Professionals of the Starry Skies - Chapter 685

Chapter 685 Black Tiger

Chapter 685: Black Tiger
: The general trend of the world is that long-term unity will eventually lead to division, and long-term division will eventually lead to unity.

Since the fall of the ancient Great Xia, the world has fallen into a long period of darkness and turmoil…

During the Dark Ages, even the chronology became blurred.

During this time, many warriors engaged in civil wars, and countless died in the strife. The number of ferocious beasts increased again, and they slaughtered human cities at will.

It was not until Emperor Taizu of Kang took up his three-foot sword and pacified the world that the Nine Provinces were unified again.

This is the dividing line between ancient times and modern times.

Taizu of Dakang studied martial arts and established a new martial arts system, set up the “Nine Grades”, and sorted out the sects in the world. With his own strength, he suppressed the world for 500 years!
Unfortunately, when the 500 years were up, he was reduced to ashes.

Moreover, there were too few outstanding people among his descendants. Over countless years, no one could reach the level of Emperor Taizu of Dakang.

Therefore, after Emperor Taizu of the Kang Dynasty passed away, the world was in chaos for sixty years.

A decade later, ‘Taizu of the Great Yuan’ arose, who also reached the level of Taizu of the Great Kang and suppressed the world for 500 years. However, Taizu of the Great Yuan was luckier than Taizu of the Great Kang, in that among his descendants, someone broke through to the pinnacle of martial arts and continued to rule the world for 500 years.

However, the rise and fall of history is not controlled by humans. After this person passed away, the Yuan Dynasty quickly declined and local warlords emerged and established their own regimes.

Even, martial arts gradually became popular, and various powerful people who broke through the limits of martial arts emerged one after another, and no one could successfully unify the world.

As time passed, the last descendants of the Yuan Dynasty died out, and the powerful people in the major extreme realms founded their own sects and passed on their Taoist traditions…

Jiuzhou completely fell into the ‘Era without an Emperor’, with ‘one temple, two sects and six schools’, nine top sects each occupying one side.

In the cracks between these major forces, there are a large number of second-rate forces and many aristocratic families.

This is an era when martial arts flourished.

Almost all major sects have the ambition to unify the world!

They recruited many disciples, hoping that the martial arts would continue to improve, and that there would be someone who could break through the martial arts realm and unify the world again!
The world would be unified!

…

The Five Animals Sect is one of the six major sects among the ‘one temple, two sects and six major sects’ and occupies most of Chuzhou.

This day.

Bailuyuan, on the square.

The children stood solemnly, looking at a burly man in front of them who respectfully inserted three green incense sticks as thick as thumbs into the copper censer in front of them.

The sturdy man turned around, his face full of flesh without a smile: “After you pay homage to the master, you will be disciples of my Five Animals Sect’s ‘White Deer Lower Court’… My Five Animals Sect has five major lower courts, Tiger, Deer, Bear, Ape, and Crane! We recruit disciples every year, and you can join by paying money, but whether you can enter the rank, whether you can successfully refine your internal energy, and be promoted to the sixth rank, and join the real Five Animals Sect, it all depends on your luck…”

The sturdy man’s voice was booming, like thunder, causing the children’s eardrums to hurt.

Below, a twelve-year-old boy in training clothes listened solemnly.

On his neck, he also wore a stone talisman, which was the ‘Zhenwu Talisman’!
This person was Gou San, no, Xun Laoliu’s child, whose full name was ‘Xun Heihu’!
After the Chinese New Year, Xun Laoliu spent 500 taels of silver to send him to the White Deer Courtyard, becoming a glorious outer disciple of the Five Animals Sect.

Or the kind that could be expelled from school at any time…

Inside the Zhenwu Talisman.

Fang Xing sat on a stone chair, supporting his chin with one hand and tapping the back of the chair with the other hand out of boredom.

This Zhenwu Talisman was a mysterious object and Xun Laoliu pondered over it for a long time but could not figure out what it was. Later, he asked a master of stone and bronze appraisal to have a look at it, but the master thought it was worthless and just threw it aside.

Later, it was seen by Xun Heihu, a kid who liked it very much. Xun Laoliu didn’t think it was unlucky, so he gave it to Xun Heihu as a toy.

Until now, he was brought together to Bailu Lower Court.

Outside, the strong man continued speaking:

“There are nine levels in the martial arts, and each step leads to a pinnacle. The lower three levels are the foundation, which is to temper the body. Once you enter the level and achieve the ninth level of bronze gate, you can be as strong as a bronze man and as powerful as an ox. You are completely different from ordinary people. You can join the sect army at will, and you will be a sergeant or a sergeant when you enter!”

“And this is just laying the foundation. The so-called lower three grades are all constantly strengthening the foundation and preparing for the breakthrough of the middle three grades…”

“If you reach the sixth level of ‘internal strength’, hehe, even if you venture into the martial arts world, you’ll be considered a good fighter.”

“A warrior of the third rank can live for two hundred years! If he obtains some treasures and takes good care of himself, it won’t be difficult to live for three hundred years!”

“As for the top three masters, they are all experts who are qualified to compete for the ranking of the ‘Dragon and Tiger List’. In ancient times, those at the top of the Dragon and Tiger List would be figures like the Great Kang Taizu and the Great Yuan Taizu, who could easily unify the world and quell troubled times… and have a lifespan of up to 500 years!”

…

Fang Xing listened carefully and knew that as the origin of the world developed, the martial arts of this world were indeed constantly improving.

This sturdy man mentioned these things in the martial arts enlightenment just to give these young men and women a goal.

In fact… if there were a few people with sixth-grade internal energy, I would laugh for half a day.

…

“Okay, now what you need to consider is how to enter the realm of quality!”

The burly man did not give the young men and women below a chance to ask questions, and continued: “Your family spent five hundred taels to send you to the White Deer Courtyard! Is it a lot? Not at all! Let me tell you, even if it is just the ‘Copper Lead Pill’ that lays the foundation for sprinting to the ninth level, it requires a large amount of spiritual medicine, mixed with copper, iron, and lead medicine to refine… One tael of silver is required for each pill!”

“Practicing martial arts, practicing martial arts, the lower three levels require a lot of money. As long as you can successfully enter the level, the five hundred taels will be earned back. If you break through to the eighth level, the sect will have to pay you back!”

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of those young men who seemed to come from poor families, such as Xun Heihu, lit up.

“Master Xiong, when do we start to practice swallowing pills?”

A young man in brocade clothes standing in front asked.

“Swallow the pill? Swallow your balls!”

Coach Xiong cursed: “Do you know why you have to practice after you are ten years old? Because swallowing pills to practice is the most harmful to the body. If an ordinary person swallows a ‘copper lead pill’, it will only burn his intestines…”

“Therefore, the first step in martial arts is to practice, nourish, and eat!”

“Practice standing meditation, nourish qi and blood, and take tonic medicine!”

“After your body is strong and your Qi and blood are strong, try to swallow the pills, use your Qi and blood to digest the power of the pills, and continue to hurt your body and then recover, so as to forge the ‘Bronze Gate’!”

“What I am passing on to you now is the secret ‘White Deer Posture’ of the White Deer Academy. There is a rhyme for it: ‘The white deer wanders in the forest like pine trees, its steps turn the seven stars like a rainbow, its qi sinks into the dantian to embrace the sun and the moon, and the yin and yang four symbols guard the universe’…”

The male coach took a stance. Although he looked strong and muscular, he gave people an inexplicable feeling of lightness: “For this White Deer Stake, the first thing is to have roots under your feet, and the second is to have sharp eyes… If you can’t be agile with your body, you must be agile with your eyes from the beginning, and use the power of your eyes…”

He asked these young men and women to stand still one by one, and then he made a round inspection. If he saw anyone who looked really bad, he would slap them in the face.

Bang!
The young men and women who were slapped gritted their teeth, thanked the coach first, and then got up and continued to study.

“From today on, you will stand on the White Deer Post for an hour every day, and then do various physical training, read and learn to read… and eat medicinal food in the cafeteria for all three meals, just to nourish your qi and blood.”

Coach Xiong smiled and suddenly said, “As the old saying goes – it takes a hundred days to build a martial arts foundation! Therefore, after three months, the first assessment will be conducted. If you are still not able to stand in meditation and move your qi and blood… then you will be expelled from the White Deer Academy. Such a waste will not even be qualified to take elixirs… In other words, your family’s five hundred taels have been wasted…”

As soon as these words were spoken, Fang Xing clearly felt Xun Heihu tremble, and he secretly clenched his fists.

He seemed to be able to hear the other person’s inner voice – ‘I must move the Qi and blood, I can’t be eliminated!’

…

More than two months later.

On the training ground.

Xun Heihu’s body was like a white deer, with beads of sweat the size of beans dripping from his forehead.

Sweat rolled down and broke into eight pieces on the bluestone slab .

“Huff…”

He panted heavily: “The power of Qi and blood is still a little short, I can’t sense it… In ten days, the test will start.”

“Black Tiger…”

A young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes looked over and asked, “How is it?”

This is a friend Xun Heihu knows – Zhao Daniu.

He shook his head: “It still doesn’t work…”

“well.”

Zhao Daniu sat on the ground in an unpresentable manner: “I heard that geniuses from aristocratic families, such as Yuchi Gang and others, were able to control their Qi and blood in the first month and apply for the ‘Copper Lead Pill’ practice… Just yesterday, Ye Fengchun also broke through.”

Xun Heihu couldn’t help but fall into silence.

Those chosen ones from martial arts families have taken countless tonics since childhood, and have been taught by their elders to practice. He knows that he cannot compete with them, and he doesn’t even think about competing.

But Ye Fengchun?

The other person was a friend from the same town as him, and his family was a cloth maker.

I felt very unwilling to be surpassed by this little friend.

“No… I can’t be expelled after three months. I want to enter the rank, and I want to break through to the sixth rank, and truly join the Five Animals Sect!”

Xun Heihu was secretly anxious.

He glanced around and saw a girl with a great figure over there.

After all, girls always develop earlier, and she seemed to be looking at me.

He quickly lowered his head to hide his gaze.

…

Nightfall.

Xun Heihu came to a stone hall in a daze.

“Where… where is this? Am I not in the dormitory?”

Xun Heihu widened his eyes and looked at the hazy gray fog and the towering stone pillars.

There was a hazy figure on the many steps ahead.

“This is inside the ‘Zhenwu Talisman’.”

Fang Xing spoke calmly. After observing for so long, he finally started to act.

The so-called action means that since this kid seems to be pleasing to the eye, I plan to train him.

“Zhenwu Talisman?”

Xun Heihu’s eyes widened: “What is this?”

“The Zhenwu Talisman is a treasure of martial arts. You have a connection with it, and it will help you…Aren’t you worried about the bottleneck of Qi and blood now? The Zhenwu Talisman is best at breaking through the realm, whether it is controlling Qi and blood, or entering the rank in the future, or even the seventh rank to the sixth rank, or the fourth rank breaking through the third rank…”

Fang Xing smiled: “If you don’t believe me…you can try it.”

(End of this chapter)