To become an executioner, you have to follow two rules, one is the monk's tomb, on the day you become an executioner, you must first find someone to choose your own cemetery, dig the tomb, erect a tombstone, and come to worship once a month. Because the executioner has killed countless people, and his hands are stained with blood, most people are often unable to marry a wife and have children, and no one will die when they die, and most importantly, the executioner does not know whether the person he killed is really guilty, so the birth grave is also a way to atone for his sins.

The second is to shoot the soul. Shooting souls is considered to be a ferryman, and it can be regarded as self-preservation. The meaning of the crossing is to relieve the pain of the prisoner who is photographed and make them less painful, and the meaning of self-preservation is that the person being photographed will forget who he was killed by for a short time, and will not go to the trouble of the beheader before going to the underworld.

In ancient times, basically the prisoners who were publicly executed and beheaded were set after the autumn, and the reason why this was so was in order to obey the mandate of heaven in four words.

Why is it called obedience to the destiny of heaven? Because autumn is both the harvest season and the time when the grass wilts. The harvest in autumn is called the yang harvest, while the execution of the paraquat offenders is called the yin burial. Therefore, in the midst of the different paths, autumn is also known as the season of yang harvesting and yin burial.

However, in the pre-Qin period, although the execution of prisoners was in autumn, it was not divided into the time, in other words, prisoners could be executed at twelve hours a day, and it was rumored that there were many strange incidents as a result. During the Han Dynasty, because of the belief in Fangshi, the execution time was generally set at noon, generally at three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, 12:45 in modern times.

Of course, these are public executions, and many are private executions, although there are other ways of execution, but beheading is the safest, and who else can live?

The executioner had no choice, so in order to worry that the unjust soul would find him for revenge, they created the soul shooting method.

To learn to shoot the soul, you must first learn the strength, the force should not be too light, nor too heavy, because the knife used by the executioner is generally heavier, if the force is too heavy, it is easy to stun the condemned prisoner directly, or even break the spine. The second is the mantra, which is not fixed, all mantras depend on the condemned prisoner, men and women are different, in other words, confusing the thoughts of the condemned prisoner, causing confusion, and letting the executioner lie to the family.

Executioners generally have two identities, the first is the identity of the yang world, and the other is the identity of the underworld. The identity of the underworld means that he has long been dead, which is the reason for the construction of the living tomb, to let the beheaded person know that he is already a dead person, if you want to find yourself for revenge, then go to the underworld to find it, don't come to the yang world to find it.

At the moment when the mantra is recited, the executioner needs to slap the beheaded person on the back with the blade of the knife, and at the moment of the shot, the beheaded person's soul has already left the body, and only the executioner can be seen. The moment the executioner saw the soul leave his body, he would use his knife to cut off the prisoner's head in a very fast manner.

When the prisoner's soul leaves the body, he forgets that he is at the execution ground, and even if he is at the execution ground, he thinks that he is just a bystander, and he will not carry the pain of death. In the pagan legend, when people just die, they will have inexplicable pain, this pain has no reason, and they can't find the reason, they will wander alone in the sun, and the newly dead will not even see the yin difference within three days, but just constantly wandering and wandering painfully, without stopping for a moment. The effect of soul beating can also make the person who has just died forget this pain and quietly stay in place and wait for Yin to pick it up.

After listening to the description of the torture technique, Wei Chiran asked: "I understand, Chen Xiaofeng's stunt of breaking the knife and picking the knife was comprehended from the executioner execution, right?" ”

The torture technique cast an approving gaze: "That's right, the broken knife is the knife method of beheading, that is, chopping." And the knife is used to shoot the soul, but the action of beating the soul has become picking, you must know that the soul is extremely fast, even the people next to it can't see the action of the nephew's hand clearly, just like the action of picking the knife, when the opponent's weapon is picked in an instant, the person has been stabbed. ”

Hu Shuntang said: "In other words, Ni Yang really only learned the surface, but did not learn the essence of the knife technique?" And the essence of the knife technique is hidden in the knife, which is equivalent to the technique of beating the soul? ”

Tang She and He Chenxue still didn't understand, so they had to look at the torture technique curiously.

Torture said: "Although the sword breaking stunt is powerful, it is not 100% able to kill the enemy, the most important thing is the weapon, if the weapon in your hand is not as good as the opponent, then the sword breaking stunt is very likely to fail." The knife is different, after the knife is matched with the soul, the other party's soul will leave the body in an instant, once the soul of the person leaves the body, the body will naturally stiffen, and there will be no power to fight back, this is the essence. ”

He Changqing nodded and said: "There are similar masters in the Broken Golden Gate on our side, and I actually don't understand why they can be invincible, it turns out that this is the reason, the so-called sword technique is actually fused with foreign arts." ”

Tang She smiled: "Is this considered cheating?" ”

Xingshu said: "It depends on which point of view, on the premise that others don't know, they will only think that he is strong in martial arts, but even if you know, how can you prove that he used magic to cooperate with sword techniques?" ”

Therefore, Chen Xiaofeng is not wrong to think that Ni Yang has only learned the surface, but not the essence. The key is that Ni Yang has not become an executioner, and if he does not become an executioner, he will never learn the essence, which is a necessary premise.

At this time, Ni Yang had already given up the idea of revenge in his heart, but Chen Xiaofeng repeatedly reminded himself that he was his father-killing enemy, and even people in the rivers and lakes thought that how could Ni Yang follow his father-killing enemy to learn martial arts and let him raise him? It's a shame for the murdered father.

Under the influence of Chen Xiaofeng's constant prompts and the surrounding environment, Ni Yang finally decided to fight Chen Xiaofeng. Before the decisive battle, Chen Xiaofeng hoped that Ni Yang would not fight a public decisive battle, but only privately, because Ni Yang's kung fu was not yet hot, and the end of the public decisive battle of signing a life and death certificate was that Ni Yang would not be able to avenge his father, but also lose his life.

Ni Yang was not as stubborn as his father, but accepted Chen Xiaofeng's proposal, and the two fought in private, but he didn't expect that in less than three rounds, Ni Yang was defeated, and froze in place, and it took him half a day to come back to his senses, he didn't know how the weapon was picked up by Chen Xiaofeng, and the memory of the previous few seconds became blank.

At this moment, Ni Yang realized that he really did not understand the essence of the knife picking stunt, so he sincerely asked for advice.

Chen Xiaofeng asked him: "Then do you still want to take revenge?" ”

Ni Yang didn't know why, so he told the truth: "Father, since I remember being sensible, I haven't thought about revenge. ”

Chen Xiaofeng asked, "Why?" ”

Ni Yang said: "Rules are rules, you didn't kill my father for no reason, it was a fair competition, his skills were not as good as others, and he also signed a life and death certificate, originally I was going to live on the streets, if you hadn't adopted, I'm afraid I would have died on the streets, so you are kind to me." ”

Chen Xiaofeng frowned and shook his head: "No, you should choose revenge." ”

Ni Yang was shocked: "What do you mean?" ”

Chen Xiaofeng said: "If you don't choose revenge, I won't teach you the essence of the sword picking stunt, but with your current martial arts, you can already go into the rivers and lakes alone and deal with most situations, how to choose, you decide." ”

Ni Yang struggled for a long time in his heart, gritted his teeth and said, "I choose revenge." ”

Chen Xiaofeng let out a long sigh: "Alas, you and your father are always the same kind of people. ”

Ni Yang didn't know why, but Chen Xiaofeng arranged for him to enter the public gate to be an executioner, and he would first be an executioner for ten years, and with his qualifications, he should be able to comprehend the essence of it.

At that time, it was already the Xinhai Revolution, and there were very few full-time executioners in the imperial court, and there were very few people who were willing to be executioners, but Ni Yang still became an executioner with blood on his hands. Although he hated this profession, in order to become the so-called number one in the world, he still chose forbearance.

During the ten years, Ni Yang finally understood that the essence of the knife-picking stunt was to shoot the soul, and he had already learned the knife-picking stunt, so it was natural to fuse the two together.

Ni Yang, who comprehended the essence, finally returned to Chen Xiaofeng's side, claiming that he had learned. And Chen Xiaofeng said to him: "It's time for your revenge." ”

Ni Yang is unwilling to take revenge, but Chen Xiaofeng has repeatedly forced him, and it is also rumored in the rivers and lakes that Ni Yang has learned the essence of picking a knife, everyone will wait and see if he will really avenge his father. Under the pressure of public opinion and the oppression of the surrounding environment, Ni Yang finally chose a date for the public competition and signed a life and death contract with Chen Xiaofeng.

On the day of the competition, that is, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the two finally came to the venue of the competition under the attention of everyone, which was the abandoned execution ground in the early years, and the reason why they chose to be here is precisely because both of them were born as executioners, and this kind of place is very suitable.

The contest was divided into three rounds, and after three rounds, Chen Xiaofeng was defeated by Ni Yang's knife, but was not killed by Ni Yang, but was only slightly injured. Ni Yang won, but he didn't avenge his father as others thought, because decades of life comprehension let him know that there must be a secret in the things of the year, and the reason why he wanted to compete was to ask what happened back then?

Chen Xiaofeng was also very relieved that he lost, and he was relieved that Ni Yang did not kill him. He told Ni Yang that after Ni Yang's father signed the life and death certificate, he told Chen Xiaofeng that if he lost, Chen Xiaofeng must teach his son two stunts and must not go back.

At that time, Chen Xiaofeng felt that Ni Yang's father was like a scoundrel, he knew very well that he was not Chen Xiaofeng's opponent, but he wanted to learn this stunt, and he had no chance, so he exchanged death for his son's opportunity to learn the stunt.

During the competition, Chen Xiaofeng repeatedly showed mercy to his subordinates, but Ni Yang's father repeatedly threatened, Chen Xiaofeng was unwilling to lose in the eyes of everyone, and finally killed him. After that, although Chen Xiaofeng adopted Ni Yang and passed on his skills, the last thing he wanted was for Ni Yang to become a person like his father, and he didn't want Ni Yang to make a wrong choice like him at a critical moment.

These are the main reasons why Chen Xiaofeng did not teach Ni Yang the essence of the knife picking stunt at the beginning.

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