At night, the night breeze on the city wall was slightly cool, and it was pitch black without any firelight.
From time to time, takraw balls would be thrown from behind the city wall and hit the front. The blazing flames could last as long as a cup of tea, allowing pairs of eyes crouching on the dark city wall to see what was happening outside the city wall at night.
Today it is Zhang Yan's team's turn to be on night duty. It's okay during the day, it's not too cold here in Yubei Mountain, but it's quite chilly at night, especially if you stay by the wall without moving for a long time, your hands and feet will be cold in the second half of the night.
Zhang Yan tightened his armor tightly, held the spear in his arms, put his hands into balls near his mouth, and kept breathing. His eyes were drowsy, and from time to time he followed the fire oil takraw balls thrown out to look at the situation under the city wall as a warning. Not far to the left is the spot of the flower dog. At this time, you can faintly hear snoring, and it seems that he is squinting. Hua Gou had asked Zhang Yan to keep an eye on him before, saying that he would remind him when the night watchman came later to avoid being caught and whipped.
Zhang Yan is not as big-hearted as Hua Gou, and Hua Gou is now a formal soldier of Yubei Mountain Fortress. Even if he is caught sleeping in front of the battle, he will only wake up with one or two whips. And Zhang Yan is now a criminal soldier, and he will be severely beaten if he dares to squint. The day after he arrived, he saw an unlucky guy who was also a criminal soldier and was caught by the night watchman and whipped for more than ten times for dozing off. Whip, face full of blood blisters. However, the unlucky guy did not survive the third day and is now nowhere to be seen.
"Breathe...breathe...breathe...breathe..." In order to keep himself awake, Zhang Yan breathed out the breath that he had not practiced for many years. Nafa picked it up again, breathing in and out according to a special rhythm, while calmly feeling the subtle changes in each breath.
The breathing technique practiced by Zhang Yan is called "Liu Tian". It is a breathing technique that is said to be very domineering. It is also the core breathing technique that was only open to the masters of Longhu Mountain in the past. Later, Longhu Mountain declined, and he was the only one left in Zhang Yan's generation.
This is not the first time Zhang Yan has used the Breathing Technique after coming to the Wild Sky Realm. He has used it before, and it has been effective, and the effect has increased slightly every time.
The feeling was strange, as if the air he exhaled contained some dirt that he had never noticed before, and the air he inhaled contained something that made him feel agile.
According to the records in the classics in Longhu Mountain, those "spiritual things" should be the ubiquitous "spiritual energy" wandering in the world, and they also formed the foundation of the legendary era of the earth.
Taking spiritual energy into the body, and then slowly retaining it in the Dantian, forming a cyclone, is the first step in martial arts practice, and it is also the first step in Shinto practice.
Of course, this is far from enough for Zhang Yan. At best, he has just taken the first step in cultivation. You only need to move these spiritual energy along the meridians around the sky, and finally gather in the lower Dantian, and then you can take your time.
However, this process should have been simple, but Zhang Yan encountered undue trouble.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, there was a slight tremor in the chest, and in an instant, all the spiritual energy that Zhang Yan had been breathing out after going around the world was drained away, leaving no trace of the Dantian.
The spiritual energy was withheld like this, blatantly.
"What on earth are you going to do?" Zhang Yan asked speechlessly in his mind more than once. Too bad he wouldn't get an answer.
At this time, there was a pendant under Zhang Yan's armor, with a colorful bead the size of a grape. This was the thing that cut off Hu's spiritual energy.
This bead is not the legacy of the body's predecessor, but was brought by Zhang Yan when he traveled from the earth. Even the reason why he was able to travel through time was because of this bead.
This bead is called the "Wanxiang Bead". It was dug out by Zhang Yan from a jade scroll of sect rules and ancestral training handed down from Longhu Mountain. At that time, he was preparing to clean the scroll, but by chance, he opened a secret mechanism on it and obtained the bead from it.
The beads are colorful and flashing like a stream of light, and they are not ordinary at first glance. They are almost identical to the "Wanxiang Pearl", the treasure of the town that has been mentioned many times in the Longhu Mountain classics. So Zhang Yan embedded it in a necklace and wore it close to his body.
A few days ago, Zhang Yan was invited to an underground palace in Tianzhu to help people see the hidden murderous intentions. As a result, he lost his hand and was swallowed by a poisonous mist sprayed by a mechanism. Just when he was about to die, a Wan Xiangzhu took a deep breath of the poisonous mist, and then seemed to get more energy. He hit Zhang Yan's forehead and took his soul away. After that, Zhang Yan went to the Wild Sky Territory and became the criminal soldier he is now.
After that, Wan Xiang Zhu followed Zhang Yan all the time. The only change was that every time Zhang Yan relied on breathing skills to condense a trace of spiritual energy, he would be intercepted by Wan Xiang Zhu the moment before it flowed into his lower dantian, without exception.
Although Zhang Yan didn't know what Wan Xiangzhu was doing to intercept Hu's spiritual energy, he didn't feel much disgust in his heart, but was just confused and curious. He always felt that Wanxiang Pearl was like a sponge that had been dry for too long and needed to absorb water before it could show its true appearance.
There's no rush, just wait. Zhang Yan's mentality was very peaceful.
With this interruption, Zhang Yan suddenly felt sober after feeling sleepy. While continuing to get used to the breathing technique of "Sky Sweeping", he was ready to make it a normal thing to replace his previous breathing rhythm. At the same time, he was also thinking about how he should gain a foothold in this wilderness in the future.
According to some memories of his predecessor, he was charged with the felony of arson. According to the laws of the Nanyuan Kingdom, he should have been beheaded. However, when the demon soldiers rose up, he became a criminal soldier. In total, he still escaped.
However, in my memory, my predecessor did not set the fire, and I always believed that I was wrongly accused. After all, a coward who can scare himself to death at the sight of a killing array is indeed unlikely to have the courage to set fire to kill people.
"Redress the injustice? Forget it, think about how to survive first, which is the top priority."
I originally wanted to rely on breathing skills to step into the threshold of martial arts cultivation or Shinto as soon as possible. Then some of the methods passed down from Longhu Mountain can be used to save Zhang Yan's life. But now because of Wan Xiangzhu, this road is temporarily blocked.
"Taoist divine spells seem to be useful these days. The "Golden Light Divine Curse" can bless one's body, strengthen one's strength, stabilize one's mood, and slow down physical exhaustion. The "Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Curse" can have similar effects on monsters. Or the reaction ability is greatly weakened. This shows that without the blessing of spiritual energy, the power of the divine curse itself can be generated by the resonance of the heaven and earth alone. So can similar methods be tried?"
It seems that Taoist methods have a strong restraint effect on the demon clan in the wilderness. After all, in the legendary era on earth, Taoist monks were also known as "killing demons and slaying demons."
I just don’t know the difference between this “demon” and that “demon”.
Zhang Yan had a new idea in his mind. When he was running around on earth, he could not only recite incantations, he could also draw talismans.
