Becoming a god starts from planting a Bodhi tree.

Chapter 18 The value of life

Zhang Xingshan and Luo Xi were shocked.

Ji Jingqiu felt guilty.

Behind closed doors, each family knows its own business.

He doesn't think he has any talent.

After waking up, I developed qi power and improved my breathing method in the standing meditation...all this is thanks to the Bodhi tree.

All he could do was hold on to the Bodhi tree's thighs tightly, and then make sure he worked hard enough to move towards the five limits of heaven and man and to go against the innate nature.

Ji Jingqiu originally wanted to refuse, but a pair of sharp gazes like needles shot towards him from both sides.

If looks could kill like a knife, then these two gazes would have probably cut Ji Jingqiu into tatters, leaving him with nowhere to hide.

Not to mention the clothes, if conditions permit, I'm afraid we would directly perform an on-site autopsy to see whether he has developed the Qi power and how he developed it.

Zhang Xingshan and Luo Xi stood on his left and right sides respectively, like two door gods.

Whenever these two people are in the same situation, they will definitely sandwich Ji Jingqiu in the middle, with him as the 38th parallel, and keep out of each other's way.

Seeing Master Yang's expectant gaze again, Ji Jingqiu had no choice but to bite the bullet and speak:

“The main thing is to eat more and exercise more!
If you eat more, your blood and qi will naturally be abundant, and practicing standing meditation will be twice as effective with half the effort, and it can also speed up the refinement of blood and qi.

If you practice, in addition to the unity of body and mind that Master Yang talked about, the key is the integration of breathing techniques and standing meditation..."

Ji Jingqiu raised his eyes, not looking at anyone, and repeated with forced calmness what Master Yang had said in the first class.

What Master Yang said is certainly not wrong. It’s your problem that you didn’t understand it!
God bless you, let him talk about his experience in transforming the Fulong Pillar, and he can even talk about some useful stuff.

After all, the blessing of wisdom light is similar to "revelation", which allows him to gain endless inspiration. The essence lies in himself, rather than being a pure golden finger addition.

But if you ask him to talk about his experience in cultivating qi energy, that would be too difficult.

You can’t just say “sleep more”, right?

Or is it enough to just practice breathing techniques in the inner world after entering into a state of meditation?

He didn't even tell Master Yang about the latter.

Here, when Zhang Xingshan and Luo Xi heard the first two words "eat more and exercise more", they fell into deep thought.

Is it true that being able to eat is one of the talents of martial arts?

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit tense, Ji Jingqiu prepared to share some practical information:

"I have been contemplating Master Yang's words these days, 'The body is like a green mountain, and the spirit is like clouds', and I have gained a lot.

Suppose the human body is a mountain, the bones and muscles together form the continuous mountain range, and the tendons and veins are the mountain rivers and underground rivers, connecting the inside and outside of the mountain.

The blood, or qi, is like flowing water. The flowing water flows along the mountain, giving the human body and the mountains vitality, which is also warming the limbs and bones..."

Zhang Xingshan and Luo Xi fell silent again.

"The body is like green mountains and the breath is like clouds"?
Why haven’t they heard Master Yang say this?
Open a small stove?

Yang Yan stared at Ji Jingqiu with sharp eyes.

Even he did not expect Ji Jingqiu to make such a statement.

The air is like flowing water, flowing along the mountain, digging along the way, turning a hundred times...

What a beautiful landscape painting!
This realization surprised Ji Jingqiu even more than the Qi he developed in one day.

Most people, even if they practice standing meditation to the point of opening their meridians and condensing their true energy, still find it difficult to have this kind of understanding.

If one wants to go further and further and reach higher levels in martial arts, it is not simply about accumulating qi and blood and strengthening the body.

After strengthening comes “integration”.

This is the most important thing.

Some people can only score four or five points out of ten points, while others can score twelve or thirteen points. This is the difference in "integration".

How can a pile of loose sand compete with a mountain?
Fu Long Zhuang emphasizes that only by subduing the dragon trapped in the body can one truly master the power of the physical body. It also emphasizes the importance of integrating the physical body with the world.

Only by firmly holding the rope around the trapped dragon's neck can you make the trapped dragon work for you.

Although Ji Jingqiu only had a superficial understanding, it also meant that he was on this path.

Yang Yan was amazed, no wonder this kid was able to master the Fu Long Posture in just two days and transform it into the most suitable form for himself.

Such martial wisdom is truly astounding!

For some reason, he interrupted Ji Jingqiu's speech with an excuse.

The determination I had already made up in my heart couldn't help but waver.

He sighed inwardly, gave some pointers to Zhang Xingshan and Luo Xi, and then turned and left. …

After finally dealing with it, Ji Jingqiu breathed a sigh of relief.

But from then on until the end of the training in the evening, Ji Jingqiu felt uncomfortable all over.

It seemed as if someone was staring at him from some corner of the training ground.

Before going to the cafeteria in the evening, Ji Jingqiu glanced at the martial arts students in the training ground outside.

These days, he clearly noticed that there were far fewer people coming to the martial arts gym for training compared to last week.

Mainly those burly guys with tattoos and gang members.

There are actually quite a few people of his age who are increasing in number.

I wonder if there will be another fight on the lower level.

In Tai'an City, the lower class is where the sun doesn't shine. It is the darkest and most chaotic place in the city, and the black market on the fringe of society.

Even the Sheriff's Department rarely patrols there.

The ones who have the final say there are the gangs.

The most common thing is the constant renewal of gangs.

After dinner, Ji Jingqiu touched his belly and took a walk on the way home.

The area below me is still in the upper-middle class. At the end of the street, I can see the setting sun. There is still a hint of warmth in the light orange color.

The traffic light ahead suddenly came on.

A tram whizzed past.

In the afterglow of dusk, Ji Jingqiu felt a moment of tranquility that he hadn't felt for a long time.

The martial arts training in the past few days was so fulfilling that he felt happy, and the speed visible to the naked eye made him full of motivation.

He used to be thinking and searching for what he could do in his life, but he found very little.

For him, life was full of suffering and injustice from the very beginning.

And now, he had finally found a path that was open to him.

He suddenly realized that it was precisely the suffering and hardships he had experienced in the past that allowed him to walk smoothly on the road called martial arts.

He felt that he needed to thank himself for having persisted. Thank you...

"boom--"

Amid the deafening roar, light and fire intertwined.

It's like pressing a shutter.

At this moment, time seemed infinitely stretched in Ji Jingqiu's eyes.

The evening breeze just blew gently past his ears, and in the next instant, there came an explosion like a landslide and a raging tide, and the sharp howling of wind and waves, sweeping in all directions like a tidal wave!

The sound of large glass windows shattering seemed so insignificant in the explosion.

And those panicked screams during the explosions.

A huge explosion came from the street next door. The tram passing in front of Ji Jingqiu was overturned to the ground, and the back half was in the explosion zone.

Ji Jingqiu looked at the tragic scene in the distance in silence.

The sudden disaster made him a little dazed.

An explosion of this magnitude was definitely not caused by an accident!

Terrorist attacks?
He did not stand there in a trance, but rushed to the overturned tram, carefully kicked open the shattered glass, took the crying child out of the car, and shouted loudly for anyone who was not injured nearby to come and help save the child.

At this moment, intensive gunfire suddenly began to sound in the distance.

Most of the people who had gathered from all directions to lend a hand changed their expressions and turned away.

Ji Jingqiu's skin was tense all over, and the fire in his heart kept reminding him that this was a dangerous place!
But he didn't choose to leave.

Because no one knows the preciousness of life better than him.

He was never afraid of death.

He just doesn't want to die.

Ji Jingqiu gritted his teeth, his breathing became heavier and heavier, and the energy in his body burst out. If it was just a gurgling stream in the past, it now finally showed the momentum of a surging river flowing downstream.

With strength far beyond what he had ever experienced before, he quickly opened a passage and helped the people trapped in the car escape.

(End of this chapter)