Chapter 17 Morning Exercise
In the evening, after answering one strange question after another of his brothers, Locke lay on the bed thinking about things. He had not yet accepted his fate, and probably would have issued it tomorrow. What is Dou Qi? Locke touched the navel under his belly, and there was nothing from the outside, but Locke could feel a white spot as big as a grain of grain inside. Knight Will said this was Dou Qi vortex, but Locke could not see that it looked like a vortex.
If you can't figure it out, you don't think about it anymore. The boat will naturally go straight to the bridge. Maybe you can ask Uncle Yoshik. Locke thought of Xia Qian, the beautiful boss of Giza Town outside the military camp. He hasn't been looking for her recently. Let's go tomorrow and bring some gifts by the way.
I don’t know how my family is going. The last time my parents brought me the message was that everything was fine and I was careful. I don’t know if my parents used up the money I sent back. Based on Locke’s understanding of them, it is estimated that most of them were saved for me to use it in the future. When I thought of getting married, Locke smirked.
Marriage in this era is a lifelong event for ordinary people. If she can marry a virtuous wife who can do housework, she can wake up laughing in her dreams. Locke is full of fantasies about her marriage. Xia Qian is pretty good. She is good-looking and can write. However, if she has married, her parents should not be satisfied with her.
Locke suddenly thought of his sister. In Locke's opinion, his sister is the best. Moreover, he has been working on housework for several years since he left home to join the army. To be virtuous, his sister is the first priority. If he could marry his sister... Locke fell into random thoughts again. He didn't know when he fell asleep.
The next morning, Locke came to the training ground outside the camp early. At this time, no other squadron leader came here to train. He greeted the soldiers on duty at the door and walked straight into a relatively small area in the training ground.
He came today mainly to see his strength changes after practicing Dou Qi. According to Knight Will, the level he is now in is an entry-level knight attendant, and Dou Qi is only a seed form. At this stage, Dou Qi can only be used to repair injuries and increase strength. When the Dou Qi seed condenses to the size of a pigeon egg, it will be the peak of the entry-level knight attendant, and then you can advance to a low-level knight attendant.
Knight Will granted him the cultivation method of only entry-level knight attendants yesterday. When he reaches the peak of entry-level knight attendants, he will teach the next Dou Qi technique.
Locke first walked towards a huge rock in his training area. A huge rock with adult physical strength, according to his previous strength, could only lift half of it and could only hold on for a short while. Locke did not use his fighting spirit, hugged the huge rock with his arms and shouted "Rise!" The huge rock was picked up under Locke's huge force, but Locke could only maintain it at the knee position. After persisting for more than ten seconds, he used up his strength and "boom" and the huge rock landed on the ground.
A few minutes later, Locke finished his rest and was in front of the boulder again. He recalled the method of using Dou Qi taught by Will Knight, mobilized the Dou Qi under his abdomen to the position of his arms and abdominal muscles, and hugged the boulder with both hands, "Get up!" Locke shouted loudly. The boulder was lifted to his chest by Locke. Locke felt a slight coolness coming from his abdomen. This was the characteristic of the rapid consumption of Dou Qi. Locke felt that the Dou Qi seed, which was originally the size of a rice grain, was about to shrink to the size of a millet grain in this time, and hurriedly threw the boulder out with all his strength.
"Boom" the huge stone was thrown five meters away after Locke blessed the Dou Qi. Locke looked at himself using his hands and couldn't believe that this was the divine power that blessed the Dou Qi, which actually increased his strength by two to three times. Although it lasted for a short time, it was because he had only practiced for one day and had too little Dou Qi.
Moreover, Locke felt that the Dou Qi was not essentially improving his muscle strength, it was just a blessing effect. He just raised the huge rock that was not as strong as his own, which caused his muscles to be sore all over his body, especially his arms. At this time, the Dou Qi seeds under his abdomen penetrated a stream of clear flow, and the stream flowed upward from the abdomen. The way through the path made Locke feel a sense of rejuvenation. Finally, the clean stream stayed in the position of his arms. Locke knew that this was the situation that the Dou Qi automatically protected the master after being injured. If he mobilized the Dou Qi to recover from his injuries, the effect would be better.
Locke felt the seeds of Dou Qi shrank again and decisively gave up this idea. Knight Will told him that the accumulation of Dou Qi lies in years of cultivation. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. You must breathe more than an hour of Dou Qi every day to ensure that your Dou Qi is growing.
Rock looked at the training ground that was still empty around him, and sat cross-legged and breathed out the Dou Qi. Time passed without realizing it during the practice. When Rock opened his eyes again, it was already three hours later, and it was ten o'clock in the morning. Rock felt that his Dou Qi seeds had changed back to the size of his when he had just condensed yesterday, and it seemed that he had not grown.
At this time, in addition to Locke, there were four squadron leaders practicing in the training ground, including Uncle Yoshak and Will Knights. They all occupied an area of the training ground and breathed a fighting spirit. Will Knights occupied the largest area in the middle of the training ground.
You cannot be disturbed by others when practicing Dou Qi, otherwise it will affect the absorption rate of Dou Qi and make people irritable. Although you don’t know what consequences this behavior will cause, Locke doesn’t want to try it. While using the long sword on the training ground to practice swordsmanship, he waits for the end of Yoshak and Knight Will’s practice.
Another hour later, Knight Will, Uncle Yoshak and four others woke up from their practice. Yoshak looked at Locke who was practicing swordsmanship not far away, and smiled and shouted to Locke, "I saw you kid here to practice early in the morning. It's a good material. Let's go and have a meal together."
Lock then followed Uncle Yoshak and the others to leave the training ground. On the way, Lock learned that he and Jerson were arranged to the fourth squadron. He was the deputy captain, Jerson was the captain, and Lock didn't say anything. Jerson had a qualification and ability than Lock. He was the captain, and Lock had nothing to say.
On the way, Locke focused on asking Uncle Yoshak about cultivation. Yesterday, Knight Will just roughly taught the practice and usage of Dou Qi, and did not say anything about the details, tricks, etc., obviously because Locke is an outsider. Locke knew that Uncle Yoshak was the closest person he was, and only Uncle Yoshak could learn real knowledge.
Everyone has their own experience in cultivation, which is impossible to pass on to others. The other squadron leaders also knew what they wanted to communicate. They said hello and left first. Yoshak and Locke walked very slowly, and Locke was asking Yoshake along the way.
When asked why the seeds of fighting qi have not grown much after he practiced for a whole morning, Uncle Yoshik patted him, "Boy, I have been practicing fighting qi for more than a year, and now I am only a little soybean. You kid have just practiced for a day and want to go to heaven?" Lock covered his head and looked at Uncle Yoshik innocently.
"We practice Dou Qi as a water grinding skill. We can only rely on ourselves. The more you work hard, the stronger you will be." Uncle Yoshake sighed and continued.
"Is there no other way to speed up the cultivation?" Locke asked.
Uncle Yoshake glanced at Locke and said, "Yes, some treasures of heaven and earth can speed up the cultivation of Dou Qi, and some precious ones can even directly improve the strength of the first level, but I think you should not be so lucky."
After hearing this, Rock had no choice but to feel disappointed, but he thought of a piece of plant arthropod that Master Zoro gave him before, called the Red Sea Flower. After he went back, he handed it to Xia Qian and asked her to plant it in a flowerpot. He didn't know how it looked now. If he couldn't plant it, he could only eat it as what Master Zoro said.
Uncle Yoshak saw Locke showing disappointment and comforted him, "We are a civilian, and it is good to be able to practice Dou Qi. According to Knight Will, those who practice Dou Qi can live for twenty or thirty years more than ordinary people because of Dou Qi's care. This is what you can earn. Don't dream all day long and think about those unrealistic things."
"Oh." Locke replied absent-mindedly while thinking about his red sea flower. He was still young and his understanding of life span was not so profound.
"Now, in addition to relying on our own water milling, we also have the right way to practice Dou Qi, which is to take medicines." Uncle Yoshak said. "We can change the medicines for cultivation by military achievements, and only those above the first corps are qualified to change. Our battalion only has the hemostatic agent. If you want to change the medicines for cultivation, you can only go to the headquarters of the Corps or the military headquarters. That requires a lot of military merits. I know you have a lot of military merits, but how many can you leave after being promoted to the squadron leader this time? Moreover, the cultivation medicines for the military logistics are so expensive that they are replaced, and there are so many people. We are not from the headquarters of the Corps, and we basically cannot change the medicines even if we have military merits."
"It seems that I can only work hard every day," Locke said helplessly.
"Nonsense, you have never seen a person of such a high-level Knight Will, and you still insist on practicing every day." Uncle Yoshak said.
"Uncle, what level is Will Knight now?" Locke said curiously.
Chapter completed!