Li Muyang was very envious of Teacher Xiahou's skill in cooking soup, because the air he breathed made him intoxicated.
Perhaps because he just drank a big bowl of chicken soup, even Xiahou Qianbai's words carried a strong taste of chicken soup.
"Life is like a white steed flitting across a crevice, if you don't enjoy yourself in time, you will only be sad. This is what the ancient sage Zhuangzi said in 'Free and Easy Travel'. What is' enjoy yourself in time '? "
"This — –" Li Muyang hesitated for a moment before he said: "Do whatever you want, do what you want to do."
"That's right." Xiahou Qianbai nodded. "Tasting tea and arranging flowers is fun, brewing wine and meditating is fun. Lying drunk in a brothel is fun, fighting on the battlefield is also fun. Seeking benevolence and obtaining benevolence is the greatest pleasure in the world. "
Li Muyang's face lit up, nodded repeatedly and said: "Teacher Xiahou is right, student is suddenly enlightened. In the future, I will follow my nature and follow my heart. "
"You don't understand." Xiahou Qianbai mercilessly exposed him, not giving Li Muyang any face at all. "Indulgence is the simplest and easiest thing to indulge in in in the world. Whether it's tasting tea and arranging flowers or lying drunk in a brothel, you don't need to deliberately control yourself. Because it's pleasure, it's enjoyment, it's the nature. Just like cooking soup, I'm willing to cook soup every day, but if I do that, I will become the world's top chef, but I can't become a teacher of Starry Sky — – "
"Everyone's heart has a fierce tiger, it's name is called 'ease and loathe work'. It will swallow up your diligence, swallow up your efforts, swallow up your future and everything you may have — – For us martial artists, what's the most important thing? "
"It's diligence, it's hard work." Li Muyang has learned to answer first. He thought to himself, this answer conforms to the norm, there shouldn't be any mistakes, right?
"No, it's talent." Xiahou Qianbai said.
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If he was not one hundred percent sure that he could not beat him, Li Muyang would have beaten Xiahou Qianbai up. Isn't it because I don't specialize in Taoism? Do you really have to torture me to death? It's fine if you drink the soup and let me eat the chicken. After all, the King Gong Shan Colored Chicken's chicken tastes pretty good. But you can't always find fault in my words. I'm a human too, okay? I have my dignity too, okay?
"You don't think so?"
"I mean — –" Li Muyang forced a smile, he felt it was difficult for him to smile at this time, he was too awesome. In order to find an expert to help him build his foundation, not only did he throw away his bottom line, he even threw away his underwear. With a tone of "I don't have to think so, I just want to discuss the problem with you", he said, "Even a talented person needs to work hard, right? I've heard the story of 'Shang Zhongyong'. It says that a child named Fang Zhongyong was able to recite poems at the age of five. He was called a genius by the villagers. Later on, in order to make a small profit, he wandered around and sold his poems. After a few years, his talent disappeared and he became no different from an ordinary person. Doesn't this story tell us that talent is very important and the ability to learn is also very important? "
Xiahou Qianbai sat on a stone chair in the medicine hut, casting a disdainful glance at Li Muyang. "A story is just a story, it's just a prop used to teach those without talent to work hard. Besides, the child named Fang Zhongyong can't be called a genius, a real genius will know what he wants and stick to this ideal to the end. Moreover, Fang Zhongyong has an idiot father, everything he does is controlled and taken care of by his idiot father. It's not surprising that such a person would eventually disappear. "
Li Muyang nodded repeatedly. "Teacher Xiahou is right."
"Real talent — — It's hard to describe this feeling, because only people with real talent can understand." Xiahou Qianbai said.
“----”
"You haven't built your foundation yet, you can say that you're just a layman who knows nothing about martial arts."
“----”
"Other people practice for three months and can write a good handwriting. You practice hard for ten years, but the handwriting you write is unsightly. Other people can sing a touching song when they open their mouth, but when you open your mouth it's like a flood. Other people can comprehend the truth overnight, but you've read three thousand scriptures of Taoism your whole life and still don't know the true meaning of Taoism — — Is hard work important? Is hard work important? "
"It's not important." Li Muyang shook his head. Whatever you say, as long as you're willing to help me build my foundation.
"No. It's important. "Xiahou Qianbai said with incomparable certainty. "For an ordinary person without talent like you, besides hard work, what else can you rely on? You've lost your natural talent, and you're not willing to work hard, what chance do you have in life? "
"Teacher Xiahou — —" Li Muyang's face grew darker and darker, suppressing the urge to rush over and beat him up. "What are you trying to say?"
"You entered Starry Sky with the results of the first place in the West Wind Kingdom, you could have taken a more relaxed and simpler path. You could go to the most famous school in the West Wind Kingdom, such as Westwind University. You could study politics and economics there and later become an excellent government official. You could also study literature and later become a literary master. You could even study music or painting, or have talent in writing. Calligraphers are also a very respected profession — — Unfortunately, you chose Starry Sky, chose dragon slayer and chose Taoism. "
"Practicing martial arts to enter the realm, then cultivating painstakingly to break through the realm, this is the most difficult path in the world. It's very bitter, unspeakably bitter. Perhaps, you work hard for your entire life, but you'll only be stuck in the middle stages of the High Mountain realm. Perhaps when you're old, you'll just be — — a mediocre nobody. You can't break a mountain with your sword, and it's even more impossible to slay a dragon with your sword. Your name is not in the history of Starry Sky, and no one knows of your existence. "
Xiahou Qianbai's sharp eyes looked at Li Muyang and said in a low voice: "This is not alarmist talk, this is the fate of most martial artists. It could also be your fate. So, have you thought it through? Cultivate diligently, be self-disciplined. Don't do evil, do good. Like an idiot, use all your thoughts and energy to do the same thing day after day, day after day, year after year. "
Li Muyang firmly nodded and said without the slightest hesitation: "Teacher Xiahou, I'm ready."
"Then let's get started." Xiahou Qianbai nodded happily.
"Teacher Xiahou, I have one more question — — one last little question."
"Speak."
"You just said don't do evil, what if later — — you want me to kill a chicken again?"
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Xiahou Qianbai flicked his sleeve. If he didn't owe Ziyang Shishu a huge favour, he would not want to teach this bastard of a student anymore.
In the end, Xiahou Qianbai did not fling his sleeves and leave. After all, he had said 'when did I not keep my words'.
"Building a foundation is to use the essential qi in the body to build a pool, which is what we call 'Empty Valley'. First build the valley, then the essential qi in the body will naturally gather in the valley. "
"The bigger the Empty Valley, the more essential qi it will contain in the future, and your future development will be more limitless. Of course, the premise is that you have the ability to fill the Empty Valley — — and fill it up at the fastest speed. If you were to fill the Grand Valley at the age of eighty, how much time and energy would you have to continue? "
Li Muyang nodded. He understood the principle of the Empty Valley. Teacher Xiahou had already explained it to him before, and these days he also carefully studied some books on the basics of building a foundation.
"There are many ways to build a foundation, some people are born with the ability to store their essence and absorb qi, and every day they grow is to fill the Empty Valley. This kind of person is the most extraordinary, almost every person who is born with the foundation of the Xiantian stage can become a great person in the history of Starry Sky. Of course, such people are rare in the world. Don't have any extravagant hopes. "
"The most common way is to cultivate and build a foundation. Through your own efforts, little by little, you accumulate strength, and then form a qi groove, then with enlightenment, the qi groove becomes a valley. That means you have successfully built your foundation. This is the way most people choose to build their foundation. This way of building a foundation is the most stable, because you walk step by step, so every detail is deeply remembered and deeply felt. Especially when you break through from the higher stages of the Free Clouds realm to the Withered Glory realm, this is particularly important. "
"The Withered Glory represents rebirth after death, at that time, you are actually living again. You don't have a foundation, you didn't walk step by step, so there's a high chance there will be a gap, regrettably stopping before the Withered Glory realm — — "
Li Muyang exclaimed in shock: "Teacher Xiahou — —"
He is a man who wants to slay a dragon — — no, a man who stops a dragon from slaying a dragon, a man who slays a dragon.
Stopping before the Withered Glory realm, then isn't the highest achievement the Free Clouds realm? If that's the case, how would he have the face to go out and see people in the future?
"What are you afraid of?" Xiahou Qianbai swept a glance at Li Muyang, saying: "It looks like you will step into the Withered Glory realm tomorrow."
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"There is also a way to build a foundation, which is through external force or medicine. External force is the assistance of manpower, which can only be completed if you have a certain amount of accumulation. As for using medicine to build a foundation, this is the most dangerous and the most unstable. Only the sons of merchants who have no talent, no connections and only a few stinky money would use it. Of course, if you can obtain rare and precious fruits, such as Tianshan snow soul, fire dragon heart or three lifetimes apricot — — If you use them to build a foundation, maybe you can reach the High Mountain realm overnight. "
"Where can I find them?" Li Muyang asked happily.
"Don't think about those useless questions, even if I tell you you won't be able to find it, even if you find it you won't be able to get it. Getting it is even more troublesome, you may even lose your life — —"
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Li Muyang felt like he was better off dead than alive, this chicken soup teacher's words were simply the most vicious poison in the world.
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