"Here we are, Senior Brother Zhang, look, several of my friends are on that pleasure boat!"
Lu Jin, carrying a stick full of candied haws, pointed at a pleasure boat in the middle of the waterway and said.
Zhang Zhiwei looked in the direction of the sound and saw a pleasure boat parked in the middle of the waterway, with lanterns hanging all over it. It was daytime and the lanterns were not lit. A stage had been built on the deck of the pleasure boat, and a magic show was being performed on it.
The magician was a young man who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. He was dressed in red, had a gourd slung around his waist, and had two pigtails on his head.
The boy with pigtails walked leisurely onto the stage, with no other props around him.
I only saw him forming seals with his hands, turning his wrists, and hooking his ten fingers. Wisps of flames appeared out of thin air and gathered above his palms.
As his gestures changed, the flames slowly turned into a bud, and then slowly opened up and turned into a blooming flower.
When the flowers were in full bloom, the boy with pigtails changed his gesture again, and the flowers suddenly closed and turned into a red bird, flapping its wings and circling around him, sometimes landing on his shoulder, sometimes landing on his palm.
The bird was vivid, jumping and looking around, and every movement and every feather seemed full of life.
Seeing this, the people around burst into applause.
As if encouraged, the boy with pigtails chuckled and moved his fingers again. More flames appeared out of thin air and gathered in his palm.
"The show is about to begin! Change, change, change!"
The boy with pigtails shouted, made a lotus seal with his hand, and pointed suddenly.
The huge ball of flame merged into the bird. In an instant, the tiny bird suddenly grew and turned into a big phoenix with a wingspan of two meters. Then it spread its wings and soared into the sky. Sparks fell from between its feathers, and its wings were filled with intoxicating light and color.
Such a grand and beautiful scene naturally drew thunderous applause from both sides of the strait, and money was thrown like rain, copper coins and large dollars, one by one, towards the pleasure boat.
"Don't worry, there's more exciting stuff to come, come back!"
The young man with pigtails shouted loudly and pressed his hands together. Another ball of fire appeared out of thin air and transformed into a fire dragon that soared into the sky and flew side by side with the previous fire phoenix.
"Dragon and Phoenix bring good luck, Fire Virtue Sect brings prosperity and peace. I wish Old Master Lu a life as long as the pines on the southern mountains, and blessings as endless as the waters of the East China Sea!"
There was thunderous applause and continuous cheers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
"Okay, okay!"
Lu Jin also clapped his hands vigorously, and then introduced Zhang Zhiwei:
"That's a friend of mine named Feng Ping, a direct disciple of the Huode Sect's leader. His fire control skills are unmatched. My master once said that in terms of controlling Qi alone, there aren't many people in the younger generation who can surpass him. What do you think, Senior Brother Zhang? You're a master from the Tianshi Mansion, and Feng Ping's fire control skills are definitely something you'd appreciate!"
Zhang Zhiwei smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad. The methods of the Huode Sect are certainly pleasing to my eyes!"
Zhang Zhiwei only said that Huo Dezong's methods were pleasing to him, but he did not mention Feng Ping's fire control skills.
When I came here, my master introduced the characteristics of Huo De Zong's practice, which can transform Qi into fire. As long as the Qi does not disperse, the fire will not retreat. The stronger the Qi, the stronger the fire.
Feng Ping's trick was quite fancy, but the strength of his Qi was really a bit low. Not to mention the dual cultivation of sex and life, he couldn't even cultivate the "life" skill to the fullest.
He hasn't mastered the "life" skills, but he spends a lot of time thinking about the techniques and doing some fancy operations. It's really confusing.
A method that only focuses on technique and not power is meaningless.
Any use of skills is based on strength, which is very important. Toy guns are for fun, but they can't kill people. We must not put the cart before the horse.
Zhang Zhiwei thought about it from another perspective, and imagined himself practicing the Huode Sect's skills.
He would not pursue fire dragons or fire winds. He would focus on practicing fireballs and bring the power of fireballs to perfection.
By then, if you understand one law, you will understand all laws. Then those trivial things will be easy to obtain, right?
After all, controlling the power of a fireball is essentially controlling Qi. When the power is raised to an extremely high level, the form of the fire changes... isn't that child's play?
For example, when Zhang Zhiwei practiced the Golden Light Mantra, he only focused on polishing his life and did not study the various messy applications of the golden light.
When he practiced Yang Wu Lei, he only pursued the speed, ferocity and accuracy of thunder magic, and he would not do tricks like Zhang Chulan, such as the little white worm series and Thunder membership.
But the strange thing is that Zhang Zhiwei, who does not deliberately pursue the form of golden light, plays with golden light better than anyone else.
This also includes thunder magic. Although Zhang Zhiwei's Yang Wu Lei was restricted by the state of the monkey mind and could not be sent and received freely, even in this case, his control level was far beyond that of Feng Ping.
Apart from anything else, that day when he was practicing martial arts on Tianmen Mountain, thunder and lightning were like dark clouds covering the sky, turning into thousands of birds singing, and every bird was clearly visible. This move alone was enough for Feng Ping to practice for ten or eight years.
Why is this so? Why is it that Zhang Zhiwei, who never deliberately pursued a state of mind that others would struggle to reach after a lifetime of hard work, was able to easily achieve?!
The ultimate reason is that Zhang Zhiwei can see through the essence of cultivation at a glance.
The path of spiritual practice is like going to school. At the beginning, we are all elementary school students and we only know the most basic addition and subtraction.
Some people want to make progress, so they buy dozens of sets of exercises and secret papers, and practice them like crazy.
After finishing the test questions, I felt that I had understood all the applications of addition and subtraction, and had become a master in the art of addition and subtraction.
But I found out that Lao Liu, who never did exams, never did exercises, and only studied some basic textbooks, has already gone to college and is preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination.
Both of them are practicing hard, but after a period of time, the difference between them is huge.
No matter how many elementary school test questions you practice, you will never be able to answer the basic college questions.
No matter how bad a college student is, taking elementary school exams will still be a dimensionality reduction attack.
In the plot, the three old men of Wudang Sect who were obsessed with Fenghou Qimen and sat in meditation for most of their lives were typical examples of people who frantically practiced questions on the spot. The sad thing is that they have practiced for a lifetime but still haven't understood anything.
Zhang Zhiwei is a typical example of someone who only reads basic textbooks.
This is also the reason why various schools and sects in later generations were fighting for the Eight Great Skills, but the old master didn't even bother to look at them.
The Eight Wonders are like a group of middle school students madly pursuing the solution to an optimal equation.
After learning it, you will be successful in every exam (battle).
But what’s the point?
Please, I’m already studying for a PhD!
Even a casual slap contains the basic knowledge of a doctorate.
No matter how advanced your equation-solving method is, you can't escape the fact that you are just an elementary or middle school student.
How are you going to withstand this slap?
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Of course, Zhang Zhiwei has not yet started his doctorate, and the Huode Sect still has some methods that catch his eye, such as the Fire Escape Technique!