Actual combat is the criterion for testing a soldier's strength.

In the blink of an eye, another month has passed, Kong Ming is familiar with those few sword skills, even if he closes his eyes, he can use them accurately, this month is also the most comfortable day after Kong Ming came to the barracks, although Kong Ming is still called by the black wolf after training every day, punched and kicked, or teased by the recruits who come together, although Kong Ming has to do some chores for the old headhunter every day, and after the daily training, Kong Ming still uses a little time to meditate, compared to the first three months, Kong Ming's days are much more comfortable。 Of course, due to Kong Ming's efforts, Kong Ming's body has also undergone great changes, probably because of his adolescence, Kong Ming's height has grown to more than 1.6 meters, and his body is much stronger, and the person appears strong and powerful, compared to the original magic apprentice, it is simply two people.

"Whew!!" Kong Ming put down the sword, the tip of the sword was on the ground, the morning training made Kong Ming tired enough, at this time a young man in his twenties came over, called Kasia, he had flaxen hair, about one meter nine tall, light blue eyes, although the military uniform on his body was torn, but it was clean and tidy, and he carried a different long sword on his back, the long sword was made by himself before Kasia came to the army, he paid for a famous blacksmith near the village, which was from the same village as Kong Ming, before he became a soldier, he already had the strength of a junior swordsman, he was a madman The kind of madman who was born specifically for battle, before he came, he was looking for people everywhere to challenge to improve his levelAfter coming, because he was dissatisfied with the management, he put down his squad leader on the spot, and beat their squad leader very wolf, which made the black wolf very annoyed, so he taught Cassia a lesson, this time Cassia lay on the bed for nearly ten days, the black wolf was intact, and after practicing for three more days, he went to the black wolf to challenge, the second time, he lay on the bed for eight days, the black wolf was slightly injured, the third time he lay down for eight days, the black wolf was slightly injured, the fourth time, both of them were down, the difference is that Kasia lay for nine days, the black wolf lay for five days, until the fifth time, the black wolf lay for seven days, and Kasia stood and walked out of the training ground, because after the fourth challenge, Kasia broke through the bottleneck of the junior swordsman and reached the intermediate swordsman. Since then, Kasia has come to challenge the black wolf every once in a while, but he never lies down again, but the black wolf often plays and disappears. This result made Kasia very annoyed, so he often went to other teams to challenge those middle and senior swordsmen, in general, in the same level of challenges, he has almost no opponents, in the battle against the higher level of swordsmen, he is also less victorious and more losing, so to speak, the barracks is the best place for his training, because the confrontation here is inevitable, and it cannot be avoided, for the high-level battles is a way to quickly improve the actual combat level of the fighters, for those captains this is a good way for them to stand up, after all, there are almost no senior swordsmen in the countryside, only a few intermediate swordsmen, and their level of storage, they will not care, a madman like Kasia, is almost nonexistent, so to speak, the exception of the exceptions.

"Hey, young man, don't you see the old headhunter. Kasia said to Kong Ming. Kong Ming stopped training, but his posture did not change the same, and said calmly: "He was still here just now, and now I don't know where he is, why are you looking for him for something?"

"Oh, it's nothing, no one has been my opponent these days, I feel bored, the old headhunter and the black wolf said, find me a training errand, let me come over today. ”

"Aren't you going to challenge the other captains?"

"Alas, they're all avoiding me now, it's frustrating. Kasia said distressedly. And Kong Ming was also secretly smiling in his heart, thinking, you are so interested, and people are so belligerent, of course people are avoiding you, and it is difficult for others to make themselves tired? But the next sentence made Kong Ming fall from heaven to hell. "The old headhunter and the black wolf said that let me teach the worst member of our team to the penultimate one, and let me join the sword soldier regiment of the Kari Guard. And it's only ten days, otherwise, I'll just stay in this place where birds don't, and I won't be able to challenge others in the future. ”

"Are you referring to me?" asked Kong Ming, confused.

"That's right, come on, use your sword, and attack me at once. ”

As soon as Kong Ming heard Kasia's words, the anger in his heart kept burning. The eyes that looked at Kasia also had a little more determination. With his sword in both hands, he slashed straight at Kasia. Kasia also slashed with a sword, and the two swords met in the air, and a huge force shook Kong Ming's hands to the point that his hands trembled, and Kong Ming's sword quickly flew back upside down. The spine of the sword hit Kong Ming's chest, and Kong Ming was shocked back more than ten steps before he barely stood still, "The split can only be used when the strength of you and the opponent is not much different, otherwise you will be like now, and you will even be split into two pieces by the enemy, if his sword is a sword." Kong Ming listened to Kasia's words, his hands trembled constantly, that sword Kong Ming did not grasp well, the hard result was something that Kong Ming could not afford, if it was on the battlefield, Kong Ming's combat effectiveness would definitely be affected by Yan zhòng. "Remember, when you must leave some strength, just like this sword, you can use seven points of strength, leave three points of strength for unexpected situations. Kong Ming listened to Kasia's words, thought for a while, lifted the sword with both hands, and started to rush towards Kasia, still a split, this time he only used eight points of strength, and was still slashed by Kasia's sword, but because he left two points of strength, he could also change the direction of the sword at the moment when he was shaken away by Kasia, and the shock in his hand was not so strong, Kong Ming took a few steps back, his hand was still trembling, but it was not as strong as the first reaction. Kong Ming put the sword down, the tip of the sword was on the ground, his hand relaxed, he gently held the sword, lowered his head, thought about it, and asked, "When will you use all your strength?"

"When you must die, otherwise you must retain some strength, remember that reserved strength is the key to your comeback, of course, this is only when your opponent is about the same strength as you. If he's too much stronger than you, it's useless how much strength you have, and if you're too much stronger than him, you don't have to keep your hands at all. ”

What Kasia didn't say was that only the sword skills and strength under the determination to die would get the biggest breakthrough, and only people who often hovered on the verge of death would break through the limits of people's physiology and heart, so he would often look for people to challenge, but in the current situation, it is not suitable to say this to Kong Ming. Because now is the time to practice swordsmanship.

Kong Ming raised the heavy sword in his hand again, stared straight at Kasia, rushed forward again, and slashed at Kasia again, Kasia still split Kong Ming with a sword, in this situation I don't know how many times, Kong Ming finally couldn't hold the heavy sword in his hand that seemed to be as heavy as a mountain, he was half kneeling on the ground, his face was full of sweat and constantly flowing, his mouth was constantly panting, his body was constantly oozing uncomfortable liquid, the pain in his hand had long been taken for granted, and he didn't feel how, his whole body was like a ball of dough, sore without a trace of strength, and the sword was thrown aside。 Seeing Kong Ming's appearance, Kasia seemed to be even more annoyed, and yelled at Kong Ming: "** belongs to the pig, he only knows how to rush forward, he only knows how to use splitting, what about the other things that the old headhunter taught you? The sword is not dead, the fighting spirit is only one of the main things, and the sword skill supported by the strong fighting spirit is the sword of the strong, and only in this way can the whole sword be played." And the sword skills supported by the fighting spirit can only be used flexibly to defeat the enemy, and the rigid sword skills are to kill people. ”

"I just want to practice what kind of effect the chop can have, so I don't have to react so strongly!" said Kong Ming to Kasia with a bitter face.

"Oh, is it? Then don't pretend there, come on, I'll let you experiment more?" Kasia said annoyedly, and put on a look of preparing for battle, Kong Ming was already tired, but his heart was unwilling, his hands trembled and picked up the sword on the ground, made a posture of preparing for battle, and rushed towards Kasia again, Kasia showed a contemptuous smile on his face, intending to see how Kong Ming was making a fool of himself again. In the process of rushing towards Kasia, Kong Ming has always been in a posture of about to split, but when he was about three meters away from Kasia, Kong Ming's left toe suddenly kicked to the left back, and his body half rushed towards Kasia's left side, and the tip of the sword in his hand was backwards, making a posture of using a sword to block, but if Kassie followed the original split posture, he would definitely slash to the middle of the sword, and then after Kasia's sword slashed, it would inevitably form a posture of pulling with a sword to Kasia, and at this time, 90% of Kasia's sword would make Kasia's sword cut。 But Kasia is worthy of being an intermediate swordsman, how rich the combat experience is, and the strength of the sword split in his hand has increased a few points, completely destroying Kong Ming's original plan to block first and then pull, and Kong Ming put the sword at a certain angle with Kasia's sword, not allowing Kasia to directly split Kong Ming away, but Kong Ming still took a step forward to Kasia's left rear side, the sword in his hand was stunned, and a numb feeling was transmitted from the sword handle to his hand, Kong Ming hurriedly retreated with a backward step, and at the same time loosened his hand and then tightened his grip on the sword in his hand to avoid the shock of the summoning sword。 I have to say that Kasia is indeed a master, and in the process of teaching, both the grasp of strength and the comments on Kongming's shortcomings are very in place.

"Well, that's interesting, but you're still not fully playing what a warrior is supposed to do?"

"What's the matter?" asked Kongming suspiciously.

"Bah," Kong Ming was kicked by Kasia and flew out more than ten meters. Then he watched Kong Ming stand up with interest, and said slowly: "Soldiers are not tired of cheating." ”

"You?** bastard!!" Kuming scrambled up in annoyance and yelled at Kasia.

"Haha!" Kasia laughed for a while, and said sternly: "You have already died on the battlefield, you no longer have the power to be angry, don't think I'm playing with you, now I'm kicking you, making fun of you, you can't beat me, you can still be angry and angry, but on the battlefield you don't have the ability to be angry, because this is to pay for your stupidity just now, and then come." ”

"What is a soldier who is not tired of cheating?" Kong Ming carefully touched a wound on his body, half-knelt on the ground, raised his head, and looked at Kasia with a trace of unwillingness and incomprehension in his eyes.

"Hmm," Kasia pondered for a moment, "I can't say this clearly, but the old headhunter once told me that when fighting the enemy, you must do whatever it takes, that is, you must use all the methods you can use to defeat your enemy, maybe this is a saying that soldiers are not tired of deceit, maybe there are several better explanations that I don't know, it's up to you to find it later." ”

After listening to Kasia's explanation, which is not an explanation, Kong Ming lowered his head and quietly pondered what Kasia said and what happened to him during this period of time, Kong Ming knew that it was also because he and Kasia and the old headhunter came from the same village, and he was also the weakest one in the village, otherwise the old headhunter would not be so interested in teaching a cannon fodder-level character, and their actions and remarks are the light of Kongming's life at this stage, whether the soldiers are tired of deceit, or unscrupulous, in the end, there is only one point, that is, to live, then they must win the battle with the enemy, and with Kong Ming's current skills, they will not be able to hurt Kasia in any way。 Kong Ming stood up, and kept repeating the two idioms of "soldiers are not tired of deceit" and "unscrupulous", and the sword frantically killed Kasia, while at the same time constantly fusing the sword skills and pace taught by the old headhunter. Looking at Kong Ming's somewhat crazy appearance, a trace of pity flashed in Kasia's eyes, at this age of Kong Ming, when he should have studied with the old mage, it was a person's most precious childhood, and it was the most memorable stage of a person's life, but he was trained in this place with a large number of people of different ages who had been captured from all over the world for the personal ambition of the damned Prince Kari. Although he couldn't bear it in his heart, the sword in Kasia's hand did not relax at all, constantly attacking and defending Kong Ming from all aspects, and on the one hand, constantly commenting on the gains and losses in Kong Ming's sword skills. Kong Ming didn't know why the old headhunter and Kasia tried so hard to help him, but he also knew that if he didn't work hard and didn't try his best to improve his ability, then his first battle would be his final retreat. With a sword, he rushed towards Kasia step by step, was kicked away by the other party again and again, and thought again and again, and finally when Kong Ming couldn't get up anymore, this training was over.

Kong Ming sat on the ground, looking at Kasia, his chest was panting sharply, sweat continued to flow, he had no strength left, and the fighting energy on his body had been exhausted, looking at Kasia's clean clothes, Kong Ming really didn't believe that person had exhausted his fighting energy, that was simply the person who came to play.

"Aren't you tired?" asked Kong Ming, confused.

"If you could be like me one day, and then come and teach you what you are now, you will be the same, alas, it's really not challenging, wasting my time. ”

"You cow, if I want to surpass you one day, I will waste a little time like you do today. ”

"Haha, you're so humorous, okay! I'm waiting for that day. Kasia said cheerfully.

Looking at Kasia's appearance, Kong Ming relaxed his body and lay down on the ground, he was so tired, this was really not a human life, he didn't even want to move.

"Bang!" A sound sounded, and Kasia threw a stone at Kong Ming's body, "Sit up, meditate, now at this time, only persistence will make greater improvement, otherwise it will be harmful to cultivation." ”

"You just let me lie down for a while, I'm exhausted. ”

"Bang, bang, bang!!" three more stones. hit Kong Ming's body, and it was heavier and heavier each time, Kong Ming knew that if he continued like this, it would be very difficult for the birdman to die, so he could only slowly get up and meditate on the spot. At the beginning, there was no bit of fighting spirit element into Kong Ming's body for a long time, but gradually a little bit of fighting energy elements began to enter Kong Ming's body, into the blood of the body, and it was getting faster and faster, and finally full of Kong Ming's bloodline, it was really a little bit of progress compared to the original, this discovery made Kong Ming excited, if every time he used up his fighting energy or magic in the future, then there would be a little bit of progress, although it was not a lot, but it was also a lot, and the progress would definitely become more and more obvious。

"How do you feel?" A voice came from the front, it was the voice of the old headhunter, Kong Ming raised his head, "A little bit of progress, obviously, hmm, where is Kasia?"

"He didn't have the interest to wait here for so long, he had already gone back, it stands to reason that you should have replied a long time ago, maybe your physique is too poor, you are an hour later than others. ”

"And that said?"

"Of course, everything has its own truth, but there are some that we know and some that we don't know, and for what we know, we can learn to master it, and for what we don't know, we usually let it be compared with what we are familiar with, but further exploration until we master it, so learning is also a necessary element to become a good fencer. Just like training, your body is better than others, then your recovery ability will be stronger than others, the recovery time will be shorter, and vice versa, it will be much longer, and the reason why you feel that your fighting spirit has increased a little bit is because I don't know what, but I know that once a person exhausts all his fighting energy, then his fighting spirit will increase a little bit, which is why Kasia goes to find someone to compete all day long, only in this way will he continue to improve his fighting spirit, and constantly familiarize himself with the use of sword skills, only in this way will he really improve。 ”

"So can you use this method to improve yourself all the time?"

"Of course it won't be that simple, otherwise, there are not many masters in the world to count, as long as two opponents of equal strength fight all day long, then they will not enter the point of the sword god together? The old headhunter said with a wry smile.

"Then on what kind of Cheng dù can you use this method?" Kong Ming had no idea of giving up.

"Well, let me think about it, it seems like this is suitable for people of all levels, at least as far as I know, but how well it progresses is not something I can know. ”

"So, you've been asking Kasia to compete with others?"

"This is the only way to unleash Kasia's potential, and you are the same, before the war begins, because this is the best and most cost-effective way for people like us to do. There is no other way to make progress in the constant beating, and I don't want no one in the village to go back to the village after the war is over, but I think there are certainly not many people who can go back. Of the more than 300 people we joined the army that year, less than 20 of us returned to the village, most of the others died in battle, and a small number of them were left out and never returned. The old headhunter had a sentimental look on his face, and his eyes looked into the distance. Kong Ming also felt the stagnation of the air for a while, stood up silently, lifted his sword, recalled the movements and postures just now, and thought about Kasia's words, moving slowly and slowly doing the sword skills taught to him by the old headhunter.