Chapter 8: From Death to Life
During the month when Li Xiaohu was seriously injured and did not recover, he would get up early every morning to do "rehabilitation training" in the garden of the palace. But more often than not, he was just lazy on the sidelines and watched Li Tiannuo, the king of Wei, practice swordsmanship.
Li Tiannuo was holding an ordinary wooden sword, and he didn't use any skills, and his moves were extremely plain.
In Li Xiaohu's view, it is not so much that Li Tiannuo is practicing swords, but that he is exercising and cultivating himself. Because he, a layman with low cultivation, can see that Li Tiannuo's sword moves are full of flaws, and the empty door is wide open, what is the difference between using it against the enemy and sending him to death?
After looking at it like this for a few more days, I found that this swordsmanship seemed to have a bit of flavor in it, and it can be said that it was "rotten" to a certain level, and I had never seen so many flaws in the swordsmanship.
In this way, Li Xiaohu watched it boringly for more than ten days in a row, and to be honest, he didn't want to watch it, but it was better than following Li Xuan to do those rehabilitation trainings.
Until one day he was surprised to find that Li Tiannuo's "self-cultivation swordsmanship" was very different, and the swordsmanship was still that set of swordsmanship, but Li Tiannuo's sword hand changed from his right hand to his left hand.
Li Xiaohu understands that a kendo master practices one-handed swords, and he has been stumbling and crawling out of one move and one style since he was a child. If he is holding a sword in his right hand, then his comprehension of kendo is in his right hand, which means that his understanding of kendo is based on his right hand holding a sword, and if he changes his left hand, it will be difficult to use a sword move as powerful as his right hand.
Just like we are used to eating with chopsticks in our right hand, we can't be so flexible when we change to our left hand.
Especially for a kendo master who has been practicing swords for many years, it is extremely difficult to change his hand to practice swords. On the contrary, like him, his cultivation is shallow, and his swordsmanship is a mess, and he has changed from a right-handed sword to a left-handed sword, and I am afraid that this power is no different than one or two.
But what Li Xiaohu doesn't understand is that there is any "nutritional value" in changing hands to practice swords?
The so-called "don't seek to understand", if you don't understand, Li Xiaohu won't think about it anymore. After a few more days, Li Xiaohu found that his father began to exchange his left and right hands to practice swords, and his swordsmanship was still the same flawed swordsmanship. At this time, he was just thinking about whether to build a pair of male and female double-strand swords as a congratulatory gift for Li Tiannuo's birthday.
In the early morning of another day, Li Xiaohu followed Li Xuan to complete a set of "rehabilitation training exercises", and then leaned on the pillar of the pavilion to watch Li Tiannuo practice swords. Unlike previous days, today Li Tiannuo is just repeating a trick constantly: the right hand carries the sword behind him, then changes the right hand sword to the left hand behind him, and finally the left hand holds the wooden sword and draws forward.
Li Xiaohu watched Li Tiannuo perform this sword move over and over again, faster and faster, and he was also thinking in his heart. Because the left hand is holding the long sword backwards, unlike holding the sword in the forward direction, it is holding the sword in the opposite direction, and the fastest way to make a move is to draw it from the bottom up, similar to picking a sword. Then ask the enemy to stick in front of you, so that you can defeat the enemy with one move.
It turns out that the root cause of the flaws in this set of swordsmanship lies in this, and the gaps and flaws are deliberately left to the enemy. This move is to win in the face of danger, and to leave the gap to the enemy at such a close distance is simply to gamble with your own life. If you don't change the sword fast enough, and the left hand doesn't make the sword neat enough, then you must tell your family to burn more paper money in front of your grave in the future before making a move.
To practice this move well, you must not only have a skilled right hand exchange swordsmanship, but more importantly, a heart to death, only fearless of death can calmly swing that sword. Once this trick is successful, it simply means, if you want me to die, you have to die first! Anyone who wants to take advantage of your flaws to kill you must be prepared to die first.
After Li Xiaohu suddenly realized, he was very excited in his heart, he also wanted to practice this swordsmanship!
Back to this side.
No one had time to rescue Li Xiaohu from Xue Shao's knife, except for himself.
At the moment when Xue Shao's knife touched Li Xiaohu's shoulder, he moved, and he mobilized the strength of his whole body to avoid the key point with one side violently. At the same time, Xue Shao, who couldn't stop the knife, crashed straight into Li Xiaohu's arms.
It was at this moment that Li Xiaohu calmly changed the sword to his left hand behind him, and drew upwards without any stopping, like the last stroke of splashing ink and finishing touch! The immortal sword was firmly placed on Xue Shao's neck.
Although Li Xiaohu's sideways dodged the fatal knife, it still didn't flash fast enough, and the blade cut a big hole from his right shoulder to his right chest. At this time, Xue Shao was holding the long knife dripping blood tightly with both hands, but he didn't dare to move, he felt that the immortal sword above his neck was gulping down his blood, and death was a line away from him.
"Concession!" Li Xiaohu changed from the scoundrel he had just insulted, and said these two words indifferently, like an emotionless killer. As if this was the real him, calm and wise, the rest of the ridicule and abuse were just means.
Xue Shao, whose emotions gradually calmed down, finally understood that he had lost since he was completely provoked and swung out the knife full of killing intent. He thought he was winning, but in fact, he had been in Li Xiaohu's design.
It is rare for Xiu Wei to win two levels, and as a loser, Xue Shao let go of his hands holding the knife in a dejected manner, and the sharp and domineering long knife also fell to the ground.
Seeing that the outcome had been decided, Li Xiaohu put away his sword and picked up the long hair that Xue Shao had draped over his shoulders, and a strand of severed hair scattered in the air and fell on the ground full of messes.
"The next time there is a provocation to the palace, it is not as simple as just receiving a bunch of hair. Li Xiaohu's voice was not loud, but at this scene where the needle had fallen and could be heard, the indifferent voice came into everyone's hearts.
Looking at Li Xiaohu, whose momentum was comparable to that of a master of the Heavenly Realm, Li Xuan clenched his fists excitedly, Li Muya's mood was complicated and unspeakable, and Zhang Zizheng dropped his jaw in shock.
Shuai has also played, and Wei has also been established, and it is time to retire. Li Xiaohu sat on Rhubarb's back with difficulty with the help of Li Xuan, then hugged his fists to the onlookers, and finally looked at Li Muya on the Huoyun Horse, a smile appeared on his tired face.
Li Muya saw Li Xiaohu looking at him and smirking, and she didn't know what to say, so she could only respond with a smile. This smile was bright and warm, Li Xiaohu closed his eyes and felt it silently, like a spring breeze.
Just as he was enjoying the winner's reward, a dark shadow flashed on the roof not far away. Where the shadow had been, the tiles shattered layer by layer.
Late at night, the Funing Palace is still brightly lit.
"Changing hands is really interesting. This time, Li Xiaohu made the concubines impressed. Ye Tang'er didn't expect King Wei, an uncompetitive son, to behave like this, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Carry a sword against the water, from death to life! Not only is it interesting, the person who can practice this sword must be the person who has really been kissed by death. Li Tiancheng finished telling the story and slowly closed his eyes, as if recalling the dusty past.