Takeo sent me an email to the effect that he wanted to meet with me recently, but didn't know where I lived. If it is convenient, then he wants me to tell him my present address; And if it's not convenient, then he wants me to take the time to go to Beaver City to find him. He said that he would spend a few days to a dozen days in Beaver City in the near future.

I looked at the email, thought for a moment, and then sent him the address of a fast-food restaurant, along with the time of the meeting.

Yes, I am actually an old acquaintance with this martial artist who has now become a household name.

I first met him even before I partnered with my ex.

In order to explain the ins and outs of my acquaintance with him, it is necessary to start with my experience of learning martial arts.

The reason why I learned martial arts is because the relevant statistics show that the probability of a martial artist awakening spiritual energy is higher than that of the average person. A healthy body can cultivate a healthy soul; And a strong body can naturally cultivate a strong soul. Although other sports also have the effect of strengthening the body, it is about the personality of me, I just like handsome things more. And my definition of handsome is to be able to knock the bad guy to the ground in style. To put it mildly, it's violence. So I ended up choosing martial arts.

At first, I followed Xu Shengxing's recommendation, went to an ordinary gym, signed up for a long-term interest class, and learned the basics of martial arts from the old boxers in the gym. Because I have a first-class talent in martial arts, I have made rapid progress in terms of skills, and as for the physical aspect, this is still not in a hurry. It's just that the more I studied, the more confused I became.

The confusion is that at some point, and for some reason, I seem to have grasped the ultimate meaning of this dojo. No, I know exactly how I got it. Because those senior brothers and teachers perform martial arts every day in the same gym, I see that after returning home, they will learn the same, and they will actually imitate eight or nine.

However, if you can learn other people's boxing studies just by looking at them with your eyes, then what do you need to do with the boxing scriptures, what do you need teachers to do, and what do you need to do in the gym? Therefore, I was not confident, so I hid my understanding in my heart and honestly followed the other apprentices to boil my body.

When I finally realized that my comprehension was not an illusion, and that this gym was really not helpful to me, I quit the interest class and trained on my own in my free time.

Unfortunately, after reaching a certain point in my training, I still couldn't awaken my psionic abilities. I have to assume that I haven't trained enough. If you learn more martial arts, it may be fruitful.

At that time, I did not know the cruel truth, that is, since ancient times, there has never been a case of anyone as severely deficient in inspiration as me who has successfully awakened spiritual energy.

Yes, never.

It's either rare or none.

And this is the wall of despair that stands in front of people like me.

Moving on to the past: I set my sights on more gyms in order to learn more martial arts. I thought, do I have to sign up for the apprenticeship of those people? Although I don't have this patience, I don't have money, and I'm embarrassed to ask Xu Shengxing for money. These interest classes cost a lot of money, and some gyms don't recruit students from the society. Since you can learn other people's martial arts just by watching, you might as well go to the gym and force them to do their best.

In this way, I masked and challenged one gym after another, learning all their martial arts secrets. Luckily, the alliance has convenient and cheap transportation, so I can go to more and farther places in my free time, and even challenge the dojo in the cherry blossom area when I have more free time. I gradually made a name for myself in the martial arts world, and people even gave me a nickname.

The various adventures that took place during this period would be another story if we spread it out, so here is a direct reference to the day I met Takefu.

At that time, I was out of town, walking on a snowy mountain trail and ending up at a well-known dojo. Just then, someone stopped me.

The visitor was an old man in his sixties, dressed in cloth and with a strong figure, who seemed to have been waiting for a long time. As soon as he saw me, he asked: "I heard that in recent months, there has been a masked man of unknown origin in the martial arts world, he has a pair of magic eyes that can penetrate all martial arts, and any martial arts secret skills can be seen and tried at a glance, is this person you?" ”

"It's me." I answered without hesitation. At that time, I probably suffered too few losses, and I didn't fight the psionics many times, so I didn't have the modesty I have now. Looking back now, even I feel that I was a little annoying at that time.

Having said that, I don't dare to take this martial artist lightly. He seemed to exude a scorching and violent atmosphere in this cold place, and just looking at him, he felt that his eyeballs were dry and even wrinkled. This is really incredible, no matter how he looks at it, he is a martial artist who takes the "King Kong" route, because this kind of martial artist trains himself in an overly cool way, so the farther he goes, the shorter his peak period is. But the old man in front of him made people feel that he was still at his peak, as if he had gone too far on the path of the Vajra Method, so he circled the earth and came in the opposite direction. This is simply against the principles of heaven.

When I knew he was the legendary boxing god, it was a week after I beat him.

Of all the martial artists I've ever fought, he's the only one who hasn't understood why he's so powerful until I've won, and then I've fought him twice, so I've learned all of his moves. I have to say that in the three battles with him, I gained even more than all the others. The richness of his martial arts literacy can not only be described as vast, but also enough to connect it all like a general outline, and the reason why I was able to develop "turning parts into wholes" in the future is also because of those three battles.

The other martial artists were in awe of him, believing that he had the blood of an ancient super psionic in his body, which was why he was so different from himself. However, as far as I can see, Takefu's talent is nothing more than a mid-human posture. I can understand why other martial artists think like that, because the road of martial arts is cruel, no talent is no talent, not to say that hard training can break the shackles of talent, and if you practice too hard, you will hurt your foundation. But then again, if there is a martial artist who can evolve to the point of defeating a super-level psionic, then it is no longer a dimension that can be described by good talent, so instead of caring so much about talent. Perhaps, like me, at some point in his life, Takeo comprehended something abstract from the depths of his soul that cannot be described in human language—just as I understood the transformation of parts into wholes.

Back in time, I had already gone to the fast food restaurant and found a seat to sit down.

A moment later, Takeo also arrived. He pushed the door open, and the waiter, who stood nearby and said welcome to every visitor, didn't seem to see him at all. This is the characteristic of a martial artist whose mind has reached the realm of unity between heaven and man, and the ability to erase oneself and blend into nature is difficult for even psionic people to detect, and it is also the key skill I used to assassinate psionic people.

The word "mental method" seems to be mysterious, but in fact there is no mystery at all. People in the past discovered early on that the human body will burst out with stronger strength when it is angry, so they take the initiative to imagine things that make them angry when they are fighting, so as to increase their explosiveness, and this is the most primitive mental method. Latecomers evolved more complex mental methods, such as those who learn monkey boxing will imagine themselves as spirit monkeys, those who learn tiger palms will imagine themselves as tigers, and even worse, they will imagine themselves as gods and devils.

But the irony is that what can really liberate all the properties of the physical body is "thinking about nothing", that is, the mind that has no mental method. And this is the "unity of heaven and man", which is regarded by the martial arts community as the highest achievement of the mind.

As soon as he entered, he saw me, the only one in the store looking at him, and walked over. No wonder he had to keep himself in the natural posture and enter the door, it turned out that it was because I used a disguised face, so he didn't recognize me and wanted to try me out.

He sat down across from me and said, "I'm coming out for three things." ”

"Three things?" I was surprised. Because I thought he was just here to challenge me. In my heart, he is a typical martial arts idiot, like a martial artist character who came out of the comics, regards the strongest martial arts as his lifelong pursuit, and is indifferent to everything else. Originally, I could have ignored him, but the sooner this kind of thing was resolved, the better, so I came to see him.

"First, you're sure to be able to think that I've gotten stronger lately, so I'm going to challenge you." He said.

Not surprisingly, I asked, "What about the second?" ”

"Second, I heard that there is an urban legend in Beaver City, there is a martial artist nicknamed 'Faceling', he once killed more than one super-grade psionic who did bad things, and the wicked people were all terrified, and even some psionic criminals were afraid of the Faceling's fierceness, and fled from Beaver City one after another." He said, "When I heard about it, I was itching to verify whether this legend was true or false. ”

"Assuming the Facelings are real, are you going to challenge them?" I asked.

"Nope." He actually shook his head.

Now, I was really surprised.

He saw my expression and said with a smile: "Do you also think that I am a martial idiot, so when I meet a strong person, I will want to challenge it?" ”

"Isn't it?" I asked rhetorically.

"It's not." He said, "For me, whether it's competing with other people or studying martial arts on my own, it's a lot of fun, but fighting someone weaker than me is not only boring, but also uncomfortable for my opponent." I know what Facelings have done so far, and if he exists, then I must be one of those boring juniors in his eyes. Although I am happy to challenge the strong, as the saying goes, do not do to others what you do not want to be done, I will not do such a thing without common sense. ”

Is it common sense to get into the psionic contest and go to the super-psionics alone? I was going to say that, but thinking about myself, I stopped.

I understand what he meant, it seems that I misunderstood him before. Combined with my past interactions with him, I regained a grasp of his perception. It is likely that, in his opinion, martial arts is the same as video games in the eyes of ordinary people. The stand-alone game is very fun, the battle game is also interesting, and it is also fun to study the strategy and try the solution while encountering the level that you can't pass. But if the online player playing the versus game is a rookie, then he will also be brought to the top of his life. So his addiction to martial arts is the same thing as ordinary people's addiction to video games. I really don't know how other martial artists would feel when they knew about this.

It's no wonder he's been able to get to this point with that talent. For other martial artists, training is hard work, and focusing on one point is hard, but for him, it is hard and hard to divert concentration from martial arts. There is a saying that many poor students are accustomed to, "It would be nice if you put half of your interest in playing games into studying", but I didn't expect anyone to really do that. To say that he is a middle-aged person is indeed to look down on him, in a sense, this is the most high-grade talent.

I thought as I asked, "So, why are you looking for Facelings?" ”

"Although I don't compete with him, when I see him, there is a sentence that I must say to him personally." He replied.

I nodded, then said, "I'm the Faceling." ”

At this moment, my idea is very simple: instead of letting him wander around Beaver City, I should just tell him the truth, and this is my conclusion.

But the moment I said it, I had a mixed mood to see his expression.

Just like Xu Shengxing when he was a teenager, while hiding his spiritual energy, he also expected someone to discover his extraordinary, and I may also be somewhere in my heart, naively expecting the people around me to discover that I am not just what they see. I'm a faceling, and I've been practicing it silently for a long time.

But, Takeo is a person who doesn't play cards according to common sense.

Maybe it's because the identity I'm using now is not "disabled boy Xu Fu", but "masked warrior magic eye". The moment he heard me say this, he could not see the shock on his face or hear the inquiry from his mouth.

He went straight to it.

In an instant, his fist came to my face with a thunderous force.

The attack was so swift that it was as if his arm had really turned into a thunderbolt, and it wasn't until it fell into my palm that it turned back into flesh.

That's right, I blocked it.

Today, my understanding of turning parts into whole is no longer what it used to be, even if his trick is turbulent and changeable, I can disintegrate it all.

When I made contact, all his power was channeled under my feet, and at the same time, the floor of the shop shook abruptly, as if it were an earthquake, but it disappeared immediately, startling the waiter and then bewildered.

"I'm afraid that since the establishment of the alliance, only you have reached such a realm, and you can be called a super martial artist once in a hundred years." Takeo seemed to believe me, he withdrew his fist and sat back, as if he was a little itchy and wanted to punch me again.

Then, he swallowed a breath of air, stared at me, and after a while, continued: "The cultivation of martial artists, to put it mildly, is the mind, body, and technique, three aspects. In terms of technique, there have always been different opinions about what is the highest achievement, but in my opinion, your secret technique deserves the highest peak in my mind, and I guess no one else can say anything about it. However, can you still see the road ahead? ”

Although he asked me this, he didn't seem to want to know my answer, and continued, "My third thing happens to be related to you. ”

I didn't mind his temptation, and I said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you gained psionic powers?" He asked.

It tickled at the itch in my heart, but I didn't want to answer his question head-on," said someone who said it bluntly. ”

"You should know very well that the highest-level martial arts master, once he awakens his spiritual energy, he will immediately start with super-grade spiritual energy, and coupled with his own martial arts, his combat power will directly catch up with the demon subduing expert." After a slight pause, he continued, "It is said that the heir of the Rock Flow Dojo who was once challenged by you and defeated by you has now awakened his spiritual energy and joined the Church of the Center of the Earth. As far as I know, more than three Alliance Extra-Grade psionics have died under his blade, and they haven't even been able to create a wound for him before they die. And he's searching the world for your whereabouts right now. ”

"From the moment he was defeated by you, he was already insane. He doesn't want anything but kill you. He said.