Chapter 827: Depressed Jiang Ning
Snowflakes fell in the process of Jiang Ning's poems, and with the change of time, Jiang Ning's face gradually became a little unsightly.
He could clearly feel that the flow of time acting on his body and the primordial spirit had slowed down, and the most direct manifestation was that in his perception, it was clear that after nearly half a day, it was already evening outside, but when he turned back and passed through the gate of the garden that had not been closed since he came in, he could clearly see that the star lamp and flame lamp outside did not appear.
Obviously, in normal time, it is not as long as the past half a day.
The slowdown of the flow of time in a person's body means the extension of Shouyuan, although the extension of Shouyuan by half a day is nothing for Jiang Ning, but it is also a good thing after all, Jiang Ning should have been a little happy, but he couldn't be happy at this time.
Because the slowdown of time means that the real time that passes above his body is actually longer, as for how much this half-day time has been extended, Jiang Ning is not clear, but at least in his opinion, the time perceived in the snowflakes is actually far less than the real time that has passed, just because the slowdown in the flow of time has made his perception also have errors.
This means that for a very long time, he will not gain anything except the skin of the first moment of perceiving a trace of the rules of time.
For ordinary cultivators, it is actually a very normal thing to perceive the power of the rules, and there is no gain in one day, even if there is no harvest in a month or a year, they probably won't feel anything, they have long been accustomed to the things that have been wasted in their cultivation, and in the long years, there is an occasional flash of inspiration, and it is enough to realize that a little wisp of it is enough to make people very happy.
But for Jiang Ning, no matter how difficult a thing is, as long as he calms down and comprehends, there will always be a hint of gain. In one day, he devoted his mind wholeheartedly to the comprehension of the power of time, and as a result, he only seemed to perceive a little bit at the beginning, and the next time did not advance an inch, which was the first time he had encountered it in his life.
The initial discomfort naturally caused a ripple in Jiang Ning's calm state of mind, and for a moment, he even began to doubt his talent a little, but soon, he adjusted his emotions.
Indeed, on the path of cultivation, although he has experienced hardships, in terms of the cultivation itself, he rarely encounters any obstacles, because the comprehension of swordsmanship, rules, and body methods is too smooth, so the obstacles that appear in the later comprehension will unconsciously disturb his state of mind.
But in life, he has endured countless hardships along the way, and he has long understood that there are nine times out of ten that things in the world are not satisfactory, which is a normal situation, but he is not too depressed because of this small obstacle.
Rather than being depressed, the solution is to think carefully about the cause.
Sitting cross-legged and silently reciting the heart purification formula, the mixed thoughts and fluctuating emotions slowly subsided.
Three or two steps back to the door of the garden, Jiang Ning stood still on a flat stone brick, clasped his fingers and calculated.
As a cultivator of a Taoist sect, he is more or less proficient in methods such as numerology.
Especially when I was an outer disciple on Qingxuan Mountain, when I was performing tasks outside, I had to do some things to help people draw talismans and tell fortunes to earn some entanglements.
After a short while, even if Jiang Ning had the cause of the problem, it was actually very simple to explain.
The human body has all five elements, but it is subdivided into the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, each of which has different spiritual roots, and the proportion of the five elements is naturally different.
For Jiang Ning, his life is wood, his personality is water, and the earth is gold, which is a typical life of mutual progression, and it is a good fortune for himself.
Over the years, on top of the practice, there have been few difficulties that cannot be solved.
However, the five elements are mutually reinforcing, and even the most talented person will definitely have one or two things that he is not good at.
Take Jiang Ning as an example, the main life grid is wood, and he is naturally restrained by the fire, the reason why he was able to succeed in practicing the way of fire at the beginning was because his talent was too good, and part of the reason was because he got the ability of the ice flower fire cup from the Warm Heart Divine Tree, which was more or less close to the fire, plus the way of fire was ranked outside the top ten among the three thousand avenues, and it was no longer the top first-class, and the difficulty of comprehending it was naturally much lower.
Although people often use the long river to describe time, but in the real Great Five Elements Yin and Yang Technique, the power of time, in fact, is more than fire, and it is also the kind of rule power that is more difficult for people whose main life is wood to cultivate success, not to mention that Jiang Ning's personality is water, water and fire are rushing, the earth is gold, and gold and fire are blended, which is simply the most unsuitable kind of person for cultivating the power of time.
In other words, although Jiang Ning's performance in the talent of cultivation has always been very strong and excellent, but in the cultivation of time, his talent is actually poor, maybe if you find a cultivator outside who is not a wood of life, the talent above the time is better than him.
To make an analogy, he is like a middle school student who is partial to the subject, and the other subjects are all excellent, the kind that can score 99 points, and he is afraid that he will be proud if he scores less. But in the subject of the way of time, he is the worst of the worst, the kind that can only score one point, and he is only afraid that he will despair when he is given a point, but he still writes his name correctly on the test paper.
The night of the errand was accompanied by a crying face, Jiang Ning took a deep breath, he knew that what he had to do next was to prepare for a protracted battle, and it was completely impossible to win this third-ranked avenue in a short period of time.
However, the time of the trial in the giant scorpion palace is coming to an end, which means that even with the help of the slowing down of the flow of time, it is almost impossible for him to comprehend the ability to stop before leaving, so what he needs to do now is not to perceive and comprehend, but to think about how to keep this great opportunity by his side, instead of letting it flow like a grain of sand from his fingers.
With such a huge underground palace, he couldn't carry it back, and he didn't have the strength.
Although the space in the small world is large enough, if he wants to fit this underground palace into it, Jiang Ning does not have the strength now.
After thinking about it, there was no suitable way to do it.
In desperation, Jiang Ning could only retreat to the second, hoping that he could comprehend something in this last time.
In the next half day, Jiang Ning had been feeling that the star lanterns and flame lamps outside had come out when time had slowed down and he didn't know how much, but there was still no gain.
Fortunately, the master who built the underground gong palace was really a gentle and thoughtful person, and he probably had already taken into account the two situations that the inheritor's nature and the power of time conflicted, or the inheritor's talent was too poor to comprehend the power of time, so he waited until the second day, when the sun was rising on the ground, and things finally took a turn for the better.
In the line of sight, those seemingly nonexistent snowflakes began to condense, gradually turning into snowballs one by one in the surrounding space.
After the snowball appeared, it immediately accelerated and flew in the direction of Jiang Ning, that kind of speed, that kind of momentum, in Jiang Ning's perception, was no less than a fierce beast outside flying straight towards him.
Fortunately, Jiang Ning's psychological quality is very good, and he drew his long sword to block as soon as possible.
As a result, uh, naturally, it was not blocked.
Originally, according to the speed and strength of the snowball, Jiang Ning's sword was very accurate, and what should have happened on the scene was that Jiang Ning pierced the snowball with a sword, and the snowflakes exploded and returned to heaven and earth.
But in fact, it was, with a bang, the snowball shattered, and the snowflakes smeared Jiang Ning's face, and the heavy silver long sword stabbed a lonely sword.
The snowball smashed on the bridge of his nose, although it didn't break him, but two lines of nosebleeds and the snowflakes that inevitably stained Jiang Ning's face red.
So much so that the snow above his nose was white, but the snow under the bridge of his nose was red, red and white, and Jiang Ning turned into a flower face for a while.
Sucked back the nosebleed, Jiang Ning took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped it indiscriminately, and then raised his sword to defend again, because at this moment, the second snowball had already smashed towards him.
In the time gap between the two snowballs smashed separately, Jiang Ning had already recovered from the ignorance of being hit before, and by the way, he figured out the reason why things happened.
When the snowball flew towards him, the speed was constant and attenuated, and in terms of the trajectory of the snowball's movement alone, Jiang Ning had calculated the subtle changes in it.
But he was hit anyway.
The reason why it was hit was not because the snowball suddenly slowed down or accelerated, but because on top of the snowball, there was a force of time acting on Jiang Ning's body.
At that moment, the speed of time on his body slowed down, and his movements naturally slowed down, but the snowball itself was still flying at its original speed.
Although in Jiang Ning's own perception, his sword speed was already extremely fast, but in fact, the moment the snowball flew over and he took out the sword, the time on his body was almost stopped, so that the long sword that was supposed to hit the snowball actually paused, and the snowball flew over the sword in this gap and smashed into Jiang Ning's face.
Therefore, when the second snowball smashed towards him, there was the same bang, but this time, the snowflake shattered on Jiang Ning's blade.
The short time stop was still triggered, but this time, Jiang Ning successfully blocked!
Deep underground in the underground palace, the scythe sat quietly in the center of the round platform, looking at the picture lit up on the bead suspended in front of him, and the corners of his mouth pulled out a look of amazement.
Even he has to admit that the guy in the picture is really a combat genius.
In such a short period of time, he was able to quickly realize the problem and immediately come up with a countermeasure to implement it in a short period of time.
Of course, the sickle master who has guarded this place for many years still saw through Jiang Ning's methods at a glance.
In fact, his way of dealing with it is also very simple, since he knows that the power of the snowball that sometimes stops, when it approaches a certain range of his body, it will be triggered and act on the target, then, Jiang Ning only needs to estimate in advance the time it takes for the snowball to start from entering this distance to the normal speed between hitting him, and then estimate in advance the position where the snowball will hit after the time stop according to the trajectory of the snowball, and then take a step there to defend first, then after the time stops, the snowball will crash into the Shen Yin long sword by itself。
It was precisely because he judged the range and duration of the time-stopping force immediately after the first attack of the snowball, and judged the lead time of the sword block according to the speed of the required movement, that he successfully resisted the snowball.
After the first snowball that exploded on top of the blade appeared, the second snowball appeared and became two.
It's just that after understanding the way to deal with it, the increase in the number of snowballs will not bring Jiang Ning more pressure.
Although Jiang Ning only had one long sword in his hand, it was not too difficult for him to release his internal qi at the moment, or use the splitting sword to divide the sword light, or directly stimulate one or two sword qi from his body to grind the snowball.
The snowballs have increased from one to seven, but Jiang Ning still calmly copes, except for the first hit, next, not a single snowflake blooms on the bridge of his nose.
However, when the snowballs grew to eight, Jiang Ning was hit again, and he was hit by eight snowballs one after another, and none of them dodged.
The reason is very simple, the position and time of stopping when this snowball is triggered have changed, so that Jiang Ning's previous experience has counteracted him.
Jiang Ning immediately withdrew his sword and retreated, exiting the attack range of the snowball.
After briefly patting the snow of time on his body, Jiang Ning pursed his lips a little helplessly.
"Cut!"
"If the trigger of the power of time can be set at will, then any experience will not have an effect, as long as you change the trigger time at will, when the time comes, I will definitely be hit by a snowball, and if this continues, no matter how much practice has no effect, it is just a waste of time. Jiang Ning rubbed his nose blocked by nosebleeds and muttered, "What should I do?"
Of course, Jiang Ning wasn't completely unsure of how to deal with it, he was just thinking about how to accurately destroy those snowballs that had the power to stop at time.
If you really want to defend, as long as you pull away the sword momentum of Yangchun Baixue and build a sword power field with no dead ends around your body, all the snowballs will be crushed by the sword power above the field.
However, in this way, his practice is completely meaningless, after all, if you open your position indiscriminately defensively, although it is effective for an attack with relatively low damage like a snowball, but for those whose strength is at the same level as yourself, if you can't accurately block and defend, this indiscriminate defense will greatly consume your own strength, putting yourself at a disadvantage in the constant stop, and when facing an opponent who is stronger than yourself, if you can't defend accurately and concentrate all your strength on the defensive point, this kind of domain field will almost shatter at the touch, and there is no defensive effect at all。
Therefore, for Jiang Ning, who pays attention to excellence in everything, this kind of ingenious method is simply to cover his ears and steal the bell to deceive himself.
"All snowballs are the same size, and the quality is impossible to judge before head-on contact," Jiang Ning said to himself: "Then, the only way is to perceive the strength of the time force in the snowball, so as to judge the time point and length of time it has an effect." ”
And if you want to do this, for Jiang Ning, the only way is to be beaten.
In fact, even Jiang Ning didn't notice that when those snowballs hit him, one of the tiny snowflakes quietly melted, and then seeped into his skin along the pores.
And every time he parried a snowball, two snowflakes burrowed into his body in the surrounding space.
However, he instinctively followed the most correct path through his own judgment.
Time became slower and slower in the accelerated rotation of the gears above his head, and Jiang Ning didn't know how long he had been exercising in that snowball, and he didn't know how many beatings he had received.
Later, there were already more than twenty snowballs on the field at a time, and there was a slight difference in the time power on each of them, but with a single person and a sword, there was no snowball that could hit Jiang Ning's body.
Finally, the snowball's attack gradually stopped, and the surrounding snowflakes disappeared in an instant, leaving only Jiang Ning, who was bruised all over his body and whose nosebleeds still hadn't stopped, stood in place miserably with a long sword in his hand.
"Damn!" Jiang Ning breathed a long sigh of relief, even he couldn't help but bow his head and straighten his messy clothes, spit out a mouthful of blood, looked at the flying locust stones attacking in front of him, and said, "There are still any?"