In his sleep, Li Ye felt the air flowing in the cave. A figure brought the cold wind in from outside the cave and blew it on his face. He woke up from his sleep and rubbed his eyes.
At first glance, it turned out that it was not Xiao Bai, but the old ape looking at him with wide eyes and a smile on his face.
Li Ye smiled and asked, "Senior, why are you here so early?"
"It's snowing outside, don't you want to practice your sword? Why are you still here and don't want to get up?" After the old ape finished speaking, he walked out of the cave.
When Li Ye heard this, he became energetic. He quickly got out of the quilt, put on his clothes and shoes, and hurriedly ran out of the cave.
Looking up, I saw that the sky was full of snow and wind again.
Li Ye laughed loudly, pushed the door into the wooden shed, looked at the old ape sitting at the table and said, "Senior, you are angry, I will practice for a while and then make tea."
After speaking, he picked up the bamboo sword on the table, turned around and walked out the door.
He looked up at the snowflakes falling from the sky outside Yaping, thoughtfully.
Cliffs, woods, cliffs, flowing water, the vitality of heaven and earth is everywhere. In the snow and cold wind, there is still vitality of heaven and earth. I can try to absorb them into my body.
I can also take advantage of the situation, condense the energy of the world on my bamboo sword, and slash at the snowflakes.
Without the release of true energy, without the condensation of true energy, without using the power of the "Phaseless Dharma Body", just like a child in Fengyun City, he raised the bamboo sword in his hand and slashed at the falling snow.
Drawing out and sheathing the sword takes only an instant.
Li Ye lowered his head and looked at the sword body, only to see nothing on the bamboo sword.
One sword, two swords, ten swords,... a hundred swords, Li Ye lowered his head, the sword body was still empty of snow.
Li Ye, who was stronger, stopped drawing his sword, closed his eyes, and released his consciousness to perceive the wind and snow around him.
One piece, two pieces, ten pieces,...a hundred pieces, he saw snowflakes slowly falling from the sky, toward the top of his head, toward the top of the wooden shed, and slowly falling down. .
He devoted all his consciousness to staring at a falling snowflake. He stabbed the bamboo sword in his right hand lightly and moved closer to the slowly falling snowflake...and then closer.
...
After repeatedly drawing and sheathing the sword, after finally staying in the snow for an hour, I lowered my head and saw a complete snowflake stuck to the blade of the bamboo sword, crystal clear and beautiful.
At this moment, Li Ye held his breath. After a while, until the snowflakes gradually melted away, he roared with all his strength.
The old ape in the room was so shocked that he ran out of the shed like lightning and looked at Li Ye standing in the snow.
Li Ye looked at the anxious old ape, smiled sheepishly, and said, "That's nothing, senior, let's go in and have tea."
Back in the shed, Li Ye took down the boiling water that the old ape had boiled, started to warm the pot, wash the tea, wash the cups, and poured the brewed tea into two cups.
The old ape pointed to a few fruits on the table and said: "My children give these to you. We don't have many, so you can eat them as soon as you can. There is no need to rush to cook porridge to fill your stomach."
Li Ye picked up the teacup, blew gently, took a sip, looked at the old ape with joy and said, "I scared senior with my scream outside just now."
"Why are you shouting? Is there something worthy of surprise happening?" The old ape also picked up the tea cup in front of him.
"It's more of a surprise than a surprise! I finally found a trick to stick snowflakes with a bamboo sword without breaking it. As long as I spend more time practicing, I can break the snowflakes."
The old ape was startled and stared blankly at Li Ye without making a sound. He lowered his head and took a sip of tea. After a while, he said: "You are indeed a monster. In just a few days, you have mastered this sword technique." threshold."
"I can't believe your husband didn't teach you these tricks, did he?"
Li Ye took a sip of the hot tea in the cup and said with a silly smile: "My husband hasn't had time to teach me yet, and he probably didn't expect that I won't be with him this winter."
The old ape nodded and put the cup on the table. Li Ye added some hot tea to him.
Holding the tea cup in his hands, the old ape sighed: "I didn't expect that at your young age, you are not much worse than the Poxu monk back then."
"No one has taught you how to practice swordsmanship in this river, practice in waterfalls and pools, or practice swordsmanship in the snow today. There is no sword technique for you to refer to. It's all your own." It is really not easy to practice and master the sword style. I can't find the words to praise you."
Li Ye's little face flushed with excitement, making his gray-black face look more alive.
Looking at the bamboo sword placed on the table, he said: "My husband said: I don't need to practice sword moves now, I just need to practice the simplest sword moves he requires."
"Although I have understood some principles of cutting snow, my fallen leaf sword technique is a mess, and I haven't touched the threshold yet. It seems that I can only continue to practice until next spring or summer when there are a lot of leaves."
The old ape nodded and said with a smile: "Don't be anxious. First practice the sword skills you learned today. If you haven't mastered it, you can practice it next year, the year after that, or even beyond. Why are you anxious?"
"Also, why didn't you see the little white wolf today? Where did it go?"
"I didn't see its shadow last night. At first, I thought it went to your cave to go crazy. Since you didn't see it, it had no choice but to go play with the Elder Wolf." Li Ye looked at the wooden shed. Xiaomen, a little dazed.
"It can only learn Buddhism from you, but for the wolf clan's practice, the old wolf has to teach it. It's okay for it to follow. It can practice faster and help you in the future." The old ape took a sip. tea ceremony.
Li Ye poured boiling water over the fruits on the table, handed one to the old ape, and took one into his mouth.
The old ape looked at Li Ye, frowned and thought for a long time, opened his mouth and then closed it, and finally put the fruit in his hand to his mouth.
"Senior, do you have something to hide? Just tell me," Li Ye said, looking at the old pig's uncomfortable look.
The old ape shook his head, looked at Li Ye and said, "There is one more thing. I didn't tell you before because I didn't have the opportunity. A long time ago, I saw Monk Poxu sitting in the pool under the waterfall every winter. Temper your body with extremely cold ice and snow water.”
"After he left, I also tried it. It can indeed temper the body, but it also requires very high physical fitness. I'm afraid you won't be able to stand the inhuman cold."
Li Ye lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked at the core in his hand and said, "I didn't expect this old monk to be so cruel to me. He actually went to the pool to temper his body in this ice and snow. Senior, you have also practiced in it before, no?" Do you know how it feels?”
"In a word: life is worse than death." The old ape said decisively. "This is the feeling I had when I went in for the first time. The pain was like a thousand arrows piercing the heart. You have a feeling that you don't want to live in the next moment."
"Practice in such extremely cold conditions cannot improve your realm. It can only sharpen your state of mind, temper your body, and make your true energy more pure."
"The premise is that you can endure the inhuman pain. The first time I went in, I only lasted less than a fifth of a moment before jumping out. After practicing, I could persist for an hour and stopped practicing. Because I found that after an hour, I couldn’t make any progress no matter how hard I practiced.”
Li Ye thought that he had been working very hard since he was practicing, whether he was walking from the academy to his husband's Zizhuyuan wearing iron armor, or later practicing with three bowls of water on his head and shoulders, or even going to Tianshan Mountain where he suffered a lot.
But all these hardships are not as terrible as practicing in the cold pool.
He clearly remembered that only after he entered the golden elixir realm could he reach the Tianshan River in autumn. There must be a lot of ice in the river in winter, and it would be difficult for him to persevere with his current practice.
But in the blink of an eye, I thought that my "Phaseless Dharma Body" had reached the fifth level of cultivation, and the strength of my physical body was not comparable to that of the ordinary Golden elixir level. There may not be no chance if you work hard.
He looked at the old ape and said softly: "Senior, if I burn a fire by the pool, will it be easier to resist the terrible cold?"
The old ape looked at him and shook his head and said: "If you want to lose this little life, just light a fire there. Do you think it is the two heavens of ice and fire? You have to know that the moment you leave the pool, It means that your body can no longer hold on and your blood is about to freeze. If you stand next to the fire at this moment, do you want to explode and die?"
"The only way is to take an animal skin and wrap it around you when you can no longer hold on and jump to the shore, so that your body can slowly return to normal body temperature."
"If you don't believe it, go outside and break some ice cubes, throw them into the boiling water and give it a try. You must have crystal teacups at the foot of the mountain. If you put ice cubes in a cup of boiling water, the temperature of the cup will be higher. Due to the instantaneous temperature difference reaction, your crystal cup will explode instantly."
Li Ye opened his mouth wide when he heard it, but didn't close it for a while. "Senior, you have never been in the world, how do you understand so many truths?"
"Don't look at me. Where have I seen a crystal cup? I had the same idea as you at the beginning. I also wanted to light a fire by the pool so that I wouldn't be afraid of the cold when I came out of the pool. This principle is what the monk Po Xu said. Tell me, my expression at that time was the same as yours now."
Li Ye sighed and said: "It is true that extreme cold and extreme heat cannot be put together. Since it was said by Senior Poxu Monk, it must make sense. Let's not try it."
"What? You still don't give up and want to go into the pool and give it a try?" The old ape became interested and looked at Li Ye and said: "If you insist on giving it a try, don't be afraid. I will stand guard at the edge when the time comes. Come on, if you don’t come out and shout, I’ll come and get you.”
Hearing what the old ape said, Li Ye couldn't help laughing and said, "I would like to thank you in advance for your kindness, but I'm not in a hurry yet. I'll first practice this sword technique more proficiently before I consider going to Hantan." Winter has just begun regarding body tempering."
