Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 89 Getting Better
At the moment of sliding down the cliff, Tang Zheng did not hesitate. He fanned out the dagger blade with his left hand and pulled out Han Jiangxue with his right hand. The two daggers were directly inserted into the cliff.
"Swish--" The two daggers were too sharp. Even after being inserted into the cliff, they still left two long cuts like a knife cutting tofu. Tang Zheng's body continued to fall down, but the falling speed was slightly reduced.
When Tang Zheng saw it, he made a prompt decision. He put away the sharp blade of the fan dagger and inserted the fan directly into the gap cut by the fan dagger. At this time, the cold air from the cold river snow also condensed the water vapor rising from the bottom of the cliff into ice in the cut gap.
With these two methods, Tang Zheng finally stopped falling. He hung on the cliff and breathed a long sigh of relief.
At this time, Li Xiaoren, who was rushing towards Tang Zheng like a cannonball, saw that Tang Zheng was out of danger. His expression eased a little, and he stretched out his ape arm, directly hung on the sword mark, and then swung back silently.
Hearing the slight noise behind him, Tang Zheng, who had just calmed down, turned around suddenly. Li Xiaoren was already standing on the platform next to the cliff again. He looked at him coldly and said, "This is the price of being careless. You got lucky this time, but what about next time?"
Tang Zheng shrugged and said with a smile: "He is not dead."
After saying that, he suddenly curled up his legs, and simultaneously started the Cloud-Stepping Step, with both legs pressing on the cliff at the same time, and the whole person suddenly rushed upwards.
Stepping on the Clouds, inserting the two daggers, and then Stepping on the Clouds again...
Seeing that Tang Zheng was actually inspired by the experience of almost falling off the cliff just now, Li Xiaoren simply used his hands and feet and ran wildly like a cheetah rushing towards its prey.
However, unlike a cheetah’s charge, Tang Zheng was not running in the jungle or grassland, but on a hundred-meter-high cliff that was soaring into the clouds!
The method Tang Zhengxin discovered was much faster than his previous method of crossing the river cautiously by just using the Cloud-Stepping Step and relying on the sword marks.
Soon, his wild and crazy figure, with a unique beauty, became smaller and smaller in Li Xiaoren's eyes, until finally, he successfully reached the safe platform opposite the cliff.
The first crossing was successfully completed!
After completing such a thrilling and crazy journey and continuously using the Cloud-Stepping Martial Arts, Tang Zheng couldn't help but take a few quick breaths and rest for a while. He was not in a hurry to start the next crossing.
Instead, he stayed on the opposite platform, closed his eyes slightly, and slowly recalled the feeling of using the Cloud Step martial arts during the first crossing. While thinking, he continued to perform the Cloud Step a few more times, running and jumping a few times on the safe platform.
If you study without thinking, you will be confused; if you think without studying, you will be in danger. As a teacher with some teaching experience, Tang Zheng understands this truth very well.
Every time he cultivated star power or martial arts, he would not practice madly. Instead, after each effort, he would stop and think about the gains and losses of the previous practice, and then continue to practice. He would continue to consolidate the things he did well before, and try to avoid the things he did not do well before.
This is the learning method that Tang Zheng has always adhered to, and it is no exception when he is practicing the Cloud-Stepping Step.
Li Xiaoren looked far into the distance, watching Tang Zheng's actions on the platform opposite the cliff, and nodded secretly: "Don't be arrogant or impatient, this young man is teachable."
Tang Zheng savored the moment on the opposite platform. After he felt his body had recovered to its best condition, he used the Cloud-Stepping Step again and rushed towards Jianhen.
Based on his feeling during his first trip, the crossing method pointed out by Li Xiaoren was the most dangerous and difficult, but also the one with the greatest rewards.
Therefore, he did not use the cheetah-like charge method he had just figured out to cross the cliff, but chose the most difficult and dangerous sword-stepping method to cross it.
This time, Tang Zheng felt the sword scar much better than the first time he crossed it.
Even though the sword marks on the platform near the end of the cliff were shallower than those on the starting point, after the first test and thinking and improvement, Tang Zheng's figure still landed steadily on the sword marks.
"Okay, let's go!" Tang Zheng took a deep breath and continued to perform the Cloud-Stepping Step. On the only sword mark on the hundred-foot cliff, he continued his thrilling journey of crossing the cliff with the Cloud-Stepping Step.
This time, Tang Zheng walked almost halfway up the cliff before he made a mistake when performing the Cloud-Stepping Step and fell down again.
The second time he fell from the cliff, Tang Zheng was much more experienced. He still used Fan Bi and Han Jiangxue at the same time. After stabilizing his body, he once again used his cheetah-style wall-climbing method and rushed back to the starting point.
Similarly, after the first time, Li Xiaoren discovered that Tang Zheng was able to protect himself in desperate situations, so he did not take action again. He even took back the Xingxiang early and calmly watched Tang Zheng fall and run back to the starting point.
"Every time you leave a sword mark, one hundred academy contributions will be deducted." When Tang Zheng jumped back to the platform, panting, Li Xiaoren threw a cold sentence at him.
"What? With such a high difficulty level, it's normal to make some mistakes, Instructor Li. Do you have to be so harsh? After all, my contribution to the academy was bought with real money, not blown by the wind. Can you deduct ten points at once?" Tang Zheng said depressedly.
"What do you mean by bought with real money? Explain it clearly!" Li Xiaoren frowned and asked in confusion.
"Uh... I was just kidding. Haha. I'll continue practicing now. Bye." Tang Zheng blurted out the secret in a hurry. He quickly changed the subject, fearing that Li Xiaoren would continue to ask questions. He turned around and got the sword mark again.
One step, two steps...
One trip, two trips...
Under the dual pressures of life and death and the deduction of his contribution to the academy, Tang Zheng's Cloud-Stepping Steps felt better and better, and he could cross a farther distance on the cliff in one breath each time. Although it became more and more difficult to make progress as time went on, and the distance he could cross each time became smaller , Tang Zheng still continued firmly, even if he was sweating profusely, even if his hands and feet were scratched, he would practice every day until his calves cramped and his star power was exhausted, and then he would stop.
For eight consecutive days, Tang Zheng was less than ten feet away from crossing the cliff in one breath. In other words, as long as he could hold on for three to five more steps, Tang Zheng would be able to achieve the feat of truly flying over the cliff.
"Today is the ninth day. I have achieved my goal today. Then, I will have a few sparring matches with Jiang Wuyan and Fenghua tomorrow and completely integrate the Cloud-Stepping Step into actual combat. Then my mission will be complete and I can wait for Leng Zhan to challenge me!" Tang Zheng was standing on the platform in front of the cliff, looking at the rising sun not far away. The wind blowing through the cliff lifted up his clothes and made his body fly up. He felt like a free and easy immortal hero.
