Chapter 35: Divine Drum Cloud Lei Yin

The movement was not big, as if it was just a shake of the wrist and a send.

However, the effect was like an old bear rubbing against a tree. The tree trunk as thick as a sea bowl began to shake, leaves drifted, and even broken fine branches fell.

"You... you practiced internal strength?!"

Sha Lifei stuttered, his eyes full of disbelief.

In this world, the characteristic of the peak of Ming Jin is the vibration of the big tendons, the resonance of tendons and bones, and every move can mobilize the strength of the whole body.

Ordinary people strike, not knowing how to exert force, and at least half of the strength will be lost, while practitioners who have practiced for many years have greater damage with the same strength.

The human body has bones, connected by tendons and fascia, like a wooden mortise and tenon structure, which looks simple but is exquisite and stable. Only by practicing the frame and knowing how to exert force can it work.

Ordinary people only need hard training, and basically everyone can reach it, but it is a matter of time.

And when reaching the internal strength stage, the focus is no longer on bones, but on fascia.

Fascia is like a dense large net, connecting the tissues of the whole body.

Through breathing, internal and external resonance, making the tendons perform extremely rapid contraction and vibration, the strength can be raised to a higher level.

This is the characteristic of internal strength: Qi membrane bulging, wrapping tendons into a circle!

Practicing internal strength, the range of movement is not large, but it can produce amazing lethality. Some experts pat people lightly, and the other party will vomit blood and die after returning.

The benefits are more than this.

Internal strength is complex and changeable, and the moves are more varied. Moreover, the same lethality uses less strength, lifting weight as if it were light, and the combat time is also longer.

To practice internal strength, besides talent, one must have a master to pass hands and listen to strength every day, carefully pondering the changes, before one can succeed.

This little tiger had no one to teach him on the road, could it be that his talent is like a monster?

Sha Lifei was in disbelief, followed by ecstasy, his heart moved and he whispered: "Before the ring, don't reveal it. I'll place a bet first..."

Li Yan nodded slightly, "Place some for me too."

Looking at Sha Lifei's excited old face, Li Yan was very calm.

This breakthrough to internal strength was purely a coincidence.

He had practiced hard every day for these years, never stopping in cold or heat.

But in the days when his grandfather passed away, he was muddle-headed all day long, soul-lost, how could he have time to practice?

If not for the Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen, even the spirit he had just conserved would have dissipated.

On the way to Xianyang, he started practicing again.

Maybe it was anxious at first, like a madman, and hurt his tendons and bones.

But this time, it was somewhat different.

After Conserving Spirit, he became more sensitive to his body, and with the protection of the Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen, he didn't need to be distracted, so he could Conserve Spirit and practice at the same time.

Originally, he had already reached the peak of Ming Jin, but his father was dead, his grandfather was old, and no one helped him pass hands and feed moves, so he was stuck at this realm.

Conserving Spirit at the same time happened to help him break through.

Of course, he had just practiced internal strength, and it was impossible to use it at all times, unlike those internal strength experts who lifted weight as if it were light, and the strength changes were varied.

But with the Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen, he could exchange damage for damage.

As long as he touches it, he can beat the opponent to disability!

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This movement immediately alarmed many people.

Wang Daoxuan saw it, and his heart was clearly relieved.

His cooperation with Li Yan was not just because of the other party's nose supernatural power.

There is one thing he didn't say half a lie about that day.

Just the day before Li Yan came, he dreamed of being entangled by evil ghosts and woke up in a fright.

In dream divination, this is called a ghost dream, an ominous sign. There is a sentence in the oracle bone inscriptions of merchants: Dingwei divination, King divination, many ghost dreams, no coming disaster?

You know, the method of divination is mysterious, especially involving more illusory destiny, even masters of art are not necessarily accurate.

But Mystic Sect people are different. After Conserving Spirit, most of the time their minds are stable. If there is a sign, there must be something strange.

It's a bit like a martial artist's "cicada feeling the autumn wind before it moves."

After Wang Daoxuan got up, his mind was uneasy, so he divined in front of the Patriarch's statue, but after several divinations, they were all signs of defeat and reversal, auspicious signs.

And when he got up in the morning, he saw a magpie holding a flower at the door.

This is an omen, an auspicious sign.

But his heart moved, and he divined a few more, but it was a great evil.

Wang Daoxuan realized that perhaps it was time for a turning point, and fortune and misfortune were hard to predict.

So that day he was supposed to go out, but stayed at home waiting.

Seeing Li Yan's phoenix eyes and dragon pupils, he already had a plan in his heart. After some probing, he found that the other party was worth interacting with, so he taught the method.

Sure enough, the subsequent things changed.

First it was good things, then encountering sword bandits, which just responded to the sign of fortune and misfortune being hard to determine. For Li Yan's decision to have a life-and-death ring fight, although he felt there was no problem, he was inevitably uneasy because the other party was young. Seeing Li Yan break through now, Wang Daoxuan was relieved.

Zhou Banzhu Zhou of the Spring Breeze Troupe also looked surprised. Looking at Li Yan's green face, he hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth and turned back to the room.

He stepped on a stool, moved a small old wooden box from the wardrobe, blew off the dust on the surface, touched it with trembling hands for a few times, and then carried it out the door.

"This Young Brother Yan..."

Zhou Banzhu Zhou said: "Do you have the method for internal strength?"

Li Yan nodded: "Father passed it on."

If internal strength wants to wrap tendons into a circle, you can't just practice martial arts, after all, you can't practice fascia, let alone penetrate the internal organs.

If you want to improve, you have to rely on other practices.

Tiger and Leopard Lei Yin, Toad Fishing Skill, Hum-Ha Two Qi, Crane Sound, Daoist Lei Yin, Buddhist Lion Roar, Great Cloud Lei Yin... are all like this.

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Although each family's inheritance is different, the principles in the world are the same, using the vibration of sound to drive the fascia to bulge and penetrate the bone marrow and internal organs.

Red boxing also has secret methods passed down, which is the piercing silk sound.

The boxing proverb says: One breath, one breath, Qi is like fine silk, passing through the intestines and belly, Qi strings the meridians. It is just suitable for the characteristics of red boxing, which is light as a feather, heavy as Mount Tai, and hitting people like pinching fire.

Just when he was wondering why he asked this, Zhou Banzhu Zhou carried the wooden box, touched it reluctantly, and said: "I think Young Brother Yan can see that I have also practiced boxing for a few days, learning the family-passed Pi Gua."

"My Kung Fu is average, but the ancestors passed down good things."

"The ancestors once came from Xianyang, learned the Qin and Han war drums, not only were they the Drum King at the time, but they were also famous in the martial arts world. Unfortunately, they later offended enemies and had to go to Huayin to avoid disaster."

"The ancestor was taught by a strange person the Great Cloud Lei Yin, combined with the war drum method, and created this Divine Drum Cloud Lei Yin, which is a superior practice, so I will give it to Young Brother."

Li Yan was moved, "This... is too precious, Zhou Banzhu..."

Great Cloud Lei Yin, he had heard his father mention it, it is a secret transmission of the Buddhist sect.

Buddha says Great Cloud Lei Yin, which is louder than ordinary thunder sound.

Named after this, it is enough to prove that this method is extraordinary, rare for ordinary people to see, Zhou Banzhu Zhou actually had this thing, and wanted to give it away, which made him stunned.

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhou Banzhu Zhou waving his hand.

He shook his head slightly and sighed, "My aptitude is average, and that rebellious son went before me. Keeping this thing is useless. If it is sold to villains at will, it is failing the ancestors."

"Young Brother could have retreated yesterday, but choosing to fight a life-and-death ring is not just blocking the disaster for my Spring Breeze Troupe, and with your aptitude, it is not insulting this method."

After saying that, he handed the wooden box directly.

Wang Daoxuan saw this, pondered for a while, and also helped: "Young Brother Yan, just accept it. Zhou Banzhu Zhou, the previously discussed fees will be waived."

This ritual is not cheap. With the current situation of the Spring Breeze Troupe, they would have to exhaust their family wealth to gather it, and they would have to go hungry afterwards.

Doing so can be considered the best of both worlds.

Zhou Banzhu Zhou heard this, and a smile appeared in his eyes, calling his disciples to continue listening to Wang Daoxuan's explanation of the ritual taboos.

And Li Yan sat on the side and opened the wooden box.

Generally speaking, this kind of method is a thin volume, some are just passed down orally by the master, but there are three yellowed books inside.

One is "Pi Gua Boxing Manual," one is "Qin Han Drum Rhyme," and the last one is "Divine Drum Cloud Lei Yin."

Li Yan flipped through it casually and was surprised.

This method is not just breathing, but also requires a specially made iron drum to cooperate...

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The autumn day after the rain, the sky is even higher and farther.

The sunset glow reflects the sky, indicating that tomorrow will be a sunny day.

The official road is muddy, and more than a dozen people are struggling to move forward.

Excluding Li Yan and the others, the Spring Breeze Troupe also brought more than a dozen people, including shadow manipulators, music troupes, singers, and even several apprentices.

As for those families, they stayed in Xianyang City.

Soon, they saw the mass grave.

There was a man in the team, short and fat, pale, who was an acquaintance of Sha Lifei, the suona player "Old White Face."

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at the mass grave in the distance, his eyes full of worry, "Daoist Wang, I heard that there is a beggar nest going west in the mountain, that group of people is not easy to deal with, will they spoil our business?"

"No harm."

Wang Daoxuan shook his head: "The place we are looking for is a place where yin and evil gather, not suitable for people to live. The mass grave is so big, and it is a ritual in the middle of the night, so it won't disturb them."

After saying that, he took out the compass in his hand, looked left and right for a while, pointed to the mountain col on the west side of the mass grave, "White Tiger carrying a corpse is a great evil, Xuanwu hanging its head is a great auspiciousness, unexpectedly the mass grave has such a strange situation, go up from this side!"

Although the crowd didn't understand the art of Feng Shui, they firmly remembered Wang Daoxuan's instructions. After arriving at the foot of the mountain, everyone tightly closed their mouths, helped each other, and climbed up the steep and muddy hillside.

In the distance, the last ray of sunset disappeared, and night shrouded the earth...

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