"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 but with all moves."
Time passed slowly as the sky darkened, and finally ushered in the sunset in another free world. This was also the third night that Duan Qing and his wife were about to spend in the wild after running out of Carlo Village.
. The group of guys from the Animal and Bird Alliance who have been entrenched in Novice Village seem to have never left this place during this period of time, and their actions of searching and disturbing people have not stopped, and this also made the discovery that morning
The two people, who felt the slightest wrong with each other, completely stayed in this wilderness south of the village.
Although they stayed here, they were not idle at this time.
"Drink!"
The same loud shout as before once again echoed in a corner of the wilderness. Accompanied by it was the sound made by Xueling Huanbing when he slashed 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, there is still 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 hint of gloom flashed across his face, and Xue Ling Huan Bing concealed his worries with an angry expression: "You are the Sky-Breaking Blade, and you can't even teach swordsmanship well. If you don't blame you, who should blame you?
"
"...So as I said, I know a little bit about everything."
The mouths of the two potion bottles in his hands were gradually brought together. 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 what I am best at.
Partly, you still have to take the path of a swordsman in the end, and it is inevitable that I will have such high requirements for you... Oh, don't poke, don't poke! The potion has been spilled!"
"It's better to sprinkle it all on you!" Xue Ling Huan Bing withdrew 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 potion bottles 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 do anything when Norman 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. The abnormality 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 picked up two different bottles of medicine again:
"And now I..."
"……What's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing."
Duan Qing sighed slightly, shook his head with a smile: "In short, the magic theory design 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
During this long vacation, I became self-taught, as well as the knowledge of these medicines 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 bottles of potion together, heard the sound and lowered his arms again: "I'm not lazy now, if you didn't disturb me.
...I have now prepared three bottles of powerful healing potion."
"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 fell on the surface of 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 will not 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, and 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 gaze back 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 such as force sword and skill sword, which require strength and skill, Heart Sword relies on the sword's will... 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 can be enough to cause threatening damage, and can even cause the enemy to 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 at 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 focused on the handle.
The tip of the sword pointed at him from a distance above his head was completely attracted. He wanted to raise his hand to block it, but was also shocked by some invisible sword intention that appeared inexplicably. A serious expression gradually appeared on his face, and he almost exhausted all his strength.
The white-haired woman finally raised her left arm. She wanted to step back and lift herself up, but the next moment her eyes suddenly widened and she was frozen in place. At the same time, the person who suddenly appeared in front of her appeared.
The tip of the iron sword: "Don't always think about retreating. Although I know this is a subconscious choice, there are many choices..."
"This has become a flaw."
【Ding--】
[You have mastered the skill: Stab.]
[You have understood the skill: Counterattack.]
[You have mastered the skill: Swift Sting.]
[You have understood the skill: mind-eye reflex.]
"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 was still 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 flapped 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 all. 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 at the man who had returned to the pile of potion bottles.
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 the 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 bottles of strange and weird potions in front of him. The faint magical light also followed his actions of fusing the potions together again and again.
Blooming in this uninhabited wilderness. Perhaps because these colorful magic lights are too dazzling, some passing players walking on the edge of this wilderness were still distracted by two people, a man and a woman not far away, who were busy doing their own thing.
Yes, the figure was attracted. They first stayed for a while at Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was closer to the path, and then walked around Duan Qing under the cold gaze inadvertently revealed in the woman's eyes: "Um... Excuse me
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 reaction, and then set his eyes 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 turned his attention back to the preparation of the potion in front of him: "It's okay, you can 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, with an apologetic smile, gradually retreated in the direction he came from. A bit of haze flashed across his face, and he and Crystal Bun, who was following him, looked at each other, and then gradually
As they walked 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 it's right or not."
Twitching the corner of his mouth helplessly, Crystal Bun showed a knowing look: "You said it was..."
"That's it." (To be continued)
This chapter has been completed!