Then.

He said again very seriously: "To explain this, you have to understand the truth of an ancient sage, that is, the strength is like water, so the weak is better than the strong, and the lack is better than the surplus." ”

Higrid was a little surprised: "No, right?! Ordinary people are slashed with a knife, how can they resist with a weak body of water? That's not a slash to death." ”

Chen Xuyuan smiled and said, "Hahahaha...... Of course, this sentence is not as simple as the words seem to be. The ancients of that era liked to play with borrowing things and substituting shapes, using small metaphors for big ones. The "water" here represents the pervasive and ubiquitous "general trend", the "soft" here refers to continuous changes, and the "weak" refers to the residual strength, so that continuous follow-up changes can be born, which is better than the all-out offensive that is exhausted. “

To put it in layman's terms, you can also understand that you can use your own skills, combined with other favorable conditions such as the right time, place and people, to defeat the enemy who is stronger than you. Applying it to combat offense and defense means that you want to let the enemy fall into your "momentum", magnify his weaknesses and mistakes, until there is an opportunity for you to defeat him, and the second half of the sentence also re-emphasizes this principle of restraining strong enemies. ”

Siggli suddenly realized: "That's true, if ordinary people want to deal with people who are stronger than themselves, they need to rely more on the surrounding environment and complex changing skills, or use agile footwork to avoid the attack of a sluggish opponent, or a siege such as numbers and powerful spell props, in short, use their own strengths to attack the opponent's weaknesses, which is also the most fundamental direction of martial arts." ”

Chen Xuyuan then added: "But there is one thing to remember here, that is, rigidity cannot be long, softness cannot be kept, and it is the right way to combine rigidity and softness. ”

Higrid, who opened her mind, nodded as if she had realized something, but then asked, "But you haven't said why, why do you have to practice close boxing skills for a long time?"

Chen Xuyuan glanced at her, thought for a while, and continued: "Although mortals' fists and feet are hard, they can't compare to the sharpness of an iron sword. However, most weapons, such as swords, guns, swords, halberds, and supporting martial arts, have their own structural patterns, which are called 'routines'. Even if someone can flexibly split and change, it is inevitable that they will be limited by the use of the length and shape of the weapon, so there will naturally be a way to be restrained. “

"The so-called empty-handed loss, that's just relative to ordinary people. Once the magic energy is enhanced, many people's bodies and limbs are also as hard as iron, and they are not afraid to wait for idle mortal soldiers, just like the werewolf priest last time! The fixed moves of this type of weapon sometimes become the user's own amulet. “

That's why there is an old saying that the ruler is short, the inch is long, the long is easy to kill the enemy and protect himself, and the short is dangerous and flexible. Only by not sticking to weapons and techniques can we adapt to the enemy and be invincible. And the joints of people's arms are actually the most flexible "natural weapons". Being able to stand out from the cruel competition of survival of the fittest and become the chief of all souls, all the evolved body structures of human beings naturally have their incomparable deep meaning and connotation. For example, isn't that famous twilight school in the upper third-rate martial arts proficient in hand-to-hand domination?"

"Some people who are good at hitting acupuncture points, meridian nodes and joint grabbing can make the opponent's joints restrained as soon as they get close, and they can't perform the slightest martial arts kendo, so they will be directly removed from the joints or twisted their necks. ”

Although he said a lot of truths on the surface, there was still one key point in his heart that he did not say.

Because no one else knows the changes in their bodies better than themselves.

Therefore, he practiced martial arts empty-handed, in fact, in order to familiarize himself with the gradual changes of meridians and bones in the practice of martial arts, so as to better adapt the martial arts of Zen Buddhism step by step, and study and improve his martial arts skills and physical fitness. ”

Sigrid seemed to have figured out some of the truths just now, after all, she was also a fourth-order martial artist with some experience.

So he hurriedly asked: "However, the war is changeable, and we don't always face it alone with people, and there are various situations such as fighting with a group of enemies, chaotic battles, etc., just luck is like water, I'm afraid it's not enough to deal with it, right?"

Chen Xuyuan didn't answer immediately, but asked rhetorically first: "It seems that when you were a palace guard before, you should have read a lot of palace books, and you should have thought about some similar questions by combining the practice of fighting, so you can associate it so deeply, right?"

Then, without waiting for Sigli to answer, he said the following answer to himself: "The ancient sages admired water, in fact, because the general trend is like water. For example, time is like water, surging endlessly, unstoppable, and no one can detect it, and even no one can beat it. And the wind is like water, the heavens can stir up thunder and clouds, and the earth can erode mountains into sand, which is pervasive and ubiquitous in the world. Therefore, in my martial arts, there are several other changes that are opposite to the water potential, and the water of the softest is combined into seven major potentials!"

"The other six major trends are as fast as the wind, as fast as the forest, as fast as the wind, as fast as the forest, as invading as fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as the yin, and as moving as thunder.

It is both martial arts and the art of war, only in martial arts, according to the needs of the warrior's form of fighting, it can be briefly interpreted as:

When you start an operation, you are as swift as a wind, invisible and difficult for the enemy to fathom, and you can find and create flaws before taking advantage of the situation to attack;

When moving and dodging, advance and retreat freely and neatly, so that the opponent cannot find flaws;

When using tactics, it burns the opponent like a fire, constantly destroys the opponent's advantage, and in turn expands its own advantage, burning more and more vigorously like a fire;

When defending the key points, the defensive position must stabilize the mountain, and the water cannot be splashed in, and it will not move;

When concealing intentions, it is like a treacherous cloud that changes at any time, and it is difficult to detect the intention of the attack;

When you launch an offensive, be as swift as lightning so that your opponent will never lose the lead, and you will never have any chance to find your flaws, and you will never be able to turn defeat into victory;

If you understand what the general trend is, and then flexibly use the changes that follow, then no matter which world you are in, you can be called a well-deserved martial arts master!

Advance can defeat the enemy, retreat can protect more than oneself, the seven trends are the general outline of my school's martial arts. “

When Sigrid heard this, she finally understood.

But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that in the fierce battle, I am afraid that it is beyond the reach of ordinary people to be able to control the changes between the potentials at will.

Therefore, ordinary people practice martial arts, so they will continue to hone their martial arts, and pursue the instinct of practicing certain techniques and routines into their bodies, so that they can save more energy in battle, and observe the battle situation around them at will, so as to respond flexibly at any time.

She realized that although she used to be fast, she was also quick and sharp.

However, none of the seemingly concise killing techniques practiced could outline the core of the leader, and they just used their swords for quick killing.

So much so that in a battle with an enemy of similar strength, before she has a chance to win a few moves, she will fall into the dangerous situation of fighting with the enemy for her life.

For a moment, Higrid's mind was in turmoil.