Chapter 40: Flying Knife in the Bamboo Forest
Chapter 40: Flying Knife in the Bamboo Forest
Xiao Xia was very familiar with Shugang, having been there countless times. However, the Shugang now was completely different from the Shugang of later generations and looked so strange.
Soon he found the Qiyun Inn located halfway up the mountain, where small buildings were hidden among green trees and red flowers.
As soon as he found Building 17, he saw Zhang Jue at a glance. Zhang Jue was standing at the door waiting for him with a smile!
Xiao Xia's heart warmed up, and she hurried over, "Is Uncle Zhang leaving too?"
"Come in and talk!"
Xiao Xia followed him into the small building, which had two floors. The upstairs was the bedroom, and the downstairs was the living room and guest hall.
The floor was covered with wooden floors and carpets. Xiao Xia sat on the floor in the living room, and Zhang Jue poured him a cup of tea.
"Aqiao told you!"
Xiao Xia nodded, "She said she was going to Qingshan City and left early this morning."
"The little girl is going to Qingcheng Mountain with her master, and I'm going to Chengdu. There's a big deal going on there, and I can make tens of thousands of dollars if I succeed."
"Uncle Zhang, let me go with you!"
Xiao Xia couldn't hide his excitement and said, "I don't have any attachment to this place. You know, I'm not actually from the Xiao family!"
Zhang Jue shook his head. "It's not that I don't want to take you with me. It was your mother who arranged for you to come to Jiang. There must be a reason. Now I feel a little regretful. Is it wrong to teach you martial arts? Your mother didn't let me teach you."
Xiao Xia was silent for a moment, then he asked again: "Do I still want to participate in the Three Xiaos Fighting Competition?"
"I don't know about that. I told the Patriarch that you are a good person, but I'm not sure whether he will use you or not. Especially since he is easily influenced by Xiao Hu. This time he chased me away because Xiao Hu was desperately encouraging him to do so!"
"Can I choose for myself? I don't want to work for the Xiao family!"
Zhang Jue smiled and said, "At least the Xiao family has raised you for almost five years. If they ask you to participate, you should still do it, even if it is to repay them a favor!"
Xiao Xia nodded, "Uncle Zhang is right, I'll return a favor to them, and we won't owe each other anything from now on!"
Zhang Jue smiled again and said, "I will stay here for another month. I will not leave without any worries until I have introduced you to the sect. Come and try your flying needles."
Xiao Xia swung his hand, and a cold light shot out, "Snap!" The steel needle hit the little wooden man about ten feet away.
This is the normal state, the power is downgraded. If it enters the barrier breaking state, Xiao Xia can even shoot at the forehead or throat.
"Not bad! You can shoot so accurately without any obstacles."
Zhang Jue exclaimed in praise: "It only took a month to master it. It's really amazing!"
Xiao Xia scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "Actually, I only practiced for ten days!"
Zhang Jue was stunned, "Why?"
"I'm still chopping the rope. I can now chop thirty strands."
Zhang Jue was stunned for a moment, "Really?"
Xiao Xia nodded, "Thirty strands is easy, if I go all out, maybe forty strands can be split!"
Zhang Jue gave a thumbs up and praised sincerely: "When Ah Qiao left this morning, she said that you are extremely talented and she felt inferior to you. Now it seems that she was right. You truly understand the essence of foundation building."
The essence of foundation building is to stimulate the potential of the human body. Just like the human brain is only developed at 5%, there is still huge potential for development.
But how much potential can be developed varies from person to person. Medicine is one thing, but talent is more important. But if it is not well controlled, one can only use 200 kilograms of strength even though he has 300 kilograms.
So Xiao Xia's practice of splitting ropes was to practice his control ability. The stronger his control ability was, the more he could exert his ability. He mastered the flying needle in ten days, thanks to the control he gained from splitting ropes. Zhang Jue was really happy and stood up and said, "Follow me with your short sword!"
Xiao Xia followed Zhang Jue to a bamboo forest in the back mountain. Zhang Jue smiled and said, "The reason why I want to stay at Qiyun Inn is because of this bamboo forest."
He pointed to an open space in the middle of the bamboo forest and said, "Stand there and concentrate your whole body to see if you can activate the barrier-breaking state!"
Xiao Xia stood in the open space, with his ears pricked up, concentrating, as if someone was about to attack him.
"That's right. I will use the bamboo leaves as flying knives, and you can chop the bamboo leaves with your sword, splitting them in two from the front, just like you chop the hemp rope."
Zhang Jue swung his hand, and a bamboo leaf shot towards Xiao Xia like a flying knife. Xiao Xia stared at the bamboo leaf. Just when the bamboo leaf was about to hit him, his eyes lit up, and the bamboo leaf suddenly became extremely clear, and everything around him changed.
He has entered the barrier-breaking state.
Xiao Xia slashed with his sword, and it was as if he easily split the fibers of a hemp rope, and the bamboo leaf was split in half from the center.
Zhang Jue laughed, "Good! It's inspired. Let's do it again!"
This time he shot out two bamboo leaves at once, shooting them at Xiao Xia at the same time. Xiao Xia was not in a hurry. He split one bamboo leaf with his sword, turned his body around, and chopped again with his sword, but this time he split the second bamboo leaf from behind.
"clever!"
Zhang Jue became excited. This kid is truly a genius!
"Let's do it again!"
He stomped on the bamboo, and countless bamboo leaves fell down. He flicked his sleeves, and countless bamboo leaves shot towards Xiao Xia.
Xiao Xia did not move, allowing dozens of bamboo leaves to hit him. He rolled his eyes and said, "Uncle Zhang, do you think I can catch it?"
Zhang Jue laughed out loud, "I was wrong. I was too impatient. Let's start over!"
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The two practiced for an hour before returning to the wooden cabin of the inn.
Xiao Xia sat down cross-legged, allowing himself to relax completely, and the barrier-breaking state slowly disappeared.
He drank the tea and asked, "Is it because I didn't use it this morning that I was able to trigger the barrier-breaking just now?"
Zhang Jue shook his head, "No, it's not like that. If you don't use the barrier-breaking skill, it's gone. You can't save it up and use it later. The reason you were able to break the barrier just now is because you are still in the daily barrier-breaking period.
Only after you have successfully consolidated your essence, the Spring Rain Pills you take every day will be transformed into internal energy, and it can be accumulated. However, internal energy is like saving money, it is not inexhaustible. Once it is used up, you need to take Spring Rain Pills again to slowly recover. At this time, you have to hide and not be found by your enemies. "
Xiao Xia was puzzled and asked, "Then the Spring Rain Pills I took when I was a child didn't accumulate?"
Zhang Jue pondered and said, "The foundation of martial arts comes from cultivation. Many of its principles are actually not understood by everyone. Authoritative martial artists have inferred the principles based on their own experience, but are they correct? Is it applicable to everyone? No one knows.
So I can only talk about the foundation-building process of ordinary people, but it will be different for those with extraordinary talents. Logically, you don’t have a solid foundation, so it’s impossible for you to run so fast anytime and anywhere, but you can do it.
And you entered the barrier-breaking state within ten days. Is it because you took the Spring Rain Pill when you were young? I am just guessing, so I really don’t know whether the Spring Rain Pill you took when you were young can be accumulated. In fact, I don’t know much about foundation building. Many things in it are my own experience, which may not be correct. You will slowly understand it when you have experience in the future. "
At this point, Zhang Jue patted Xiao Xia on the shoulder, stared at him and said, "In short, foundation building is a very mysterious process, with a myriad of changes. I think you shouldn't deliberately pursue the reasons. Let nature take its course and let everything take its course."
"I understand!"
Xiao Xia asked: "When will I come over next time?"
"We practice every three days. Come over the day after tomorrow!"
(End of this chapter)