Chapter 13: Breaking the Sword
The results of the autumn test are obviously obvious, I lost. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
I walked away stupidly, picking up the laughing crowd, keeping my head down all the way, thinking about how I abused Xu Ao.
I stabbed out with a sword, and the sword entered Xu Ao's neck. Then a burst of blood spurted out, and I threw it hard, and Xu Ao became a puddle of blood and mud on the ground.
But no matter what I thought, I didn't erase the frustration in my heart. It was a frustration I had never experienced before, I was trampled under someone's feet in Night City.
I didn't watch the rest of the people's games, I was really not in the mood, I wanted to cry, but I couldn't cry in front of so many people, and the only thing left was that I was still strong.
The road to Master's hut that day was very difficult, and I remember walking very slowly, and I didn't know how to tell Master about the result.
When I arrived at the hut, I saw Master sitting leisurely in his chair, drinking tea quietly, and when he saw me coming, he first asked, "Did you lose?" ”
I lowered my head and whispered, "Lost." ”
"As expected, it hurts?"
"It hurts."
"Then let's go and practice my sword."
I stood up a little impatiently, and in despair, I picked up my sword and prepared to go to the back mountain to cut the bluestone. Listening to me chopping the bluestone angrily, Master came over and started chatting with me.
"Can't figure it out?" Master asked, looking at me and smiling, like an old naughty boy.
"Xu Ao, that guy swings his sword a thousand times a day?" I muttered.
"But those who fall at the feet of others are destined to have no right to speak."
"But he who falls at the feet of others is also a human being." I objected.
"People are not the same. It's like, sometimes the strong fart is reasonable, and the weak one is like a fart no matter how much it says. "Master said that it was only then that what he said began to be remembered by me.
I silently waved my sword, not agreeing with Master's statement, in my opinion, the person who falls at the feet of others is also a human being, and since he is a human being, he should always save some face for others.
We were silent for a while, until Master asked me again.
"Do you know it hurts?"
"Got it." I nodded, "I'm really crazy." ”
"Not bad." Master nodded, "If people don't even have a little madness, then what do they do?" But, no matter how crazy you are when you recognize the situation, you must at least know what strength the other party has. Come and practice the sword, don't think that the purpose of practicing the sword is to trample that person under your feet in the future, Lonely, the purpose of your sword training is to trample everyone under your feet, but you let them go. That's the master. ”
"But Master, if I don't practice swords to trample Xu Ao under my feet next time, then what am I practicing swords for?" I asked, and that was indeed my problem, and that was indeed my goal at the time.
"And to kill him." Master said, in a serious tone.
I looked at Master, who smiled and nodded at me, and said something that would have a great impact on me in the future: "People, either don't mess with me." But if it gets to the point of not drawing the sword, then do it absolutely nothing. ”
"It's not good to kill people." I shook my head, never thinking I would kill someone.
Master was silent for a moment, then touched my head and said, "Lonely guest, the way of the sword is cold, and the heart of the swordsman should also be cold. When we swing our swords with impunity, we probably don't think about the feelings of the person being chopped. When we step on someone's head, we probably don't think about how the person being stepped on feels. ”
(I carefully recalled my conversation with Master that day, and I really wanted to find something extraordinary.) )
(What?) )
(I didn't tell Master the details of my loss to Xu Ao that day, but how did Master know?) But Master didn't seem to say that he was going to see me before I went, and he was sad that day, and he didn't even realize it. )
On the day I lost to Xu Ao, Master began to really teach me sword moves.
"I want to call you three sword moves, three styles: break, power, kill!
Broken sword style, the sword has two edges, but only one sword tip. Where it is thick, in the center, the sides are thin and sharp, and they are chopped at will. The attack of the sword, the word is completely solved. The so-called breaking means that no matter how the opponent defends, he will break his sword moves, and then break his momentum. The saying of breaking the sword, if the opponent is weak, break it with force; If the opponent is strong, it will be broken by skill.
The sword has two edges, and everyone says that the sword always hurts others and hurts themselves, but forgets that the sword is a dead thing, and it never betrays people. If you don't want to hurt yourself, then the right way is to move forward with the sword and move forward.
Break the word in front, and then use the potential to suppress people, the so-called potential, is the situation.
If you have the upper hand, you have to keep pressing him, you can't stop, no matter what kind of sword moves he makes, you can't stop, you have to press him to fight, you must fight until he despairs.
The sword is a weapon that is used to kill, not to compare. If it's just a sword comparison, then the first two styles are enough, but if you want to kill someone, then the sword killing style must be practiced. In the sword killing style, the focus is not on the sword, but on skills and sword moves. You have to know how to kill someone to kill more easily, to cut that place to hit the point.
These three moves are the basics, and there is another move called the sword guarding style, you don't have to learn this move, and I won't either. If you are really forced by others to use this trick, it is not far from death, and it is useless to learn it.
The Breaking Sword, the Powerful Sword, and the Killing Sword are the foundations, and all the attack types of sword moves created by countless people are actually based on these. After you practice these three moves, you will go to fight with people, and when you are proficient in the three moves, you will be almost done. ”
In the autumn after the autumn exam, Master began to teach me the sword-breaking style.
I practiced and practiced, and found that the reason why Xu Ao was able to split my sword with one sword that day was actually a move in the sword-breaking style. There is almost no skill in that move, as long as the strength is high.
I had been carrying the seventy or eighty pound sword for the whole autumn, and at the end of the autumn I could barely lift it, or make some clumsy sword moves.
When splitting the bluestone, he gradually became handy, and after using the broken sword style, the stone became extremely easy to split. I even think that this big bluestone of this house can still be split in three years.
As for cutting through the leaves, I still don't have any momentum, so it's hard to scratch them.
After one autumn, my swordsmanship did not improve greatly, but my body became stronger, and although I still sweated after running around the Momoyama Sword Sect, I no longer felt suffocated.
People are lazy by nature, and at the age of twelve or thirteen, it is a misfortune and a kind of luck to meet someone who can force you to be serious. Most of us simply can't push ourselves to achieve our ambitions.
"What is yours is yours and is yours. But if it's not yours, you get it, and it's useless. "When winter was approaching, Master and I were on the road, and Master began to reason with me.
"Master, I understand, do you mean that I should put the silver ingot I just picked up back and wait for the owner?" I threw down the silver in my hand and asked, it was quite heavy.
"Wrong! I mean, we quickly spent the ingots and went drinking. So that's what we're all about. Master said abruptly, and then he and I prepared to go down the mountain to find a place to sell wine and drink.
On the way, I met a person I wanted to meet but didn't want to meet - Xu Ao!
"Hey, that shit, let's have a sword fight." Xu Ao shouted at me.
I was about to turn around and ask Master if I should say yes, but I found that Master didn't know where I had gone.
Well, since Xu Ao wants to fight, then I have to accompany him to the end.
My sword collided with Xu Ao's sword again, and then, as Master had explained, I suddenly let go of my hand after a few fights with Xu Ao and let my sword fly straight out.
When Xu Ao saw my sword flying out, he suddenly became excited, so he also threw his sword and came with a fist. This time, I naturally avoided it simply, no matter how fast Xu Ao's fist swung up, could it be faster than the falling leaves flying in the sky?
After throwing more than ten punches and failing to hit me, Xu Ao finally gave up, and for the sake of his own face, he had to find a step for himself: "It's not that he can't make sword moves, but because my sword is too strong." Any idea how I did it? ”
"I don't know!" It's that bunch of head-scratching again, and they're men.
Xu Ao was confident: "I practiced swords for three hours a day, and it took ten years to make a difference." ”
"Wow!" The group of nymphomaniacs shouted in amazement.
"Seeing that person is not, he must be lazy every day, so his sword will fall." Xu Ao pointed at me and shouted loudly without shame.
"How lazy!" A nymphomaniac.
"How did such a person get to the Momoyama Sword Sect?" Another nymphomaniac.
"Such a person will not be successful in the future!" There is also a nymphomaniac.
……
Alas, I walked away. On the way down the mountain, Master came to me out of nowhere.
"Admit it, when we came into this world, we were destined to be despised countless times by the countless self-righteous fools of this world." Master comforted me.
Actually, Master doesn't need to be comforted, and I don't feel so ashamed. The shameful thing in this world is not only the ridicule of others, but also the ridicule of one's own weakness, if you don't have that weakness, then there is no shame in being laughed at by others.
"Master, I found out how much Xu Ao is worth me." I laughed.
"What do you mean?"
"He's only worth one fall for me, because I caught up with him in just one fall."
"Well said."
That day, Master and I drank for a while at a liquor shop at the foot of Momoyama and ate a few plates of beef. When we came out, it was snowing, and Xu Ao was looking for the silver he had dropped.
"Master Guke feels that Master has said the wrong thing."
"What?"
"There are things that belong to someone else, and if you get them, they are yours; Some things are yours, and when others get them, they are someone else's. ”
The snow left us both laughing.