Imperial Palace, Sutra Pavilion.
Gu Dan strolled into it, and not surprisingly saw Ji Laozheng lying on the recliner.
Every time he came here, he would see Mr. Ji lying on a chair, his eyes half-lidded and half-opened, as if he was wandering around.
This old man who is over a hundred years old and looks decrepit, judging from his appearance alone, it is true that there is no trace of his status as a master, and he is no different from ordinary people.
Even after hearing Gu Dan's footsteps, Mr. Ji did not get up. He just yawned and even said a little impatiently: "Why, do you have any questions to ask?"
"No more now. I just want to try to see how far my martial arts is according to your standards." Gu Dan stood in front of him and said.
"How long has it been since then? You have only been a Grandmaster for two years, so what is there to try? After all, you are still a young man. Even when you become a Grandmaster, you will inevitably become a little more impetuous."
Mr. Ji gave full play to the virtue of relying on his elders, and said unceremoniously with a look of vicissitudes on his face: "If you want to make progress after reaching the master level, your speed will naturally slow down. This has nothing to do with whether you have talent or not, but You have to rely on years of hard work! Your boy has never been tortured by the obstruction of Qi and blood, and this unpolished character is not good!"
"You won't lose a piece of meat if you try it. A grandmaster should have a sufficient understanding of his own strength. Isn't this what you always say?" Gu Dan raised his eyebrows slightly and blocked his words.
Over the past year, he has practiced a lot of high-grade martial arts that he took back from Mr. Ji. I can't say that he has mastered them, but it is not an exaggeration to say that he has mastered them.
After Mo Qiu left, he didn't even have anyone to practice with.
Apart from him, the only remaining martial arts master in the imperial capital was Mr. Ji, and with Mr. Ji's appearance, it was obviously not easy to be his sparring partner.
If you keep practicing like a blind man trying to grasp an elephant, you will inevitably have no sense of reality and will dampen your ambition to advance!
Only genuine progress will make people happy. Simply growing one year older is just wasting your time.
You must see your own progress to be affirmative of life. This has nothing to do with how long you have lived, but to prove the meaning of personal existence. This is Gu Dan's pursuit.
"Hey, I still don't give up. There is a saying that if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer the consequences. I'm afraid that if I give it a try later, I will not only lose my confidence in myself, but it will also dampen my ambition to enter the country and affect my future. If you practice, the gains outweigh the losses!”
Mr. Ji opened his eyes and looked at him with a smile, "Have you thought clearly? Do you really want to try?"
"oh?"
Gu Dan stared at him curiously.
There is something in the words!
"I wonder what else is weird about the test you always talk about?" Gu Dan asked.
"If you want to say it's too strange, it's not that strange. It just makes people understand what it means that there are people outside the world, and there is heaven outside the world."
Mr. Ji sat upright from the recliner, "Do you still remember that I told you that there is another martial arts master in the royal family? That kid had great doubts about himself after the test. In Huaben The saying here is that there are many inner demons. In human terms, it means constantly questioning yourself and wasting your mind.
It is precisely because of this that he is unwilling to follow my example and wait until he is old and frail before trying the legendary innate realm. He must rush straight into the bottomless abyss in one breath and die in the end. Crap! "
Everyone who can complete the Qi-blood barrier and become a martial arts master should be a mentally determined person. What kind of test can force a master to have "inner demons" and even attack the innate realm without hesitation? ?
The curiosity in Gu Dan's eyes became more and more intense, and he said without hesitation: "Then I want to give it a try!"
For him, he is not afraid of seeing dangers at the peak. As long as the peak is there, no matter how many dangers and obstacles there are, he can always climb up if there is plenty of time. There is no need to question himself at all.
"Okay! This momentum is worth encouraging. I hope you can still be so confident later."
Mr. Ji stood up and took out something from a room.
Is that a cracked iron ball?
It is said to be an iron ball, but in fact it is not round. The surface is full of pits and a large piece is missing. There is also a clear sword mark on it, and the whole iron ball is only about the size of the mouth of a bowl.
"This is?"
Gu Dan was a little confused. Mr. Ji had said so much, and he just came up with this? !
"Hey, you kid, don't look down on this thing!"
Mr. Ji patted the iron ball, placed it in front of Gu Dan, and motioned for him to watch carefully.
Gu Dan reached out to take it, but as soon as he took it he noticed something was wrong.
The weight of this little broken ball was far beyond his expectation, probably weighing over a thousand kilograms!
It is impossible for ordinary iron tools to weigh so much!
"Do you feel it? This thing was found in a blacksmith shop. Ordinary people can't lift it at all. This thing is not afraid of fire or water. Even if it is hit hard by a hammer, there is no wear at all. Finally, it was reported layer by layer, and finally It fell into the hands of the royal family, but there is nothing you can do about it." Mr. Ji said.
The appearance of the small broken ball suddenly looked like an ordinary iron object, but after holding it in his hand and looking at it carefully, Gu Dan also discovered some differences.
There are extremely fine textures on the small broken ball, so fine that you have to look closely to detect them. It seems that some extremely complicated patterns have been stacked together, and in the end it has become an ordinary appearance.
Compared with the sword mark on it, this iron ball is really not conspicuous, so it's no wonder that the clues couldn't be discovered immediately.
"It is indeed extraordinary, but is there anything worthy of praise?" Gu Dan asked again after looking at it.
If it was just relatively severe, it would not be so severe that it would force a master to have inner demons.
"A newly promoted martial arts master can hardly leave any trace on it with a full palm strike. Only a second-level martial arts master can barely make it sink in a little, and then it will recover immediately!"
Mr. Ji stared at the small broken ball, a trace of fear flashing in his eyes.
In terms of material alone, it is indeed amazing, but the most frightening thing is the sword mark on it!
What kind of master must be to hit something that the Grandmaster can't do anything about with all his strength?
It’s scary to think about it!
Even if the martial arts has reached the peak of the world, after witnessing these puzzling things with one's own eyes, even the grandmaster will feel that there must be a higher level of power in this world.
For example, an immortal, for example, the martial arts talent he has been pursuing tirelessly!
If there is no such state, how to explain the obvious damage caused by human power on this small broken ball?
That sword mark is the best evidence!
With their vision and strength reaching their level, they have already exhausted the temptations in the world. When they should have spent their lives in vain, they saw another beautiful scenery that they had never explored or even understood.
When doubts arise in your mind, they will become the greatest motivation to pursue them.
This has become his obsession!
Although the iron ball is small, all the martial arts masters who have seen it since the founding of Dayue always have some questions.
Either admit that you are a frog in a well looking at the sky, or turn into a madman and pursue the unknown other side of the world!
With the pride of a martial arts master, he would definitely not choose the former!
He originally wanted to show this thing to Gu Dan before he hit the innate realm, so that even if he was gone, as long as he thought of this thing, he would always push Gu Dan forward.
After all, human curiosity and questioning are the most abundant forces. No one needs to urge them. As long as they find out, they can't help but try all kinds of taboos!
But since Gu Dan came to the door himself and wanted to test his quality, don't blame him for being rude.
The martial arts master in his early thirties was unprecedented, so he was inevitably arrogant. It was not a bad thing to suppress his arrogance while he was still suppressing it.
"this"
Gu Dan also narrowed his eyes upon hearing this.
Although I have long been prepared in my heart that there are immortals in this world, and I have even personally experienced the effectiveness of spiritual stones, but truly witnessing the power of immortals and the expectations in my mind are two different things!
The eyes of ants cannot understand the height of the mountain. Only by actually climbing can you feel it!
There are differences between immortals and mortals, but how can they be different?
This is something we don’t know yet!
Today, you can get a glimpse of the leopard from the upper tube of destructive power.
"Think about it, you have spent countless hard work, practiced for forty or fifty years, and endured countless pains. Finally, you have reached the realm of a master and reached the pinnacle of a warrior. You should have reached the top and enjoyed countless glory and wealth. . But you suddenly realize that you have spent half your life practicing, and even an iron ball of unknown function cannot hurt you."
Mr. Ji's tone seemed particularly complicated, and his dry and decaying eyebrows drooped, "The boy in the palace just couldn't stand this kind of stimulation. I tried my best to persuade him for several years, but I still couldn't stop him."
That sword mark proves that being a martial arts master is by no means the limit of this world, or in other words, it's still far away!
When a hero stands out from thousands of people and achieves the greatest achievement and pride in his life, he suddenly realizes that everything he has worked hard for seems to be nothing at all. This kind of blow can drive a person crazy. Martial arts master!
This iron ball is Oyue's luck and misfortune. Fortunately, they can understand the truth that there are people outside the world and there is heaven outside the world. Unfortunately, this thing fully shows that martial arts masters still have a long way to go.
And that path may not be martial arts at all!
Of course the martial arts master who has reached the pinnacle of the world will not agree with it, so... it must, must, definitely, anyway, there must be a realm above the martial arts master to make sense!
If you can't destroy it now, that's because the master isn't enough!
"No matter how much you say, it's not as useful as trying it yourself. Come on, there's no need to use your true energy, it's useless to it. Use your body to try this iron ball, give it a palm, and feel how you once forced a man to death The fear and unwillingness of a martial arts master." Mr. Ji said again.
"good."
Gu Dan nodded slightly and his expression became solemn.
But of course this kind of experiment cannot be carried out in the Sutra Pavilion. It is not enough to describe how the grandmaster used his palm to split the stele and crack the stone. This place is used to store books, how can it be destroyed?
The two came to an open space in the palace. Gu Dan placed the small broken ball on the ground and took a deep breath.
The strength was mobilized to the extreme, Qi penetrated the whole body, and struck down with one palm!
The extremely violent force at the moment of contact was not the rebound of something hard and indestructible as Gu Dan thought.
On the contrary, this palm was more like hitting some kind of special sponge, and he couldn't help but wonder if he had missed the target.
but not.
There was an overwhelming sound of tearing from the ground, and a large piece of the green bricks paved on the ground shattered in an instant, and more spiderweb-like cracks spread toward the distance.
The iron ball only sank slightly into the ground, roughly estimated to be less than half a palm!
Whether judging from the scale of ground damage or analyzing the power of this palm, this is absolutely unreasonable!
Lowering his head and staring at the place where the palm fell, there was only a slight depression that was insignificant compared to the whole, barely reflecting an incomplete palm print.
And the dent is recovering extremely quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Seeing is worth hearing a hundred times!
Seeing such strange things with his own eyes, Gu Dan was inevitably a little shaken.
How could this thing be so powerful?
Why? !
Moreover, it takes one palm of his full strength to cause such damage, which will recover in the blink of an eye. If an armor made of such materials is worn on the body, wouldn't it be able to face the siege of the Grandmaster without even blinking?
But this thing is just the size of a bowl and weighs a thousand pounds. Let’s not talk about where to find so many materials. Even if it is really made into armor, who can run around wearing it? I'm afraid it will become an iron cage!
"It's really not bad."
Gu Dan said with serious eyes, looking quite emotional.
But he didn't hear Mr. Ji speak for a long time, so he looked up.
But he saw Mr. Ji staring at him with his eyes wide open and dumbfounded, looking up and down, as if looking at something inhuman, as if he wanted to skin him.
"What are you doing?"
Gu felt a chill in his worry, and the strange look in his eyes was really hard for him to bear.
What are you looking at me for, watching football!
"How can you have such strength! This is unreasonable!"
Mr. Ji's eyes were full of confusion. He had lived for more than a hundred years and had lived through three dynasties. Oh no, including Kang Jing, he had lived through four dynasties. What kind of genius had he not seen before?
He has never seen such a monster!
It is clear that he has just been a martial arts master for less than two years, but the skill of that fallen palm is probably no less than that of someone who has been practicing hard at the master for more than ten years!
Could it be that that elixir is so miraculous that it can not only help people to clear up qi and blood obstacles, but even increase the speed of physical cultivation?
Otherwise, he really couldn't understand how Gu Dan could enter the country so quickly in such a completely impossible place!
No, this can no longer be called fast, this is called jumping!
If you calculate it this way, as long as you wait a few more years, wouldn't the other party have reached the point where he has worked hard all his life? !
Totally incomprehensible!
His original intention was to open Gu Dan's eyes, but he didn't expect that Gu Dan brought him another huge surprise, which was so surprising that it could be called frightening!
You boy, what else do I not know? !
(End of chapter)
