"The sword is straight, but the sword energy can be bent, just like a human being..."
Cheng Liyun was sitting at the stone table in the bamboo forest, smelling heavily of alcohol, but with a bit more serious face. In the bamboo forest, Yang Ning and Liu Feng were working hard with their swords.
A stream of sword energy shuttled through the bamboo forest. Many bamboo poles were flattened, and only the bare half was exposed to the air.
"wrong……"
"It's still not right..."
…
Cheng Liyun looked fierce and scolded him constantly.
And after every mistake, the two began to swing their swords again and again. There is no sword intention, only pure sword energy, sharp sword energy. The sword energy swung out from between the sword lights of the two swords, very straight, as straight as the swords in their hands.
"The wrist needs to be flexible..."
Cheng Liyun prompted and drank a sip of wine.
Swordsmen sometimes have flexible wrists for sword strikes or killing enemies, but obviously they are not enough for the bending of sword energy mentioned by Elder Jiu.
flexible? Suddenly the bamboo forest became quiet, with only scattered dead leaves blowing in the wind.
Holding the central hilt of the sword, the sword can only be flexible if my wrist is flexible. But my wrist is enough, why can't I reach the point that Elder Jiu said?
Yang Ning looked at the sword in his hand and remained silent for a long time.
As soon as the two of them came to this bamboo forest in the morning, Elder Jiu was already waiting for them, and informed them that he would basically spend the next month with them.
Yang Ning was moved by Elder Jiu's sword energy. He immediately expressed his thoughts, and then was stumped by the first problem that Elder Jiu said.
The sword is straight, but the sword energy drawn by the sword has a curvature. At the same time, the elder Jiu told them that the sword energy can even turn.
As he spoke, Elder Jiu didn't even forget to demonstrate, slashing out with his sword, but a bamboo pole on Elder Jiu's right was broken.
The two of them could clearly feel that it was caused by the bending of the sword energy. Even during the process, the wine elder's spiritual power was not used.
So under the demonstration of Elder Jiu, the two began a month-long journey of penance.
But after one morning, the two of them discovered that for the elder Jiu, a simple chop made the two of them rack their brains without any thoughts.
The sword is still straight, but the alcohol smell is even straighter. The sword point is pointed by the sword breath, and there is not even a slight deviation.
"What happened?" Liu Feng even wondered if Elder Jiu had used some other method unknown to them to deflect the sword energy.
But the bamboo pole on the right side of Elder Jiu clearly reminded the two of them that sword energy can indeed turn corners.
How is it done? The two of them had been thinking about it all morning, but to no avail.
"continue……"
The wine elder drank wine, his eyes slightly opened, but his voice was full of sternness.
The sword energy shuttled back and forth, but the two of them still had no clue.
Sword after sword, he kept swinging out, just to swing out such a sword energy that could turn. However, they were disappointed time and time again. Unknowingly, their arms and wrists swelled because of this, but the wine elder had no intention of asking them to stop.
"Use your brains..."
"Sword, the key is enlightenment..."
The wine elder on the side reminded the two of them from time to time.
"More practicing..." Elder Jiu added one last sentence, and then he seemed to have fallen asleep, lying on the stone table, motionless.
The autumn wind, with its desolation, is always non-stop, even a little bit offensive.
The sword energy continued for nearly ten days without stopping, but there was still no progress in turning the sword energy around.
"This can't be done." Liufeng was so angry that he threw the sword aside and ran to the stone table angrily. He even stared at Elder Jiu with suspicious eyes and said angrily: "Elder Jiu, are you avenging a private revenge? Deliberately punishing both of us..."
Liufeng even felt that his idea was the purpose of Elder Jiu. I was stealing wine, but that time I wasn't beaten to death by the sloppy elder in front of me. On the contrary, this time, I was only allowed to hunt a few game that day.
It's strange that this old guy's temperament can get around him. It seems that this old guy must be playing tricks on the two of them during the sword practice these days. Liufeng was very angry when he thought of this. He stared at the elder Jiu and said, He snatched the wine jar from the elder's mouth.
Boom…
Suddenly there was a series of swallowing sounds.
"I've betrayed you..." Elder Jiu suddenly stood up and shouted angrily. A sword energy burst out from his fingertips, and the aura of a strong mountain-building realm erupted instantly.
Liufeng didn't even have time to react before he was forced back by the momentum. Between staggering, he was already seven or eight steps away.
"Sure enough, I guessed it..." Before Liu Feng finished speaking, he felt a chill on his back and a cold wind coming from him.
"What's going on?" Liufeng didn't understand what happened at all.
However, Yang Ning, who was standing aside, was extremely shocked. Because the sword energy just now started from the fingertips and struck Liu Feng's back in an instant.
He saw the sword energy turning around again, it was a white light, like a gust of wind, a tangible wind, rotating at will and slashing on Liufeng's back.
Even the control was very subtle, not hurting Liu Feng in the slightest, only cutting through Liu Feng's clothes, exposing the entire back to the air.
"It's been ten days, but you haven't made any progress at all. It's really disappointing." The wine elder did not forget to take back his wine jar, pointed at the fallen leaves floating in the air, and said: "Look, the wind is spinning, so this piece of The leaves are turning..."
The two of them followed the elder Jiu's fingertips and saw bamboo leaves dancing in the wind, turning over and over.
"Sword Qi also has the same principle." It was like a drum in the evening and a bell in the morning, waking up two people who seemed to be in a dream.
"I see……"
"Withered leaf dance, sword energy, wind..." Yang Ning was also thinking.
Sword energy is drawn by the edge of the sword, so it cannot turn, but it can use external objects. Just like a dead leaf falling, it cannot rotate, but the wind can change its state, and this wind is an invisible external object.
The sword energy turns like this.
The two of them were enlightened, but they soon discovered a problem. The wind can change the trajectory of the dead leaves. That is because the dead leaves are light, but because the sword energy is powerful, it cannot use the wind as an external object, let alone turn. .
"Your sword energy is not perfect enough." The wine elder shook his head.
It is well known that in the realm of swordsmanship, one can advance only if one stage is perfected, but when he found the elder Jiu, he said that their swordsmanship realm was not perfect, so how could the two of them be convinced.
"Impossible." Liu Feng was the first to speak, bluntly expressing his objection, because Liu Feng's own sword was already at a high level of sword intent, and this could not be faked.
"Wrong, wrong..." The wine elder shook his head.
"Wrong?" Yang Ning was also puzzled.
"That's right, you all don't understand sword energy, let alone perfect it." Elder Jiu flipped his fingers, and sword energy was filled with killing blows. It looked like he was killing people all over the world, but something shocking happened. . The sword energy became peaceful in an instant, without any killing aura, as if it was just a pure energy, an energy belonging to the sword.
"How is this possible?" Yang Ning has never seen such control even in his past life. Even a strong mountaineer cannot achieve it.
But the wine elder in front of him did it.
"That's why I say that your sword energy is not perfect enough." Elder Jiu withdrew his sword energy without any backlash, as if the move just now was like something that came easily to Elder Jiu and was not worth mentioning.
Hearing this, the two of them suddenly had a belief that the sword intention they had reached was the sword intention realm. If the sword energy is not perfect, how can the sword energy become the intention and reach the realm of the sword intention?
The two of them stood like stones in the wind, not moving for a long time.
"This is impossible..." Liufeng suddenly became crazy, even waving his hands and beating them randomly, "This is impossible..."
A pair of eyes seemed to see something incredible, twinkling and unreal.
Yang Ning also woke up because of Liu Feng's commotion. At the same time, he was thinking about his guess. Could it be that his faint sword intention was fake?
The elder Jiu was very fast and pointed at Liufeng's temple, causing Liufeng to faint immediately.
"What's wrong with him?" Yang Ning didn't know if his suspicion was true, but Elder Jiu said that he and Liu Feng's sword intention was not perfect, but he and Liu Feng had truly condensed their sword intention. What's the explanation?
"I am so angry that I am heartbroken." The elder Jiu said casually, then looked at Yang Ning and said, "You are indeed different from ordinary people. You are able to stay sober. It is indeed good."
"Senior, can it be said that my sword intention at this moment is really fake?" Yang Ning finally asked.
The wine elder raised his head and took a sip of wine and said: "Fake is not fake, but it's just not very real." The wine elder said something ambiguous, and Yang Ning was completely confused by its meaning. Yang Ning even felt more confused.
"You have indeed achieved the sword intention, but because the sword intention is not perfect enough, so the sword intention between you and this boy can only be said to be superficial, not the real sword intention." Although the elder Jiu was drinking, he But he was so awake that he even saw Yang Ning's confusion.
"And if you want to truly achieve the perfection of sword energy, you need to continue to refine it, and you also need a higher understanding of sword energy." Elder Jiu said, throwing the wine jar, and the sword energy was swaying in the air, which can be said to swallow mountains and rivers, and even have some kind of Traces of the Tao remain.
"Is this the real sword energy?" Yang Ning murmured to himself, and saw nine sword energy left in the air, constantly reorganizing, and finally formed the word "sword".
Only the Qi is wandering, traveling through the traces, as if there is life.
"You and this kid should realize it." Elder Jiu left a message and disappeared into the bamboo forest.
The word "sword" persists for a long time, as if it is fixed here. Yang Ning knew that this was the embodiment of Elder Jiu's extreme sword energy. As long as Elder Jiu did not die, or the word "sword" was not defeated by a force stronger than him, then the word "sword" would stay here forever.
Yang Ning stared at the word "sword" in the air, concentrated on it, and sat down.
Enlightenment is indispensable for practitioners, but more importantly, the direction must be correct.
At this time, Elder Jiu has left the right direction for the two of them. If they still can't understand it, they will be really ashamed to tell others.
