Speaking of the Central Plains martial arts in this world, although there are many types and each has its own method, in the end, it never changes away from its sect, and there are always rules to follow. If you want to become a top master among the many martial arts practitioners, you must practice Qi, Yi, Shi, and Xing together. To cultivate these four, you cannot do without the heart method, the Kung Fu method, the technique method, and the body method.
The first is the mind. Before talking about the mind method, what I have to mention is the meridians. Whether it is studying literature or martial arts, meridians are the foundation.
By practicing mind skills and directly improving the star positions of meridians, literati can significantly improve their perception and learning abilities, and thus learn and create a large number of classics, historical classics and military strategies. Therefore, in addition to learning some specialized techniques, literati only need to concentrate on cultivating meridians throughout their lives, but martial arts are different.
When martial artists practice mind skills, they must not only improve their meridians, but also take into account the cultivation of Qi Hai. However, the improvement of Qi Hai is also limited by the meridians. For example, if a martial artist cultivates his meridians to the third star level, his Qi Sea can only be cultivated to the third level at most. At the same time, because the weight of the Qi Sea determines the level of martial arts, the meridians indirectly limit the improvement of the level of martial arts. The most distressing thing for warriors is that the martial arts mental method has to take into account the cultivation of meridians and qi sea at the same time, which results in the effect of improving the meridians being far less than the mental method practiced by literati.
Then here comes the problem. Is it possible to practice two mental methods at the same time, one focusing on cultivating meridians, and the other focusing on cultivating Qi Hai? It's possible in theory, but it doesn't work in practice. Human time and energy are limited, and martial arts mentality is the fundamental foundation of martial arts practice. A person may learn many exercises, techniques, and body techniques in his life, but only the mental method must be practiced consistently from the beginning. Changing the mental method midway through martial arts training is tantamount to abolishing the martial arts and starting all over again. This kind of starting over does not mean that the results of previous practice will disappear, but it means that you need to give up a lot of time and energy in practicing the previous mental method to practice the second mental method from scratch, which is really not worth the gain.
To put it in more detail, the result of mental cultivation that focuses on meridians may be that the meridians are cultivated faster than the sea of qi. When the practice reaches a certain stage, there will be a progress difference between the progress of the meridians and the progress of the sea of qi. However, due to the limitations of the cultivation process of the meridian on the cultivation process of the qi sea, the final result of the mental method that focuses on cultivating the qi sea is that the progress of the qi sea and the meridian will be consistent, and there will never be a phenomenon that the qi sea is faster than the meridian cultivation. At the same time, because Focusing on the cultivation of Qi Hai has caused the speed of meridian cultivation to slow down. This is equivalent to training the meridians first, then stopping and waiting for the slower meridians to be cultivated, starting from the beginning, and then slowly catching up. No normal person would do this. (PS: I’m talking about normal people here.)
Some people may be thinking, can I practice the meridians until they are penetrated first, and then start cultivating the Qi Sea? Of course you can, and the effect of cultivating the sea of qi after the meridians are connected is countless times faster than before the meridians are connected. But the question is, who are the people who can cultivate the meridians to the point of penetration?
Some people focus on the cultivation of meridians and leave enough space for the practice of Qi Hai, but due to the lack of Qi Hai, the progress of martial arts is slow; some people focus on the cultivation of Qi Hai, but because the speed of meridians cultivation has always restricted the cultivation of Qi Hai, martial arts Entry is also slow. This is why the vast majority of people can only enter the "Qi Condensing Realm" when entering the martial arts realm, and cannot enter the "Qi Control Realm", because crossing the martial arts realm requires a huge sea of Qi to provide vitality support, and the demand for vitality increases as you enter the later realms. The bigger.
As for which mental method to practice, how to choose? That is, the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise see wisdom. In short, without meridians, there is no sea of qi, and without sea of qi, there is no vitality. Without vitality, the skills learned cannot be used smoothly. This seems like an endless cycle.
So is there a way to have the best of both worlds? Yes, but rarely. That is a kind of martial arts mind method that can increase the speed of meridians and qi sea cultivation at the same time. Although it cannot be compared with the speed of literati's mind method of cultivating meridians alone, it is very rare for martial arts mind methods. Unfortunately, this kind of mentality is too rare. Anyone who can create this kind of mental method is a master who has read all the common people, comprehends the world, and forgets both things and myself. Are there many such people? not much. So is this kind of mentality common? Naturally not much.
Let me say something here. There are not many excellent secret books on internal martial arts and mental techniques in the world, and Shao Xi now has one in his hand. The "Taichang Heart Sutra" is called the unparalleled inner strength and mental method in the world for its own reason. Xu Changsheng, the real person of Wuling who was the leader of Taichang Sect in Wulongshan at that time, is a rare and strange person in this world. He devoted all his life's learning, feeling and understanding to create this Heart Sutra, with the intention of allowing those who teach to cultivate their mind and nature and stay away from the troubles of the world. Since the publication of the "Taichang Heart Sutra", Wulongshan Taichang Sect has become famous in the martial arts world, and martial arts people all over the world flock to it and are fascinated by it.
At this moment, Shao Xi was holding the world's number one mental secret book, considering whether to tear out a few pages from it and print it in a larger size, but finally chose to give up because he disliked the paper being too hard.
Next is the exercises. Kung Fu cultivates the mind, which is the basic form of martial arts. When the cultivation of inner strength and mental skills elevates martial arts to a certain level, what is also improved is the artistic conception. Yi is the concrete expression of Qi. Only through the release of Yi can Qi show the shape of Qi in martial arts.
Different martial arts have different techniques, and different techniques have different meanings. For example, a sword has sword intention, and a sword has sword intention... Then the concrete expression is the form of the released sword energy and sword gang. When the level of martial arts is low, it may just be an arc of energy, but when the level of martial arts reaches a higher level, a more specific form will appear. The "Thousand Mountain Feathers" performed by Yuan You, the leader of the Qianyu Sect, was a high-level martial arts technique with high artistic conception.
The same type of martial arts also has different techniques, and the artistic conception displayed is also different. For example, if it is the same sword technique, the artistic conception displayed will be different due to different techniques.
Within the same realm, different martial arts have different requirements for Qi Hai when the martial arts level is improved. Some techniques have low requirements, so the level will be improved quickly, and some have higher requirements, so the level will be improved slowly, but the key point is that they are limited to the same realm. When faced with the improvement of realm, no matter which method is used, the requirements for the total amount of Qi sea are basically the same. Therefore, some martial arts seem to improve their level very quickly, but in fact they do not have any advantages when it comes to improving their realm. The advantages only exist in comparison within the same realm.
But there are always exceptions. There is such a unique skill in the world that can improve one's realm by a whole level, and that is the hidden weapon skill of the Tang Sect in Sichuan. In fact, strictly speaking, the Tang Sect's technique will suffer a lot in the later stages. Because in the early stage, the realm improved faster than others, but in actuality, the requirements for Qihai when upgrading later were much higher than others.
For example, others have to advance to the fourth level before they can enter the "Qi Control Realm", but the Tang Clan Kung Fu can enter the "Qi Control Realm" when they advance to the third level. It seems that the level is improved one level earlier than others, but in fact, in the cultivation stage from third level to fourth level, the requirements for Qi Hai to improve the level are in accordance with the requirements of "Qi Control Realm". In other words, it is also necessary to upgrade to the fourth level. The difficulty of Tang Sect's cultivation at the third level is much greater than that of others.
By analogy, we can know that the higher the Tang Sect, the more difficult it is to improve to later levels. The Tang Sect Kung Fu mainly relies on external objects, and the cultivation of internal skills and mental methods is relatively lacking, which results in a situation where it seems to be very strong in the early stage, but gradually becomes weak in the later stage. Therefore, among the masters of the later "Qi Transformation Realm", people from the Tang Sect are either rare to see, or they can only be ranked at the bottom of this realm.
The learning of exercises relies on formulas, formulas, tips, and secrets, but they are called differently. A martial arts secret book may not include mind skills and body skills, because these two types usually appear separately in the form of secret books, but there must be techniques and exercises in it, which are generally known as spectrums and tactics. For example, in a swordsmanship secret book, there will be a sword manual and a sword formula. The sword manual records the technical moves, while the sword formula records the key points of the sword technique. So strictly speaking, tactics are the core elements of a martial arts secret book.
What is recorded in the secret book together with the exercises are the techniques. Techniques refer to martial arts moves, and the main function of techniques and moves is to guide. After the intention of the skill transforms the vitality in the sea of qi into a specific form, there must be techniques and moves for directional guidance, or techniques and moves must be used to add more changes to the outward expression of the intention. For example, if a warrior materializes the energy in the sea of qi through his mind, then he wants to swing the sword. Then the direction and trend of the sword, including many changes, all depend on the techniques and moves. But in the later stages, when some martial arts masters have cultivated their martial arts to the state of transformation, the existence of techniques and moves has little meaning. Because at this time, we have reached the state where we can win without any moves, and we can truly "use our thoughts to transform our energy into energy, and use our energy to defend against the enemy."
The last thing is Shenfa. In martial arts, Shenfa has always been defined as an auxiliary skill, but in fact, the importance of Shenfa cannot be ignored. Shenfa is also divided into categories. To sum up, what Shenfa pursues are three words: high, fast and spiritual. Height refers to the extreme height that can be climbed, which plays a decisive role in climbing over walls and ridges, flying over eaves and walls; speed refers to the speed of movement. As long as you move fast enough, the opponent will not be able to capture your figure, and if you When you want to catch up with the opponent, you will get twice the result with half the effort; spirit refers to flexible positioning, changeable movement and dexterous body shape changes.
With good body skills, you can advance and attack, and retreat and defend. Moreover, the spirit in the Three-Character Jue can make the changes in the moves smoother and smoother, thus leading to more unexpected changes in the moves. The important role it plays in this is self-evident. Therefore, body skills are indispensable in the process of becoming a top master. However, with the same fate as the skills, when the martial arts master reaches the state of martial arts, the body skills also become less important. Because at this time, you can now travel through the void, move instantaneously, and face the enemy head-on, there are not so many requirements for body skills.
To sum up, it is: use form to guide form, use form to induce intention, use intention to transform Qi, and use Qi to defend the enemy.
Well! Make a mouthful. Shao Xi was about to tear up the secret book of "Feiyu Sword Technique" at this moment, because he felt that the paper that women read was delicate and soft, especially suitable for large sizes.
well--! Fortunately, Lao Wu has quick hands and feet...
