Chapter 145 Master and Disciple
Chapter 145 Master and Disciple
I saw the Fish-Eating Senior again two days later after unfollowing him.
He came back carrying bags and packages: "Look, didn't you not want to eat dried fish? Pastries! I walked for several days to buy them in the next town next door."
He looked travel-worn, and he didn't lie at all.
I unfollowed him and watched.
While eating fish, he remarked, "I always thought oxcarts were too slow, but now I'm glad I had one. Walking on two legs is much slower."
I took the bag he handed me; it really was pastries.
Unfollow: "Why buy pastries?"
The fish-eating man laughed and said, "It's a bribe!"
bribe?
He chuckled lightly as he unfollowed her, "What do I have to offer as a bribe?"
At this point, the fish-eating elder said earnestly, "Look, you've unknowingly learned my fishing technique, and maybe you've learned other skills too. It's not easy to learn something, so why waste time?"
"Look, we get along so well. Why don't you just become my apprentice? That would save you the trouble of finding another master to learn from. You'd be better off catching a few more fish with that energy, wouldn't you?"
After finishing his sentence, the fish-eating veteran couldn't help but sigh, "These days, you even have to bribe someone to take on an apprentice..."
Even while eating fish, she couldn't help but shake her head, putting on a pitiful act for him to see.
"Okay." He nodded readily when he unfollowed.
Chopping fish, caught off guard, exclaimed in surprise, "That's it?"
She unfollowed him, ate a pastry in one bite, and then looked at him: "What else?"
After eating dried fish for three months straight, pastries are still the best!
He really understands fish.
"You really agreed to become my apprentice?" Chi Yu didn't believe it.
Unfollowing someone with a straight face: "Changing my master might not necessarily mean he'll buy me pastries, even though he might still use my money."
Eating Fish chuckled, "You provide the money, I'll contribute my sentiment, let's split it in half, isn't that a perfect match?"
Unfollowing is frustrating: "Is this what they call 'one person pays half'?"
While eating the fish, he took out a pastry to eat, then frowned and spat it out: "It's really disgusting."
I'm not eating anymore, I'm not eating anymore. He just likes to eat dried fish.
"Let's go." He unfollowed the account and put down the pastries.
"Where are you going!" the fish-eating fish asked, puzzled.
But when he unfollowed him to the window, he followed the technique from the previous two days, circulated his inner strength, and struck the window with a palm strike from three meters away. The window and its frame swayed slightly in the breeze, then stopped instantly. When he stepped forward, the scene of the entire window and its frame turning to dust with a light touch of his fingertips reappeared.
He unfollowed the person eating fish and asked, "Tell me, what kind of palm is this?"
It's all about the actions of casting, reeling in, and pulling the fishing line when fishing. If he didn't teach it, who did?
"Wow!" the fish-eating man couldn't help but laugh. "You figured it out yourself?"
Unfollow: "Not only did I figure it out, but I was also shocked!"
He laughed heartily while eating the fish, then said with a serious face, "How about that? My window-tapping palm technique is pretty good, isn't it!"
Knocking on the window?
Unfollowing me makes me feel terrible. Fishing is infuriating, slapping the window with my palm—are people really that casual with their names?
Chi Yu continued to laugh heartily: "Profound martial arts often originate from life."
"What else comes from life?" He didn't believe it.
Knowing that he was being sarcastic, Chi Yu casually stuffed a small dried fish into his mouth, then with a surge of internal energy, he slapped the water tank not far away.
Unfollowing is something I can't help but do.
With his palm strike, one blow would surely shatter the vat and spill water everywhere.
But after he closed his eyes for a long time, he did not hear the sound of the water vat breaking. When he opened his eyes, he saw that after the palm strike hit the water vat, the vat did not break. Instead, the force seemed to pass through the vat and reach the water inside.
First, the water in the tank swirls into a vortex, and then from the center of the tank, a thin, silver-hook-like column of water suddenly rises, like a small, curved fountain, and falls directly into the water bag opened by the fish eater.
It filled his enormous water sac perfectly, no more, no less.
Unfollow: "..."
The shock I felt when I unfollowed them was indescribable.
While eating the fish, he tightened the water bag and laughed, "Just the right amount."
The person who unfollowed asked in surprise, "What is this?"
The fish-eating man shrugged: "Water-fetching palm."
Unfollow: "..."
Unfollowing him is both infuriating and laughable. It seems he can't tell whether some people's naming strategies are truly derived from real life.
But from that day on, he began to learn from a master.
Every day, following the tradition of eating fish, I would first fish for two hours without fail.
He called it fishing, but in reality he was entering a meditative state, circulating his internal energy. He could clearly perceive the true energy of fishing flowing through every part of his body. He even began to slowly open up another kind of perception.
Judging from the sounds of ripples on the water, the wind blowing, and fish biting the bait—things invisible to the naked eye but audible through sound—is another wondrous form of perception.
The fish eater said that the more you perceive, the stronger your inner strength is.
Internal energy will allow your body to actively discover things that are invisible to the naked eye.
For example, a fish is about to open its mouth, ready to take the bait; a bird is flapping its wings, preparing to land on a tree; the wind blows across the grass, where a small snake is hiding; in the pitch-black night, you can hear the sound of a hidden weapon flying towards you...
He began to understand what He Wenxue had told him: use internal force to generate palm power, not brute force.
Since Ruan Niang and Weng He left, his hand was injured, and he could no longer be as strong as before, unable to lift heavy objects and smash them down. This was the first time he began to slowly understand what his master had said—
Sometimes, not having the same strength as before isn't necessarily a bad thing.
When the force is great enough, as long as the force is sufficient, everything else will be ignored, and only the force will be pursued.
But in reality, beyond brute force, it's about how to use palm power, how to employ skillful techniques, how to focus internal energy on a single point, how to overcome hardness with softness, and how to achieve a balance between softness and hardness...
He seemed to be gradually understanding.
His hand was injured, but because of the injury, his hand became flexible and unpredictable.
The most devastating silence is when you bang your fist on the window; the silence that comes with extreme stillness is the destructive dust.
The Water Palm technique uses softness to overcome hardness, bypassing the hard element and using softness to compress softness, releasing palm power.
The Stone-Piercing Palm technique: a universe within the palm, with flying sand and stones outside; its power is so great that it can knock down anything in its vicinity...
He practiced fishing qi, along with window-slapping palm, water-drawing palm, and stone-touching palm, all the way through the gate.
He would practice whatever they taught him to eat fish.
We don't pursue speed or quantity.
How do you teach him to eat fish? That's how he learns.
Eating fish taught him that the simpler something is, the more steadily and practically you can achieve its best.
So, after mastering the Window-Slapping Palm technique, one begins to learn the Water-Taking Palm technique, and after mastering the Water-Taking Palm technique, one begins to learn the Stone-Turning Palm technique.
There are only three palm techniques in total. To fully understand and master them is even more difficult than learning them one by one!
Each of the three palm techniques has its own essence, but one can clearly feel that the power of these three palm techniques is progressively stronger than the last. They are not unrelated, but rather they advance in layers...
In fact, when he finished practicing the Stone-Turning Palm and looked back, his internal strength was already considered superb among the younger generation.
As he mastered the three palm techniques, he gradually realized that they were not just ordinary three palm techniques, but a systematic set of three palm techniques that progressed step by step and complemented each other.
Because of their complete trust in the fishmonger, they even inquired about his lineage, forgetting the process of asking whether he was a righteous or evil master.
One day, while we were eating grilled fish together, I remembered and asked, "Master, do we belong to the righteous sects of the martial arts world?"
Regardless of whether his master was righteous or evil, he didn't care because his master did righteous things. He just wanted to find out so that he could explain it to He Wenxue when he went to meet him in the future.
He Wenxue has an innate sense of morality.
Anyone who walks with him will feel as if they are bathed in holy light, and will examine whether they are worthy of being called a righteous sect in the martial arts world.
Anyway, it's just a question, don't take it to heart.
Then, while eating the grilled fish, he replied, "Upright, the kind of upright that's absolutely right."
He was relieved. As long as he was upright, that was fine. As long as he didn't lose face in front of He Wenxue, that was good. After all, he had been chasing after him all along. He was determined to make Old He look at him with new eyes for the ten-year agreement!
He gets excited just thinking about it.
But Chiyu gripped his arm tightly, his face turning purplish-red, and he kept coughing, but nothing came out.
I have a headache from taking a lipstick; I got a fishbone stuck in my throat...
Unfollowing is nothing new, and we've come to understand it—as the hand slaps down to collect water, a fishbone flies out of the throat.
A model of applying knowledge in practice.
"What a talent!" The fish-eater was stunned. How come he never thought of using this palm strike to remove the fish bone in all these years?!
His apprentice is a genius!
The fish-eating man leaned closer: "Hey, do you have any other ingenious uses for the Stone-Turning Palm?"
That slap just now gave him confidence to unfollow.
After thinking for a moment, he calmly said, "Keep that one word stuck in your throat, and grind everything else to dust."
He paused for a moment while eating the fish, then suddenly wiped his sweat. What a close call! He almost turned to dust.
And so, the days went by, and the two traveled together.
Finally, the oxcart driver is going home for the New Year. He has been with them for a year, and now it's time to go home for the New Year.
Believe it or not, the chef was quite reluctant to part with them. Before they left after eating fish, he even gave the chef a bag of dried fish. The chef laughed heartily and said, "I've gotten used to eating them all year. I'd probably miss them if I didn't eat them for a day."
All good things must come to an end. After seeing off the oxcart driver, they found themselves at the foot of Mount Kunlun.
However, he no longer needs to come to Kunlun Mountain.
He has already become a disciple of the Fish-Eating Sect, although he doesn't know what the sect is called yet. It certainly won't be called the Fish-Eating Sect, so there's no need for him to go to the Kunlun Sect.
While eating the fish, he urged, "Since we're already here, why don't we go take a look?"
Since we're already here, it's a phrase that's impossible to refuse.
He also remembered eating fish and saying, "What a coincidence! The Kunlun Sect is recruiting disciples. Do you want to give it a try?"
He was both amused and annoyed. "I've already become your disciple."
He hissed softly, "Why are you so stubborn? Think about it, didn't you promise your brother to come to the Kunlun Sect to learn martial arts? In the end, you didn't become a disciple of the Kunlun Sect, so you had to find a reason, right? Well, you participated in the disciple selection, and you even stood out, but you found out that our Fishing Sect is still the best!"
Unfollowing was a shock: "So it really is called the Fishing Faction!!"
Could it be any more unbelievable?
Chi Yu couldn't suppress his laughter: "Go quickly and practice your skills with their rigorous selection process. It's said that the Kunlun Sect only accepts disciples every three years. Countless people come to become disciples each time, but in the end, only ten are accepted. If you can be selected, won't you become famous in the martial arts world?"
That's true. If the sect's foundation is solid, then the disciples cannot be just any basic disciples.
"Okay, then I'll run for office! If I make it to the end, I'll reject them!" (After unfollowing, the user asked, "What about you?")
Eating fish around his arm: "Since I'm already here, I'll go for a stroll in the Kunlun Mountains and change my clothes."
Unfollowing and getting closer: "Is it because you feel embarrassed to dress so shabbily when you see how majestic the mountain gate is?"
Eating fish: "..."
He gave him some silver: "Buy some nice clothes. After all, I'll have to refuse them later and tell them I already have a master. If you're dressed so casually, it'll embarrass them."
After quickly taking the money, he said, "That makes sense. I'll go change into the most eye-catching clothes from Mount Kunlun. I guarantee I'll stand out!"
[Author's Note]
Eating Fish: The Sect Leader's Outfit! The most eye-catching outfit in the entire Kunlun Mountains!
Unfollow: "..."
I'm so tired.
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