The Magic Point
The pit is square, with a round shaped center, where eight stone pillars are erected to lay out the eight trigrams. Correspondingly, there are eight cells in the corresponding positions of the eight stone pillars. The cell where they are enclosed is at the position of fire on the south, the first cell after he stepped out clock-wisely was the cell of soil on the southwest corner. Tark looked inside, it was dark and he listened carefully, it sounded to be a little rattling. He tried to reach out and fumble inside, he didn't seem to touch the so-called air wall, so he stepped in.
"Eh?" A soft astonishment could be heard from inside the cell, and an old and hoarse voice said: "Who is this? The Neptunese's closed water loop seems useless to you?"
Tark stopped, "Who are you senior? why are you trapped here?"
Hearing the sound of shackles rubbing against the stone wall, the old voice said: "Who am I? Hehehe...Who am I? It's the first time someone doesn't know who I am in the four oceans."
Tark could gradually see clearly the general situation of the room. With a little bit of light outside the cell, he saw the difference in this place: the whole cell was piled with sand, gradually rising from the outside to the inside, and the old voice on the opposite side should come from diagonally above, and an unkempt old man on the opposite side seemed to be chained.
At this moment, the old man on the opposite slowly stood up, dragging the iron chain and gradually approaching, hearing the sound of shackles rubbing against the sand, Tark couldn't help but step back.
In an instant, the old man shot his figure violently, with a sudden attack!
Tark didn't hesitate too much to back away.
The old man's body froze spontaneously, with his hands hovering in the air like eagle claws, and he said proudly: "Hey, this is air walking, you must from the Aquarine of the Central Plains." The chain behind him was only a few feet long, obviously it was just a testing attack.
The old man slowly retracted his palm strength and returned to the place.
After a while, the old man controlled his tone calmly and said, "Young man, come here."
Tark paused for a while, walked forward to the previous position, and stopped again.
"Young man, did I just guess right?"
"Yes, my name is Tark Yuan, from the Aquarine of the Central Plains."
"Tark Yuan?" The old man seemed to be puzzled. He paused for a while, "Yuan, or Xuanyuan, ha ha. You must not be the normal weak fellow, young man, who could make the our clan's closed water loop fail...and I am the Neptunese patriarch Warren Guihai."
When hearing the name "Warren Guihai", Tark immediately shocked there. In the wind and cloud notes it recorded: The sea people, or Neptunese and human beings live in two parallel worlds with a boundary of where 1,000 meters below the sea level. According to ancient legends, the Emperor Huangdi fought Chi You, and the dragon made an inexhaustible feat for the Emperor. Then he gave the dragon clan the surname of Guihai, and the dragons the kings of the oceans , thus the Neptunese clan took Guihai as the surname. Before and after the catastrophe, the sea flooded a large area of land, and the original seven oceans were basically connected as one, so it was re-designated as the four oceans in the west, north, south and the east. The east ocean is where Neptunese reside at the Central Plains. Neptunese people turn into mermaids when they enter the sea, and are no difference from humans when they go out of the sea. Warren Guihai is the leader of the East Neptunese clan.
"You are Senior Warren Guihai, it is my pleasure to meet you here." Tark respected and bowed his salute.
"Don't tell lies in front of a person like me, who is Moore Xuanyuan to you?"
"Yes... it's my father."
"Haha, no wonder, I guess the Soft Fish Armor is on you, right?"
Tark did not answer, but he did not deny either. The old man said: "The fish armor is the treasure of Xuanyuan's lineage, I guess you have already seen its magic. Another secret of it is that the Neptunese's magical techniques can be resolved by the fish armor, hehe , everything in the world grows and restrains each other, this is really an interesting encountering."
"Oh, this is why Neptunese's closed water loop is not effective on me?" Tark asked, "Why are you imprisoned here then? Who did it?"
"Hey..." The old man sighed and said: "I am trapped here by my niece Ryah." Tark was a little surprised, so he didn't say anything.
"The Neptunese and human beings have a long history of coexisting and fighting each other. Before the catastrophe, the only point of intersection between humans and the Neptunese was the submarine corridor formed by the Bermuda on the west and the Dragon Triangle on the east. Any humans who tried to cross this passage in the history were not spared. And the Neptunese that entered the human world for various reasons are no different from humans, so the existence of the Neptunese has always been a secret to mankind. After the catastrophe, the barrier between the Neptunese and humans disappeared due to the disturbance of the earth's magnetic field. Intersections with the Neptunese have become more frequent. As a result, the Neptunese is divided into two camps—the one that advocates full-scale confrontation with humans, and the one that advocates peaceful coexistence with humans. Unfortunately, I and Ryah's parents have different opinions, so in two different camps. Our two camps have fundamentally different attitudes towards humans.
Unlike human beings, the Neptunese have always lived with the sea, advocating primitiveness and nature, and not producing. Therefore, they will not have any impact on the earth's ecology and have never negatively affected the survival of human beings. They have never tried to change for millions of years. While human beings are different. In order to meet their own needs, human beings constantly ask for various resources from the earth, produce various waste materials, destroy the earth's ecology, pollute the natural environment, and countless marine creatures die directly or indirectly by human hands. This is the fundamental reason why Neptunese hostile camp hates mankind. "
"Although the two major camps of the Neptunese have opposing views, they are inherently dependent on each other. Many of them are family members but hold different ideas. However, this contradiction reached its culmination after the catastrophe, and it became incompatible. To compete for the sovereignty of Neptunese, there has been civil strife... I don't know what technique Ryah used to make me temporarily lose my Kungfu and imprison me here."
"Senior Warren, then why are you always on the human side?" Tark couldn't help asking.
"Boy, it's uncomfortable to talk like this, can you let me loose it first." The old man looked straight at Tark.
"I... Untie it for you?" Tark felt an unexpected.
"Well, hehe, listen to me, and do what I said." The old man continued: "Be calm for a meditation, try not to think about anything, accumulate Qi at the acupuncture point of Dantian, and lead it up by Shanqu point..."
Tark listened and followed, but felt that his body gradually became lighter, his whole body gradually shrank, and the Soft Fish Armor also tightened...
"Extend all ten fingers, palm up, close the left palm as a fist, lie at Fengfu point, right palm points out with Hand-Shaoyin..."
In an instant, Tark felt a stream of water converging from the Soft Armor to the little finger of his right hand, very filling!
"Quickly, point your little finger at me and let go of your left palm." The old man ordered.
A small stream of water shot out from the tip of the little finger of Tark's right hand, and headed towards the old man. The old man stretched his hands forward and received water in his palm. Somehow a huge water ring emerged, within a moment, the chains and shackles that bound him were violently broken.
"Go, save your friends." The old man pulled Tark up and went straight to their cell.
Not long after they got up, Yvonne and Evelyn didn't see Tark, they were just looking at the entrance of the cell, but seeing an old man leading Tark rushing over, the air wall at the entrance disappeared. Before the two were surprised, they ran straight to Tark, and Yvonne said, "Did you go out?"
Tark cast his eyes on the old man, then turned back to the two of them, "I found out that I could enter and leave the cell at will. Seeing you are asleep, I didn't wake you up. This is Senior Warren Guihai, patriarch of the Neptunese."
"Hello, senior, thank you for saving us." Yvonne and Evelyn said in unison.
The old man waved his hand, "Never mind, fellow Tark rescued me first. They locked my Qihai point with iron chains, and the fine sand piled up in the cell, just for fear of my escape. Thanks to this young fellow who gathers Qi for water, I was able to get out again by turning water into Qi again." The old man turned to Tark as he said, "Remember the method that I taught you, it is your unique advantage with the Fish Armor on you, otherwise even Neptunese's super master, it will take ten years to practice this Magic Point trick that condenses Qi into water.
"The Magic Point?" Tark was startled, recalling the record of the Notes: "The Cloud Hand of Saturnese is played by one palm, which is a special technique of the outside Kungfu; while the Magic Point of Neptunese is played by one finger and is a unique skill of the internal Kungfu. Both Kungfu were created by a ZEN master who has a thorough understanding of the inside and outside, and with both understandings of Buddhism and Taoism." Tark never expected to see the Kungfu with his own eyes, he said: "Senior, what you just taught me is the Magic Point fingering?"
"Correct." Warren said.
Tark pretended not to understand, and deliberately asked, "I have learned the 'Cloud Hand' Kungfu, but I don't know the connection between the two."
"Hahaha, what a coincidence," the old man laughed. "The Magic Point has been introduced to our clan for a hundred years. According to the patriarch of the previous generation, the fingering is from the ZEN Buddhism of the Central Plains. On the basis of outside Kungfu from Shaolin Temple, the senior created the powerful "Cloud Hand", aiming to gather a thousand catties of strength to one point, and be unmatched with masters when playing. Later, he also practiced Taoist internal Qi, and later made his gong retrograde, guided by internal Kungfu , created the 'Magic Point'. The Cloud Hand was passed on to the Saturnese people in the Central Plains, while the Magic Point fingering was lost in the Central Plains. While by coincidence, it was passed down by the Neptunese people. It is a long story to tell. "
The old man looked at Tark up and down, and continued: "You should be the first person who has been able to study both inside and outside for a hundred years, integrating two into one. Of course, they should be of great use for Xuanyuan family line, come and show me both of these skills."
"Xuanyuan family line? What do you mean?" Yvonne stared at Tark, then looked at Evelyn, Evelyn also shook her head.
Tark didn't response, but re-exercised what he had learned just now, and a stream of water shot out, instantly showing large and small marks on the stone wall in the distance.
"Well, yes, ordinary people would never dare to suffer these few blows." As the Shaoyin finger popped out, a water stream shot out, obviously several times faster than Tark's, and several pieces of debris fell off the stone wall immediately..
Yvonne and Evelun were both shocked, with widely opened mouths, didn't even make a sound.
Tark practiced the Cloud Hand too.
The old man nodded and said: "Well, yes, these Cloud Hand and Magic Point consumes a lot of internal strength, you rely on the Soft Fish Armor for your effort, thus you need to continuously improve your internal strength and cultivation level to make progress."
"Thank you Senior Warren for your advice." Tark said.
The old man said, "When you have the ability, you need to take on more responsibilities. Do you know your mission?"
"Mission?" Tark shook his head. Hearing this word, he couldn't help but feel a sense of oppression. Who wouldn't want to live a little easier?
The old man gave a gesture, the four of them then sat on the ground, "Let's talk about the question you asked before, why did I always choose to stand for mankind? The road begins, the sun and the moon rotate, the stars move, and so as the vicissitudes of life. We live on the same planet, although humans and Neptunese are of different ancestry, they are of the same origin. Who could deny that everything in this world is somehow involved in the whole body and interdependent? I understand the reason why they hate human beings, human are said to be selfish and greedy. But if mankind completely disappeared from this planet after the catastrophe, the Neptunese would not have been long before disappearing..."
The old man whispered, the three of them were fascinated. Yvonne and Evelyn sat by Tark's sides. At some point, Evelyn's head was getting closer and closer to Tark, and then she gently nestled on Tark's shoulder, with her big eyes flicking, she listened intently.