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Narrow Mist Mountain was not far from where Butterfly House was located. Following the route guided by "Hidden", Li Mo arrived at the destination in four or five days.
He was heading here originally, but by chance he encountered a ghost at night and deviated from his route.
There is a wooden house at the foot of Sagiri Mountain. This is where Urokodaki Sakonji trains swordsmen. Sagiri Mountain is quite remote and is a continuous mountain range. It is difficult to find this house among the mountains. If it were not for the route guided by "Hidden", he would have to spend a lot of effort to find this place.
But in the end, Li Mo still met Urokodaki Sakonji.
Urokodaki Sakonji is an old man wearing blue traditional clothes and a Tengu mask.
He couldn't see his face, couldn't see his spirit, but Li Mo's instinct told him that he was not simple.
The answer lies in the breathing. The other person's breathing is very steady, allowing Li Mo to catch a familiar smell. That is the feeling of his breathing throughout the whole episode.
The other person is now very old, but the habits from his youth are still there.
"Are you the Chinese who wants to come here to study?"
"Yes. Here is my letter of introduction."
Li Mo handed the recommendation letter of Beiming Island Xingmei to Urokodaki Sakonji. This letter was not written by him personally. Instead, he dictated it and asked "In" to write it.
Urokodaki Sakonji looked at the recommendation letter in his hand. The content inside was consistent with the raven letter that flew in a few days ago. He knew that the soldier, Gyoumei Beiming, was the successor of the "Breath of Rock" and the most likely person to become the "Rock Pillar". If you calculate carefully, the "Rock Pillar" has been absent for many generations. Of course, more importantly, Gyoumei Beiming was a talent that the lord personally received.
At the age of 18, he was able to defeat a demon with his physical body alone. This was undoubtedly a genius.
Urokodaki Sakonji valued the man in front of him because, on the one hand, he already knew the breathing method and had killed demons without the Nichirin Sword. On the other hand, it was the letter from his lord.
"Let's try your situation first."
It was a foggy day. After receiving the recommendation letter, Urokodaki Sakonji said these words.
try?
How to try it?
That's hand-to-hand combat, of course.
The subsequent experience made Li Mo understand why Guo Haihuang gave up his body when he was young and focused on skills like a madman. He was obviously younger and stronger than the other party, but the other party was always able to escape without getting hurt. If he hadn't instinctively released the force, this bare-handed fight would not have lasted so long.
"Your skills are very interesting. But your basics are too poor. You don't even know how to use your waist to generate power. I think the authenticity of your killing of two ghosts is questionable."
Urokodaki Sakonji spoke while wearing a Tengu mask.
"Isn't this a matter of strength? The ghost is only slightly stronger than me, and his skills are far inferior to mine. Why can't I beat him?"
Li Mo said as a matter of course.
Ghosts also evolved from humans. After they degenerated into ghosts, their sudden increase in strength made them good at crushing battles rather than evenly matched battles.
"You have mastered the breathing method, so it is normal for you to reach this point. But... your foundation is too poor! It is a complete waste of your talent."
"Training starts today!"
"Mr. Urokodaki, do you agree to take me as your apprentice?"
As it turns out, it was obviously right.
Although he didn't know why Urokodaki Sakonji didn't ask about the origin of his breathing method, Li Mo became his disciple.
As if he was extremely sad about Li Mo's talent, Urokodaki Sakonji started training Li Mo non-stop. Li Mo originally thought that he would go up the mountain for training, but Urokodaki Sakonji arranged for him to train his body's flexibility.
Splits, leg stretches, lunges and push-downs...
These actions sound simple, right?
But actually...
"It hurts, it hurts, I'm dying, I'm dying. Master Urokodaki, please let me go! It hurts so much..."
Li Mo regretted it, and he regretted it the moment he started training. Forcing the body to do this kind of movement was extremely painful.
"What are you yelling about? Keep going."
In Li Mo's eyes, Urokodaki Sakonji turned into a demon. Every movement made Li Mo cry out in pain, and not calling for his mother was his last act of stubbornness. According to the master wearing the Tengu mask, Li Mo had the physical fitness, but his flexibility was ridiculously poor. He would train his flexibility in the first period of time, and then continue with other training.
The long afternoon was over. By the end, Li Mo was a little dazed, and only came to his senses when Urokodaki Sakon applied the ointment to him. When he had to apply the ointment to the awkward parts of his back, he finally came out of the numbness.
Come on, this is only the first day we met and you just accepted me as your apprentice. Are you so strict? Are you trying to show your power?
Silently, he rubbed the ointment on himself. After applying it, he felt much more comfortable.
After applying the ointment, Li Mo thought of another important question. He poked his head out of the house and asked, "Mr. Urokita, when are we going to have dinner?"
"Wait a little longer." said Urokodaki Sakonji who was sitting at the door of the house.
wait? What are you waiting for?
Li Mo didn't know what Mr. Linglong was up to, so he went back to his room and lay down. He didn't want to move at all.
But more than ten minutes later, when dusk fell on earth, he heard a series of conversations outside, one of which was Mr. Urokodaki. The other voice was a female voice.
"Zhenguo, you came back later today than yesterday."
"Urokodaki-sensei, I'm sorry. I thought a junior fellow student might come today. So I got a little distracted."
"Let's adjust our status tomorrow and make dinner."
"Yes, Urokodaki-sensei."
The door was opened with a burst of footsteps. Then, Li Mo heard the owner of the footsteps standing in front of him.
A girl with short black hair appeared in his sight. Li Mo was immediately attracted by her sharp eyes.
"You, are my junior fellow apprentice? Hello." The girl smiled gently.
"Hello, senior sister."
"Very good. It looks like you did some stretching exercises. Please don't blame Mr. Urokodaki for being ruthless. In fact, he is very kind-hearted. He knew you were coming two days ago, and he went up the mountain to hunt a wild boar. Today we are eating wild boar meat. You may not have eaten it before, but the meat is really delicious."
"I heard that you had killed a demon before you came here, Junior Brother? You are really amazing! I believe that under the guidance of Mr. Urokodaki, you will be even more powerful."
"Okay, I'm going to go cook. Junior brother, please take care of me in the future."
The girl kept on talking. Was she defending Mr. Urokodaki?
In fact, I am not angry at all.
During dinner, Li Mo learned the girl's name.
——True wild rice.
Chapter 27: Here Comes the Giant Stone Test
After more than ten days of flexibility training, when Li Mo felt that he had finally grasped the essence, Urokodaki Sakonji unceremoniously increased the amount of training for him.
He began to practice swinging a sword. He had never touched a sword before, as he had used an axe in combat. Even the swords he remembered were probably those with a ring-handled broadsword. But when he tried a real Japanese sword, he felt it was very light.
Isn't a heavy axe nice?
That's unacceptable. There is no one in the Demon Slayer Corps who uses the Nichirin Sword, except for Gyoumei Shimaru. He is too strong, and ordinary Nichirin Swords can't withstand such a huge force. In addition, he is blind, so he made that special weapon with a meteor hammer on one side and a hand axe on the other.
This way he could sense his surroundings through the vibrating sound produced by the chains connecting the hammer and hatchet.
——Li Mo doubted that Beimingyu Xingming could perform such a magical operation as pinching carbon into diamonds with his bare hands.
Along with the sword-wielding training, there were also physical training and wrestling training. But the wrestling training only lasted a week and ended. Li Mo, who had mastered the advanced technique of "eliminating force", was proficient in hand-to-hand combat. After mastering the advanced knowledge, it was easy for him to learn the basics.
Li Mo never mentioned that he had actually experienced these skills in the dream training. Now he was just learning them systematically.
After a month of training, Li Mo started the same training as Zhen Gu, rushing down the mountain and avoiding countless traps.
In this training, Li Mo's performance quickly caught up with Zhen Gu. During the time when he was doing odd jobs in the Zaomen family, he went into the mountains to hunt more than once. It can be said that entering the mountains was like returning home.
"Brother, are you happy these past two days? Whose letter is this?"
After the training that day, Zhen Gu saw Li Mo sitting under the eaves and had this question.
Li Mo said: "It's just that two little girls I know got recommended to work for Yushi as they wished."
This is a letter sent by Kocho Kanae via raven. In the letter, she said that after she and Kocho Shinobu dealt with their parents' funeral, they contacted Gyoumei of Sad Noriyuki through the "Hidden" people, and then used scientific knowledge to pass the other party's test and was successfully recommended by the other party to work under Ikushi.
The only drawback is that the two people's educator is not the same person.
"Oh, they are the sisters you mentioned, right?"
"Yeah. What's wrong, Zhengu, I think you look worse."
"nothing."
Li Mo didn't think much about his little senior sister and devoted himself to the training.
Time passed again for two or three months, and winter came. It gave the earth a new DLC, of course, it was just a change of clothes.
Li Mo went to the mountain early this day as usual and swooped down from the top. The various traps along the way had no effect on him, and he could even see where the untriggered traps were and avoid them actively.
When he finished the training, there wasn't much dust left on his body.
"I have nothing left to teach you."
Urokodaki Sakonji said this to Li Mo.
He watched this boy from a foreign country grow up little by little, and his progress was rapid. In his long experience of educating children, he rarely saw such a talented person.
There was Beimingyu Xingming in front, and Li Mo in the back? My lord, I think this era will be very good.
"Ah? Mr. Urokodaki, am I the same as Makomo, unable to accept your teachings? But I'm blowing the gourd."
Urokodaki Sakonji announced that he would not teach Makomo half a month ago. Instead, he gave her an assignment to complete.
Blowing the gourd was Li Mo's way of practicing his breathing method. He was a martial arts apprentice, and when he came to Mr. Urokodaki, he had mastered the full breathing concentration, and now he was working hard to increase the time he could use it.
Li Mo used breathing exercises and blowing a gourd, which were both training methods that appeared in the original book. He asked Mr. Urokita to have someone make the gourd.
"The gourd will be provided to you. Just like the real gomon, as long as you can complete the test, you can participate in the "final selection."
The test that Urokodaki Sakonji gave to Li Mo was the same as that given to Makomo, which was to cut off a huge rock with the Japanese sword in his hand.
He led Li Mo to the place of the test, which was an open space in the forest, and in the open space there was a stone that was taller than him.
"Mr. Urokodaki, if I can't cut this stone, will I never be able to participate in the "Final Selection"?"
"If it still doesn't work after three years, then just become a hermit."
After answering, Urokodaki Sakonji left alone.
But Li Mo was not alone, because his little sister, Zhen Gu, came over. Her test was the same as Li Mo's, both of which were to cut off a huge rock. According to preliminary estimates, the sizes of the two rocks were similar.