Li Zheng found that practicing martial arts was a matter that required patience and hard work, and under Duan Xinnan, these things were particularly important.

He had been practicing according to Duan Xinnan's method for nearly half a month, holding the scabbard and chopping at the clumps of weeds and shrubs all day long, and he had never even had the opportunity to hold the sword. Duan Xinnan seemed to have forgotten what he said that day, and was silent along the way, and after "one move", he never mentioned anything about swordsmanship to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng didn't dare to waste it, he had to spend a lot of time every day to "practice the sword", and vented all his anger and distress to the weeds and shrubs, and he didn't know how many grasses had suffered from him along the way.

They walked along the "Katoqi" for more than 10 days, and every day they could hear the howls of the beasts one after another, but they could only hear their voices and not see their shapes. After a long time, they have also become accustomed to not standing in all the grass and wood because of the sound of roaring. To Li Zheng's surprise, even Xiao Yilan was able to stand still when he heard the beast's cry at night, turned over and continued to sleep, but he developed a calm and calm mentality. However, Li Zheng often speculated that it was possible that he slept very deeply and did not hear it.

It's no wonder that he slept very deeply, walking in southern Xinjiang was indeed very laborious and hard, and Li Zheng couldn't bear it, not to mention that he had to "practice swords" every day. The sun was on the third pole, it was the hot time of the day, Meng Lin and Xiao Yilan both looked listless, sitting next to Katoqi, and they didn't have the same interest as when they first met that day. Li Zheng held two scabbards and frantically slashed left and right at a bush. Only the wood was still alive, already settled in a dense jungle, and its body was blue and breathing.

Suddenly, there was a huge thrust from the scabbard, and he almost lost his grip and let the scabbard go. Fortunately, he took two steps back and barely grasped the scabbard, but the tiger's mouth shook and hurt.

Li Zheng looked up and saw that Duan Xinnan was already standing in front of him. He bowed his head respectfully and said, "Senior." ”

Duan Xinnan was expressionless, threw a sword to Li Zheng, and said, "Show me." Li Zheng reacted after a while, and hurriedly learned from Duan Xinnan's appearance before, and with a strong wrist, he cut horizontally towards a piece of grass.

He had long been accustomed to the dull sound of the scabbard striking the weeds, the grass was soft, even if it was a sharp sword in his hand, it was only swept from above with improper force, and the grass and trees fell down and stood up again, leaving no trace. But to his own surprise, the sword in his hand really cut a small piece of grass, and the cut was smooth, but the strength was suddenly exhausted, and it was stuck in the grass, far from being as crisp and neat as Duan Xinnan that day.

He looked up at Duan Xinnan with some excitement, but Duan Xinnan frowned and said, "Using a sword is different from using a knife, it is more important to use wrist force, rather than sweeping it with your arm. It's okay to use skill, not strength, and after practicing with a scabbard for so many days, haven't you yet comprehended it?"

Li Zheng lowered his head and secretly wrote down Duan Xinnan's teachings. He was about to take the scabbard and practice again, but Duan Xinnan handed the two swords into his hands.

"There's no hurry. You first draw circles with your left hand and frame with your right hand, and then practice before you are ready. In addition, the daily grass chopping practice should not be slack. After he finished speaking, he was about to turn around, wanting to go back to the tree and close his eyes to recuperate, but he heard Li Zheng ask behind him, "Senior, is that so?"

He turned his head and saw Li Zheng holding a sword in both hands, the tip of the sword slashing gently in front of him, Duan Xinnan looked carefully, the trajectory of the tip of the sword in his left hand formed a circle, and his right hand was a square frame. Li Zheng kept his hands and stroked more than a dozen times, with a nonchalant expression, as if he was a little surprised that Duan Xinnan had given such a simple task to him.

Duan Xinnan's eyebrows twitched, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a hint of an imperceptible smile. It took a few days to think that I wanted to control my hands with distractions back then, but I didn't expect Li Zheng to be able to do it. This kid is really the material for practicing his own sword moves.

"That's it. Duan Xinnan nodded slightly, "I'll only demonstrate the next sword moves once." You see. Li Zheng suddenly perked up and watched Duan Xinnan's movements intently. Xiao Yilan and Luo Yu also heard Duan Xinnan's voice and looked at it with interest.

Duan Xinnan used his sword with both hands, and the sword flew up and down like a light butterfly. A move is just a breath, but Li Zheng feels that there is a lot of information and details in it. He silently wrote it down in his own mind. Duan Xinnan walked back to the tree and sat cross-legged, his eyes still looking in the direction of Li Zheng from time to time. Just now this is the first style of his self-created swordsmanship, which is just a starting style, and then it is either offensive or defensive, all derived from it. Looking at this kid who might not have the name of an apprentice, Duan Xinnan was suddenly very interested in his heart.

Xiao Yilan's eyes widened, and he asked loudly, "Hey, Li Zheng!

Li Zheng turned around, as if still recalling his previous actions, and nodded thoughtfully. Xiao Yilan muttered: "Alas, I really don't understand the world of martial arts practitioners." He turned to Meng Lin beside him and asked with a smile, "Did you understand just now?"

Meng Lin's eyes lowered, she just chuckled, and said, "Xiao Gongzi doesn't understand, how can I understand." ”

Li Zheng was immersed in the sword moves demonstrated by Duan Xinnan just now. He unconsciously struggled to imitate it. It's a lot more complicated than chopping weeds, but it's also more challenging than the tedious moves that preceded it.

The climate in southern Xinjiang was hot, and Li Zheng was soon sweating profusely, and if his movements were a little bigger, he could see sweat thrown out of his hair, as if he had just soaked in water.

Xiao Yilan sat leisurely by the water, looked at Li Zheng who was sweating like rain with interest, and said with a smile: "Li Zheng, this kid can really endure hardships, like me, I can't stand it at all." ”

As he spoke, Meng Lin beside him suddenly stood up and said softly, "Someone is coming." Xiao Yilan and Luo Yu glanced at each other and quickly stood up. In the wilderness, the phrase "someone" is really more terrifying than encountering any wild beast.

"I've always wondered, what is the origin of this girl, every time I can find it from a long distance, is it a dog's nose?" A faint voice came, it was Shangguan Xiang.

He appeared on an ancient tree, and he still kept some distance from Xiao Yilan and others. His clothes were a little tattered, and there were still blood stains and mud, and he was no longer as chic and free as he used to be. He said to Xiao Yilan fiercely: "I really didn't expect that you would really go all the way south." Entering this area, the most ferocious beasts in southern Xinjiang are infested, and most of my men have been killed or injured in order to catch up with you. I'm curious, where are you going?"

Xiao Yilan looked at him with a miserable look, and smiled a little happily: "Didn't you catch the tree spirit, you can't guess where we're going?"

Shangguan Xiang was stunned: "Are you going to find the tree spirit? Then you are going in the wrong direction." As soon as these words came out, Xiao Yilan and Meng Lin's faces changed drastically, and the consequences of taking the wrong direction in this southern Xinjiang can be very serious. Only Duan Xinnan stood up as if he was lazy, and his gaze went straight to Shangguan Xiang.

"If you really go wrong, you won't follow. Duan Xinnan's face was expressionless, "If you have captured the tree spirit before, you must have been here." You're just looking for money, if you weren't familiar with this area, you wouldn't hesitate to turn around and leave, right?"

Shangguan Xiang's expression changed and changed. In the end, he finally showed a sly sneer: "Old fellow, you're not stupid. I'm here to give you a gift today!"

Before the words fell, Xiao Yilan and the others heard the familiar sound of breaking the sky. Duan Xinnan snorted coldly, just like when he encountered Shangguan Xiang before, he stepped on it quickly, moved to the front of the wood, and slashed the crossbow arrows from the surface with a sword. The blade of the sword and the arrow were connected, and Duan Xinnan suddenly felt a little strange.

This time, the crossbow bolts are much inferior in strength and speed compared to the last time. Could it really be that Shangguan Xiang's men were killed and wounded, and they couldn't even exert the power of this killing weapon? This thought flashed through Duan Xinnan's heart.

He suddenly caught a glimpse of a strange color in the air, and when he looked up, he was covered in patches of reddish powder. He suddenly realized that the previous arrow was actually hollow, filled with this powder, and the cluster of arrows was cut open by him, and the powder floated out.

Duan Xinnan held his breath and looked at Shangguan Xiang with some contempt. When he practiced martial arts to such a state, his internal breath was already connected with his mind, and it was not a problem to hold his breath for a stick of incense, and for a stick of incense, there was no problem for him to cook Shangguan Xiang. But when he saw the playful expression on Shangguan Xiang's face, he immediately noticed that there was something strange about the tree spirit wood around him.

The wood that had been rooted in the soil with his eyes closed and his feet suddenly seemed to be suffocated, his hands covered his throat, and the originally plump and thick body on his body suddenly began to shrink, like a preserved fruit that had been exposed to the sun for a long time. Xiao Yilan's pupils contracted suddenly, and he suddenly remembered that when he met the wood that day, he was like this.

"That's what they caught that day!" he shouted suddenly. Li Zheng also thought of it, and looked at Shangguan Xiang's gaze with complicated content.

Duan Xinnan's eyes flashed with anger, but he didn't dare to move lightly, for fear that as soon as he left, the wood would be pierced through his chest by the arrow crossbow, and he could only glare at Shangguan Xiang angrily.

Shangguan Xiang smiled grimly: "The powder of the hay can make the tree spirit fall into a state of dehydration. Without the Tree Spirit, your road to the south of Xinjiang should come to an end!"

Xiao Yilan said angrily: "What if you are dehydrated, you won't die! It's good to soak in the water!" As soon as he said this, he consciously walked in the direction of the wood, wanting to drag it into the river, but he didn't notice that Meng Lin's face beside him was already so pale that there was no blood.

"Do you know, the last time we met, why didn't I use it?" the smile on Shangguan Xiang's face became more and more gloomy, "Because the last time I ambushed, I found that there was a group of white rhinos a mile or two away from our ambush point. ”

Duan Xinnan's face was suddenly very ugly, Li Zheng and Xiao Yilan didn't know why, but they vaguely guessed something.

"The best thing about this thing is that it's not only the nemesis of the dryad, but it can also make the white rhino crazy! The white rhino is famous for its excellent sense of smell, and under the scent of dry grass, the white rhino doesn't care about the drying!"

Accompanied by his wild laughter, Luo Yu first noticed a piece of white rushing in the distance, and shouted loudly: "Something is approaching!"

Everyone could already feel the ground tremble. The white rhinoceros is huge, although the speed is not fast, but the momentum of the impact also makes people's scalp numb, not to mention a group of white rhinos, from far and near!

Li Zheng suddenly had a feeling of mayfly shaking the tree.

"Everyone, enjoy this feast!" Shangguan Xiang shouted hoarsely, and then disappeared into the jungle.

Duan Xinnan had no time to take care of Shangguan Xiang, and his gloomy face seemed to be dripping. Everyone gathered together, Duan Xinnan glanced at Li Zheng, although his face also became pale and sweating profusely, he stood still beside Duan Xinnan and did not retreat.

The corners of Duan Xinnan's mouth twitched, as if he was laughing. He took a deep breath, unsheathed his swords, and met the rushing white rhinoceros.