"The sword is the mother of all weapons, and it is also the one with the most changes in use. If you use the sword to defend against the enemy, the best way is to remain unchanged in response to all changes, and to win with no moves, there are moves."
Time passed slowly as the sky darkened, and finally ushered in the sunset in another free world. This was also the third night Duan Qing and his wife were about to spend in the wild after they ran out of Carlo Village. . The group of guys from the Animal and Bird Alliance who have been entrenched in the Novice Village seem to have never left this place during this period of time, and their searches and disturbances have not stopped. This also allowed a trace of the beast to be discovered that morning. The two wrong people completely stayed in this wilderness south of the village.
Although they stayed here, they had no time to relax at this time.
"Drink!"
The same loud shout as before once again echoed in a corner of the wilderness, accompanied by the sound of Xue Ling Huan Bing slashing a wild wolf to death on the spot with another sword. The completely different aura from before also slowly disappeared in the expression of her eyebrows along with the movement of sheathing the sword: "...To put it lightly."
"Although you have been using the sword for a long time, you still have a long way to go before you can learn all the sword moves."
Sitting lazily under a small rock not far from her, Duan Qing, who was busy with something with his hands, said without raising his head: "I'm just telling you the goal you should achieve in advance so that you can have the right direction. Don’t worry if something goes wrong again, I will be blamed in the end..."
"It's your fault."
A trace of gloom flashed across his face, and Xue Ling Huan Bing concealed his worries with a reproachful expression: "You are the Sky-Breaking Blade, and you can't even teach swordsmanship well. If I don't blame you, who should I blame? "
"...So I've said that I know a little bit about everything."
The lips of the two potion guns in his hands gradually faced each other, and Duan Qing, who could not take his eyes away, was still discussing with Xue Ling Huan Bing without any obstacles: "Other things are fine, swords are mine. The best part is that you still have to take the path of a swordsman in the end. It is inevitable that I have high requirements for you... Oh, don't poke, don't poke! The potion has been spilled!"
"It's better to sprinkle it on you!" Xueling Huanbing retracted his fingers and threw the sword aside angrily: "Then why do you want to be a magician again?"
"I've never been a magician before, so now I want to try it out."
Looking helplessly at the two potions that were half missing, Duan Qing, who curled his lips, simply put all the things in his hands on the ground: "I didn't have a chance in my last life, but I finally have a chance in this life..."
"……Have the opportunity?"
Looking at the other party in confusion, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who put his hands behind his back, jumped to Duan Qing's side in a few steps: "Are you talking about... the character from Mo Shang Qingshan?"
"I also took a mage appraisal at that time, and the answer that old guy Norman gave me was - I can't become a magician."
With a thoughtful expression in his eyes, Duan Qing looked up at the clear sky beside the rock: "The reason... I remember it was caused by a physique with divergent spiritual power, right? Anyway, he later gave me a book, euphemistically called It is a method that can cure my disease..."
"Now that I think about it, it should be just a way to use mental power to force memorize magic." He shook his palm, then pointed to his forehead: "Use some unknown method to force me to learn it. A few simple earth spells.”
"Then what?" Xue Ling Huan Bing blinked and quickly found the key to the problem: "Why can you learn magic now?"
"I don't know why." Duan Qing sighed sadly: "Probably..."
"It's probably because I can no longer use the Yi Sword."
It seemed that some kind of sad past was mentioned, and the air between the two people was silent for a moment. The woman named Xue Ling Huan Bing then held back her long white hair, cautiously probed her head and asked: " Why, why?”
"Because of this place."
Nodding his forehead again, Duan Qing explained in a speculative tone: "I have been thinking about this issue during that time. Is the so-called magic adaptability and mental stability related to the player's mental state in the game? , the instability represented by the divergent mental power may not only be caused by the player's own problems, but there may also be another possibility of taking the initiative."
"Did you tamper with Norman when he was doing the magician appraisal on you?" Xue Ling Huan Bing guessed and asked, "Did you use the Intent Sword?"
"I'm not that free, but there should be some connection between the two."
Still pointing his finger to his forehead, Duan Qing had a bit of a wry smile on his face: "Those who have used Yi Jian, the way they connect to the virtual real world is abnormal after all. How will this abnormal state turn out?" I don’t know what the consequences will be. Abnormalities in the mage’s appraisal may be just one of the manifestations..."
"But this explanation cannot explain the problem that I can use magic normally again, unless there is evidence to prove that my spirit has returned to normal." Having said this, Duan Qing once again picked up two different potions* *: "And now I..."
"……What's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing."
Duan Qing sighed slightly and shook his head with a smile: "In short, the theoretical design of magic in the free world is a very profound knowledge. It is impossible for me to figure it out with my IQ, and my magic is also all about it." During this long vacation, I became self-taught, as well as the knowledge of these potions in front of me..."
"So you just left the sword training to me?" The woman who had been silent for a while frowned angrily: "You are hiding aside and being lazy?"
"Please, isn't it your own choice about the sword?" Duan Qing, who had just wanted to put the two potions together, heard the sound and lowered his arms again: "I'm not lazy now, if you didn't bother me If so...I have prepared three powerful healing potions now."
"I don't care, anyway, you have to teach me my swordsmanship." Xue Ling Huan Bing, who pouted, pulled Duan Qing up from the ground with a dissatisfied look on his face: "What you just said, please explain it clearly first. "
"Forget it, based on what I know about you, you have seen too few swordsmanships now."
With a slight sigh, Duan Qing, who was forcibly pulled up, first landed on the long sword thrown aside by Xue Ling Huan Bing: "Insufficient understanding will only make you go astray on the path of cultivation, so in order to avoid When that situation arises... we'd better deal with it step by step."
As he spoke, he walked to the front of the long iron sword. His contemplative expression slowly appeared on his face as he picked up the long sword: "And..."
"In order not to make the same mistake I did, you won't use the Yi Sword in the future. Do you understand?"
"...Then I can only practice more."
Xue Ling Huan Bing nodded obediently, without asking why, then raised her eyebrows: "Otherwise, with my inferior level..."
"There's no need to be so anxious. You're already a novice now anyway."
Making a harmless move towards the opponent, Duan Qing then turned the opponent's eyes away from the direction of Carlo Village in the distance: "Just now that I have lost all my skills, let's not use the Qi Sword method first. After practicing, well... Since the attributes and so on are not enough, let’s start with the Heart Sword.”
"Heart Sword, what is that?"
"Unlike swordsmanship that requires strength and skill, such as force sword and skill sword, Heart Sword relies on sword intention... and the vision to detect the opponent's flaws."
Duan Qing slightly raised the iron sword in his hand, and then moved forward in a strange posture with the sword raised high: "The secret of the Heart Sword lies in induction, and in using your mind to deal with everything between you and the enemy. Once practiced to the extreme, simple sword moves are enough to cause threatening damage, and can even make the enemy defeat itself without attacking, actively exposing one's own weaknesses."
The silent aura rose around him as Duan Qing gradually closed his eyes, causing Xue Ling Huanbing to take a step back involuntarily. She was looking at the front with concentration, and then her eyes fell on Duan Qing's face involuntarily. On the body, I concentrated my attention but found nothing that could make people feel subtle or intimidating: "You... what are you doing?"
"This is probably the Heart Sword."
The long sword in his hand stabbed forward far away, and Duan Qing replied without looking back. The posture that kept swinging back and forth turned around the next moment, and the tip of the sword raised again pointed far away where the white-haired woman was. Location: "Get a feel for it."
As if being illuminated by a sun disk that was very close at hand, Xue Ling Huan Bing's eyes suddenly became sharp. She took two steps back and then all her attention was lifted by the handle. The tip of the sword pointed at him from a distance above his head was completely attracted, and his attempt to raise his hand to block it was also shocked by some invisible sword intention that appeared inexplicably. A serious expression gradually appeared on her face. The white-haired woman, who had used up almost all her strength, finally raised her left arm. Her movement to step back and lift her body was stopped by the sudden enlargement of her eyes. At the same place, the tip of the iron sword suddenly appeared in front of her: "Don't always think about retreating. Although I know this is a subconscious choice, there are too many choices..."
"This has become a flaw."
"What just happened?"
Looking at Duan Qing's smile and the sword hilt he held out in front of him, Xue Ling Huan Bing, who still kept retreating, blinked his eyes: "Is it... the way you mentioned using the sword? "
"That's probably what it feels like."
Duan Qing waved his hands slightly, not paying attention to the system prompts, and then patted his gray magic robe to both sides: "It's probably unrealistic for you to reach the level of Tai Chi Sword Intent now. Now I have a little idea. That’s enough, your qualifications may not be the best I’ve ever seen, but you should still be able to understand things like sword intent.”
"..."
Slowly taking the hilt of the sword, Xue Ling Huan Bing, with his eyes lowered, slowly fell into deep thought. After a while, while fiddling with the sword in his hand, he looked up again and looked back at the pile of potions**. Duan Qing: "I understand, how should I practice?"
"Let's start with counterattack training."
Pointing slightly towards the location of the few wild wolves still wandering around, Duan Qing asked without raising his head: "You should be able to counterattack this skill, right? It doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, you just need to remember one thing When I go to spar with those wild wolves...just use counterattacks to kill them."
Nodding slightly, the white-haired woman then turned around and walked towards the depths of the wilderness again. The pace that she had slowed down because she had been deep in thought began to get farther and farther away from the small rocks, and finally slowly disappeared in Duan Qingtai. In Qi's field of vision: "Alas..."
"This energy...hasn't changed much from the beginning."
Pulling the corner of his mouth, Duan Qing then focused his attention again on the few strange and weird potions in front of him. The faint magical radiance also followed him as he fused the potions together again and again. Action bloomed in this uninhabited wilderness. Perhaps because these colorful magic lights are too dazzling, some passing players walking on the edge of this wilderness were attracted by the busy figures of a man and a woman not far away. They first walked on the path some distance away. The closer Xue Ling Huan Bing stayed for a while, and then walked around Duan Qing with the cold gaze inadvertently revealed in the woman's eyes: "Well... is there anything I can do to help?"
"I'm not an NPC." Duan Qing answered him in a helpless tone: "We are currently conducting experiments, so we are not accepting guests."
"Pick up, pick up customers?" The player asked with a confused look on his face: "What kind of customers are you picking up?"
"Ah, no."
Duan Qing turned his head in response, and then cast his gaze on the two players who did not continue to approach: "I'm sorry I didn't notice you... What, is there something wrong?"
"No, no. But..."
After looking at each other, the player named Lazy Cat then tentatively shouted in this direction: "Have we met before?"
"Meet?" Duan Qing looked up and down for a while, then turned back with a meaningless expression: "I should have, after all, I am a full-time medicine seller in the village..."
"What?"
"No, no, it's nothing."
After a few thoughts passed through his mind, Duan Qing then turned his attention back to the preparation of the potion in front of him: "It's okay, let's go."
"Do you really not need our help?"
"No, no, no, thank you for your kindness."
The loud shouts that came from the battle with the wild wolf then passed through the air between the players on both sides, and spread along the air to the distance. The lazy cat, with a flash of light in his eyes, also touched it. His nose gradually retreated in the direction it came from with an apologetic smile. A bit of gloom flashed across his face, and he and Crystal Bun who were following him looked at each other, and then as they gradually moved away from this place, they confirmed each other in a low voice: "Is it him? "
"probably?"
"Is...the person they are looking for?"
"Well...it's not up to us to decide whether this is the case or not."
Twitching the corner of his mouth helplessly, Crystal Bun showed a knowing look: "You said it was..."
"That's it."
