Chapter 18 Sense of Qi
A few streets south of Fukangfang is Tai'anfang, which is the market town closest to the South City Gate.

Because it is close to the city gate, there is a large flow of people, and the streets are full of people of all kinds. Ordinary people are unwilling to live here. There are mainly some shops and inns on both sides, and there are shacks where poor people gather further in. It has always been quite dirty and messy.

But deep inside, there is a large house occupying a corner of the alley, which is quite luxurious. The front is not too ostentatious, just two ebony doors with the words "Hong Mansion" hanging on them. Not many people come in and out, and it looks like an inconspicuous private residence of a wealthy family.

Only those with some status in South City know that this is the power center of the southern part of the city. Because this Hong Mansion is the headquarters of the Dragon Tooth Gang, which is not conspicuous.

Whether the south of the city is in chaos or not depends on Boss Hong.

Merchants from other places who want to start a business here must come here to pay their respects. And no matter how rich you are, you can only enter through the side door. No one has ever entered the Hong Mansion through the main door.

As for the members of the Longya Gang, they usually enter and exit through the back door.

One day, an inconspicuous middle-aged peddler walked into the back door of the Hong Mansion carrying a shoulder pole. When he reached the corridor in the courtyard, he threw the pole aside and hurriedly walked along the wide stone path to a side hall.

The plaque above the door reads "Baotang".

"Master, things haven't been accomplished again!" The peddler shouted as he stepped over the threshold.

Sitting in the main seat, there was a scholar wearing a Confucian robe and a Confucian cap, he was about forty years old, with a mustache, and looked gentle and refined, but there was something sinister in his eyes, and the moment he raised his gaze, people felt uncomfortable.

This person is none other than the leader of the Leopard Hall of the Longya Gang, Bai Zhishan.

He looked over calmly and said, "What's going on? Tell me slowly."

"The few people originally sent to cause trouble have succeeded, and the Imperial Guards from the South City General Office have also arrived. Before they could intervene, a few Imperial Guards from the Fukangfang station rushed out halfway, exposed their tricks in a few words, and captured the people. The people from the General Office went to stop them, and a fight broke out between the two sides! The people we sent to cause trouble were beaten away, and the troublemakers were also arrested." The peddler narrated.

Judging from what he said, he must have witnessed the whole thing.

"Another one from Fukangfang Station." Bai Zhishan frowned slightly.

"That's right, and the person arrested this time is the same person who solved the arson case last time! They are both guards!" said the peddler.

"That guard..." Bai Zhishan blew gently on the tea in the cup, his eyes flickering.

The idea of ​​using frozen phosphorus powder to set fire last time was his, and he was quite proud of it. He thought that by the time those useless people from the Imperial Capital Guards solved the case, the merchants on Linmen Street would have been driven away.

Unexpectedly, it was broken within a few days.

It was a guard who solved the case at that time, and it was this person again this time.

"The leader has been in a bad mood recently. The news about the Tower of Babel is about to be revealed. If we don't take over Linmen Street, it may not fall into our hands." Bai Zhishan murmured, "If our Leopard Hall fails to do its job well, we will definitely be punished."

"The head of the Ministry of Works was assassinated recently, and the murderer has not been caught yet. The Ministry of Works is about to be thoroughly investigated. If the Lu family does not come forward, Zou Fang of the Imperial Guard will definitely not buy into our account at this time."

"..."

"Although I don't want to touch an official, a mere guard has ruined our plans time and again, so we have to take action. Find out where the guard lives, go to the Tiger Hall and call a few black-handed brothers to ambush at his door. Tomorrow, as soon as he returns home, we will immediately break his hands and feet and throw him into the river outside the city to teach him a lesson."

"Yes!" The peddler clasped his fists and left.

The Longya Gang has four halls: Tiger, Leopard, Eagle and Bear. Among them, the Eagle Hall is responsible for gathering information, the Leopard Hall is responsible for doing things secretly, the Bear Hall is responsible for colluding with people from top to bottom, and the Tiger Hall is responsible for frontal action.

The four halls worked together to create such a huge force. The Dragon Fang Gang, which was like a giant beast in the South City, would not let a small stone hurt its feet.

Bai Zhishan took a sip of tea and put the cup down.

Then he looked out the door into the distance and said faintly, "At such a young age, you need to know who you can and cannot mess with."...

"I've made some enemies recently, so you should be more careful on weekdays."

After returning home, Liang Yue secretly called his younger brothers and sisters to a meeting and gave them a reminder.

Because of the Linmen Street incident, he had grudges against the Longya Gang and Zou Huainan, and he didn't know if the other party would retaliate. Everyone would be wary of the forces of both the black and white worlds.

He himself spends most of his time in the station, and his strength has increased rapidly recently, so he is not too worried about safety. Liang Yue is more worried that the other party will be immoral and attack his family.

"Try not to act alone. If a stranger asks you to go somewhere, don't agree. If you are in danger at home, ask your neighbors for help immediately..." He reminded of some things that need attention.

"Don't worry, big brother." Liang Xiaoyun smiled gently, "The two of us can protect ourselves and mother, you just need to take care of your own things."

"That's right!" Liang Peng also nodded heavily.

"Heh." Liang Yue also smiled. The wisdom of his younger brother and sister was indeed reassuring. He turned to look at Liang Peng and asked, "Didn't you go to see a doctor? How was it?"

"Hmm..." Liang Peng paused, then suddenly smiled and said, "The doctor said I don't have any symptoms, so he invited a skilled Qi cultivator to come and confirm that I have developed a sense of Qi."

"Qi?" Liang Yue and Liang Xiaoyun exclaimed in surprise at the same time.

"It should be the fight with Zhen Xiaohao. It was one of the rare times I wasted my energy, but it helped me open up my Qi channels." Liang Peng said, "The Qigong practitioner said that my Qi perception is not weak and my meridians are wide. Not only do I have a talent for Qigong, but it is also quite outstanding."

"That's great." Liang Xiaoyun said with a smile, "Our family is going to have a Qi Refiner."

The generation of Qi sensation means that the Qi channels are connected and can communicate between heaven and earth - this is the foundation of Qigong practice.

Ordinary people cannot feel the spiritual energy between heaven and earth through their breathing. After the sense of qi is generated, the spiritual energy can be absorbed with every breath. Perhaps this was the reason why Liang Peng felt dizzy before.

This spiritual energy is so pure, it’s intoxicating!
The reason why there are so few Qigong practitioners in the world is that only one in ten thousand can produce the feeling of Qi.

"The path of cultivation is difficult, and I don't know how far I can go." Liang Peng was very calm. He was not at all like the other young men who had opened up their Qi sense and were ecstatic.

"You have always been smart. Once you become a Qi Refiner, you will definitely have extraordinary comprehension." Liang Xiaoyun encouraged: "Then you can prepare now and take the entrance exam for the Kendo Academy."

"If you have enough talent, it's not bad to join the Xuanmen sect." Liang Yue also said: "Become a Xuanmen cultivator who lives in seclusion in the world, on the top of the fairy mountain, high above!"

The Kendo Academy is a holy place for Confucian Qigong practitioners, and it is filled with Confucian practitioners who practice both spiritual cultivation and academic research.

The Xuanmen Eight Meridians are the orthodox tradition of Taoist Qigong practitioners and the oldest inheritance in the world.

The so-called three religions of Qigong practitioners, except for the Buddhist Zen sect that requires one to become a monk, the two paths that Liang Peng is faced with now are Confucianism and Taoism.

Of course, there is also the legendary demon cult, which Liang Peng would naturally not take into consideration.

It is said that those demonic cult practitioners sacrificed bones, blood and living beings to cultivate their cultivation, and they hoped for chaos in the world, because the demonic cult would flourish in times of chaos and perish in times of prosperity. The current Yin Dynasty is in its heyday, and a hundred years ago, the Demon Lord Dongyue Peak was shattered by the Xuantianshi Chen Yandao. Today, the demonic cultivators can be said to have disappeared, and many people may not know of their existence.

Of the two choices, Confucianism and Taoism, the sword academy requires not only the talent for Qi training, but also the ability to study and learn, which Liang Peng definitely has. The Taoist Xuanmen Bamai is more pure, only looking at talent, and those who are slightly inferior are not allowed to join.

From the perspective of cultivation, it is obvious that the Xuanmen practitioners have a higher status, because the Xuanmen immortal realm has almost never been interrupted throughout the ages, which is far beyond the reach of the Confucian tradition.

"No." But Liang Peng's tone was very firm, and it seemed that he had already made up his mind, "I want to take the entrance exam to the Kendo Academy, and then still participate in the imperial examinations, and become an official in the court... That's the real high and mighty."

(End of this chapter)