Chapter 019: Practicing Sword

Xu Fengnian really picked up the martial arts that he used to be most disdainful of, but he learned the sword before he learned the knife.

Of course, he learned from the white-haired Old Kui.

Old Kui was going to leave the royal residence to venture into the world, and had long clamored that his hands were itching to meet the squatting pit but not so much the top ten masters, and when the last nine had fought, then he would go and fight with the old monster Wang.

The old Kui most dislike this old man, the world’s first on the first, pretend what the second, straight mother of thieves pretense! Hateful! The old kui is chewing on the leg of lamb, heard Xu Fengnian want to learn the sword with him, rampant laughter, sprayed a ground of mutton crumbs.

Seeing that His Royal Highness the World Son who carried that good knife did not have any joking implication, the old kui dropped the leg of lamb, his big grease stained hand stroked up the scarlet giant knife that he had asked a high ranking person to hook into his pipa bone when he was young and strong, and asked a question, “Why should grandpa teach you?”

Xu Fengnian replied, “I asked Xu Snap to go and invite that Wei Beishan who uses a horse chopper to come to Beiliang and fight with you. One every year from now on until I learn the sword.”

Old Kui praised a great stroke, looked up at Xu Fenian with an odd expression and asked with a smile, “Kid, tell grandpa why you want to learn the sword, 300,000 iron cavalry in Beiliang is not enough for you kid to play a mighty game?”

Xu Fengnian drew out his embroidered winter, flicked his fingers, grinned and said, “Those people’s swords and guns, in the end, they are still other people’s, I have to find my own smooth hands.”

The old kui skimmed his mouth without commenting, just let Xu Fengyen lift the embroidered winter with one arm, first stand for half an hour, the blade can’t be slanted, otherwise even if the old monster Wang is invited, this cheap disciple is not accepted.

As a result, Xu Fengyen insisted on fainting on the spot after one hour, the embroidered winter knife never tilted, to be precise, not even trembling.

The old Kui looked at the collapsed son of His Highness, walked over and pinched the boy’s stiff right arm, tsked and said that he had found a treasure.

The next old Kui did not teach Xu Fengyen how profound and esoteric moves, just let him repeat four boring movements, straight stab, oblique tease, vertical split, back swept. Stab three thousand, tease three thousand, split four thousand, swept four thousand.

The old Kui had thought that this bells and whistles used to eating the son at least will ask a few why, but Xu Fengnian did not, just daily dawn to the secluded courtyard to start practicing the sword, late at night every day toddling away, embroidery winter never leave the body.

This makes the old Kui very depressed, but at the same time curious, Xu Fengyen showed not only the will, but also quite solid skills in holding the sword, could it be that this His Highness had previously been carefully trained by the military generals? Learned the military sword for self-defense?

This period of time deliberately difficult, let Xu Fengyen practice tedious hold knife, half is to let this child know difficult to retreat, under the sky knife law, no half step final shortcut can go, the other half is sincere, practice knife first hold knife, even the knife can not hold, that is not with the knife, but by the knife dragged away, even if you get your hands on a large stack of the world’s most famous knife recipe, but also just play some seemingly flowery fancy moves, once against the enemy, only Once against the enemy, there is only one way to die.

The first day of sword practice coincided with the summer.

After the summer, it was the beginning of fall.

Xu Fengyen always practiced the sword bare-chested, and his smooth skin, which was not easy to cultivate with his fine clothes and jade food, was tanned into a bronze color, and became more and more robust, and if he added some scars, he could be the same as a tough soldier.

But the sword, far from the mainstream.

After the white dew and autumn equinox and cold dew, it is frost.

The 4,000 marauders became 6,000 marauders.

Xu Fengnian finally opened his mouth to ask the first question: “The knife is the gall of a hundred soldiers, wide open and closed, talking about although thousands of troops and horses I go, but this time the plunder is to close the knife law, how do you favor more practice?”

Old Kui laughed: “The world is not afraid of death of the knife too much, but not afraid of death of the knife, the most easy to die, the world’s most powerful back to the knife art, also can not escape a swept word. There is no such thing as a good knife technique that is a knife to anyone to take someone’s life. Grandpa’s axioms, are all outside the Hades Hall around a circle back on the road to come up with, learn a little.”

There is a mountain of sword tips and manuals in the arsenal, but from the first day of Xu Fengyen’s sword practice, he has never set foot in the Hearing Tide Pavilion, which is regarded as a holy place of martial arts by the martial artists of the Jianghu Lake.

Old Kui was very pleased with this.

Knife a way, not compared to the Wudang Mountain that doll uncle practitioner of the heavenly way, the most important thing is to dripping through the stone, as for the small success, how to complement each other to pick the method of mind, internal and external cultivation, the old Kui is not worried about this, the human butcher Xu Snapdragon has a lot of crooked, the problem is that His Highness of the world’s son of the brocade lasted to that day?

After winter, until the cold, even if the lake surface is frozen, Xu Fengyen will be brought into the bottom of the lake by the old Kui to practice the sword, the closed time is getting longer and longer. Knife skill is still not in the palace, but first raised the water nature.

Recently, outside of the city has emerged a few groups of roaming bandits, in the hall under the eyes of the great pillar state, this is simply too old to move the earth, but the rumor is that a few groups of bandits looking for death are not stepped on by the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, but by a hideous masked swordsman to the butchery.

The city’s casual observers in the clap after always have to say a pity that half a year of silent His Royal Highness did not see, otherwise it must be greatly rewarded. As for those who are powerful and noble in the city, they are all puzzled, not to mention that the sneaky swordsman is who? Where did the bandits come from? Under the rule of the Great Pillar State, it cannot be said that no one will stop singing and dancing, but if it is rumored to be the stragglers from the northern barbarians who have entered Northern Liang, it will not be believed to death.

On the 28th day of the lunar calendar, Xu Fengyen followed Dazhuguo to Jiuhua Mountain, where Jizang Bodhisattva is located, and this time he was the one who rang the bell after performing the crown ceremony.

Dismounting from his armor and hiking up the mountain, he stayed at the top of the mountain at night in the Thousand Buddha Pavilion, Xu Fengyen took time under the lamp to read the letter sent by the real person of Longhu Mountain, which was very thick.

Xu Fengyen will smile, see the letter said that yellow barbarians see the mountains of hawthorn, a cupping a cupping to bring back to the master practice residence, the results of the full courtyard to pile up, thanks to the respected real person on the mountain did not dare to reprimand, but only dare to kindly explain that this hawthorn picking and storing soon, it is best to wait for which year down the mountain and then pick, the result was almost yellow barbarians demolished the house.

Xu Snapdragon did not go to sleep, walked into the room, glanced at the embroidered winter knife placed horizontally on the table under the lamp, holding another letter from home in his hand, but the second daughter Xu Weixiong sent back, Dazhuguo said bitterly, “Your second sister wrote a letter to scold me.”

Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, “Just because I learned martial arts and practiced sword?”

Xu Snapdragon sighed as he sat down, “If you keep practicing, maybe she is going to run back from the Shangyin Academy to scold me face to face.”

Xu Fengnian didn’t bother to read the letter, he just gloated, “What did she say?”

Xu Snapdragon narrowed his eyes and said, “She told me to ask you, what about being number one with a sword?”

Xu Fengnian thought for a moment and said, “Just write back that you can strengthen your body, you can’t be emptied by beauty.”

Xu Snapdragon wondered, “Isn’t this reason a bit childish?”

Xu Fengnian confidently said, “To deal with second sister, you have to use this method. Otherwise talking to her about the big reasoning, can you talk through it?”

Xu Snap gave a thumbs up and said in a horse’s ass, “This sword hasn’t been learned in vain!”

Early morning of the twenty-ninth day.

Mountain fog filled the air.

Xu Fengyen rested his hands on the hilt of his embroidered winter knife and stopped to look into the distance.

After the winter, those few roving bandits are the “stakes” arranged by his father Xu Snapdragon to practice the sword, Xu Snapdragon did not give any hints, but Xu Fengyen naturally guessed that most of them are the dead criminals in the Beiliang army who have violated the big ban.

Xu Snapdragon’s rule of the army is very strict, reward and punishment are clearly defined, that is, when his son Chen Zhi Bao violated the law, he was also publicly flogged into a bloody man. If not for this, the capital of the Qingliu would not be rumored that Northern Liang only recognize the tiger symbol of the Liang King, not recognize the seal of the son of heaven.

These temporary military prisoners as robbers and thieves, did not inherit the orthodox martial arts, but all the skills are on the battlefield by the desperate roll out, powerful and ferocious, with the unique Northern Liang iron horsemen fearlessness, the most suitable for Xu Fengyen to exercise the straight forward murderous sword art.

Old Kui watched Xu Fengyen kill three sets of people, and after that, he stopped paying attention and just gave the address, letting Xu Fengyen ride to it with a single sword.

After the first set of Xu Fengnian body six knives, five light and one heavy, cut in the back of the knife, not fatal, lying in a pool of blood, the knife is still not away from the hand, and finally by the old Kui back to the Royal Palace.

Since then several batches of Xu Fengnian are injured and fighting, the old Kui will never give him the slightest opportunity to be lazy and complain of suffering, in exchange for other royal family raised by the high people, would never dare to trample on the degree of nobility is comparable to the imperial relatives of the son of the Royal Highness. Fighting with the bandits to practice the sword, which is difficult and dangerous, not enough for outsiders to know.

Xu Fengnian closed his eyes and slowed his breathing.

Thinking to himself if it was time to start with the inner school. No matter how dominant the external sword technique is, when it comes to a real expert who has both internal and external cultivation, it’s just like a child’s playfulness, which can only make a mockery of the world.

But this internal cultivation, pay more attention to step by step, the body of the size of the orifices and meridians, polished through as marching formation is no different, like that claimed that half of the world’s internal martial arts out of the Jade Pillar of the Wudang, especially some of the gifted roots and bones of the master of the Taoist priests, one day in the mountains, we have to one day of cultivation, and strive to achieve with that heavenly machine biochemistry resonate with the avenue of the realm.

This thing is not food, stuffed into the stomach can be stuffed and filled, Xu Fengyen where to go out of thin air more than ten or twenty years of water mill work of the valuable inner strength.

How about going to listen to the tide pavilion to find some way to go the evil way? Xu Fengnian frowned tightly, opened his eyes, full of clouds and sea, full of ears of pine waves, relaxed and happy. No reason to think of the old owner of the embroidered winter knife, I wonder when that white fox child face will ascend to the third floor? This beauty is about to dislike the embroidered winter knife to the wrong person?

That year’s snow, the white fox face on the lake out of the knife, is the real humongous knife line ah.

Xu Fengnian knows the difference between the clouds and mud, but did not get discouraged, there is a missing teeth but always naive smile of the old man said, eat and fart is quite comfortable thing, but farts should be released one after another, slowly, more comfortable.

He is now practicing the sword technique, which is the most stupid method.

It’s time to ring the morning bell.

Due to his sword practice, Xu Fengyen’s bell ringing was loud and clear.

A total of one hundred and eight bells rang throughout the day.

Qi Dangguo, who carried the moth in the Northern Liang Army, had a strange look on his face. Among the rest of the righteous sons Yao Jian and Ye Xizhen looked at each other and smiled with mixed surprise. Fat ball Chu Lushan almost stared his eyes out. As for the little man butcher Chen Zhi Bao and the left bear Yuan Zuozong are patrolling the border and did not show up.

A group of people hiked down the Jiuhua Mountain, alongside Xu Fenian, Da Zhu Guo slowly said, “If you really want to practice martial arts, the high people in the house know some side ways, it depends on whether you are willing to put down your feet.”

Xu Fenian dumbfoundedly said, “What kind of stance can I hold?”

Dazhuguo looked at Wudang Mountain from afar, narrowed his eyes and said, “That’s good.”