition among the nine great clans is becoming more and more obvious, and they are extravagant.】

【In recent years, the trend of opposing Confucianism in the folk has risen, among which Yanbei State in the north is the most significant, and people have begun to sacrifice to Yan Wang Lu Chen.】

【At the same time, in twenty years, uprisings in the Great Qi have been repeatedly banned, and most of the uprising armies are under the name of "reviving the Great Yan".】

【Under the prosperous Great Qi, it seems that undercurrents have begun to surge.】

【The old men in the city are still spending money like water, and the common people outside the city have long been corpses everywhere.】

【The vermilion gates smell of wine and meat, and there are frozen bones on the road.】

【If the nine great surnames are willing to lower the price, I am afraid the sun will rise from the west. They only have interests in their eyes, and this time they just want to make a lot of money.】

【How can they care about the life and death of the common people.】

【Just as you and Sister Wu Tong are chatting, there is knocking at the door outside.】

【"Young Master Guan, are you in the courtyard?" A clear voice rings.】

【Sister Wu Tong has already walked out, and a beautiful woman stands at the door with several maids who are lowering their eyebrows and pleasing their eyes.】

【You also stand up and walk to the courtyard gate.】

【The woman is about twenty years old, wearing a water-green embroidered moon-white satin jacket, her features are gentle and beautiful, with a small mole beside her ear, and her eyebrows reveal a sense of intelligence in her uprightness.】

【Sister Wu Tong recognizes the woman, it is Lady Yuan's head maid, Handan.】

【The two characters Handan are also an elegant name for lotus flowers. The Old Matriarch Xie likes lotus flowers very much, and this name was given by the Old Matriarch.】

【She doesn't bow, a pair of embroidered brocade shoes stand outside the threshold, standing quietly without entering.】

【Handan's position in the courtyard is higher than the steward's power. The six bureaus responsible for daily life in the courtyard, the horse farm in Bianjing, and the rouge shop are all handled by her for Lady Yuan.】

【You smile: "Big girl, why are you free to come to my humble house today, come in quickly."】

【"Sister Wu Tong, make tea."】

【Handan smiles shallowly: "I won't disturb you, it's the lady who asked me to tell Young Master Guan about his studies."】

【"Yesterday in the Grand View Garden, the young master answered well, winning color for the lady."】

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