Chapter 11: Awakening
In this way, with an unfriendly beginning, Zhanbai became Liu Chengying's companion. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
After a few days, Zhanbai learned that among the six main and three deputy nine mountains of Hongwen Academy, Liu Chengying learned from the "line" door and learned the "sword" door skills at the same time.
The so-called line door comes from the sage chapter: "If you walk in three people, you must have my teacher." "What is particular about the stones of other mountains can attack jade, learn from others' strengths, and pursue the way of compatibility. At the same time, it is also called "reading 10,000 books and traveling 10,000 miles", advocating the practice of entering the WTO.
Zhan Bai sat in the study, holding a scroll in his hand, reading quietly, in a day, the two hours in the morning can be said to be the freest, because during this time, Liu Chengying was taking morning classes in the Xingmen Academy.
The book in Zhanbai's hand, titled "Sword", is a general outline of the history of the sword.
"The sword began in the ancient Xuanyuan and flourished in the ancient Spring and Autumn Period. It is called 'light Lu' and 'Jinglu', and it has the reputation of the king of a hundred soldiers. Zhan Bai muttered, if before, he was only used as a tool for survival for the sword, then now, he has a deeper understanding.
"In the Spring and Autumn Period, the sword, the world is divided into three, is a sleeve sword, also known as a short sword; Three-foot sword, generalized long sword; Double swords, also known as male and female swords. After tens of thousands of years of development, the classification of swords has become more and more detailed, and the types are even more numerous, including giant swords, thin swords, broadswords, cross swords, serpentine swords, spear narrow (toothed swords), waist products (accessory swords), Shangfang swords (power swords) and so on. ”
A thin "Sword", which can be described as inclusive, tells the history, types, shapes, etc. of the sword in detail, which makes Zhanbai sigh, how can he not expect that there is such a deep knowledge here, and at the same time, he also remembers a lot of ancient and ancient famous swords.
When I opened the last page of the book, there was no more content, only the word "sword" that was not clear and had obvious rubbing marks.
This word has a lot of difference from the current text, more like the pictographs of the primeval period, but the meaning of the ancient vicissitudes of life, but it is increasing day by day, and the long-term observation even makes Zhanbai have a sense of sudden enlightenment.
"Perhaps, this is the most precious thing about this book." Zhanbai stretched out his five fingers, as if he was stroking the jade man, and stroked the strokes of the "sword" carefully, not without emotion.
"What do you read from this word?" Suddenly, Liu Chengying's curious voice sounded in his ears, and at some point, he had already appeared at Zhanbai's side.
"Arrogance, vicissitudes...... And sadness. Zhan Bai replied seriously, he couldn't say the reason, he just felt this way, for some reason, the man holding the sword and the thousand-zhang stone sword that often plagued him suddenly flashed in the depths of his mind.
Hearing this answer, Liu Chengying's face was expressionless, but he turned around and skillfully took out four books from the bookshelf one after another and put them in front of Zhanbai.
"Three days to read them all."
After saying this, Liu Chengying turned around and left.
"Yue Zi Sword", "Sword Dance", "Sword Walking", "On the Sword"
Zhan Bai unfolded the books one by one, the title of the book came into view, and suddenly, endless longing and fiery surged in the depths of his heart.
These four books are different from the previous "Sword", but the real swordsmanship secret book, it is no exaggeration to say that if these four secret books flow into the mortal dust, it will definitely cause blood and rain in the rivers and lakes.
"Is it only three days?" Zhan Bai held his chin with his hand, and said regretfully, in such a short period of time, it is obviously a fool's dream to get a glimpse of the true essence of these four sword classics, even if it is a superficial taste, the difficulty is not small.
After some careful consideration, Zhan Bai picked up "Yue Zi Jian" and began to read ten lines at a glance.
"Yue Zi Sword" is in the ancient Spring and Autumn Period, a Yue country swordsman created, there is no mysterious moves, from beginning to end only simple stabbing, cutting, splitting, teasing, interception, collapse, sticking, stirring, washing nine styles, and all of them pay attention to offense, and for defense of pressure, grid, hanging and other moves, but there is no involvement. Nine-style sword moves, seemingly simple, but they all pay attention to one word, that is, "fast", Yuezi Sword is a fast sword secret book, with time for speed, with space for speed, give up everything, just in exchange for the ultimate speed.
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"Dancing Sword Weapon Xing" and "Yue Zi Sword" are very different, and can even be said to be the opposite, it is rumored that the creator of this swordsmanship is not a swordsman, but a sword queen, entertaining people with swords, the pursuit of the ultimate beauty, elegant and free, as the book says: "In the past, there were beautiful women, dancing swords in all directions, making the mountains depressed, and the world was low for a long time." 爧 (ling) is like Yi shooting nine sunsets, like the emperor and the dragon soaring; Come like the river and the sea condense the clear light. It can be said that the sword moves are vividly interpreted, and the sound and light of the sword seem to smell like a sword, like crazy.
If "Yue Zi Sword" pursues the ultimate fast, then "Sword Dance" tells the ultimate dream.
"Sword Walking" is different, if you use one word to describe this secret book of swordsmanship, then it is "whimsical", which is quite similar to Zhanbai's swordsmanship characteristics, there is no fixed move, easy to come by, like an antelope hanging horns, it is difficult to figure out, and it shows the ultimate trick in the impossible. It can be said that this is also the book that has the most appetite for Zhanbai, and it is also the classic book that he has gained the most after skimming.
If the first three books focus on the ever-changing moves, either seeking speed, chasing beauty, or trickery, then the last book "On the Sword" is beyond the sword moves and goes straight to the essence. Throughout the book, there is not a single word mentioning sword moves, but in the form of rhetorical questions, pointing to the original intention of the swordsman.
"What is a sword?"
A thousand people answer, maybe there will be a thousand different answers to the question, rippling in Zhanbai's mind for a long time.
What is a sword?
If it was the previous Zhanbai, I might not hesitate to say that it is a tool and a dependence on survival.
But now?
Although he only read the four books roughly, the various theories in them made Zhanbai gradually follow the rules from a pure wild way, and his ignorance of the sword became half-understood, and it was this state that made him confused and brought more unknowns.
Putting down the "On the Sword" in his hand, Zhan Bai fell into deep thought, his originally dazzling eyes gradually became hollow, and the two sword eyebrows were deeply locked together, like two sharp blades that wanted to break through the air.
At this time, Zhanbai fell into an indescribable state, his eyes were empty, and even the thoughts of the whole person became chaotic, but in this chaos, it seemed to be condensing something.
If there are outsiders, they may be surprised to find that on the center of the eyebrows where the two sword eyebrows are connected, a black lotus that appears and disappears from time to time slowly blooms.
The black lotus was only the size of a fingernail, and when it fully bloomed, gray ripples continued to ripple on the black lotus, and finally gathered a hazy match above the lotus heart.
"Where is this?" Zhan Bai stood in a gray space in a foggy way, his voice murmured, and it was not until a long time that his mind gradually became clear, looking at everything around him in confusion.
If I'm not mistaken, I'm supposed to be sitting in the study, but now, where is this place? Is it a dream?
Zhan Bai couldn't answer his own questions, and walked forward slowly, not knowing how long he had walked or how far he had walked, and everything in front of him had not changed in the slightest.
The depressing atmosphere made Zhanbai gradually anxious, as if he had fallen into a nightmare that he couldn't wake up.
"Calm down, calm down, calm down. No matter how bad it is now, it is only the same as entering the Void Ten years ago. Zhan Bai tried his best to suppress the anxiety in his heart, forcing himself to sit down cross-legged, and after a while, his eyes gradually calmed down, and finally became empty.
Time passed little by little, but the surrounding situation did not change in the slightest, and Zhanbai, who had nothing to do, remembered the four secret books of swordsmanship that he had read before.
I only took a cursory look at it before, but now that it's okay, let's figure it out carefully.
As soon as he thought of it, Zhanbai stood up again, and tried his best to recall the content of "Yue Zi Jian" in his mind.
To Zhanbai's surprise, "Yue Zi Jian", which he had only briefly watched once, was retained in his memory word for word.
"As a sword, the sword is light, and the practice is crazy everywhere......" Zhan Bai read the sword trick in a low voice, unconsciously, the empty right hand, rubbing his fingers into a sword, at the beginning, the sword was extremely slow, mainly to find the feeling in the sword trick, and gradually the speed became faster and faster, and finally, the whole person has turned into a phantom, scattering endless sword light around the body, the sword light is like a substance, stopping in the void, lasting for a long time, as if the whole time has completely stagnated, moving only a figure that seems to be illusory.
What Zhan Bai couldn't see was that just as he was dancing the sword, in the void above his head, the gray chaos that was originally so thick that it couldn't be dissolved, suddenly, the wind surged, condensed, and turned into a pillar of optimus tornado wind, swaying for nine days.
"A sword in the hand will tilt the sky, and three thousand Yue armor will be invincible." As Zhan Bai recited the last sentence of the sword technique, before waiting for the momentum to close, the tornado above the void suddenly collapsed, leaving only dots of light dotted in the sky.
"Three thousand Yue armor are invincible, a good Yue Zi sword, a good sword as fast as thunder." Zhanbai, who closed the momentum, stayed in the artistic conception of Yuezi Sword for a long time, and was full of emotion.
seemed to be aware of his special state, Zhan Bai did not stop at all, and as soon as his mind turned, the sword trick of "Sword Dancing Weapon Xing" emerged from his mind.
The same finger rubbing into a sword, but the speed is extremely slow, a move and a style, are vivid, such as the old man playing Tai Chi in the park, but it is very beautiful, every movement, are extremely able to mobilize every muscle of the body, perfect coordination, so that people see, more like a beautiful dance, pleasing to the eye.
After the "Sword Dancing Weapon Xing" was finished, Zhanbai was still unsatisfied, and danced "Sword Xingkong" while the iron was hot, and the whole person was already hearty, physically exhausted, and mentally comfortable, so that he couldn't help moaning, fell headlong, and didn't wake up.