Chapter Twenty-Three: The Aura of a Sword Master

Saturday, June 10, 2017

"Isn't it strange why this aura is so calm?"

Long Xi slowly put down the bamboo sword that stood on his chest, the white robe of swordsmanship on his body stirred in the wind, and a stream of air that was invisible to the naked eye lingered around his body.

"It's really calm, and the gas velocity doesn't reach the minimum threshold of the condensed gas field at all. Chen Feng expressed his opinion, his face full of doubts.

"Hehe, it seems that your fighting skills, little guy, have really reached that realm. Long Xi's eyes showed familiar consternation and helplessness. There are really too many unbelievable things in this little guy who can be called a demon.

"Yes, like a martial artist, a swordsman has his own aura. A martial artist's aura usually appears when he reaches the 20th stage of fighting and becomes a fighting spirit. It belongs to the high-level aura control, with strong destructive power and defense. It is an absolute defensive existence, and the flow rate of the manifested air flow in the aura is extremely fast, and it has extremely strong shielding and cutting power. This is exactly how aura damage and defense work. ”

Long Xi slightly explained the aura of the martial artist, but saw an impatient look on Chen Feng's face.

"I know that. What I want to know is, what is the difference in the aura of a swordsman?"

Long Xi smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "Well, unlike the aura of a martial artist, the junior aura of a swordsman belongs to a low-level aura. Compared to the aura of a martial artist, it is like the difference between a breeze and a hurricane. The aura of a junior swordsman has almost no attack power, and it is a special extension of the swordsman's perception. With this aura, the swordsman's control of swordsmanship initially broke away from the shackles of the simple three senses of sight, hearing, and sense, and entered the realm of extended aura. There will be a great improvement in swordsmanship. ”

"Extension of perception, extreme aura?" After listening to Long Xi's introduction, Chen Feng spit out a word, but it made Long Xi puzzled.

"Extreme aura?"

"The aura of the Venerable Realm is called the Extreme Aura, and the aura of the Tyrant Realm is called the Solid Aura. The aura attribute you are talking about is very similar to the Venerable's extreme aura. Chen Feng answered Long Xi's doubts very casually, not paying attention to the twitching corners of his mouth at all.

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"So, I'm curious about how such a low-speed aura can be condensed?" Looking at Long Xi, who was distracted, Chen Feng asked.

"Eh," Long Xi came back from the shock, looked at Chen Feng with incredulous eyes, and said, "This is a relatively long process, and it needs to be constantly comprehended from the basic swordsmanship. At first, it was a deliberate attempt to break the offensive of ordinary sword strikes, to feel the faint aura contained in the body and on the blade. When you can feel the breath clearly, try to make them accept your control, which is a very abstract process. When the aura is able to accept your control as if it were your body, the aura is formed. ”

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"Why, don't you understand?" asked Long Xi looking at the silent Chen Feng.

"Feel the faint breath on the blade?" Chen Feng asked again.

Long Xi nodded slightly, expressing his satisfaction with Chen Feng's ability to control the key points.

"That's right, what is different from the aura of a martial artist is the two key points of 'feeling' and 'the breath of the blade'. ”

Long Xi was also a martial artist himself, so he naturally understood what Chen Feng was puzzled about. "Martial artists use the energy in their bodies to stimulate their aura, while swordsmen use their super perception to sense and control their aura. There are many mysteries in this, I can't explain it to you in words, you need to experience it yourself in the basic basic swordsmanship. The next thing I'm going to teach you is this set of basic swordsmanship, the sword folding technique. ”

Long Xi dissipated his swordsmanship aura after saying that, and after simply moving the sword out of the sword, he began a set of basic swordsmanship demonstrations. The golden bamboo sword flew in his hand, and the sword shadow turned from slow to fast under the light and shadow, constantly tearing the air. Chen Feng carefully paid attention to Long Xi's moves and styles, and soon he understood the special features of this set of basic swordsmanship.

Just like its name, 'Folding Sword Technique', every basic attack of this set of basic swordsmanship will have one or more sudden turns, and every attack that was originally smooth seems to be broken, which is extremely weird. When such swordsmanship techniques are combined in large quantities, the resistance of the air to the blade will increase significantly.

The sound of the blade rubbing against the air continued to grow louder as the speed of Long Xi's sword dance accelerated, but it disappeared abruptly after reaching a peak. At the same time, the sense of disobedience at the beginning of this set of swordsmanship suddenly disappeared, instantly giving people a sense of natural smoothness.

Just when Chen Feng thought that such a change was caused by the acceleration of Long Xi's sword dance, he was shocked to find that his speed was rapidly slowing down. Until the end, the bamboo sword in Long Xi's hand completely stopped. And the air currents stirred by the bamboo sword in his hand before had been haunting his surroundings. Not fast, not slow, and not the slightest sign of dissipating.

"This is?" Chen Feng slowly closed his eyes, and then slowly opened them. A vivid golden red, slightly diffused in his blue pupils, finally took on a half-blue, half-red glazed color. After this moment, the whole world changed its original appearance in Chen Feng's eyes, and everything seemed to slow down. At the same time, the colors of the world have become more brilliant.

In Chen Feng's eyes, Long Xi's body exuded a layer of extremely thin pale golden mist, and on the periphery of the mist, there was a constantly flowing layer of light cyan light and shadow with an even thinner color.

Long Xi didn't seem to notice the change in Chen Feng, he stopped the bamboo sword in his hand, and the air flow around him was still flying. "How's it going?

"You use the energy that originally stimulated the aura to maintain this thin aura?" Chen Feng said his own opinion, a pair of glass-colored half-clear blood eyes exuding a glass-colored halo, which was extremely demonic.

Long Xi, who was stunned by Chen Feng's eyes, came back to his senses after a while, "Hehe, it turns out that the legendary half-clear blood eyes are really so magical, and they can see energy that is invisible to the mortal eye." However, this swordsman's aura is not something that can be stimulated if he understands it, it's not that simple. The principle is exactly what you say, use the energy in the body to maintain the external aura. But the difference is that you need to blend your own perception into this aura, which is probably not visible to the half-clear blood eye, right?"

Chen Feng nodded and did not speak, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

As Long Xi said, his half-clear blood eyes could not see the kind of "perception" that only existed in the conceptual stage.

"Okay, so the next thing we're going to learn is the folding sword technique of the three basic swordsmanship. Follow me!" Long Xi put away his swordsmanship aura and slowly began to demonstrate the basic moves of the sword-folding technique. Chen Feng on the side also began to observe seriously, and Long Xi's every move was slowly liberated in his glazed bloody eyes, and it came into mind.

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United Nations Region V - South America Union.

The Amazon rainforest, the "lungs of the earth" in South America, is the last "primeval forest" on the earth in this century.

Of course, this so-called "primitive" can only be relative. For the earth, which has experienced nine world wars, the Arctic and North Poles, and the deep sea areas of the Pacific Ocean, where even living things are difficult to survive, are full of craters, not to mention the South American continent, which has been the main battlefield several times?

When the primeval forest experienced the Third World War, it was completely destroyed by the apocalyptic nuclear (peace) war, leaving a land full of radioactive ashes. After hundreds of years of desolation, human civilization flourished again with the remnants of World War III, and people used the power of science to build a primeval forest on this land again.

It took nearly 100 years to build this "primeval forest" after careful consideration and design by human technology, and it is responsible for renewing the air for the entire earth's atmosphere. For this reason, it is also known as the "lungs of the earth". In the subsequent world wars, mankind deliberately avoided the battlefield, so the subsequent wars did not cause devastating damage to it.

Later, after thousands of years of natural evolution, although the disappeared species can no longer be recovered, the mystery of belonging to the primeval forest has been successfully nurtured here.

Due to the special geographical location, even a forest constructed by human science has undergone many mysteries that human science cannot solve for the time being. As a result, 54% of the planet's life sciences research institutions are located here.

This is an era when scientific development has reached a bottleneck, and scientific research in all fields has reached an extremely high level. Even if you have a high level of talent, many years of research in a scientific field will not necessarily lead to any significant results. After scientists gradually turned many impossibilities into facts, on the earth and in the universe that human beings can reach, there is a certain rigidity in human imagination.

Physics, chemistry, and low-end biology in the natural sciences have all developed to an extreme within the limits of human ability.

As a result, the scientific community pointed the spearhead of research at the extreme of science - life.

Yes, even if humans have deciphered the genetic code, they have reached the point where they can write some impossible information into the genes of living beings like writing programs. However, for the most basic life, even the simplest virus, human beings are still unable to make a breakthrough out of nothing.

Life has always been a temple that has made countless people with lofty ideals in the scientific community yearn for the limit, but even after 10,000 years of scientific exploration, no one has been able to step into the door of this palace. Artificial intelligence was once considered to be the first type of intelligent life created by human beings, but even if it is a super intelligent brain that may bring devastating disasters to mankind, it can only be a "cold disease" in the field of science in the face of time after all.

Without human beings, artificial intelligence can only be a machine that runs for a long time and will inevitably stop in the end. It will never be able to survive as sustainably as a natural creation.

Able to destroy, but unable to create life, after 10,000 years of precipitation, human beings have become more and more lonely. There are fewer and fewer types of life on Earth, and even if nature is still giving rise to new creatures, it is far from being able to match the rate at which they are disappearing.

It has been nearly 6,000 years since human civilization entered the aviation age, but the era of great aviation, which existed in the fantasy of the old era, has never appeared. On the contrary, with the continuous development of science and technology, human curiosity about the unknown universe is becoming less and less.

Because, they have become more and more desperate to realize that the earth is indeed the only planet in the universe where life exists. Interstellar migration, however, no immigrant planet can be completely separated from Earth's supply. Neither Biosphere 2, Biosphere 3 nor Biosphere X-N can replace the only Biosphere 1.

Therefore, research in the field of life sciences has become a new sustenance for mankind. Rising star, but the first to come. Human life science research has achieved unprecedented success, and it is precisely the research in the field of life sciences that has brought human civilization to a new height of prosperity.

As the largest forest on the planet, it is naturally the most prosperous place for life sciences.