Chapter Twenty-Three: The Three Swords of Madness

Walking back from Dapingdi, Li Qingshan kept thinking about the strength and weakness of Taoism, Confucianism, and Martial Arts. He knew that the world was a martial artist, and they all walked these three paths, which also represented three completely different styles of internal cultivation of internal strength, which naturally corresponded to the three strongest forces today: the Yunxu Sect where the Dao Saint Zhang Yunshe was located, the Chongwen Palace where the Wensheng Shangguan Jinglun was located, and the Extreme Martial Hall where the Martial Saint Wu Shibu was located. Among these three forces, he has entered Taoism, and now he has half a foot in Confucianism.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt how lucky he was, although he was an orphan of unknown origin, he was luckier than most people in the world, he was cultivated by Dao Saint and Wen Sheng, and his journey was finally a smooth road, without much tribulation and setback.

He returned to his room, thought for a moment, and then calmed down and began to cultivate his sword intent. Two hours later, he extinguished the candle and began to grasp objects and practice night vision. He had already achieved some success in night vision, and when he dealt with the Demon Realm Twin Gentlemen in the cave, he was able to capture the faintest light in the pitch darkness, and he could see his surroundings as clearly as if he were in the daytime. It was also with this ability that he was able to escape the poisonous hands of the Demon Domain Twin Monarchs.

Thinking about the two gentlemen of the Demon Domain, the two twin brothers sang and claimed to be gentlemen in their minds, and they couldn't help laughing.

He concentrated for a moment and continued to practice night vision, and when he reached the thousandth time, he suddenly saw a figure in front of the window. At that time, just after the valley rain, the moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight was bright, so the figure outside the window was stretched long, and the projection was particularly obvious on the window.

Li Qingshan thought about it for a while, and then guessed that he was looking for him, so he opened the door and walked out. I saw that under the moonlight, Shangguan Jinglun stood in the courtyard with his hands in his hands, looking up at the bright moon. He has a tall posture, a robe reaching the ground, a lupine scarf, looking up at the moon, and a pair of shadows, quite an immortal.

Li Qingshan walked over lightly and shouted softly, "Meet Mr." ”

Shangguan Jinglun turned around, nodded, and said, "The method of night vision, don't practice anymore?"

"When Mr. comes, naturally he won't practice. ”

"How long have you been practicing this?"

"It's been five years since I was eleven years old. For five years, I didn't dare to waste it every night, and now I can see it at night. ”

"Fabulous, superb. Unexpectedly, the old Taoist priest had never accepted apprentices in his life, and once he put away his apprentices, the disciples had their own set. You are a rare good seedling according to your literacy, physical strengthening, night vision, sword understanding, and qi training, step by step, and your foundation is extremely solid. Now all you lack is a wonderful martial arts move!"

Before going down the mountain, the old Taoist priest also repeatedly instructed that if there is a chance after going down the mountain, you can learn wonderful martial arts, but you can't be greedy. Martial arts moves lie in refinement rather than miscellaneous. ”

"Hmm. The old Taoist priest was right, you don't need to be greedy to learn martial arts. No matter how much you learn, in the end, you will use the ones you can use back and forth. Now that your internal strength cultivation has reached the late stage of the Divine Realm of Taixu and Taixuangong, it can be regarded as extremely good, and this internal force can be regarded as a master when put on the rivers and lakes. When you were eight years old, I taught you the Immortal Formula, do you remember?"

Li Qingshan hurriedly replied, "Remember." I often recite and review silently in my heart, and I have never forgotten it. ”

Shangguan Jinglun nodded and said, "Very good." The most powerful internal cultivation in the world is recorded in the six strange books. The Taixu Taixuan Sutra is one of them, and the Book of Immortals is also one of them, and there are also the Tianyang Divine Skills of the Martial Emperor Dongfang Xiong, the Nine Styles of the Divine Dragon of the Martial Saint, and the Heavenly Demon Killing Divine Fu of the Demon Domain, and the remaining one is not known what the book is. These six strange books all record the world's first-class internal strength. But no one has ever practiced more than two at the same time. Although you have memorized the Immortal Recipe when you were eight years old, you have not yet realized it, because you have not yet entered the Confucian Sect and have not yet understood the classics of the Six Arts. In time, if you succeed in my Shuhai Middle School in Dongzhou, you will naturally be able to comprehend the Immortal Formula, and you may be able to integrate the Taoist internal strength and the Confucian internal strength. If this is done in terms of internal strength, it can be regarded as unprecedented. ”

Li Qingshan was so shocked that his jaw couldn't close, it turned out that he already had two of the six strange books in the world!

Shangguan Jinglun continued: "In terms of swordsmanship, you only need to learn a few tricks. As I told you yesterday, most of the scholars since ancient times are skilled in archers and horses, and skilled in swordsmanship. Today, I will teach you this set of swordsmanship, which is the same set of martial arts as the Immortal Jue. The scholar who left this ancient scroll is gifted with wisdom and is uninhibited, otherwise how could he become an immortal and leave this set of arrogant swordsmanship? This set of swordsmanship is called the 'Crazy Three Swordsmanship', and there are only three styles. The first and second styles each have nine moves, and the third style has only one move, so the three sword styles have a total of nineteen moves, also known as the crazy nineteen swords. ”

"There are only three styles and nineteen moves, and there are nineteen swords in a madness?" Li Qingshan's curiosity soared.

"Yes, the three styles and nineteen moves are also comparable to any swordsmanship in the world! ”

Li Qingshan ran back to the room, took out the Purple Cloud Divine Sword wrapped in coarse cloth, and handed it to Shangguan Jinglun.

Shangguan Jinglun took the sword, shook off the outer layer of coarse cloth, and pulled out the Purple Cloud Divine Sword from the scabbard, only to see that the sword body still emitted a faint purple red light in the moonlight. He flicked his fingers on the back of the sword, and the sword shook and made a buzzing sound, "Your boy's urine has touched this sword." This Purple Cloud Divine Sword was brought back by me and the old Taoist priest when I came back from looking for you, and it has been sixteen years. ”

After that, he held the sword under the moon, his eyes were as calm as water, he looked straight ahead, and drew a sword with a brush, and then used nine moves in succession, although each move was gentle and pointed in different directions, but it was seamless and natural.

Li Qingshan looked at it carefully, and after thinking about it for a while, he found that where these nine moves were pointed, they happened to be in the shape of a person, and the last move was pointed at the center of the person's eyebrows.

I saw Shangguan Jinglun suddenly change his moves, and he walked with the sword, only to see the purple and red light in the sky, and he didn't see Shangguan Jinglun's figure at all. Li Qingshan only felt that Sen Senran's heavy sword qi was pressing, forcing him out of breath, and hurriedly transported the Taixu Taixuan Divine Skill to resist, only to look a little relaxed, but he was sweating all over, and his green shirt was already half wet.

The purple-red light path in front of him suddenly disappeared, and Shangguan Jinglun stood next to Li Qingshan, but the purple cloud divine sword in his hand flew out, and the sword flew like a long eye, flying with Shangguan Jinglun's right finger. Li Qingshan only felt that the flying sword had gone in all directions, the heavens and the earth, and the flowers and fallen leaves, the trees and stones were cracked, and even the rockery in the courtyard was split in half.

A moment later, the Purple Cloud Divine Sword had returned to Shangguan Jinglun's hands. He returned the sword to the sheath, then handed it to Li Qingshan, shook his hand, and said with a smile: "I haven't made this thing for a long time, it's a little rusty." ”

Li Qingshan looked at the mess in the courtyard and was stunned, and did not answer.

Shangguan Jinglun said: "This is just trying to show you. After all, in his own yard, he took care of it, so he restrained and used it, and the power was less than one-third of the original sword style. ”

Li Qingshan was dumbfounded and said: "The power is less than one-third of the original, so it's so powerful." ”

Shangguan Jinglun said: "This sword technique, after all, was created by a scholar. Scholars and scholars are useless. Therefore, among the three sword moves, the first style is gentle and docile, the second style is arrogant and arbitrary, and the third style is a hundred steps of flying swords to win people. This is a sword book, you can take it and read it. As he spoke, he took out a bundle of yellowed silk scrolls from his bosom.

Li Qingshan was respectful and took the scroll with both hands.

Shangguan Jinglun looked around the courtyard, paced out, and said to himself as he walked: "On a whim, cut this elegant garden into a mess, and that little girl will find trouble with me again when she finds out." Alas. ”

Li Qingshan hurriedly returned to the room with the ancient scroll in his hand, spread out the ancient scroll, and lit a candle to take a closer look. I saw five large cursive characters at the beginning of the ancient scroll, "Crazy Three Swords", followed by a wedge, which read:

"I am crazy, and the weak crown is Wu Chu. A three-foot sword is hung on his waist, and Confucian clothes enter the rivers and lakes. With the ambition of the four seas in mind, he has thousands of books. The left hand holds the nameless scroll, and the right palm holds the wine gourd. The words of the saints should not be called by the Son of Heaven. Martial arts are freewheeling, and swordsmanship comes from the will. Self-created three-sword style, sword like a dragon dance. With this lot of righteousness, he repeatedly slashed demons. The old man is depressed, drunk and rotten. Huang Liang woke up from a dream and worked hard to write a fairy book. ”

Li Qingshan pondered, and his mind seemed to flash a Confucian scholar who walked the world, with an arrogant demeanor and a world-class swordsmanship, which made people fascinated, so he couldn't wait to see the sword map. The back is all sword tricks, atlases, and marginal notes.

"The first form, persuade you. The sword is the king of a hundred soldiers, and the literati and scholars want to be a gentleman and do benevolence and righteousness. A gentleman uses a gentleman of a hundred soldiers, and he must give gentlemen's courtesy, be benevolent, and persuade him to look back. Therefore, the name of this style is 'persuasion style', a total of nine moves, each move is to anticipate the enemy's first opportunity, and then strike preemptively, pointing at the enemy's major important joints and acupoints, forcing people to retreat, and not taking people's lives. This is followed by a diagram of the moves and detailed notes.

"The second form, the will to decide. If persuasion is useless, let it be decided. Since ancient times, Confucianism has been decisive, and when it is constantly broken, it is chaotic. The main point of this style is to kill the intent, make a decision at the right time, and be arrogant and wanton. Therefore, the name of this style is 'Will-Decisive Style', there are nine moves, each move is a killing move, the sword walks, the sword is heavy, and the killing is decisive. "The back is also a move map and annotations, the only difference is that there is a detailed footwork map.

"The third type, the flying sword. Carrying the sword with divine power, driving the sword to fly, you can take the head of a person within ten zhang, unexpected, fast as lightning, chasing and assassinating, you can use this. "Behind it is a detailed method of luck.

The more Li Qingshan looked at it, the more he felt that these three sword styles were wonderful, and they seemed to be very different from the "Wonderful Ten Thousand Things" of the Taixu Taixuan Sutra, and they were slightly similar. Both of them are to turn the situation into a situation, and they must anticipate the enemy's opportunity, but all things are invisible and tangible, and there are no moves that are tricks, and they are not confined to any moves. And this crazy three-sword style, each move seems to have calculated the flaws in the direction of the human body, and the nineteen moves are aimed at nineteen parts. It's like no matter how powerful the enemy's move is, there will always be a flaw exposed, and the mad three sword style can take the flaw and attack it, and then strike preemptively, forcing the enemy to retreat.

Li Qingshan thought to himself that these three sword styles, the second style is too crazy, the third style is too dazzling, the first sword is both powerful and benevolent, so it is good to learn this style. So the first type of "persuasion style" more attentive study, half an hour later, has been the sword trick, the map in mind, so put away the sword spectrum, take the Ziyun sword to the courtyard, according to the heart of the memory, according to the same gourd practice. He has a high level of understanding, and has learned the advanced martial arts theory of "Taixu Taixuan Sutra", so he has a quick understanding of sword moves and annotations. In addition, he has been understanding the sword intent for many years, and the sword is already very smooth and accurate, so he quickly learned the nine moves of the first type of "persuasion style", but it is not smooth enough to make it round and smooth, and it still needs to be practiced.

By the third watch, he felt that he had almost practiced it, so he put away his sword and went back to his room to rest.