Chapter 38: Apprenticeship
With the arrival of late autumn, the sound of insects in the middle of summer gradually subsided, and the green vines that crawled all over the estate continued to grow in the golden moonlight, and some of the flowers that bloomed at night spread the fragrance of flowers in the night breeze throughout the island. At night, this magnificent estate is distinctively quiet from the hustle and bustle of the day.
A row of swords that shook their blades hung in the air in the courtyard, constantly shaking and colliding under the night wind blowing in all directions, and a crisp sonorous sound was heard. Ye Ye was covered with a black towel cloth on his eyes, and his body was slow and urgent, wandering around in this knife formation.
This is a very difficult cultivation method, after excluding the most important vision, Ye Ye needs to distinguish the faint sound of the sword breaking the wind in the chaotic sound of sword collision, and he needs to grasp the slight chill when the blade is close to his skin in the night breeze that is strong and weak, and a slight mistake will leave a bloody lesson on his skin. Only by abandoning all distracting thoughts and in the most extreme state of "stillness" can we feel all the information even the faintest and be unscathed in this way of practice.
However, Ye Ye's state seems to be exceptionally good tonight, like a flowing spring flowing down between the staggered rocks, the speed is not fast, and the range of movement is not large, often only a fraction of a difference with the approaching swords, but it seems to be at ease, dancing in the sound of the collision of swords like music.
A black shadow appeared silently in the courtyard, and seeing this way of cultivation, a knowing smile appeared on the face covered by the white burqa in the moonlight.
In the eyes of the people who came, Ye Ye's body was shrouded in a condensed and silent qi, although it was insignificant in terms of quantity, it was extraordinarily clear and clear, and the swords around him were like ripples on the calm water surface when they approached, and they could be clearly detected.
It's a beautiful breath of stillness.
The person who came secretly commented in his heart, **'s right foot quietly swept from the ground, and there was already an extra stone between his toes, which collided with a dangling blade like a bullet, knocking it into another blade, and under the ping-pong chain reaction, all the blades nearby were stirred up in just one breath, stabbing towards Ye Yeqi.
Wrong!
Ye Ye, who was unable to see in the knife array, instantly noticed the discordant notes in the "music", and then a small pimple appeared on his skin under the cold of many blades, but fortunately, he was now thoughtless and had nothing outside his heart, and immediately reacted most instinctively. As soon as he opened his mouth and spit out, Ye Ye's chest suddenly deflated, as if all the breath in his lungs was spewing out in an instant, and a grand airflow hit the stabbing blade head-on. After all, these swords were not attached to too strong Dao, and after encountering this air current, they all froze, and when Ye Ye's body flashed out of the sword formation like a swimming fish.
"Who is making trouble?"
Ye Ye angrily ripped off his eye towel, and couldn't help but be stunned when he saw someone coming.
"Who are you?"
The word fist saint rolled in his throat, and Ye Ye did not spit it out after all, but pretended to look at the other party indifferently.
"My name is Ogata Ichijinsai, you can call me - the fist saint." A hearty laugh came from under the burqa, and then someone lifted his hat to reveal a handsome young face.
Sure enough, it was him.
Ye Ye's heart moved, and he faintly sensed an unprecedented opportunity after coming to this world.
"Fist Saint? Could it be the legendary One Shadow Nine Fists? ”
Ye Ye's tone was a little respectful.
It was not surprising that Ye Ye knew where he came from, and the boxing saint smiled and spoke: "Young man, I have seen in you the fanaticism and hard work of martial arts, but it seems that for a long time, you have been alone in the field of martial arts. With a little tuning, you'll burst into great potential and grow by leaps and bounds. ”
As he spoke, the Fist Saint stretched out his hands and pressed them on Ye Ye's shoulders, looked directly at him and asked solemnly, "Young man, are you willing to be my disciple?" ”
Unexpectedly, the Fist Saint would go straight into it so directly, Ye Ye was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied categorically: "Of course I do." ”
What are you kidding, Ye Ye has long had enough of being taught by no one in the past few years, although with his golden finger and those local methods under his desperate cultivation, his current strength has reached a certain level, but the more he goes deeper, the more Ye Ye feels the importance of a good master. Although the strength of the boxing saint is not the top in this world, how can it be ranked as the "one shadow and nine fists" is a weakling, not to mention that compared to most masters, the boxing saint can be said to have deep experience in teaching disciples.
"Unfortunately, Mr. Furtner doesn't want you to leave here, so I don't have much time to teach you." As soon as the words changed, the Fist Saint suddenly mentioned this matter, and at the same time paid attention to Ye Ye's expression.
Hearing this news, Ye Ye's face was not moved in the slightest, and it was still as plain as water: "I understand." ”
was even more satisfied with Ye Ye's performance, and the boxer even began to seriously think about whether it was necessary to turn against Vortner.
I don't know if it was Ye Ye's luck or misfortune, he encountered the boxing saint Ogata Ichijo who can be called a maverick in "One Shadow and Nine Fists".
Although to the level of "One Shadow and Nine Fists", the extremely high attainments in martial arts are manifested in a strong personality style, in other words, they do their own thing, and any one of them has an extremely persistent style and beliefs, but the boxing saint is different from several others, that is, his attitude towards his disciples.
Other masters, whether they regard their disciples as children or inheritors, or who uphold a cold heart and treat their disciples as materials for random carving, all hope that their disciples can pass on their own martial arts. However, unlike Ogata, who draws on the strengths of each family and uses "I-ryu" as the school, the disciples are more like experiments in martial arts for him.
If it were other people in the "One Shadow and Nine Fists", they might not accept Ye Ye as a disciple, because they already had disciples, and the conceit of their own martial arts and vision made them firmly believe that the disciples they taught would not be weaker than others, while the boxing saint liked to recruit talented young people to teach them appropriately, experimenting with new moves on them, and adding new development to martial arts, so his disciples were the most.
As for whether the moves are too dangerous and what kind of risks the disciples will encounter, they are not in the scope of consideration, because in the eyes of the Fist Master, this is a necessary sacrifice for the development of martial arts.
The protagonist Shirahama Kanichi's childhood friend Asamiya Ryuto, one of the disciples of the boxer, was paralyzed in the original book because of the boxer's experiment to combine the "moving qi" and "quiet qi" into one new move "static movement boom one".
"Give to those who pursue martial arts, and respond to equal martial arts." This is Ogata Ischigami's belief in martial arts, and it is also the theme of the "martial arts equality theory" that he advocates.
However, for the current Ye Ye, the boxing saint who can be taught according to his situation is undoubtedly the most suitable master, even if there is no real master-apprentice relationship between the two.
On the surface, the Fist Saint left Deathmatch Island the next day, but with his strength, it was effortless to infiltrate this well-guarded island, and every time he came late at night, Dawn left without the third person knowing.
"The ability to capture the fighter is commendable, but you have to distinguish whether this is a real flaw or a trap that the opponent deliberately lures you, otherwise this is the consequence of running into a master." The index finger flicked towards his forehead, and the advancing Ye Ye was instantly knocked away, and the fist saint taught lightly.
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"Your senses are very sharp, but they are not enough in master combat, and using your sixth sense to capture the opponent's movements is the basic of a master." The voice of the fist saint flickered in Ye Ye's ears with the rapidly moving figure, and it seemed that every word came from different directions.
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"The air control circle has been completed, but this is only the first step, the first to develop, then to be compact, and then you have to try to reduce the air control circle to increase the strength of the defense, and finally to expand and contract freely." Countless stones hit Ye Ye's side like a torrential rain and were shattered one by one, but more stones continued to be thrown without stopping, suppressing Ye Ye's air control circle and shrinking little by little.
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"Your movements are too fast, the essence of sliding is not in speed, but in the smooth rhythm and the deception of the enemy's vision in the body, to find the opponent's blind spots." The Fist Saint held his hands on his chest and remained still, but a row of phantoms appeared around him to demonstrate to Ye Ye.
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"Although you chose the path of the Silent Warrior, I really read it right, you are the kind of material that is in the middle of the path of movement and quiet, and both can continue to walk, it just so happens that I have a new idea of combining the qi of movement and quietness, which is powerful, do you want to learn and see?" Guiding Ye Ye, who burst out of the qi of movement, the fist saint laughed heartily, and was pure and seductive.
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He had been groping for penance alone, and now he had suddenly met a master like the Fist Saint who was carefully taught, Ye Ye greedily absorbed valuable experience, and turned all the huge accumulation of the past few years into a blowout potential to propel himself forward.
And Ye Ye himself has a solid foundation and rich combat experience, so it is not difficult for the boxing saint to teach, unify and integrate what Ye Ye has learned in the past, correct the various flaws cultivated by Ye Luzi, and clarify the direction of the next step, as for those advanced moves and martial arts concepts, the boxing saint only asks Ye Ye to keep the main points in mind and digest them slowly, and it depends on himself how much he can cultivate in the future.
A month later, the boxing saint was gone, and Ye Ye had been reborn, although his strength did not improve immediately, but the harvest was not inferior to the hard work of the past few years.
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