After Ling Xiaoyun came to Sword God Mountain, Lu Huaiyuan not only went up and down the mountain to train his body every day, but also began to practice the basic moves of spearmanship. Although Ling Xiaoyun is a martial arts prodigy who has never been seen in a century, with excellent understanding, talent alone is not enough. He still needs to practice diligently. Lu Huaiyuan doesn't even have a smattering of marksmanship, so Ling Xiaoyun asked him to start with daily lunging. A thousand shots started.
Thanks to Cao Qiong's body training method, Lu Huaiyuan had already started practicing martial arts at this time, and the basics of spear-piercing were at his fingertips, except that it felt a bit boring and monotonous. Oddly enough, Lu Huaiyuan was rebellious and turned a deaf ear to half of Cao Qiong's words, but he obeyed Ling Xiaoyun's words without showing any impatience. Sometimes he would even take the initiative to practice 500 times more just to get better at it. The action of stabbing a gun.
Training weapons, to put it bluntly, practice makes perfect, turning the weapon into an extension of the body. Ling Xiaoyun felt even more happy when he saw his apprentice forgetting to eat and sleep every day without slacking off. He personally made a seven-foot-long iron spear for Lu Huaiyuan and gave it to him as a gift. To a beloved disciple. Although it was an ordinary iron gun, Lu Huaiyuan felt like he had found a treasure. He thought that the second master was far more heroic than the first master, so he worked harder to practice the gun.
Ten days later, Lu Huaiyuan had become extremely proficient in spear thrusting. Ling Xiaoyun taught Lu Huaiyuan the "Nazar" technique one after another, and ordered him to add an additional thousand Nazars in addition to the fixed thousand lunge thrusts every day. Skills.
After all, Lu Huaiyuan has a young mind and does not feel tired about things he is interested in. He has a temperament that accepts soft things rather than hard ones. He had contradicted Cao Qiong many times before, but it was just that the latter was not good at communicating with others. Now, although Ling Xiaoyun Compared to Cao Qiong, he was stricter, but he liked to speak softly in everything and never scolded loudly. In addition, Ling Xiaoyun was young and handsome, so Lu Huaiyuan was more willing to stay with the second master.
On weekdays, Lu Huaiyuan would practice spearmanship on the top of the mountain, while Ling Xiaoyun would sit aside and meditate. Lu Huaiyuan has a very high level of understanding. As long as Ling Xiaoyun practices it once, he can learn it and it will be eighty or ninety percent similar in form. What is even more valuable is that it is five to sixty percent similar in spirit. Ling Xiaoyun is deeply gratified by this. All he can see is the shadow of his own spear training when he was young. .
Day after day, in the blink of an eye, Ling Xiaoyun had spent two months on the Sword God Mountain. During these days, Lu Huaiyuan learned almost all the basic spear skills from how to hold a gun, to stabbing the gun, and then to sweeping. With extraordinary talent and a sincere love for marksmanship, he made rapid progress. Cheng Shu, the first person to use a gun five hundred years ago, once said that marksmanship is divided into six levels, which are fighting, long, law-abiding, proficient, understanding, and deification. Today, Lu Huaiyuan has probably reached the level of "law-abiding", but because he has not yet competed with experts in the same level, no one dares to say his true level.
Ling Xiaoyun stayed on the Sword God Mountain. During the day, besides watching Lu Huaiyuan practice his spear, he would discuss martial arts experience with Cao Qiong in his spare time. The two of them were at the same level and had a high vision. Instead of taking one step at a time, they could steadily advance to the realm of heaven and human beings. Cao Qiong, Ling Xiaoyun's many insights are like an antelope hanging its horns. The two of them are both upright and strange, complementing each other, and each has a lot of insights.
On this day, Ling Xiaoyun watched Lu Huaiyuan practice his spear as usual, and suddenly he felt something in his heart, as if he had caught the ethereal artistic conception. He quickly closed his eyes, trying to catch the sudden thought. After burning the incense, Ling Xiaoyun slowly opened his eyes, his eyes clear, and he exhaled a breath of rich and turbid air. Cao Qiong felt this in his heart and came with his sword early. When he saw Ling Xiaoyun, he said happily: "Congratulations on your breakthrough. It seems that this Sword God Mountain is a blessed place."
Ling Xiaoyun apologized and returned the gift, and said with a smile: "The junior should really thank the senior. It's a pity that there is still a long way to go before the legendary realm of immortals."
On this day, the Spear Immortal Ling Xiaoyun returned to the realm of heaven and man.
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In the Imperial Palace of the State of Yan, Li Chengzhi was dressed in plain clothes and sitting alone on the dragon chair. Baili Jin was also wearing no armor and was only wearing casual clothes, standing at the foot of the steps. The rest of the people had been dispersed long ago, and only the emperor and his ministers were left in the huge palace.
Li Chengzhi had earlier ordered his servants to arrange a seat for Baili Jin, and even served fine wine and delicacies. He intended to have a drink and chat with Baili Jin, but the latter did not dare to exceed the rules and always abided by his duty as a minister. He stood aside and refused to sit down. Li Chengzhi didn't care about these innocuous things. He had always been wary of Guo Yuan, who was born in Dongyue Academy, but like Chen Xiong, the king of Chu, he always gave full trust to the leader of the generals who held military power.
Li Chengzhi picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "General Baili, really don't want to try this wine? Fengyang County's Xinghua Spring Wine only produces a few jars a year, so you don't have the chance to enjoy it."
Baili Jin cupped his fists and bowed, "Since this wine is so precious, how can any general dare to take away His Majesty's love?"
Li Chengzhi laughed and scolded: "Slick! Even if you want to drink now, I won't give it to you! If the general doesn't have a good taste, then I will be happy alone." After saying that, he drank the wine in the glass, smacked his mouth, and had endless aftertaste.
Putting the pure gold wine glass aside, Li Chengzhi suppressed his smile and asked with a solemn expression: "Has the general found the whereabouts of Guo Yuan in the past few days?" It turned out that Guo Yuan ran away from Yu in anger that day. After arriving at Tingcheng, Li Chengzhi was furious and ordered Baili Jin to bring this man back alive and to see his body alive.
Baili Jin lowered his head and sighed silently: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have sent heavy troops out of the city to search for you. Logically speaking, Mr. Guo will never go far even with the help of the black-clothed guard. But now that three days have passed, I will not go far." My subordinates searched the surrounding city, but they still couldn't find Mr. Guo's whereabouts, as if he had disappeared out of thin air."
Li Chengzhi rubbed his eyebrows and frowned: "Two living people will not just disappear out of thin air. Maybe they did not enter the city, but were hiding in the wild, waiting for opportunities. Please ask the general to send more people, even if We have to dig three feet into the ground to find Guo Yuan. After all, this person was born in Dongyue Academy and is a scholar. Since he cannot be used by me, in order to prevent him from defecting to other countries and becoming my enemy, Dayan, I must get rid of him quickly. !”
Baili Jin had no regrets about being soft-hearted and letting Guo Yuan go that day, but he felt guilty about Li Chengzhi. Seeing that His Majesty did not blame him, he felt even more guilty, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, something is going to happen. I don’t know why His Majesty is still unwilling to trust Mr. Guo as much as he trusts the general? Do you have to kill him, so what if you leave him alive? "
Li Chengzhi snorted coldly: "I can understand the general's temperament and longing for old friendships, but it's just this one time, and it won't be the same in the future. Even a layman like me knows that kindness does not lead the army. If the general still remembers the friendship in the past, then I will change it. People should do this. As for why I don’t believe in Guo Yuan, the reason is very simple. If a scholar has great ambitions but is not interested in money and power, then this person must have other agendas. I don’t believe this kind of person at all! "
Baili Jin sighed, since His Majesty has spoken, he is afraid that Guo Yuan will not escape death, so he can only secretly order the soldiers that if they find Guo Yuan, they must hand him over to him to prevent him from suffering any more physical pain.
