Chapter 37: Emerald Feather
Under the shadow of the candle, a man and a cat sat together.
"I can beat you easily, but honestly, you can burst higher than I can." The black cat said, "It's hard for me to defeat the six lives, but you can." Because the fire and strength can be resisted by the strong true qi, but the flying geese and quail heads on a snowy night cannot. β
Pei Ye nodded slowly, and suddenly said curiously: "You don't have a meridian tree, and the Xuan Qi you absorb only supports the growth of the body, and growing the body is the way for you to become stronger, right?" β
"Hmm."
"How do you measure the progress of physical growth? Is it all about feelings? β
"Weight."
"Huh?" Pei Ye directly lifted it up by the neck - a little more than half a catty.
"Not this." The black cat hung in the air and looked at him, "It's to restore the weight behind the real body." β
"Can you get back to your true body now?"
"Yes."
"Huh?!" Pei Li's eyes widened, he always thought that it couldn't return to its beautiful body form for the time being, "Can it still be?!" β
"Hmm."
"Hurry! Recover quickly and I'll see. β
"No, it's very costly."
"Just once, take a look."
β.β
The black cat glanced at him, and in a pair of glass-like blue eyes, the pupils suddenly stretched up and down.
The skull melts and grows forward, and every detail of the body is undergoing a dazzling and wonderful transformation.
The supple hairs slowly fit and gather, and the gaps between them are silently flattened, as if they have become a kind of black leather that moistens jade. At the same time, another crescent-shaped slit appeared on this piece of black leather, gradually becoming clear and distinct.
Along these gaps, countless half-moon shapes emerge from the black leather.
Soon the texture of these black crescents changed from soft leather to tough jade, hard, cold, and smooth.
Scales.
At the same time, the body was growing, the bones were changing, and the handsome claws were already sticking out.
Within two or three breaths, an otherworldly creature transformed in front of Pei Li, its head was handsome, its body was unscrupulous, and it was self-rising without wind.
Pei Ye looked at it with bright eyes.
No matter how many times he has seen it, Pei Li will be amazed by the beauty of this strange beauty that is not like the world, it is the only life form that is beyond the world and the world, as if everything is covered with yellow dust, only it is a piece of jade.
However, only arm-length.
Pei Ye slowly stretched out his hand to support it under it, and the black cockroach fell and coiled up, handing over all the weight to him.
Pei Ye checked it - twenty pounds.
"Will your strength become stronger in your current state?"
"No, the cat's body is enough to exert its full power now." "When the real body exceeds two hundred catties, it won't work." The excess can only exert its power if it is transformed into a real body. β
"Two hundred pounds"
Pei Ye suddenly thought of a puzzling question: "Wait a minute, I didn't see you swallowing anything just now, is this real body usually hidden in your body?" β
"Yes."
"What kind of Tibetan method is that? The extra bone and flesh are compressed? β
"Sort of."
"The weight shouldn't have changed, huh?" Pei Ye frowned, and suddenly he thought of a terrifying possibility along this line of thought, "Kitten! How small can you compress this compression? You can fit twenty pounds now, but when you have two hundred pounds, two thousand pounds, you won't becomeβ"
Pei Ye stretched out his arms: "Such a big, such a fat cat, right?" β
"It's not this kind of compression." The form of the black cockroach slowly faded, and a small black ball reappeared in Pei Li's palm, and then it stood up and stretched its legs and feet, "This part of the body that disappeared is in a special state of transformation between Xuan Qi and flesh and blood, they exist in the body, but they do not have weight. β
"Oh!" Pei Ye seemed to understand, "Magical." β
"Any questions?"
"Hmm, how is your cultivation speed?"
"Ten days ago, my real body was only as heavy as this cat."
Pei Ye raised his head and thought for a moment: "That's almost two catties a day." β
"Well, it could have been faster, but I had to feed you blood."
"How fast is faster?"
"Four pounds a day."
Pei Ye suddenly looked at it and sighed: "It's a pity." β
"What a pity?"
"It's a pity that I didn't know that you could turn back into your true body at the time, otherwise I would have been able to see you for such a long time." Pei Ye compared his hands slightly, imagining the scene, and smiled and flicked the black cat's little face left and right.
The black cat looked at him coldly.
"It's okay." Pei Ye put it away when he saw it, pulled up the quilt and lay down on the bed, "Sleep." Kitten lights out. β
The black cat paced over and swallowed the flames from the oil lamp.
ββ
When he woke up the next day, Pei Ye opened his eyes and felt the moist coolness in the air.
Turning over and pushing open the window, there was a silky drizzle in the gloomy sky.
Pei Ye took a deep breath of the cool air, lazy himself, and began to wash and eat. After everything was cleaned up, he still left the kitten at the inn and walked towards the martial arts hall with his sword on his back.
I still entered through the side door, and I came half an hour early today, and the museum was still quite quiet, but when I passed through the west courtyard, I heard the faint sound of a fine sword inside.
Pei Ye listened, suddenly remembered something, and paused slightly.
- Is this the scene when the night girl listens to her sword practice through the wall?
So pei ye stopped and stood curiously, staring at his eyebrows and tilting his head, the sound of the sword came into his ears, like a drizzle and a gust of wind, it sounded like, like. Like what I don't know.
I couldn't hear anything at all.
How could anyone hear from this sound what kind of swordsmanship the people were using-Pei Ye couldn't even be sure if the people inside were using swords.
Lifting his steps and continuing to walk, he came to the martial arts field, which was empty and silent.
Just when he thought he was the first, after stepping through the door, there was a heavy, violent gasp from the right.
Pei Ye turned his head to see that in the cool breeze and drizzle, the woman was like a piece of hot iron, and the white smoke steamed up from her body, pulled into ethereal lines, and slowly dissipated in mid-air.
It's like a humanoid incense burner.
The entire martial arts field was empty, but she picked a corner that was the least noticed, and after a round of movements, Zhang Junxue slowly lowered the two stone locks, and the sound of her lungs bulging out was like a bellows.
Pei Li nodded slightly towards the door.
"It's so early." Pei Ye frowned slightly.
Zhang Junxue let out a sullen "um", picked up the knife again, and began to practice the "Waist Chopping Knife".
To tell the truth, this woman used this knife to make this knife technique, which really has a unique momentum, a mighty knife momentum, and a happy force, not only in actual combat, but also very beautiful in appearance.
But Pei Ye out of his own understanding of the "martial arts rules", although people did not shy away from it, nor did he stare directly at other people's knife skills.
Pei Li stepped aside, unloaded his head and moved a little, and also pulled out his sword from the sheath.
The rain fell on the sword and condensed into small beads, Pei Li's wrist shook, and he stood still holding the sword.
The next form of the cicada is [wings].
This trick is a small threshold. Judging from the internal theory of this swordsmanship, the cicada has come out of its shell and flies with wings, which is naturally different; From the perspective of the style of sword moves, there have also been great changes, from temptation, entanglement, and trickery, to becoming upright and light, and the temperament is also handsome.
This is a sword of momentum, or a sword of preparation.
It's not an attack, it's a retreat and avoidance, the stance of the sword move, the flow of power in the body, it's all about preparing for the next move.
Because of this, the difficulty of this move has increased by several levels.
Attacking in battle is the most common action, but how to skillfully collect and avoid and not make "retreat" become a "rout" is a great test for sword wielders.
When Pei Ye was reading the book and dismantling this move, his eyes did not only focus on this one, but combined it with the next sword [Qingming] to understand.
At this time, I practiced formally, and the next move was always in my heart.
This is again the benefit of "first understand the sword scripture, and then start practicing", if he has not understood the next sword, practicing this sword will be half the effort.
The main points of this move are only in two places, one is their own accumulation, which is the purpose of this move, if the accumulation is not done well, this move is equivalent to useless; The second is to deal with the enemy in front of the enemy, that is, to ensure that this trick can be used safely, so that the gains outweigh the losses.
There are several ideas listed in the sword book, but if you want to use them freely in battle, you naturally can't follow the script, you still need your own level, experience, eyesight, and even courage.
If this move is really used under the nose of the enemy, even if you lose some of the opportunity because of it, you will definitely get double the reward for the next move.
This move is indeed much more difficult, Pei Ye spent half an hour, and he is roughly familiar with the posture of this move, but there is still a distance from learning.
At this time, breakfast was served again, and Pei Ye finished eating, and started the day's training process again.
First of all, it is still a morning class to consume food by the way, yesterday I ended the teaching of "White Bamboo Pavilion", and today I changed a master to talk about "Cuiyu Sword Gate".
More than 20 people moved the futon and sat down neatly, and a middle-aged woman in her forties with a gentle temperament walked onto the field. She was dressed in a cyan military uniform and had a slender light sword hanging from her waist.
"Hello everyone."
The woman smiled, her temperament was stable, and she spoke softly and calmly, and she outlined the Cuiyu Sword Gate in a few words.
The Emerald Feather Sword Gate stands in the Yilan Mountain, and is named after the many beautiful kingfishers that live in the mountain. This sect is actually the oldest among the three schools of Bowang, and the school is eighty years earlier than Baizhu Pavilion and one hundred and thirty years earlier than Qijiao Cave. Even if you count the predecessors, it will be two hundred years earlier.
The Emerald Feather Sword Gate has inherited a profound kingfisher culture, and their swords are also like kingfishers, light, bright, and rainy like the wind. As far as the inheritance of swordsmanship is concerned, in fact, the foundation of the Cuiyu Sword Gate is deeper than that of the Seven Jiao Cave.
"The Cuiyu Sword Sect has fifteen places this year, and fifteen disciples have been sent, all of whom are above the third life." The female master continued.
Fifteen. Pei Ye couldn't help but open his mouth slightly.
This is the superiority of the sect's cultivation method, Zheng Shou is a first-class strong county, this year they have seventeen places, but only seven have entered the Longmen class, and the rest naturally do not meet the requirements of the realm of "three lives".
"According to the rules of the Cuiyu Sword Gate, disciples can cultivate the "Jade Collection" after three lives, and most of them stop at the 'Blue Light' chapter. If you encounter a disciple of the Cuiyu Sword Sect in the martial arts competition, most of them will have to face this sword technique. The female master slowly drew her sword, "I'll rehearse it for everyone first." β
I saw her standing up and clenching her fists, performing a dignified martial salute, and then pulling her footsteps, her body suddenly fell, and at the same time, a light sword light pierced out, pointing obliquely at the sky.
Pei Li's eyes lit up slightly, and he straightened his body.
Then the toppled body drew a smooth circle in mid-air, as if an invisible thread hung from the air to hang her.
As the figure turned, the next sword stabbed out from the back of the waist.
This is really a unique swordsmanship, Pei Ye looked at it with bright eyes. The body moves so smoothly in the air, I don't know how to exert force inside, but on the outside, it does look like a bird that doesn't have to touch the ground.
In her body and sword, you don't see much dependence on the earth.
After such a set of fluttering feather-like swordsmanship was completed, the audience was silent.
There is no need to say it at all, but anyone who has some eyesight can see that this is not an imitation, but the original version of the so-called "blue light" chapter!
And this female master in green clothes is probably from the Cuiyu Sword Sect!
The female master glanced at the silent scene, picked up the scabbard and put the sword back into the sheath, and said with a gentle smile: "I see that some of the students' faces are white, which is very good, it means that you are participating in the Dragon Gate class for the first time, and I wish you don't have to have a second time." β
There was a burst of laughter from the field.
The female master didn't sell Guan Zi anymore, and gently pointed out the key: "There has been an eleven years between the two days between my entry and exit, but the family teacher has said the same sentence: Cui Yu's sword is indispensable. β
Pei Ye actually realized why someone's face turned pale at this time, but it didn't prevent him from applauding first.
"Every year, I will demonstrate Cui Yu's swordsmanship for everyone, if anyone can really touch the life of Cui Yu's disciples after watching it a few times, I ask you to go to Yilan Mountain to learn swords."
Although the Emerald Feather Sword Sect has been weak in recent years, these words still show an old sect's confidence in its swordsmanship inheritance.
In fact, it is true, this sword gives Pei Ye a very good feeling, of course it has strengths and weaknesses, but even the shortcomings are not "defects", let alone "life".
Even if he shows it ten more times, he will only be more familiar with it, and the final victory or defeat can only be found from the actual combat game of the sword man.
"I also hope that everyone will not learn too much from victory and defeat, and it is already a pleasure to meet friends with martial arts." The woman said with a smile, and then began to use the drill just now to tell them about the style characteristics of the disciples of the Cuiyu Sword Sect, and when they needed examples, they would practice again, and they really did not hide their selfishness.
Wait for an hour to pass, the "blue light" chapter has been talked about almost, the female master said that the end of the day, and then talk about the "Jade Shadow" chapter, and on the third day, she will start the trial.
After that, he said goodbye to the courtesy.
The cadets also stood up from the futon.
Pei Li only had time to listen to two morning classes that explained the sect like this, and he felt that the style was very different.
Yesterday, when talking about Baizhu Pavilion, the old master was obscure and careful, only talking about style and response, and the specific moves did not involve a style.
And today, this female master talked about the Cuiyu Sword Gate, but it was thorough, and she only revealed the true qi operation.
Just because I am confident that the swordsmanship itself is excellent, I know that even if you understand it clearly, you still have to play in a dignified manner on the field.
(End of chapter)