chsdbacks Chapter 5 Bone Dissection Technique
Chapter 5 Bone Dissection Technique
"Hmm?" Lu Ming saw two people surrounding another person in the woods from afar, and immediately frowned slightly.
He thought for a moment, then turned around and left in a different direction.
Within the Martial Arts Department, disciples from martial arts families and ordinary people are all disciples, but in reality, their statuses are worlds apart.
For ordinary people, their experience in the Military Service Bureau was probably the closest they ever came to the upper class in their lives.
People like Zhu Ming seize opportunities to curry favor with the powerful and influential.
Various cliques have sprung up within the Military Service Department. Although those two were dressed in gray training uniforms, who knows which powerful figure might be standing behind them?
He has no connection to the person who was surrounded, so there's no need to complicate things. Besides, without knowing the full story, it's best not to comment; who knows which side is good and which side is bad?
In the woods.
Li Hu, with his honest and simple-minded appearance, looked at the tall and short men surrounding him and said somewhat nervously:
"You can't find an ant nest? I can help you find one, tomorrow, I'll help you find one tomorrow."
The tall man nodded in satisfaction and patted Li Hu on the shoulder.
"Don't be nervous, Young Master Shen is a very kind person. You'll definitely be rewarded for helping him find the ant nest. Perhaps you'll even have a chance to achieve the 'Three Breaths, Nine Sounds' technique with the reward!"
Li Hu nodded quickly and said, "Yes, yes."
The tall man smiled slightly, his triangular eyes glancing at the anxious expression on Li Hu's face and the cold sweat on his forehead, before looking down at Li Hu's feet.
There was a small mound of soil at Li Hu's feet, as if he had been digging something up halfway and then hurriedly filled it in. But the fresh yellow soil that had been turned up was very noticeable.
The tall man's eyes flashed, and he suddenly said:
"Young Master Shen needs it urgently, so let's not wait until tomorrow, go find it now."
"Huh?" Li Hu was taken aback, subconsciously glancing at the pile of dirt at his feet before quickly averting his gaze and saying:
"The sun is almost setting now, it's going to be hard to find!"
The tall man frowned and said, "There's still some time. As someone skilled at finding things in the wild, how could you not find it? Hurry up, Young Master Shen needs it urgently."
The shorter man pushed Li Hu, saying, "Hurry up, the sun will set if we wait any longer."
Li Hu stumbled and almost fell. He turned around and saw the short man pushing him away, while the tall man stood firmly on the pile of dirt, showing no sign of leaving.
Li Hu rushed forward and said, "Wait, I dropped something here."
"What are you doing!" The short man suddenly grabbed Li Hu from behind.
The tall man's eyes flashed with malice, and he clenched his fists, ready to step forward and attack.
Suddenly a voice came from outside the woods:
"Li Hu, I need to talk to you."
The tall man suddenly stopped and turned around to see a person walking out of the woods. The person's clean white training clothes were very eye-catching in the setting sun.
The tall man immediately frowned, wearing a white training uniform! Lu Ming!
He sighed inwardly, quickly slapped away the short man's hand that was holding Li Hu, gave him a wink, and then stepped forward respectfully, saying:
"Senior Brother Lu, do you know Li Hu? We were just joking with him. Since Senior Brother Lu has business with Li Hu, we'll be leaving now."
He then pulled the shorter man away.
Li Hu stared blankly at this scene, then hurriedly stepped forward and said:
"Senior Brother Lu...
"Hmm." Lu Ming was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that his white training clothes would scare the two people away.
He simply said he needed to speak with Li Hu, and they dared not say anything more.
Hearing the others call him Senior Brother Lu, he suddenly felt a surge of secret pleasure. Usually, he was the one calling others Senior Brother or Senior Sister, but now he had finally become a Senior Brother himself.
He said, "If I have nothing to do, I just stay in my own little courtyard and nothing will happen."
"Yes, Senior Brother Lu." Li Hu said, a hint of surprise in his eyes as he saw Lu Ming turn around and leave decisively.
Then, after hesitating for a moment, he stepped forward and stopped him, saying:
"Senior Brother Lu, wait a minute, I have something I'd like to give you."
Lu Ming turned his head in confusion. "Giving me something?"
Li Hu nodded, then turned around, squatted down in front of the pile of dirt, and dug around a few times with his hands.
Suddenly, as if grabbing something, he pulled it out forcefully, and a mound of earth rose up from the ground. Li Hu pulled out a somewhat deformed box from it.
Li Hu's eyes lit up. "This is a lead box! The contents must be expensive."
He waved his hand to brush off the dirt from the lead box, revealing its grayish-white surface, and hurriedly opened it.
Suddenly, a smell of old ink mixed with dampness wafted over.
Inside the lead box was a book with three words written on it: "The Art of Bone Dissection".
Li Hu took the books out of the box and handed them to Lu Ming, saying:
"I'm good at finding things, and I knew at a glance that something was buried here, but I didn't expect it to be a book."
"This must have been buried by former martial arts disciples. I don't know why it was buried here."
"Senior Brother Lu, this is what I wanted to give you. Please take it."
Lu Ming took the book. It felt slightly damp and cool to the touch, but it was well-preserved, and the handwriting was clear. He flipped through it casually, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and his heart pounded.
This book, "The Art of Bone Dissection," mainly discusses the various bones in the human body. Most importantly, it contains techniques on how to strike the human body through the gaps between bones.
This contains techniques for practicing finger techniques!
This is very useful to him.
Because the supernatural power panel has another characteristic: the more of the same type of method you learn, the faster your supernatural power will evolve.
Finger techniques are closely related to acupoints!
He had previously felt that it would be difficult for him to learn new finger techniques at this stage, so he had given up hope for the time being, but he never expected to get them here.
Of course, while learning the same type of techniques can increase the efficiency of gaining experience, the premise is that the intentions behind the techniques must be different.
After all, it would be unreasonable for him to gain a lot of acupoint experience by learning a bunch of mediocre acupoint techniques.
He glanced through it and felt that the finger techniques contained in this Bone-Dissolving Technique were different from the striking methods of the Nine Palaces Living Stake. It should have a high probability of increasing the speed of evolving acupoint supernatural abilities!
He asked Li Hu, "Are you really giving me this secret manual?"
Li Hu nodded and said:
"Brother Lu helped me just now, so of course I should repay his kindness. Besides, this book is of no use to me."
"Maybe I'm just not suited to be a martial artist."
"Perhaps I'm destined to be a herb gatherer."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ming felt fortunate that he had entered the woods earlier.
He was about to leave when a gust of wind blew by, and he vaguely heard the tall man say the words "ant nest" and "Young Master Shen".
Since it was about the ant nest, then it was related to him, since he was the one who brought it up. So he turned around to take a look.
Unexpectedly, I obtained a finger technique manual by simply coming here and making a trip.
He put away the manual, and seeing that Li Hu looked somewhat dejected, he thought for a moment and asked:
"How far are you from achieving the three breaths and nine sounds requirement?"
Li Hu scratched his head and said, "I just feel that learning martial arts is so difficult. I can't quite figure out the nine stances. Right now, I can only manage to get to the five breaths and nine strikes."
Lu Ming's heart skipped a beat. Five breaths and nine sounds? Isn't that the same as before he evolved the Heavenly Leakage Divine Power? His aptitude is not bad!
Although Li Hu may have used healing medicine, his actual cultivation time will be longer than his.
However, Li Hu also said that he couldn't figure out the nine stakes, which is why he could only manage five breaths and nine sounds.
Lu Ming pondered for a moment, then suddenly glanced at the pit in the ground and said:
"Aren't you good at finding things? You should be good at finding your way around too."
"In short, don't treat the Nine Palaces Living Stakes as a martial art. Treat it as a maze. You need to find the shortest route to get out by hitting the nine red dots inside."
Li Hu's eyes widened slightly: "You can do that?"
Lu Ming didn't know if it would work, but this was the only method he could think of.
"Let's try anything, even if it's a dead end!"
Just then, a faint "bang bang" sound came from afar—the kitchen staff were serving meals!
"Let's go, let's eat first."
Lu Ming and Li Hu turned and left the woods. After having their meal in the communal kitchen, they returned to their respective courtyards.
The sky had already darkened, and night had fallen. Lu Ming lit a lamp in the room and heard people practicing their martial arts nearby. He shook his head slightly.
Excessive practice will only harm your body and will not outweigh the benefits.
Although he couldn't practice today, he wasn't in a hurry to go to sleep. Instead, he eagerly took out the book "The Art of Bone Dissection" and carefully read it by the light.
He skipped over the long descriptions of human bones. Because he possessed the divine power of seeing through flaws in anyone's body, he could spot them at a glance and didn't need such things.
But just as he was flipping through the pages and was about to see the method for practicing finger techniques, he suddenly noticed the section on human bones, with a passage at the very end:
"It is said that there are acupoints in the human body, which involve many mysteries. They are created and destroyed unpredictably with the time of day and the circulation of qi and blood, and there is no fixed number of them."
"It is said that there was a Daoist tradition in ancient times, which was based on this Daoist principle."
"Unfortunately, the lineage and fortune of that sect have dissipated and disappeared into the long river of history, and no one has been able to reproduce its glory since then."
Are the acupoints on the human body in this world determined by the time of day and the circulation of Qi and blood? Or are they not fixed?
No wonder the martial arts instructors, when teaching martial arts, even when striking key parts of the puppets, always talked about bones and weaknesses, never mentioning acupoints.
Moreover, in ancient times, there were martial arts traditions that involved acupoints, but as a result, their fortunes were dissipated and they were destroyed.
When Lu Ming saw this passage, he felt a pang of regret. If it had been passed down, there would probably be many finger-based martial arts techniques available today.
Now, this book, "The Art of Bone Dissection," is not exactly a martial arts manual. Based on its contents, it's speculated that it was written by a physician.
But this is for the best.
Lu Ming suddenly realized that this would make his Heavenly Leakage Divine Ability even more concealed. After all, with the lineage of acupoints obliterated, others would be less likely to consider problems from the perspective of acupoints.
He then suppressed his distracting thoughts and carefully studied the finger techniques chapter of the Bone-Dissolving Technique.
This passage was only a few hundred words long, and with the accompanying pictures, Lu Ming memorized it within an hour and began practicing the poses in front of thin air.
Once you've mastered it, you can try using this finger technique to strike the wooden plaque tomorrow.
However, although he believes that finger techniques and acupoints are closely related, it is still uncertain whether the supernatural power panel will recognize them.
I'll have to try tomorrow.
Lu Ming gestured towards the candles on the table, secretly anticipating what was to come.
"Fingers swift as the wind, movements as fast as lightning!"
Lu Ming's silhouette reflected on the window made a gesture of acupressure, the lamplight flickered as if blown by a breeze, and then a soft laugh came from inside the room.