Chapter 3 Today's salted fish is all yours to carry The Shahe Gang is a small gang. There is a petty air in all aspects of his behavior. This was the case with the porters’ wages being withheld, and the same was true with the exercises that were exchanged from the missionary house and taught to the porters. Tao Tie was dragged to the dock by Uncle Hui, he broke off a willow branch and hurriedly brushed his teeth, scooped up a handful of river water to wash his face, and quickly ate two pieces of sauce cake to fill his stomach. Then, together with other porters, under the leadership of the Shahe Gang dock manager, he practiced the popular "Five Animal Exercises". This is a method of guiding health preservation. It is said that it was contributed by the Taoist sect when Taizu established the missionary institute. If practiced well, it can have the effect of "building the foundation in 100 days". After completing the "100-day foundation-building", you will have the foundation for practicing Taoism. Unfortunately, over the past thousand years, the Five Animal Exercises has been widely circulated in the Dayong Dynasty, with countless practitioners, but it is rare to hear of anyone actually using the Five Animal Exercises to complete the "hundred-day foundation-building" and enter into Taoist practice. The Dayong Dynasty is so big and has so many people, so there must be some hidden gems. It can only be said that the probability of such a thing happening is too low, almost zero, so we have never heard of it.
After all, those who can make a name for themselves by practicing the ordinary, moderate and peaceful "Five Animal Exercises" will have better exercises to choose from. The Five Animal Exercises are dynamic on the outside and quiet on the inside, seeking quietness within movement, combining hardness and softness, and integrating both inside and outside. There are five kinds of games: one is tiger, two is deer, three is bear, four is ape, and five is bird. Tiger belongs to wood in the five elements, and tiger plays with the liver. The liver belongs to wood in the five elements. Its beauty is in the nails, and it is combined with tendons in the body. It is the exterior and interior of the gallbladder. Tiger play effectively regulates the function of the liver through changes in hand shapes (palms, tiger claws, fists) and glaring eyes, and can relieve liver and qi, and relax muscles and tendons. Deer belongs to water in the five elements, and deer play governs the kidneys. The kidney belongs to water in the five elements. Its beauty is in the hair. It is connected to the bones in the body and is the exterior and interior of the bladder. Deer Play allows the entire spine to fully rotate through movements such as lateral flexion and twisting of the waist and arching of the back. The waist, kidneys, life gate and governing vessel can be fully exercised, which has the effect of invigorating qi and kidneys, strengthening the waist and bones. The bear belongs to the earth in the five elements, and the bear plays with the spleen. The spleen belongs to the earth in the five elements. Its brilliance is in the lips. It is combined with the flesh in the body and is the exterior and interior of the stomach. Bear play uses the movement of the waist and abdomen and the left and right shaking to squeeze and massage the spleen and stomach, which can regulate the spleen and stomach and strengthen the limbs. The monkey belongs to the fire element in the five elements, and the monkey's play represents the heart. The heart belongs to fire in the five elements. Its brilliance is on the face and in the body's meridians. It is the exterior and interior of the small intestine. Monkey play squeezes and relaxes the chest cavity, and its varied movements can nourish the heart and brain, and unblock the blood vessels. Birds belong to metal in the five elements, and bird play governs the lungs. The lungs belong to metal in the five elements. Their beauty is in their hair. They are connected to the skin and are the exterior and interior of the large intestine. The up and down movement of the arms in bird exercises changes the volume of the chest cavity, enhances the blood oxygen exchange capacity, nourishes the lungs, expands the chest, and regulates the qi. Regardless of whether practicing the Five Animal Exercises can help him complete the "100-day foundation-building", Tao Tie will practice it very seriously as long as it can help him embark on the path of cultivation.
More serious than Uncle Hui standing next to him, more serious than the other porters, and more serious than the original body. The worst thing about doing things is not being serious. Because if you are not serious, you are just perfunctory. Not only are you perfunctory to others, but you are also perfunctory to yourself. What can a person who doesn't even do things right by himself achieve? Tao Tie ignored the surprise of Uncle Hui and the other porters because of his "sudden" seriousness, and while digging out his original memory of practicing the "Five Animal Exercises", he followed the guidance of the Shahe Gang's dock manager and practiced every movement, every posture, and every breath meticulously. The guide guides the Qi to make it harmonious and the body to make it soft. "Five Animal Exercises" is a method of guiding health preservation. Naturally, it requires not only practicing the movements and postures, but also regulating the breathing. If you work hard, time will pass quickly. It didn't take long before he finished practicing the Five Animal Exercises from beginning to end. "Start work! Start work!" After Li Zeyuan, the wharf manager of Shahe Gang, finished his duties and put down his work, he immediately turned around and shouted, urging them to work. "Start work! Start work!" The porters did not need to be urged by the steward and were more enthusiastic than the steward. People who are devoted to making a living always see only a few pieces of silver on the ground. Even if they look up, they seldom look at the bright moon. For these porters, practicing cultivation was just a hassle and a delay in their ability to make money. They were unable to appreciate Taizu's good intentions. Uncle Hui opened his mouth, wanting to say something to Tao Tie, but finally he held back and ran towards the cargo ship that was already docked at the dock. Tao Tie noticed this and didn't care about Uncle Hui's thoughts. He also ran towards the cargo ship in small steps, but his mind was divided on some fragments of information he learned after practicing "Five Animal Exercises". [Skill: Five Animal Exercises (beginner, progress 9%) Information fragment 1: The Taoist method of guiding and maintaining health, if practiced in depth, can have the effect of building a solid foundation in a hundred days. Information fragment 2: When the Dayong Tianchao Missionary Institute collected the information, it lacked the supporting Five Animal Divine Intentions, which greatly reduced the effectiveness of practice. Information fragment three: Incorporating it into the "Taotie Visualization Method" may have miraculous effects. 】 Turning his back and squatting on his knees, Tao Tie carried a bag of goods and walked steadily towards the warehouse, thinking in his mind. Combining information fragments one and two, it can be seen that "Five Animal Exercises" does have the rumored "hundred-day foundation-building" effect. However, without the accompanying Five Animal Divine Intentions, the effect of the "Hundred Days of Foundation Building" of the Five Animal Exercises, which is already moderate, peaceful and ordinary, becomes even worse. The Dayong Tianchao Mission may have discovered this, or may not, and never mind. What Tao Tie is most concerned about is information fragment three. What does it mean to incorporate the "Taotie Visualization Method" to have miraculous effects? This is because the Taotie Visualization Method neither refines the body nor the spirit, it is neither a life practice nor a sex practice.
It is a secret method at the level of the laws of the Tao. The so-called eating the surplus of all things to make up for one's own deficiencies has a prerequisite, that is, it is necessary to clearly identify which aspects to make up for. Tao Tie inherited his original body's stubborn and leaky body, with incomplete five elements. It was difficult for him to practice cultivation and he had no chance of becoming an immortal. So no matter how hard he practiced the Five Animal Exercises, he could not achieve any results. However, by incorporating the Five Animal Exercises into the Taotie Visualization Method, Tao Tie was able to make use of the surplus of external objects to make up for his own deficiencies and find a way to achieve results in practicing the Five Animal Exercises. So why are you hesitating? After moving several trips of goods, Tao Tieyi had some free time during breaks and immediately incorporated the "Five Animal Exercises" into his "Taotie Visualization Method". After a while, [Knowledge of All Things] was automatically triggered, and a translucent interface emerged in the field of vision, showing fragments of information. [Skills: Taotie Visualization Method + Five Animal Play] [Information fragment 1: The way of heaven is to reduce the excess and supplement the deficiency. Use form to supplement form, and use action to supplement action.] [Information fragment 2: Tiger liver, deer kidney, bear spleen, ape heart, bird lung] [Information fragment three: The five elements are mutually generated, and the foundation is built in 100 days] Before Tao Tie could ponder the meaning, Uncle Hui, who had swallowed the water and the cake in his mouth, could no longer hold back and asked, "Tiezi, what happened to you today? Why are you practicing so hard? Are you still thinking about becoming a practitioner?" "miss you!" Tao Tie shifted his attention away from the information fragments, responded decisively, thought for a moment, and said meaningfully, "If a person has no dreams, what is the difference between him and a salted fish?" Puff. A pretty girl dressed as a typical young lady's personal maid appeared on the dock for some reason. She passed by and heard Tao Tie's words and laughed like a silver bell. Uncle Hui quickly lowered his head. Tao Tieze looked in the direction of the voice, and heard the cute maid with curved eyebrows covering her mouth and laughing: "You are the only one who will carry all the salted fish today." (End of this chapter)
