Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Thousand Years of Martial Arts
Because it is all a matter of your willingness, the transfer of power has not had too many twists and turns, and it is not possible to rebel against the Nine Underworld Domains openly now, so it is only announced to the outside world that the city lord Ling Wenjin has handed over the military power to Ling Xiyue.
Ling Xiyue ordered the compilation of the calendar, it was already winter, and it was almost the end of the year, but Ling Xiyue still named this year "Martial Arts Thousand Years".
The new person in power needs to establish a certain merit to stabilize his position, plus this is a society where men are inferior to women, women should do more logistics work, and only by letting them understand that Ling Xiyue's strength exceeds gender can the situation be truly stabilized. It's just that considering that it's winter, it's just preparing for war, not declaring war directly, and waiting until the beginning of spring next year to really declare war.
The exercises created by Jiang Ming and Ling Xiyue have been widely spread, with a total of thirty-nine exercises and supporting cultivation methods, each with its own strengths, some are good at speed, some are good at endurance, some are good at agility, some are good at attacking, and some have no combat advantage, but their cultivation speed is particularly fast...... There are also exercises that can combine two or more advantages, but they are often more difficult to cultivate.
Among them, the most popular is "Tai Hao", which is a very strong and yang exercise, the single attack power is very powerful, and only the true qi can penetrate the defense of the person who cultivates the "Nine Spiritual Formula", and thirty percent of the people who choose the exercise choose this.
During the cultivation of the exercises, there are many people who choose the wrong exercises and regard their preferences as their specialty, some of them make mistakes and continue to practice regardless of the dangers, and some of them change their cultivation regardless of the dangers.
Because there were too many people who changed the exercises, coupled with the influence of the atmosphere of not hiding from each other, they slowly found out several sets of small methods that were specially used to transfer the exercises.
The emergence of this method is very important for true martial artists, because the previous martial arts exercises were relatively rough, because they had to be disguised as the Nine Spiritual Techniques, so many places could not be used to the fullest, and now after they are freed from the shackles, they cannot easily change their cultivation.
With the emergence of powerful conversion exercises, the risk of them switching to cultivation is reduced a lot, and they can slowly integrate the specialties of the new exercises into the original exercises.
Seven more exercises were derived from this, but twelve of the exercises compiled by Jiang Ming were abandoned because people often had problems when practicing.
Some admirers of Jiang Ming wanted to defend Jiang Ming: "There is no problem with those exercises themselves, but they don't meet people who are suitable to cultivate them, it's not the fault of the exercises, but the fault of their lack of talent." ”
This kind of defense Jiang Ming is still very useful, and what they said is not wrong, some exercises need to go through too many and too complex meridians when cultivating, so they are easy to make mistakes, they themselves are no problem, and they are even very powerful.
However, Jiang Ming finally abandoned them, and on the basis of "Taihao", he integrated those complicated, error-prone, but effective ways to increase power, forming a new exercise "Shaoyang Cave Golden Formula", the attack power and cultivation speed have reached the extreme, and even the power of true qi alone can leapfrog the level, but the difficulty of cultivation is also very high.
Fortunately, this exercise is improved on the basis of "Taihao", they can first cultivate "Taihao", and then slowly modify it into "Shaoyang Cave Golden Formula", even if the modification fails, it can also increase some power.
The creation of this exercise has increased the number of cultivators of "Taihao" a lot, reaching as much as sixty percent, and the rest either have their own thoughts, or they are not suitable for cultivating "Taihao".
However, after Jiang Ming corrected the misunderstandings in the study of the exercises, he no longer paid attention to these things, how they cultivated was their own business, he only received the results of their cultivation feedback, and no longer cared about their choices.
And there has been new progress in weapons, after a large number of experiments and the craftsmen have been studying day and night, they have finally found a weapon suitable for the new true qi, especially suitable for "Taihao", which is one of the reasons why the cultivators of "Taihao" account for more than half.
However, the difference from the expected is that the adaptability of the weapon has little to do with the material, as long as it is a hard and resilient metal, which can also be done with the original weapon of the Ranger. However, it has a lot to do with the forging method of the weapon, and the weapon forged by the usual polishing method does not cooperate much with the true qi, but the weapon forged using the "stacked forging method" is very easy to exert the power of the true qi.
This is a means of retaining the stacks after the weapon is formed, and using the stacks to improve the durability of the weapon, which is a great test for the craftsman's skills, and the more stacks remain, the more suitable it is for the play of true qi.
Assuming that the two warring sides are in close contact every time and do not hit the opponent's vital point, then the victory or defeat of the battle depends on the strength of the weapon and the increase of true qi, but as long as the weapon is not cut off, then no matter how strong the opponent's weapon is, it will have no effect on itself, as long as you have the upper hand in each battle, and the other party will be defeated by the accumulation of continuous dark injuries.
For this reason, although the stacking method is relatively valuable, it is still not much more expensive than ordinary weapons, after all, it is strong and not sharp, and it cannot determine the victory or defeat of a single battle.
And the new type of True Qi is very terrifying when combined with a weapon with stacks due to its particularly strong penetration.
This happens when two knives collide when two knives collide when they are also evenly matched:
The true qi of the person who cultivates the new type of true qi will condense into a line, ignoring the weapon, ignoring the distance, and directly slashing on the opponent's body, but if the opponent is not cultivating a new type of true qi, then the opponent's true qi and the power of the weapon will fall on his own knife, as long as the material of the weapon can withstand it, then he will only receive concussion damage transmitted from the weapon.
In other words, if the opponent's weapon material and sharpness do not have an absolute advantage, then as long as there is a knife, the opponent is basically a certain death.
In the past, the forest rangers were able to use the method of exchanging injuries for injuries to break the morale of the opponent, but now with this tactic, unless it is an elite army that has experienced a hundred battles, it is a one-sided slaughter.
The only fly in the ointment is that the production of such weapons is very small, there are more than two thousand weapons collected by Jiang Ming, and the craftsmen summoned by Hengyang City have only built more than a thousand in a few months - after all, those who are sent into the misty forest are elites, and the weapons used are of course all excellent weapons, and Hengyang City is still too small after all.
For this reason, Ling Xiyue directly increased the purchase price of the stacked weapon by three times, which made countless craftsmen frantically research, it is foreseeable that this weapon will be very popular in the future, but it will not change the status quo.
Among them, there are only thirty weapons with more than four stacks, all of which have been given to the commander-level forest patrol guards, while Ling Xiyue himself uses immortal weapons, Ling Xiyue asked Jiang Ming for some weaker immortal magic weapons, but Jiang Ming refused:
"We use the Immortal Dao magic weapon because it can greatly improve our strength, and we use it for the sake of strength. However, if the forest patrol guards want strength, they can directly cultivate the Nine Spiritual Techniques, they are not fighting for strength, but for the dignity of martial arts, if the magic weapon of the Immortal Dao is given to them, it will be an insult to their dignity. ”
After all, when it came to cultivation speed, Jiang Ming had created so many exercises, and none of them were comparable to the Nine Spiritual Techniques, so even if their strength was weakened, they would not choose the methods of the Outer Dao to improve themselves.
Most of the stacked weapons were double and triple stacks, and Ling Xiyue rewarded some of them with high quality and fine materials to those who had made outstanding contributions to the transformation of the exercises, while those with good materials but did not meet the requirements were handed over to the craftsmen to rebuild them.
Stimulated by Ling Xiyue's reward, those who have better talent and creative talent have put their energy into studying the essence of the exercises, after all, not to mention innovation and transformation, as long as the original exercises exert the power that they did not have, Ling Xiyue will have a reward.
Of course, the greater the contribution, the greater the reward.
Although it was only armed with 3,000 forest rangers, it was enough to start a war, and the first goal of the war was to constantly provoke the Xiao family's forces in the Leng family.