Chapter 29: Moves
Second Realm and Three Realms, Li Ye also knew that both the teachers at school and online discussions talked about these.
Second Realm Breaking Through Realm, condense Qi and Blood to break open the Mysterious Pass. Three Realms Opening Origin Realm, fix the Three Origins to connect to the divine.
It was just that these realms, even the Martial Arts Teacher explaining them spoke with a tone of longing, let alone Li Ye who was bitterly cultivating Qi and Blood at the time, thinking of breaking through Dragon Gate.
The Martial Arts Teacher was only Dragon Gate Realm too, talking about these things was like a few high school students grandly discussing postdoctoral studies. Totally unrealistic.
“All shortcuts will be paid back in front of breakthrough, only step-by-step martial arts training can break open the Mysterious Pass.”
Xu Yanwu didn’t say much more to Li Ye, just said: “For our martial arts, when your Qi and Blood is thick enough to eat more food, it’s best to condense twelve times all at once, which is very beneficial for you. Next, I’ll teach you moves.”
After speaking, he picked up a controller and pressed it, and at the right side of the courtyard, suddenly twelve cylindrical iron stakes rose up side by side from low to high.
The gaps between the iron stakes were very narrow, looking like a single person couldn’t normally pass through, and the height difference between stakes didn’t seem normally jumpable.
Xu Yanwu said: “First train movement technique. Your goal today is to weave around the pillars, try to do obstacle-free weaving around the pillars, if your body doesn’t touch the pillars, you’ve succeeded.”
Li Ye tugged at the corner of his mouth, stepped forward to test it, confirming the gap only allowed him to squeeze through sideways, and he had to hug the iron stakes tightly. Moreover, below, many obstacles had risen, requiring big movements to straddle over.
He looked at Xu Yanwu. It was a waste of time, his master was like a poker face.
Li Ye gritted his teeth and rushed straight ahead, sidestepping through the first row of iron stakes.
He didn’t overall squeeze against the iron stakes. He had trained obstacle-free crossing at school, he had this bit of experience, but brushing against the iron stakes was unavoidable.
“Think about the feeling when you circulate energy, use it, tuck your chest and abdomen a bit more, don’t make your footsteps so rigid, be lighter and more agile.”
Xu Yanwu watched Li Ye weaving through and began targeted adjustments.
“I’m telling you to be light and agile, not to jump up. The obstacles below aren’t jumped like that, keep your center of gravity steady, control your legs.”
“Qi and Blood, Qi and Blood! Control your Qi and Blood, not brute force. You’re Dragon Gate Realm, not an ordinary person, why still use ordinary methods!”
“Smoother, it’s okay to fall down, isn’t it just bumping? Don’t be afraid. If you don’t fall, how can you experience the feeling of falling? Remember that feeling, so next time you fall, you can also slide close to the ground, then get up!”
“Don’t stick to the form of the movements. You’ve seen snakes even if you haven’t seen dragons, just slither, make your body softer, even if you break, I’ll heal you, bend backward!”
“I’m not telling you to twist, I’m telling you to be lighter. Forget it, rest for ten minutes, I’ll explain the key points to you.”
All morning, Xu Yanwu kept correcting Li Ye’s movements, making Li Ye adjust while weaving around pillars and crossing obstacles, inevitably falling and then headbutting into the iron stakes.
But progress was fast. Li Ye was indeed a genius in this aspect. At first a bit clumsy, but after a few more practices, it became proficient, gradually standard.
By noon, a group of people brought food boxes to the door, placing dish after dish filling the stone table, portions even more than breakfast.
Xu Yanwu said: “Eat it all, even if you’re stuffed, eat it all.”
Li Ye had the least objection to this.
This was training appetite. Li Ye could righteously be a big eater, especially these high-quality ingredients, it hurt him to eat even a little less.
But he still paid attention to method. To avoid being too exaggerated, he basically controlled it to the same as breakfast amount, then pretended to struggle bit by bit to finish.
After lunch ended, Li Ye circulated energy once more, then continued weaving around pillars.
Until five in the afternoon, Xu Yanwu finally told Li Ye to stop.
“Go in.”
He walked into the house first, gesturing for Li Ye to follow.
This was Li Ye’s first time visiting the house inside the courtyard. From outside the courtyard, only the glass sliding door and the luxuriously decorated reception room inside were visible. Past the reception room, then the home living room could be seen.
Xu Yanwu led Li Ye past the living room to a bathroom. The large bathtub was already filled with steaming green liquid.
“Immerse your whole body, every single strand of hair must be soaked.”
After saying this, Xu Yanwu walked out.
This Li Ye was familiar with: medicinal bath.
He quickly stripped naked, glanced at the bruises on his body, shook his head with a smile, and slipped in.
After all that, the flesh still had to suffer.
As soon as he entered the medicinal bath, Li Ye comfortably exhaled. The medicinal bath water was warm, but soaking gave a penetrating sensation, the exposed skin had a cool icy feeling, and the bruises from constant training eased a lot at this moment.
More advanced than the medicinal bath at the martial arts school.
Immediately after, Li Ye had a second thought.
Could this thing be drunk?
Medicinal bath, that was just ‘soup’ made by mixing medicinal materials with hot water. In theory, it was within the scope of his authority.
But this idea just flashed through Li Ye’s mind once, then he dismissed it.
He wasn’t that desperate yet.
After soaking for half an hour, when Li Ye got up again, he only felt refreshed all over. Lifting his arm to look, the bruises from falling all day had already dissipated.
“So extravagant.”
Li Ye sighed, walked out of the bathroom to the courtyard.
At this time, on the stone table, food was set up again.
This time the portions weren’t as much as lunch, only ten dishes.
“Eat well in the morning, eat full at noon, eat less at night. But this less also has to be sufficiently exquisite.”
Xu Yanwu sat on the stone bench and said to Li Ye: “Eat all these.”
Li Ye saw only one set of bowl and chopsticks on the stone table and asked: “Master, won’t you have some?”
“These are prepared for you. I’m just an ordinary person, ingredients of this level are already beyond what I can benefit from.”
Xu Yanwu said expressionlessly: “Alright, eat up. Come again tomorrow, I’ll teach you lightness skill.”
“Master, I haven’t fully learned this yet.”
“As long as the method is right, it’s fine. I don’t have much time. For what you don’t understand, you can ask Pan Zhengyang.”
“Is there something urgent? I’m not in a hurry here. If worst comes to worst, I can just coast through that year of martial arts track in senior year, first learn the martial arts well. I heard martial arts students are quite free.” Li Ye said.
“No.”
Xu Yanwu paused, stared straight at Li Ye: “I’m just about to die soon.”
Li Ye’s eating motion stalled: “Ah?”
“Yeah, about to die. Hidden injury from early years, incurable. Lasting until now means I’m lucky.”
Xu Yanwu said flatly: “Before dying, found a successor, not bad either.”
Li Ye was silent for a while, then picked up food and ate again: “Can I ask what happened?”
His expression was also calm, neither sad nor melancholic.
Xu Yanwu nodded, suddenly asked: “Do you know about noble families?”
“Just came into contact recently. Heard they’re very famous in Ningjiang. Are noble families the kind I think, families hidden behind the scenes controlling the human world?” Li Ye said while eating.
“Not as powerful as in ancient times now, but after all, they are martial artist families with accumulation and inheritance. They still have influence.”
Xu Yanwu said: “Thirty years ago, I was soft-hearted, so they found a chance for revenge, shattered my Qi and Blood, turned me into a cripple.”
“Got revenge?” Li Ye asked.
“Reduced to ashes, but it doesn’t matter anymore.”
Xu Yanwu sighed: “When I encounter things, my first reaction is to reconcile with others, only thinking that years of martial arts training are not easy, keeping martial arts cultivation to deal with demonic creatures is the right path. But I think that way, doesn’t mean others do. Pan Zhengyang is better than me in this point. You learn from him, not from me.”
Hearing this, Li Ye’s mind stirred: “What does Director Pan usually do?”
A smile appeared in Xu Yanwu’s eyes: “Used to kill people, now kill the whole family.”
“No one investigates?”
“As long as your stance is upright enough. Besides, the people are dead, what can they investigate?”
“What realm is Director Pan?” Li Ye asked again.
“Three Realms.”
“I understand.” Li Ye said thoughtfully: “I won’t learn from you.”
“Best that way.”
Xu Yanwu said: “Eat.”
Soon, Li Ye finished dinner, bid farewell to Xu Yanwu, and rode the electric scooter away.
He didn’t go straight home, but when almost home, parked the electric scooter and called home.
“Mom, I’m not coming back tonight. There’s something at the bureau where I work part-time, I’ll follow and learn. The bureau arranged lodging tonight.”
After talking to his mother, he called a ride and went straight to the rental room.
There were still ten tons of rice unsolved there. Now was the time to digest.
And for Qi and Blood, he now had a new idea.
