The man in black knew that Lu Yao must have seen through everything this time, and he didn't speak in a hurry, but stood in front of Lu Yao quietly waiting for Lu Yao to digest what he had just seen and understood.

After a long time, Lu Yao raised his head suddenly, looked at the man in black and asked, "Senior, is this a magical power that manipulates the elements of the five elements?" ”

"Hehe, you can't talk about manipulation, but it's okay to make some slight changes, do you want to learn?" The man in black laughed twice, looked at Lu Yao and asked.

"Will my seniors teach me?" Lu Yao was overjoyed, he didn't expect that this man in black not only saved himself, but was also willing to teach himself this kind of supernatural power. For a moment, his voice trembled a little.

"Of course, if I don't want to teach you, why should I come to you, let alone I want you to do things for me!" The man in black looked at Lu Yao and replied affirmatively.

"Thank you, senior!" Lu Yao thanked again and again.

The man in black broke down these series of actions, let Lu Yao watch them dozens of times, and then gave Lu Yao every detail of them, and by the time Lu Yao basically understood it, it was already sunset.

The man in black watched Lu Yao draw a gourd and demonstrate it twice, although the movements seemed a little clumsy, but he still roughly achieved six or seven points in this series of actions, he was very pleased, and left after telling Lu Yao some things.

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At sunset, the stars climbed into the sky, and there was silence in the grove, only Lu Yao was still standing there, carefully figuring out the set of exercises taught to him by the man in black.

The name of the exercise is very simple, and it is also very popular, and it shifts into shadows.

What the man in black demonstrated to Lu Yao during the day was just the simplest of the shapeshifting shadows, a shapeshifting shadow, according to what the man in black said, the shapeshifting shadow cultivation to the highest level can reach the ninth level, that is to say, the man in black only conjured a double figure during the day, if he continued to cultivate in the future and reached the ninefold realm, he could transform into nine figures.

The figure conjured by the shapeshifter is not like an illusion, the figures conjured by the illusion are all fake, they are just used to confuse the opponent, but the figures conjured up by the shapeshifter are almost real, in the words of the man in black, the phantom that he conjured up during the day that has been rushing forward is not an illusion, if you want to use it to attack, you can, the attack power of the phantom is equivalent to one-ninth of his own strength, that is to say, every phantom can have a part of the attack power of the body, Nine phantoms can be completed, which is equivalent to recreating an ontology.

The man in black simply told Lu Yao that the exercises he taught Lu Yao to transform into shadows were to deal with Michiko Ishihara, who would appear as an opponent with him in the next martial arts competition, but he didn't tell Lu Yao why this set of exercises could deal with Michiko Ishihara, Lu Yao asked this question, and the man in black didn't answer, so he left.

Lu Yao continued to practice the transformation of the shadow in the grove, he took a stout ancient tree as the target of attack, stood dozens of meters away, and then cultivated step by step according to the mantra of the exercises, at first, the phantom he conjured up was only able to walk a few meters away from the ancient tree before becoming one with the main body, and then he had to come back immediately, but as he continued to cultivate, he slowly made the phantom closer and closer to the ancient tree, until it was almost dawn, he was able to barely let the phantom and the ancient tree come into contact, but the palm power was limited, It can't shake the ancient tree in the slightest.

Seeing that it was almost time for class, Lu Yao left the grove and returned to the rental house to wash up briefly, and walked towards the school. The time of the martial arts competition is getting closer and closer, Lu Yao has been practicing in addition to classes in the past few days, taking a certain amount of time every day to practice his own exercises to stabilize his realm, and then practicing the methods taught to him by Jin Yulong, so that his divine sense attack power can be improved, and finally he is practicing the kung fu of transforming into shadows.

After seven or eight days, he felt that the immortal qi in his body was more vigorous, compared with when he came back from Wufu Mountain, he had made great progress, and the attack power of his divine sense was also on a higher level, not only did the power increase a lot, but even the control power had also improved significantly, every time he shook off the dead leaves from the dead tree, he was able to arrange each fallen leaf neatly according to the appearance he thought in his heart, which made Lu Yao very happy in his heart.

The shapeshifting shadow has also made great progress, before the phantom and the body are combined, you can give full play to one percent of your own strength, and hit the ancient tree with a palm in an instant, although it is still impossible to do the extent that the man in black said, but after a palm, the ancient tree trembled violently, and the dead leaves fell one after another, and then supplemented by a divine sense attack, the dead leaves were arranged according to their own minds.

Although Lu Yao's cultivation was very tiring during these days, it was also the happiest time for him, and every slight improvement would make him feel excited, just like a student who got a full score in the exam and took the test paper back to show his parents, that kind of satisfaction made Lu Yao feel unprecedentedly fulfilled.

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March 8th, the second day of the second lunar month, the day when the dragon raises its head, which is commonly known as the day of the dragon raising its head, is not a big festival, but it is a day that every Chinese person has always remembered.

The saying that the dragon raises its head comes from the ancient astronomical theory, the ancients used the 28 constellations to indicate the position of the stars, according to which to judge the season, the division of the 28 constellations is bounded by the ecliptic, all the ancients had the saying that the zodiac is auspicious, after each vernal equinox, the dragon horn star appears from the eastern horizon at dusk, so it is called the dragon raising its head.

As the saying goes, the dragon does not raise its head and the sky does not rain, so the day when the dragon raises its head is also the day when people pray for rain, according to tradition, people will shave their hair and beard, and greet the dragon god with a new and energetic look, in order to pray for a smooth wind and rain in the new year, and the harvest is full.

Lu Yiqian called Lu Yao early in the morning, and told him to get a haircut and shave, so that everything in the new year would go smoothly and be safe, Lu Yao promised and did so.

These days, Lu Yao and Lu Yiqian have a lot more contact than before, many times Lu Yao wants to ask the doubts in his heart, but every time the words come to his mouth, he can't help it, he doesn't know how to ask, whether to ask directly about his relationship with the Lu family in Yanjing, or whether he picked it up from the outside as Lu Yiqian said.

Since listening to the words of the man in black, he has been guessing Lu Yiqian's identity, whether he knows his life experience, whether he is as written in the novel, when his family has undergone major changes, in order to repay his kindness, he accepts the trust of his parents, takes himself away from the place of right and wrong, and lets himself grow up healthy and safe, and then waits until the day when the time is ripe, tells himself all the truth, and then teaches a set of his own family heirlooms, so that he can practice his skills, and then return to the family, Rely on strength to regain everything that belongs to you?

All of this spread wildly in Lu Yao's mind like taking root and sprouting, walking, sitting, waking, sleeping, thinking about it all the time, but every time he dialed Lu Yiqian's phone number, all the questions were almost sprayed from his heart to his mouth, he wanted to speak and stopped, and finally hurriedly chatted a few words about each other's recent living conditions, learning progress, and cherished each other, and then hung up the phone in a hurry.

It wasn't until the day that Erlong raised his head in February that Lu Yao dialed Lu Yiqian's phone again, and he couldn't bear it anymore and finally asked: "Godfather, I'm doing well here, when do you have time to go around here?" ”

"Well, okay, I know, I'll take a look at the work arrangement here, I'll take time to go, you take care of yourself!" Lu Yiqian was silent on the phone for a long time for the first time, sighed and said this, and hung up the phone.

The moment the phone hung up, Lu Yao regretted a little, he regretted whether he was too impulsive, he was worried about whether his godfather noticed something, although the two of them were not biological father and son, but after so many years of getting along with each other, the feelings between each other were like biological father and son.

Lu Yao sat at the dining table at the door and was stunned for a long time, until his phone rang, and it wasn't until there was a rush from Jin Yulong's side that he cleaned up his mood and went downstairs.

It is a good day for the dragon to raise his head, and the people who practice martial arts worship the ancients, so they will naturally choose such a good day as the day of the competition, and today happens to be the first day of the competition agreed between the Northwest Martial Arts and the Japanese representatives. Jin Yulong wore a smoky gray Tang costume and drove a car to wait downstairs for Lu Yao.

Although it is a martial arts competition represented by Northwest martial arts and Japan, in the eyes of ordinary people, this competition is equivalent to a competition between the Chinese martial arts community and the Japanese martial arts world. In particular, the venue of the competition was chosen in Xijing City, the most prosperous metropolis in northwest China, and news reporters and TV media naturally had a lot of hype, which made the streets that were already crowded with people celebrating the dragon raising their heads and praying for rain on this day.

From Lu Yao's residence to the venue of the martial arts competition, it only takes half an hour's drive on weekdays, but today it took a full two hours, all the way, from the intersection of Tuanjie Road, where the competition venue is located, to the parking lot, there are policemen with loaded guns everywhere in five steps and one post, ten steps and one sentry guard, Jin Yulong put a pass printed with the logo of Tianxin Martial Arts Hall in front of the front windshield, so that he could walk all the way to the special parking space in the parking lot with a green light.

By the time Lu Yao and Jin Yulong arrived at the parking lot of the competition venue, the parking lot was already full of cars. There are luxury buses with slogans that read "Chinese martial arts must win", cars with military and government zero plates, and countless BMWs, Mercedes-Benzes, Land Rovers and supercars. The scene is majestic.