Ran Min looked surprised at first, then seemed to think of something, and asked with some envy: "Is it you?"
Li Cunxiao nodded somewhat complicatedly and said in a deep voice: "Although I was not defeated in this battle with Li Yuanba, I was still suppressed by him. However, it was precisely because of this that I broke the bottleneck. I will be less and less popular in the future.
It took a lot of detours.”
Ran Min's eyes widened and he said in shock: "Are you also like Xiang Yu who broke through the great master?"
Li Cunxiao was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said: "How can a great master break through so easily? What I'm talking about is the fusion of dual skills."
Grandmaster is the highest pinnacle of martial arts. This level has stopped 99% of the martial artists in the world. Even Xiang Yu's breakthrough to Grandmaster was just an accident.
Although Li Cunxiao's own qualifications are not inferior to Xiang Yu's, if he wants to break through and become a grandmaster at this age, unless he is greatly stimulated like Xiang Yu, he can only rely on a lot of time to slowly accumulate.
Hearing that Li Cunxiao had not broken through the Grand Master, Ran Min was inexplicably relieved. He did not want to be left too far behind by Li Cunxiao.
But when he heard that it was a successful fusion of the dual skills, Ran Min suddenly took a breath of cold air.
It's no wonder that Ran Min was so shocked, but the probability of successfully integrating the dual skills was much lower than that of breaking through the Grand Master.
Although great masters are rare, there are always one or two born every two hundred years, but there are only a few who have successfully integrated the dual skills for thousands of years.
Nowadays, it can be said that martial arts is at its peak. There are more people than ever before who have successfully integrated the dual martial arts, but there are only three of them: Xiang Yu, Qin Hao, and Zhang Sheng, and the next four are Ms. Li Cunxiao and Jiang.
There is a saying that has been circulating in the world: A great master may not be able to successfully integrate the dual skills, but a successful fusion of the dual skills will definitely lead to a great master.
Although the facts are not so exaggerated, people with dual skills do have much better foundation than those with single skills, and the success rate of breaking through to a grand master is also much higher.
Li Cunxiao's own background is extremely profound. If he successfully integrates the dual skills, it will be a matter of course for him to break through the Grandmaster.
When he thought that Li Cunxiao was about to successfully integrate the dual skills and would surely become a great master sooner or later, even Ran Min couldn't help but feel a little jealous, but he was more happy for Li Cunxiao.
Ran Min also tried the Dual Gong method, but he only had to go through that experience once. The process was really dangerous, and he would become a useless person if he was not careful. Therefore, he sincerely admired Li Cunxiao's courage.
"Have you successfully integrated the dual skills?" Ran Min asked.
Li Cunxiao shook his head and said: "Not yet, but we have passed the most difficult level. The two internal forces in the body have shown a tendency to merge."
It is not too difficult to practice dual skills at the same time, as long as there are two internal skills and mental methods of the same level. What is difficult is to merge the two different internal powers into one.
There are not a few people in the world who practice dual cultivation of internal energy, because dual cultivation will bring great advantages in the early stage, but once the cultivation level reaches a super-first-class state, these two different internal forces will conflict with each other. The higher the state, the more severe the conflict will be.
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At that time, there were only two options: first, abolish one of them and specialize in the other kind of internal strength; second, integrate the two methods of internal strength and combine the two kinds of internal strength into one.
Most people will choose the first path, because the risk of the second path is too great. If you are not careful, you will become a useless person or even explode to death.
A small number of people who choose the second option have used their failures to prove how difficult this road is.
Li Cunxiao has already passed the level of fusion. Once the two internal forces in his body begin to fuse, they will naturally not stop. It is only a matter of time before they successfully merge into one.
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In Hulao Pass, Li Shimin tremblingly opened the white cloth on the two corpses in front of him. Chai Shao and the other four generals knelt on one knee in front of the corpses with faces of shame, while Li Yuanba and Yu Wencheng acted as if it had nothing to do with them.
Stand behind them.
Li Shimin took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and said coldly: "Four thousand Xuanjia troops, eight generals, carried out an interception mission. It was supposed to be foolproof, but it cost two thousand casualties and one thousand dead in battle.
The cost was that two generals even died in battle...Chai Shao, tell me, how did you command?"
Li Shimin couldn't hold it back after all, and even yelled out the last sentence.
It's no wonder that Li Shimin was so rude. After all, it's easy to get a thousand armies but it's hard to find a general. And he didn't have many generals at all. Each one was a treasure, but two of them died in one battle.
Li Shimin's heart was bleeding.
Chai Shao felt even more ashamed and lowered his head, but in the end he did not make any excuses.
"Chai Shao, your improper command has caused heavy casualties to our army. No punishment will not be enough to determine the morale of the army."
Li Shimin's face was as cold as frost, and he said coldly: "I will demote you to the rank of corps commander and punish you with a hundred military sticks. Will you accept it?"
"I'm convinced." Chai Shao gritted his teeth and clasped his fists. Originally, he was planning to propose marriage, but now that he has been demoted to the rank of corps leader, he is not qualified to marry the princess of the Li family.
Seeing this, Li Shimin's anger subsided and said: "Since it is war time now, remember your military stick first, and go and receive your punishment after the war."
"promise."
Yang Guang stood up at this time, cupped his hands and said: "General, although the first battle with the Kwantung Allied Forces ended somewhat unsatisfactory, the casualties of the Allied Forces were much greater than that of our army, so our army still won this battle.
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Hearing what Yang Guang said, Li Shimin's expression improved.
Although the Yuzhou Army finally broke out, judging from the corpse count after the war, the 10,000 cavalry were less than 3,000, and the situation of the Feihu Army was definitely not much better than that of the Xuanjia Army.
The First World War cost the Kwantung Allied Forces 8,000 casualties, and they were all cavalry, but they only suffered 3,000 casualties. Such a result would definitely be a great victory.
Of course, more importantly, this battle is of extraordinary significance. After all, it is the first battle after the war. As long as there is a little publicity, the morale of the entire army will be greatly increased.
"The news of the victory in this battle will be passed on to the entire army, letting our brothers know that although the Kwantung Allied Forces are large in number, they are nothing more than paper tigers and will be defeated by our army sooner or later." Li Shimin said with confidence.
Yang Guang couldn't help but a flash of light flashed in his eyes, and asked: "Does the general have a plan in mind to defeat the enemy?"
Li Shimin raised the corner of his mouth slightly and sneered: "I took the risk to meet with Qin Hao this time, not just to reminisce with Qin Hao, but to find flaws in the Kwantung Allied Forces. I could not explore the full picture of the Allied Forces by myself, so I ordered a hundred people under my command to draw a map
The sketch, Emperor Tian has paid off his hard work, and finally allowed me to find the biggest flaw of the coalition forces."
Yang Guang was shocked when he heard this. He was present during the entire trip, but he found nothing at all. What did Li Shimin find?