9. Conventions
Kendama is in a dream.
In the background of shadows and shadows, like quicksand dancing, there were three figures standing in front of Shen Qiu.
The one on the far left is naturally Shen Qiu's good "friend", the black man Cha Bao, who is full of energy as before, and the big copper bell eyes are staring at Shen Qiu.
Full of murderous, full of hatred.
It's like a soul seeking a life.
And the one in the middle, judging from the body shape, is the mountain ghost Gongsun Yu.
He was wearing a black robe, a mountain ghost mask, and a black sword with a strange shape, like a piece of iron, and like an iron fiber.
Full of indifference, like a mountain ghost really standing here.
Shen Qiu has seen these two people.
He understands that, too.
But the figure on the far right was something that Shen Qiu couldn't understand.
He looked like an old man.
He had a long beard, his hair was combed in a bun, and there was a jade hairpin like a woman's hairpin, which was inserted into the crown of his hair.
The man was dressed in a wide robe, and he held a whisk in his hand.
Although he was the same as Cha Bao, his whole body was full of black qi, but he could still see the appearance of the fairy wind bones.
The most peculiar thing is that Gongsun Yu's black sword, like a living spiritual creature, is suspended at the side of the old Dao.
He didn't have to hold it with his hands, and the sword flew around him.
It's like an invisible hand holding a sword.
"This is the legendary immortal cultivator, right?"
After Shen Qiu observed carefully, he came to his own conclusion.
This Dao Chang should be the former owner of Gongsun Yu's sword, or one of the countless sword-wielding people, so according to this judgment, the sword in the hand of the mountain ghost still has a great background.
I don't know if Gongsun is foolish about this?
Shen Qiumo rubbed his chin, presumably Gongsun Yu should know.
Otherwise, there is no way to explain where Gongsun Yu's swordsmanship who is not like a mortal inherits, and he is illiterate, it is impossible to find a peerless secret book and cultivate it by himself, right?
"Give it a try."
Shen Qiu grabbed the wood-splitting axe on his waist and played with the black man Chabao all day long, he was about to vomit.
Let's have a different game today.
He grabbed the axe and slashed at Gongsun Yu's figure.
In the next second, the mountain ghost's wrist swayed lightly, and Shen Qiu felt a gust of autumn breeze blowing on his face, like the hazy light veil shrouded just now, but this time, there was a hint of coldness.
And then...
And his head flew out.
He couldn't even see Gongsun Yu's sword swing clearly, he could only see the shadow of his head splashing out in blood.
This...
No wonder Cha Po couldn't even make ten moves under him.
Shen Qiu's body recovered in a dream, and this time he didn't challenge Gongsun Yu, but looked at the old Dao on the far right with great interest.
He had just taken a step with his axe in hand.
Seeing that the old Dao opened his eyes and glanced at him, the black sword suspended beside the old Dao turned into a black light flashed, and Shen Qiu's entire body was pierced by the black light in an instant.
Poke back and forth, stirring into mud.
This is even more exaggerated.
Gongsun foolishly kills people, and he has to lift his sword.
"Sure enough, it's a fairy method."
After Shen Qiu came back to life, he reached out and touched his neck, he didn't even feel the death just now, and he didn't even feel pain.
But after he was resurrected, he discovered a very strange thing.
The phantom of the old way is gone.
There were only two people left, Gongsun Yu and Cha Bao, and Gongsun Yu's phantom had become much thinner, as if a puff of smoke was about to dissipate.
This made Shen Qiu frown.
He had obviously been "playing" with Cha Bao for many days, and Cha Bao's phantom was still solid, just like when they first met.
But this...
Ah, yes!
Shen Qiu figured out the joints, and his eyes lit up.
Cha Po is dead.
And he died in his sneak attack, and the green girl also told him specifically.
That day, when Shen Qiu and Cha Bao were fighting, the sword jade fell, and it fell in a pool of Cha Bao's blood, or after Qingqing washed it up, it was brought back for Shen Qiu.
"I see."
Shen Qiu moved his wrist, he looked at the phantom of Gongsun Yu who was about to dissipate in front of him, and said:
"Only those who kill with their own hands will form this phantom that can fight repeatedly in the kendama. And the mountain ghost and the sword only touched, so there were only one or two challenges. ”
"It's like a ghost... Tsk, this sword jade looks like an evil treasure. ”
Shen Qiu touched his chin, and he thought worriedly:
"Will I be chased and cut by a group of martial arts righteous paths in the future?"
"Should... Probably not, right? ”
He looked at the phantom of Gongsun Yu in front of him, and an idea quickly took shape in his mind.
A few hours later, Shen Qiu opened his eyes on the bed.
He slept refreshed.
It's not that he defeated anyone in his dream, he couldn't even do Cha Bao, let alone get right with Gongsun Yu, he just found the correct use of sword jade, and he also saw a glimmer of hope.
Shen Qiu's heart to go down the mountain with the mountain ghost became more and more determined.
Cha Bao and the mountain ghost are too strong, he can't beat them.
I have to find some weak "sparring partners", so that I can also practice martial arts in my dreams.
In this way, double, or even many times the time planning and utilization, even if the talent is mediocre, it is bound to be able to learn martial arts well.
Diligence can make up for clumsiness, this is the truth left by our ancestors.
Amid the birdsong outside the window, Shen Qiu got out of bed, put on his shoes, pushed open the door and walked out.
It's early in the morning, Qingqing's lazy girl hasn't gotten up yet, and the lights in the mountain ghost house are still on, that guy, shouldn't he really stay up late to study?
Shen Qiu quietly walked to the mountain ghost window and glanced inward.
Sure enough, the mountain ghost was holding a book, his fingers scratching the page, and his serious appearance made Shen Qiu quite ashamed.
Back then, if he had the strength of Gongsun Yu, he wouldn't have been able to find a good hospital during his internship, and he encountered the kind of bad things that ruined his life.
Instead of alarming the mountain ghost, he went into the kitchen.
Half an hour later, the sun shone all over the hillside, and the lazy girl Qingqing pushed the door and walked out.
She stretched her body and stretched well, then yawned, picked up a few willow branches, dipped them in the coarse salt that had been ground, and soaked them in her mouth.
It should have been gargled with good green salt, but unfortunately this is not Suzhou, and it is already very good to use coarse salt.
"It's time to eat."
Shen Qiu shouted in the kitchen, and Qingqing's confused face immediately came alive.
She rushed into the kitchen happily, quickly brought out a bowl of porridge and rice with wild fruits, sat down in her lame chair, and ate it deliciously.
The mountain ghost was also alarmed, he didn't have the habit of eating breakfast, but since Shen Qiu had already done it, he would be useful.
Anyway, he used the ingredients he found.
Some of these rice were "taken" from the people of the Northern Dynasties.
The other part is used by the surrounding mountain people to worship the "mountain ghosts".
Because Gongsun Yu killed the people of the Northern Dynasty in the mountains, although the life of the mountain people here was not good, at least no one oppressed them.
This is all due to the blessing of the mountain ghost.
Whenever the mountain people went down the mountain to change their rice grain, they would always put some in a dilapidated mountain temple at the bottom of the hillside for sacrifice.
Although it's not much, how much can Gongsun Yu eat alone?
Over the years, the rice grain in the kitchen is completely abundant, even if there are more Qingqing and Shen Qiu, it is enough.
After breakfast, the mountain ghost was about to go down the mountain with a burden and a sword, but was sent to the bottom of the hillside by Shen Qiu.
It wasn't until he couldn't see Qingqing that Shen Qiu said to Gongsun Yu beside him:
"You said last night I couldn't catch your sword, but what if I did?"
Shen Qiu said softly:
"If I catch it, you'll take me down the mountain to get revenge, okay?"
Gongsun Yu looked at Shen Qiu through the ghost face, he felt that this guy had a problem with his brain.
But after a moment of thought, he nodded and said:
"Yes."
"But I won't show mercy, if I can't catch it, you'll die."
He was counting on scaring Shen Qiu with these words.
But he didn't expect Shen Qiu to smile, stretched out his hand and patted the mountain ghost's shoulder, and said:
"That's it!"
After speaking, Shen Qiu put his hands behind his back, hummed a strange song that was out of tune, and walked back leisurely.
"Wait."
The mountain ghost called out to him.
Shen Qiu turned around, and saw Gongsun Yu take out a book from his baggage, turn a few pages, point to two words, and say to Shen Qiu:
"What do those two words mean?"
"I'll take a look."
Shen Qiu glanced at it, and he said:
"Kan Li, this is the description of the hexagram, and I don't know the specifics."
"But I vaguely remember that kan is water, and separation is fire, in different contexts, it can also be understood as yin and yang, kan is yin, and separation is yang."
"Or it refers to men and women, Kan is a woman, and a man is separated."
Shen Qiu's explanation obviously couldn't satisfy Gongsun Yu.
He looked at those two words, silently wrote down Shen Qiu's description in his heart, and asked:
"There are only two words, why do they mean so much?"
"Well, that's what it means."
This kind of rhetoric-like semantics is endless, Shen Qiu thought about it, and said briefly:
"It's the same word, it means different things, for example, waste, on the one hand, it means something that is useless, or garbage, but waste can also be used to describe a person who is terrible and useless."
Gongsun Yu nodded, of course he knew this.
When he killed those Northern Dynasty thieves, those guys would also use similar words to scold him, but the mountain ghosts didn't care.
"Here's another example."
Shen Qiu thought about it, and he joked to the mountain ghost:
"In my hometown, the word 'sand sculpture' is used for swearing, but it doesn't originally mean that..."
"Sand sculptures? Is it a bird? ”
Gongsun Yu asked.
Shen Qiu shrugged his shoulders and said:
"Maybe, in short, this word can be used to scold someone, say that the person has a brain problem, is not mentally normal, etc., and can also be used to express that the relationship between the two is good."
He gave another thumbs up, and said with a strange and funny expression:
"For example, I'd say, you're enough to sand sculpt, and you deserve to be my brother or something."
This is Shen Qiu's nonsense.
In Qingqing's words, the senior brother is saying strange things again.
The mountain ghost couldn't understand the meaning, but he understood what Shen Qiu meant.
He said:
"So, what exactly does 'Kanli' mean, it depends on the specific situation?"
"Yes, let's look at it in context."
Shen Qiu gave a thumbs up to the mountain ghost.
This guy is definitely not stupid, and he must have a super memory, otherwise he would not have been able to learn such a terrifying swordsmanship.
"I see."
The mountain ghost put away the book and nodded slightly to Shen Qiu.
He lifted it far away, pointed his toes on the ground, jumped out of the distance in succession, and ran into the forest like a ghost, and disappeared in an instant.
Shen Qiu stood in place, watching the mountain ghost leave.
He stroked the sword jade in his hand, and the touch just now should have sent the phantom of the mountain ghost into the sword jade again.
According to last night's test, such a touch of the Phantom can only fight a maximum of 3 times.
In other words, he has three chances to try before his agreement with the mountain ghost arrives.
If you're not sure about it the last time...
I had to give up.
Gongsun Yu is very simple and very realistic, he said that he will not be merciful, he will definitely not be merciful.
"Qingqing, Qingqing?"
Shen Qiu returned to the hillside where the three of them lived, called out to the little junior sister, and soon, the green girl with a baked potato in her hand rushed out of the kitchen.
She was baking and eating it herself, and her face was covered in black marks.
Shen Qiu was angry and felt that this girl was simple and cute, and he had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and help Qingqing wipe the marks on his face.
After all, she is only 13 or 4 years old, how can you expect her to mature?
Speaking of which, my body is only 16 years old, but I have a 25-year-old soul in my body who has been beaten by society.
"Qingqing, I have been running the internal strength method left by the master for the past few days, but I am ignorant and don't understand the semantics in some places, you can tell me again."
Shen Qiu said to Qingqing, who was happily eating soft glutinous potatoes:
"By the way, give me another pointer about the method of true qi circulation and so on. You know, I didn't like these things before, so I forgot about them. ”
"Okay."
Qingqing has adapted to the situation of his senior brother forgetting things.
Besides, the senior brother doesn't like the rivers and lakes in the first place, and he doesn't care about martial arts, so he is often scolded by the master, and his talent is mediocre.
It is normal to forget the internal strength and the law if you don't pay attention.
Although she herself has weak strength and it is difficult to walk the martial arts, she is naturally smart and has practiced her qi sense early.
Xiao Qingqing is more flexible and healthier than children of the same age, and her ability to catch rabbits and fish is also inseparable from the weak true qi in her body.
"You do it with me."
Qingqing finished eating the potatoes, and sat cross-legged on the grass in a decent pose.
She said to Shen Qiu, who was learning from her:
"You don't have to put on this posture with five hearts facing the sky, Master said, just find the most suitable and comfortable posture for yourself, alas... Don't lie down! ”
Shen Qiu raised his head and looked at Qingqing, he said:
"Isn't it the most comfortable to lie down?"
"Hmph, whatever you want, big lazy worm!"
Qingqing snorted, she took a deep breath, closed her eyes slightly, and said to Shen Qiu:
"What about our set of mental methods, it is called the Jianghu Mental Method, which many people are using, in fact, according to Master, seventy percent of the people in the rivers and lakes use this set of mental methods."
"Huh?"
Shen Qiu suddenly asked in surprise:
"Something like the internal strength of the heart method, shouldn't it be a top secret of the sect? How can it still spread so widely? ”
"It was indeed top secret."
Qingqing opened her eyes and popularized the common sense of the rivers and lakes for her senior brother, she said:
"More than 20 years ago, everyone still practiced their own skills, and the superior heart was only available to the high-level factions, and ordinary people in the rivers and lakes could only learn those unpopular mental methods."
"This makes the strong stronger, the weak weaker, and once a medium exercise flows out, it can make the rivers and lakes set off a bloody storm."
"However, 11 years ago, that is, in the 12th year of Zhengding, a generation of strange people Zhang Moxie passed on this set of Jianghu mental methods compiled by him to the rivers and lakes."
Qingqing pursed her lips and said:
"Although compared to the high-grade mental method, this Jianghu mental method is still not in the stream, but it is definitely much more powerful than those internal skills that are circulated in the countryside."
"And the most powerful thing is that this exercise can be used by everyone!"
Speaking of the name Zhang Moxie, Qingqing's eyes were full of admiration, and she said to the confused senior brother:
"No matter what your talent is, no matter what your background is, as long as your innate Qi is not dispersed, you can get started through the Jianghu Mental Method, so in the past 11 years, the Jianghu Mental Method has been widely spread."
"Everyone said that it was Zhang Moxie who gave eighty percent of the martial arts people the possibility of going one step further."
"Zhang Moxie? Who's that? ”
Shen Qiu asked.
Qingqing blinked, and she said:
"Who else could it be?"
"Demon Sect Master, the first in the world."