Chapter Twenty-Four: Running Water Trivia
In the mountain body of the Stygian Water Peak, there is a huge mausoleum, and this mausoleum belongs to Chu Fangyu, the founder of the Lingjing Gate. When he grew old, he gave up his position as the master of the sect, took the name of the island master, and lived in a small valley to concentrate on his disciples. Now, his favorite apprentice, who is amazing and gorgeous, has inexplicably slept for thousands of years and came to this era, but he did not make waves in the world, but returned to this mausoleum, silently waiting for the day when he and his master will be reunited.
Of course, she is not lonely, every day, a young girl will come to this small valley-like tomb from the secret passage, ask her to teach her the mechanism passed down by the ancient strange people, and from time to time ask some questions about martial arts. Maybe for Xuanyuan and Luan, the only reason why she should have returned to the west a thousand years ago and slept so far is that she wanted to pass on her master's skills to this future little junior sister.
When Xuanyuan and Luan built this mausoleum, they set up some secret passages on Wanshi Island, and the secret door at the bottom of the immortal pond was only one of them, in addition, there were other ways to enter several hidden places, and she told Ning Wushu one by one. The reason for setting up these secret passages is that, on the one hand, she doesn't want her master to be disturbed, and if she doesn't know the way, even if she finds these secret passages, it will be useless; on the other hand, it is because after Chu Fangyu knew about it, she thought that if the Lingjing Gate suffered a disaster in the future, a small world in the mountain might become a place for the people to avoid disaster, so she did not seal the mausoleum.
But for some reason, thousands of years later, no one knows that there is such a place in the Stygian Water Peak. That day, after Ning Wushu came out of the dark passage, she found that the night was dark, and when she was found by the Lingjingmen, she only said that she was knocked unconscious by the mysterious woman, and she woke up there, and no one doubted it. It's just that during that period of time, the defense of the entire Montenegro Islands was a little tighter, and Gu Kunlun also came to look for her twice, but he couldn't ask anything.
After all, Xuanyuan and Luan just wanted to spend the rest of their lives there quietly, and they didn't want to be disturbed anymore.
However, in the following days, Ning Wushu's life began to become extremely fulfilling. Although you only need to practice once or twice a month, you have to practice bows and arrows every day. In addition, Yun Feiyu also summoned her two times in three days to learn the Zongheng family doctrine with Ah Jue, and she also had to go to Pear Blossom Island from time to time to ask Fang Qing to teach the Mo family tricks, otherwise if a set of superb tricks was born out of thin air in her head, she would not be able to say anything. Fortunately, Lin Wangshu just didn't allow her to ask the people in the Spirit Mirror Sect for martial arts, and it didn't stop her from learning the inheritance of the hundred schools of Zhuzi, Fang Qing was also happy to have such a little girl come from time to time to learn some tricks that everyone was not very interested in, and she taught her very wholeheartedly, and at the same time marveled at the whimsical ideas that Ning Wushu occasionally proposed.
Under the guidance of Xuanyuan and Luan, Ning Wushu's entry with a bow and arrow was much faster than that of the machine technique. The introduction to bow and arrow is actually very simple, after mastering the basic posture and power, it is to keep practicing. In recent months, Ning Wushu has seen the amazing performance of so many masters, and she thinks about revenge, and she practices very hard, often before the rooster crows, she gets up and goes to the forest behind the island to practice archery. After a few months, the trees around the small courtyard were all scarred by her practice, so she had to beg the Spirit Mirror Gate to get her a few serious targets.
It is easy to get started with a bow and arrow, but it is difficult to be proficient. Speaking of which, in fact, the bow and arrow are only three words, fast, accurate, and ruthless. How to exert the greatest force in the shortest possible time, and accurately find the key point of the target and hit the target, is something that countless people with bows and arrows are constantly pursuing, and there is no end to it.
An ordinary Orion can shoot a dozen zhang with a crude wooden bow and hit a beast; an excellent soldier can draw a standard longbow to the full, throw a distance of dozens of zhang, and be able to shoot continuously; an excellent military general can pull up a big bow and shoot down the eagle eagle in the sky with a flip hand; a true archery master can make the arrow go as he wishes, and the power of his arrow is difficult to resist even the masters in the martial arts.
Xuanyuan and Luan told Ning Wushu that in her time, there were one or two people who could really practice bows and arrows to the extreme, and in the troubled times, many martial arts masters had actually been on the battlefield. Bows and arrows are indispensable weapons on the battlefield, and individual powerful generals can also take the head of the enemy generals under the city with an arrow on the city wall. In the rivers and lakes, most of the masters have given up the deep study of bows and arrows, because the vendetta and competition in the rivers and lakes are often short-handed, and the distance advantage of the bow and arrow is difficult to play, and it is better to draw the surprise with a hidden weapon. Therefore, although Xuanyuan and Luan have excellent martial arts talents, they have not specifically practiced bows and arrows, and it is not difficult to be accurate and powerful, but if they enter the Tao, they may be a little worse. So on this road, she can't guide Ning Wushu too much, she can only teach some basics, more things, and still rely on Ning Wushu to understand and comprehend by himself.
The trick was something that Xuanyuan and Luan really taught to Ning Wushu wholeheartedly during this time. Xuanyuan and Luan carefully studied the information that Ning Wushu had brought back from Fang Qing, the heir of the Mo family, and after her research, she found that the technique had not made much progress in the past thousand years, but because of the change of dynasties, many things had been lost. Although there are many things that have been added by descendants to the Mo family mechanism technique inherited from the Spirit Mirror Sect today, in the eyes of most people in such a martial arts sect, the mechanism technique is a side door after all, and it has really made leaps and bounds, but there is no one.
Therefore, Xuanyuan and Luan no longer worried that what they had taught Ning Wushu would be outdated, but patiently taught the tricks in their heads. Mechanism is not the same as carpentry in the ordinary sense, the key lies in the word "mechanism", and the most fundamental role of the mechanism is to replace people's hands and feet, and even do things that people's hands and feet can't do. The ancients invented the repeater in order to be able to achieve extremely fast shooting that could not be achieved by human speed, and the ancestor of the Mo family invented the wooden kite in the hope of realizing the dream of human beings not being able to fly into the sky. Therefore, before learning mechanical techniques, you must first have ideas. Tricks are just dead things, and if you have an idea, you're alive, and if you don't have an idea, even if you learn a trick, you're just an ordinary craftsman.
Xuanyuan and Luan said that the Yanshi descendant who taught Chu Fangyu the technique of the machine lived alone in the mountains and was very lonely, so his idea was to create something that could accompany him. After Chu Fangyu got older, he concentrated on teaching his disciples, and his idea was that sometimes apprentices could learn things by themselves, so now there are many organs in the Tibetan Sect Pavilion that can send martial arts to disciples by category, only newcomers like Ning Wushu need to be in charge of Ah Jue to help her find them; and Xuanyuan and Luan have been constantly learning new things since they can remember, and she is always improving her strength, so her idea is to create an organ person who can learn from herself, and Yanbing is based on this line of thinking。 Therefore, she also said that thousands of years ago, the wooden man was able to compete with her.
And what does Ning Wushu want now? In the process of learning the art of mechanism, she has been thinking about it, but she has never received an answer.
Thankfully, there's still plenty of time for her to think before she's done anything.
For Ning Wushu, the only thing that is difficult to learn should be the vertical and horizontal learning.
It is basically impossible to know who started the Zonghengjia doctrine, but it is known that its main representatives are Guiguzi, Su Qin, Zhang Yi and so on. Vertical and horizontal, that is, vertical and horizontal. The earliest Zonghengjia appeared mainly because the world was divided and divided at that time, and the princes and kings could not be stable and unified, so they needed to use alliance, exclusion, coercion, inducement or supplemented by the method of war on the basis of national strength to win without a fight, or obtain the maximum benefit with fewer losses. They were uncertain and capricious, and their plans were mostly based on the needs of national politics, and they were also divided into two main styles: vertical and horizontal.
In general, vertical and horizontal learning is a skill that can make plans in the overall situation and change people's minds with arguments in details. In the Lingjingmen, there have always been many people who have studied the doctrine of the Zongheng family, and this generation is dominated by Yun Feiyu, and there are also a large number of Zongheng scholars. Although Yun Feiyu does not accept apprentices, there are a large number of scholars on his Xiaoyao Island who study the works of the Zongheng family left by the ancients. Yun Feiyu himself is said to have been a Confucian before entering the Lingjingmen, and he was an official in the court when he was very young, and then he changed in the court, so he switched to the rivers and lakes, and came to the Lingjingmen, on the one hand, he abandoned Confucianism and began to study the vertical and horizontal doctrines, and on the other hand, he began to practice martial arts, but these are all digressions.
When Ning Wushu came into contact with the Zongheng family, the first trouble he encountered was the word "debate". In fact, Ning Wushu didn't like to talk very much since he was a child, and he was not good at figuring out people's hearts, and his personality was relatively straight, because of this, he couldn't make friends in the high-walled compound of the Ning family before. It's okay to let her quarrel with people, but it's hard to let her use her mouth to convince others. For this reason, Yun Feiyu asked Ah Jue to practice debating with Ning Wushu if he was fine, but every time the result was that Ning Wushu was dizzy by Ah Jue, and he didn't even know what he wanted to say, which made Yun Feiyu shake his head.
Fortunately, Ning Wushu was quite interested in this matter, so she would not give up for this setback, she still wanted to go back to revenge! I still remember that one day Yun Feiyu designed a few "enemies", and used the theme of revenge to let Ah Jue and Ning Wushu debate which way of revenge is better, Ning Wushu thought of a few ways, but was vetoed by Ah Jue one by one, saying that she didn't understand bullshit, and then said a lot of messy conspiracy and tricks, listening to Ning Wushu's hair standing on end, and the few "enemies" designed by Yun Feiyu sweated hard.
In any case, learning the theory of the Zongheng family made Ning Wushu see another way to deal with problems. Whether it's a conspiracy or a conspiracy, at least one more option. Yun Feiyu also told her that the rivers and lakes are sinister, and if you learn the art of strategy, even if you can't make a big deal, you won't be overshadowed, and you will be sold for some reason. Speaking of this, Yun Feiyu looked at the sky and sighed, thinking that he had had a similar experience, otherwise he would not have been so devoted to studying vertical and horizontal studies.
Full and interesting days always pass quickly, and the girls who live in the Lingjing Gate are also growing. It has become the norm to go back to the small courtyard and lie down and fall asleep when she is tired, but Ning Wushu is very happy, especially when she quietly comes to the small valley every day, she can ask Xuanyuan and Luan questions about her martial arts practice and learning mechanical arts. Xuanyuan and Luan were very good to her, and always answered patiently, and after a few months, Ning Wushu had regarded Xuanyuan and Luan as his own sisters from the bottom of his heart...... In fact, even if she is a sister, she may not be so good to herself?
But the good times didn't last long, and Ning Wushu found that Xuanyuan and Luan had become weaker and weaker recently.