What is the realm of skill? It is the ability to apply martial arts skills, which complements the realm of cultivation.

It has been said before that the cultivation of martial artists is divided into internal and external skills. Needless to say, internal strength is the cultivation of exercises, which corresponds to the realm of cultivation, while external skills are martial arts moves and fighting skills, through the comprehension of martial arts, to improve their actual combat ability, corresponding to the realm of skills.

If the realm of cultivation is fundamental, the realm of skill is to play, if the realm of skill is not enough, it will lead to the inability to exert strength, on the contrary, if the realm of skill is profound, then it will be able to exert strength beyond the normal level.

For example, if two people fight, one of them only has brute strength, and the other is proficient in wrestling, in the case of similar physical fitness, the latter must win, and this is the benefit of the realm of skill.

And if the physical fitness of the two people is too different, the former is strong and strong, but the latter is weak and sickly, although he knocked down the other party with good wrestling skills, but the other party patted his ass and stood up, but as long as the sick ghost was punched, he could never get up again, this situation is also normal, this is a force to ten times, even if your skill realm surpasses me, but my cultivation realm is higher, just like an adult beating a child, it is difficult for an adult who can no longer fight to lose to a fierce child.

Relatively speaking, the cultivation realm has a greater impact on the improvement of strength, but the importance of the skill realm must not be ignored. If the skill realm is low, ten percent of the strength can only be exerted fifty percent, and if the skill realm is high, it is normal for the strength to increase by two or three times, which is also one of the reasons why the strength of the martial arts sects is very different, and it is not entirely because of the amount of true qi in the body.

Compared with the other three masters of the earth list, Qi An belongs to the type of person with high cultivation but low skills, and he is also cultivating to step on the moon and chase stars, Murong Qing is faster than him, and even Li Hongluo, who cultivates the upside-down and inverted steps, is faster than him. You must know that although the upside-down maze step is better than the moon and chasing stars in dexterity, it is inferior in speed, which proves that Li Hongluo's attainments in the upside-down maze step are much higher than Qi An's attainments in the moon and chasing stars, Qi An can't even compare to these two, not to mention the speed of the Bu Feng that surpasses the entire backer branch.

Is the reason why Bu Feng is fast is because he was born to run faster than others?

No, it's that Bu Feng has cultivated exercises that focus on improving speed, and then mastered an extremely fast body technique, and practiced to a very high level, so he can be faster than other peak martial arts sects, this is the mutual cooperation of exercises and martial arts, and the two complement each other and play a role together.

Because Qi An focused on the improvement of the cultivation realm, he neglected to hone the skill realm, which is also a matter of no choice, there must be a gain and a loss, if it is not so, Qi An may not be able to train into an iron body in two years.

In the following year's cultivation plan, Qi An prepared to turn around, focusing on honing his skills and supporting his exercises. In addition, Qi An also plans to participate in the ring match in the new season, and even do some bounty tasks to sharpen himself in the real life-and-death battle.

The following month, Qi An first went to the Alley of Life and Death to try the heaven-level difficulty.

The difficulty of the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley is to face the siege of thirty-six Heaven-level battle puppets, but for Qi An, who has already cultivated into an iron body, the heaven-level battle puppets do not pose any threat.

The strength of the heaven-level battle puppet is about the same as that of the peak martial sect, but it is by no means a peak martial sect like Wang Sheng and Sun Sanniang, but those weak peak martial sects that can't even pass through the human-level life and death alley.

For the powerhouses of the prefecture-level list, even the weak peak martial sects, if there are too many of them, there is no small threat to them. A heaven-level battle puppet with the strength of a peak martial sect, whether it is the basic attributes or the move techniques, is far beyond the ground-level battle puppet, even if it is comparable to a monk, it cannot be taken lightly, one is not careful, it will be injured, after all, no one has a defensive power like Qi An.

Qi An did not adopt a conservative style of play, but went all out to use all means to break through, ignoring the attacks of the war puppets, and breaking through head-on in the most arrogant and unreasonable way, and finally after about one hundred and fifty breaths, Qi An reached the end, but he did not step down the steps of the end line, but turned around and rushed back, and continued to fight with the heaven-level war golems.

Qi An didn't want to become the onlookers of the entire backer branch after Gongsun Riyue, not to mention the cheating method he adopted.

Although Qi An's skill realm is not high, with the support of the cultivation realm, he has actually achieved better results than Gongsun Riyue, which is also because he has an amazing defensive power behind Lian Tie, and he is not afraid of the attack of the heaven-level war puppet at all, and can bravely launch an attack, which is the same as Bu Feng's amazing speed, after reaching a critical point in a certain aspect, he can take advantage of the trials in the Alley of Life and Death.

Of course, if Qi An adopts a conservative approach like breaking into the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley, he will definitely not be able to break through the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley within the specified time, because his skill realm is too low, and he is almost at the same level as the Heaven-level battle puppet, and it is too difficult to win with skills.

The previously mentioned "Thirty Breaths Theory" is not only applicable to the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley, but also to the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley, if Qi An controls the passage time of the Ground-level Life and Death Alley within thirty breaths in the case of adopting a conservative approach, then he can also use the same method to pass the Heaven-level Life and Death Alley, but unfortunately he can't do it.

A quarter of an hour was quickly over, and Qi An walked out of the Alley of Life and Death, and in order to avoid suspicion from others, he even left from the other end of the entrance.

"It's time to hone your martial arts skills!" Qi An let out a long sigh and walked in the direction of the Reward Courtyard.

In the past two years, Qi An has come to this place for the first time, in fact, not only him, almost all the students rarely come here, and the Reward House can almost be said to be the most deserted place in the entire Backing Mountain Branch.

The missions issued by the bounty house are almost always to kill wanted felons, which is very dangerous, but the rewards are not much, so naturally there is not much attraction.

The students who came to the Qianqing Academy were mainly for the purpose of learning and improving, and almost all of them devoted themselves to cultivation, and few people would work hard for that little bit of lucrative remuneration, wasting their cultivation time and running to help the court catch wanted criminals.

However, there are still some students who hope to be improved in actual combat, and occasionally come over to take on one or two tasks, and by the way, adjust the monotonous and boring cultivation life.

Qi An also came for this purpose, and he was very keenly aware that the improvement effect of martial arts in actual combat was much faster than practicing alone.

Because the bounty house was rarely patronized, an old steward sitting inside actually crawled on the table and dozed off, Qi An walked over and knocked lightly on the table, and when he saw the other party squinting and raising his head, he took out his identity waist card and put it on the table, and hugged his fists and said: "This steward, I want to take a few bounty tasks." ”

The old steward yawned, glanced at the identity card on the table, and then took out a few large booklets with threads from the side and handed them over, saying: "The tasks are all in this, you can pick them slowly, you can only take three tasks at the same time at most, and tell the old man if you like it." ”

Qi An took the booklet and flipped through it carefully.

There are more than 800 tasks recorded in the booklet, and most of the tasks are carried out in the backing counties, and the targets are either wanted felons or bandit leaders, and at least they are all martial arts cultivators, and there are many peak martial arts sects, and there are even Qi Condensation Realm monks.

The strength is still secondary, the most important thing is that the whereabouts of many wanted criminals are uncertain, and the file only gives relatively vague information about their whereabouts, such as "it is very likely to be hidden in Yuyang County", or "escaped into the Baiyun Mountains", and even "the last place where it appeared was a tavern in Woniu Town on the border of the Qing Desert, and it is likely that it has entered the territory of Mozhou", and so on, Qi An has a headache.

There is no way, so I have to screen those who have a very clear target location, but often repeat offenders like this who do not hide their traces are all powerful, and the worst is Li Liuxian's level, and the average student will not accept it after seeing it.

Although there is no shortage of peak martial arts sects in the Qianqing Academy, and there are even prefecture-level powerhouses who can be comparable to monks, but defeating and killing are two different things, these wanted felons are not only highly cultivated, but also very good to death, even if the strength exceeds the other party a lot, but if you want to kill in one fell swoop, so that the other party has nowhere to escape, it is not easy, in case you go all the way to the door, but the person is not killed, but let the other party run, wouldn't it be a waste of work?

Therefore, even if there are very powerful students, they would rather stay in the academy to cultivate, and they don't bother to come to the bounty academy at all, no wonder a big bandit leader like Li Liuxian can also dominate Qingliang Mountain for more than ten years.

But after Qi An cultivated an iron body, he was already at the level of a condensing realm cultivator, and it was difficult for an ordinary peak martial sect to escape from him, unless he was a master with the strength of the prefecture-level list, he might not be able to keep people, so Qi An's choice was much larger, and in order to achieve the effect of tempering, he also deliberately chose three targets with higher difficulty.

The first, the head of the Jiangxiang faction, Kan Hong, is the peak of the strength of the martial arts.

The second, the bandit leader of Hutou Mountain, Zhao Hu, is the peak of martial arts strength.

The third, an outcast of Huayun Sect, Huang Cen, is the peak of the strength of the Martial Sect.

These three goals, one is more difficult than the other, judging from the file intelligence, Kan Hong is just a relatively ordinary peak martial artist, Zhao Hu is stronger, it is estimated that he will reach the top five of the life and death alley people-level list, and Huang Cen is stronger, it is speculated that it is likely to reach the level of the strong person on the prefecture-level list.

When Qi An completes the task, he can carry the head of the reward target to the local yamen to pay and receive the reward, this task document is to prove Qi An's identity on the one hand, on the other hand, it also states the specific reward amount, and at the same time stamped with the special seal of the Qianqing Academy.

Qi An memorized the portraits of the three targets on the file, then thanked him and walked out of the bounty house with three papers.