Chapter 32: Enlightenment and Epiphany

Large snowflakes are flying all over the sky, like jade leaves and silver flowers sprinkled by the goddess, crystal clear and beautiful.

Yue Buqun stood quietly on the edge of Chaoyang Terrace, looking down, full of snow peaks undulating, endless, I couldn't help but think of Mao Taizu's majestic noun,

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice and snow!"

"Sonorous!" a sword roared, like a dragon roaring like a tiger, and the pride rushed into the sky!

Purple light swallowing, like electric light flashing, impressively a ten, ten into hundreds, hundreds into thousands, in an instant, Yue Buqun is surrounded by purple light, like a swimming dragon soaring through the air, vigorous, the wind is whistling, and like a swimming dragon leading the neck of a long groan, endless, with snowflakes flakes, swirling and flying.

The purple electric sword light became more and more sick, and the purple qi on Yue Buqun's face became more and more hazy, and gradually the purple mist around his body was faint, and the sword light was like a cold light in the fog, faint at first glance, but it was like an angry thunder shock, roaring, and the snowflakes in the surrounding space were stirred by the strong wind of the sword qi before they could land, disturbing one after another, and the cold air was surging.

Suddenly, the purple light disappeared, but Yue Buqun's figure seemed to be still and moving, the long sword was slowly swiping, there was weakness, his body was elegant and soothing, and every move was completely lacking, and he was just fierce and powerful, and he was murderous and majestic. But the purple qi on the sword body became more and more dense and hazy, and there seemed to be countless purple sword phantoms overlapping faintly, and all the snowflakes that were close to the purple light sword blade disappeared silently!

"Drink!"

Suddenly exhaled and opened the sound, shaking the sky, Yue Buqun suddenly followed the sword, the sword was like a purple star, and the body was like a swimming dragon, rolling around. The sword qi breaks through the wind, hissing, sometimes condensed, sometimes fluttering, sometimes the wind howls, the thunder rolls, sometimes the filaments are winding, looming, sometimes like the sun across the sky, the flames are soaring, sometimes it seems to be flowing clouds and water, and the flowers are seen in the fog!

After a long time, his body stopped and his sword was closed, and the purple qi disappeared, Yue Buqun looked at the sword body as smooth as a mirror in a daze, reflecting his handsome face, and muttered to himself, "Finally practiced all the superior swordsmanship of Huashan!"

"Hehe!" Yue Buqun suddenly sneered, his face seemed to be happy and sad, but the bitterness at the corners of his mouth became thicker and thicker, "Alas, but I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that I had worked hard for the past half a year, and I had successively practiced the five superior swordsmanship of Yangwu Swordsmanship, Xiyi Swordsmanship, Iron Needle Sword Style, Wind Fast Swordsmanship, and Gentleman's Swordsmanship, and the growth of his martial arts was very limited, compared to the previous time when he only had the superior swordsmanship of the Chaoyang One Qi Sword, it was only slightly two or three points stronger, and it was far from the expectation that the martial arts would be greatly advanced and doubled and strengthened!"

It turned out that in the past six months, although Yue Buqun went down the mountain every day to learn Bagu Wen from Mr. Zhao, he did not let go of his martial arts cultivation, and even after the growth of his true qi gradually did not improve by leaps and bounds as before, he calmed down and practiced all the five superior swordsmanship in Huashan except for the Chaoyang Yiqi Sword, but he only let his tricks accumulate deeply, and his swordsmanship changed a little, in fact, the increase in his martial arts was very limited. After all, after Yue Buqun achieved sword intent and sword qi with the Chaoyang One Qi Sword, in terms of swordsmanship alone, he was already at the level of a first-rate swordsman.

Yue Buqun's situation at this time is quite similar to the problem that Ling Hu Chong faced when he thought about the cliff wall in the original book, at that time Ling Hu Chong had also learned most of the superior swordsmanship in Huashan, and at the beginning he couldn't beat Tian Boguang, but after entering the cave and learning almost all the swordsmanship of the Wuyue Sword Sect, he still couldn't beat Tian Boguang, just a few more moves!

Why is this so? Could it be that the Wuyue swordsmanship that Hu Chong learned more is really useless?

After thinking about it carefully, Yue Buqun felt that in fact, it was not, at least Tian Boguang couldn't beat Liu Zhengfeng, Mo Da, Fei Bin and others at that time, and even he didn't even have to be able to beat Ning Zhong at that time. These people are all swordsmanship of one faction, that is, the internal force is stronger than that of Ling Hu Chong at that time, but the swordsmanship that Ling Hu Chong learned is four or five times that of them, and the martial arts of the two sides should be comparable, why is Ling Hu Chong obviously much weaker?

After repeated consideration, Yue Buqun found that there was a key in this, that is, Liu Zhengfeng, Mo Da, Fei Bin, Ding Mian, Ning Zhongze and even Tian Boguang are all recognized as first-rate masters in the rivers and lakes, but first-class masters are obviously high and low, Tian Boguang and Ning Zhong are considered to be the bottom of the first-class, Fei Bin, Ding Mian, and Liu Zhengfeng are considered first-class medium, and Mo Da, Xiang Wentian, and Fang Sheng are considered first-class and high. The boundary between first-class masters and second-rate masters lies in the fact that second-rate masters are still learning other people's superior martial arts, but first-class masters are more or less derived from the martial arts they are good at and half-understood and half-created stunts that are most suitable for themselves, such as Ningzhong's self-created fierce and decisive 'Wushuang Wu's sword of Ning', Fei Bin's 'Great Songyang Hand' derived from Songshan School's "Songyang Palm", Liu Zhengfeng's "One Sword Falling Nine Geese" practiced from "Huifeng Falling Geese", and Mo Da obtained it by combining Hengshan swordsmanship with music The sword is hidden in the piano, and the sword makes the piano sound', and even Tian Boguang comprehended his own 'Flying Sand and Stone Thirteen Styles' from the single knife and fast knife techniques, and so on.

All this, so Yue Buqun guessed that in order to truly enter the level of a first-class master, in addition to the deeper internal force, in terms of martial arts moves, there must be a unique 'stunt' created by himself, this stunt is not to say how strong it is, how mysterious it is, and even in people other than himself, it may not be comparable to the superior martial arts he originally practiced, but he must be the most suitable for himself and his strongest move!

To be precise, that is, the first-class master already has his own "Dao", his own "Yi", and integrate it into some of his own moves, although these "Dao" and "Yi" can only be regarded as a prototype, most of them are derived from the "Dao" and "Yi" of the superior martial arts learned by everyone in their lives, but they are also the belief and will of the warrior to live in the world, and it is the crystallization of all the martial arts perceptions of the martial artist who has practiced martial arts for many years, and the key for the martial artist to truly step into the first-class realm!

This point is a conclusion that Yue Buqun came to based on the example of the Jinyang sword intent that he realized from the Chaoyang Yiqi Sword, and then compared the martial arts of the original characters, and repeatedly extrapolated.

In this way, when Ling Hu Chong was thinking about the cliff face, he was already at the threshold between the second-rate and first-class level in terms of swordsmanship, and at this time, he only relied on indiscriminately learning the many swordsmanship of the Wuyue Sword School, and he failed to really integrate these swordsmanship in a hurry, not only could he not realize his own "Dao" and "Meaning" at all , It also made his own swordsmanship messy, and the connection between the front and back moves lost smoothness, and there were many flaws, so naturally he couldn't break the first-class stunt fast knife that Tian Boguang relied on to achieve, but Tian Boguang used a quick knife to break Ling Hu Chong's swordsmanship after adapting to his strange moves.

However, Yue Buqun had to sigh that the protagonist's aura was too rebellious, and Dugu Nine Swords changed Ling Hu Chong's fate!

Judging from Ling Hu Chong's series of performances on the rivers and lakes, although he himself was a little pedantic by Yue Buqun in the original work, he couldn't hide his witty, uninhibited temperament, and it can even be said that he was natural and innocent, which is also a necessary condition for practicing Dugu Nine Swords.

Dugu Nine Swords is the peerless swordsman Dugu to seek defeat created, the most important is to anticipate the enemy's opportunity, the last to come, descendants think that Dugu Nine Swords is a sharp sword swordsmanship, in the realm is not as good as 'heavy sword without edge, great ingenuity does not work' and 'grass, wood, bamboo and stone can be a sword', in fact, this statement is biased. Dugu Nine Swords is the first to anticipate the enemy's opportunity, the first to strike first martial arts concept, followed by the nine types of infinite changes of exquisite sword moves, if only on the exquisite sword moves, these sword moves and Tai Chi swordsmanship are about the same, have reached the extreme of subtle and mysterious moves.

But Tai Chi swordsmanship is based on decades of skill, and then comprehend the meaning of Tai Chi in order to exert its power, then Dugu Nine Swords is naturally not just a person can practice, only the mind is extremely intelligent and agile, eclectic, ethereal and non-persistent people can get started, that is, people with excellent understanding, in order to comprehend the essence of Dugu Nine Swords, and then gradually combine and even integrate into the martial arts of 'no tricks to win and moves', you can play a 'take advantage of the void to enter, the last to come' wonderful swordsmanship. It is precisely Ling Hu Chong who is such a person with excellent understanding, he first learned all the swordsmanship of the Wuyue Sword School, although it is just a swallowing date, knowing that it does not know why, can not exert the true power of these superior swordsmanship, but it is also a lot of swordsmanship, and the knowledge is extraordinary, at this time, there is a clear wind to teach the sword intent sword theory of Dugu Jiujian, for Ling Hu Chong to outline the lead, stimulate Ling Hu Chong's own excellent understanding, so that he quickly comprehended a little' In turn, learning the exquisite moves of Dugu Jiujian naturally entered the realm very quickly, so that Ling Hu Chong's swordsmanship realm directly jumped over the level of his own summary of the rudiments of martial arts 'Dao' and 'reason', and achieved a higher level of half-step 'no tricks to win with moves' realm, becoming the best among the first-class swordsmen, swordsmanship alone is enough to beat the moves of the vast majority of first-class masters, and then there are peerless skills achieved by star-absorbing Dafa to complement each other, and it is even more rapid and then become the world's top master!

Through various thoughts and analysis, Yue Buqun couldn't help but come to a conclusion, in fact, the cultivation of various martial arts moves, including swordsmanship, is also similar to the cultivation of Qi in Neidan, which is divided into two types: gradual enlightenment and epiphany.

Gradual enlightenment, is to first practice their own sect of superior swordsmanship, the integration of the old, through the new, practice to all kinds of changes at your fingertips, out of the point of superb, and then more contact with other schools of swordsmanship, their own swordsmanship to check and fill in the gaps, endless changes, and gradually reach the realm of mellow and unhindered, no trace can be found, at this time gradually forget the swordsmanship of a family and a faction, simplify, turn decay into magic, so step by step from there to nothing, naturally reached the realm of 'no tricks to win and moves'.

The epiphany is that in the process of contacting the swordsmanship of the predecessors, the person with the transcendent understanding has an understanding due to fate, and directly transcends the barriers of the swordsmanship of the predecessors, and is no longer bound by the swordsmanship of one school, and steps into the transcendent realm of 'no tricks to win with moves'.

Compared with the two, Yue Buqun already understands that epiphany is a step to the sky, which can be met but not sought, even if Dugu Jiujian is placed in front of him, he may not be able to learn it, let alone have an epiphany from it to the realm of 'no tricks to win with tricks'. Although it takes a long time to gradually realize, there is no qualification requirement, and anyone can take this path, but how far they can go depends on each person's own wisdom and creation.

And he actually didn't have a choice, Yue Buqun knew in his heart that since Feng Qingyang didn't come to teach himself and Feng the unequal people a little bit of Dugu Jiujian, that is to say, he is not optimistic about himself and others taking the road of epiphany. Yue Buqun had no doubt about Feng Qingyang's vision, after all, Feng Qingyang was a rare top master in the world, and with his martial arts and knowledge, he would basically not be wrong in this regard.

In this way, Yue Buqun knew that he could only take the road of gradual enlightenment!

However, there are thousands of avenues, all of them have different paths to the same end, whether it is gradual enlightenment or epiphany, they are just ways for swordsmen to cross a certain section of the road in the process of pursuing the supreme realm of swordsmanship!

Once he chose the path of gradual enlightenment and let go of all kinds of unrealistic fantasies about epiphany, Yue Buqun's whole body and mind were relaxed for a while, and the spiritual platform was clear and clear, and his mood suddenly improved.

"Hahahaha!"

With a long laugh, Yue Buqun couldn't help but be full of confidence, "It's just right, there will be nothing to do after the children's test next spring, I might as well challenge the masters in the northwest area more, and integrate the Huashan swordsmanship I have practiced as soon as possible, in order to go further!"