When we arrived at the Demon Refining Mountain, the morning glow spread all over the mountain and the vegetation was lush and green.
It is obviously a dangerous mountain forest where monsters and beasts gather, but the ink painting is like an outing, with a relaxed expression, brisk steps, and humming a ditty.
When he reached the bottom of a hillside, Mo Hua stopped, took out fruit wine, cakes, and dried meat from his storage bag, and ate them with gusto while looking at the mountain scenery in the early morning.
After a while, a figure came from a distance.
Mo Hua stood up immediately, waved with joy and shouted:
"Situ, this way!"
A tall and handsome young man, with his back on the fire sword, smiled and said hello when he heard the sound, and walked towards Mo Hua.
The person who came was none other than Situ Jian.
He was also found by Mo Hua to be Yu Jian's "partner".
All in all, both of them are from Lizhou, so they should be fellow villagers.
When Mo Hua was in Lizhou before, he had interactions with the Situ family, and knew many monks such as Situ Fang, Situ Xiu, and Elder Situ Jin.
However, the Situ family is very big, so these people should be considered as branches of the Situ family, and they are probably not familiar with Situ Jian.
There was no mention of ink painting.
The two of them were in the mountains, taking advantage of the morning glow and mountain scenery, eating fine wine and delicacies.
After eating and drinking, we officially started practicing the sword.
Before practicing the sword, Situ Jian still had some doubts:
"Senior Brother, you are not a sword cultivator, right? Why do you suddenly think of sword-wielding?"
Mo Hua looked serious and said nonsense:
"Duanjinmen is stingy by nature and uses despicable methods. Although it has temporarily ceased its activities, it may come back again in the future, so we must take precautions before it happens and study more on how to handle swords."
"And it's not just Jinmen. There are so many swordsmen in this state, so we must learn more to avoid falling into their trap in the future..."
“Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you fight a hundred battles without danger.”
"Oh." Situ Jian nodded slowly and praised, "As expected of my young senior brother, he has really thought far ahead."
"Is it very far?"
"Yeah." Situ Jian said, "The real 'sword control' is a sword move that can only be learned in the late stage of foundation building and can be achieved in the golden elixir realm."
Mo Hua was stunned, "So far?"
Situ Jian looked at the ink paintings silently, thinking that it turns out, little senior brother, you don’t know anything...
Situ Jian sighed, then found a big rock to sit down and started talking about ink painting from the beginning:
"Any sword practice must start with sword energy. Turning spiritual power into a sword is the foundation for the introduction of swordsmanship."
"But in the beginning of sword practice, the sword energy transformed by spiritual power is not strong, so it is necessary to use the spiritual sword to amplify the sword energy and enhance the killing power."
"The earlier the stage, the shallower the cultivation level, the weaker the sword energy, and the stronger the sword cultivator's reliance on sword weapons."
"And in the later stages, as your cultivation deepens and your sword energy becomes stronger, you can be able to have no sword in your hand. Since your body is a sword, you are not particularly dependent on the sword."
"Of course a sword cultivator with a sword will still be very strong."
"This is because the 'sword control' method of integrating sword energy and sword weapons, and the two superimposed, have extraordinary lethality."
"How strong can it be?" Mo Hua was very curious.
Situ Jian shook his head, "I don't know..."
Ink painting: "..."
Situ Jian was a little embarrassed and said: "It's very strong anyway... but I haven't learned the real 'Lihuo Sword Control Technique' yet, so I don't know how strong it is."
"So, the Broken Gold Sword Controlling Technique we used when we met Brother Duanjinmen before was not the real 'sword control'?"
"Which Brother Duan Jinmen?"
"The one who was stripped of his clothes, hung from a tree, and had a turtle painted on him."
"Oh." Situ Jian remembered it and nodded, "Yes."
Situ Jian explained to Mo Hua: "He has indeed practiced sword control techniques, but his cultivation and swordsmanship attainments are not enough to display real sword control, so his sword control is only a shallow level of sword energy."
level..."
"The real sword-wielding..."
Situ Jian's expression was stern, his eyes revealed longing:
"First of all, we must cultivate the sword energy to be very powerful."
"Try to fuse the sword energy with the sword again."
"Then use your spiritual consciousness to control the spiritual sword fused with sword energy, lock onto the enemy, and kill the enemy with a flying sword from a long distance."
"Only this kind of sword-controlling method uses spiritual consciousness to control the sword, and also integrates the sword energy. The three are integrated into one. Only when you practice to a high level can you cultivate the 'sword intention' step by step..."
"Sword Intent?!"
Mo Hua's expression changed and he was shocked.
Situ Jian was startled and asked in a low voice:
"Senior brother, is there something wrong?"
Only then did Mo Hua realize that he was a little excited. He immediately pretended to be calm, patted Situ Jian on the shoulder and said:
"No, you're absolutely right!"
"Keep talking..."
Situ Jian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said: "No more..."
Mo Hua was startled, "It's gone?"
Situ Jian nodded and said: "What happens after the sword intention is too profound. My current cultivation level is still shallow and I can't understand it..."
Not to mention sword intention, he hasn't even learned how to "control a sword" yet.
"Okay." Mo Hua sighed.
Although it was a pity that he couldn't ask about the deeper "Sword Intent", he at least understood an important point:
Only when the divine consciousness controls the sword, the sword energy, the sword weapon and the divine consciousness are integrated can the "sword intention" be nourished.
Sword control is the culmination of the method of integrating sword energy and sword weapon.
But at the same time, it is also the beginning of "Sword Intent".
This kind of thing is very crucial, and it is somewhat "super sectarian" that even the sect's Taoist teachings will not teach.
The method of controlling a sword...
If you can only learn it at the later stage of foundation building, you can only achieve it at the golden elixir level.
That would be a method that can only be taught in the next post-foundation school year at least, and may even be taught after entering the inner sect.
Sure enough, there must be a teacher from me when we are traveling among three people. It is always beneficial to ask my classmates for advice when there is nothing to do.
Mo Hua nodded secretly in his heart.
"Then how does one control the sword with divine consciousness?"
"Is it the same as the Divine Consciousness Control Object?"
"Is it enough to control the spiritual sword with your spiritual consciousness and stab it from a distance?"
Mo Hua asked curiously again.
Situ Jiandao: "The general process of wielding a sword is to first accumulate sword energy, then inject the sword energy into the spiritual sword, and then control the sword with spiritual consciousness."
"After the spiritual consciousness, spiritual sword, and sword energy are integrated into one, and the state of complete 'sword control' is reached, then the spiritual consciousness can be used to search for the enemy, the sword can be used to break through the air, and the enemy can be killed from a long distance..."
"Sword control is based on control of objects. The stronger the control object, the better the foundation of sword control."
"But compared with ordinary sword control, it is more difficult, consumes more spiritual consciousness, and it is more difficult to track down enemies..."
Memorize every word and every word of the ink painting.
However, he simply skipped the previous part of "accumulating sword energy and injecting the spirit sword".
Because his sword energy is too weak, it is useless to inject the spiritual sword into it.
He planned to directly replace it with "Sword Formation".
If these two parts are omitted, there is no need for so much "foreplay". Simply and directly, you can detect the enemy with your spiritual sense, break through the air with your sword, and kill the enemy from a long distance.
For the rest, just leave it to the "formation".
"The specific method of wielding a sword with spiritual consciousness and killing enemies through the air is actually a special method of using divine consciousness. You need to learn a special sword-controlling method..."
When Situ Jian said this, he looked a little apologetic and said to Mo Hua, "My Situ family does have the method of 'sacred sword control'. Before I entered the sect, my father asked me to take it with me and let me keep it for later.
study……"
"But this is a family inheritance and cannot be passed on to others, and I can't tell you..."
Situ Jian is very candid.
"Yeah, it's okay." Mo Hua nodded.
He understood Situ Jian's intention.
But he actually has the skills to control a sword.
The "Breaking Gold Sword Controlling Technique" obtained from the Broken Gold Jade Slip obtained from Boss Jiang, part of it contains the "Sword Controlling Technique".
I secretly studied the ink painting last night.
However, some kendo terminology is relatively obscure, and I didn’t understand much about the ink painting.
Now that Situ Jian has started from the basics of swordsmanship and explained the method of handling swords in a more comprehensive way, Mo Hua gradually gained some understanding.
Mo Hua sighed slightly.
After all, I still have a very poor foundation in kendo.
There were some things that Situ Jian didn't say, he worked behind closed doors and couldn't figure it out at all.
"There is also the issue of spiritual consciousness..."
Situ Jian continued, "Drawing a sword with your divine sense. If your divine sense is not strong, you will naturally not be able to handle a sword. Therefore, your divine sense is also the key to handling a sword..."
"As we all know, the release of spiritual consciousness has a certain scope."
"From the beginning of foundation building, one line of spiritual consciousness is equivalent to a distance of about ten feet. Generally, a monk in the early stage of foundation building has about eleven lines of spiritual consciousness, which can be spread out for more than a hundred feet..."
"At the peak of foundation building, with the nineteen lines of spiritual consciousness, the distance of the spiritual consciousness is more than a hundred and dozens of feet, infinitely close to two hundred feet, but it will not reach two hundred feet..."
"If we break through the golden elixir, it will be four hundred feet straight..."
Mo Hua nodded slightly, "So for a monk in the late stage of foundation establishment, the distance between the sword and his spiritual consciousness is usually around 190 feet?"
Situ Jian shook his head, "It's not that far."
Mo Hua was a little surprised, but after thinking about it for a while, he understood:
"Will it still decay?"
"This is natural," Situ Jian nodded. "The spiritual consciousness is released freely, and the range is naturally the farthest. But once you control objects, the distance will be attenuated."
"If it is a higher difficulty sword control, the attenuation will be even more severe."
"Generally speaking, if a Foundation-Building Sword Cultivator uses his spiritual consciousness to control the sword, the range of his spiritual consciousness may even be reduced to more than half."
Mo Hua was slightly startled, "So, even in the later stage of foundation building, the range of the general sword control by divine consciousness is only about a hundred feet?"
Situ Jian nodded slightly, "Excluding those talented swordsman geniuses, the average sword cultivator is almost like this."
"A gifted swordsman genius? Do we have any in the Taixu Sect?"
Mo Hua asked, then silently looked at Situ Jian, whose name had the word "sword" in it.
Situ Jian was a little embarrassed by the ink paintings and sighed:
"Little senior brother, don't look at me... My talent is indeed among the best in the Situ family, or in the several states near the Situ family..."
"But when we get to the Qianxue state border, we can only be in the middle."
"As for those in the Taixu Sect, although there are some with better swordsmanship than me, they are not much better."
Situ Jian paused for a moment, looked at the ink painting, and said helplessly:
"Although this is a bit unpleasant to hear, it is also true..."
"Generally speaking, swordsmanship geniuses with such talent will join the Tianjian Sect, which ranks first in swordsmanship among the four major sects, and then choose from the other three sects among the four major sects."
"Such a swordsmanship genius will not join our Taixu Sect. After all, our Taixu Sect's swordsmanship inheritance is really lackluster..."
"It can't be said that it is lackluster. It's just some sword skills that are better than the best..."
Mo Hua's eyes narrowed slightly and he asked in a low voice:
"Situ, have you ever heard of 'spiritual thoughts turning into swords'?"
Situ Jian was startled, "Shen Nian turned into a sword? What kind of sword technique is this?"
Seeing that he hadn't heard of it, Mo Hua said, "It's nothing. I heard what the calligrapher said, but I don't know whether it's true or not."
Situ Jian felt a little helpless.
Can you believe what the storyteller says...
When my little brother is reliable, he is really reliable.
But he occasionally talks nonsense, which seems a bit... naive and out of tune.
Mo Hua added: "I've learned a little bit about how to handle a sword. You can see for me whether my technique is correct..."
"Yeah." Situ Jian nodded, but halfway through, he suddenly froze, with a look of confusion on his face:
"Little senior brother, where did you learn 'sword handling'?"
"Besides, you are only in the middle stage of foundation building."
"Also, you are not a swordsman, and you don't cultivate sword energy. If the spiritual sword and sword energy cannot be integrated, how can you control the sword?"
Mo Hua said "hiss" and whispered to Situ Jian: "I learned it secretly, don't tell others."
He said he was "stealing" his studies, but his expression was confident.
Seeing Mo Hua being so "frank", Situ Jian nodded blankly.
"I don't practice sword energy, I just use my spiritual consciousness to control the sword, try the effect, just practice for fun..."
As he spoke, Mo Hua took out a "broken sword".
It's said to be a broken sword, but it's not that broken. It's just dirty. It's stuffed in an unknown corner. It's been dusty for a long time, and there's rust on it.
This was the first time that Situ Jian saw someone using a "broken sword" to practice sword-wielding...
As expected of a young senior brother, his thinking and behavior are different from ordinary people.
"Okay." Situ Jian sighed, "Then let's try the range of the sword first."
He looked around, then chose a direction, pointed to the hillside on the other side and said, "Senior Brother, you stand here and fly to the opposite hillside with your sword."
"Okay!" Mo Hua nodded.
Then he recalled the method of "Sword Controlling Chapter" in the Broken Gold Sword Controlling Technique, and began to use his spiritual consciousness to control the worn-out spiritual sword.
The method of controlling swords can be regarded as a special method of "controlling objects".
The control of ink with divine consciousness can also be regarded as the control of objects.
However, what Yumo pays attention to is the complex and subtle control of spiritual consciousness, as well as its flexibility.
As for the sword-driving with divine consciousness, the emphasis is on instantaneous pressure and extremely fast flying swords.
But as long as it is the method of spiritual consciousness, it is not difficult for ink painting.
No matter how difficult it is to control a sword with divine consciousness, it cannot be compared with the divine calculations and unpredictable calculations of divine consciousness.
Mo Hua began to wield the sword.
He concentrated his concentration, held his breath, released his spiritual consciousness, and firmly "grabbed" the worn-out spirit sword in front of him, achieving complete "object control."
Then he glanced at the hillside on the opposite side, and his consciousness suddenly strengthened and circulated extremely quickly, giving the spiritual sword a powerful potential.
Then the golden light suddenly flashed.
Situ Jian only heard a "swish" sound, and the light of the sword in front of him went out, drawing a golden line, which flashed away, and then the spiritual sword disappeared.
He didn't even realize what happened.
too fast...
Situ Jian looked towards the hillside opposite, looking a little startled.
"Where's the sword?"
It was obviously flying towards the opposite hillside, why was the sword gone?
Situ Jian looked far away, looking into the distance, and suddenly his expression was slightly shaken.
Behind the hillside, there is a forest.
This sword...
It seemed as if it had flown over the hillside and disappeared into the forest on the opposite side.
"No way..."
Situ Jian suppressed the surprise in his heart, used the Get Up Technique, and in a few flashes, he reached the forest on the opposite side. He let go of his consciousness and searched for a while, and he found a spiritual sword embedded in the forest trees.
The spirit sword was old and rusty, and it was exactly the broken sword that belonged to the younger senior brother.
Situ Jian looked back and estimated the distance, and his heart suddenly surged with turmoil.
I guess there must be...
One hundred, seventeen or eighty feet?!
Situ Jian's scalp was numb and he couldn't believe it.
This little senior brother of mine is a pervert, right?
In the middle stage of foundation building, the sword is 1,780 feet long. Is this still reasonable?
Situ Jian sighed, picked up the broken sword, returned to Mo Hua, and couldn't help but ask:
"Senior Brother, how strong is your spiritual consciousness?"
Mo Hua said vaguely: "It's just an ordinary... spiritual consciousness in the middle stage of foundation building. It may be a little stronger. After all, I am a formation master and I draw formations every day."
Situ Jian was in a complicated mood.
I'm afraid your "little bit" is too strong.
He and Mo Hua are from the same sect and live as the same disciple. Even if they get along day and night, he already knew that Mo Hua's spiritual consciousness was strong, but he never expected that he could be so strong.
No wonder the little senior brother can learn the formation so well.
No wonder Mr. Xun appointed him as his "little senior brother" in the formation.
Situ Jian didn't get to the bottom of it either.
Because everyone's talent for cultivation is different, the young senior brother is so weak in blood and spiritual power, but he can worship the Taixu Sect. He must be superior in other places.
Just like some people are born with strong blood, some are born with good spiritual roots, and some are born with high talent in swordsmanship.
The younger brother may be born with strong spiritual consciousness.
Situ Jian did not learn formations, did not cultivate spiritual thoughts, was not sensitive to the realm of spiritual consciousness, and did not quite understand what it meant.
What shocked him even more was another thing:
"Senior Brother, the distance of your sword...hasn't decreased?"
Mo Hua was startled, thought for a moment, and nodded slowly:
"It seems like..."
His current spiritual consciousness is at the peak of the seventeenth line, only a hair away from the eighteenth line.
The distance between the sword and the sword seems to be between 170 feet and 180 feet, which is the limit of his spiritual consciousness.
The distance at which the consciousness is spread out is exactly the distance at which the sword is wielded.
There is no attenuation at all.
After Mo Hua thought for a moment, he understood in his heart.
A qualitative change in divine consciousness!
Because of the qualitative change of spiritual consciousness, spiritual thoughts are extremely tough and carry a high load, so the distance of the sword will not decrease.
Mo Hua's eyes lit up.
This means that the attack range of your own sword is likely to be nearly twice as far as that of ordinary swordsmen.
This is still compared to the same realm of spiritual consciousness.
If compared with sword cultivators of the same level, I'm afraid it would be even further.
Situ Jian was stunned, and then exclaimed: "Senior brother, you should be considered a swordsman genius..."
Then he felt something was wrong and corrected him:
"She should be regarded as a genius of 'sword control'."
Because my younger brother is only strong with his sword.
Apart from this, the attainments of swordsmanship, especially sword energy, are not worth mentioning at all...
Situ Jian sighed and said with deep regret:
"It's a pity, little senior brother, you can wield a sword very fast and far. You are a natural genius for wielding a sword. But if you don't cultivate your sword energy, your sword will have no power at all..."
Situ Jian sighed again.
He can only wield a sword, but he has no sword spirit.
It's like a master of marksmanship with unparalleled marksmanship, but without a "gun head", he can't kill anyone.
It's such a waste of talent.
Situ Jian looked regretful.
Mo Hua smiled and said: "It's okay, I'm not a swordsman, I'm just practicing for fun..."
Chapter completed!