Chapter 18: The Puppet
"No, the reason why this is the case is because the spiritual power condensation of the two of you is not the same. Zhong Lidao explained, "The spiritual power of your light mask is too scattered, and the spiritual power of that beam is extremely concentrated, so it has the effect of breaking the surface with points. ”
Zhang Song was stunned, but he couldn't think of a way to deal with it for a while, he was at a loss, his sword moves were sluggish, and the originally thick light mask was also half a point thinner.
Seeing this, Zhong Lidao suddenly asked, "Xiao Zhang, do you know what sword intent is?"
Zhang Song shook his head when he heard this: "I have never heard of such a thing, and I would like to ask Mr. for advice." ”
"Sword intent is also a realm, but it is not as good as cultivation. Zhong Lidao Zhengse said, "With sword intent, the sword momentum rises, the sword qi is urged, and the sword is released." Everyone's comprehension of the sword is different, and the sword intent is naturally different, you have to follow your heart and find your own sword intent. ”
Zhang Songwen only felt cold sweat trickling down his forehead, and said ashamedly: "Sir, what you said is too profound, the kid's qualifications are dull, I'm afraid I can't understand it." ”
Zhong Lidao sighed: "Then let me put it simply, what do you want to do with the sword in your hand?"
"I ......" Zhang Songwen suddenly stopped.
What did he want to do?
He didn't know either.
At first, the reason why he learned swords was only because his master loved swords. The master loves swords and knows how to use swords, so he taught him to use swords. He felt that the sword was just a weapon, and if his master loved other blades at the beginning, then most of the ones he held in his hand now were not this half-cut sword.
When the master taught him sword moves, one move to attack, one move to defend, but he preferred to defend and was not good at attacking, at that time the master said: "Song Wen, you are too kind-hearted, you can't bear to hurt the enemy, only defend and not attack, I'm afraid you will suffer a big loss in the future." ”
He remembered that at that time he replied like this - "Master, don't worry, as long as I am strong enough so that others can't break through my defenses, others will naturally not continue to fight with me." ”
Now it seems that his answer was so ironic.
Can you really do it by taking defense as offense?
"I learned to make swords, all of them were coincidences, and I didn't cling to this way. Now it seems that he may not be this material at all......"
"Why do you have to think about it? Zhong Lidao saw the confusion in Zhang Songwen's heart, and said, "At this time, you only have the sword in your hand, and there is no other choice, if you don't rely on the sword, can you kneel down and kowtow to others and beg others to spare your life? So the sword intent is important to its intent, not to the sword, you know?"
Zhong Lidao's words finally woke up Zhang Songwen.
Sword intentSword intent, the key point is not the sword, but the meaning. Drive the sword with intention, and the party is the sword intent!
After Zhang Song woke up, the originally sluggish sword moves suddenly became smart, as if the sword in his hand had turned into a part of his body.
The brilliance on the green mask flowed, and a dark green trace wandered on the surface of the mask in the direction of the long sword in Zhang Songwen's hand.
"Whoa—"
When the beam of light attacked, Zhang Song heard that the long sword flipped over, and the dark green trace was like a swimming dragon lying on the light mask, and it slammed forward along the trajectory of his long sword, and pounced on the yellow beam accurately.
The beam hits the dragon, but it doesn't penetrate it, and the angle is deflected, reflecting off the stone wall above.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom—"
The sneak attacker didn't seem to want to give Zhang Songwen time to breathe, and after missing a blow, he fired four more moves in a row, and the four yellow beams were aimed at different positions of the light mask, even if Zhang Songwen blocked one more, the other three would be able to break through his defense smoothly.
However, the four beams have not yet hit the reticle, allowing them to be cut off in the air.
Zhong Lidao finally made a move.
He just wanted to use the battle to train Zhang Songwen, but he didn't want Zhang Songwen to be injured in the battle, and the new change in the mask meant that Zhang Songwen had grown, and there was no need to force him to deal with opponents beyond his strength.
After Zhong Lidao used his sword qi to cut off the beam, his whole person turned into an afterimage, chasing the sneak attacker hiding in the soil with his perception.
The sneak attacker relied on the art of retreat to escape back and forth, like a loach in a pond, but whether he was escaping down or up, he always kept a distance of a kilometer from the road, as if something was restraining him from getting too far from here.
"Medium!"
Zhong Lidao predicted that a crescent sword qi would smash the stone wall on the left side, and then he strode over and pulled out an arm from the stone wall.
However, this is not a living person's arm, but a puppet broken arm made of spirit stones.
Zhang Songwen was surprised: "The one who attacked us was actually a puppet?"
Zhong Lidao nodded: "He has been lurking underground from the beginning, although I have detected the fluctuation of spiritual power, I can't feel the breath of a living person, so I regarded him as a mechanism hidden underground, until he suddenly moved, and then kept changing his position to find the best direction of attack, I reacted and judged that he was not a dead thing without thinking." ”
"So, this puppet is being manipulated behind the scenes. Kurizumi speculated, "Could it be that those who came first took advantage of the puppet's escape to look for treasures here, and ended up running into us by mistake?"
"It's not impossible, but I personally think that this puppet is more like a guard here, otherwise he would have broken an arm, and he should have been taken back at this time, but now he is still lurking in the dirt, looking for an opportunity to attack us, the purpose is to destroy all of us who broke into the ruins. Zhong Lidao stated his analysis.
Kurizumi asked, "Then what should we do?"
"He's a puppet, not a living man, and the only way to stop him is to pull him out of the dirt and destroy his power core. Zhong Lidao said, and the moment he finally caught the puppet staying in the soil, he flashed over in an instant, completely inserted his whole arm into the ground, and scooped the puppet out and threw it into the air.
Zhong Lidao turned his head and slashed the puppet's two legs with two crescent sword qi in succession, respectively, and then prepared to swing another sword qi to destroy the puppet's core, but just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly felt a trace of divine consciousness fluctuation from the puppet's body.
If a puppet is not a living person, how can it have divine consciousness?
Zhong Lidao hesitated, missing the opportunity to destroy the puppet.
The puppet landed as if it had fallen into water, and immediately disappeared from the ground.
Zhang Songwen saw Zhong Lidao's hesitation just now, and asked curiously: "What's the matter? Did you find something again?"
Zhong Lidao combed through what he had seen and heard after entering the ruins in his mind, and said with a smile: "This puppet, I'm afraid it's not simple. ”