Chapter 129 Master Yang's Teachings
The rock wall was slippery, and with a pair of iron fists hitting it, the entire passage was smashed through. The stone surface under Liang Qu's feet all collapsed, and he fell into the water along with him.
My ears are filled with the sound of water, as if the whole world is raining.
Liang Qu smoothed his hair back, floated upwards, reached out to touch the cold and slippery rocks, but did not find the water surface.
It was absolutely pitch black all around.
If it were an ordinary person, or even a low-level warrior, they would be dazed and find it difficult to get out, and would drown in the water.
In other words, Liang Qu dared to explore with confidence because of his ability to breathe and perceive underwater.
The terrain here is very low, and the water flow is completely in line with the rock wall. Even the well is overflowing with water. The well is more than 20 meters deep, and the water source has suddenly overflowed to a position three or four meters from the ground surface. If there is a summer rainstorm, it may become a fountain and surge to the surface.
"Then we can dig a fish pond."
Liang Qu thought that he could expand the entire well into a small pond and grow plants in it.
The cold pond in the Zhao family's house was made in this way. A precious water chestnut plant was grown in it. Unfortunately, when everyone was searching for it later, the precious plant had already been taken away by someone, and it was estimated that the person was Zhao Hongyuan.
Liang Qu dived into the underground river and sensed many small fish in the area, and even some large fish that were more than half a meter long.
Ordinary groundwater is in a low-oxygen state for a long time, and the oxygen content in underground rivers is very limited. Therefore, the ecological environment in most groundwater or underground rivers is relatively poor, and it is difficult to see fish and other creatures.
The active Yin River is different.
Its water source comes from surface rivers. The water has sufficient oxygen content and a large amount of substances, providing a suitable environment for the survival of organisms. The ecology is not bad at all and is very rich.
My hunch was correct; this underground river should be able to lead directly to the Jianghuai River.
Liang Qu returned to the wellhead, determined the direction of the Jianghuai River, and then moved forward along the underground river.
There was no telling how many tributaries this underground river had. As he swam along, he saw no less than four or five forks, like spider nests.
During this period, Liang Qu discovered many fish species that he had never seen before, as well as some that emitted a faint light and gathered together like a swarm of fireflies in the river.
After swimming about a mile, the roads on both sides narrowed down to only half of their original width, and there was a faint light in front.
Liang Qu controlled the water flow and swam a hundred meters in an instant, and his perception circle suddenly became empty!
Looking back, there is a narrow and flat water inlet behind me.
He swam upstream and stood on the water.
The river surface is calm, and the water reflects the light of the crescent moon.
Jianghuai River!
He actually dug a passage out of his own yard!
Liang Qu was so excited that he went to the lotus root waters, called the three beasts, and asked them to follow him to the underground river to find the way.
The three beasts entered the cave, grabbing their immobile tails with their fists, and the fat catfish looked around curiously.
It was pitch black, but there were glowing fish, something I had never seen before.
A two-foot-long bigeye catfish swam past it. The fat catfish tilted its head to look over and accidentally bumped into a rock.
"Don't walk around!"
Liang Qu patted Ah Fei on the head.
The underground waters were complicated and the fat catfish had taken a wrong path. Even with his sense of direction, he was not sure he could find it easily.
Maybe they are just separated by a wall and cannot see each other.
The fat catfish followed obediently.
Liang Qu swam all the way and found the deep well dug in his own yard, but the entrance was too small. The fat catfish could not move, and even his fist could not squeeze in.
Sanshou and Liangqu began to further expand and transform the deep well. They dug the entrance, and soon the well was expanded to a diameter of two meters.
Liang Qu had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, so he used Qinglang to carve the bumpy rock wall openings into straight and round ones, which looked much more comfortable.
The three beasts dug more than 25 meters, and the Liangqu was pushed open in all directions along the shaft.
In this way, a three-meter-deep pool can be built in the yard. Then a mason can be hired to build a layer of blue bricks to cover the soil layer. Duckweed can be planted in the summer, which is equivalent to a simple landscaping.
Fist crawled out of the cave and came to such deep inland land for the first time, moving his eight legs to run back and forth, in and out.
It was surrounded by tall walls, a scene it had never seen in its life.
Even though I couldn't move, I crawled out and bathed in the moonlight, enjoying the novel feeling.
The fat catfish stuck out its big head and felt that the place where the gods lived was much more exquisite than that of Big Brother Toad, and the decorative brackets looked extremely mysterious.
Is this the realm of God?
This is the difference between humans and animals.
Here, Liang Qu could live in a comfortable courtyard, but hiding in the water, what was waiting for him were only mud holes and rock caves, without even a soft quilt.
The root of human effort is to not work hard, to be comfortable. The same is true for martial arts training. If you are free from disease and disaster, have a long life, and no one dares to provoke you, then you will have the privilege of not working hard for a longer time and enjoy more time to be comfortable.
Fist climbed up the tree pit, picked up a jujube branch with pliers, waved it at Liang Qu, and asked what it was.
"It's a tree! A date tree! In two years it will bear fruit and we can eat dates."
For the first time, Riot had the concept of a "tree" in its mind.
It turns out this is the tree, something that is not in the water.
Unable to move, it crawled to a huge pillar and grabbed hold of it with its claws.
"That's also a tree, but it's made of dead trees. It's called wood."
Unable to move, he dragged his claws under his chin, looking thoughtful.
The fat catfish thought of Big Brother Toad’s boat and the small boat floating on the river. It turned out that the boat was also transformed from a tree.
Liang Qu stood in the yard and felt that it might be necessary to give the three beasts a lesson to expand their knowledge.
People cannot imagine things they have never seen, and this is even more true for animals. As aquatic animals, the three beasts' cognition is even more narrow.
Fortunately, the Jianghuai River now flows directly into the yard.
Just say hello and the three beasts can come directly to your home from the Jianghuai River, where you can feed them and harvest treasures. Everything is so convenient.
It was late at night and there was no one around.
Now the entire second courtyard is surrounded by a wall and has not yet been connected to the third courtyard, so no one would pay attention to it. Liang Qu let the three animals play in the yard for a while before letting them go back.
Actually, being seen is not a big deal.
Liang Qu was greatly shocked when he saw the domesticated finless porpoises in Hebo today.
He found that the few animals he raised were nothing at all, even the Tianshui centipede. There were sorcerers in the Ten Thousand Mountains of Miaozhou who could control poisonous insects. He was sometimes too cautious.
It is said that there are other domesticated water animals in the river and lake, but so far, the Yangtze River dolphin is the best species among all the domesticated water animals.
Finless porpoises are intelligent and live in groups. Their entire social structure is similar to that of wolf packs. A group of finless porpoises can have thirty to forty porpoises.
As spirits, they are much smarter. They only need to tame a leader and the entire tribe is under control. They can reproduce stably and produce in mass, and are very cost-effective.
There are a total of four groups of finless porpoises brought by Hebo Institute this time. Each group is led by four top-level monsters, so it is not too difficult for them to lead the beasts to fight against some monsters.
The only drawback is that the Yangtze River dolphin breeds slowly, almost as slowly as horses, taking a year at a time, and even longer for spirit beasts, and there is usually only one baby at a time.
It just so happened that after Liang Qu broke through the bone barrier, his mental strength increased again, leaving a certain amount of space.
You can find some time to control a finless porpoise, use the essence of the water to evolve it into a finless porpoise king, and make some small moves.
After making the plan, Liang Qu returned to the main house to sleep.
The next morning, before Liang Qu went to report to the Hebo Office, he was stopped by Li Libo who had rushed over.
Senior Brother Hu from the martial arts school asked him to go to Yang's house today, saying that Yang Dongxiong had something to teach him.
Liang Qu was very excited. Since he became Yang Dongxiong's disciple, several senior brothers had been teaching on his behalf. There was nothing wrong with that as he had learned practical things. He did not expect that Yang Dongxiong would teach him personally today.
Riding a horse to Yang's house, Liang Qu asked the coachman to take Chishan away. After meeting Yang Dongxiong, he went with him to an open area in the garden.
Yang Dongxiong got straight to the point: "Practice the Qigong Inscription for me to see."
Liang Qu sat cross-legged, his Qi and blood flowing in accordance with the Qigong Inscription, feeling harmonious and fulfilled.
Yang Dongxiong pressed his palm on Liang Qu's back, feeling the blood and qi flowing in his body, and nodded slightly: "Not bad, it seems you are not lazy."
Liang Qu clasped his fists and said, "It's all thanks to the good teachings of my senior brothers."
"I drank too late yesterday and forgot about it. I called you here today for no other reason than to teach you a technique called 'Wansheng Baoyuan'."
"'Wansheng Baoyuan'?"
Liang Qu chewed on the words and felt as if he had heard them somewhere before. Recalling the books he had read in the past, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind and he spoke them out.
"Emperor Huangwu's Ten Thousand Victories?"
"Not bad." Yang Dongxiong stroked his beard, "It seems that your hard work in the academy was not in vain. Wansheng Baoyuan is a martial art created based on Emperor Huangwu's Wansheng Gong."
Dahuang was an ancient dynasty before Dashun and Daqian.
Its founder, Emperor Huangwu, was even more famous. Before he rose to power and was still a middle- and lower-level official, he once had a heroic record of chasing and killing thousands of people.
The "Wansheng Gong" he created has been lost, but Emperor Dahuang Wu once simplified and adapted this method and circulated it in the army. It became the mainstream method "Bai Zhan Fa" practiced by the Dahuang army at that time. This method has not been lost.
Thousands of years have passed, and its shadow can still be seen in the main training methods of the Dashun Army.
"Wansheng Baoyuan", from the name it seems to be a re-adaptation of "Wansheng Gong"?
(End of this chapter)
