Chapter 8: The Mysterious Man
When I opened the skin scroll again, I saw the knife style recorded on the skin scroll, which was called the Wind Slash. The windbreaker, fast too. As the name suggests, if you want to practice this style, the key is only one word, that is, fast!
When your knife is so fast that the opponent can't react, so fast that the opponent can't see where the knife is, the knife will take someone's life!
The point of the above record is very simple, that is, the wind slashes, the wind blows, and the wind does not see the knife.
Jiang Chu has been practicing knives under the waterfall for two months, and naturally knows the importance of fast knives. However, if you want to make the knife faster, you must first have a strong explosive power, and secondly, you can use the true qi to urge the knife to make the knife faster.
Jiang Chu's basic sword skills have all reached Xiaocheng, which shows that his explosive power is quite good, and what he wants to practice now is the True Qi Urging Knife.
True Qi Urging the Knife sounds very simple, but it is to use True Qi to urge the knife in your hand, so that the knife is faster and more powerful. However, Jiang Chu's comprehension at this time was far better than before, and he didn't think that the True Qi Urging Knife was as simple as it appeared. He felt that there must be a mystery in it, but he couldn't tell for a moment what was going on.
In the following time, he practiced and comprehended the knife technique, and with his understanding, he quickly comprehended the key to it. At the same time, he finally knew what the so-called True Qi Urging Knife was.
"The wind slashes, the knife is like a wind, urge the knife with force, urge the knife with air, haha!" Jiang Chu's body jumped up after he realized it, lifted the bronze broadsword and fell into the flowing water, and then swung out the bronze broadsword and slashed more than a dozen knives in a row.
Jiang Chu's first few knives were like chopping wood, clumsy and slow. But after the dozen knives in the back, only a series of vague knife shadows could be seen, and Jiang Chu felt that the bronze broadsword seemed to be being controlled by a gust of gale, not only was the speed extremely fast, but its trajectory was also nowhere to be found.
Then Jiang Chu gathered the true qi in his body into his right hand, and the true qi poured from his right hand onto the bronze broadsword. Jiang Chu slowly controlled the true qi to urge the big sword, but found that it was not like swinging his arm as he imagined, on the contrary, he found that the bronze big knife became disobedient to him.
"I said what is the mystery, it turns out to be like this!" Jiang Chu took back the bronze broadsword, thinking in his heart the essence of the true qi urging knife, the focus of the true qi urging knife is to control, not only the control of the true qi, but also the control of the knife.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Jiang Chu practiced his sword technique under the waterfall for two months.
I saw a huge stone on the edge of the waterfall that fell dozens of feet. On top of this huge stone, Jiang Chu held a heavy bronze broadsword, and stepped on a wonderful footwork under his feet, slashing towards the flowing water.
The waterfall dozens of zhang long ran straight down the top of his head, constantly bombarding the top of Jiang Chu's head, shoulders, legs and back.
Water is of course the softest thing in the world, but the water that rushes down from the sky is extremely powerful, so practicing knives under the waterfall is even more difficult than carrying hundreds of pounds of things on your back!
Jiang Chu could feel the tremendous pressure, but there was a resolute look on his face. He withstood the pressure of the waterfall, and after quickly slashing out more than a hundred knives, the speed of the knives gradually slowed down, and at this time he felt that the qi and blood all over his body were boiling.
"One hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and eighty-seven! one hundred and eighty-eight!" Jiang Chu roared and slashed out the last three knives, and with a slight touch of his feet, he jumped out of the waterfall like a swimming fish, gulping in the fresh air.
After a long time, Jiang Chu's churning qi and blood calmed down.
Within two months, Jiang Chu had already been proficient in urging the knife with force, and even urging the knife with qi he had made great progress, and as the time of practicing the knife became longer and longer, his knife speed was getting faster and faster.
At this point, Jiang Chu could slash one hundred and eighty-eight knives in one breath, and the speed of the knives was as fast as a gust of wind.
The sword is like the wind, and the "Wind Slash" to this point has been practiced by Jiang Chu to the realm of Xiaocheng, and Jiang Chu feels that he is not too far away from the Wind Slash Dacheng.
With the help of the wonders of the Jade Book World, Jiang Chu comprehended the realm of the Dao of the Sword was simply a breeze. After cultivating the sword technique to the realm of Xiaocheng, Jiang Chu retreated from the state of practicing the knife without distractions, and while practicing the knife technique, he also began to practice "Phantom Step".
Time passed slowly, and before I knew it, a few more days had passed.
One day, Jiang Chu was practicing his knife under the waterfall, and suddenly felt a throbbing in the meridians, and the true qi in his whole body actually operated on its own. He was stunned at first, then overjoyed, and hurriedly came out of the water and sat cross-legged on the ground.
The True Qi started from the dantian, and with a slow but unstoppable momentum, it slowly flowed within the meridians for several small weeks, and with each week of operation, Jiang Chu felt that the concentration of the True Qi had increased a little. When he reached the twentieth week, Jiang Chu felt a shock all over his body, and then his true qi rushed through several meridians that were usually blocked, and then the true qi in his body burst out with vitality.
After the true qi returned to the dantian, Jiang Chu stood up and glanced at his whole body, only to see that another layer of black dirt appeared on his body at some point. Jiang Chu couldn't help but laugh and said, "True Qi refining again, hehe, I didn't expect that I would enter the middle stage of the Martial Dao Double Heaven so quickly!"
After advancing, Jiang Chu felt that his strength had improved again, and he couldn't help but lift the bronze broadsword, and the void slashed a few times.
He just did it casually. But after the split, a wonderful feeling suddenly surged into Jiang Chu's heart. He was keenly aware that the few knives he had slashed at before were different from the usual slashing techniques.
How could there be such a feeling? Jiang Chu closed his eyes and recalled the feeling of practicing the knife before.
Ordinary people practice according to the exercises. But Jiang Chu has the space of the jade book and can have an epiphany at any time, and he is not satisfied with practicing according to the exercises. While cultivating, he was always thinking about the mysteries contained in the martial arts, constantly changing the angle, speed and strength of his sword, and then comprehending and perfecting the essence of it.
It was this reluctance to be satisfied and keep thinking that made Jiang Chu's progress in practicing the knife a rapid progress, and some extremely subtle changes when the knife was drawn and retracted could not escape his eyes.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and a string of water droplets fell on Jiang Chu's face, and his heart suddenly felt enlightened, and the true qi in his body surged along a wonderful meridian and passed on the bronze broadsword. As the true qi surged, Jiang Chu faced the wind and slashed out several times.
With the naked eye, the heavy bronze broadsword seemed to be fused with the wind, and only a faint sword light could be seen in the void, but there was not a trace of sword shadow at all.
The surrounding leaves slowly fell with the wind, and when they fell within the range of the wind slash, they were crushed by an invisible force.
The wind slashed, but the wind did not see the knife. At this point, the Wind Slash has finally reached its climax.
The wind slash has reached the realm of Dacheng, and even if he encounters Jiang Tianzhi again, he will have the strength to fight. However, although the Wind Slash is very powerful, with his current true qi, he can only swing three swords, and after three swords, his true qi will be consumed.
Half a month later, he was able to send out four swords in one breath.
Although there was progress, Jiang Chu was not satisfied. Therefore, when he was practicing Qingfeng Slash, he spent part of his energy cultivating "Phantom Step".
"Phantom Step" can produce several phantoms when practiced to the extreme, and it can be used for a thousand miles a day when used to hurry, which is a very good body method in low-level exercises.
When he had an epiphany in the Jade Book Space, he found that he could use his body to urge the knife technique. Jiang Chu began to try when he quit the Jade Book Space, and this method really worked.
Another half a month passed, and he was already able to swing six swords in one breath. Compared to the beginning, his strength has doubled.
Time passed like this.
Jiang Chu was cultivating and thinking at the same time, and he became proficient in running in with his body and sword skills. The wind slash that he can slash out in one breath is also slowly increasing.
On this day, Jiang Chu was practicing his knife to a hearty place, when he suddenly felt a darkness above his head, and an unknown object fell from the waterfall dozens of zhang high, smashing straight down towards him.
It wasn't the first time he'd encountered something like this. The bronze broadsword in his hand slashed as if he had eyes, and a "wind slash" slashed at an unknown object.
Only a "poof" sound was heard, and the unknown object was split by Jiang Chu and flew several meters sideways, and fell heavily to the ground.
"Huh, what the hell is this?"
Seeing the unknown object clearly, Jiang Chuden was stunned. It turned out that he was slashed by a person.
Jiang Chu gasped and thought, "Could it be that this person has cultivated his physical body to be comparable to steel, and is not afraid of swords and guns? No, the knife I just made was destroyed with true qi, and even an iron man would be cut out of a big mouth! How could this person be able to do nothing after being stabbed by a single knife based on his flesh and blood?"
Jiang Chu didn't dare to be careless, he moved his steps carefully, only to see that the guy who was slashed by him was a middle-aged man about thirty years old with scars all over his body.
Although this middle-aged man's eyes were closed, his chest was constantly rising and falling, obviously, he was not dead! Jiang Chu couldn't help but feel a little shocked in his heart, how could this be possible?
"After being stabbed so hard, he hasn't died yet! This person is definitely a master!" Thinking of this, Jiang Chu was vigilant in his heart, and stopped far away.
As if sensing Jiang Chu, the middle-aged man's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and his eyes were full of light, not at all like a seriously injured person.
He slowly turned his head, and finally fixed his gaze on Jiang Chu's body, looked at it for a while, and suddenly showed a slight look of surprise on his face, and said: "You should be cultivating the basic mental method of the 'Martial Arts Preliminary Solution', right? I didn't expect you to be able to use the basic mental method to send out such a sharp sword style! Yes, you are very good, but you are wrong to covet my things, so you must die!"
After speaking, his arm moved, followed by a palm split!