Codex Pirates

Chapter 175 Results of Meditation Training

The cold current of winter sweeps across the East China Sea, and the outside of Kalmar City is already covered with snow.

In a frozen brook, William sat cross-legged on a huge bluestone in the middle of the brook. He was shirtless and only wore a thin pair of shorts. at every turn.

William is doing meditation training according to the "life return" method.

In the Isshin-ryu swordsmanship taught by Koshiro, there are also spiritual and spiritual practices, but compared with the "return of life" William obtained from the mouse, it is too general and rough.

Moreover, the direction of cultivating the mind and spirit in swordsmanship is quite different from "returning life".

Swordsmanship emphasizes the connection between the swordsman himself and the sword in his hand, and between the swordsman himself and external objects. It is to release the spirit and mind to sense the outside world. In short, it is to let the spirit radiate from the inside out.

But "Return of Life" is just the opposite. Its ultimate purpose of cultivation is to let the practitioner feel the limbs, internal organs, and even the hairs on the surface of the skin, and finally manipulate them. When they reach a certain level, they can even control hair attacks. Others get an effect similar to the fluffy fruit that "Red Beard" Barbarossa had taken.

"Return of life" emphasizes immersing the spirit and soul in the body, which is a method from the outside to the inside.

According to the method recorded in the notes, William immersed his heart, mind, and spirit into his body. He first immersed the three into the body's breathing and exhaling movements, so that his consciousness would rise and fall slightly with his chest, and his thoughts would also flow. Like a spring, with breathing, it seems to be gradually brushing away the distracting thoughts on the surface.

A stream of heat emerged from his chest, and gradually wandered through his body. At the same time, he began to try, using the method of "returning life", to control the steam that agitates with the high temperature, and the steam that always emanates involuntarily. heat.

The snowflakes falling from the sky fell on William's shoulders. For the first hour, the snowflakes that fell on them directly vaporized, but after that, when the snowflakes fell on William's shoulders, they turned into water droplets and slid down. Two hours later, William, however, seemed to have lost all his body temperature. The snowflakes fell on his shoulders unchanged, and the water droplets that had turned from the snowflakes before had also condensed into ice due to the cold weather.

The heavy snow soon covered William, and within half an hour, on the boulder in the middle of the creek, there was only a "snowman" whose outline could be vaguely seen.

William didn't know how to maintain this state. After sitting cross-legged for a long time, the snow was getting bigger and bigger. Suddenly, the "snowman" on the boulder moved, and William suddenly opened his eyes. Following his movement, the next moment, his whole body The snow above and below turned into steam in the blink of an eye, coiling around his body.

William stood up from the boulder, suffering from hot and cold temperatures. There was a crackling sound on the surface of the boulder. William exhaled, and a heat wave emanated from his mouth. When encountering the cold outside, he turned into a long dragon. The white air drifted far away.

William can be sure that his current temperature has far exceeded the original limit by 100 degrees, about 300 degrees, but he is still not like before, because he can't lock his own heat and resist the pressure of steam, so he goes around " Air leak".

William clenched his fists. He felt that his body was filled with a "power", which kept urging him to vent it. He knew that this was because the steam pressure could not be released.

Then, William's legs were slightly bent, and he kicked the ground suddenly. The boulder under his feet was directly turned into gravel under the huge force, and William had already shot into the sky like a sharp arrow by virtue of the reaction force.

As a swordsman who has stepped into the realm of cutting iron, William is also learning to control the body's "life return". I can feel that my strength is at least twice as strong as usual at this time.

William jumped into the air, and when his body fell, his feet ejected a stream of air suddenly. He seemed to be very impetuous and collided endlessly in his body, but the steam that intended to burst out to the outside suddenly found a breakthrough, and this time it was different from before. , William, who has learned the method of "returning life", is still trying to control the angle and speed of the steam release, so William stepped on both feet, and "walked" up and down in the air for a certain distance before slowly landing .

After landing, the snow around him began to melt again, and quickly turned into steam again. His body was soon enveloped by the white mist formed by the steam. It becomes bigger and bigger.

William laughed loudly in the mist. Of course, he was not satisfied with improving the fruit ability to this point, but after confirming the fantasy in his heart and finding that the method of returning life was indeed useful for him to further control the devil fruit ability, he was very excited. .

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As the saying goes, some people are happy and some people are sad.

Just as William, who had no worries about food and clothing, was exhilarated by the improvement of his own strength and the results of his training, under the same sky in the East China Sea, the kingdom on the bridge, Tequila Wolfe, was gloomy and gloomy.

Working and living on the surface of the bridge, Tequilawolf, who has no output, is short of food and clothing. This is the normal life of the local people, but in winter, this kind of life becomes even more difficult.

The local officials wore thick leather coats and kept dropping the whips on the slow-moving laborers due to hunger and cold. The thin clothes on the laborers could not resist at all, and the result of the whipping was often torn apart.

A dark-skinned little boy who looked only ten years old was pushing a boulder along with other people of the same age. Because of the cold, the little boy put his frozen hands to his mouth and blew hot air. He never thought that the supervisor on the side A whip was aimed at his back.

The little boy's body was quite strong. Although his body shrank from being pumped, he still turned his head and glared at the supervisor.

Several companions around him hurriedly backed away, and as expected, the supervisor saw the little boy dared to stare at him, laughed grimly, waved his whip, and beat the little boy repeatedly.

Witnessing this scene, a shrill scream suddenly came from a labor team in the distance. A woman with the same dark skin left the team and ran over in a panic, holding the little boy in her arms. At this time, the body contained enormous strength, and while enduring the whipping of the whip, he hugged the struggling child tightly, protecting him tightly in his arms.

The surrounding workers watched blankly, and continued to work under the urging of other supervisors.

The whip-wielding supervisor whipped a few times, then he was tired and out of breath, and put down his whip.

But the woman still did not let go of the little boy. She looked down at the boy's eyes swollen from crying, and pleaded, "Abram, be good, be obedient."

"Mom...." The boy named Abram no longer struggled