Chapter 8 Ruoliuzhou - Perfecting Skills and Means
Six days have passed since I returned from Blackwind Ridge. He decided to rest in the county for a few months to digest some of the gains that would quickly produce results. Therefore, a courtyard was bought here, which had been abandoned on the edge of the county seat, far away from the city gate and the bustling area.
The courtyard is enclosed by a wall four or five meters high, and there is only one house in the north, and a large open space with only two stone tables in the south, and the gate faces south. At this time, Wang Gou was sitting at the stone table in the courtyard, thinking about this experience and harvest with his eyes closed.
Before, he only wanted to go to the Black Wind Ridge and steal some money in the many cottages, and at the same time put the martial arts he learned into practice to improve his proficiency in actual combat.
He had already thought of a plan for a few steps. For example, in the preparation stage, we must first grasp the distribution, strength and contradictory relationship between cottages in a part of the area.
Then, he enters the chaotic phase, pretending to kill people in order to provoke confrontation between the various villages or alliances, so that when he loots some of the cottages, he does not cause all the villages to unite or relocate...... Wait a minute
With his current speed and stealth, he is particularly suitable for infiltration and decapitation operations, such as being able to easily cross even steep cliffs with his lighter body and modern climbing skills.
Therefore, the initial plan is extremely feasible, and it is possible that at the end of the day, it will be forced to leave after receiving a portion of the harvest.
But I didn't expect that this time before the preparations began, a decapitation operation was hurriedly made because of the special situation.
It's just that the result made him very satisfied, and in the package he got from the owner of the big village, one of the two maps was a hand-drawn map of Heifeng Mountain, and the details depicted some of the trails, especially the area around the cottage also pointed out some steep or hidden places.
The other map is a map of the Principality of Chaoyang, detailing the borders of the prefectures and the locations of the county's cities.
There were also more than five hundred taels of silver and more than sixty taels of gold in the package. The three books are all martial arts, in addition to Sunflower Gong, the other two are Twisting Finger Gong and Qingyun Sword Technique.
Twisting finger gong is a martial art that integrates exercises and skills, this kind of martial arts was previously called advanced martial arts by Wang Gou, but now it seems that it should not be called so, because Sunflower Gong only has exercises, but it is directly said to be able to practice true qi. You must know that the gravel fist only said that it could reach the peak of the second rate, and the three-way leg bounce and finger twisting did not say anything.
This is the importance of basic knowledge, the lack of which makes it difficult for him to make a hierarchical classification. And there are too few types of martial arts he has seen so far, which is not enough for him to make a grading standard that he can use in the future. This part of the knowledge, or wait for the future to find an opportunity to directly learn the existing grading methods, this is currently the most convenient means.
The Qingyun Sword Technique is just a skill, and the muscle training effect it brings is not of great use to him, so he splits it and enriches it into the skill library.
The sunflower skill that excites Wang Gou the most, of course, does not need to make preparations similar to the sunflower book.
Sunflower Gong is divided into three layers, the first layer is to practice the meridians, the second layer is to practice the body, and the third layer is to generate true qi!
The first layer is more special, when doing each pose, you only need to focus on the acupoints, and the commentary cannot enhance the strength.
The second level, like other exercises, has a lot of postures, and the focus is on the muscles and acupoints, which can increase strength.
The third layer is also very special, there is only one posture and the attention is focused on only one acupoint.
It seems that the other exercises are only the same as the second layer of Sunflower Gong, except that Sunflower Gong involves a wider range of acupoints.
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Wang Gou's next step is to practice sunflower skills and finger twisting skills while perfecting his skills, such as long-range and close-range attacks.
In the previous two years, I had been focusing on the exercises, and when I practiced to a certain limit, I had no money, of course, there were no conditions for perfecting the means, but now is the time to have the conditions!
As for the other two exercises, of course, he didn't practice the three-way bounce leg and gravel boxing, and after practicing to the current level, the gain and time consumption had already made him feel that it was not worth it.
In order to perfect his skills, Wang Gou customized some weapons in the county. In addition, the plan and attack methods have been improved.
The first point is the long-range means of attack, the target is mainly set at a distance of 50 or 100 meters, and the weapon is a bow and arrow.
The second point is a medium-range attack method, the target is within 50 meters, and the weapon is a palm-length knife, and a small shuriken with four blades similar to the Hokage.
Thirdly, the means of close-range attacks are other skills such as knives and body limbs, because Wang Gou agrees with the idea that weapons are an extension of the body, and he wants to extend as much as possible without affecting his speed.
So he hung two knives side by side on his back waist, with the handles on one left and one right, so that he could draw the knives.
At present, he is going to take the Twin Knife Flow route, and when his body grows in the future, he can take the Eight Knife Flow route of the Eight Tails in the Hokage. As the body has grown a bit, the length of the blade has been increased from 50 cm to 60 cm.
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A year and a half later.
The courtyard has changed dramatically, and this is a training ground with a purposeful layout! Various wooden stakes, plank obstacles and targets are placed in various locations on the field.
Wang Gou is carrying out all kinds of small areas of rapid movement and change of direction in it. Suddenly, he jumped into the air and flipped over, his hands blurred a few times as he turned his body, and he saw several knives and shuriken flying out from all angles with a "whoosh".
Several of the knives flew straight out, piercing large stones with circles everywhere at once, and some of the smaller stones even shattered at once.
The shurikens in the air each drew an arc-shaped trajectory to bypass some obstacles, and then hit the center of the corresponding stone, and the stone that was hit rarely shattered.
After landing on the ground, Wang Gou's eyes swept away, and after observing the results in his eyes, he felt clear in his heart for a while. Then some summaries were made.
The speed of the hidden weapon is more than 100m per second.
The knife cannot be turned after flying out, but it has strong attack power.
Shuriken can turn, but has slightly less attack power. The reason for the turn is that the two blades are designed by him to have different inverted feet, which is similar to a specially shaped dart, which is conserved by gravity and momentum, and can form an arc by controlling the angle when flying out.
That's the mid-range attack he's done so far!
As for the means of melee attack.
He had become a skilled swordsman with a double blade. His attack style includes analysis of attacks, defenses, and misleading moves, plus some designed shot sequences and pre-existing skills.
Previously, he estimated that he could complete all the perfections in about four months, but he didn't expect that because of the coordination of the knife with his left and right hands at the same time, it would take six months, which was only done with the help of his scientific thinking and theories on the earth, otherwise it would be difficult to know whether it would be successful or not!
The long-range attack method was the most surprising to Wang Gou, but it was reasonable.
His fist strength had already exceeded 1,000kg before entering the Black Wind Ridge, so the pull of his hands would not be much worse. He is currently pulling a bow of about 300kg!
In this world, the bowstring is deer tendon, a string that can make about 40kg, so Wang Gou used 8 kneaded ropes to make a 300kg tensile bow. Under these conditions, the bow and arrow he commonly used can reach an initial velocity of 300m to 400m per second, which is close to the bullet speed of a pistol on earth!
Wang Gou was equipped with several bows and arrows of different qualities to cope with different situations. After all, normally a heavier arrow has a low initial velocity but decreases slowly in the air, while a lighter arrow has a high initial velocity but decreases faster in the air.
Wang Gou practiced a method of turning the bow and arrow in the special attack method of the bow and arrow.
This method of archery has also been around on Earth for a long time, and there is a man named Lars who is known for his video of this method of archery, and Wang Gou currently calls this method the resistance turning method.
After the conventional bow and arrow are shot, it can only make a small downward turn because of gravity, while the resistance turning method can turn in all directions, and you can even turn more than 360 degrees when you are proficient!
The resistance turning method does not require a special arrow, but only makes the tail of the arrow move around the arrow in the initial state of the arrow when shooting, and the direction of the shot is not parallel to the body of the arrow.
In this way, after the arrow is shot, due to the influence of air resistance during the flight, the flight direction of the arrow will gradually turn to the direction parallel to the arrow body, and the effect of turning is achieved.
Without considering the accuracy, the resistance turning method is something that ordinary people can quickly do after practicing for a while!
Other bow and arrow turning methods require special arrows and require more practice, so he does not practice and try.
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With regard to the exercises, the Twisting Finger Gong has reached a point where it is difficult to improve due to its extremely frequent use and accelerated exercise methods similar to Stone Crushing Gong.
Sunflower Gong entered the second layer, and the strength of the body slowly increased, although there was no significant effect when he first practiced stone crushing boxing, but he could still feel the trend of getting stronger.
Wang Gou estimates that excluding all kinds of weapons, he is also a good hand among second-rate masters. It's just that judging from the content of the various exercises and what I have seen and heard, before there is no true qi, the battle result is still very affected by skill proficiency and combat wisdom.
It is estimated that it may only form the effect of level crushing after possessing true qi.
The weather has entered autumn, the air in the early morning is slightly cool, and the morning sun shines on the body is neither warm nor cold.
On an official road made of loess, Wang Gou rode on horseback, the wind blew through the trees on both sides of the road, and the leaves sounded a rattling sound, and some of the leaves fell with the wind, and the horses walked slowly on the road.
Wang Gou sat on the horse and carefully felt the reactions of various parts of his body, constantly thinking about some theories and constantly refuting them, he actually sat on the horse and practiced the exercises!
This is a part of the martial arts postures that Wang Gou found in the existing martial arts that are highly similar to daily behaviors, because after some of the torso movements are changed slightly, some of the exercise effects on the body are still retained.
Wang Gou found that some parts were changed slightly enough to make the exercise effect disappear, but some parts were changed from small to large, and the effect was only from low to high. After many experiments for this purpose, I found a new posture that is more in line with daily behavior, and the effect is reduced or even less than half.
What he is doing now is the new posture deformed from the second layer of Sunflower Gong, although the effect has deteriorated by nearly half, but because it is integrated into daily life, the cumulative harvest is still very significant!
On an official road a few hundred meters away from Wang Gou, three carriages were also moving slowly, with twenty or thirty uniformly dressed guards walking around beside the carriage, and a captain of the guard on horseback, who looked extremely sharp.
There were two eleven or twelve-year-old boys sitting on two horses next to the three carriages, one of them was a sturdy boy who was nearly one meter six tall, with obvious bulging muscles on his body, his skin was a little dark, his face was startled, and his mouth was tirelessly saying something.
Another thin boy with a slightly pale skin, his face slightly revealing a cold temperament, listened to the nagging of the stout boy with a disgusted and impatient face:
"Hey, who else do you think will come to the Wind Thunder Gate?"
"Do you think I'm going to be the strongest new disciple?"
The cold young man didn't speak, and the sturdy young man then asked himself as if he were proud:
"Looks like it should be, hahahaha"
"Do you think about whether the elders of the Wind Thunder Gate will be as stubborn as the old man Niu, haha"
"Why should we follow them, they walk as slowly as!"
At this time, the captain of the guard who was riding in front of him could no longer hold back his heart, and turned his upper body back to call out to the young man:
"Black boy, shut up for me!!"
Then he turned around and calmed down. And the sturdy young man was also startled, his mouth stopped and stopped talking.
It's just that after walking for a short time, the strong young man's voice sounded again, but his voice was slightly lowered.
He also glanced cautiously in the direction of the captain of the guard.
The cold young man's heart flashed with a sigh of "expected". Then he continued to listen to the nagging of the sturdy young man without expression on his face, and did not say a word.
When the convoy was about to pass through the intersection of the two roads, there was also a teenager on the other road at the same time, and slowly approached the intersection on horseback.