Section 7 Practicing knives in the rain
Yaojiang Village
It's the rainy autumn season, and the drizzle doesn't stop. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Lu Gu stood in front of the window, looking at it from afar, the water of the Yao River was like a torrent that opened the floodgates, flowing endlessly from west to east, and the big raindrops fell on the river surface, and the sound of the water was earth-shattering, and it was endless.
This is a secret stronghold of Fang Yan, and it is also the place where he grew up.
Yaojiang Village, as its name suggests, is a small village located on the edge of the Yao River, with hundreds of households, most of them are surnamed Liu, and it is said that they have some origins with the surname Liu family in Luzhou, which is a remote branch of it, but they have been out for many years, and have long lost contact with their own people.
After a while, the door of the house suddenly "creaked" and was opened from the outside.
A stout man with a hat and a robe, carrying a few lively river fish in his hands, walked in.
"Little brother is awake!" he was burly, with a stubly beard on his face, but when he smiled, he released a kind and kind atmosphere, which made people feel good.
"It's Village Chief Liu!" Lu Gu arched his hand and said with a smile, "I woke up early, it's past the hour, I've been on the road for a few days, and I finally got a good night's sleep yesterday!"
This person is one of Fang Yan's close friends, Liu Shengchun, who is the village chief of Yaojiang Village.
"Live fish caught early in the morning!" Fang Yan was obviously familiar with the people who came, and he didn't treat himself as an outsider at all, he grabbed the things in the other party's hand and said with great joy, "Young master, this is an authentic Yaojiang carp, the taste is the most positive, we have delicious fish soup to drink at noon!"
Liu Shengchun glared at him angrily.
"Thank you, village chief!" Lu Gu poured a thank you to Village Chief Liu, but the person was absent-minded, he had something in his heart, but he didn't see Liu Shengchun's face full of different colors when he heard Fang Yan blurt out a "young master".
There were still a few trivial matters in the village, Liu Shengchun said a few words of greeting, and then said sorry and left.
Fang Yan walked to the kitchen to get fish, and Lu Gu was still standing in a daze.
In the past few days, he has been thinking about that knife technique in his head, and he is crazy about knife fighting.
The knife is the most used weapon by the Jianghu people, and there is no one. Because the knife method is the easiest to get started, it can be summed up simply, it is eight words, also known as the eight methods in the knife―――――― sweeping, splitting, dialing, cutting, sweeping, nai, chopping, and sudden
Holding Fang Yan's long knife in his hand, he waved it lightly a few times, adapting to the weight and volume of the knife, and slightly adjusting the size and position of the knife with his wrist, Lu Gu walked to the courtyard in front of the door and began to practice the knife in the drizzle.
The knife technique was learned from Fang Yan, who had played with the knife for more than ten years, and his experience was that the knife was different from the sword, the knife move was heavy and fierce, the road was wide open and closed, and the power was not reduced with less change.
Clever swordsmen, with body and pace, often control the enemy and kill people in a few moves, and the knife moves seem to be the most straightforward, but in fact, the subtlety is all in the use.
Lu Gu had only played with non-mainstream knives such as screwdrivers, pencil sharpeners, and kitchen knives in his previous life, and he really had to use a knife to cut people, and he lacked experience.
However, he still understands the truth that practice makes perfect, and it is nothing more than a lot of practice!
"Drink!" exhaled a white breath from his lips, and in the light rain, Lugu swung his knife over and over again.
Time waits for no one, no more practice, no accumulation of skills, sooner or later someone will be trampled underfoot.
"Young Master is really working hard!" Fang Yan saw it in his eyes and admired it in his heart. He has his own understanding of Lu Gu's obscure knife skills. In his opinion, the young master is from the Western Xia Kingdom, he is a golden branch and jade leaf, he must have been guided by a master since he was a child, and he has learned superior martial arts, and he must not look down on the sword as a weapon that focuses on courage and momentum.
is like himself, no matter how well he practices his knife skills, he is just a few crude skills of chopping wood and killing people, and he can't reach the hall of elegance at all.
The young master practiced the knife so hard, I'm afraid it was just curiosity!
Lu Gu concentrated on practicing knives, where did he want to get his own good luck for a while, and the ideas of this subordinate who he picked up were all running a few streets.
"Brush~!", "Brush~!", "Brush~!"
The blade of the knife slashed through the drizzle, causing a ripple.
Lu Gu's eyes were focused, and he quietly experienced the feeling brought by each swing of the knife.
"Well, this knife was too fast just now, the crosshairs were not enough, and the force was wrong!"
"These knives are swept out, and they don't have full strength, so they don't have any momentum!"
"These knives are okay, they can be called almost accurate, but there are still shortcomings in coherence!"
"Come again!"
Sweat more when you practice and bleed less when you kill enemies.
Lugu struggled to stabilize his position, slashing again and again, teasing again and again, and striking again and again.
As soon as the cool rain was buried in his hairline, it evaporated into mist and rose back into the air as he practiced sweating like rain.
From hurried to calm, from hurried to clean.
His progress flew straight into the sky like a rocket.
"Drink!"
The knife technique in Lu Gu's hand unfolded, his wrist suddenly shook, and with a loud shout, he only heard "Xiu~Xiu~Xiu~Xuan!" Four sounds, four waves of qi surged in four directions.
Almost at the same moment, the cobblestone courtyard wall of the river was washed away by the air waves, and it could not be supported at the time of the climb, and it fell like tofu in the rain.
"Boom!"
Fang Yan was startled by this sudden loud noise, and when he came over to take a look, his mouth suddenly turned white.
"Young master, you... You.. I actually practiced it!"
"Haha!" Lu Gu laughed, he was successful in martial arts, his heart was happy, and he couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.
Finally, I finally learned a little decent martial arts.
It's also strange to say, from the first contact with this mad knife duel to the present, in less than a week, almost starting from scratch, first laying the foundation, and then refining the knife method, and now one knife has opened up four sword strengths, and has completely mastered the martial art of mad knife duel, and has reached the realm of Xiaocheng. The whole process, almost in Fang Yan's stunned, Lu Gu was completed.
Next, as long as you practice with perseverance, the mad knife duel will be a matter of course.
According to Fang Yan's own description, the time it took him to master this martial art was a full 3 years. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Gu had already recognized in his heart that he was a genius martial artist of the Western Xia Kingdom, Fang Yan would almost die of shame.
The fire of the mad knife is to go down with one knife and open up eight waves of qi, known as the eight golden locks. With the unparalleled momentum and knife strength, it is difficult for ordinary people to resist.
However, this is just to describe the effect of the competition between third-rate warriors, that is, the samurai.
It's a long way to go!
Lugu was not complacent, nor was he presumptuous. In fact, there is only one explanation for such an achievement, that is, the basic conditions of this body, that is, the original owner, are too good, so good that the cultivation of this low-level martial art can be achieved completely overnight, without any effort.
After all, Lu Gu traveled after experiencing a big explosion, a soul from another time and space suddenly squeezed into a strange body, and the actual memory of the original owner, he had no way of knowing, and there was no process of fusion between the two, which would definitely be a big trouble in the future.
But what can he do, he can only take one step at a time.
Maybe one day the brain suddenly opens up and recalls the memories of the past, and everything will be easy.
Lu Gu's palm gently polished the handle of the knife in his hand, and the more the weapon was used, the more familiar it became, and at this moment the long knife seemed to have become a part of his body, and the two were almost inseparable.
Fang Yan paid attention, because he held the knife every day, the young master's two hands sharpened a thick layer of skin cocoons.
"Genius comes from hard work!" With such extraordinary qualifications as the young master, he can practice hard and unremittingly, and his future achievements will definitely be extraordinary.
It's definitely going to be a big shot in the future. He began to secretly rejoice in his original choice, and he really didn't see the wrong person.
"Young Master!" Thinking of this, Fang Yan addressed him very affectionately, and stepped forward to help the former pack his weapons diligently, "The fish soup is stewed, it's ready to eat!"
"Yes!" Lugu sniffed, and a smell came from the kitchen, and his stomach growled uncontrollably.
"Brother Fang has worked hard, it just so happens that I'm hungry too, let's go in!"
"Yes, young master!" Fang Yan's young master shouted extremely sincerely.
The two moved into the hall, the small wooden house only had a simple table, the dishes and chopsticks were complete, there was a pot of light wine on the table, and a stack of coarse cakes, which was the food of ordinary people in the Northern Qi Kingdom.
The wine was bought by Fang Yan at the hotel a few days ago when he went into the city to explore the wind while it was dark.
The two of them each held a bowl of wine, and a large pot of fish soup was steaming.
"Let's eat!" Lu Gu picked up his chopsticks and feasted.
Yao Jiang's carp was really delicious, even though it was only the most rough preparation, Lu Gu still couldn't put it down, and drank two large bowls of fish soup before he burped and touched the stomach at the corner of his mouth.
Fang Yan smiled and watched the former eat and drink soup.
"The young master is one of the most talented swordsmen I have ever heard of and seen!"
Fang Yan took a sip of wine and gave a thumbs up in admiration.
"There are thousands of ordinary martial artists, and those who are outstanding are like carp crossing the river, how dare I brag about myself!" Lu Gu said with a smile.
"The subordinates are not boasting, but from the bottom of their hearts!" Fang Yan slapped his chest with his fist a few times, and poured a few sips of wine hard. Only then did he wipe the corners of his mouth.
Lugu had no doubt about him. It's just a drunken joke.
Unexpectedly, Fang Yan didn't know what he remembered, his eyes suddenly lit up, he patted his head and said, "Hey, I remembered that there is a martial art, with the talent of the young master, maybe you can try it!"
"What kind of martial arts, it's mysterious!" Lu Gu asked.
"Trick!" Fang Yan said with a sigh of wine.
Lu Gu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he put down his chopsticks, "What is a trick!"
"The special move is the special move that only those masters, at least the top masters among the martial artists, have figured out the special moves, because the moves are subtle, the moves are unpredictable, and they are often difficult to guard, so they are called the special moves!" Fang Yan said loudly.
"Tell me more!" Lugu's curiosity sparked.
"The level of martial artists that my subordinates have come into contact with is low, and I have never seen a master with a special move!" Fang Yan said embarrassedly, "However, when my master was young, he served in the Northern Qi army, and he once witnessed a master in the army use an extremely ordinary military standard long knife to perform a unique move--a sky-breaking sword." On the battlefield, another enemy captain was cut in half! That scene almost stunned everyone!"
"Captain, that's a first-class martial artist, a master at the level of a great martial artist, how powerful is this sky-breaking sword, can it really break the sky?" Lu Gu was speechless.
"Hehe, Breaking the Sky is just a name, used to describe the meaning of incomparable momentum, my master thinks that the Breaking Heaven can also be called a perfect knife!"
"A perfect knife?"
"Well, it is more appropriate to describe this knife with perfection, when the warrior is against the enemy, there are actually many elements, speed, strength, angle, timing, momentum, environment, state, luck, etc., to name a few, the real master, can accurately grasp these elements, and integrate all the conditions that are beneficial to themselves into their own killer moves, this, is a trick!"
"Trick! Trick!" Lugu muttered to himself, "Once you make a move, it's unprecedented, desperate." As soon as the trick comes out, if the other party hasn't fallen yet, your own side will be in danger!"
"What the young master said is right!" Fang Yan nodded, "My master said that although the trick is good, it can only be used at the right time, for example, the effect of assassination in secret is better than that of frontal combat, the level of the martial artist is not enough, even if he happens to learn the trick, the effect is not satisfactory." ”
"Did you comprehend all the tricks yourself?" Lugu suddenly asked.
"Most of them are like this, but if you have a good teacher, you can miss a few tricks and you will be a master!" Fang Yan said, his words containing a hint of envy.
"Then I'd better understand it myself!" Lugu said silently to himself.
He is a white man who has no real identity, and now he is poor and white.
"Young master, you are now making great progress in martial arts, and you still can't go to the county seat of Hao County!" After lunch, Fang Yan asked while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks: "You have explained a lot of things before, but your subordinates are incompetent, and you have gone to the county several times, but you haven't collected them all!"
"It's okay, Brother Fang, you can just try to inquire!"
Lu Gu looked into the distance, his brows furrowed slightly, the rain gradually subsided, and the road was still muddy.
"In a few days, when the rain stops, I'll go into the city myself!"
"Okay, I'll go with you!"