Volume 2 That World Chapter 28: Follow your instinct and dodge the knife
After a round of competition, Yu Chengen was neither sweating nor out of breath. Compared with Su Jingqiu, it was really hard to say who looked more like an old man.
Yu Chengen looked in the direction of the voice and laughed, "It seems that the two of them have met."
Encountered, you are talking about Bai Tianhe and his friends encountering the "green bear beast", right?
Qi Ji was quite curious about what this foreign bear looked like.
Qin Zijin had been paying attention to Qi Ji. As soon as he saw his expression, he guessed what he was thinking. He came over and asked with a smile, "Qi Ji, what's wrong? Do you want to see the bear?"
Qi Ji nodded honestly.
Qin Zijin smiled and said, "The urbanization rate in the outer regions is quite low, and they are mainly taking the path of super cities. The ecological environment outside the city is very primitive, and there are many such ferocious beasts. There is no need to rush to see them during special training."
She then added, "Maybe Mr. Yu will ask you to hunt ferocious beasts tomorrow and ask them to come back for class. You should just be patient."
Qin Zijin's comfort made sense. Qi Ji pondered for a moment and raised his hand.
Yu Chengen took a look and asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Have you figured out a way to crack it?"
Qi Ji shook his head, and then said directly: "Mr. Yu, please don't embarrass me. If you want to break this speed, unless you have the ability to predict the future and dodge in advance, it is probably possible."
Yu Chengen immediately clapped his hands and laughed: "Haha, Qi Ji is indeed worthy of his name. He actually found the only way to crack it in one go!"
Qi Jiren was confused. "Mr. Yu Chengen, do you want to listen to what you are saying?"
Yu Chengen laughed several times, and finally put away his smile and said seriously: "Maybe you just said it unintentionally, but the only way for a mortal to break that sword-drawing technique is this one - dodge in advance! "
Qi Ji didn't quite understand, he asked puzzledly: "Being able to dodge in advance is equivalent to foreknowledge, how can a human do that?"
Yu Chengen nodded and continued seriously: "It's to let you know that the enemy will use this move. Tell the truth..."
Yu Chengen pondered for a moment, as if he was organizing his words: "Qi Ji, your mind is bound to be a little whimsical sometimes, and you actually imagined a situation that you can't handle."
He continued, "For example, in a situation like 'facing a swordsman who has a move that you absolutely cannot dodge once he unsheathes his sword', a normal person would not have such an idea."
His expression softened a little and he smiled. "Since you can't dodge once your opponent draws his sword, there are only two options left. The first is to prevent your opponent from drawing his sword. The second is to know in advance when your opponent is about to draw his sword and dodge in advance at the right time."
Qi Ji nodded, accepted this statement with difficulty, and asked: "It is too exaggerated to prevent the opponent's sword from being unsheathed, but it also sounds like a fantasy to foresee the opponent's sword being unsheathed and then dodge in advance. How can it be done?"
Yu Chengen smiled and said, "This also requires two points. The first point is the information gap, which means that you clearly know that the opponent has a move that you cannot resist, and you even know some signs before using this move."
Qi Ji immediately recalled in his mind how he felt when facing the lame swordsman last night, and what were the signs before the sword was unsheathed.
Yu Chengen continued: "The second point is that it sounds more mysterious - you need to follow your instincts."
Qi Ji came out of his memories: "Follow your instinct?"
Yu Chengen nodded and said, "Following instincts and using instincts are the characteristics of the eighth stage of the 'Zuo Zhao' realm."
"Eighth stage...but I haven't even reached the seventh stage yet." Qi Ji muttered to himself.
Yu Chengen smiled: "No, you are already 7th dan."
ah?
Qi Ji raised his head and looked at Yu Chengen in surprise. When did he reach the seventh level?
Yu Chengen smiled and said, "Weapon attack, or martial arts, these levels before transcendence essentially represent a process in which a warrior gradually develops his physical abilities."
"A warrior who can see the target of his opponent's attack through his moves and respond in time has realized the ability of 'seeing through', which means he has reached the fifth stage."
"Furthermore, after having rich combat experience, a warrior deepens his ability to 'see through'. He can not only see through the target of the opponent's current move, but also know the various changes of the opponent after this move. He knows what to do and can respond at any time. This means that he has reached the sixth stage."
"The 'specifics' of the seventh stage are slightly different. The fifth and sixth stages are the stage where a warrior sees through his opponent, while the seventh stage is the stage where a warrior sees through himself. At this stage, a warrior has fully understood his own strengths and weaknesses, and is no longer confused about his own fighting style. He can integrate various new techniques into his own system and return to his original nature. As the saying goes, if you encounter a battle, you will win; if you take advantage, you will have a high advantage; if you attack, you will attack; if you defend, you will defend; mountains are still mountains, and water is still water. "
He glanced at Qi Ji and asked with a smile: "Have you reached the seventh stage now?"
Qi Ji was silent for a while and didn't speak for the time being.
With the help of his transcendence and meridian nourishing methods, his strength and speed in battle are exaggerated. This huge physical advantage has been fully integrated with his personal skills.
If we put aside his physical advantage, it would still be difficult for him to defeat the seventh dan with pure skills.
But just as Mr. Yu described the seventh stage, a warrior who can fully understand and utilize his own strengths and has no confusion about his own fighting style is at the seventh stage.
Why not use it if you have the physical fitness? Then I, Qi Ji, have indeed reached the seventh stage.
Qi Ji raised his head and smiled, "Thank you, Mr. Yu, for clearing up my doubts. I have indeed reached the seventh stage."
Yu Chengen smiled and nodded: "I have truly reached the seventh stage of self-awareness."
"Then let's talk about the eighth stage, which is also known as the state of 'sitting and meditating.'" Yu Chengen said, "There is an ancient saying that goes, 'You can achieve it without trying, you can obtain it without thinking, and you can respond to the emptiness with goodness.' The characteristics of sitting and meditating are contained in this ancient saying."
"Success is achieved without any effort, gain is achieved without any thought, good will comes from the utmost emptiness..." Qi Ji murmured and repeated it, seeming to have realized something.
Yu Chengen stroked his chin and smiled, "In modern terms, sitting meditation is the state where a martial artist deeply develops his body's instincts - it's the so-called 'you don't have to do it deliberately, you can do it naturally'."
“This brings us back to the topic we were originally going to talk about.”
"If you want to avoid a high-speed sword draw that will leave you with no hope of survival once it's unsheathed, you have to seize the moment when the enemy draws his sword."
"You may not be able to sense this sign with your mind, but your instinct and subconscious mind will definitely be alert."
As Yu Chengen spoke, he replaced the broadsword in his hand with the sheathed long sword he had used in the previous battle with Qi Ji.
"Come over here, let's do it again!"
Qi Ji followed suit and immediately started using the meridian nourishing method to attack Yu Chengen.
The two of them fought dozens of times at high speed in a few breaths, and the sound of Qi Ji's blade chopping on Yu Chengen's scabbard became continuous.
Then, Yu Chengen's hand holding the hilt of the knife moved slightly.
An inexplicable feeling of palpitations suddenly burst out!
There was no time to act.
With a flash of knife light, Yu Chengen's knife was already on Qi Ji's throat.
Yu Chengen looked at Qi Ji and smiled: "Did you feel it?"
Qi Ji nodded heavily: "I feel it!"
Qi Ji was very sure that at the moment before Yu Chengen drew his sword, he felt a clear sense of fear and palpitations.
He lowered his head again: "But, I didn't have time to react."
Yu Chengen received it and sheathed it. He smiled and patted Qi Ji's shoulder: "Of course you didn't have time to react. If you had time to react, you would not be the seventh stage, but the eighth stage."
"Accumulate slowly. Instinct is not something that is easy to train." Yu Chengen encouraged.
Qi Ji nodded.
Then the three of them continued to fight in turns. As a transcendent, Yu Chengen's physical functions far exceeded those of ordinary people. He was able to withstand the repeated attacks from Qi Ji and Su Jingqiu and still have some strength left.
When he was instructing Qi Ji, he would suddenly draw his sword and kill people during every fierce battle in order to develop Qi Ji's instinct to avoid dangerous moves.
When he was instructing Su Jingqiu, he used the swordsmanship of the Divine Sword Tower to fight against him and fed Su Jingqiu with moves, allowing Su Jingqiu to complete the collection of the swordsmanship of the "Divine Sword Tower" in a short period of time and become a nemesis of the swordsmanship of the Divine Sword Tower.
There are two types of swordsmanship in the Divine Sword Tower, one is the domineering "Chi Ren", the other is the ruthless and swift "Jueying". Yu Chengen first imitated Chi Ren's style and showed Su Jingqiu all the possible variations of this domineering swordsmanship, and then he switched to Jueying's style.
The style of the sword technique named Jueying is completely different from that of Chiren. It is a strange sword technique that combines footwork and body movements. The sword used with this sword technique is no longer the wide-blade sword used in Chiren, but an ordinary single sword.
Yu Chengen suppressed his own skills to the limit of human level below extraordinary when fighting against Su Jingqiu. When using this set of Jueying swordsmanship, the whole person seemed to turn into a ghost, constantly moving around Su Jingqiu, and always able to strike decisively at various clever opportunities, causing more trouble to Su Jingqiu than Chi Ren.
About an hour later, the three stopped sparring.
It was Yu Chengen who took the initiative to signal to stop.
At this time, Qi Ji and Su Jingqiu were already sweating profusely.
Qin Zijin, who was standing by, immediately brought a kettle to Qi Ji.
Qi Ji didn't hesitate to open the lid and drink the whole thing.
"How is it?" Qin Zijin looked at Qi Ji with a smile: "Did you gain anything from this high-intensity special training?"
"Yes! The harvest is huge!" Qi Ji nodded heavily.
Although he still couldn't dodge every time Yu Chengen drew his sword, after many training sessions, he was able to make a slight evasive movement in response to his body's instincts at the moment before Yu Chengen drew his sword.
This was a major step forward for him to achieve from nothing to something!
It was also because of this that he began to have a little confidence in dodging the lame swordsman's sword-drawing attack in the tower.
A moment later, as the sound of dragging was heard, Qi Ji looked up and saw Bai Tianhe and Shangquan Yiren, each of whom was dragging an animal's limb and walking back.
They were accompanied by Yuan Weizong, so naturally they could not have any injuries. However, judging from the fact that their clothes were torn in many places and covered with blood, it could be seen that both of them had been seriously injured, and it was obvious that they had had a very brutal fight with some kind of wild beast.
"Master! I'm back and the blue bear beast has been killed!" Bai Tianhe was the first to report to his master.
