redvbooks #553 - Practice in the sect
#553 - Practice in the sect
Besides this, within Liang Yue's mountain gate at this time, there was also another small group of special people.
These were the elderly individuals who had obtained quotas with Yuan Datou's name and came to seek apprenticeship…
They themselves were from famous families and prominent figures from various places, with histories, reputations, and successful careers. They were the so-called pillars of society and local gentry…
Having achieved fame and wealth in their respective lives, they relinquished power to their families in their old age and spent their days idling, occasionally engaging in superficial public relations for their families and businesses.
Previously, they happened to coincide with Yuan Datou's undertaking, and while he was extensively courting various parties, they coincidentally obtained one of the three hundred quotas. Thus, they shamelessly and unburdened came.
They didn't even consider trivial matters such as benefiting future generations…
Frankly, if there hadn't been a prior agreement with Yuan Shikai, Liang Yue wouldn't have even noticed a group of old men like these.
Even now, he usually doesn't bother to pay them much attention.
But this still couldn't affect the self-amusement of this group of shrewd people. Since arriving at the academy, perhaps due to their shared interests, the old fellows became natural allies and began to associate with each other.
Anyway, most of these people were already in their sixties or seventies, and the youngest was already fifty-eight this year, with not many years left to live.
Even if they practiced the techniques, it was unlikely they would achieve much.
Letting them stay in the mountain gate was just like helping these people retire…
Also, Yuan Datou came.
Since receiving Liang Yue's job invitation, this person had lingered in Beiping City for about a month.
After packing up his belongings, explaining his affairs, and arranging a series of appointments and handovers in the Beiyang Army, he moved his family to Xi'an City.
Relying on the relationship between him and Liang Yue, as well as his original status and connections, Yuan Datou still thrived after taking office in the academy.
Basically, everyone had to greet him with a smile and lower their posture.
Every few days, some local officials, gentry, and pillars of society would come to visit him and make his acquaintance.
Especially those military officers who originally belonged to the Beiyang faction were extremely enthusiastic about this old fellow!
Letting him be the director of education in the academy was a bit of an underestimation of his talent. With Yuan Datou's qualifications and life experience, it would be no problem for him to be an honorary principal in this academy.
However, for the current Yuan Shikai, these nominal titles were no longer important.
His life can be described as full of ups and downs, magnificent, once enduring humiliation and waiting for an opportunity, once high-spirited, reaching the top, and then immediately slapped in the face by reality, kicked into the trough of the mud.
Now, with Liang Yue's help, he was lucky enough to save his life, and he had already seen through many things.
This time, he brought his family to the Central Plains, although he still laid out a lot of industries, most of them were just arrangements for the livelihood of his family.
He had also basically given up his positions in the government and the army.
Of the whole family, only one unwilling offspring, after trying his best, finally got a division of troops in Xi'an, and after reorganizing it, he was now busy suppressing bandits everywhere in the province.
Moreover, he had verbally reached a cooperative relationship with Liang Yue's military factory.
As for Yuan Datou himself, he completely extinguished the idea of competing for fame and fortune again, and directly apprenticed to Liang Yue with his two sons and one daughter, three grandchildren.
This was a formal entry channel, which was the agreement of the original three hundred places…
His concubines and servants and others found a house in the town near the academy to settle down, and Yuan Datou would go home on time every day.
As for his other children, most of them were active in the prosperous city of Xi'an, making friends, mingling, and seeking a career, in various ways.
…
Nowadays, Liang Yue's mountain gate of the Flowing Cloud Sect has been officially completed, and the opening ceremony has been completed under the witness of many fellow practitioners.
Therefore, although the main activity place of his numerous disciples is still in the academy, the matter of cultivation has been put on the agenda as a matter of course.
And because the inheritance in Liang Yue's sect is too complicated, before cultivation, his disciples have to make a choice on the path of martial arts and Taoism.
Liang Yue had explained this to them more than once when his mountain gate had not yet been established and a group of students were still studying at the academy.
And explained in more detail to everyone the differences between the two routes of immortals and martial arts, and the advantages and disadvantages of each in the cultivation stage.
In Liang Yue's vision, if the disciples under his sect choose the path of cultivating immortals, then for a long time in the future, this group of people will be defined as monks who are good at magic.
The combat method will also be mainly based on medium and long-range spell output.
In order to make up for the lack of close combat ability of this part of the disciples, it is natural to choose one or two physical skills and martial arts to practice separately.
However, due to the limitations of the energy attributes in the body of the Immortal Cultivation lineage, they can mostly only practice external martial arts.
For example, Five Elements Fist, Stone Crushing Foot, Iron Shirt, etc., which do not involve internal power cultivation, and even National Arts such as Bagua Palm that take a different approach.
External martial arts such as Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, which can generate basic internal breath power from the outside to the inside after reaching a certain stage of cultivation, must be practiced with caution.
You cannot practice too much unless the cultivation realm has reached a certain level.
Just like also always that, a Taijiquan is both an internal martial art and can complement each other with his own monk's exercises. The situation of matching cultivation is because the inheritance of Wudang Mountain is broad and profound, and it is passed down in one line.
Liang Yue does not yet have this condition…
When will he calm down, painstakingly study his own practice, and then create a corresponding close combat boxing technique based on the wood attribute spiritual power of the Evergreen Art.
At that time, he will be qualified to be compared with others…
Therefore, adhering to this kind of consideration, for the choice of exercises in the Immortal Cultivation lineage, Liang Yue tentatively designated Bagua Palm as the daily close combat boxing technique for this part of the disciples.
However, because the routine of this national art is slightly feminine, and there are many twists and turns in the thinking of cultivation and fighting skills.
In order to avoid the situation that the cultivation cannot be completed due to incompatibility with the disciple's personality, Liang Yue also selected another relatively strong boxing technique, Great Demon Subduing Fist, as a supplement.
Compared with the alternative approach of Bagua Palm, this boxing technique is a serious external martial art, and its grade is also relatively high.
In terms of power and the subtlety of moves alone, it is completely inferior to any high-level boxing technique of the same level, and it itself comes from Nine Yin Manual.
However, since being obtained by Liang Yue from the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber World, it has been shelved, and even the women around him have not paid much attention to this exercise.
Therefore, this has led to their understanding of this boxing technique still being in a relatively unfamiliar stage.
Although Liang Yue and others had intensively studied it for a period of time before because they wanted to teach it to their children, they are still at the stage of half teaching and half learning…
As for the daily exercise selection of the martial arts path in the sect, it is relatively pure and direct.
Liang Yue's library tower is full of exercises such as Quanzhen Sword Technique, Frost Treading Ice Breaking Palm Technique, White Tiger Palm Technique, Yin Yang Grinding, etc., which combine internal and external training and can be cultivated all the way from basic to advanced.
Of course, strictly speaking, the above-mentioned boxing and palm techniques are mostly serious orthodox martial arts. They are not low in grade, and they also have a considerable effect on building a foundation for cultivation, which can lay a solid foundation for the disciples' martial arts.
They are all self-cultivation techniques carefully selected by Liang Yue and others, and their attributes are mainly neutral, peaceful, and not very murderous, which is convenient for future development and choice.