In the early morning of the second day, the two left Tianshui Prefecture.

The Two Realms Mountains were in the westernmost part of the Tang Dynasty, and as long as they kept going west, they had to cross another state. There are nine states in the Tang Dynasty, and now Xie Baoshu knows that there are Tianshui Prefecture and Middle Earth Shenzhou. The northernmost state of ice and snow, and the westernmost state of Bodhi. The place they are going to is to pass through one of the most prosperous states of Datang Buddhism.

Although Buddhism is native to the Peacock Kingdom in the west, there are also many followers of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty.

There are twelve Taoist monarchs in the Daomen, and the same is true for the Buddhist family, with six Buddhas alive. The Tang Dynasty is a country, and Buddhism has always wanted to preach here, but the dynasties before the Tang Dynasty did not pay much attention to the spread of Buddhism, so among the nine states, only the Bodhi Prefecture in the west was prosperous.

The people of the Tang Dynasty seem to be very strange, they seem to believe in all religions, and they don't seem to believe in anything, they are all a group of materialists.

Xie Baoshu followed the master and walked in the swamps of the mountains, the terrain of Tianshui Prefecture was humid, and there were countless swamps in the deep mountains, so he walked extremely carefully. Hachi was on the side, scurrying from tree to tree. Since Song Heng said that he began to teach Xie Baoshu to practice knives, he did not allow Xiaoba to hide in Xie Baoshu's arms anymore and let him run by himself.

Although Hachi was not happy, he didn't dare to refute.

Along the way, Song Heng taught Xie Baoshu to practice knives and asked him to hang the wooden knife around his waist.

If you want to learn a knife, you must first straighten your body.

This is the first sentence that Song Heng taught Xie Baoshu, the so-called positive body is the moment when he holds the knife, the posture must be correct, and the whole person is like a knife inserted in the ground, and there can be no shaking. Whether the wind blows or the rain blows, his body cannot move. To achieve "immovable as a mountain", the first realm of learning knives has been reached.

Xie Baoshu was a little puzzled, and he asked, "How can I be right?"

Song Heng replied: "The mind is too heavy, and it is difficult to hold the knife." If you want to be upright, you must first put down your mind in your body and not think about anything else. I just want to stand up straight and practice my knife well. ”

Xie Baoshu nodded, trying to calm his heart, but found it a little difficult.

Song Heng saw him like this and said, "Do you know how long I was stuck in this step when I was practicing the knife?" It took me twenty years to learn to hold a knife properly, and do you know how hard it was for twenty years? At that time, my mind was full of revenge, and my heart could not be calmed at all. The mind is too heavy, and it is difficult to hold the knife correctly, this sentence has troubled me for 20 years. ”

Xie Baoshu listened very carefully, and he knew that what the master said was some very important truths. If he can seriously comprehend all these skills of knife practice, it will save many years of effort, he looked at the master and asked, "Then how did you finally calm down?"

Song Heng glanced at him and said with a smile: "You'll know later." ”

The two of them shuttled through the jungle at great speed.

No way, no matter where you go in Tianshui Prefecture, it is more convenient to take a boat. So on land, some of the avenues are gradually deserted, and there are not many people walking. In the midst of this great mountain, there was only the chirping of birds and insects, and there was no sound. If it weren't for the lack of a boat, Xie Baoshu wouldn't have walked from such a ghost place. Xiaoba is on the side, but happy, one will catch two birds to play, one will Tao two bird eggs to eat, and he will be so unhappy along the way. With such a fat body, in this mountain, the speed is actually not slower than Xie Baoshu.

No matter how far the two walked, Hachi was able to catch up in the end.

Soon, I came to a mountain spring, where there was a waterfall, which fell from a high place, and the water was clear. Song Heng stopped here, walked to the spring, looked at the waterfall on the top of the mountain, and nodded with satisfaction. Find a place next to it, sit down and start resting.

Xie Baoshu thought he was tired, so he also walked to the side and wanted to sit down.

Song Heng opened his mouth and said: "In those twenty years, I kept trying to find ways to calm my heart. But I tried many methods, and the more I tried, the more I couldn't calm down, and my mind was full of enemies. It wasn't until later, when I finished my cultivation and went to take a bath, that I found a waterfall. It was night, the moon was high, and the view of the waterfall was stunning. I hadn't seen the scenery on the side of the road for a long time in all these years of practicing knives, and that night I told myself to take a good shower, then drink two glasses of wine and watch the moonlight. Unexpectedly, when I took a shower at the bottom of the waterfall, I felt a sense of relaxation that I had never felt before. It was at that time that I let go of other thoughts in my heart and began to practice knives. ”

Xie Baoshu was silent for a moment and asked, "So I also went to the bottom of the waterfall to meditate?"

Song Heng nodded, and suddenly, the sword qi in his body burst out, bounced Xie Baoshu in front of him far away, and fell into the waterfall. He looked at Xie Baoshu, who was a little inexplicable, and said with a smile: "You just go to the bottom of the waterfall and think about it, when you can stand firm under my sword qi, I will start teaching you to practice the knife." ”

Xie Baoshu stood firm in the mountain spring and swam towards the place where the waterfall fell. The flying stream went straight down to 3,000 feet, and it was suspected that the Milky Way had fallen for nine days. From a distance, I still think that this waterfall is nothing, until I get closer, Xie Baoshu found that this waterfall is very huge, the sound of falling water is like thunder, it seems that the strength of this waterfall is not small.

Be careful, Xie Baoshu held his breath and condensed, and cautiously drilled towards the bottom of the waterfall. Although he now has the cultivation of the Concentration Realm, when the water of the waterfall hits his body, he still feels a little pain. And it's very heavy, and as a physical cultivator, he is also a little unstable. After a while, after he began to get used to the weight, he felt less stressed.

At the foot of the waterfall, Xie Baoshu tried to imitate the old man's standing posture.

At that time, on Wudang Mountain, the appearance of the law exposed by Hefeng Zhenren could not make Song Heng's body shake for half a minute. This is enough to show how important and powerful it is to hold a knife and keep your body right. I can't even stand on my feet, how to hold a knife. Xie Baoshu wanted to understand this, and began to calm down and slowly experience the mysterious realm. He walked directly below the waterfall, his clothes were wet, but he didn't care at all, the whole person was motionless, like a knife.

Song Heng on the shore glanced at him and sighed: "The son can be taught." ”

When he practiced swordsmanship, he didn't have a master to teach him, so he could only explore little by little. There are few people who use knives in the world, and Song Heng takes this road, which can be regarded as the road to open the mountain. A man with a knife upright, he has practiced for 20 years, and this kind of perseverance is really worthy of his name.

There is no one before, and there will be those who will come later.

When Song Heng practiced knives, he made up his mind to open a road for knives. Twenty years of hard work, he felt it was worth it. It is said that people in the world use knives under the mountains, and people on the mountains use swords. Song Heng didn't believe in this reason, he felt that it was also a sharp weapon for killing, why couldn't the people on the mountain use knives?

For this reason, a small standing posture, he pondered for twenty years.

Can you practice knives without this stance?

He can practice, but he can't reach the kind of state he wants.

If you just want to use a knife, you can stand however you want. But what he wanted was to use a knife to cut the gods on the mountain, or the dragons on the ground, so he couldn't be so perfunctory. Some time ago on Wudang Mountain, when the mountain lord revealed his appearance, if it was an ordinary swordsman, he might have been blown away by the wind brought up by the mountain lord's sleeve.

Even if he changes to a sword immortal, he may not be able to stand so steady.

Song Heng pondered for twenty years just to get this effect. No matter who you are facing, even if it is an opponent whose realm is far beyond you, you can only have a chance to make a knife if you stand firm. Even if you are immediately crushed by him after the knife is released, it is worth it.

Because as long as you make a knife, you have a chance to win.

He has long understood this, and now he hopes that Xie Baoshu can also understand. That's why I took him to the edge of this waterfall to see if he could experience the feeling he had at the beginning.

There are four magic swords in the world, some of which are hidden in people's hearts, and some of which are hidden in the world. Like the dragon slaying knife on his waist, he snatched it in the cave of an evil dragon. There is also a ghost slayer, in the hands of Emperor Xudu, it is rumored that the master of the underworld who is in charge of the souls of the dead in the world uses a ghost slashing knife to take care of the entire ghost in an orderly manner. There is also a handful, left in the depths of the sea, no one has picked it up for so many years, and it has never been born.

As for Xie Baoshu, it is hidden in his heart, and it will be pulled out at a certain time.

The knife is as its name suggests, slaying the dragon, and is naturally restrained by the dragons. Killing ghosts is naturally easy to cut off spirits. As for Xie Baoshu's slashing of evil, it is very interesting. Because it was difficult to distinguish between good and evil, Song Heng didn't know what effect this knife had, but he was curious.

Legend has it that in addition to the four divine swords, there are also four fairy swords in this world. The sword is opposed, but the genius of kendo has come out in large numbers, and the swordsman has gradually declined. In this era, I heard that it was the era of sword cultivation, and the swordsman could only watch from afar. Song Heng didn't believe in this evil, he went all the way and killed countless sword immortals who stood in the way, but he was a little unconvinced in his heart. In his own opinion, the knife is not bad at all. But why is everyone reluctant to use knives?

After pondering for twenty years, he finally understood.

People in the world learn knives, always thinking about how to kill the enemy and how to cut people after they have achieved the knife technique.

But they are always reluctant to start with the basics, they practice knives, and they never want to hold a knife upright. Once they encounter a master, whether the other party is a physical cultivator or a qi practitioner, they can't hold it directly if they practice the sword. Then he can't beat others, he never thinks about his own reasons, and only complains that the sword is not as good as the sword.

Song Heng looked down on these people very much, he felt that people without perseverance were useless in practicing. People who can only take shortcuts will not be able to see the road of immortality in this life. Learning knives is a high starting point and difficult to get started. But the subsequent cultivation was the same as sword training, not as hard as at the beginning. He decided to train Xie Baoshu to be a more powerful swordsman than himself, so even if Xie Baoshu hated him, he would not hesitate to do so.

There are people in kendo who resist Ding.

The road of the swordsman may be followed by a successor.

Turning his head to look at Xie Baoshu, he found that once this kid became serious, it was still good. He has never been to any of the four fairies in the world, and he doesn't know what kind of story this kid has when he comes out of the Taoyuan Wonderland? Then Liu Guanshan is willing to make an agreement with him, which means that this kid must have a good character.

In this way, he can teach him to practice knives with confidence.

Suddenly, he felt something strange. When I was meditating at the bottom of the waterfall, I spent half a month of practice except for the previous 20 years. Only then did he achieve the realm of "distracting thoughts in his heart", how could he look at Xie Baoshu, a kid, for such a while, as if he had calmed down.

It can't be so genius, right?

Xie Baoshu stood at the bottom of the waterfall, and the roar kept coming from his ears, but he felt extremely calm inside. This feeling is very familiar? Isn't it the kind that Master said, with no distractions in the mind and an empty mind? He smiled, when he was in Taoyuan Village, there were often some children who said in his ear that he was a fool without a father or mother. They don't bully themselves, they just keep talking in their ears. Xie Baoshu was very bored at first and wanted to rush up to beat them, but he couldn't beat them, so he could only cover his ears and not listen.

But even with his ears covered, those voices kept coming into his head.

Later, he came up with a way to hold an unedged knife in his hand wherever he went. Carrying two whetstones with him, he began to sharpen his knives wherever he went, as long as his heart was upset. Those children, seeing him like this, continued to scold him beside him.

But after many times, Xie Baoshu has been able to stop his heart, and even looked at them and smirked while sharpening his knife. These children were told by the adults in the family not to bully Xie Fool, so they didn't dare to do it.

Later, I didn't bother Xie Baoshu.

Xie Baoshu didn't realize until this time that when he sharpened his knife, the state of mind he practiced was already very peaceful. Now that he was at the bottom of the waterfall, he had achieved meditation and began to imitate the way Master was standing. Keep your head up and lean forward like a sharp knife.

After a long time, when Song Heng looked at the waterfall again, he saw a magical scene. The waterfall is very high, and the water that falls from above hits the ground with the momentum of thousands of horses. But when it fell on Xie Baoshu, it automatically separated and fell towards the mountain springs on both sides. Xie Baoshu is like an upside-down sharp knife, splitting the entire waterfall. Song Heng saw this scene, his heart was simply happy, it seems that in the future cultivation world, there is destined to be an extra swordsman named Xie Baoshu.

Go down in history.

It took a long time for him to let Xie Baoshu come back, and today is over, take a rest.

Xie Baoshu felt that there was still some unfinished, under the waterfall, although his ears were very noisy, his mind was indeed extremely peaceful. This feeling is very beautiful, but it can't last long. He returned to the shore, lit a fire, and changed into a suit of clothes. Song Heng had already gone to the jungle to get a few rabbits, although with his cultivation, he had already opened the valley and didn't need to eat anymore. But Xie Baoshu is different, now is the age to eat meat to grow his body.

Xie Baoshu roasted the rabbit while recalling today's realm.

Song Heng glanced at him and asked, "Even if you are a genius, this kind of state of mind can only be achieved by exercising." Tell me what you've done before to improve your mind, and tell me about it. ”

Xie Baoshu was beside the fire, and slowly told about sharpening his knife. Hachi was also on the side, but he didn't listen seriously at all, his eyes were staring at the rabbits. The matter of sharpening the knife was deeply appreciated by Song Heng, and he, a master of knife skills, couldn't help but give a thumbs up after listening to Xie Baoshu's method.

The two sat by the fire, and Song Heng smiled: "Since that's the case, then I can teach you the sword technique tomorrow." But in the days to come, I will slowly explain to you, you stand under the pressure of my sword qi for a few hours every day. It's hard work, but it's effective. ”

Xie Baoshu nodded and began to eat the roast rabbit.

Beside the fire, Song Heng looked at Xiao Ba, who was eating meat a lot, very curious, he asked: "I heard that you used to be a king, how did you become like this now?" Could it be that the real dragon clan, there are still things I don't know, tell me about it." ”

Xiao Ba raised his head, his beard was covered with oil stains, in fact, it didn't want to speak at all, but when Song Heng asked, it didn't dare not answer. Xiao Ba, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, can only tremble in front of this old man, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

It was silent for a moment, and then said, "Although I am a king, I feel that in this world, there are many great cultivators who are more powerful than me. So I gave up my cultivation and was ready to change my body, cultivate again, and take another path, but I didn't expect an accident to become what I am now. ”

Song Heng smiled: "It's still good to have this determination." But according to your situation, the dragon should have a lot of masters now, and they want to hunt you down. ”

Xiao Hachi nodded and said, "It is precisely because of this that I hid in the Peach Source Fairyland, and I don't think they dare to come in." ”

Song Heng said again: "Then do you still have to thank me, I killed so many true dragons, they hid in the hidden dragon abyss, and they didn't dare to trouble you anymore." ”

Xiaoba sighed and said, "That's right, but why do I have to thank you for slaughtering my people? At that time, let you see the wrath of the real dragon. ”

Song Heng stretched out a finger and pressed it on the top of Xiao Ba's head, and said with a smile: "Otherwise, you will let me see the wrath of the true dragon now, right?"

Xiao Ba stretched out his claws, pulled Song Heng's hand away, and sneered: "Speaking of the race that kills the most people, your human race is the most among them." ”

Song Heng nodded undeniably, and he smiled: "I regret that I lived in the same race as this kind of life." If you're going to kill these people, I'm not going to take revenge on them. Because such a person is not worthy to live in the world, let alone to be called a "human". Some of them are not even as good as animals. ”

Xie Baoshu found that his master, when talking about these "beasts", he had the same expression and tone as when talking about the dragon clan.