Chapter III. The sword asks Beiyan 177.The ghost king's brain
Whether it is martial arts or weapons, after all, it is just a tool to rely on people to use, as for whether to choose a sword or a club, a flying hook or a meteor hammer, it is nothing more than a matter of physical condition and personality preferences, and there is no real sense of high and low, difficulty and difficulty between each other.
It's like different tools, used in different hands, and the final results are varied.
The martial arts of Huayu Continent is a skill that takes people as the target source and philosophical ideas as the matrix; No matter what kind of specification, internal and external weapons, the basic concept of application is to extend the attack distance of the body, which is generally speaking, that is, a longer arm. It is precisely because of this core concept that the sectarian martial arts hall that was born in the Huayu Continent today is full of strangeness; However, there are only three main subjects for the introductory basic exercises of all schools: standing piles, stepping and body movements, and boxing.
As an advanced exercise, the number of weapons in Huayu Continent is also completely based on the fighting methods developed according to human habits; And the so-called 'unity of man and sword' is just a realm of arms and fingers, mellow and free.
However, after such a basic concept of martial arts was spread across the ocean to Dongying Island, it became a diametrically opposed to another appearance. Because Dongying Island is in a period of war and turmoil all the year round, those who hold the real power of the upper class are not like the literati gentry class in Huayu Continent, but the samurai class with armed forces.
Generally speaking, the Huayu Continent is the emperor sitting in the palace, and the literati are in power; On the other hand, the emperor is in name and the princes are in power. Huayu Continent's habit of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force has been completely subverted on Dongying Island, which is surrounded by water.
Originally, the two countries were of the same species, the same origin and the same culture, and the reason for such subversive differences is due to the different social environments in which the two sides live. The literati of Huayu mainland have mastered the pen and the right to speak in society, so they carry the spiritual totem of the Huayu people, which is the historical classics recorded by the literati and the ancestral rituals formulated with the clan gentry; What about the islanders? Their spiritual totem is the sword that hangs from the waist of the daimyo samurai.
Excessive or even blind worship of ancient sages and ancestral rituals will naturally restrict the innovation and development space of a nation; Therefore, although the rise and fall of dynasties from generation to generation, and the emperors have changed one after another, whether it is the pattern of the imperial court or the implementation of government decrees, it has always been a small repair, and it is rare to produce earth-shaking changes.
The same problem is true for the people of Toei Island; The martial arts of Huayu Continent is a people-oriented source, a skill with philosophical concepts as the matrix, the so-called impermanence of soldiers, impermanence of water, martial arts are also changing at any time; It's like saying that the Yue Nu Sword in ancient times, and the Yue Nu Sword that is popular on the rivers and lakes today, are two completely different swordsmanship!
But the sword skills of the Dongying people are the opposite. The origin of their sword skills is to carry forward the advantages of the blade; The person who holds the knife is just a medium for transmitting spirit and power; No matter whether a person who practices martial arts is tall or short, fat or thin, the sword skills practiced are all carved out of a mold. Whether it is a martial arts master or a novice student, it is very rigid and sluggish to perform.
For a whole, a way of practicing like theirs is certainly very efficient, and the average level of students is relatively high. But what followed was that among the same group of students in a dojo, there were few extremely outstanding existences. Even if there are one or two sporadic ones, it has little to do with the cultivation of the master himself, it is completely the child's own superb understanding.
If you compare fairly, if you let a hundred Huayu swordsmen and a hundred Japanese sword warriors fight head-on, the direction of victory and defeat between the two sides will probably take fifteen years as a limit. As long as the first fifteen years of probationary period have passed, then whether it is a group battle or a one-on-one, the Toei samurai will have absolutely no chance of winning.
In fact, this huge difference only needs to use the words of a sage to explain the problem of Dongying martial arts: learning without thinking is reckless.
And now the sword technique that is being performed from the hands of that Qilin Jun, although it is carefully developed and improved by him after absorbing the strengths of Huayu's martial arts, it is not as dull as the orthodox Dongying sword technique; However, in a series of connections such as advance and retreat, retraction, operation, force, turning, etc., you can still see the shadow of Dongying's knife technique. It was precisely because of the too rigid nature of the Dongying knife technique that Shen Gui accidentally suffered a loss when he blocked his first knife......
Whoever is a member of the Huayu Continent, who will not leave three points of spare strength for himself when he attacks! Like Qilin Jun, a stiff knife technique that makes a move and goes all out, everyone is a layman among the laymen!
But now Shen Gui is no longer the stunned young man who only knows how to fight desperately with others! As soon as he saw that he had lost his sense of hearing, he didn't seem to have much impact on this Qilin Jun, so he immediately chose to pick those soft persimmons to pinch first! It happened that he imitated Liu Banxian's body method and simulated the shadow body method, which also caused them to have a lot of misunderstandings, and even made Qilin Jun make a wrong instruction in a panic.
He ordered all the Hundred Ghost Slayers to close their eyes and predict Shen Gui's movements based on their hearing alone.
This is obviously the result of his insufficient intelligence gathering, or carelessness of the enemy! As the saying goes, it's an unlucky idea that comes up with an ass!
Shen Gui is a wild child who grew up at the foot of Taibai Mountain, and his childhood playmates, in addition to the two brothers of the Qi family, are all kinds of beasts that live in the mountains and forests! Pull out a tiger, wild boar, sika deer or something, and the hearing is definitely more sensitive than that of humans! At present, Qilin-kun wants to use this method to deal with an old hunter who has been intriguing with wild beasts all year round, just like trying to drown a live fish in the river!
When Shen Gui kept flashing and moving, he pulled out a gap, grabbed a handful of gravel from the ground, killed people with one hand, threw stones everywhere with the other, and shouted inexplicable onomatopoeia in his mouth! This kind of noise pollution offensive, the bolder, will also be annoyed by him to be impetuous; The less timid were even more frightened by him; Under such circumstances, how could they have the extra mental strength and predict Shen Gui's trajectory?
These people are already proud of their strong martial arts and experience; In addition, there is a huge difference in the number of enemies and us, so there are few people at all, and it is the same thing to regard this young Shen Gui! In their minds, those environmental factors and individual strength differences are enough to be completely erased by such a huge number of people gap! However, now Shen Gui, who is quickly harvesting the vitality like the wind blowing wheat waves, has also given them a real guidance lesson!
Tuition fees are their top priority.
At this time, Qilinjun also gradually discovered that the immoral idea he had just come up with had little effect after being used; But Shen Gui's movements were too fast, and if he delayed for one more second, at least one or two of his colleagues would become the souls of others' swords! In a hurry, he didn't care about carefully considering the pros and cons, and directly issued his second instruction:
"White smoke!"
It sounds like this so-called white smoke is a secret weapon of the Truth and Hearing trait; But in fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a small bamboo tube, filled with quicklime.
Because of the task of the hundred ghosts, it has always been a dirty job that cannot be put on the table; Coupled with the fact that they need a very high success rate when they make a move, it is natural that they must also maintain a degree of secrecy. They may not be able to catch up with such a large-scale operation as today's in a few years or more than a decade!
Since the pursuit of secrecy, it is natural to be at a natural disadvantage in terms of manpower when it comes to action. So when these people are discovered by the target, or alert the target's guards when retreating, they need a reliable and efficient means of escape! And now the so-called white smoke in Qilin Jun's mouth is one of the many escape methods carefully developed by him.
After all, the killer is not a Jianghu person, and the so-called dignity and chivalrous reputation are worthless to them; And these killers who serve and listen to the truth, and all of them are rich ghosts who can give up everything for the silver; Therefore, Bai Ash, the next three indiscriminate things that can be attacked and retreated, in their eyes, is simply a life-saving talisman that has been tried and tested!
Now these living forces who were disturbed by Shen Gui's attack and were dizzy, after hearing Qilin Jun's orders, subconsciously took out the white ash bamboo tube they carried with them from their waist bags; Even if there were people with a slightly more flexible mind, in such a short period of time, they did not figure out any big mistakes; In terms of the situation, even if there are a few people who feel that this move is inappropriate, but for the whole situation, what role can it play? Is it the end of the sky to be dusty whether to sprinkle it or not to sprinkle it yourself?
So after hearing these words, those unlucky killers didn't have time to think about it, and scrambled to splash the tube of quicklime powder in their hands into the air......
The reason why Qilinjun came up with this method is also very simple: he is just to try to see if he can charm Shen Gui's eyes, no matter how bad it is, he can dye his clothes white, so that he will become more conspicuous in the dark night, and his path of action will be easier to be captured by his side......
However, he forgot that the topography of this Bashu Road was a basin; And this Miao Wu main village is in the valley surrounded by mountains......
After their dozens of tubes of white ash were splashed out, when would they be able to open their eyes again to find someone, but no one could say for sure......