Chapter 146. Lying Down, Like a Bow

     The room where Ling Xiao lives is a combination of ancient and modern styles.

    The modern style refers to items like electric lights, a bathroom, a water heater, and a glass mirror. The traditional Chinese style includes items like a wardrobe, a hard-board bed, and rosewood tables and chairs. The wardrobe contains five or six sets of Chinese-style martial arts clothing and white bathrobes for changing. The bed has brand-new quilts, sheets, and pillows. Under the bed, there are two pairs of slippers and four pairs of martial arts shoes.

     The facilities are complete, and you can move in with just your personal belongings.

     By the way, there are several bottles of bruises and trauma medicine with a strong smell of alcohol in the drawer under the table.

     In addition to the bruises and trauma medicine, there are the Four Treasures of the Study on the table: Xuan paper, Xuan brushes, Huizhou ink, Xuan inkstones, brush washers, water droppers, armrests, brush holders, and brush rests—a complete, brand-new set. This is because there will be two hours of cultural lessons during the two-day training camp, and brush calligraphy is required.

     Senior Sister Yaoguang said: “Borrow the ‘Three Character Classic’, the ‘Thousand Character Classic’, and the ‘Spring and Autumn Annals’ to learn classical Chinese and brush calligraphy. Practicing calligraphy and reading books helps to calm the mind. In the future, the most basic prerequisite for drawing talismans is being able to write.”

     “To enter literature through reason is very difficult.'”

     Ling Xiao put down the gift box and followed his senior brothers and sisters to get the introductory books of Qingcheng Sect, ‘Qingcheng Secret Records’, ‘Qingcheng Jade Chamber Manual’, ‘Taoist Health Preservation Summary’, ‘Daohai Xuanwei’, ‘Dao Xuanzhi’, a total of five books, all green-covered books.

     The content inside has been renovated. The renovation here means adding a catalog page, and there are explanations of difficult words and phrases under each page, like the Chinese textbook.

     Ling Xiao simply flipped through it.

     The content of “Taoist Health Preservation Summary” is intended to focus on Taoist believers, so the content is relatively simple.

     The ‘Qingcheng Secret Records’ and the ‘Qingcheng Jade Chamber Manual’ contain a portion of the Qingcheng Sect’s history, as well as some Qingcheng spells, cultivation techniques, or alchemical arts, such as the Yin-Yang Reversal Method, the Qian-Kun Return Method, the Great Empowerment Method, the Small Empowerment Method, the Celestial Aperture Opening and Closing Method, the Hooking and Lifting Secret Technique, the Nine Sword-Forging Methods, and so on. Both internal and external cultivation are included. In terms of balancing Yin and Yang, it is absolutely not inferior to Tai Chi.

     The remaining two books, “‘Daohai Xuanwei’ and ‘Dao Xuanzhi’, can be understood, but the meaning is completely incomprehensible.

     In the past, the Qingcheng Sect’s skills were mostly “secret symbols”, so they were definitely not as popular as Shaolin and Wudang, but it has been passed down for thousands of years without interruption, and many precious ancient books have been left in the sect, directly witnessing the unwilling struggle of Taoism in China for thousands of years in the Dharma Ending Age.

     Han Guang said: “These books are just for you to preview, read them before going to bed, and when you really enter the Qingcheng Sect, there will be a Taoist priest to explain them to you personally.”

     Ling Xiao closed the green-skinned book that exuded the scent of ink. It seemed that the road ahead was much more difficult than he imagined.

     Yaoguang and Hanguang also took him around to identify the academy, archery field, martial arts field, duel area, pharmacy, psychologist’s office, and Taoist garrisons of various sects.

     Basically, this green mountain is a training ground. During the training, they would go up and down the mountain, which was no less than the military training.

     Finally, the three of them came to the cafeteria for lunch.

     The layout of the cafeteria is a bit similar to that of a university cafeteria. Lunch focuses on nutrition, with a combination of meat and vegetables, not much oil and salt, and the taste is no worse than that of the Peking University cafeteria, especially the various soups, which are very delicious.

     Here, Ling Xiao met dozens of trainee disciples who were lucky enough to be admitted like him. They had at least one talent above the intermediate level. 90% of them had root bone talent, the remaining 8% had physical talent, and 2% could practice both like Ling Xiao.

     Of course, these things haven’t been told to them yet. Ye Mo saw them on Chief Coach Yan’s desk in the martial arts training field. They were the blood test results from the martial arts alliance leader meeting, which showed several excellent talents. It seems the first batch of recruits is quite good.

     After seeing these, Ye Mo crossed out her annual company physical exam. Her constitution is no longer suitable for blood tests. As soon as she gets checked, they’ll definitely find something amiss

     It has to be said that there are really few disciples in Qingcheng Sect. It’s all because of martial arts novels. The reputation of Qingcheng Sect is really bad.

     Ling Xiao is quite outgoing and quickly got familiar with some of the early batch disciples. There are still many northerners here because the first round of the Wulin Competition was held in Beijing.

     It is said that the second round of the Wulin Alliance Leader Competition will be held in Shanghai World, which can accommodate 80,000 people. Tickets will start selling on Wednesday, and a group of netizens are eager to try and start scrambling for tickets.

     The apprentices were all excited and grateful, but most of them were confused about the writing brushes, inkstones, and introductory books in the room. They really couldn’t understand them.

     …

     The next day, before the training camp for the novice disciples began, they were able to observe the morning training of the disciples from various sects.

     There weren’t many sect disciples residing here, but all of them had already achieved inner strength. Morning training was ingrained in their bones, and of course, they were very eager to show off in front of their junior brothers and sisters.

     The boxing, swordsmanship, and saber techniques displayed in the martial arts training field were all just warm-ups. But even just the warm-ups alone left the group of disciples completely dumbfounded.

     There really are people who can simply jump several meters high, fly through trees, skim across water, and shatter the ground with a punch. Iron Palm and Iron Head Kung Fu are not just legends after all.

     The main thing is that these seem to be everyday skills, nothing to show off. For the senior brothers and sisters, the martial arts alliance leader competition is just child’s play; it’s harder to deliberately perform poorly than to perform well.

     “Where’s Newton’s coffin lid?”

     “Chinese Kung Fu is so powerful, why did we have to fight so hard in the past wars?”

     “The difference between hot weapons and cold weapons!”

     “…”

     Ling Xiao was watching very seriously, but he could still see that his sister’s strength was still higher than that of his senior brothers and sisters. If he wanted to surpass Ye Mo, he had to surpass his senior brothers and sisters.

      After the warm-up, there was a competition.

     The matches between the senior brothers and sisters were much more serious than the martial arts alliance leader competition. They were fighting with real weapons, and injuries were commonplace—disfigurement, falls, even broken ribs.

     Disciples: “120!”

     The victorious senior brother next door: “You must learn to fight to be a true martial arts master.”

     “…”

     The disciples felt that this Huashan sect senior brother must not have a girlfriend, because he was too cruel to the Wudang senior sister just now, and he showed no mercy at all, and finally stabbed the senior sister with a sword.

     At this moment, the doctors came online, a veritable gathering of ancient and modern techniques. Acupuncture, herbal medicine, bone setting, and syringes flew about. They watched as their injured senior brothers and sisters seemed to genuinely not need to go to the hospital.

     “!!!”

     Are they still in this world?

     …

     Ling Xiao rested for about two days. The 78 pre-selected trainee disciples had all arrived and began intensive training together with the 5,962 regular soldiers.

     The first three days of the intensive training consisted of physical training to push the body to its limits, taken from the soldiers’ training regimen.

     Unlike the soldiers, the trainee disciples were driven nearly insane by the high-intensity training. Many considered giving up, but seeing the stylish and elegant demeanor of their senior brothers and sisters, many persevered.

     After all, the medical technology here was truly mind-blowing. The medicinal baths they soaked in daily were incredibly effective at relieving muscle soreness, and the various mystical incense aided sleep and mental recovery, ensuring they were barely affected by the next day’s hellish training

     Ling Xiao was also very sure that compared with Ye Mo’s medicine, the sect’s medicine was completely inadequate. In order not to expose his sister, he would not touch the medicine in the storage ring unless it was absolutely necessary.

     But there were also seven or eight people who gave up after being persuaded by the psychologist and the instructor. After signing some confidentiality agreements, they could only be sent back.

     That night, one of them saw the effect of the confidentiality agreement. He is now being detained. The specific punishment may depend on his performance and attitude.

     …

     Because of this, Ling Xiao and the other two disciples with excellent physiques won the attention of all the training officers with their excellent performance in the first three days of training. The training officers can confirm that they are all ordinary people and have never been trained like this before.

     The performance is too excellent!

     The hope of the future country!

     Compared with the other two disciples, Ling Xiao’s physique is the most special.

     “Maybe it’s because of the pure yang physique?”

     There are more than one billion people in the country, and the total number of people with pure yang physique is not small.

     In the future, it might decrease, because after the spiritual energy revival, there are fewer and fewer people born during these special moments, even with cesarean sections. Furthermore, the pure Yang constitution, during the spiritual energy revival period, was not easy to grow up healthy, After all, the imbalance of Yin and Yang was severe.

     Ling Xiao has pure yang constitution + excellent blood talent + above-average root talent, which is really rare.

     It is reasonable to be so powerful.

     After the three-day physical training, the interns ushered in the first cultural class. The content did not immediately enter the classical Chinese they thought, but morality, etiquette, and human body related.

     Yes, human body related.

     Including the basic structure of the human body, the distribution map of the five internal organs of the human body, the schematic diagram of the bone structure, the human acupuncture point map, etc. There are not only videos and pictures, but also skeleton models.

     And their homework is to recite the above things, especially the acupuncture points and meridian maps.

     Brush pens are being used, after all, a poor memory is no match for a good pen.

     Ling Xiao: “…”

     The words written were too blurry, and they couldn’t be taken out at all, not much better than kindergarten children.

     On the fifth day, in addition to the above courses, the interns finally began to learn basic external skills, which is a collection of multiple schools, taking the essence and removing the dross.

     The movements at the beginning are very simple, and basically everyone can complete them: “Stand apart with your feet as wide as your shoulders, stand in the middle, let your hands hang naturally on your sides, put your tongue against the upper palate, look forward, relax your whole body, eliminate distracting thoughts, concentrate your mind, breathe naturally, and increase from 10 minutes to 90 minutes each time.”

     When the acupoints were added, they were a little dizzy: “… Place the middle finger on the Daheng acupoint, and place the thumbs on the Zhishi acupoint…”@

     “The waist rotates to the left nine times, that is, 81 times, to achieve the number of ninety-nine return to the origin.”@

     When the moves were complicated, many disciples who did not achieve “eliminating distracting thoughts and concentrating their minds” had no idea what to do, and they could only be punished to run, push-ups, and frog jumps.

     The previous zombie case had a huge impact on Ling Xiao, making him extremely meticulous in everything he did. He basically put in more than 80% of his concentration, enhanced by the effects of the potion he had taken before.

     More than ten days later, Ling Xiao cultivated his inner strength before all the other disciples and had an additional inner training course.

     The sign of cultivating inner strength is that his strength, speed and other physical data are all higher than the normal limit, and he will feel that his body’s ability to adapt to cold and heat has greatly increased.

     Ling Xiao was very happy, but unfortunately in such an environment, he could not share this happiness with Ye Mo for the time being.

     When the instructor used Ling Xiao to encourage other disciples, the other disciples opened their mouths so wide that they could put a ping-pong ball. They were really surprised: “Internal strength? This unscientific thing really exists?”

     The instructor looked innocent: “It exists, didn’t I tell you?”

     “Yes, you really didn’t tell us!”

     So far, Ye Mo has stopped paying attention to Ling Xiao for the time being. He has a strong adaptability, and he still has to walk his own way in the future.