Chapter 8 Follow the Tatars all the way east

"If you have practiced kung fu well and have been on the battlefield, you will never deceive me with these golden words."

In a secret place in the forest, Zhao Yu opened his eyes and captured the light in a flash.

"For example, as Master said, practicing Kung Fu as a way to maintain health and longevity is one kind of taste. Taking it as a step to advance in life, learning martial arts and being a member of the emperor's family, is another taste. Now I am obsessed with Kung Fu. The feat of opening up acupoints is unprecedented, so it should have a different flavor."

"I don't despise being a court eagle dog. Hiding in the mountains and fields, accompanying the sunrise and sunset, and making friends with forest animals is not what I want. To open up the path to the cave, I have now explored a more profound path. Taste, I may not be able to find my own way."

Zhao Yu stood up with a long body, wearing a short coat and bare feet. He did not look ragged, but had the air of a master who is close to nature.

"The essence of this Kung Fu is always killing. The more you kill, the more refined your power will be, and the deeper your understanding will be. The transfer of energy and blood, and the control of power, are all in every move with one sword, one spear, and every move."

"It's the fifth day today, and nearly two thousand Tatars have died in my hands. Every time one of these beasts dies, it makes me understand kung fu a little deeper, and it is a well-deserved death."

"Now that the heart aperture has become fuller, I know the four acupoints, including the spleen aperture, lung aperture, kidney aperture, and liver aperture, in my mind. Which acupoint should I open next? Or maybe I should first open a few acupuncture points around the heart aperture that have already been filled. Open up the discovered acupoints first, make the heart apertures grow to the extreme, and then open up the other acupoints?"

Zhao Yu pondered in his heart and did not dare to neglect anything.

The acupoints among the five internal organs were the ones that Zhao Yu first illuminated. And gradually I came to know that in each organ, there is not just one acupoint, but a group of acupoints.

Some of them are explicit and some are hidden, and each one is different.

Zhao Yu also read the Taoist scriptures thoroughly, combined with the acupoints among the five internal organs, and suddenly realized the principle that the five internal organs represent the five elements.

"The heart belongs to fire, and the fire of the five elements also has yin and yang. Some are violent, some are warm, some are burning, and some are destructive. Each acupuncture point in this group of heart orifices represents a mystery of the five elements of fire."

Zhao Yu secretly calculated: "If I open up all the heart orifices first, the fire in the heart will be too strong and the balance of the five internal organs and five elements will be broken, which may cause harm."

"The balance of the five elements of a human body comes first. If the five elements are unbalanced, you will get sick. Now that I have opened my heart aperture and the fire element is flourishing, I have become uneven. If my body was not strong and able to maintain it, an ordinary person would have been there long ago. The excess fire in my heart has burned me to death. If I try to open up all my heart apertures, I'm afraid I won't be able to suppress them. I have to find another aperture to balance it."

"Fire generates earth, wood generates fire; water restrains fire and is incompatible. If the kidney water orifice is opened first, it may conflict with the heart fire orifice. Although it is intended to balance, it will be too violent. If the liver and wood orifice is opened, Wood generates fire, which inevitably makes the heart fire even worse. Taking fire to generate earth, earth also restrains the fire intention, which just opens up the spleen earth orifice. On the other hand, fire generates earth. The opening of the heart fire orifice will definitely open up the spleen earth orifice. It goes well. On the contrary, earth has the meaning of restraining fire and can balance the fire in the heart. It kills two birds with one stone."

"When one of the five elements of the heart, liver, spleen, lung and kidney is opened, the five elements will naturally be balanced. Then open other heart fire acupoints, and so on round by round, always maintaining balance. When all the five elements of the acupoints are opened, there will be another balance. A new world!"

Zhao Yu had a sudden realization in his heart: "After all the five internal organs and five elements have been developed, then we can take care of the other acupuncture points of the body. With the five elements balanced and suppressed, there won't be any big accidents..."

"In this way, when all the acupoints all over the body are opened, you will...be...a fairy among humans!"

Thinking of this, Zhao Yu's eyes shot out with an extremely bright light.

In the past few days, Zhao Yu kept killing people, but he never let go of his own cultivation. In the midst of killing, he realizes the true meaning of Kung Fu, in the midst of rest, he consolidates the secrets gained, and at the same time he explores the mysteries of the acupoints. These are almost the same.

After turning all the gains he gained into his own, Zhao Yu thought of his desire for revenge.

In the past ten years, it is this energy and this desire that has supported Zhao Yu's spirit. Although there are countless killings now, nearly two thousand Tatars died under his sword in just a few days, but Zhao Yu is still angry and will not give up.

He had to take the head of the Tatar emperor to calm down.

"It would be extremely difficult for the Tartar Emperor to take his life and sacrifice his head to my parents among thousands of troops. Today I have defeated more than a thousand fine cavalry with my own strength. I am afraid that the Tartars will be even more vigilant. .”

"But I am only one person. He is vigilant. Since he is the emperor, he should focus on important matters. Presumably, the main focus should still be on the imperial army. If he doesn't move, I can't take action. If he moves, there will be a flaw. I will seize the flaw and strike with thunder, and I am not afraid that he will not decapitate him."

"I think it will take some movement from the imperial court, something that affects the entire body, to pull the Tatar Emperor out of the camp."

Zhao Yu had his own plans in mind. After much deliberation, he was afraid that he would have to rely on the power of the imperial army to kill the Tatar emperor. Otherwise, the Tatar army numbered in the tens of thousands, and it would still be extremely difficult to find the Tatar emperor and kill him among the rebellious army.

"I'm going to meet the imperial governor of Liaodong." Zhao Yu had a plan in mind, but he was not reckless: "I once heard my master say that the governor of Liaodong was Sun Chengzong, but that was a few years ago, and I don't know who the governor is now. Who is the master? Moreover, those officials look down on the common people and rush to see them, fearing that they will not be able to see them."

While he was thinking about it, Zhao Yu caught a glimpse of the human head that he had wrapped in sand and hung on a branch. He couldn't help but feel something in his heart: "This man with golden armor and golden helmet must be a Tatar general. If I take his head, , as a greeting, it should be enough."

Then he thought: "To sacrifice my parents, the head of the Tatar Emperor is enough. It's okay to give this mere general to the governor."

It is now summer and autumn, and the weather is still hot. Even though it was only for one morning and the bread was wrapped in sand, there was still a strange smell coming from the head.

After all, it is in the wilderness and there is no lime. It is extremely difficult to preserve the head.

Zhao Yu decided to set off immediately, bypassing Jinzhou and going to Ningyuan to supervise the imperial court.

So he took a few leaves and wrapped the head, tied it with bark, held the knife in one hand and the money rattail in the other, dangled his head, walked out of the woods, and looked towards the Tatar camp in the distance. Look around, go straight around, and go to the far direction of Ben Ning.

I don’t know if the Tatar is afraid or something else. Along the way, I didn't encounter any Tatar scouts. Although Zhao Yu felt regretful that he did not have the chance to kill more people, he also felt that the road was much smoother.

Along the way, when it got dark, he looked to the west and made a circle. Seeing the bright moon rising in the east sky, Zhao Yu looked around, found a forest, and walked in.

"The river we crossed before was undoubtedly the Xiaoling River."

With his back leaning against a big tree, Zhao Yu sat down cross-legged, thinking secretly: "After crossing Xiaoling River, even if Jinzhou is bypassed... Daxing Fort is nearby..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Yu's childhood memories flowed before his eyes, and he couldn't help but sigh: "My father, my mother, wait until I behead the Tatar Emperor before I go to worship you!"

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Yu closed his eyes.

A moment later, waves of roaring like a tidal wave sounded in the silent forest. They were not loud, but very heavy. Then there was a faint roar of a tiger lingering. The roar of the tiger was also mixed with the tinkling sound of beads falling on the jade plate.

Ice Muscle Jade Bone Kung Fu is a superb Taoist secret technique that can be practiced both internally and externally. Among them, there are static techniques that shake Qi and blood, strengthen the organs, cleanse the bone marrow, and strengthen Qi and blood.

Zhao Yu sat cross-legged under the tree, carrying Qi and blood all over his body. The surrounding area within a few feet was as hot as fire. The saplings and weeds were burned to death in a matter of seconds.

He breathed very rhythmically, and with every breath, he could vaguely see two streaks of white air puffing out in his nostrils, followed by a tiger's roar in his belly. It is the vibration of Qi and blood that tempers the internal organs.

His whole body was also shaking slightly, and this tremor was almost invisible. But it is the only way to shake the bone marrow. Bone marrow is where hematopoiesis occurs. The stronger the bone and blood, the stronger the Qi and blood. This shock to the bone marrow is the method of blood transfusion.

It is a pearl and jade bone forging method in the Ice Muscle and Jade Bone Skill. Under the pull of Qi and blood, the bones all over the body vibrate endlessly, making a sweet sound of tinkling, tinkling, dong-dong, just like beads falling on a jade plate.

The method of Ice Muscle and Jade Bone Kung Fu had been practiced by Zhao Yu to its peak and perfection. However, with the opening of the mind, these methods have room for improvement.

In addition, he has already become accustomed to it over the past ten years, so as long as a person sits in meditation, he will naturally start to operate the method.

In this way, the energy and blood are like tides, and in the surging, tigers roar, mixed with the sound of pearls and jade, like a beautiful tune, rippling back and forth in the forest.

After three hours, it was already Zi time, and the moon was at its zenith.

The sound of all kinds of tides, roars of tigers, and pearls and jade suddenly stopped.

Zhao Yu suddenly opened his eyes, and in the darkness, a flash of lightning flashed away.

Then I saw him standing up and walking vigorously out of the forest, looking up into the distance.

However, during the meditation just now, I felt the earth shaking and I had doubts in my heart.

"A large group of people...at least thousands!"

Zhao Yu narrowed his eyes slightly: "It's probably the Tatar army."

With a change of heart, he turned back into the forest, removed the sword and head, hung them on his waist, took big steps, and quietly approached in the direction of the vibration.

After about a moment, Zhao Yu finally saw a long dragon stretching in the darkness in the distance.

"It is indeed the Tatar army!"

Stopping, Zhao Yu looked carefully: "Seven thousand to eight thousand people!"

"Such an army, it seems, is coming from the direction of Jinzhou. Where is it going?" Zhao Yu then thought about it: "Could it be that a war is about to begin?"

Thinking of this, Zhao Yu suddenly felt excited.

With his eyes rolling, he planned to follow quietly to see where this Tatar army was going.

In the wilderness under this dark night, Zhao Yu was alone, and his footsteps fell silently. Although there were scouts scattered around the Tatar march, Zhao Yu was not found.

Little did he know that there was such a person wandering beside the army.

Zhao Yu got closer and closer as he followed, going back and forth to get a clear view of this large army.

Among them were five thousand cavalry and the remainder about three thousand. One thousand of them looked like regular soldiers, and they all had rat tail whips, but judging from their appearance, they were clearly Han Chinese.

These Han people were all carrying short sticks. Zhao Yu immediately understood that they must be firearms.

There were also two thousand people, driving cattle, horses and animals, pulling twenty carts. On the cart are some big things made of copper and iron. They must be cannons!

The Tatars marched in a hurry, and the auxiliary troops driving carts and the Han troops carrying firearms were out of breath. But he didn't dare to be negligent in the slightest.

There were groups of cavalry chasing after them. Anyone who dared to fall behind would be whipped on the head.