Kiryu's tone was very calm, as if he only said a trivial matter.
Qingdeng's neck suddenly stiffened.
After a while, Qingdeng seemed to come back to his senses. He slowly asked:
"Cut off the steel or the mainmast of the battleship?"
Qingto's eyes seemed to be saying to Kiryu: Are you kidding me?
Steel? Battleship mainmast? Can these things be cut with a sword?
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Kiryu laughed rarely.
"Tachibana-kun, you don't have to look like this."
"At first glance, you may think what I just said is unbelievable, but if you can master the trick, then there will be nothing in the world that you can't cut, be it wood or steel."
Kiryu seemed to have said something very powerful, and Qingto was confused and confused.
"Master...the secret?"
Qingden pondered, and then asked Kiryu with his eyes: What is the secret?
Kiryu chuckled, as if he was deliberately trying to put it off and was not in a hurry to give an explanation immediately.
He raised his wine glass in the style of an old man from the village, took a sip of the wine, and then looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh that seemed to be very satisfied with the taste of the wine.
It wasn't until Qingdeng became anxious with waiting that he finally opened his lips again:
"Tachibana-kun, you should know about Tosuji, right?"
"of course I know."
Qingdeng answered without hesitation.
The knife tendon is simply the movement trajectory of the knife.
By controlling the cutting trajectory and the target to be cut on the same level, you can naturally achieve the ideal cutting effect.
On the contrary, it is easy to fail to cut off the target smoothly and have burrs on the fracture.
Therefore, when using a knife, all the force should be applied in a straight line.
The direction of the blade and the direction of force when slashing down must remain exactly the same.
Otherwise, the cutting effect will be unsatisfactory at best, and the blade will be damaged at worst.
"When the mind is calm, the sword tendons are easy to straighten; when the mind is disordered, the sword tendons are easy to bend. Therefore, no matter what sect or sect, they all attach great importance to 'training the mind'."
"No matter what kind of situation you face or encounter, you will not be at the mercy of personal emotions and can always wield the sword calmly. Only by doing this can you be called a qualified swordsman."
Kiryu looked at Aonto meaningfully.
"So - Mr. Tachibana, let me ask you: If you can achieve the ultimate goal of 'not being at the mercy of personal emotions', what kind of situation will be born?"
Qingdeng was startled.
At this moment, he felt like there was a hanging thread hanging down in his mind, as if something was about to take the bait.
Kiryu smiled and gave Qingden a moment to think.
After a while, he continued:
"If you want to reach the state of being able to kill things that mortals cannot kill, you only need to meet two conditions."
Kiryu held out two fingers.
"First, have a good weapon."
"No matter how skilled a woman is, if you don't give her needles and thread, she won't be able to make beautiful clothes."
"The same goes for swordsmen."
"No matter how excellent a swordsman is in swordsmanship, if you don't give him a good sword, he won't be able to fully utilize his abilities."
"As for the second one...don't be confused."
"If the sword does not come out of its sheath, it is fine; if the sword does come out of its sheath, it requires unity of mind and heart."
Qingdeng's eyes suddenly shrank.
The unity of mind and heart... This sentence is very familiar to Qingto - the introduction to the ability of "Wuxian Hachiman" has almost exactly the same content!
For a moment, Qingden held his breath subconsciously, and looked at Kiryu without blinking, as if the word "serious" was plastered on his cheeks.
Aonto's intuition told him: What Kiryu will say next may become a key clue to launch the "Wuxian Hachiman", so he must not miss it!
On the side, Makimura and Kinoshita Mai kept their silence very wisely, creating as comfortable an environment as possible for the master and apprentice who were teaching.
"Boss Kiryu." Qingto asked back, "The 'unity of mind and heart' you mentioned...does it mean to concentrate on your work and not have distracting thoughts?"
Kiryu shook his head.
"Concentrate on it, concentrate on it—this kind of thing can be done even by a young and inexperienced child."
"What I call 'unity of mind and heart' is not just about being very focused. The most important thing is to maintain a high degree of unity between will and emotion, and to achieve a mental state in which you don't think about anything except 'cutting off what is in front of you.'" .”
Doubt and confusion...and a complicated expression that seemed to understand something, but seemed to understand nothing, appeared on Qingdeng's face.
"Boss Kiryu, can you explain it in more detail?"
Qingdeng asked tentatively.
Kiryu adjusted his glasses and said "Of course, why not?"
"Many times, you think you have entered a state of concentration, but in fact there are still quite a lot of distracting thoughts in your mind."
"For example, when you are fighting someone, do you often can't help but think:"
"How will the opponent attack next?"
"If my attack fails, how should I make amends?"
"If he takes such an offensive, how should I defend myself?"
"If I lose, will I have to say goodbye to my lover, relatives and friends forever?"
"When this happens, it means: you have not controlled your emotions."
"Ji Jun, if you find it troublesome, you can forget everything I just said and just remember this sentence - 'control emotions'."
"A will to fight that is harder to shake than a rock, and a firm purpose that will never give up until something is cut off. As long as you possess these two powers, you can cut through anything within its reach."
Qingden murmured these two sentences repeatedly as if chewing:
"A will to fight that is harder to shake than a rock...a firm purpose that will never give up until something is cut off..."
The hanging thread hanging in my mind felt like something was wrapped around it.
Something took the bait...
However, no matter how hard Qingden tried, he could not "finish" smoothly.
The unknown thing that was entangled in the hanging wire was so heavy, heavy, and slippery.
The harder you try, the harder it is to catch the fish.
Just when Aonto was troubled by "being unable to put away the hanging thread in his mind," Kiryu's sudden cry brought Aoto's consciousness back to reality:
"Tachibana-kun, there's only so much I can say. The rest, you can only rely on yourself to slowly understand."
"What?" Qingden said dumbfounded, "Boss Kiryu, don't stop talking in the middle of what you are saying! Please be sure to give me a few more words!"
Kiryu smiled:
"My silly disciple, I didn't stop talking in the middle of what I said."
"I have taught you everything I can and should say without reservation."
"If this level of knowledge is taught too thoroughly, it will be harmful to you."
"Therefore, I must point it out to the end, leaving you enough room to 'understand for yourself'."
"It's like: before now, you had been wandering around like a headless fly in a foggy wilderness."
"After listening to my instructions just now, you successfully escaped from the 'Misty Wilderness' and came to a crossroads."
"Leading you to this crossroads—that's the limit of what I can do."
"Next, whether you want to go north or south; whether you want to look east or go west, it all depends on your personal thinking and judgment."
"I can't share my past experience with you."
"Because there is no correct answer as to which way to go."
"No matter which path you choose, you can reach the end."
"That's why I said that if I tell you too clearly, it will be easy to harm you."
"'Your master, I went south, so as long as you follow my master's footsteps, you can go south too' - once such words are said, it is very likely to cause you misery. "
"After all, not everyone is suitable for the south. Maybe the east is the most suitable direction for you."
After listening to Kiryu's concise and vivid explanation, Aoto slumped his shoulders with regret.
"alright, I got it."
Kiryu stretched out his hand and patted Aoden on the back.
“A mother needs to be anxious, a mother needs to be anxious.”
"There are many people, things, and things in the world, the more urgent you want them, the less you can get them, especially in martial arts."
"So just relax and let nature take its course."
"You should eat and drink every day. Don't stubbornly pursue me. You must understand the mystery of what I just said before today or some time."
“Such an overthrowing behavior will not only easily result in nothing, but may also lead to irreparable negative consequences.”
"In short - follow nature and obey others, don't force anything."
"This kind of practice of doing nothing is the most ideal state of 'enlightenment'."
At this point, Kiryu paused. After a while, he changed into a half-joking tone:
"You are a natural disciple of Rishin-ryu."
When he read the two words "natural" and "rational mind", Kiryu specially strengthened his tone.
"Since you are a disciple of Natural Rishin-ryu, you must not do anything that goes against the purpose of the school."
Qingden's lips curled up slightly at Kiryu's joke.
"Well... Boss Kiryu, you are right. Things related to 'enlightenment' cannot be forced."
After saying that, Qingden let out a long breath.
At the same time, he let go of the hanging thread in his mind, allowing the hanging thread and the unknown thing entangled in the hanging thread to sink into the deepest part of his mind, and no longer stubbornly insisted that he must "stop the pole" at this moment.
"Boss Kiryu, thank you for your advice!"
Qingto was convinced and bowed to Kiryu in front of him respectfully.
Kiryu chuckled and shook his head.
"Mr. Ju, you are out of sight now."
"It is a matter of course for a master to teach his apprentices and resolve their doubts. Why do you need so many etiquettes?"
"If you really want to express your gratitude to me, just have a few drinks with me."
Kiryu pushed the bottle to Aonto.
Qingdeng smiled heartily and said repeatedly, "Okay, no problem!"
The master and the apprentice exchanged cups and drank wine and chatted happily.
At this time, Mai Kinoshita and Makimura, who had been silent just now in order not to disturb Kiryu's teaching work, rejoined the chat.
"Oh, Kiryu, you are quite capable of being a master!"
Makimura laughed and slapped his thigh hard.
Kiryu answered calmly:
“I once learned in Tuzuo how to teach complex knowledge to others in a simple and concise way.”
…
After everyone chatted for a while.
"My journey to martial arts is indeed still very long."
Qingdeng, who was already a little drunk, folded his arms and sighed.
"Before today, my goal was to reach a state where I could freely expand and release my power. But now, I have one more goal."
Potential——Hearing this word, Kiryu and Makimura both laughed.
Qingdeng, who didn't understand what the two people were laughing at, asked in confusion:
"Boss Kiryu, Mr. Makimura, what are you laughing at?"
Makimura slowly stopped laughing:
"'Shi'... Haha, every time I hear this word, I deeply feel the development and changes of the times."
"Looking back when Kiryu and I were young, there was no such thing as 'power'."
"We only know that powerful martial arts masters often have strong 'aura', but we don't know what this 'aura' is, and we don't have a formal name for this 'aura' Common name."
"Until the guy got bored, he named this 'aura' 'Shi' based on his own experience to kill time. He first solved the naming problem, and then did further in-depth research on this basis. "
"It took several years for the concept of 'shi' to finally emerge and be integrated into today's martial arts system."
After Makimura finished speaking, a look of surprise appeared on Qingdeng's face:
"That rascal……?"
Next to them, Kinoshita Mai and Aoto showed shocked expressions in no particular order.
"Mr. Makimura." Qingto asked quickly, "From what you said... you seem to know the person who created the concept of 'shi'?"
Makimura nodded firmly.
"I don't just know him. He is Kiryu and I's best friend."
"..." Qingdeng was immediately speechless.
At this moment, Qingdeng only had one thought in his heart: What happened to these two old people? Isn’t the circle of friends too powerful? You actually know this kind of person? And they're still friends? !
Qingdeng hesitated for a moment, but finally lost to his curiosity:
"Then...Boss Kiryu, Mr. Makimura, may I ask if your friend is still here? If it's convenient, can you tell me his name?"
As a practitioner of martial arts and a lover of martial arts, Qingdeng really wanted to know who was the master who was able to pioneer the concept of "momentum".
"He's still alive."
Makimura grinned.
"Not only is he still alive, but he is also very healthy and active every day. With his current energy and physical condition... I am afraid that he will not die in another two hundred years."
How can there be any human being in this world who can live for more than 200 years... Qingden slandered.
Qingtengquan thought that what Makimura had just said was a joke, so he immediately put it behind him and continued to listen carefully.
"As for the name..."
Makimura shrugged and shook his head.
"That guy is currently living in seclusion, so I can't reveal his name and address to the outside world casually."
"Ah, that's it..." Qingden sighed regretfully.
At almost the same time, Kinoshita Mai followed suit and turned her regret into a voice.
Kinoshita Mai also wanted to know who had such great abilities.
"Hahahaha! Tachibana, young master. There is no need to feel sorry!"
While Makimura laughed, he raised his big palm-like hand and patted Ayoto and Kinoshita Mai alternately on the shoulders.
"It's not like I'll never get a chance to meet that guy!"
"When the opportunity comes in the future, I will personally take you to introduce him!"
"That guy's body is very strong, so you don't have to worry about not being able to meet him in your lifetime."
"Maybe when you all turn into a handful of loess, he will still be alive."
Qingdeng raised his eyebrows and said jokingly:
"We have all turned into loess, and he is still alive? This body is too strong, isn't it?"
"Mr. Makimura." Kinoshita Mai said helplessly, "Isn't your statement too exaggerated?"
Makimura spread his hands in disbelief, then showed an intriguing smile.
"His body is indeed so strong... Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, let's talk about more interesting topics!"
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