In front of him, there was a person lying upside down.
But there was no blood on the edge of his sword.
Blood was in the sky, on the snow, on his opponent's body, but not on his sword.
That day, he learned that as long as your sword is fast enough and your swordsmanship is high enough, you can kill someone without getting blood on your sword.
Seeing the man in front of him slowly stop breathing, the young man sighed softly.
That year, Lin Yuancheng was fourteen years old.
The person who fell in front of him was his master.
If there really is a so-called martial arts wizard who is unique in this world, then Lin Yuancheng... is undoubtedly this kind of person.
He started practicing martial arts at the age of seven, and held a sword for the first time at the age of eight. After he was thirteen, he never lost again.
When he was fourteen years old, he defeated and killed his master with his own hands, because that year... his mentor, Fan Zhengting, the famous "Seven Star Sword" in the world, discovered his talent and...
Want to harm him.
But Fan Zhengting miscalculated one thing - he thought that no matter how talented Lin Yuancheng was, as a swordsman who had been famous in the world for a long time and was Lin Yuancheng's master, he could not lose to this talented swordsman.
For children who are five or six years old.
He was wrong.
Big mistake, very wrong.
Things that can be measured or calculated using common sense are not considered "talents".
People who can be constrained or limited by common sense are not considered "geniuses".
Lin Yuancheng actually mastered the "Seven Star Sword Technique" that Fan Zhengting became famous for in just one year. In the second year of learning swordsmanship, his understanding of this set of sword techniques surpassed that of his master.
In the following years, Lin Yuancheng actually learned nothing from Fan Zhengting at all. He was just dealing with his master and pretending that he could learn something to protect his master's self-esteem.
After all, Fan Zhengting was the mentor who picked him up and raised him. Even if we don't talk about the friendship between master and disciple, he still has the kindness to raise him.
Lin Yuancheng thought so...
But Fan Zhengting is not.
Fan Zhengting has always been a hypocrite. On the surface, he talks about benevolence, justice and morality, and fights injustices everywhere; but secretly, he takes benefits from others, and then pretends to "uphold justice" and kills people to silence them.
His ability to say one thing and do another is much better than his swordsmanship. He did many things flawlessly and dealt with the aftermath very cleanly, so he gained a false good reputation.
And Lin Yuancheng was just one of the many orphans adopted by Fan Zhengting.
Fan Zhengting will take in one or two such children almost every chance he gets, and start teaching them kung fu when they are very young; nominally, he has a master-disciple relationship with these children, but in fact... these children are his
tool.
Those who are obedient will be trained as subordinates, and those who are disobedient will be dealt with quietly. Anyway, these children are orphans and no one will come to track them down.
Therefore, when Fan Zhengting belatedly discovered that one of these children was actually a martial arts prodigy, and it was obvious that he would surpass him in martial arts sooner or later, his first reaction was to kill him.
Although Lin Yuancheng had not shown any signs of disobeying him at that time, a villain like Fan Zhengting knew best - a person who is stronger than you cannot be your pawn for the rest of his life.
On that snowy night, the snow was not heavy, and the moon could still be seen in the sky.
Fan Zhengting called Lin Yuancheng to an open space in the deserted forest and said that he would teach him the essence of his swordsmanship.
After the two of them stood still, before Fan Zhengting's sword was unsheathed, Lin Yuancheng knew that the other party was not trying to teach him anything, but was trying to kill him.
Lin Yuancheng doesn't understand people, but he understands swords.
People can lie, but swords cannot.
The sword that kills people does not need to be unsheathed, but it already carries killing intent.
"Does it have to be like this?" Lin Yuancheng asked.
Fan Zhengting smiled, knowing that he had been seen through: "What do you think?"
"Not necessarily." Lin Yuancheng said.
"Then do you think there is any other way?" Fan Zhengting asked.
"I'm leaving and I won't come back." Lin Yuancheng said, "Don't let me meet you again, and I won't kill you. Repay your kindness."
When Fan Zhengting heard this, he was shocked and angry: "Boy, you look down on my teacher too much, don't you?"
"Yes." Lin Yuancheng said coldly, "Of course I look down on you...I look down on both you as a person and your martial arts." He paused, "But I am different from you, I am still a human being, so I want to continue
Give you a chance."
"You're talking nonsense, wait until you become a ghost!" Fan Zhengting thought the other party was provoking him, so he shouted angrily and drew his sword.
The Seven-Star Sword Technique is originally a Taoist sword that emphasizes the movement of Qi into seven acupoints and the sword into seven stars. Each style can produce seven variations, a total of seven or forty-nine sword moves; and the sword technique itself comes with a set of internal strength formulas.
, complement each other with the moves.
Objectively speaking, Seven Star Swordsmanship should be regarded as a first-class swordsmanship. It is orthodox in mind, practiced both internally and externally, and its sword moves are exquisite and varied.
And Fan Zhengting can be regarded as a quasi-first-class master. Although his qualifications are not very high, he has practiced first-class swordsmanship for so many years, so there is no reason why he should be weak.
His sword spirit is calm and powerful, and his sword style is light and sharp.
But all of it, his decades of practice, seemed so clumsy...so pathetic...in front of Lin Yuancheng...
Ping——
At that moment, there was a clanking sound.
The sword light flashed against the backdrop of snow and moon.
The three colors of black, white and silver bloomed in this cold night, and finally, in the wild scarlet, they sublimated into a beautiful picture.
hiss--
The sound of blood spurting out from the wound is like the wind blowing wheat ears; when you close your eyes, the sound is like a pair of women's hands gently brushing your skin.
"You..." Fan Zhengting held his sword on the ground with one hand, holding his body up to keep from falling, while the other hand covered the wound on his neck, trying to slow down the blood flow; he widened his eyes and looked at it with an expression of disbelief.
He turned to Lin Yuancheng, "...whose swordsmanship are you following..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Lin Yuancheng knew what the other party was going to ask, so he interrupted directly: "Seven Star Sword Technique does not need forty-nine swords, only seven swords.
He paused and said, "The dozens of extra swords are reserved by the Patriarch for those disciples who have no talent, because most people cannot solve the problem with only the first seven swords... This
I realized this when I was ten years old."
When he said this, Fan Zhengting had already knelt down on one knee due to excessive blood loss and was gradually giving up.
But Lin Yuancheng's words were not finished yet: "As for what you just hit, it was the 'Eighth Sword' that I realized on the basis of the real 'Seven Star Sword'. As long as the Kaiyang Sword Style is reversed, it will have such power...
…Isn’t it interesting?”
It might be interesting to him.
For Fan Zhengting, these words will only make him feel despair and regret.
Not long after, Fan Zhengting collapsed.
Lin Yuancheng also sighed softly, sheathed his sword and left.
In fact, when he killed Fan Zhengting that night, he did not use his strongest swordsmanship; it was just that he felt that killing the opponent with the seven-star swordsmanship seemed ritualistic, so he chose this way.
The swordsmanship that Lin Yuancheng was really best at was a set of swordsmanship that he created by himself between the ages of ten and thirteen. He named this swordsmanship "Lingmin Tan".
This meaningless name also well reflects the young man's lonely mentality due to invincibility...
…………
After that night, Lin Yuancheng left home.
Fan Zhengting was a very cunning person. In order to facilitate the disciples he trained to do disgraceful things for him in secret, and also to silence him, he always only had one-way contact with his disciples. This also caused all his problems after his death.
All his disciples have become kites with broken strings.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Lin Yuancheng. He just needs to make sure that no one in the world knows his true identity.
A few months later, Lin Yuancheng came to Xingyimen in Cangzhou to learn from his master.
He said that he had been an orphan since he was a child, and then he studied martial arts with an unknown Taoist for several years. Now that the Taoist was dead, he wanted to come and become a disciple of the Xingyi Sect... The people in the Xingyi Sect also thought it was reasonable.
In this universe and in the world of martial arts, it is quite common for young men to have some internal strength after practicing martial arts for several years. Besides, people from the Xingyi Sect can also see that Lin Yuancheng’s internal strength is indeed the orthodox Taoist internal strength, so they believe in him and treat him as
Accepted.
But people like Lin Yuancheng cannot keep a low profile wherever they go.
More than two years have passed, and he has learned all the martial arts in Xingyi Sect... Of course, this is one of the reasons why he joined Xingyi Sect in the first place: everyone in the world knows that Cangzhou is the capital of martial arts.
Township, and Cangzhou Xingyimen has always been famous for the large number of martial arts secret books in the sect (just a lot, but not necessarily many excellent ones).
Later, Lin Yuancheng felt that there would be no improvement by staying with his fellow disciples all day long, so he began to travel around the world, trying to improve through actual combat; soon after, he became known as the "Cangzhou Xiaoxia".
The "Kang Hai Jiao" group that Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai met in Dragon King Cave had been dealt with by Lin Yuancheng before, but Lin Xiaoxia felt that this group was too low, and as the first group of people he killed after officially entering the world...
...a little bit unqualified, so I gave them a chance.
To this day, Lin Yuancheng's name is still widely praised in the world.
He is also the "number one seed" in this Young Heroes Meeting. At least in the eyes of most of the leaders, Lin Yuancheng's strength is not at the same level as other peers.
For example, in the second game of the eight-to-four match, Lin Yuancheng went up and killed Di Gui, the nephew of Di Bujue, the leader of the Cao Gang, with one move. This scene made Feng Shunfeng and Feng Shunshui in the audience turn pale... He
Not only did the two of them feel sorry for their eldest brother's nephew who was shot, but they also felt that they might be shot even if they went up.
To sum up, Lin Xiaoxia's strength is quite astonishing.
When Chun Kong faced him, to be honest... he didn't even have a 20% chance of winning. If Lei Buji were promoted, and Lin Yuancheng didn't use the sword to change his empty hand, the fight would probably be 50-50 and give a very exciting match.
competition.
But assumptions are just assumptions after all.
Therefore, there was no earth-shattering battle in the first game of the semi-finals.
Under the premise that there was a certain gap in strength, Chunkong faced Lin Yuancheng who was holding a sword with his bare hands, and was quickly defeated - after five moves, the sword was placed on Chunkong's neck.
Chun Kong simply surrendered to "Amitabha", and Lin Yuancheng politely saluted Chun Kong and then stepped down.
Because they were playing so fast, Sun Yixie didn't take much rest, so he returned to the ring while calling his mother a dick.
As for his opponent, Song Nuxia, who had been waiting for a long time, she immediately jumped onto the stage, held her knife and cupped her fists and said, "Please!"