It is said that there is a person who is fifty years old and hits the road, and the viewer says: "Great, Yao Dehu! The one who struck the soil said: "I work at sunrise, rest at sunrise, dig wells and drink, plough fields and eat, what a strength!" ”

——Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The world knows that beauty is beauty, and evil is evil; We all know that what is good is good, and what is not good is good. Therefore, there is no mutual birth, difficulty and ease are mutually compatible, the length is dwarfed, the high and the low are inclined to each other, the sound is harmonious, and the front and back are with each other. It is to do nothing for the saints, to teach without words, to do all things without resignation, to be born without having, to do without worry, and to live after success. If the husband does not live, he will not go.

- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching

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For half a month, Tu Shi was running around, and before he knew it, he was promoted to level 19. Every time he looked at the level ranking provided by the system, he felt sad, he was far behind others, and some of them were level 23. However, this trip is still worth it, at least [Sword Mastery] has been promoted to the intermediate level, and I have learned a lot of things.

The first lesson is that "infusing True Qi into weapons will increase attack power." This is actually a very simple trick, and anyone with true qi can sum up this experience by trying it with a weapon, but the strange thing is that there seems to be no similar experience post on the forum, as if everyone doesn't know. Well, it must be these bastards who are hiding their secrets!

The second lesson is the combo theory.

In the "Nine Mouths and Eight Methods", unless it is mixed with tentative attacks, the same move cannot be used continuously, for example, after the heavy split, it cannot be used in a heavy split, but only a mixture of virtual and heavy splits, otherwise the flaw between the two heavy splits is too large, and the power of the second heavy split will be unsatisfactory. Don't you see, the sword of the stabbing player is always tentatively stabbed, and he often stabs hard when he finds an opportunity, and after the stab, whether he succeeds or not, he immediately retreats and no longer attacks? Because the tradition of martial arts training is "use seven points of force, leave three points of force", seven points of force to kill the enemy, three points of force for the transformation of the move, but this three points of force can only ensure that you become another move in the "Eight Methods", and cannot let you play the same move in a row, the muscles do not allow you to do this, the center of gravity of the body does not allow you to do this - to put it bluntly, it is the bastard thing of human body mechanics that does not allow you to do this.

So can't you combo?

Wrong! If you can't combo, then won't any martial art (even if it's performative) become a dead letter? As long as you don't repeat the same move when you hit a combo. Tu Shi has practiced the most in the past few days is "splitting" and "stabbing", can be very skillful alternate use of these two moves, the strength of the split to the end of the elbow bending, and then the sword stabbed out, the angle of the stab is from the downward oblique stab upward, the blade is raised for a moment and can be chopped down, the action is simple and smooth, there is a kind of mechanical beauty, at first glance it looks like the right hand of the orchestra conductor playing 1/3 beat, and like a cylinder piston running back and forth. It's just that such a "thorn" has an upward arc, which is more similar to "flirting", which is equivalent to a reverse "split" with insufficient strength, and strictly speaking, it is no longer the category of "thorn".

If Master Zuo knew that he had practiced the "Nine Mouths and Eight Methods" like this, he would definitely beat himself to death!

"Finally...... It's finally here! Bao Jiwan's voice trembled.

Where?

Tu Shi turned around and saw that the ground was flat, the trees were sparse, and there was a dark blue water line on the horizon. He rubbed his eyes, confirmed it a few times, and then exclaimed, "The sea! Here it is......"

South China Sea!!!

After walking for half a month, they came to the South China Sea!!

This boring journey has finally come to an end! The two were very excited and wanted to speed up and arrive early, but Wangshan ran a dead horse and spent most of the day to get to the ground. The soil beneath his feet grew whiter and whiter, and at last it turned into hot sand, which was finely crumbled and loose, so that the wheels slipped, and the horses could not walk. The two of them had to explore along the beach edge, and after walking for another hour, they came to see the houses - there is a village here, it seems that the legend is true, and there are humans living in the extreme south of Kyushu!

They were first spotted by a group of children playing pinball with white beads. The children here are black and thin, running and jumping, touching fish and catching shrimp are omnipotent, much wilder than the children in the city, but they are also relatively simple, not wary of the two at all, only around the carriage, one moment to touch the horse's body, one moment to touch Tu Shi's scabbard, and one moment to compare the height with Bao Jiwan. The children held the hands of the guests and scrambled to get them back to their homes. Because they have been isolated from the world for too long, their language has many differences with the official dialect of Jingzhou, and the children who are born speak quickly and quickly, causing Tu Shi and Bao Jiwan to listen dryly.

Closer to the village, Bao Jiwan pinched his nose and said, "What kind of smell does this have!" ”

It turned out that most of the open space in front of the house was dried fish, thinking that the sun was fiercely poisonous, and the fish meat was the most fishy thing, and the smell generated by exposure was almost comparable to that of a dead corpse. Hearing the voice of the child, the women came out of the house, and were surprised to see a stranger, but they were not afraid of life, and they all came forward to watch curiously. They don't apply powder, and their skin is ravaged by the scorching sun and sea breeze, both thick and black, but they are dressed coolly, with a straight single skirt on the top and bottom, exposing two arms and calves, and playing barefoot, which is very different from the tightly dressed women in Yibei City, and it has a different taste. You must know that most women have long tongues, and the world is as black as crows, and women here are no exception.

"It seems that the men are not at home." Tu Shi was very observant and discovered this for the first time.

"The folk customs here are really simple, the children are innocent, and the women have no defense against men and women. Bao Ji sighed late.

Probably someone wanted to meet a stranger, and the two were led to a large room. It is said to be a big house, and it is not luxurious, it is the same as a mixed brick and wood structure with a mud and grass roof. When the two went in to take a look, they saw a mat on the ground, and a thin old man with gray hair who looked like a monkey was sitting on the mat.

When the old man saw the two of them, he laughed and said, "Sit, sit." "The pronunciation is not standard, but it is understandable. After the two of them sat down, the old man smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth, and patted his thin thighs: "Great, I've been here for more than forty years, and I finally see outsiders." ”

"Husband." Bao Jiwan asked tentatively: "Dare to ask the honorable name?" ”

"Name...... I've forgotten my original name, it's been too long. The people here call me Lea, which means 'flying bird'. I am a native of Qingzhou, I was a sailor when I was young, and when I went to sea, the ship capsized, and I was washed here with a plank, and I lived here for 40 years. "The old man talks in an orderly manner, not like a villager, and he is really a person who has seen the world. Qingzhou is thousands of miles away from here, how difficult is it to drift here? He also turned his back on his family, wasted his youth in a foreign land, and couldn't return to his roots when he was dying...... But the old man ignored these things, calmly and calmly, and really knew the destiny of heaven without being confused. "Who are these two? What are you doing here? ”

"Back to my husband, we are from Jingzhou, I am a merchant, he is my friend, and he specializes in escorting me to business."

"I look at the merchant too, otherwise who would walk around with a cart of things?" The old man laughed again: "Dare to ask what year it is this year?" The two old men are ignorant, they have not communicated with the outside world for fifty years, and I don't even know who is the emperor. ”

"Sixteen years." Tu Shi knows this. He had heard it once in the novice village and remembered it firmly. "Shiji" is the name of the era, and "sixteen" indicates that it has been 16 years since the current Holy God ascended the throne.

"Is the new emperor in power? However, it doesn't matter who he is, it has nothing to do with the old man. The old man said astonishingly, knowing that it would be a great rebellion to put it outside. He saw Bao Jiwan's embarrassed look, and laughed again: "The fish I eat is caught by myself, the water I drink is from my own well, and the house I sleep in is built by myself, what does the emperor have to do with me?" ”

Bao Jiwan couldn't help but say: "'What a power Yao'! "His family cultivates and reads heirlooms, and he can often drop a sentence or two in his book bag.

There is an allusion to this sentence. In the ancient days of Emperor Yao, there were old men playing kik games on the road, and some viewers said, "Wow! If it weren't for Yao's kindness, how could there be such leisure to fight Kik?" The old man disagreed with this discussion, and said: "I get up to work when the sun comes out, go home to rest when the sun sets, dig wells and have water to drink, farm and have grain to eat, and play and hit kik in my spare time, what does it have to do with Yao?" ”

The people do not think that Yao has contributed, but this is proof that Yao has contributed. When do people most want the police to show up? When others sin; When do people most want the government to appear? When you need help. On the other hand, once people live and work in peace, and no one commits crimes or needs help, the police and the government are meaningless. Without evil, there is no good; Without hardship, there is no happiness. Yao's management made the country calm, so calm that he had no sense of existence, which is in line with the description of the sage in the Tao Te Ching: treat the world with the perspective of non-action, and practice the teaching by example in a way that does not speak: let all things arise naturally without intervening, give birth to all things without taking them for yourself; Giving favors to others without relying on them for self-interest; Succeed and not take it for yourself.

The sound is loud, and the elephant is invisible. True kindness is to moisturize things silently.

But Tu Shi was also embarrassed. Reality and story are not the same thing, in the story, the benevolent monarch is in charge, the people live and work in peace and contentment, no disasters and no disasters, in reality, the world is in chaos, and only isolation from the world can avoid disasters.

"Okay, let's stop talking, we'll have a banquet when the young people come back from fishing, and we can talk for as long as we want tonight. Let's get down to business, I'm the head of this village, so I'll talk to you about business. ”

Bao Jiwan nodded, and handed a white bead in his hand to the old man Li Ai to see, Tu Shi recognized that it was used by local children to play pinball, probably given to Bao Jiwan by a little guy, round and smooth, crystal and cute. The merchant asked in a low voice, "Old man...... Is this genuine? ”

"Ho-ho, you've found out!" The old man smiled: "It is indeed a real pearl." ”

"Let's do this business!" Bao Jiwan grabbed the pearl tightly, like holding hope.