After a long night, Renon carried a thick trunk to the door of the cabin. As he walked out of the long vanished forest, he found Fiona standing there, her eyes closed, her mouth muttering, and she wondered what magic she was unleashing, only to see a pale green ripple spread out.

The elves love life and nature, she probably wants to bring that forest back to life, right? Thinking of this, the corner of Renong's mouth smiled slightly, this is a lovely girl!

"Boom!"

A cloud of yellow-brown dust rose from the door of the cabin, and Ruinon put down his heavy trunk and shouted, "Master Yanagi Yan, I've brought something!"

"Good! Just leave it there! Come to the backyard. From behind the cabin came the old, tight voice of Yanagi Rock.

Performing the levitation technique, Ruinon was as light as a swallow, and jumped to the back of the wooden house. The backyard of Yanagi's house was much shabby compared to Arroyo Constantine's house, it was just a fenced open space, less than thirty square meters, and half of it was taken up by a small vegetable garden on the left.

However, in this small and pitiful space, a row of blue-gray limestone pillars of different sizes, fat and thin, tall and low, were clearly improvised.

Yanagi Yan had a pipe in his mouth and a black iron sword in his hand and stood with his back to Ruinon. He took a deep breath of his cigarette and exhaled it long, sending the green smoke ring drifting towards the distant mountains.

"It's ...... Can you go directly to the real sword?" Seeing this, Ruinon immediately became excited.

"Do you want to run just after learning to walk, fool! Don't forget you've only been practicing swords for a day!"

"Uh......"

Liu Shengyan took off his pipe, came to the stone pillar and extinguished it, "I'm just giving you a demonstration...... Just teach you how to cut stones. ”

"Damn! it's boring!" said Ronon pouting dissatisfiedly.

"Hunger doesn't taste good, does it?"

"What? Don't you say that if you don't practice, you won't be given food?"

"It's good if you understand!" After speaking, Liu Shengyan ignored the lifting of the sword and said, "After yesterday's practice, you have also noticed that if you cut wood, you don't need to gather too much force for your sword, too much force will break the trunk, and too little agglutination will not work." ”

"Yes. ”

"Then it's different with the rock, you can't cut it without enough force. As he spoke, Liu Shengyan swung his sword at the stone pillar in front of him, only to see that the stone pillar was still standing in place. He stepped forward, stretched out his thin fingers to remove a third of the stone pillar, and continued, "The principle and technique are the same as cutting wood, except that it requires more effort. Do you understand?"

It all sounds so simple, but Renon understands that it will be much harder than yesterday's practice.

"What's the matter?

"How do you put more power on the line?" After a long day of failures yesterday, Renon found that his sword control skills had reached a bottleneck. Whenever he wanted to concentrate more force on the line, his strength would inexplicably spread out to smash the trunk. Yanagi Yan asked him to cut the stone to let him break through his own bottleneck.

Liu Shengyan's cloudy eyes stared at Ruinon for a long time and said, "You are asking this very stupid question! But I can understand your mood at the moment......

"Uh...... This ......"

"You can ask me this question today, but at the beginning I could only ask the heavens and the earth, but I couldn't ask people......" The old man sat down with an iron sword to support his slender body, took out a small poke of tobacco from the shabby and faded cloth bag, and said, "This question is really stupid, just like you know that you can run faster if you know that you can run faster if you take a bigger step and a faster step?"

Liu Shengyan's words really made Ruinong embarrassed.

The old man trembled and put a small poke of tobacco into his pipe and said, "Actually, the foot is on himself." Run as you please, or how else can you run?" he said as he tossed Rainon a stick.

"How do I run...... How do you run?" Rinon seemed to understand something.

"There are no shortcuts, child!" the old man staggered toward the house with his pipe in his mouth, "it's time to burn the jar......!"

"I've got to come on, it's really hard to be hungry! I can't let Sister Erica bear it again......" said Rinon as he lifted his stick.

More force, more concentrated force!Ruinon's brows tightened, the green tendons on his arms protruded, and the muscles tightened, "Ha!" He roared violently, swinging his stick and slashing at a stone pillar in front of him.

"Boom!"

Sure enough, the stone pillar shattered, leaving behind a cloud of grayish-white powder. Renon shook his head, obviously this result was not satisfactory to him, "Sure enough, once I reach a certain limit, I can't concentrate the amount of force on my blade, just like the energy overload principle of the elements...... So how do I restrain myself?"

Outside the cabin, the firewood in the kiln was "crackling" and burning, and Liu Shengyan squatted on the threshold, staring blankly at the wisps of green smoke rising from the chimney and drifting towards the distant mountain. Erica sat quietly by the river meditating, Sylph chased the butterflies flying among her nephew's flowers on the other side of the river, and Fiona smiled beautifully at the green shoots that had emerged from the bare stakes, like blooming flowers.

A beautiful and peaceful rural life. The only fly in the ointment was that every now and then there would be a deafening loud noise from the back of the cabin.

Liu Shengyan spat out a smoke ring and said, "It seems that he has failed again, but he should be able to make it to lunch, right?"

"No, no, no, no!" Renon clenched his fists with both hands, and pinched his knuckles with a "crackling" sound, "what the hell...... How can we gather more power into a line or a point?" he sat down on the ground in frustration, and the limestone powder stained his short black hair white.

At this moment, there was a sharp whistle in the sky, and a black shadow descended from the sky to Ruinon.

"Uh...... Tribute...... Gonzas!" Rainon stammered, thinking, "Miserable...... I'm going to be dismantled by it. However, he soon noticed that Gonzas seemed to be carrying something on his back, and that it looked like a cow in appearance.

Gonzas got up, threw a bloodied bull to the ground, and said, "You really didn't lie to me!"

"Liar...... What are you lying about?"

"What a herd! a big herd, but it's a little far...... I flew a long way north to find them. As he spoke, Gonzas kicked the carcass of the cow on the ground, "Do you want to eat it?

"Uh...... That's fine, you give this cow to Erica first, and let them eat it first. ”

"Oh, it's a rare time when you're not interested in eating. ”

"Without further ado, what kind of cow is this?" asked Ronon curiously.

"I don't know how it tastes, I just know that it tastes good. ”

Ruinon shook his head helplessly and said, "As long as you are satisfied, eat, drink, sleep, and everything is carefree, it feels good to be a wild animal." ”

"What did you say?"

"......Ahh I'm just thinking about how I can put more force into one line and make this stick cut through the rock like a sword......"

"What's so hard about that?" said Gonzas, his eyes widening, "then you can cut it with all your might! a stick cannot be used as a sword!" said Gonzas and left the backyard with the carcass of the cow, leaving Rinon alone as a log.

The sunlight swept through Rinnon's muscular body, leaving a long shadow on the ground. As time passed, the shadow became shorter, from the minute hand to the hour hand, and the shadow traveled a long 90 degrees like the hands of a clock.

"Thank you, thank you!" Gonzas!" After a long time, Renon came back to his senses, and a confident smile appeared on his face.

After her daily meditation, Erica returns from the river fetching a bucket of water and begins to prepare her three meals a day. Suddenly, Gonzas appeared in front of her with a cow on his shoulder. "Do you want beef at noon today?" asked Gonzas.

"Oh my God! this is a wasteland bison that lives in the northern part of the continent of Middle-earth! where did you get it?" exclaimed Erica, putting down the bucket.

(Wasteland bison: A cattle breed endemic to the cold regions of the northern part of the Continent of Middle-earth.) The average body length of the wasteland bison is about 230~300 cm, the tail length is about 80~100 cm, the shoulder height is about 190~210 cm, and the weight is about 550~700 kg. They are generally yellow-brown all over their bodies, covered with thick and long hairs, short and thick limbs, adapt to cold and dry natural environments, resist hunger, thirst, fatigue, and are good at climbing slopes and wading through dangers, crossing snow-capped mountains and swamps, and swimming across rivers and rapids. The thick fluff of the wilderness bison can be used for clothing tents, and the skin is the best material for tanning. ）

"Where are you going, just fly north and find it! How can it be so hard to catch this cow?"

"Ho ho ho bison, this is good, there is beef to eat at noon!" As soon as he heard that someone had caught a bison, Liu Shengyan's cloudy eyes suddenly came to his senses.

"Who said you should eat beef at noon, you have to make it yourself!" Erica said, giving him a blank look, "It's okay to eat beef, but I'll wait for Renon to come." ”

"Uh, cough, cough, cough......" Liu Shengyan immediately coughed to hide his embarrassed expression, and thought to himself: "Stinky boy, you have to come on!

Indeed, a wooden stick cannot become a sword, as long as you have a sword in your heart, even if you hold a wooden stick, you can kill a person in ten steps, and you will not be left for a thousand miles...... The mystery lies in the way of controlling the sword and the use of force...... Renon raised the stick again, thinking back to everything that had happened in the past two days.

The stick can't cut through the rock like a sword, so you have to cut it with force...... That's right! If you want to learn a sword, you must first abandon the sword, and only in this way can you achieve the unity of man and sword and become a real slut! Rui Nong recalled every word that Liu Shengyan said.

The truth of abandoning the sword to learn the sword lies in the use and control of the force, and the truth of Master Yanagi Yang's cutting of the stake and breaking the rock lies in the ...... The mystery of no sword is better than a sword......

The stick moved...... It swept across the limestone like a ghost, with no loud noise, no splashing of sand, as if the sticks had never come into contact with it, but the upper half of the limestone pillar was inexplicably separated by the deity.

"Click!" the stone pillar fell, and a smile rose, and Ruinon let out a long sigh, thinking: It's done!