One punch calms the storm, no gods in the world

Chapter 31 Bodhisattva Practice and Copper Skin Merit

"Master Long, take your disciples in to choose martial arts. I'll be guarding outside."

Uncle Liang picked up the teapot and continued to stand at the door of the training room, while Long Yuanzheng nodded and walked in with Su Ti.

Although it is called a power transmission room, it is actually not very big, only about thirty or forty square meters. Compared with the ground, the area here is pitifully small.

Moreover, more than half of these thirty or forty square meters are empty, with only three iron shelves on which some ancient books are placed.

Su Ti followed Long Yuanzheng and took a look. The first book on the first shelf looked very familiar to him.

It was a book with black cover and blue letters, with the three big characters "Body Strengthening Technique" written on it.

Su Ti was a little surprised. Isn’t this the ancient martial arts book he saw on the dark web?

After Long Yuanzheng brought Su Ti here, he explained to him.

"Su Ti, every ancient martial arts sect has a martial arts transmission room that records all the martial arts collected in their sect. The place where you are now is our Longmen's martial arts transmission room. Every ancient martial arts book here was collected by our Longmen's successive masters with great effort."

"Of course, our Longmen has a long heritage. The martial arts we collected at the beginning were certainly not just what we have now. In the middle, we have experienced many times of loss, destruction, and re-collection. In short, our Longmen's current heritage and foundation are now here."

"There are three types of ancient martial arts on the shelf here. The first type is the ancient martial arts of the Tongli period, such as the Body Tempering Technique and the Five Dragon Forms. However, you have already completed the Tongli stage, so this type of ancient martial arts is of no use to you."

"The second is external skills. As the saying goes, internal training is about breathing, while external training is about muscles, bones and skin. Although an excellent external skill cannot fundamentally increase a warrior's strength and speed, it can increase a warrior's ability to withstand blows and tolerance, thus improving a warrior's strength in disguise. I believe you have a deep understanding of this after fighting the Mountain."

Su Ti nodded slightly. Indeed, if Moshan had not practiced external skills, with his second-level internal training of qi and blood, Moshan would have vomited blood and been seriously injured after the first punch. Not to mention that he had to fight with him for such a long time despite being injured by his double python whips, and in the end he almost turned defeat into victory. This shows how an external skill can improve combat effectiveness.

After that battle, he actually had the idea of ​​practicing external skills, but Long Yuanzheng had already thought about it for him.

"Su Ti, you can choose any of the external skills here to learn, but you also have to be careful. Although the external skills have a significant effect in enhancing combat effectiveness, practicing external skills will greatly distract a warrior's energy and reduce the time he spends on internal training. You must distinguish the primary and secondary when practicing. You must know that internal training is the foundation of a warrior."

A martial artist's best years when he is young are only a dozen years. If he is obsessed with practicing external skills and fighting methods, the ultimate result is that his internal training will be slow to break through. When he gets older, it will not be so easy to break through the level of internal training.

If Su Ti was not about to fight Li Mingsheng, which would be a major test for him, Long Yuanzheng would not want Su Ti to practice this external skill, for fear that it would distract him.

"Don't worry about the external skills yet. You can slowly choose them later. The third martial art is important. It is related to your subsequent internal training. Come with me."

Long Yuanzheng brought Su Ti to the last shelf, where there were only three ancient books.

The covers of these three ancient books are of different colors, blue, black and red.

They are respectively.
"Golden Snake Shedding", "Toad Fishing Skill", "Bodhisattva's Way"

Long Yuanzheng glanced at the three ancient martial arts books one by one.

"The first book, Golden Snake Shedding, is our Dragon Sect's own internal training method. You have already practiced it and have already mastered it. There is nothing more you can do."

"And the Toad Fishing Skill and Bodhisattva Practice are the internal training methods of other sects collected by the successive masters of Longmen. Compared with the Golden Snake Shedding, these two internal training methods do not require much innate strength. Even with your inherent strength, you can practice to a very high level."

Su Ti was delighted. That was great. He was really afraid that his physique was too poor and he could only practice the second level of internal training for his entire life.

"But don't be too happy too soon."

Seeing Su Ti's expression, Long Yuanzheng poured a basin of cold water on him.

"If these two skills were really that good, I would have taught you these two skills from the beginning instead of the Golden Snake Shedding."

"This first martial art, the Toad Fishing Skill, requires a special prescription and a medicinal bath to practice. That prescription was lost a hundred years ago, so this martial art is incomplete. If you force yourself to practice it, you will die."

“And this is the second door of Bodhisattva practice.”

Long Yuanzheng's expression became very interesting. He seemed to want to say something but hesitated. After a while, he finally spoke out.

"It doesn't require any prescriptions, and it doesn't have any requirements for your physique. It's just simply very difficult. Just read it for yourself, and you'll understand after you finish reading it."

Since Long Yuanzheng said so, Su Ti just picked it up and took a look. He had a modifier, so he was not too worried about the difficulty.

ten minutes later
"Master, are you sure this is a human martial art?"

Suti put down his Bodhisattva practice and frowned.

This ancient martial arts book is more of a cruel punishment than an internal training method.

Practitioners need to wear shackles and chains, eat the five poisons, sleep on beds of needles, build stone tablets, bathe in fire, be immersed in water, be buried alive, be washed with acid, and go through all kinds of incredible hardships and tests before they can achieve success.

"You read it right. This book, Bodhisattva Practice, was brought over from the Secret Country. The Secret Country has a strong Buddhist culture and is full of ascetics. Even in the Secret Country, this practice is practiced by the most ascetics among the ascetics. It is not something that ordinary people can learn."

Long Yuanzheng sighed, he should have taken out the good stuff a long time ago, why did he keep it in the bottom of the box?

If there was really no other way, he would not let his apprentice practice this.

"Suti, these are the internal training methods of my Longmen. It is up to you to decide whether you want to practice this Bodhisattva Practice. The master will support your choice."

Suti said without hesitation.

"I will practice, Master!"

"Ah."

Long Yuanzheng looked at Su Ti deeply. Only those who have read the Bodhisattva's practice methods know how difficult the path Su Ti has chosen is. This is not hardship, but self-abuse and self-mutilation!
After confirming his decision to practice the Bodhisattva Way, Su Ti also chose an external skill, the Bronze Skin Skill, with the help of Long Yuanzheng.

The reason for choosing this external skill is that Long Yuanzheng himself has also practiced the Copper Skin Skill and has reached the Great Mastery level, so he can give Su Ti a lot of guidance. Secondly, the practice method of the Copper Skin Skill has a lot of overlaps with the Bodhisattva Practice, and the two can be practiced together.

The next morning, Yao Juan and the other two were awakened by a crackling sound.

When we got to the rooftop of the third floor, we saw that Long Yuanzheng and Su Ti were practicing martial arts.

It was said to be practicing martial arts, but in fact Su Ti was sitting in a horse stance with his upper body naked, and was whipped by Long Yuanzheng with a cloth whip.

People who don’t know might think that Su Ti made a mistake and Long Yuanzheng was teaching him a lesson.

"This is the practice method of copper skin kung fu."

Wang Gengyuan's eyes were filled with excitement as he stood at the stairs and watched from afar.

He himself had practiced bronze skin skills, which gave him a slightly dark complexion.

However, compared to Long Yuanzheng, who had a normal skin color and had achieved great success in bronze skills, Wang Gengyuan had not even achieved small success.

"I didn't expect that Master would actually teach me external skills. I wanted to learn external skills before, but Master didn't agree."

Yao Juan said.

Wang Gengyuan curled his lips and said bluntly, "Big Sister, you are very talented. There is still room for improvement in Golden Snake Shedding, so Master did not allow you to learn it. Unlike me and Third Junior Brother, we have almost reached the upper limit of Golden Snake Shedding. We will reach the limit after shedding one or two more skins, so we are allowed to learn external skills."

Wang Gengyuan and Yan Jun were both at the second level of internal training, and their Golden Snake Shedding limit was around the third or fourth level, which was not bad. Their bones were not great, but they were moderate, unlike Su Ti's extremely poor bones which were gone after two internal trainings.

Wang Gengyuan didn't care about this at all. He was told of his talent by Long Yuanzheng very early on. After realizing that he was not cut out for it, he became depressed for a while and then he let it go.

Only when Yan Jun heard this, a hint of gloom flashed across his face.

"Big sister, do you know what the root bone of little brother is like?"

Wang Gengyuan asked that it was a taboo to ask about other people's roots, so he did not ask Su Ti actively, but asked Yao Juan indirectly.

Yao Juan shook her head.

"I don't know. Master didn't tell me. I think it should be very good. Otherwise, how could he break through Tongli so quickly and reach the inner training stage?"

Wang Gengyuan chuckled: "Although we don't know what our junior brother's physique is like, he is really murderous."

After these words were spoken, not only Yao Juan, but even Yan Jun nodded in agreement.

First, he killed Li Zong's son Li Mingyuan, and then he beat the Mountain to death in the ring, even smashing the iron cage and breaking the Mountain's chest.

Everyone still remembers the brutal look of him covered in blood yesterday.

"But it's good this way. A martial arts sect always needs someone who can fight. Our Longmen martial arts school is indeed lacking such a character."

After Wang Gengyuan mentioned this, he sighed.

Although Long Yuanzheng is the best fighter, who else can he fight with at his level?

Although the others, Wang Gengyuan, Yao Juan, and Yan Jun, are all in the internal training stage, they mainly practice martial arts and seldom fight with others, let alone fight for life or kill people.

This led to the Longmen Martial Arts School not being well-known. Although Long Yuanzheng also deliberately kept a low profile, it was not until the battle with Su Ti yesterday that it left a deep impression in the eyes of many powerful people.

This impression and fame may seem intangible, but the benefits it brings are enormous.

Since Longmen Martial Arts School is powerful, they would prefer to establish a relationship with it and send their children to learn from it in the hope of becoming its disciples.

With the master-disciple relationship, their power became more closely integrated with Longmen Martial Arts School.

Many martial arts schools grew in this way, relying on their fame to attract more wealthy disciples, eventually forming a large network of power and dominating an area.

However, Long Yuanzheng did not seem to have such an idea, otherwise he would not have accepted only four disciples and opened several martial arts schools that were more commercial in nature than in the nature of a sect.

According to the rules, when a master and his disciples pass on their skills, if it is not passed on to them themselves, even the disciples themselves cannot watch. Yao Juan and the other two did not watch for long. After saying a few words, they quickly left to avoid suspicion.

On the training ground on the third floor, Su Ti was still being beaten severely by Long Yuanzheng with his upper body naked.

Although he has reached the second level of internal training, he actually has no external skills to support him, and his ability to withstand blows is still very weak.

With the strength of Long Yuanzheng's control, even though he was only holding a strip of cloth, he still beat Su Ti until his whole body was red, with bloodstains all under his skin, and it felt as if it was burning.

After whipping the upper body, Su Ti took off his pants and was left wearing only a pair of shorts. Long Yuanzheng began to whip his thighs, calves, buttocks and other parts of his body.

Only when his whole body was red and covered with blood did Long Yuanzheng put down the cloth strip and took out a box of medicated oil to apply on Su Ti's body.

"This is a special medicinal oil from the Copper Skin Technique. It can clear blood stasis, treat external injuries, and strengthen the epidermis at the same time. Over time, with the help of this medicinal oil, your skin will become as tough as cowhide, and it cannot be cut by a knife or pierced by a needle."

"But it takes a long time. Most external skills are very difficult and require a long time to hone. It also requires a certain amount of financial resources to be able to practice. For example, this box of medicinal oil can only be used three times, but the price is about 10,000 yuan. It is not something that ordinary people can afford."

After applying the medicated oil, Long Yuanzheng personally massaged Su Ti, using special techniques to allow the medicinal power to penetrate Su Ti's skin. Then Su Ti practiced the Copper Skin Skill's Qi and blood training method to disperse the blood stasis. After only a dozen minutes, his body was almost healed.

Long Yuanzheng looked at it and nodded slightly.

"That's right. Your physical strength recovers quickly after the second stage of internal training. It's much faster to train external skills than in the Tongli stage. Let's do it again!"

(End of this chapter)