Chapter 19: Tempest Steps
At this moment, Zhan Chen was on the way to the Martial Arts Pavilion, and he was still playing with a bronze badge, throwing it into the air from time to time, the badge shimmered with fluorescent green luster under the sun, which was very beautiful.
His mind couldn't help but travel back to yesterday. The moment of victory, the scene on the podium, the scene of everyone cheering below, the envious eyes of the people around him, Li Qun's unwilling and remorseful expression, and Tang Chuan's appreciative gaze, everything flashed in front of his eyes like a movie, and he still remembers it vividly, and the pride in his heart is still rippling for a long time.
At this moment, the glory has passed, and he wants to move towards the next starting point - the martial artist realm and the inner gate, and the first step is to first obtain a martial art that can be used freely in normal battles.
Martial Arts Pavilion - the main building of the Golden Elephant Sect to collect martial arts, standing on the top of Yuncui Peak, is a tall four-story building.
"I was finally able to go in and have a look. Zhan Chen thought as he walked towards the gate.
But he was stopped by the two senior brothers who were guarding their duties, and one of them said, "Senior brother, please show me the martial arts token." ”
Zhan Chen shook the bronze token in his hand at them, and when the two saw the token, they let him enter the door.
As soon as I entered the pavilion, I saw an old man with white hair sitting at the front desk, closing his eyes and concentrating, faintly exuding a sense of oppression, which made people awe-inspired.
This feeling seemed to be familiar, Zhan Chen was shocked in his heart, this must be an elder master, who has the same martial arts cultivation as his master Zhao He. Could it be Liu Yunchang, the elder who guarded the Martial Arts Pavilion?
Zhan Chen guessed well, this person was Liu Yunchang, and not far behind him there were rows of bookshelves with jade slips placed on them.
The Jade Slip is a tool that can record the cheats of the exercises for a long time, and its capacity is at least hundreds of times that of ordinary books!
"Those are all exercises!" Zhan Chen's eyes flashed, and he was about to walk over.
But I heard a majestic voice sound: "This disciple, show your token." ”
Zhan Chen had to suppress the excitement in his heart and show the token to Elder Liu.
I heard him say again: "The holder of the bronze token can only exchange exercises on the first floor, and cannot go up to the second floor!"
Zhan Chen couldn't help but look towards the stairs on the second floor and saw two martial arts brothers standing there.
So he bowed to the old man and said, "Elder, I understand. Then he got up and walked excitedly to the back shelf.
On the shelves, there are all kinds of exercise cheats in different categories, so that Zhan Chen will not want to return, and each jade slip has a brief description of this kind of exercise cheats, and marked with the merit points needed to redeem it.
Zhan Chen casually picked up a copy and read it, this is the Yellow Rank Lower Grade Shooting "Jingwei Shooting", which requires 10,000 merit points to redeem.
He tried to probe his divine sense into the jade slip, but was blocked by a powerful prohibition, knowing that he couldn't check the contents, he couldn't help but shake his head and walked away, and picked up another book to read, thinking that this is also good and that is good, I really don't know how to choose.
After watching it for a long time, he also discovered a rule, that is, the exercise cheats stored on the first floor of the Martial Arts Pavilion are only the lower and middle grades of the Yellow Rank, which means that the exercises above the upper grade of the Yellow Rank can only be learned after breaking through the martial arts master.
Seeing that most of the day had passed, Zhan Chen still couldn't decide what to exchange, it was indeed too difficult.
"I can't go on like this, I have to decide on a direction, what I lack the most at the moment. Zhan Chen couldn't help but think back to his battle with Lan Xing and Li Qun, both of whom had a good footwork, which forced him to be miserable at first.
"Offensive martial arts are the most, maybe I'll get them sometime, but what I need most now is a good footwork. Zhan Chen finally decided to come down and walked to the footwork column.
The merit points required for footwork are particularly high, the cheapest one costs 30,000, and the middle-grade footwork of the yellow rank costs more than 100,000. In the end, Zhan Chen had to choose a yellow-level footwork called "Wind Step", which required 50,000 merit points.
After Zhan Chen chose the exercises, he walked up to Elder Liu with the jade slip and said, "Elder, I have chosen it, just this one." ”
Elder Liu didn't say a word, took out a blank jade slip, and pasted it on the jade slip of "Wind Step", his hand moved slightly, a streamer flashed, and the content of "Wind Walk" was all copied into the new jade slip.
Elder Liu handed him the jade slip and instructed, "You remember, this is a one-time jade slip, you need to write down all the contents in it before you can withdraw from your divine sense, otherwise the next time you go in, the exercises will not exist." ”
Zhan Chen was stunned for a moment, so he had to nod and take over the exercises.
The Golden Elephant Sect's control over the exercises is really too strict! And the secret books of the exercises basically contain complex true qi running meridians, and low-level martial cultivators cannot accurately draw them by memory alone.
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In a silent and uninhabited valley, Zhan Chen sat on the ground, adjusted his state of mind to the best, and only then did he dare to probe his divine sense into the jade slip, write down the content of "Hurricane Step" one by one, and confirm that he could recite it backwards, and then withdrew his divine sense.
After that, he tried to probe his divine sense into it, and it was really blank, so he sighed, knowing that what Liu Yunchang said was true.
As the name suggests, "Wind Walk" unfolds and moves like a raging wind transiting, with great momentum. Zhan Chenning calmed down, ran the meridians according to the footwork, and stepped forward step by step.
At the beginning, his footwork was just a cat and a tiger, and the meridian movement and footwork could not be coordinated, so it did not show the slightest effect.
Just as he was anxious, a strong wind suddenly blew in the mountains, blowing sand and rocks on the ground.
Seeing this, Zhan Chen suddenly became enlightened, he still made the old mistake, he only mastered the moves and meridian operation of the exercises, but did not consider the footwork itself.
He simply stopped, closed his eyes, and felt the wind in the valley blowing through his body. At this time, there seemed to be one more figure in his heart, running with the wind, extremely happy.
Zhan Chen opened his eyes suddenly, and ran in the wind, at first, his pace was just running normally, but gradually the chaotic steps began to have a pattern, according to the footwork of the wind step, and at the same time, the meridians in his body also flowed together.
Running and running, the wind stopped, but Zhan Chen's steps under his feet became smoother and faster, and finally his body turned into a violent wind and swept by, even blowing dust on the ground around him.
At this moment, he felt in his heart that he had finally succeeded! In order not to forget this feeling, Zhan Chen kept practicing this set of footwork until his true qi was exhausted, and he lay on the ground to rest.
He thought to himself: "I can use the Wind Walk, and my speed can be increased by nearly thirty percent, although its subtlety cannot be compared to the footwork of the Yellow Rank Middle Grade. But this trick is better than the momentum, and the wind and sand can have a certain impact on the surrounding enemies, and this trick is used to fight more with less, and the effect is remarkable. ”
"Now I still lack a book of swordsmanship, and I have to find a way to get it. Zhan Chen shook his head and embarked on the path of returning to the sect.