Chapter 17 Wuge Nursing Home
Three days later.
After the prosperity fades, it will eventually end in loneliness. The world of adults is either about parting or reuniting.
Bai Donglin saw off his eldest sister yesterday, and today he has to see off his second brother Bai Jiange.
The two brothers walked side by side, leaving a trail of footprints on the snow. Liu Yiyi fell behind them without interrupting their conversation.
"Little brother, there is a difference between immortals and mortals. Our parents and elder sister will eventually grow old, but we still have a long, long way to go."
“The road to truth is always lonely.”
Bai Jiange stopped and looked directly into Bai Donglin's eyes and said, "I hope you can succeed. Next time we meet, we will not only be brothers, but also fellow Taoists!"
Bai Donglin nodded firmly without saying anything. Everything was said without words.
Liu Yiyi followed and smiled at Bai Donglin:
"Brother Bai, thank you for your hospitality these days. We'll see you again if we're lucky!"
"goodbye!"
"Take care of yourself!"
Only until the two sword lights disappeared in the sky did Bai Donglin walk back, his steps on the snow becoming more firm.
As soon as he returned to the Bai Mansion, a servant came to inform him that his father wanted to see him.
Bai Donglin guessed that it was about entering the Martial Arts Pavilion. Although they were all some mundane martial arts, it would be good to go and take a look. At least they were better than the martial arts he was practicing now.
I can't practice the Qi-cultivating techniques, and I don't have any body-cultivating techniques, so I can only practice mundane martial arts to barely make a living.
I came to my father's study, knocked on the door, and said respectfully:
"Father, Donglin wants to see you."
As soon as the words fell, Bai Li's powerful voice came from the study:
"Xiao Shisan, come in."
When I opened the door and walked in, I saw Bai Li writing calligraphy, so I had to stand by and wait for him to finish.
Bai Donglin really didn't have much affection for his adoptive father. The two met less than once or twice a year and spoke no more than five sentences.
Now that he has awakened his memories of his past life, he can feel the alienation between them even more. This is a completely different feeling from what the aunt gave him.
It’s better this way. This first meeting will probably be the last time we meet. It’s actually a good thing that we don’t have any feelings for each other.
After he finished writing, he asked Bai Donglin to walk up to him, put his hand on his shoulder, checked his body with his true Qi, and said, "Not bad."
He threw a token to Bai Donglin and told him to go to the Martial Arts Pavilion by himself, where he could practice martial arts at will.
He took the token, left the study, and walked towards the Wu Pavilion.
The Wu Pavilion was built in the middle of a large courtyard. It was a three-story attic. It was built entirely of hard black iron stone without any wood to prevent fire.
There are houses all around the Wu Pavilion, where live a group of old men, all of whom are elders of the Bai family.
They treat this place as a nursing home. A group of people are either basking in the sun, drinking tea, chatting, playing chess, reading and painting. They are having a great time.
Guarding the Wu Pavilion was more like something they did on a side job, and most of the time they came here to enjoy their retirement life.
Don't be fooled by the fact that they are all white-haired old men. They have all reached the great perfection of the Qi realm.
Although not in the peak condition of his youth, it is more than enough to guard a martial arts pavilion.
After all, there are only some mundane martial arts in the martial arts pavilion, and they can handle it as long as no cultivator takes action.
Bai Donglin entered the yard, took out the token, clasped his hands together and said:
"Greetings to all the elders, I, Bai Donglin, come to the Martial Arts Pavilion to choose martial arts!"
One of the old men glanced at the token and said:
"Go, go, go in by yourself and don't disturb us playing chess!"
The others stared at the chessboard without taking their eyes off it. Bai Donglin nodded, put away the token and entered the martial arts pavilion.
The Wu Pavilion has three floors, and the types of books on each floor are different.
The first layer is various strange stories, herbal medicine, steel smelting, agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery technical knowledge, various customs and habits of Lanyang and several surrounding countries, maps, minerals, etc.
The books on the first level covered all aspects of life and were extremely complicated, but Bai Donglin was very interested in this knowledge. He had only been in this world for a short time and had been busy practicing martial arts recently, so he lacked a lot of common sense.
As a person who has lived two lives, he knows one thing: knowledge is priceless and it is always a good idea to learn more.
He will probably stay at the Bai family for another year, and come here to read in his free time.
There are far fewer books on the second floor than on the first floor. They are all about military strategies, techniques for training troops, and techniques for leading troops. They all teach people how to lead troops to fight. Bai Donglin was not interested in these and went straight to the third floor.
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The third level is of course about martial arts techniques. There are even fewer books here, only about a hundred or so.
It is divided into the category of martial arts, and the martial arts are divided into two categories: body training and true qi realm. Martial arts are more complicated, including defense, body movement, light work, sword and knife skills, fists, kicks, sticks, etc.
Bai Donglin first looked at the body-building exercises. The four body-building exercises he was learning now were not of high quality, and the four exercises were divided into four categories with poor unity, which was not conducive to enhancing the use of energy and the efficiency was too low.
Finally, he chose a body-refining technique called "White Jade Body Tempering Technique". This technique can refine the whole body and is of high quality. It is the top-level body-refining technique of the Bai family! Bai Donglin was not prepared to practice the Qi realm technique. He thought about it and realized that this Qi was too far away from the true essence of the cultivator. One was transformed from Qi, and the other was transformed from spiritual energy. There was no comparison.
Even if Bai Donglin broke through to the Qi realm, the improvement in his strength would be minimal, because his current strength has far exceeded that of the Qi perfection. Instead of wasting strengthening energy to improve the Qi, it is better to improve the physical body and lay a good foundation for future physical cultivation.
True Qi is just a low-level energy. Even if you learn it, it will be eliminated. There is no need to waste your energy on it.
The most important thing is that he is worried that practicing true Qi will affect his future physical practice. Without knowing the consequences, he cannot change his job blindly.
He also chose a two-in-one martial arts book that combines light skills and body techniques, called "A Glimpse of the Beautiful". Human energy is limited, and one cannot digest too much at once. He is not a genius with outstanding comprehension, so he only needs to learn what he needs most.
Defensive skills were absolutely not considered. He now hated himself for having such a strong defense, which made it increasingly difficult for him to gain enhanced energy.
A person's strength is a holistic one. You cannot have great strength and a weak body. This is illogical. A weak body cannot have great strength.
Your great strength means your body is strong; these are interdependent and cannot exist alone.
At least that's the case for body training or physical cultivation.
The "magic profession" with high attack and thin skin is another situation.
He had the light skill, but he still lacked the output skill. He remembered that last time, he couldn't even break the skin of the person with the "Powerful Bull Demon Fist", which really made him lose face.
This time, I must find a martial art with great destructive power!
Bai Donglin took out all the martial arts and excluded those using weapons first. He decided that hand-to-hand combat was the most dangerous and the easiest to get hurt in.
I looked through the books on punches, palms, and kicks one by one, but I was not satisfied with any of them. The killing power was not strong enough.
Just as he was about to compromise and pick up one at random, he caught a glimpse of a dusty black leather book in the corner out of the corner of his eye.
His intuition told him, and according to the general routine, this should be an awesome martial art!
After wiping off the dust, three murderous words appeared.
(End of this chapter)