Chapter 371: Sit and Discuss, Ten Thousand Swords Surrender
No wonder Mihawk, who has always been a lone ranger, can become so strong by practicing sword skills alone. If he doesn't have an opponent, he can create one for himself. He can always see his own shortcomings and improve them.
It is indeed as Mihawk said, if a person is invincible for too long, it will really cause problems.
Of course, because Fu Ya has been reminding Lu Kai, he has not had any problems so far and has been making progress. He has just shifted his attention more to the training of basic attributes.
So over the past year, Lu Kai's progress in boxing and swordsmanship has indeed been much slower than before.
The main reason was that Lu Kai had never thought that there could be such a bizarre training method as creating an opponent for himself through meditation. It was truly unheard of.
He can even learn swordsmanship from someone he imagined. To what extent does Mihawk understand swordsmanship?
This also shows that Mihawk's enemy has never been others, but himself, and this is the truth behind his invincible swordsmanship.
Mihawk just kept fighting with himself, and turned himself into the strongest swordsman in the world.
"Mr. Mihawk, I would like to stay with you for a while. Do you mind?" Lu Kai asked.
"That's what I wanted!" Mihawk was immediately overjoyed.
Although fighting with imaginary enemies can improve one's skills, it is ultimately different from fighting with real guns and swords. Now that he has met a worthy opponent, how could Mihawk, as a super sword fanatic, let go of the opportunity?
After getting Mihawk's consent, Lu Kai's mood became better, and he asked a question that he was most concerned about.
"Mr. Mihawk, when I was fighting you just now, I felt a strong sword intent. How do you think I should hone my sword intent?"
Mihawk smiled and said, "This question is actually a piece of window paper. If you don't understand it, you can't figure it out no matter how hard you try. Once you understand it, it's just that. But to achieve this step, you must first understand the principle of sword intent."
As soon as the topic of swordsmanship came up, Mihawk immediately became extremely talkative and looked very excited, as if he wanted to talk for three days and three nights.
“We must first understand that everything has a will, but the strength of the will varies. This is the basis for us to understand the sword’s will. Only when we have full faith in this can we move on.
Mihawk's first sentence aroused Lu Kai's high agreement, because he had thought of this level a long time ago, but he did not interrupt him, but continued to listen carefully.
"Of course, there is a big difference between the will of living things and non-living things. The will of living things has a strong subjective initiative, while the will of dead things is relatively rigid, but this is not always the case." Mihawk continued.
"If a dead thing is baptized by a strong will, it will also have a strong will. I don't know if you have experienced this, but I have. For example, where does the so-called Killing Blade come from?"
Without waiting for Lukai to answer, Mihawk continued, “The Killing Blade is generally formed in two ways.
“The first method is to sacrifice someone with strong hatred, resentment, and murderous intent to the sword during the process of forging the sword.
“This process is cruel, but the hatred, resentment, and murderous intent will continue to attach to the sword. Once the sword is forged, it will become a terrifying demon sword.
“The second way is that a knife is not originally a magic knife, but it falls into the hands of an extremely murderous person. Then the knife is constantly corroded by the murderous intent of this murderous person, and is filled with murderous aura.
"In this way, a sword with a strong will to kill will take shape, such as the Blade of Killing, the Blade of Protection, and the Blade of Redemption.
“Of course, every sword has another will, which is to become the strongest blade that cuts through all obstacles.
"So you know what? Some famous swords were actually very ordinary when they were forged. However, when these swords fell into the hands of extraordinary people, they gradually transformed after years of being influenced by their will and instilled with domineering power. In theory, any sword can be transformed into a black sword."
As he spoke, Mihawk placed his black knife across his thighs, gently stroking the blade as if he was caressing his lover's skin.
After a while, Mihawk continued, “Once such a sword is formed, it will have its own will, just like your sword. I can clearly feel the invincible will contained in it.
"The stronger the will of a sword, the greater the power that can be exerted after controlling the sword.
“But at the same time, the stronger the will of a knife itself is, the more resolute the will of the person who controls the knife must be in order to gain the recognition of the knife’s will.
“If a person with a weak will wants to forcibly control a divine weapon, when he encounters a sword with a milder will, at most he will be unable to exert the power of the sword.
"But if you encounter a sword with a rebellious will, or even one with a strong evil spirit, you will most likely be attacked by the sword's will.
"Since ancient times, so-called demon swords are because the will of the sword itself is too strong and too evil. Once a person with a weak will tries to control it by force, the result will inevitably be backfired by this will.
"The final result is that the person using the knife will either be attacked by the will of the knife and go mad, or be hated and cursed by this will, and will be plagued by disasters from then on and will not have a good end.
“The name of the demon sword comes from this!
“Even if it’s not a demon sword, a famous sword with a gentler will is just a slightly sharper weapon in the hands of an ordinary person.
“Of course, a strong swordsman cannot display his full strength with an ordinary sword. The two are complementary to each other.
“So the famous sword made the swordsman, and the swordsman made the famous sword.
"And if a person wants to wield a famous sword, he must have the determination and will to cut through all obstacles and never waver. At the same time, he must have the courage to entrust his desire to cut through everything to the sword, and he must have the understanding to resonate with the sword's will. Do you understand?"
After thinking for a while, Luke nodded.
"Of course, no matter how strong the will of a sword is, it is still an external object in the end." Mihawk continued, "Although the will of the sword is important, the will of the swordsman is more important."
"Kenshin?" Lu Kai asked.
"There are many names for the swordsman's will. It doesn't matter what it is called, so let's just call it the swordsman's heart!
"When a swordsman's sword heart is so strong that ten thousand swords are subservient to him, everything in the world can be a sword. Once you reach this level, you can use almost all of the power of any sword." Mihawk said with great yearning.
“Once you reach the state where ten thousand swords submit, you can pick up a random stick and cut through all obstacles, and the five objects are continuous. This is the power I have always pursued.
"Perhaps you will think that the will contained in my sword moves is very strong, but in my opinion, it is just the beginning. Moreover, many things can be mastered by learning one, and the same is true for swordsmanship and martial arts."