Chapter 62: Arrived Early
"You want to be beautiful. Wu Yixiu knocked Lin Xingyu's head vigorously, "Do you think that the people in the imperial court are stupid? Why do you suppress the unruly martial artists in this secluded rivers and lakes and take half of the Liuliquan alone? Why do the four holy lands monopolize three of them? The last time the Lingze Cave and Tianhuo Lake produced holy relics, it was Mu Yingbai who was in charge himself, and with his unpredictable supreme swordsmanship and peak Tianxuan realm cultivation, no one in the rivers and lakes dared to make trouble. Above the realm of the great grandmaster, it is just a glance to see what you cultivate, and you still want to hide from the sky and cross the sea with this kind of exercise, and practice the sword well. ”
"That Mu Yingbai is so powerful, why should he serve the imperial court? And such a powerful person, going in and out of the imperial city, wouldn't it be easy to kill the emperor? The emperor is not afraid of him?" Lin Xingyu asked curiously.
"Mu Yingbai's original surname is Li, as for the name, there is no way to know, and it should be an uncle and nephew relationship with the current emperor. There will always be such a peak powerhouse in the imperial court, maybe it is the peak Tianxuan Realm, or it may be the Transformation God Realm, this is the early days of the founding of the Yuyang Dynasty, the emperor was assassinated countless times, in order to completely get rid of this situation. The emperor selected four of the sixteen sons under his knees who were better in martial arts, and invited those who had achieved great achievements in Xuan Qi and Xuan Gong to provide them with all kinds of rare treasures such as Liuliquan at any cost, and those who reached the Tianxuan realm first changed their names and surnames, stayed in Kyoto, protected the emperor, and let them use all kinds of resources, except for not participating in politics. is also because he has not been involved in politics since he was a child, and has been practicing Xuanqi and Xuangong, and he is basically indifferent to political affairs. The other three were divided into frontier areas and led their troops to defend the border. The other twelve sons who did not practice martial arts were left to fight in the political situation, and the winner succeeded to the throne. The emperor also never practiced martial arts. One article and one martial arts, complement each other, and have been inherited for more than 300 years. ”
"Understood, then this "Pseudo-Mysterious Realm" is useless. I went to practice my sword. Although Lin Xingyu said that it was useless, he didn't lose it, he still stuffed it into his arms, and he didn't know what he thought.
Lin Xingyu threw up a branch and slashed it with a sword, and the branch was divided into two, which was extremely simple.
"Who told you to chop off the branches?"
"What are you not chopping branches?"
"Stone. After Wu Yixiu finished speaking, he threw a fist-sized stone to Lin Xingyu. Lin Xingyu slashed down, the stone was bounced away, and the power of the rebound came, shaking the sword body and passing to the palm of his hand.
Everyone continued to hurry, but Lin Xingyu threw the stone, cut it vigorously, and then picked up the stone to check, each time he could only leave an extremely shallow sword mark on the stone.
The force is getting bigger and bigger, and the stone is flying farther and farther, which is bitter Jiang Jianxue, it doesn't hurt much if the dead branch hits the body, if the stone hits the head, the skin and flesh will not be opened, and the body will not be able to stand it. So he ran far away, parallel to Qin Shuyu, and was a little afraid of Qin Shuyu, so he could only walk to the side timidly and nervously, not daring to say a word.
Although Gu Zhenhong studied gun skills on the road, he was not in a hurry to break through to the little grandmaster, after all, if he broke through, there was no hope of getting Liuliquan, and now there is still a lot of hope.
Qin Shuyu didn't seem to care about most things, and he didn't care if he got Liuliquan or not.
Jiang Jianxue didn't seem to have thought about getting Liuliquan at all, just for fun.
After a few days of traveling, Lin Xingyu's sword slashed the stone's strength and speed have been significantly improved, although according to Qin Shuyu's vision the night was much worse, but the progress was visible to the naked eye, a sword slash on the stone, it was already close to half an inch of sword marks, and the stone was also cut beyond recognition, replacing one by one.
After a few more days, Lin Xingyu's sword could cut half the depth of the stone, and the essence fire sword with crumbling and curly blades on the sword body was finally shattered.
Gu Zhenhong cooperated and handed out an unbladed wide and unsheathed heavy sword, the sword body was long and heavy, close to five feet, and it was the weight of five or six fine fire swords.
Lin Xingyu used this sword to slow down a lot in speed and strength, plus he didn't open the blade, let alone cut stones, it was difficult to cut dead branches.
Lin Xingyu practiced chopping branches during the day, and at night he closed his eyes and slashed with his breath, but he no longer had the state of using a wooden sword on the first night, and the heavy sword only rose and fell with his breathing, and his speed and strength improved, but it was not obvious.
In this way, practicing swords day after day, Lin Xingyu never slackened, chopping branches during the day, slashing swords with his breath at night, only when he was extremely sleepy, he would make up for sleep, and he slept for a short time, because he didn't have much time.
Wu Yixiu kept looking at the second form of "Qianyuan Sword" to prepare for Lin Xingyu's practice.
When Qin Shuyu had nothing to do at night, he always stood not far away, looking at the sky, stunned, his beautiful eyes flowed, and his gaze occasionally fell on Lin Xingyu, always staying for a few seconds before moving away.
As the distance from Lingze Cave got closer and closer, Lin Xingyu found that there were more and more people rushing to the side from time to time, from time to time there would be people riding horses galloping by, or some people driving, and there were also some Jianghu rangers carrying all kinds of weapons, most of them were rushing to Lingze Cave, occasionally met enthusiastic, and could say hello, some people were even very interested in the soul behind Lin Xingyu, and wanted to buy it at a high price, Lin Xingyu was not short of money for the time being, so he politely declined.
Lingze Cave is on a vast plain, look at it, a piece of snow, boundless, connect with the sky, there is a huge grotto in the center of the plain, it is very conspicuous, the grotto is nearly 100 meters high, there are several zhang wide, it seems to appear out of thin air, stands in the plain, and the surrounding is incompatible. Above the grotto is a huge palm, with five fingers stretched forward, horizontal in the air, I don't know how after so many years of wind and rain have stood on it without falling. This giant hand blocks out most of the sunlight on weekdays, so that no sunlight can reach the grotto. Since the Lingze Cave was occupied by the dynasty, no warriors from the rivers and lakes have ever entered it, and no one has revealed what is inside.
Relying on the plain, and is one of the four holy places, Lingze Cave is not allowed to approach at will within a radius of five miles, but the surrounding development is very good, there are several small towns, on weekdays by relying on the fertile soil to grow grain and vegetables can be self-sufficient, every fifteen years the martial arts ceremony of the glazed spring water attracts countless warriors on the rivers and lakes to come here, whether it is food, clothing, housing and transportation, can bring a good income to the local people.
When Lin Xingyu and the five of them arrived at Xiyu Town, east of Lingze Cave, it was still early, so they walked around the town at will, mainly to familiarize themselves with the local environment, the town was already crowded with people, and they didn't know if the taverns and inns in the town could accommodate so many people, and the martial arts ceremony would start in five or six days, and now there were so many people, there must be more people at that time, and the competition was very fierce.
Lin Xingyu looked for several inns, and barely found a place to live, and there were only three rooms, the price was outrageously high, and they were all very dilapidated, obviously temporarily changed, and the room exuded a damp and moldy smell, which was better than sleeping on the street. Qin Shuyu and Jiang Jianxue each slept in a guest room, and Lin Xingyu and the three of them were crammed into one room, but the three men didn't mind.
At night, Lin Xingyu and Wu Yixiu lay on the bed, Gu Zhenhong sat at the table, wiped the black and inky desolation in his hands, over and over again, chatting with Wu Yixiu from time to time, most of them are inseparable from gun skills and marksmanship, Wu Yixiu is listening most of the time, and occasionally replying to one or two sentences, which makes Gu Zhenhong feel deeply benefited a lot, and he has learned a lot, and he always wants to go out to practice, Lin Xingyu knows why Gu Zhenhong respects Wu Yixiu so much.
Before dawn, Lin Xingyu was dragged up by Wu Yixiu, and the two walked through the deserted streets, went straight out of the town, and walked to a desolate snowfield.
"Time is running out, Liuliquan only comes out once every fifteen years, so you can't fail, you have mastered the basic essentials of the first style of "Qianyuan Sword", and the rest is to improve in practice and actual combat, when can you use a heavy sword to cut off stones, and then practice the next step. We will now practice the second form of the Qianyuan Sword first. ”
Lin Xingyu has already read the second style of "Qianyuan Sword" several times, the second style is Yan Xun slashing, the sword rises and the sword returns, and Yan rises and falls. There are a total of six villains depicted in the cheats, the first villain's posture is the same as the initial posture of the first style, all of them hold the scabbard with one hand, and the other hand holds the hilt, and the posture is slightly bent, and the second painting is a long sword in front of the body. The next three slashes are retracted, the third is three slashes into six slashes, but the spacing is smaller, the fourth painting is a slash from six to nine, the spacing becomes smaller again, the fifth painting is a stabbing sword, the fifth painting is a villain with several swords in one, there is a cone-shaped thing at the tip of the sword, the sixth painting is a flick of the villain's long sword, and the cone-shaped thing rises out of thin air.
Lin Xingyu could understand the first four paintings, but he didn't understand the fifth and sixth paintings very well, and the meaning expressed seemed to be that the sword qi hurt people, but isn't the sword qi all sword trick things? This Qianyuan sword second style should be a sword move! Wu Yixiu didn't understand it for a while, so he only let Lin Xingyu practice the first four.
Wu Yixiu took out three pieces of paper and threw them into the air, Lin Xingyu held a wooden sword and quickly slashed at the three pieces of paper, because the three pieces of paper were scattered in different directions, Lin Xingyu swung the sword very quickly, and the time to cut the three pieces of paper into two sections still did not satisfy Wu Yixiu, so he repeated the practice over and over again, Wu Yixiu took the trouble to throw the paper, and Lin Xingyu kept swinging the sword.
The two of them practiced until noon, when Lin Xingyu was holding a wooden sword in his hand, he could quickly cut out three swords, three swords were broken and three pieces of paper were broken, and the sword marks were neat.
So the paper went from large to small, from wide to narrow, Lin Xingyu could cut it perfectly, and then increased the three pieces of paper to six, and then to nine, until late at night, Lin Xingyu's numb arm could not be raised before returning to the inn, and he took the opportunity to try the left-handed sword, and found that the left-handed sword was not good in strength and accuracy, and most of the time not only could not cut the floating paper, but even if it was cut, it was constantly chopped.