Although the annual sword test conference of Wenshan Academy is over, the professors and students are still discussing the mysterious swordsmanship of Ling Lingqi, the first in this year's martial arts test. The shock brought to them by this kind of swordsmanship was very powerful, and no one had ever seen such a peculiar swordsmanship. A long sword of Ling Lingqi makes it live like a wheel, without concave and convex, without defects, light and agile all around, and the joints are continuous, such as the Yangtze River surging endlessly, like the clouds and flowing water continuously, shaped like a rabbit and a cat that catches mice.

Under the repeated requests of Fang Datong and his classmates, Ling Lingqi had to agree to teach Tai Chi swordsmanship to all the students of Wenshan Academy, of course, Fang Datong and Lu Zilong were the most interested people, and they became the students of Ling Lingqi, an eight-year-old child. Of course, in terms of martial arts, the master is the teacher, who let Ling Lingqi learn such a peerless swordsmanship!

Ling Lingqi decided to contribute the traditional Yang Taiji Sword Routine for the students of Wenshan Academy to learn, and there were two other special students, that is, Lu Zilong and Fang Datong!

On the morning of this day, Ling Lingqi stood on the martial arts arena of Wenshan Academy, in front of him were Lu Zilong, Fang Datong and more than 200 students, Sun's Taiji swordsmanship actually has seventy-three styles, but Ling Lingqi had already demonstrated fifty-five styles before the martial arts test, and now he decided to teach the entire set of swordsmanship to everyone.

After all, in Ling Lingqi's previous life, Guoshu was advocated regardless of sects, and each faction came up with its own boxing skills, and everyone studied and improved them together. Of course, it was impossible to do this in ancient times, but Tai Chi swordsmanship was only the first layer of Tai Chi.

This is because Taijiquan is to push the rigidity and softness, and the boxing practice to a certain level of learning the sword, because the sword is a very light and agile weapon, such as the flying phoenix, which is impermanent.

The second layer is rigid, Taiji diagram mutual transformation, yin and yang arise, this is the cycle of heaven, just as the prosperity must decline, the knife, single-sided blade and wide back, the main rigid, a hundred battles to break the formation of cold light, often win the enemy ten steps to slash, such as a tiger, destroy the withering and decaying to win it, can break through the second layer of the bottleneck of boxing, from soft and rigid.

The third layer is five yin and five yang, as the so-called "only five yin and five yang, yin and yang are not biased to call the wonderful hand", that is, the highest state of taijiquan, the strength is unpredictable, the gun, the long soldier and the short blade, such as the dragon, no rigidity and no softness, can bravely win the enemy's spirit, can skillfully take the enemy's soul, can break through the third layer of boxing bottleneck.

can reach the realm of gun training, and he is already a master of Tai Chi.

Ling Lingqi stood with his hands down, although he was still young, but he had a great demeanor, with great confidence, he said loudly: "Everyone wants to learn Tai Chi swordsmanship, first of all, you have to practice Tai Chi! Tai Chi swordsmanship is based on Tai Chi boxing, its movements are soft, slow and light, the posture is stretched and atmospheric, the strength is rigid and soft, and the swordsmanship has stabs, teasing, pointing, poking, grid, washing, splitting, hanging, etc., light and flexible, and can be swallowed freely. ”

"In the process of practicing Tai Chi Sword and Tai Chi Boxing, it is required to stand up in the middle of the body, hang the head with strength, sink the shoulders and elbows, pull the back with the chest, loosen the waist and the buttocks, and the action requires the guidance of the mind, the mental concentration, the quiet in the movement, the dantian, and the action to match! Ling Lingqi said with great seriousness.

Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, Ling Lingqi smiled again: "Of course, the Tai Chi Sword Technique is not as difficult as imagined. In the simplest words, Taijiquan and Taiji swordsmanship are to draw circles, and if you can draw a circle, you will be Taijiquan sword. ”

Fang Datong said in surprise: "Draw a circle, is it really that simple?"

Ling Lingqi smiled and said, "Of course, drawing a circle is just the basic skill! Let's practice the ball holding style first, and everyone can feel what Tai Chi is." Imagine holding a very thin paper ball in your chest, if you hold it hard, the paper ball will deflat, and if you don't hold it, the paper ball will float away. The requirement is to exert rather than force, and the paper ball will neither deflated nor be held off. Note that you should feel the presence of the ball with your arms and chest and abdomen, with your mind and without force. ”

After speaking, Ling Lingqi separated his feet parallel to each other, and said loudly while making a ball-hugging motion: "Please do it with me." Feet shoulder-width apart, standing naturally, head straight, like a wire raised, like a top not top, chin slightly closed, tongue naturally placed, not against the palate, eyes gently closed, shoulders naturally drooping, do not shrug shoulders, hands slowly moved to the chest, high and shoulder level, about a foot away, palms inward in the shape of a ball, fingers separated and slightly bent, hands about two or three fists away, armpit void, chest and back naturally vertical, heart socket slightly retracted, waist stretched out, hips slightly backwards, knees slightly bent, but toes, enough to naturally contain the void, toes seem to grasp the ground. ”

The basic skills of the Taijiquan sword were so strange that everyone was very curious, and everyone followed Ling Lingqi's movements and began to practice holding the ball.

The ball-holding style taught by Ling Lingqi is the action in the thirteen styles of Wudang Taiji, and Zhang Sanfeng, the patriarch of the Wudang faction, was realized by repeatedly pressing the ball in the water tank, of course, this is what Ling Lingqi saw from the movie Taiji Zhang Sanfeng, no one knows what the truth is.

However, Ling Lingqi knew that the legend said that Zhang Sanfeng was born in the late Southern Song Dynasty, until the Ming Dynasty, lived for nearly 300 years and finally did not know what happened. However, Taijiquan was taught by Ling Lingqi to the teachers and students of Wenshan Academy, which has nothing to do with the real Patriarch Zhang Sanfeng.

The ancient Taijiquan spectrum has clearly pointed out that the characteristic posture that Taijiquan has always maintained is the "holding the ball" posture. Taijiquan is always not a posture of "holding the ball", it is nothing more than sometimes the "ball" is large, sometimes the "ball" is small, the two hands are diagonally facing each other, and the upper hand is about the same height as the shoulder above the elbow of the next hand, "holding the ball" or "holding the hand" is a form of Taijiquan "opening and closing, holding in the arms" with a high frequency, and it is a main action posture of Taijiquan "connecting strength". It can be seen that if Taijiquan does not have this kind of "holding the ball", it will not be Taijiquan.

When the teachers and students learned the ball-holding style, Ling Lingqi began to teach them the holding style.

Ling Lingqi said loudly: "Next, let's practice the holding style." Imagine that when you press the wooden board floating in the water with both hands, you will feel the slightest upward extension of the body and the sinking of the wooden plank; when the arms are relaxed and do not exert force, the wooden board will float, and the body will seem to sit down and retract slightly, and the wooden board under your hand will float and experience the expansion and contraction of the whole body. Notice that all this must still be done with the mind, not with force, and not with the appearance. ”

While explaining, Ling Lingqi began to demonstrate the action of holding and pressing, and for these strange movements, the teachers and students of Wenshan Academy felt extremely fresh, so they all practiced attentively.

In this way, Ling Lingqi was not only a student in the academy, but also a free professor. In the process of teaching Taijiquan Sword, Ling Lingqi's national martial arts are also slowly improving. Time flies quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it is the day of the Jiangnan Academy Sword Conference!