Chapter 12: The Cave of the Lonely Mountain and the Sea of Clouds (text)
Dozens of zhang high in the Sword Waterfall in the Hidden Sword Pond, there is a small figure, holding a wooden stick on it, jumping around, I don't know what to do.
In the valley of Qiancao Valley, it is the turn of the "Moyun Sword" You Chunpeng and the "Flying Phoenix Sword" Qin Chunyu to be on duty today. You Chunpeng and Qin Chunyu had just replaced Lu Chunyang and Hua Chunsheng, and they saw a figure jumping around there, which was very interesting.
"Is that kid crazy over there?" You Chunpeng stabbed Qin Chunyu's arm and sneered at the figure on the rock in the middle of the waterfall.
Qin Chunyu rolled his eyes, pursed his lips disdainfully, and then said with a strange smile: "This kid is weird all day long, maybe he is practicing there, haha!"
"I'm curious, this kid has no internal strength, how did he climb to such a high place?"
"Whatever he climbs up? Wouldn't it be better for him to play on it. If he runs outside crazy every day, don't we have to suffer with him? If he is a bodyguard for such a waste for nothing, Lao Tzu will have no face to see people. ”
"That's what I said, damn, since I took over this job, our four swords seem to be a head lower than the three masters. If it weren't for Elder Feng's willingness to give five Qi Gathering Pills every month, or if the alliance leader pressed it down, Lao Tzu wouldn't have taken this job. ”
"Elder Feng has accepted a monkey disciple, it's also fun, haha!"
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In the Valley of Thousand Grasses, there is no such open place. Wu Yan searched and searched, and finally found such an open and hidden place on the waterfall.
This waterfall fell straight down and fell into the Tibetan Sword Pool. The cliff is straight and steep, and even a qigong master may not be able to go up. However, Wu Yan still found a hidden path and climbed to it.
What made Wu Yan excited was that there was actually a hole in it.
Here the waterfall is cut into two parts, turns a little, and then falls again. Looking up below, it's almost impossible to see that the waterfall has been cut in two. This can be clearly found here.
This protruding big rock, about a dozen zhang wide and flat, is simply a natural and excellent practice platform. Next to the waterfall, there is a natural stone cave the size of two stone houses. There is also a cave in the cave.
Luojian Waterfall is like a curtain of water, which just covers a qiē of the stone cave in the north. On the other side of the cave is a cliff about 100 feet high. Sunlight shines into the cave from the hole on the other side, making the cave very well-lit. This natural stone cave is well ventilated, with abundant water and sufficient light, which is simply the best natural cultivation cave.
Wu Yan discovered such a wonderful place and immediately made a decision, in the future, this would be the secret cave mansion for his own practice. However, for fear that others would also find this place and disturb his cultivation, he decided to find a way to do some defensive measures in a few days. He remembered that in Feng Lao's study, there seemed to be a book that recorded books related to the Lost Trace Formation and the like.
Now he is practicing the Fengyun Nine Swords Sword Technique on the big rock.
In this set of swordsmanship, there are a total of nine routines, and each routine has twelve variations, for a total of one hundred and eight variations. And every three of them form a chain of sword poses, which are "Wind and Lightning Strike", "Cloud and Smoke Change" and "Wind and Cloud Thorn".
Although Wu Yan started to practice martial arts for the first time, he also remembered that Feng Lao usually told him about the taboo of martial arts. In fact, these taboos are just the truths that experienced masters have learned from ordinary life.
The first taboo of a martial artist is to be greedy and chew too much. Human energy is limited, and it is impossible to learn all martial arts moves at the same time. You have to pay attention to a step-by-step process, and you have to understand the truth that practice makes perfect.
Wu Yan was now next to the waterfall, using a wooden stick as a weapon, clumsily practicing the first routine. A morning passed, and he barely memorized the twelve changes of this routine, and he could draw them one by one, but what made him speechless was that it seemed that this set of swordsmanship had no power. And the movements are difficult to cohere, very awkward.
The first day passed in a state of gain and loss. When he was tired from practicing, he would sit on a rock, meditate cross-legged, practice the nameless mantra, and recharge his mind.
Wu Yan firmly believes that there is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of people with hearts. As long as he is willing to work hard, he will definitely be able to learn this set of Fengyun sword techniques. Although it seems that this set of swordsmanship has no power at the moment, since this set of swordsmanship can be in the hands of the sword idiot Feng Jiuxiao predecessors more than a hundred years ago, it must have its superiority. It's just that he hasn't worked hard yet, and he hasn't been able to grasp the trick.
In the following days, he spent most of the day practicing the Fengyun Nine Swords routine by the waterfall outside the stone cave. The rest of the time, while continuing to cultivate the nameless mantra of the first layer, he copied the "Lost Formation Encyclopedia" in Feng Lao's study, and began to study it carefully.
The world outside the valley, as if he had completely forgotten about it, never went out again. In fact, it's not that he doesn't want to go out, but it's that going out is boring, ridiculed, and troubled. He is actually very proud in his bones and doesn't want to be looked down upon.
More than three months passed in a boring and monotonous cultivation.
On this day, Wu Yan stood at the door of the stone cave, looking at the cave in front of him that had been transformed by his own hands, and he finally showed a relieved smile.
At the bottom of the waterfall, twelve stones the size of a man's head are placed in a specific position according to a certain pattern. The torrent of the waterfall fell down like a flying jade crashing on the twelve stones, and it unexpectedly scattered in all directions, producing a large amount of mist.
The large amount of fog produced in this way was strangely gathered in the middle of the mountainside, forming a sea of clouds and fog barrier that could envelop the entire rock.
Standing in the valley of a thousand grasses and looking here, this place is now completely covered by a sea of clouds, and the protruding rocks here are no longer visible.
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Lu Chunyang and Hua Chunsheng, who were on duty at the mouth of the Thousand Grass Valley, were chatting with each other. Lu Chunyang accidentally glanced up at the waterfall, and said strangely: "Second brother, look, why is there such a big fog in the center of the Luojian Waterfall? That kid still runs up a lot to play during this time. ”
"Hey, yes, why is there a fog all of a sudden? Big brother, why don't you go up and have a look?"
"How do you go up there? Ask the kid? I'm not interested. ”
"Hehe, I'm going to say that. With that kung fu, I might as well stand on the pile and practice internal strength. Big brother, I've already finished eating the Qi Gathering Pill that Elder Feng gave before leaving the mountain, how many do you still have?"
"Mine was also finished yesterday. It's a pity, it's still a little bit closer, I can get through the eight veins of the Qi Jing and step into the ranks of first-class masters, alas, what the hell is Elder Feng doing, why hasn't he come back?"
The two of them continued to gossip with each other.
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After more than three months of hard work, the hard work was finally not in vain. Wu Yan can now arrange several simple maze formations, and he has also firmly remembered all the routines of the Fengyun Nine Swords, and he has also practiced all the movements proficiently.
Skillful is very proficient, but he still can't coherently put together the changes one by one, let alone combine three different routines into a chain sword style.
"It seems that this Fengyun Nine Swords should have a set of corresponding footwork, otherwise, how could these sword moves not be coherent together. It's a pity, let's go out and see how the other disciples are coherent. Wu Yan shook his head with a wry smile, sat down cross-legged, and began to practice the nameless mantra again.
He has now unceremoniously occupied this place as his own cultivation cave, and even gave this stone cave a rather nice name, and crookedly carved this name on the hole behind the waterfall with a stone - "Lonely Mountain Cloud Sea Cave".