Chapter 025 Basic Martial Arts, Enlightenment
Another issue is the martial arts aspect.
As for practicing swordsmanship, Tai Lisuo had no intention of practicing any complicated swordsmanship. He just simply practiced the most basic moves such as chopping, slashing, cutting, thrusting, stabbing and blocking.
Tai Lisuo’s idea is that knife skills should be fast, accurate and ruthless.
With the blessing of strength and fighting spirit, strive to be fast enough and attack accurately.
As long as you practice these basic moves well, they should be enough for actual combat for the time being.
Of course, the main reason is that Tai Lisuo himself is a careless person and feels that complex and exquisite knife skills are not suitable for him.
On the contrary, Taili Suo feels that the basic moves with big openings and closings are very useful.
The basics are the most fundamental. Haven’t you seen Tang Tian in the Invincible God of War – Basic Tang, who relies on basic martial arts, yet is still able to kill enemies above his level and is still so powerful?
After practicing Tai Chi in the morning, he would focus on practicing swordsmanship, and in the afternoon he would practice fighting skills.
Xu Sanduo followed Tai Lisuo's arrangements and practiced diligently step by step.
Wang Jiu observed Tai Lisuo's practice for a few days and also learned to practice according to Tai Lisuo's method.
Anyway, his current practice is to rely on hard work and learn the Taili lock method to see how effective it is.
After practicing for two days, I didn't feel there was anything special, so I found Tai Lisuo and asked him why he practiced like this.
Tai Lisuo replied, "There is no reason. I just feel that complex and sophisticated sword techniques are not suitable for me. It takes a lot of time and effort to practice. It is better to just practice the most basic basic moves. In addition, I think that in the world of martial arts, only speed can not be defeated."
Wang Jiu interrupted, "You mean winning by speed?"
Tai Lisuo said: "It's not just about speed, speed and strength complement each other, the faster the speed, the stronger the attack and destructive power will be.
Since basic sword techniques are simple, they are definitely faster to perform than complicated ones.
In battle, the difference between being one second faster or slower could mean the difference between life and death, which is why I only practice basic sword techniques."
Wang Jiu said thoughtfully: "Well, what you said makes sense. It seems that I have to spend time and energy to practice basic swordsmanship again."
Tai Lisuo said: "There are only a few basic moves. If you practice each move thousands of times until it becomes an instinctive reaction of the body, then your ability to respond and survive in the face of sudden attacks or in a melee will definitely improve a lot."
Wang Jiu thought for a moment and said, "You are absolutely right. It doesn't matter how exquisite or powerful a move is. Practicality is the most important thing."
Tai Lisuo said: "Yes, practicality is the kingly way."
Wang Jiu said: "What you said makes sense, but it seems a little wrong. If the basic martial arts are really that good, why is there no one willing to practice it well?"
Tai Lisuo said: "How others practice is their business. Anyway, I plan to practice only basic martial arts. Let me put it this way. I think all advanced martial arts are inseparable from basic martial arts and are evolved from basic martial arts.
When I have mastered the basic martial arts to a certain level, I can use them freely in battle. Moves come from the heart, and no moves are better than moves. At that time, the so-called advanced martial arts became inferior. "
Wang Jiu said: "The moves are from the heart, and no moves are better than moves? This sounds very powerful, and some skills are close to the taste of Tao. If that's true, it would be amazing. From now on, I will follow you, brother, and specialize in practicing basic martial arts, and no longer practice other martial arts."
Tai Lisuo said: "It's up to you. If you don't see any results from your practice in the future, just don't blame me."
Wang Jiu said, "Am I that kind of person? By the way, you are not planning to only practice basic magic, are you?"
Tai Lisuo said: "Don't worry about it, just practice quickly. Anyway, talking to you about magic is like talking to a cow, haha."
Wang Jiu said: "It's not the cow that's playing the lute to the cow. It's you, the one playing the lute, whose brain has been kicked by the monster. Haha..."
Wang Jiu left with a smile. Tai Lisuo rested for a while and then continued to practice basic swordsmanship.
There is no shortcut to practicing basic swordsmanship.
You can only use sweat and time to hone your skills and turn the basic knife skills into an instinctive reaction of the body.
Famous quote from Jichu Tang: Time and sweat will not lie to you. Young people should sweat in the sun.
Tai Lisuo deeply agreed with this, so he practiced hard every day.
The same chopping or slashing moves, the action of swinging the sword must be practiced thousands, tens of thousands, or even N million times.
There is no way! As a time traveler, I don’t have a cheat code, a system, or a grandfather.
There is not even a master!
No matter whether it is the practice method or the way of practice, you can only explore and figure it out by yourself!
Everything depends on yourself!
If there is no good way, then use the stupid way, because time and sweat will not deceive you.
Eating level 5 and 6 monster meat every day and constantly practicing basic swordsmanship, Tai Lisuo feels that his physique is getting stronger.
After practicing continuously for nearly a month, Tai Lisuo's physique finally reached the strength of the second level physique, and his swordsmanship also became very proficient.
Tai Lisuo sought out Wang Jiu to practice against him. Neither of them used their fighting spirit, but only their physical strength, basic knife skills against basic sword skills.
With the strength of his second-level physique and proficient basic swordsmanship, Tai Lisuo was able to fight with Wang Jiu, who had a physique close to that of a fourth-level physique, both defensively and offensively.
Of course, Taili Lock is more about defense than attack, and it often takes four or five times of defense before finding an opportunity to attack.
Although Wang Jiu took the initiative in the battle as always, he wanted to defeat Tai Lisuo without using his fighting spirit.
It has become a little more difficult than before.
In order to improve combat effectiveness, after practicing separately in the morning every day, Tai Lisuo and Wang Jiu would conduct actual combat training in the afternoon.
The days of cultivation are boring but also fulfilling.
The constant repetition seems a bit boring, but I feel like I am making progress every day.
It makes Taili Lock, who wants to become more powerful, feel intoxicated.
This intoxicated feeling may be the reason why a cultivation maniac becomes a cultivation maniac.
That evening, Wang Jiu and Tai Lisuo finished a day of practice and prepared dinner.
I saw Xu Sanduo still practicing Tai Chi in the distance.
Usually at this time, Xu Sanduo would have finished his practice, and the two of them would go over to take a look.
The two men walked up to Xu Sanduo, only to see that Xu Sanduo was immersed in cultivation and was completely unaware that there were two people next to him.
Wang Jiu whispered, "This kid is pretty good! He seems to be completely immersed in cultivation. Although this state is not as good as enlightenment, it is also very beneficial to cultivation."
Tai Lisuo said: "He is covered in sweat and looks exhausted. His face is also a little pale. He must have been in this state for quite some time."
Seeing that his disciple was practicing so attentively, Tai Lisuo decided to help him.
Tai Lisuo waved his hand and cast six or seven healing spells on Xu Sanduo in succession.
Xu Sanduo's boxing movements suddenly became light and graceful, and it seemed that the Tai Chi he was practicing also had some special charm.
Wang Jiu was stunned for a moment, then looked carefully at Xu Sanduo who was practicing, and whispered to Tai Lisuo: "Enlightenment?"
After saying that, he looked at Tai Lisuo in disbelief, then at Xu Sanduo.
Tai Lisuo nodded and said softly, "It's really an epiphany. This kid is not bad."
After Taili Suo finished speaking, Wang Jiu didn't say anything. Instead, he pulled Taili Suo away and looked him up and down with a look as if he was looking at a monster.
This made Tai Lisuo wonder whether the great swordsman Wang Jiu had suddenly changed some of his tendencies.
After looking at Tai Lisuo for a while, Wang Jiu said to him, "Brother... do you have some ability to help others enter a state of enlightenment?"
Tai Lisuo said: "You think too much! How is it possible? If I had such ability, wouldn't it be against the will of heaven?"
Wang Jiu said: "You don't need to be modest, you helped me enter the state of enlightenment last time, and this time you helped Xu Sanduo enter the state of enlightenment.
Brother, please help me, give me two more moments of enlightenment, and I am absolutely sure that I can successfully break through and become an eighth-level warrior."
Tai Lisuo said helplessly: "Old Wang, my big brother Wang. This is all a matter of chance. How can I have the ability to make you realize it whenever you want?"
Wang Jiu said again: "Brother, don't rush to deny it, think about it carefully, maybe you have such ability, but you just haven't discovered it?
You must have the ability to help people enter the state of enlightenment. Enlightenment! This is enlightenment! Most people have practiced for a lifetime, for decades, or even for hundreds of years, but have never had an enlightenment even once!"
Tai Lisuo interrupted Wang Jiu and said, "So what? I told you it was just a coincidence. Have you become stupid from practicing or gone a little crazy?"
Wang Jiu said unwillingly: "Brother, come on, let's analyze the enlightenment carefully. Before Xu Sanduo and I entered the state of enlightenment, we were both practicing Tai Chi, right?
Second, we are all immersed in the practice of Tai Chi, right? Third, we can only enter the state of enlightenment after you cast healing spells on us, right? "
Tai Lisuo said helplessly: "You even came up with one, two, three? But what does that prove?"
Wang Jiu said excitedly: "Isn't this enough? This is too telling! This is an epiphany, brother, it can't be a pure coincidence. This at least shows that when we are immersed in practicing Tai Chi.
If you cast healing spells on us again, there is a high possibility that we will enter a state of enlightenment, do you understand?"
Tai Lisuo said, "Old Wang! Your analysis sounds like it makes a little bit of sense. But have you ever thought about it? You are being too deliberate now, you know? Can you achieve enlightenment just by deliberately wanting to achieve enlightenment? Obviously, that is impossible!"
