It was almost noon, and the raindrops outside the guest room window became much thinner and brighter.
The rain is still falling, but it has already lost its initial momentum. The trees in the temple greedily suck the rainwater, and only when the plump leaves are full of water will they lazily shake and shake off the burden.
Li Changyuan glanced out the window, pondered for a moment, and then said with a faint smile: "Xi'er, my master only demonstrated the sword intention and sword theory of the 'Wuwei Sword Technique' to you this morning, but I didn't have time to explain the sword technique to you in the future.
'Sword Purpose'.
When others use swords, they tend to stick to the moves. They spend all day studying how to draw the sword, how to attack quickly, how to attack skillfully, block and escape. In fact, they are all chasing the weak. They only use the sword to attack the enemy, and they end up being tired of the sword moves.
After thinking about it for many years, I suddenly realized that it turns out that the four words of "listening, observing, thinking, and enlightening" are the most critical in swordsmanship. Listening is based on the six senses, watching is based on the induction of qi, and thinking is about clear thoughts and no stagnation.
Astringent, enlightenment means transcending safety and danger, only seeing the empty door.
Therefore, the "Wuwei Sword Technique" I created is based on the key points of "listening, observing, thinking, and understanding", establishing the sword's heart, cultivating the sword's will, accumulating the sword's energy, and controlling the sword's form. Many moves have been simplified and simplified as follows:
Simply stab one block at a time, hit the empty door, and save the enemy after attacking, so that there will be no disadvantage."
Yang Chaoxi listened thoughtfully: This explanation, combined with the master's sword test with Huang Shuo in the morning, and the sword showdown with Master Gongsun, made Yang Chaoxi feel for a moment that he had touched this set of swordsmanship.
Extraordinary qualities.
Suddenly, he felt that the swordsmanship he had learned in the past, although the moves were exquisite, would eventually be exhausted. After fighting the enemy for a long time, his mental strength would gradually weaken, and the opponent would definitely have an opportunity to take advantage of him.
The "Wuwei Sword Technique" taught by the master uses sword intention as the body and sword energy as the function. Most of the sword moves are stabbing and blocking. Once faced with the enemy, there is no trace to be found, and supplemented by erratic body techniques, it is almost impossible to defeat the enemy.
You can be invincible!
Seeing that he seemed to have some understanding, Li Changyuan added: "Therefore, the purpose of the 'Wuwei Sword Technique' is 'Do nothing without doing anything'. If you don't respond to the enemy deliberately, your intentions will not be exposed; if you are not eager for success, you will not
It will be counterproductive. Only by obeying nature and doing everything in accordance with the times, and doing nothing without fighting, can you be in harmony with the Tao, overcome hardness with softness, and overcome strongness with weakness."
"Do nothing but do everything..."
Yang Chaoxi chewed on this sentence, and suddenly understood many scriptures that he had memorized by rote! He was so happy that he quickly turned to look at Li Changyuan, raised his hands and said solemnly,
"Master, the disciple understands! Now that the purpose of the sword has been understood, the moves and body techniques are the last step. The disciple must carefully ponder, listen, observe, think, understand, establish the sword's mind, cultivate the sword's will, accumulate the sword's energy, and control the sword's shape.
.From other sword techniques, I condensed my own 'Wuwei' sword technique."
"You can teach me!" Li Changyuan stroked his beard and said with a smile, "It seems that you have understood the essence of 'Wuwei Sword Technique'! If you don't teach the moves, it is because there is no way to teach them; if you only teach the sword's intention, it is for the sake of the outline and the eyes. In this way,
As a teacher, I feel more at ease!"
"Master! When the disciple has achieved some success in Wuwei Sword Technique, he must ask the master for guidance. It is almost noon in the temple, and the disciple doesn't want to stay any longer, so he goes out first." Yang Zhaoxi bowed again, then turned around decisively.
Go straight out of Linji Temple.
In the city of Luoyang during the Sheng Dynasty, to the east of Dunhuafang was Yongfengfang, which was only separated from Dunhuafang by a long Xiamen Street.
To the north of Yongfengfang, next to Xiushanfang. Heshang Winery and the Zoroastrian Temple where Yang Chaoxi became a believer are located in Xiushanfang.
Yang Zhaoxi left Dunhuafang, crossed Changxiamen Street, and entered Yongfengfang. While eating the Hu biscuits he bought, he recalled the situation at the Tongyuan Canal dredging site described by Huang Shuo early this morning:
Due to the recent influx of disguised warriors from all over the world, the dredging site of Tongyuan Canal has strangely seen the phenomenon of "many people and few boats". The twenty-odd sand mining boats originally prepared have long been unable to satisfy the increasing number of "people."
"Fake civilians". So the petty officials of the Capital Water Supervision and Canal Department, together with the unscrupulous guards, forcibly requisitioned many sand mining boats from ordinary people and merchants for the use of these "fake civilians" to salvage river sand and other materials.
These knights and grotesques were already physically strong and naturally very good at work, let alone doing work. So in just a few days, the channel dredging speed increased by more than three times, and the dredging was completed in no time.
The channel in the Xingfang section. Everyone also began to cross Anximen Street and enter the channel in the Shiyongfang section, continuing the boring but meaningful channel dredging work.
Originally, these rangers came here to search for the "Rushui Sword". At the beginning of the dredging site of the Tongyuan Canal, most of them kept their tails between their legs and went about their jobs peacefully. Even if there were unscrupulous guards who exploited and blackmailed them, they still swallowed their anger and refused to cooperate with them.
Conflict, fear of being driven out by these bad guards.
Since the news of the "Shendu Martial Arts Conference" spread the day before yesterday, among the rangers dormant in Tongyuan Canal, some of them have become restless and eager to try. Especially when they learned that the jackpot was actually the unborn "Rushui Sword"
, people with an active mind will already understand:
This is the promise given by Gongmen!
If you are lucky enough to dig out the "Sword Like Water Stele" and find the "Sword Like Water" in this river canal, even if you can defeat all the heroes and seize the divine sword in your hands. But if the Gongmen gives an order to confiscate the sword, then you will
There is no other way but to run away with your sword!
After all, no one is sure that he can sneak out of the city under the roundup of thousands of unscrupulous guards at Luoyang Gongmen; or even if he escapes from Luoyang, how will he escape from the pursuit of the elite troops from the Luocheng camp?
Therefore, a group of rangers pretending to be civilian husbands, in addition to searching more frantically for the whereabouts of the "Rushui Sword Monument" in the channels, were secretly gearing up to prepare for the upcoming "Shendu Martial Arts Conference". Some of them knew that they were alone.
, a ranger with low martial arts, knew that there was nothing he could do, so he beat up all the bad guards who had insulted and blackmailed him before walking away.
So at the current channel dredging site, all the unscrupulous guards are in danger. Not to mention being exploited and blackmailed, the voices of loud reprimands are almost extinct. The remaining rangers also began to slowly gather together and form small groups.
Jianghu gangs, while expanding their search scope, restrain other Jianghu gangs and extend their hands to the channels they like.
As a result, friction continued and fights broke out! In just two or three days, more than ten river and lake fights had occurred in Tongyuan Canal. If the Henan Prefecture had not mobilized more bad guards to rush over and use swords and bows to scare them, the situation would have almost gotten out of hand.
.As a result, Tongyuan Canal has become a place where knights and knights fight openly and secretly, and ordinary people and libertines rarely set foot there.
After Yang Chaoxi finished eating two biscuits, he realized that he was heading north and had left Yongfengfang. The tall South Gate of Xiushanfang opposite came into view, and he couldn't help but feel something in his heart:
I have never been there since I pretended to be a Zoroastrian. Now I am not in a hurry to go back to the Beggar Gang in Nanshi. I might as well go there to pay homage to the holy fire, meet Mage, and solve the question that I have been holding back for a few days.
Ask a question indirectly.
Having made up his mind, Yang Zhaoxi did not hesitate and entered the south gate of Xiu Shan Fang. He passed by several shops selling rouge and gouache, turned into a winding road, and soon arrived at the Zoroastrian Temple with the gate facing west.
outside.
The courtyard walls are gray and white, the arches are tall, and intermittent raindrops are dotted under the wide eaves, making a row of shallow holes in the red wet mud. The heavy wooden door is closed tightly, and the eagle wings of gods on the lintel are looking down at the entrance and exit.
of creatures.
Yang Zhaoxi curled up his knuckles and rapped them several times. Then a believer wearing a crimson lotus robe slowly opened the door and looked suspiciously at the Han youth standing outside. Although there are many Zoroastrian religions,
There were Han people in the congregation, but the proportion was not large, so the congregation in each temple had an impression. The only exception was Yang Chaoxi, who had just joined the church and was a little unfamiliar, so the believer looked at him for a long time but refused to let him in.
If Yang Chaoxi realized something, he quickly made a flame with his hands and performed a holy fire ceremony. He said in a pious voice: "Ahura, the Lord of Gods, protects all living beings! Gods guide us to do good deeds! May the holy fire be blazing and burn away all evil in the world!"
"
The believer then narrowed his eyes slightly and squeezed out a smile through his moon-white turban: "Brother, please come in! Father Kang is preaching in front of the fire altar. Now that you have come, please be at ease. Why don't you listen together?"
Yang Chaoxi nodded and saluted, and followed the believer into the Zoroastrian Temple. As expected, he saw Mage Kangsaiin sitting in front of the dome house above the fire altar, preaching "Aweisi" to more than a dozen believers sitting on the ground.
The allusions and meanings in "Tower". In the big room behind you, you can still see the twisting sacred fire.
Kang Saiyin sometimes spoke in Sogdian, and sometimes jumped to Chinese. It seemed that he would explain every passage of scripture in both languages without getting tired of it. His Chinese was fluent, his face was pious, and his vowed tone seemed to have a magical power.
, can quickly attract all the attention of Chinese believers.
The believers who listened attentively under the altar would bow down to the holy fire after listening to a paragraph, and shout in unison: "Don't do any evil, do all the good. God always bless you, the holy fire is blazing!"
Yang Zhaoxi sat silently in a corner under the altar, listening to Kang Saiin's story about how the "God of Light" Ahura and the "God of Darkness" Angora conquered and sealed Angora for three thousand years. He couldn't help but feel excited about such a story in his heart.
, feeling excited.
The reason why people like stories is probably because stories open up a pure land of the soul for people and place their hopes on doing good and driving away evil.
After listening to the scriptures, Yang Zhaoxi stood up with the other believers and came to the stone house in the backyard, where he kowtowed to a row of stone sculptures one by one.
After a while, the believers returned to the front yard, and some left. The remaining believers, under the command of Kang Saiyin, cleaned up the fallen leaves accumulated in the temple, and neatly stacked the wet willow trees in the courtyard in a circle.
The walls inside the big house are slowly dried with the temperature of the sacred fire...
After all the busy work, it was almost late. Yang Zhaoxi clapped the dust in his hands, saluted Kang Saiin and said, "Father Kang, I have a good friend who works as a bad guard in Wuhoupu. I heard that a few days ago, someone reported a murder case.
The evidence was left near the Zoroastrian Temple in the city, which once made Wu Houpu think that the Zoroastrian religion was secretly hiding the murderer. I wonder if Mage knew about this?"
Kang Saiyin's face suddenly darkened when he heard this. His eyes looked at Yang Chaoxi with more scrutiny.