"What is a sword?

"Weapons of Battle!"

"Big mistake! It's not your weapon, it's not something outside of your body, you have to think of him as a part of your body!" In the early morning, the lazy sun just peeked out of the hill with a shy face, red and not dazzling at all, very charming and lovely. A clear and loud voice came from the small wooden house by the river, and the old man Liu Shengyan changed his previous declining color, straightened his waist, and the cloudy color in his eyes disappeared, and became bright, as if he had suddenly rejuvenated a second spring.

Ruinon stood under the tree, with his back to the rising sun, with a row of wooden stakes stuck in front of him, and I saw that the row of wooden stakes was full of large and small scars.

"Look at you, what have you done?" Suddenly, Yanagi was furious, "Are you using a sword? Is this a sword? Is it a wooden stick!"

"This is a wooden stick, teacher!" Ruinon raised his hand and asked, "Why don't we practice directly with a sword?" I saw him holding a wooden stick about a meter long, which was covered with dense cracks.

"If you want to learn the sword, you must first abandon the sword, only in this way can you achieve the unity of man and sword, and become a real (sword man?/slut!) ......" After speaking, Liu Shengyan turned his body and mind with his hands behind his back and thought: Why do you always feel a little weird?

"Cheap...... Cheap...... Slut?" Ruinon stared at Liu Shengyan's "majestic" body dumbfounded, and thought: I see, no wonder people often say that people are invincible if they are cheap!

"Ahem......" Liu Shengyan also seemed to notice something, he coughed awkwardly and said, "None of this is the main thing for you at the moment, the most important thing is that you don't understand why you want to do this at all." ”

"Nonsense! I'm here to learn swordsmanship, not sticks. ”

Liu Shengyan shook his head, jumped up, reached out and broke off a branch from the top of Ruinon's head and said, "Look at it!" After speaking, he raised his right hand slightly, and the slender branch trembled slightly in the air.

No vindictiveness, no telekinesis...... Ruinon stared at the branch suspiciously and thought: What the hell is he going to do?

"What are you doing? Check the stake across from me. ”

"What?"

"Check the stake!"

"What is there to check for a stake?"

Liu Shengyan shook his head helplessly, and lazily stepped forward and poked it with a branch. Suddenly, a sudden change protruded, and the upright wooden stake was actually divided into two ends. With a soft "poof", half of the stake fell, rolled half a circle on the ground and came to Ruinon's feet.

Ruinon curiously picked up the half of the stake and looked at it carefully, "It's so flat, it's so slippery...... It's like a smooth glass mirror. As he spoke, Rinon put the half of the stake back in its place, and the cut was tightly closed, and it disappeared in an instant.

"See? This is the sword, and what are you?" Liu Shengyan clasped his hands to his chest, and his chin was raised high.

"What's the big deal about this? you must have cut through this stake with a fighting spirit or some kind of martial arts to turn the air into a sharp blade, like a magic wind blade. How is it possible to cut such a facet from such a coarse branch?"

"Douqi?

"I'm not vindictive. ”

"Then you're going to try it with magic?"

Ronon raised his hand and a blade of wind shot at the nearest stake, splitting it in half. "Look, it's the same smooth ......," Renon picked up the half-cut stake he had cut and walked over to Yanagi.

"Put it on. Yanagi just glanced at it briefly.

"As long as you press the fighting qi or magic thin enough, thin enough, and cut fast enough......" He was stunned as he put the half-cut stake back in its place, "How come?" It was true that Renon's wind blade was very sharp, and the cut was flat and smooth, but he couldn't make the cut disappear like Yanagi Yan.

"This can't be!" Renon roared, squeezing the half of the stake.

"Ha Lu, haha!" Liu Shengyan laughed three times when he saw Da Lu and said, "No matter how much you press, it won't help." ”

"It's not scientific, as long as it's fast enough and the sword is sharp enough......"

"Then you can try it with your magic sword!"

"The magic sword is exactly what I want, and that's what I feel like I'm learning a sword. Renon smiled and opened his hands, and the pale blue flames spurted out of his palms with a "poof", gathering into a bunch to form a crystal clear flame sword. "This is the sword! it's much more comfortable to hold than the rough stick. ”

"Hmph! There is no sword in your heart, and no matter how good the sword you have in your hand, it is also a wooden stick. If you have a sword in your heart, even if you are holding a wooden stick, you can kill one person in ten steps, and you won't leave a line for thousands of miles......"

Ignoring Yanagi's cynicism, Ronon swung his sword and slashed at another stake. After his flesh was strengthened by dragon blood, he possessed an unusually powerful explosive power. Muscles as strong as steel swelled, and manic energy poured out like a torrent to smash the stakes. "Damn!what's the situation?" Ruinon was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself: it must be too strong, so ...... He lifted his sword again and slashed at another stake, silently saying in his heart: the force is smaller, the speed is faster, the arm is raised, and the wrist is relaxed......

This time, Rainon didn't break the entire stake, but he did cut the half of the stake away.

"This ...... It's not scientific, do it again, ahh (Reader A reappears: Unscientific? Dare to ask where this novel is scientific?Author: Your existence is a pseudoscience, come on, drag it out and chop it up and feed it to the dogs!Reader?: Ahhhh......hh Help!Author: Well, science, harmony in the world!)

"Ruinon, he's fine, is he?" When Renon went crazy and cut the stakes, Erica took Fiona and Silver back from shopping, she frowned slightly, and couldn't help but be a little worried in her heart, "Sure enough, as a magician, he shouldn't be distracted to learn any martial arts, it's too difficult for a strong man." ”

Fiona smiled and said, "Are you so lacking confidence in him?"

"I ...... I just think he should concentrate on studying magic and not waste a lot of time on martial arts. It is true that the dual cultivation of magic and martial arts can make himself stronger in a short period of time, but then he will not be able to reach the highest peak of magic. Erica snarled bitterly, "He's wasting his magical talents, understand? Fiona!"

"What's the use of telling me? ”

"Do you think I didn't warn him? I told him last night, but instead of listening to me, he laughed at me for not understanding anything. Woooooooo

"What? You were with him last night? What did you two do?" As soon as Erica finished speaking, Fiona and Silver burst into a rage, and together they grabbed Erica by the collar and shook her head like a rattle.

"That's not the point!" Erica wailed helplessly.

"Damn! What are those crazy women doing?" Ronon raised his hand to wipe the gray dust from his face, looked at the messy wooden stake in front of him, and said, "A group of wooden sticks with only five scum in combat power dare to go against my magic sword?"

"Idiot!" Liu Shengyan's forehead protruded, and he roared angrily and picked up the cigarette stick and knocked Rui Nong to the ground, "What the hell are you proud of?"

"But ......"

"No quibbles! it's nothing!" Liu Shengyan said as he picked up a piece of wooden stake that had been cut off by Ruinon, and placed the cut side down on a relatively flat ground and asked, "Look, it's crooked, do you know what it is?"

"Well......" said Renon after pondering for a long time, holding his chin, "oh, I see, it's because the ground is uneven and slanted, which makes this piece of wood look crooked." ”

As soon as Rui Nong's words fell, he only heard a "plop" sound, and Liu Shengyan fell to the ground, "I'll go for it! Why don't you say that you are crooked?"

"Whether it is crooked or not is a reference, and I used this piece of wood as a reference to conclude that the ground is crooked. It's very scientific!"

"You don't give me sophistry, but if you can say that, then you seem to understand. Look, look, the wooden stakes in this place, the incisions are crooked one by one. ”

"What does it matter? Isn't the incision very smooth?"

Liu Shengyan glared at Ruinon and said, "If the battle order is to compete with whose weapon is harder and sharper, then what do you need martial arts for?

"But what's the difference between a flat cut and a vertical cut?" Ruinon scratched the back of his head suspiciously and asked, "The same smooth, the same flat cut is what my cut can't be restored?"

"Haha!" Yanagi laughed again, "because you're not using a sword, you're ......using a stick," he said as he lifted the branch again and gently slashed at the raised rock at his feet. There are no sharp and piercing sounds, no earth-shattering explosions, and no vindictive amazement. Everything is like a river flowing quietly, and the floating clouds floating lazily in the sky, so comfortable and natural.

Yanagi Yan's speed was very fast, and it was too fast to catch with the naked eye, but Renon still used his telekinesis to vaguely observe his movements.

The branches are still the same branches, the rocks are still the same rocks, everything here looks the same, intact and unchanged.

"Isn't it like nothing has changed?" aren't you just swinging around...... Ryanon choked in the middle of his words. I saw Yanagi touch the rock with his fingers, and in an instant, a thin crack appeared on the hard rock, and then the half of the rock above slipped down due to inertia, revealing a smooth horizontal section.

"See? Wielding a sword is not throwing a stick. The wooden stick has a round body and can be wielded at will, but the blade of the sword has a sharp edge, and the force follows the edge to the ......" Yanagi Yan took a deep breath and asked, "Do you understand what I said?"

"Master, what do you mean ......"

Liu Shengyan closed his eyes and shook his head and said: "The truth is actually very simple, it is to break the surface with a point, you have to treat the blade as a point, and the rock and the stake are one face. Swing your sword straight, concentrate all your strength on the blade, be impartial, gather a line, and break the enemy in an instant......" he said as he repeated the action slowly. The branches of the tree slashed against Renon's cheek at a great speed, and a sharp pop could be faintly heard tearing through the air and forming a vacuum.

Ruinon could sense the force and speed contained in the branch, but he couldn't feel the slightest strong wind, and he muttered in confusion, "No matter how slow the speed is, it should be able to cause air to flow!"

"Because I don't apply excess force to the air around me, you don't feel the strong wind. Saying that, Liu Shengyan retracted the branch and said, "This is the highest level of breaking through the surface with points, and never let any strength leak out! However, the key to achieving one thing is how you control the sword in your hand!"

"Controlling the Sword ......"

"Look at the scattered stakes with crooked cuts, for what? Because you didn't use your magic sword as a sword, you just swung it like a stick. ”

Rui Nong muttered thoughtfully, "The wooden stick is round, and the blade is sharp?"

"Yes, you didn't think of your magic sword as a sword, and you didn't gather your power on the blade. Just now, you just swung your sword like a rolling stick, how can the force not be dispersed?" said Liu Shengyan raised his foot and kicked half of the wooden stake on the ground and said, "A large part of your power leaks out, and it acts on the wooden stake in all directions, so when you cut off the wooden stake, the severed part also flies out in the direction of the force." ”

"Since force is the key, what is the relationship between this vertical and horizontal wave, the flat cut and the oblique cut?"

"It's okay!" Yanagi said categorically.

"Damn!" Ruinon fell to the ground.

"But if you're a newbie, it's too much to do. Yanagi said, "For beginners in swordsmanship, the most difficult thing to master is how to control the sword. A large part of the force will radiate from the plane of the blade in the direction you swing the sword, just like this......" Yanagi raised his hand and slashed the branch away, leaving only a smooth diagonal incision.

Ruinon gasped and said, "It's okay to be freehanded?"

"If you have a sword in your heart, you will naturally have a sword in your hand...... The sword is not held in your hand, but hidden in your heart. Saying that, Liu Shengyan shook his head, "This is just the foundation of the foundation of swordsmanship. ”

"I ...... Damn, that's called foundation?" Ryanon's jaw dropped to the ground.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and pick up a stick and go to the forest ahead to cut down a tree!"

"Cut down trees?" Rui Nong asked, staring at Liu Shengyan in confusion.

"Didn't you see that the wooden stakes for you have run out?" said Liu Shengyan, picking up the scattered wood and walking towards the kiln, "Make the best use of it, at least this thing can be used as firewood." Why don't you go and chop wood? Otherwise, you won't even have enough firewood for cooking tonight!"

"Uh...... Yes, master!" said Ronunsch, who used his flying skills to speed towards the woods behind the hut.

"You can't use any fighting spirit or telekinesis!" Liu Shengyan added, looking at Ruinong's distant back.

"You don't use a sword to practice swords, but you use a wooden stick to ......" Erica and Fiona, who were preparing lunch, looked at each other suspiciously, "I don't teach swordsmanship, and you still tell him to cut down trees? What kind of plane is this? Could he be an old charlatan?"