Chapter 284 Reaching the top

 At this moment, Wang An thought of the ancient Qi practitioners. When one reaches a certain level of cultivation, one can eat wind, drink dew, and live by eating breath.

Now that I think about it, it is not impossible. After all, humans eat to obtain nutrients and energy needed for growth and activity. If these energy can be extracted directly from the surrounding environment, then there is no need to eat. ?

Of course, with Wang An's current cultivation level, he will definitely not be able to reach this level, but not being able to achieve it now does not mean that he will not be able to achieve it in the future.

 After a month of seclusion in the mountains, he returned to the mountain village. When he came back, the sun was shining brightly.

Li Xinzhu was sitting on a stone meditating on the hillside of Dongshan Mountain. He heard Wang An's footsteps and opened his eyes.

 “Come back?” He smiled and said hello.

 “Practice Zen?”

“Be calm.” Li Xinzhu said with a smile, “I feel a little irritable for no reason these days.”

Wang An smiled after hearing this.

“Lu Xiangyi and Xu Qi have both come to see you in the past few days. By the way, there is also a man named Yan Muyun who comes from the land of Yanzhao.”

 “If there’s something urgent, I’ll come back naturally.” Wang An said calmly.

For the next period of time, Wang An stayed in the mountain village, accompanying the two old people. He learned about Li Xinzhu's practice and practiced Tai Chi and Yi Jin Jing every day, that's all.

On this day, the sky was gloomy, and the dark clouds in the sky were very thick, pressing on the top of the mountain, as if they could be touched.

 The rain started to fall near noon. It was pattering at first, but not heavy.

Wang An was not in the courtyard but on Dongshan. He was practicing boxing, practicing Tai Chi in the fine rain. His body was stretched and natural, and there was an indescribable rhythm between movement and stillness. The wind and rain all around him were spinning around him.

The monkey squatted quietly and watched.

Wang An had a vague feeling between the movement and the stillness. This feeling was that what he was doing was not just punching. The wind, rain, and nature in the world seemed to be between his fists.

  [Tai Chi +2]

 Taijiquan (reaching the peak): 1/999.

 Wang An was very happy when he saw the prompt. He finally had a skill and reached this level.

This time the system rewards "yin and yang", which is neither strength nor true energy, but a "principle" of practice.

 In a moment of enlightenment, Wang An suddenly had a deeper understanding and appreciation of this skill. This is not just a boxing technique or a kung fu, but a thought and a "Tao".

 The way of Tai Chi, the way of nature, the way of Yin and Yang.

Wang An raised his hand and drew a circle. With a wave of his hand, the wind and rain in the mid-air changed its direction and landed on the stone beside him. With a bang, the stone was directly broken open by the rain and shattered.

 Zhizhi, the monkey jumped.

"Let's go, Xiaohou." Wang An shouted, and his figure suddenly disappeared.

 There is no need to exert any deliberate force, as soon as the thought comes up, the true energy will flow naturally, and the body will suddenly go out.

Intangible and imageless, the whole body is hollow, responding to the nature of things, with a chime hanging on the west mountain, and the body and mind are unified.

Wang An’s current spiritual practice has reached a very advanced level.

 Skeletons, strength, vitality, and then going up, it is an extremely "mysterious" realm.

It’s still raining,

Wang An's body was still steaming when he arrived outside his door. When he opened the door and entered the courtyard, all the moisture on his body had evaporated, as if he had never been exposed to rain. On the other hand, the monkey who followed him back was all wet.

 Entering the house, Wang An found that the old man seemed to have encountered something disturbing.

 “What’s the matter, grandma?”

 “Something happened to your aunt.”

The aunt the old man refers to is the relative who usually comes to visit the old man every few months.

"What's wrong?"

“I had a car accident on my way home from working outside, and I’m lying at home now,” the old man said.

"When did this happen?"

“It happened more than twenty days ago, and I just found out about it.”

“I’ll go and have a look in a few days.” Wang An thought for a while and said. They usually come to visit the two old people every once in a while. Now that he knows about this, as a junior, he has to go and have a look.

"okay."

After noon, the rain in the sky became heavier and heavier. The rain lasted for a whole day, and it slowly became lighter in the afternoon of the next day.

 In the afternoon, Li Xinzhu came to Wang An’s home holding an umbrella.

"I'm going to go out tomorrow and take a long trip. I guess I'll be away for a while."

Wang An stared at Li Xinzhu.

"What's wrong?" Li Xinzhu noticed that Wang An was staring at him. There seemed to be something wrong in his eyes, and he suddenly felt a little nervous.

“You may be in danger during this trip.” Wang An said calmly.

 “Danger, do you know what I’m going to do?”

 “I don’t know, but I can see something from you.”

 “You also said you don’t know how to read faces?”

"This is not a physiognomy. How should I put it? It is a perception. The aura on your body is weakening. During the recent period of time you have been practicing here, the aura on your body has been stable in a relatively strong state. But now your aura is weakening. The market is showing signs of weakening.

Your body is so strong that it can withstand cold and heat, so you generally don’t get sick. Then there is only one explanation left: your fortune is getting weaker. "

“Luck, this, doesn’t this count as fate?”

“Also, your Yintang is a bit dark.” Wang An raised his finger and pointed at Li Xinzhu’s forehead.

 “Isn’t this just a face-to-face? Is this a life-threatening situation?”

 “It’s hard to say.” Wang An shook his head.

 “I really can’t go when you say that.”

 “Is it a private matter?”

“No, I was invited to participate in an operation of the Special Affairs Bureau.”

 “You decide for yourself.” Wang And said.

Li Xinzhu decided to go after thinking about it for a day. Wang An didn't say anything after hearing this, but just told him to be careful. After Li Xinzhu left, Wang An walked to see the relative who had the accident.

  She had a fracture on her arm and was wearing a plaster cast. The other party was very surprised when he saw Wang An.

"Xiao An, I really should have listened to you." After the woman had an accident, she remembered what Wang An had said to her. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he had known that something would happen to her.

“Xiao An, can you tell fortunes?” the woman asked in a low voice.

“No, I just saw that you looked bad and thought you were feeling unwell.” Wang An said with a smile. The woman smiled after hearing this and did not ask any more questions. She made tea for him with one hand.

 “Stop being busy.” Wang An said hurriedly.

While they were talking here, there was a bang, and a young man in his twenties came in from outside, his head hanging down.

 “He’s back, this is your cousin.” The woman said hurriedly.

The young man looked up at Wang An, shouted, and then entered his room.

 “This child!” The woman sighed helplessly.

 “Have you graduated from college?”

“I’ve graduated. There are too many college students now, and it’s hard to find a job. I finally asked someone to find a job, but he doesn’t like it and is in a mood.”

Wang An just nodded silently after hearing this. While they were talking here, the young man came out of the house and hurried out.

"Mom, I have something to do at noon, so I won't be at home to eat." After saying this, the person had already left home.

 Hey, the woman sighed again. Like most parents in the empire, they have been thinking about their children all their lives.

Wang An stayed at her house for more than ten minutes before saying goodbye and leaving. He came on foot, so naturally he wanted to go back on foot. He did not climb over mountains and ridges, nor did he walk as fast as he could. Instead, he walked slowly back along the asphalt road.

On the road outside the village, he saw several young people smoking together, including the young man he had just seen.

 “What to have for lunch?”

“Is there anything delicious in this town? Let’s go to the county to eat. One of my buddies has just opened a Northeastern restaurant. It tastes good. Let’s go and try it.”

"OK!"

 Young people look a bit flamboyant, even though they are confused and melancholy inside.

 Wang An saw tattoos on two of them. It’s not that young people with tattoos are bad, after all, this is everyone’s freedom, but relatively, people with tattoos are more likely to be bad people.

There are no absolutes in anything.

Wang An glanced at them. Just now at the woman's home, he felt that the young man's aura was very weak, which was a sign that something was going to happen.

His seemingly flamboyant and unreliable friends are probably the trigger. Young people are most afraid of making careless friends when they are trying to make their way in society.

"I can't help you, so I'll help your son as a favor to you." Wang Anxin said.

 “Let’s go, get in the car!”

 Several people were getting ready to get on the bus. There was a strange bang.

"what sound?"

"It's broken and the tire has blown out!" A man got out of the car and found that a rear tire had burst.

　　“Why did it get a flat tire?”

“There is an auto repair shop in this town, not far ahead. Why don’t you go there and get some repairs done?” It was the young man who spoke.

 “Put on the spare tire first!”

Several people got out of the car and took out tools from the trunk to change the tire. Just after the tire was changed, another tire was scrapped.

 “What’s going on?!” Several people were dumbfounded, this was too weird.

Just when they were helpless, people from the security bureau came and arrested all of them.

"Why are you arresting us? We haven't committed any crime!?"

“Be honest, someone reported you gathering a crowd to engage in illegal activities, come back with us and accept investigation!”

 The person was found by Wang An through connections.

In the end, the four young men were released except for Wang An's cousin, who he had only met once, and the rest were locked up for reasons. They had indeed committed crimes, and two of them had committed burglaries.

The young man who was released was quite frightened. After all, it was his first time to go in, and he was frightened by the people from the security bureau. He even told them about the time when he was a child and he peeped at the neighbor's aunt taking a bath.

 It is estimated that after coming out of the guard station, he will have nightmares for a few days, and he will be quiet and stable for a while.

Wang An walked back to the mountain village.

Ten days later, he received a call from Xu Qi. Something happened to Li Xinzhu. He was injured while participating in a secret operation. Fortunately, the injury was not serious and he was receiving treatment at a base somewhere.

 In a certain base, Li Xinzhu’s body was wrapped in bandages.

“I feel like my injuries are not serious. When can I leave?” he asked the beautiful nurse beside him.

"I don't know, have a good rest." The nurse smiled slightly, then twisted her waist and left.

“Well, this figure, this butt, and the appearance of a child.” Li Xinzhu grinned.

“Hey, he really got it right, something really happened, it’s a bad start!”

 In an office in the secret base.

“Li Xinzhu’s blood has been sampled and tested. Judging from his blood samples and physical examination, his body has begun to evolve. I hope to further examine his body, preferably”

 “No, at this point, we cannot conduct too many checks on him.”

"Why?"

"obey orders."

"this"

“He is from Wang An, Wang An’s disciple, do you understand?”

 “Oh, then I understand!”

Li Xinzhu's body recovered quickly. He had had enough lying on the hospital bed, so the people at the base specially sent someone to send him back to the mountain village.

 In the mountain village, Lu Xiangyi was talking to Wang An about Li Xinzhu.

“Secret mission, what secret mission? Are you sure it’s not a mission specifically for him?”

"Of course not, there is indeed a mission. He went to the southwest to encircle and suppress a mysterious mountain village. The people in that mountain village turned into monsters. He was injured in that operation, but the injury was not serious. Seriously, the reason why he needs to be treated at the base is because he is worried that he has infectious pathogenic bacteria and needs to be isolated for a period of time." Lu Xiangyi explained.

“As long as the person is fine, I don’t want him to be the subject of research.”

"With you here, I definitely won't. No one has the guts!"

“That’s not necessarily true, the people in your Special Affairs Bureau are very generous!” Wang An said calmly.

Lu Xiangyi smiled after hearing this. After being silent for a while, he raised his head and stared at Wang An sitting in front of him.

"They are very afraid of you now, especially after you came out of Beiyi Mountain and Immortal Burial Valley last time."

 “What’s going on in that mountain village?”

“Still checking, I still don’t know exactly what happened.”

Lu Xiangyi arrived the first day, and Li Xinzhu came back the next day. He was a lively person, with no sign of being injured at all.

After he came back, without waiting for Wang An to ask, he told them about his mission this time.

 The target is a special village, a village shrouded in fog. There are monsters in the village, and the teams that went in to encircle and suppress them all lost news.

It was originally planned to plow the ground with artillery and eliminate them all, but later someone analyzed that it might contain rare samples and thought of sending a special team in. The Special Affairs Bureau temporarily formed a special team and dispatched several Among those with extremely strong combat abilities is Li Xinzhu.

There are really monsters in the village, mutated people. These people have completely lost their senses, and weird scale-like tissues have grown on one side of their bodies.

 After they entered, it went very smoothly at the beginning, but when they were about to finish, something unexpected happened.

 (End of this chapter)