Chapter 104: Body Technique

"Our Zhang family is a proper aristocratic family with strict and upright traditions. How could we possibly casually exterminate anyone? *Guoshui Bu*, although it is an absolute skill, is not the kind that is absolutely forbidden to be transmitted externally. I secretly teach you, you secretly learn, and there will be no trouble. If someone finds out, just say I taught you, and push all the responsibility onto me. That would be just fine..." Zhang Lan said quite boldly.

"Since it won't do anything to me, then why would I push it onto you? I'll just say I learned it by chance coincidence. Wouldn't that work?" Mo Hua blinked his eyes and said in a low voice.

Zhang Lan wrinkled his brow slightly and said, "What you said seems to have some reason..."

If the Zhang family isn't going to trouble Mo Hua, then why would he jump out and take responsibility?

If this matter is exposed and the elders in the clan find out, they will want to confine him for a few months. Although he is used to it, this confinement and kneeling in the ancestral hall are, after all, not glorious matters. It's better to avoid them if possible.

"Then you must find an excuse," Zhang Lan said.

"I'll just say a passing kind-hearted uncle taught me. If they ask for his name, I don't know it. If they ask for his appearance, I've forgotten it long ago," Mo Hua said.

"Okay, anyway, that kind-hearted uncle isn't me."

Zhang Lan had no worries in his heart and said, "I will teach you *Guoshui Bu* now. You should practice it more when you have time."

"*Guoshui Bu* is a movement technique specializing in spirit cultivation. It uses spirit power to guide the body and achieve the effect of advancing and retreating freely within a small space."

"The key point of the movement technique lies in using divine sense to control spirit power extremely precisely, making the spirit power flow to the corresponding meridians, and then guiding the body. This allows one to flash and turn quickly at close range, avoiding the enemy's blades and swords within an inch."

Zhang Lan told Mo Hua the key points of cultivating the movement technique and then handed him a meridian map.

"This meridian map records the path and specific acupoints where spirit power flows through the meridians during different actions of *Guoshui Bu*. Take it back yourself, look at it more, and remember it firmly. After you remember it, burn it to erase any traces."

"On the back of the meridian map, there is also a simple body refining technique attached..."

"Not a magic technique? It requires body refining too?"

Mo Hua was very unconfident about his body refining talent.

Zhang Lan corrected Mo Hua's understanding a bit: "Spirit cultivation refers to cultivators who rely on spirit power to urge magic techniques for attacks, not just cultivators who only cultivate spirit power. Both the body and spirit power are the foundation of a cultivator; neither can be lacking. Even magic techniques are not completely separate from the body. It's just that for spirit cultivation, magic techniques are too important. Relatively speaking, body cultivation seems optional."

After Zhang Lan finished speaking, he comforted Mo Hua, saying:

"You don't need to worry. The body refining technique attached to *Guoshui Bu* is not for cultivating body strength, but a body refining method that makes the limbs flexible and the body coordinated."

"*Guoshui Bu* guides the body with spirit power. If the body loses balance or the legs and feet are stiff, it's very possible that the movement technique won't unfold, and instead, one might injure their muscles and bones by being pulled by spirit power..."

Zhang Lan explained carefully, and Mo Hua listened intently. After a while, Zhang Lan finished teaching and then said:

"Now, try it first and see how much you understand."

Mo Hua mobilized his spirit power and ran it according to the key points recorded in the *Guoshui Bu* meridian map. He indeed found his hands and feet lighter and his movements much faster.

Mo Hua was an array master, and his divine sense was powerful, even stronger than that of an average array master. Coupled with cultivating the *Tianyan Jue*, his divine sense control was also strong. Therefore, the spirit power flow of *Guoshui Bu* had no slightest obstruction.

This movement technique was simpler than Mo Hua had imagined.

Mo Hua tried to take a step forward using *Guoshui Bu*, but the spirit power in his right leg flowed too fast, and his left leg was slightly slower, causing him to slip underfoot...

Then he fell headfirst onto the ground.

Mo Hua lifted his head, wiped the mud from his face, and still had soil in his mouth. He said in a muffled voice, "This seems not so simple..."

Zhang Lan saw this and thought to himself, this is just right. Even if he learns arrays quickly, it's impossible for him to learn magic techniques so quickly.

Mo Hua tried several more times, but still didn't succeed. Either the spirit power in his hands and feet wasn't coordinated, causing him to slip underfoot, or he moved the same hand and same foot, falling onto his backside.

Zhang Lan looked at Mo Hua, who was covered in dirt, his face expressionless. He was secretly happy and thought, "Now you know the difficulty of learning magic techniques..."

Zhang Lan's main cultivation was other movement techniques. He wasn't particularly skilled at this *Guoshui Bu*. Primarily, this movement technique belonged to the class of Zhang family's absolute skills that were not outstanding in both attack and defense. For attack, the movement technique was not fierce enough, and for defense, spirit power control was too difficult. Therefore, there were not many cultivators in the Zhang family who mainly cultivated *Guoshui Bu*.

It was also for this reason that he dared to secretly teach it to Mo Hua.

If it were a mainstream skill like the *Luoying Bu* in the family, which everyone in the clan learned, as soon as someone used it, anyone could discern the origin of the movement technique, and then he would be in big trouble.

*Guoshui Bu* was just right. The movement technique itself was not bad, and it was low-key enough. Not many people learned it, so it was not easy to be recognized by others. Secretly using it was also fine.

After practicing *Guoshui Bu* for a long time, Mo Hua fell onto his backside again.

Zhang Lan picked Mo Hua up, patted the dust off his body, and then said, "Okay, you go back and practice well yourself. Learning magic techniques is similar to learning array formations. Pay attention to practice makes perfect. If it doesn't work once, practice several more times."

"Oh." Mo Hua nodded.

Zhang Lan sent Mo Hua back to the food shop, then cautioned him several times, telling him not to tell anyone that he had taught him the movement technique, but to practice it secretly. After calmly accepting several pots of wine and several *jin* of meat as "bribes" from Mo Hua, he left satisfied.

Liu Ru Hua took out a cloth towel, dipped it in water, and while wiping Mo Hua's face, said, "Did Zhang Dian Si teach you something?"

"Uncle Zhang told me not to say," Mo Hua said with a smile.

"Okay, then you just learn well. When you have time, thank Zhang Dian Si more," Liu Ru Hua said gently.

"Mhm." Mo Hua nodded.

After that, Mo Hua began his daily cultivation of *Guoshui Bu*.

Mo Hua found a corner in the courtyard and first tried to control his hands and feet with spirit power for simple movements.

This was the simplest and the foundation of all *Guoshui Bu* movements.

Initially, practicing would cause discomfort, and occasionally he would lose balance and fall. But after practicing several times and becoming familiar with the meridians that spirit power guided the body through, his movements gradually became smooth.

So, in the corner of the backyard, one could see light blue spirit power entwining Mo Hua's legs, like water and fog. Even without moving his feet, his body could gradually move forward or backward.

Mo Hua tried several more times and felt like sliding on an ice surface in severe winter, which was very interesting.

Afterwards, Mo Hua tried some more difficult movement techniques in *Guoshui Bu*, such as front somersaults, back somersaults, handstands, back handsprings, etc. Unsurprisingly, he fell several more times...

Mo Hua summarized the reasons and found that his body was too weak, his strength was not great, and his movements were not agile enough.

Mo Hua took out the body refining technique Zhang Lan had given him.

These body refining techniques were very simple and only contained some basic movements. Unlike body cultivation which refined the body, these cultivated not strength, but the flexibility and coordination of the limbs.

The small figure drawn on the map, with its every raise and move, was natural and light, like flowing water.

Mo Hua suddenly realized why it was called *Guoshui Bu*.

Mo Hua then practiced the movements on the map one by one.

At first, his limbs would feel sore and painful, so much so that he couldn't get out of bed. After Mo Hua persisted in practicing for several days, the soreness and pain dissipated, and his *qi* and blood instead became smooth. Although his physical strength was still weak, his walking, sitting, and lying down were light and flexible, as natural and elegant as water.

Mo Hua felt that the time was ripe and then began to formally practice the relatively difficult movement techniques in *Guoshui Bu*.