Chapter 7 The Second Floor of Inner Strength
The second step of practicing the Turtle Breath Technique is already a small achievement. The third step requires consolidation and the second step before it can be practiced. Zhao Siyan is still stopping at the third step.
The third step of the turtle breath technique is to absorb the breath, hide the mind in the true abyss, and keep the mind conscious and sensation, so as not to float. If the mind and breath are gradually forgotten, only one spiritual sense exists in the hollow hole in the navel, which will not move for a long time and gradually enter into great concentration. This is the best skill of the turtle breath technique, and it is very difficult to practice.
When practicing the third stance, since internal strength is needed to lead to the front and absorb the breath, Lu Cheng's body can only lie on the bed, overlapping his palms with his forehead, like a turtle lying there. This is called the turtle lying style. Although the posture is easy to learn, it is very difficult to pull the internal strength and forget both the body and the body.
Since Lu Cheng has practiced the turtle breathing technique, he naturally wants to practice the third stance well. As long as he has time every day, he will practice the third stance on Datong Mountain. As long as Lu Zhong leaves at night, he will immediately practice the third stance. However, the practice of the third stance is very difficult. It is very difficult to achieve great concentration and make the internal energy in the navel gather more and more.
Lu Cheng didn't know that even Zhao Siyan had not achieved the third method of the turtle breathing technique. He had been practicing for more than 20 years, but he had only practiced for a few days.
Half a month later, Lu Cheng had not made any progress. He suddenly thought that the practice of turtle breathing technique could end with sensitivity. You should know that the first level of his internal strength was successful because of sensitivity. When Lu Cheng asked sensitivity to help him practice turtle breathing technique, a magical scene happened. Originally, the most difficult thing in the third style was to lead the internal strength forward, hiding the mind and absorbing breath, but with the help of sensitivity, internal strength quickly began to guide the breath to gather in the navel, and those breaths slowly gathered more and more in the navel.
When Lu Cheng opened his eyes, he found that it was all dark. He sat cross-legged on the tree in the morning to practice the third turtle breathing technique. Unexpectedly, he was too devoted to practicing and it became dark. The evening in Datong Mountain is not something that can be easily come. Even at the foot of the mountain, there may be beasts appearing. Since he was a child, he has been taught that he must not leave Songjiazhuang at night, otherwise life and death will be unpredictable.
But before Lu Cheng had time to panic, he immediately discovered that he could enter the great concentration of the turtle breath technique. The so-called great concentration is actually to hold your breath and regulate your breathing. He could maintain it without breathing, or without breathing outside. Although he did not calculate the time to hold your breath, he chopped two loads of firewood and tied them together with a rope. When he was carrying it to Songjiazhuang, he neither exhale nor inhale.
When Lu Cheng returned home, he happened to meet Lu Zhong going out. Lu Cheng didn't come back so late, so Lu Zhong was naturally worried. Seeing Lu Cheng taking light steps and his face was as usual, the stone in his heart fell to the ground. When he asked, Lu Cheng was excused.
"Cheng'er, you must come back early in the future. It's very dangerous outside at night. Don't talk about you, even my two adoptive fathers and I will not dare to stay outside easily." Lu Zhong reminded him that he was about to go to the janitor to find Lu Cheng. If he did not come back before the sun sets, he might be in danger.
Lu Cheng agreed timidly, but he didn't agree. There were indeed many wild animals in Datong Mountain at night, but the foot of the mountain was relatively safe. Besides, he had the induction and could sense it in advance even if there were wild animals.
At night, when Lu Cheng was practicing internal energy, he also used the turtle breathing technique. His breathing became very slow, and it took at least one incense stick to him. Lu Cheng knew that his sensitivity not only allowed him to perceive the situation around him, but also played a role in strengthening his cultivation. He did not break through the third level of the turtle breathing technique for half a month, but during the day, when he used his sensitivity, he suddenly reached the realm of great success.
Although the body-reducing technique and turtle breathing technique that Lu Cheng practiced have both reached the realm of great success, because his internal strength is only one level, even if it is improved day by day, he cannot exert the corresponding power. For example, the body-reducing technique, Xie Naxin can go from an adult to a baby, but Lu Cheng can only shrink his body a few inches, and at most it will only go back to five years ago. As for turtle breathing technique, Zhao Siyan is still practicing the third step, and he has already achieved great success. However, because he is only the first level of internal strength, the time he really holds his breath is not as good as Zhao Siyan.
Lu Cheng knew that this was because his internal strength was too weak. If he could reach the second level, the situation might be completely different. It would take five years for ordinary people to go from the first level to the second level of internal strength, but Lu Cheng was destined to be an ordinary person. He spent ten years cultivating sensitivities, which can be said to be sharpening a knife and chopping wood.
It only takes more than a month for Lu Cheng to enter the first level of internal strength. Ordinary people can enter the middle level from the early stage, even if they are a genius. However, it takes only more than a month for Lu Cheng to go from the early stage to the peak. During this period, he also practiced two martial arts: body shrinkage and turtle breathing techniques. If this were replaced by others, not only would the internal strength not improve, but the two auxiliary martial arts would be difficult to make progress.
The breath in the body became stronger and stronger. Lu Cheng licked the lower palate on his tongue, and the qi sinked to the Dantian. The lower abdomen then bulged, then sink the qi to the perineum, divided into two strands, along the large, inside the calf, and down the Yongquan point of the sole of the foot. Then inhale slowly, the lower abdomen contracted, and the tongue licked the upper palate with the mind, leading the qi from the sole of the foot, along the small and outside the thighs, back to the perineum, then lifted the anus, crossed the three gates along the Du meridian, and reached the top of the head, and then divided the qi down along the front side of the ears, and joined the tip of the tongue. At this time, it was exactly connected with the breath when exhaling, and from the Baihui point on the top of the head to the Yongquan point on the sole of the foot, it resumed and ran circulated.
After the entire Great Circle was running thirty-six times, Lu Cheng suddenly shook his whole body. He knew that his internal strength had reached the second level. At this time, Lu Cheng felt that the speed of the breath in his body had accelerated a lot, and his meridians had been strengthened and widened. If his meridians were just a small path of intestinal intestinal path, it had now become a small path of rural path.
The internal energy in his lower dantian also changed from the original fog to thick fog. But what he felt most changed was his own sensitivity. He found that his sensing range had doubled, and he could release two rays of sensitivity at the same time. The sensitivity in his body seemed to have increased a lot. Under the guidance of the sensitivity, the internal energy in his body also became faster. In other words, when the internal energy reached the second level, his ability was comprehensively improved.
Lu Cheng was overjoyed and immediately used the turtle breath technique. He found that even if he didn't breathe, he could last at least for more than an hour. This was of great help to him hunting. Some prey could escape once they smelled the breath of humans. The shrinking technique allowed him to become a child at once. Although it was still apart from Xie Naxin's baby, it also surprised Lu Cheng.
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