Chapter 15 - Zama
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Ning Qingman had high hopes for this eldest disciple, and with one stroke, he spared Yue Buqun two years of hard training, closing the gap with Feng Yun and the other three.
Madam Ning said to Yue Buqun, "Buqun, you have to thank your master, in order to help you get started in internal martial arts, your master has spent at least five years of his cultivation!"
Yue Buqun was very touched, kneeling on the ground "bang bang bang" to Ning Qingman kowtowed a few times, choked and said: "Master treats my disciple's grace as heavy as a mountain, my disciple really does not know how to repay!"
Ning Qingman waved his hand and said, "Say what words of repayment! You're my disciple, and it's only natural for a master to teach his disciple. Not to mention that you saved Ah Li, Master hasn't thanked you yet, so this is considered a gift of thanks from Master to you."
"Master will soon be going down the mountain to kill the Demon Cult thieves, and will not be on the mountain for several months, this internal energy will be practised once in the morning and once in the evening, and it will not be beneficial to practise it more than once. You have to practise it well, don't let down your master's hard work."
Yue Buqun kowtowed, "I am honoured to follow Master's teachings! I will practice diligently day after day and will live up to Master's expectations!"
Ning Qingman said in relief, "If you can persevere, it won't be a waste of the teacher's hard work. That's all for today, come back here tomorrow morning and pass on your basic techniques."
Yue Buqun said, "Yes, disciple excuses himself."
Ning Qingman waved his hand, and Yue Buqun bowed to his master and mistress before going out on his own.
Ning Qing Man just helped Yue Bu Qun to open the meridian, Mrs Ning worried about Ning Qing Man but did not say anything to stop, and so on Yue Bu Qun gone Mrs Ning only heartbroken: "Senior brother, you even if you want to give Bu Qun to open the meridian, but also not in a hurry in today it, you were only yesterday by the devil of the thieves backstabbing injured, today the injury still do not know if there is no good good it."
Ning Qingman shook her head and said, "The Purple Haze Divine Power itself has a healing effect, and my injuries from yesterday were healed by evening."
"I'm going down to the mountain to get rid of the thieves soon, so I can't shelter Buqun. His residence is at Chaoyang Peak, but it's a bit far away from my Jade Maiden Peak, and you can't watch over him on weekdays."
"You also know the situation in the gate, with Bu Qun in this current state, sooner or later the Sword Sect juniors will come to the door to pick a fight."
"If he is initiated into the internal martial arts one day earlier, he will have one more day of internal strength, and he will have one more helping hand when he encounters the provocations of the junior disciples of the Sword Sect."
Lady Ning snapped, "Senior brother, you always take things onto yourself, I don't believe that I can't shelter Buqun in Huashan Sect?"
Ning Qing Man laughed out loud, "It's my fault, I forgot that my wife is the famous Mount Hua Heroine!"
Lady Ning gave Ning Qingman a cross look and assisted him inside to rest.
Early in the morning of the second day, Yue Buqun woke up early to practise his kung fu, and after running his kung fu for a week felt refreshed and energetic. He casually ate something and then came back to Ning Qing Man's place.
Ning Qing Man looked at Yue Bu Qun and said with satisfaction, "Good spirit, keeping this state, I'm afraid that the battle down the mountain in five years will have a few chances of winning."
"The Battle of the Lower Mountain?" Yue Buqun didn't know what it meant.
Ning Qing Man said, "My Huashan Sect disciples must be examined and taught martial arts by their masters before going down the mountain, and can only go down the mountain if they pass the test, do you think it's that easy for my Huashan disciples to go down the mountain to practice?"
Yue Buqun asked, "Master, I heard that Shaolin Temple disciples need to break through either Wooden Man Alley or the Eighteen Bronze Men Formation to descend the mountain, is my Huashan Sect the same as theirs? And what are the criteria for our Huashan Sect to go down to the mountain to test their teachings?"
Ning Qingman said, "Where did you get the information from hearsay? Shaolin Temple only has a large and small Luohan Formation, but never heard of the Eighteen Bronze Men Formation, and what is that Woodman's Alley?"
"I, Huashan Sect, don't have that kind of trouble, and I can go down the mountain after supporting a hundred moves undefeated at the hands of the Master."
Yue Buqun was shocked and said, "Master's internal strength is supreme, even after another ten years disciple won't last a hundred moves in Master's hands!"
Ning Qingman lost his smile and said, "It doesn't say that I must be called upon to test and teach you, so you can pick an uncle at random to challenge you at that time."
Yue Buqun breathed a sigh of relief, secretly calculating in his heart that after four years he must pick a weakling senior uncle to challenge.
Ning Qing Man could see what Yue Bu Qun had in mind, and could not help but laugh, "Whichever Senior Uncle is there, they are not weak hands. They have practiced kung fu for decades more than you, you can only support over a hundred moves in their hands by doubling your efforts and practicing diligently day and night."
"Practising martial arts is like rowing a boat against the current. Martial artists of my generation must rise to the challenge and be first in everything. If you're thinking of speculating, then you might as well get off the mountain before it's too late."
Yue Buqun was aghast in his heart and put away his speculative thoughts.
Ning Qingman cautioned: "The inner strength of this door, born out of the internal strength of the Quanzhen Church, is a first-class foundation of the inner strength, but once practised, must be free of distractions, courage and refinement, in the middle of the process can not have the slightest delay, otherwise in the practitioner is really a great harm."
"You are extremely smart, memory is also good, if you can be quiet, study hard internal strength, achievement when beyond the same generation a lot, must not rely on their own cleverness, waste practice."
Yue Buqun answered one by one, and Ning Qingman stroked his whiskers in satisfaction, "Alright, I'm fine on my side, I'll leave the next one to your master's wife."
Yue Buqun said curiously, "Today it is Master Mother who comes to teach the disciples? Isn't it you, Master, who teaches?"
"What, you can't see your master's kung fu?" Lady Ning asked as she walked over.
Yue Buqun busied himself with a salute and said, "Disciple pays his respects to Master Maiden, disciple doesn't mean that, disciple is just a bit strange."
"Your master needs to recuperate these days and has no time to teach you. This foundation-building kung fu will be taught by your master's wife." Lady Ning was dressed in a tight-fitting, short-beating kung fu practice outfit with a valiant appearance.
"Bu Qun, Master Maiden has come to ask you, what do you think is the foundation of cultivating martial arts?" Lady Ning asked.
Yue Buqun said, "I don't know, but I guess it should be the body, right?"
Lady Ning nodded her head and said, "You guessed it right, having a good body is the only way to practise martial arts, if a person has to gasp for several breaths even to take a step, then don't practise martial arts, hurry up and get cured."
"Although you are not very old, Bu Qun, your body lacks exercise and is not even as good as an ordinary farmer. So the first step is to train your bodily functions first."
"I have a gong method here, it's the most basic method of exercising the body, today I'll pass on the first style to you, I'll do it once, you pay attention and observe."
Yue Buqun stared at Lady Ning's demonstration with wide eyes.
One could only see Mrs Ning standing with her legs side by side, her feet parallel to each other. Both knees bent and half squatted, thighs slightly flat, toes internally buckled, five toes grasping the ground, centre of gravity falling in the middle of both legs, knees outstretched perpendicular to the toes. She was surprisingly standing in a horse stance!
Yue Buqun asked in astonishment, "Shifu Maiden, is this the Za Ma Bu?"
Lady Ning replied, "Yes, this is the Four Flat Horses of horse stances. It is a pure foundation-building kung fu handed down from the Shaolin Temple."
Yue Buqun was incredulous, "Just this Za Ma Bu, squatting there without moving, what foundation can be laid?"
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