Chapter 18: Fast
I don't know when it started, the flow of people on King's Road increased.
People are on the road day and night, there are old people, there are children, and women with babies in their arms, they ride everything they can, but most of them are still on foot, hurrying every day.
These travelers were people from all walks of life, blacksmiths, prostitutes, and bards, and each of them traveled in the opposite direction of the South, King's Landing, from which they had just escaped.
Everyone was more or less armed with one or two weapons, perhaps an axe, perhaps a sickle, and it was rare to see a man with a sword.
In the evening, there are always clusters of campfires lit up in the woods.
"This is war."
Lin Yi said to Arya.
Yuren tightened the formation of the convoy and arranged for the adults to be on duty in shifts, but from the early hours of the morning until the sun rose, no one else was arranged, but he himself was on duty.
This is, of course, for Arya, who is learning swords from Lin Yi.
Although there are more and more people on King's Road, Lin Yi can always find a less crowded place for her to practice.
Since learning the breathing method taught by Lin Yi, Arya feels that she sleeps more deeply every day, sometimes only sleeping for three hours a night, and waking up still full of energy.
This made Arya very excited, as it meant that she could spend more time practicing the swordsmanship and footwork that Lin Yi had taught her.
She practiced early in the morning, memorized during the day, and muttered while walking crookedly.
Gendry once thought she was in a daze, and wanted to give her a wooden stick on the back of her head, but she subconsciously retreated to dodge, and her thin body weirdly bumped into Gendry's arms.
When Arya looked up, she found that she could easily stab the sword in her hand from her jaw into Gendry's head.
If she had drawn her sword, Gendry would have died.
Arya thought.
After this incident, Arya became even more fanatical about what Lin Yi taught.
Looking at Arya, who was holding a wooden stick on the side, going around a tree, and stabbing twice from time to time, Lin Yi's face showed a strange smile.
It only took Arya four days to fully memorize the steps and mantras of the Bagua Steps.
You must know that there are more than 100 Chinese characters in total for the Baguabu formula, which is a very serious challenge for a person who has never been exposed to Chinese characters.
But Arya did.
And Celio did a really good job of teaching Arya, definitely not like in the play where he only taught a little bit of the skin.
Her body is very flexible, and her core muscles are well trained, and she can even stand on one toe for ten minutes.
"Water dancers can stand on one toe for hours."
Arya said this, apparently unaware of how good her foundation was.
Under Lin Yi's teaching, Arya completed the first stage of the Nine Palaces Bagua Step in ten days and began the second stage of training.
Seeing that Arya was progressing so quickly, Lin Yi decided to teach her another set of breathing techniques and the stabbing part of swordsmanship today.
So, Lin Yi walked towards Arya.
As Arya was babbling on the gossip, a wooden stick suddenly appeared where she was about to take the next step, and was about to trip her leg.
If it had been in the past, Arya would have jumped up, or fallen backwards to the ground.
But now Arya just arced her right foot in the air, going around the stick without the slightest imbalance in her center of gravity.
The wooden stick hanging on the ground suddenly slapped from the bottom up, feeling the sound of the wind in her ears, Arya did not panic at all, Zhonggong stood still, her right foot stepped into the Xun position in a straight line, and her left foot drew an arc into the position.
The wooden stick was in a hurry, and Arya stepped on the nine palaces and passed by, flashing one side at a time.
After doing this three times, Lin Yi withdrew the wooden stick and nodded with a smile.
"You're a quick learner."
Arya was breathing heavily, with a hint of a smile on her little face.
"Next, I'm going to teach you how to breathe while you're on the road, as well as the stabbing part of my swordsmanship."
Before Arya had time to be happy, she felt a flower in front of her, and her "sewing needle" actually appeared in Lin Yi's hand at some point.
Arya's eyes widened.
"So fast!"
Lin Yi shook the "sewing needle" in his hand with a smile, then stuffed it behind his back, and when he took it out again, the thin sword had magically disappeared.
Arya reacted at this time, and hurriedly shouted, "My sword!" ”
"I'll confiscate it first." Lin Yi said with a smile.
"Give it back to me!" Arya hurriedly rushed behind Lin Yi, but no matter how she looked for it, she didn't see her "sewing needle".
"Where are you hiding?"
Arya grabbed Lin Yi's arms with both hands, tilted her head, and a pair of thick eyebrows inherited from Eddard Stark stood up imposingly.
"Want to get it back?" Lin Yi smiled incomprehensibly.
"Yes!"
"Then it's up to you."
Arya looked at Lin Yi for a moment, then lowered her head in discouragement.
It seems that there is no way to get it from the teacher.
Lin Yi smiled slightly, his toes picked up on the ground, and the wooden stick that was thrown on the ground by Arya just now flew up.
Arya subconsciously caught it.
Lin Yi put his left hand behind his back, and his right hand held a sword in one hand, dancing a sword flower.
"Look, I'll show you a demonstration first."
As soon as the words fell, Lin Yi put away his sword and stood still.
Just a standing posture, Arya felt that Lin Yi's whole person seemed to be different, if it was just said that it was contained in the sheath to represent the unknown mystery, at this moment, it was slowly drawing the sword to show its edge.
Just as Arya was being photographed by Lin Yi's sword momentum, a brilliant and dazzling sword light Huo Ran broke through the entire picture in her eyes, and an illusion of a world suddenly came to her mind.
Arya suddenly broke into a cold sweat, she knew that if it was a life-and-death fight, she would have died when the teacher had just drawn her sword.
She cheered up, carefully looked at the sword moves demonstrated by Lin Yi, and meticulously memorized the strong and soft basic sword moves.
But then, Lin Yi's sword momentum changed, and a brilliant sword light suddenly pointed at the trees in front of him.
Hmmm-
The branches of the trees in front of him were like broccoli that had been cut off in half with a knife, and half of the branches were cut off in an instant, and the leaves flew in the air.
Lin Yi's sword light became more and more urgent, and the sword moves were cumbersome and changeable, as if seven or eight sword lights were lit out in an instant, and Arya was dazzled and her eyes were sore.
But even so, her eyes widened, and she was unwilling to pull down a single movement.
In just a few seconds, Arya couldn't count how many swords he had stabbed......
If Celio's sword gave her the hope that the agile would defeat the strong with the weak, then at this moment, Lin Yi let her see the extreme of agility and speed.
At this speed, even a heavily armed knight can't escape the fate of being impaled in the head, right?
Arya reached out a hand and caught the fallen leaves in her palm.
In the center of the veins of each leaf, there was a clear sword mark, and the sword mark pierced the leaf precisely along the vein, but did not completely cut it in half.
Arya reached out her hands and caught more leaves, no exceptions, every single one.
Is this incomparably precise stabbing and superbly controllable control really human-capable of it?
Arya stroking the leaves in her hands.
There's nothing wrong with Celio, he's just not fast enough!
"Want to learn?"
I don't know when, Lin Yi was already standing beside Arya.
"Yes!" Arya looked up, a hint of determination in her tone.
Lin Yi smiled.
"Arya, you have the foundation of a water dancer, your body is flexible, your hands and feet are agile, your senses are sharp, and your eyes are sharp, these are all good talents for practicing swords, I will teach you the parts of my swordsmanship, such as stabbing, hanging, pointing, wiping, and flirting, and what you have to do is to speed up your own speed, make your sword faster, faster, until the opponent can no longer see your sword."
"When your sword is as fast as it gets, there will be no one in this world who is your opponent."
"Including you?" Arya asked suddenly.
Lin Yi's face was strange, but he couldn't dismantle his own platform, so he still nodded.
"If you can do it."