Chapter 75 Do You Understand?

Fearing that he could not control the speed too fast, Li Chuyi deliberately performed the sword technique very slowly. As time passed, it took him a long time to complete the first move.

Seeing Li Chuyi's funny slow movements, Xue Qing laughed even harder, and Ye Zhichen next to her frowned.

"Are you under a spell of immobilization? Are you practicing swordsmanship? Even a turtle is several times faster than you!"

Ye Zhichen's ridicule and Xue Qing's laughter reached his ears, and Li Chuyi's face turned redder, and he was even more dissatisfied. He gritted his teeth and accelerated the second move. As a result, as soon as he started, the long sword was disobedient and flew straight into the sky with a "whoosh" sound, and then fell straight down, scaring Li Chuyi to jump away and dodge repeatedly.

With a light "swish", the long sword was inserted straight into the ground, and bursts of light chants came out with the slightly trembling sword body, as if they were also mocking him.

Staring blankly at the long sword on the ground, Li Chuyi murmured: "Why?"

Looking at the stunned Li Chuyi, Xue Qing no longer smiled, but looked at him with pity.

Ye Zhichen next to him frowned, looked at Li Chuyi and said in a light voice: "Can't you figure it out?"

Li Chuyi turned his head to look at Ye Zhichen, silent for a while, and shook his head slightly.

"Watch."

Before the voice faded away, Ye Zhichen suddenly moved, turned into a shadow and floated into the yard, grabbed the long sword stuck in the ground and began to dance.

As the sword techniques were used one by one, Li Chuyi found that Ye Zhichen was performing the "Ten Thousand Swords Art Fragments" that he had just used. Unlike Li Chuyi's clumsy performance of either crawling or dropping his hands, Ye Zhichen's sword moves were smooth and flowing, without any feeling of dragging, which made people feel relaxed and happy.

The long sword in Ye Zhichen's hand seemed to be no longer a long sword, but a part of him, his arm, his legs, and his body. The long sword danced with Ye Zhichen's movements like an elf. Under the sunlight, the bright sword body bloomed with beautiful brilliance. The "chi chi" sound that cut through the air and the dust raised when passing over the ground all showed the murderous intent hidden in this beauty.

Looking at Ye Zhichen at this time, Xue Qing couldn't help but reveal a trace of obsession in her eyes, and Li Chuyi was even more stunned. Although he looked like a middle-aged man with a rough linen shirt and a messy beard on his face, once he held the sword in his hand, like at this moment, Ye Zhichen would immediately turn into another person, a person who could not help but be intoxicated and conquered by him. And his enemies would be terrified when they saw him holding the sword in his hand.

Looking at Ye Zhichen, Li Chuyi found that he did not use any skills, but was just performing sword moves with his own strength. Even so, the long sword still left countless sword shadows in the air for some unknown reason, as if Ye Zhichen suddenly had countless hands and countless swords, and even left sword marks on the ground without touching the ground.

If Ye Zhichen used his magic power to perform, wouldn't it be...

What surprised him even more was that although Ye Zhichen was very fast, the sword shadows in the sky did not feel chaotic at all. Instead, they were well-organized, making people feel very organized and able to clearly identify their movement trajectory.

The more Li Chuyi thought about it, the more shocked he became. He had never thought that just an ordinary sword dance could produce such power. Before, he thought that practicing the mental method was equivalent to cultivating the essence, but now he knew that he was still far away, and even, he didn't understand what the sword way was.

At this time, Li Chuyi finally understood why Ye Zhichen's Taoist name could be honored as the word "Sword Saint".

After using the last move, Ye Zhichen lightly drew the sword flower and put away the sword and stood. The long sword pointed diagonally to the ground trembled slightly, making a series of soft humming sounds. This was not Li Chuyi's mocking humming, but rather the incomparable joy of finally meeting a bosom friend.

After looking at Xue Qing, who was intoxicated, Ye Zhichen turned his head to look at Li Chuyi, his face not red and his breath not panting, as if he had not moved at all, and asked calmly: "Do you understand?"

Li Chuyi nodded silently, then shook his head.

Seeing Li Chuyi's strange behavior, Ye Zhichen smiled slightly, then asked calmly: "Nodding and shaking your head, what do you mean?"

"I nodded to say that I understand my shortcomings. I thought that as long as I learned the mental method, I could use the sword as I wish, but after watching you perform, I found that it was not the case. Even without the cooperation of the mental method, the simple sword method can contain such power. Moreover, although I have cultivated the mental method of the "Ten Thousand Swords Art Fragments", I still cannot use a complete set of sword methods, which also illustrates this problem. Before, I thought the sword method was too shallow and simple."

"As for shaking my head, it's because I don't understand why this is the case. How can I use the sword method as smoothly as you do?"

Li Chuyi explained.

Listening to Li Chuyi's answer, Ye Zhichen laughed, and laughed happily. Looking at Li Chuyi carefully, his eyes gradually showed appreciation, and even a little surprise.

Looking at Li Chuyi, Ye Zhichen smiled and said, "You can recognize your own shortcomings and dare to admit your shallowness and narrow-mindedness. This is rare, and I admire it. As for you wanting to be like me, you can only practice hard. Start from the basics, familiarize yourself with every move of swordsmanship, and practice it until it becomes your instinct. When you master these essentials, you will find that in fact, any swordsmanship is just a combination of several basic moves such as stabbing, chopping, lifting, hanging, clouding, tapping, pulling, collapsing, and intercepting. Different combinations of different orders, angles and strengths will result in different virtual and real moves, and thus form various swordsmanship. And if you want to perform these moves in one go, you need to rely on the corresponding mental method. In short, only hard practice can make you a great man." Listening to Ye Zhichen's story, Li Chuyi couldn't help but think of the book "Essentials of Swordsmanship" that he had never been interested in before. When I read it before, I didn't feel that there was anything special about this book. It was all about basic movements, that is, there was no powerful swordsmanship or powerful mental skills. But now, after listening to Ye Zhichen's words, I realized that I really underestimated this book, or underestimated the importance of the basics.

This is not Li Chuyi's fault. He has been following the Taoist priest since he was a child. After the Taoist priest taught him ten scriptures like the heavenly book of "Daodian", he has been practicing like a sheep, and has never had any systematic learning. Even the Taoist magic was taught by him after he coaxed and begged, and the Taoist priest needed an assistant to cooperate with him to "make money by performing rituals". Although there are some spells in "Daodian" for learning, almost all of them can only be practiced when each chapter is almost perfected, and those spells are like other scriptures, which make people confused and don't know how powerful they are or what their effects are.

Silently thinking about Ye Zhichen's words, Li Chuyi suddenly asked: "I still don't understand one thing. We are cultivators. In the past, when I saw my master using the sword, he would directly fly out with a sword to take the enemy's head, or a sword energy would cut the opponent in half. Why do we have to learn this useless sword technique? At first, I thought that only low-level sword manuals would have sword techniques, but in the past few days, I have read many sword manuals you collected, and I found that no matter how high-level or low-level the sword technique is, there will be two parts: mind and sword technique. I don't understand why cultivators rely on flying swords and sword energy, so they still have to learn sword techniques?"

Ye Zhichen heard this and shook his head and said, "You are wrong."

After saying this, without waiting for Li Chuyi to speak, Ye Zhichen made a slight gesture to Xue Qing. Seeing Xue Qing nodded in understanding, he casually slashed with a sword, and immediately a sword energy flew out and went straight to Xue Qing. Xue Qing saw the sword energy coming, but she was not panicked at all. She just slightly turned her body and let it pass.

Seeing this, Ye Zhichen ignored Li Chuyi who was surprised and swung out another sword. Suddenly, a second sword energy that seemed to be exactly the same as the previous one appeared and rushed towards Xue Qing as before.

Facing this sword energy that seemed to have no changes, Xue Qing frowned slightly. Before the sword energy came, her body shook several times, floating left and right, making people wonder where she was going to dodge. Until the sword energy came, she moved slightly and moved sideways to avoid it. But this time, although the sword energy was also avoided, it was not completely avoided like before. Instead, the tail lightly swept Xue Qing's body, so Xue Qing still had to make a light touch after avoiding it, and then she completely avoided this sword energy without suffering any damage.

"Senior Brother Ye has a good swordsmanship. Junior Sister is ashamed of herself." Xue Qing's beautiful eyes turned and saluted slightly to praise.

"Junior sister, don't be modest. I just want this kid to see clearly. Otherwise, how can the sword energy touch you at all?" Ye Zhichen bowed in return.

Seeing Li Chuyi confused, Ye Zhichen smiled and explained: "The first sword is as you said, a sword is chopped out, directly taking the enemy's head. The second sword is to integrate the sword skills into it. It seems to be as straight as the first sword, but in fact there are many changes that you can't see now, making it difficult for the opponent to distinguish, until it can't dodge, or can't dodge all. As for the result, you saw it. So, do you understand?"

Scratching his head, Li Chuyi looked at Ye Zhichen and said naively: "I don't understand."

Ye Zhichen couldn't help but feel angry, while Xue Qing covered her mouth and chuckled. They couldn't help but feel that this child was really too bad.

"However, although I don't understand it now, I know the importance of the basics. I will study hard in the future, and please give me more guidance, Uncle Ye." Li Chuyi straightened his face and bowed respectfully to Ye Zhichen.

Ye Zhichen nodded with satisfaction and said calmly: "As long as you are willing, I will teach you everything I know. Tomorrow morning, wait for me in the courtyard, and I will start teaching you to practice sword."

Li Chuyi hurriedly bowed and responded.

Looking at Ye Zhichen, who was indifferent and satisfied, and looking at Li Chuyi, who was respectful but secretly winking at her when Ye Zhichen was not paying attention, Xue Qing couldn't help but smile.

She was really happy for these two men, and she was also happy from the bottom of her heart that she could see this scene.

Thinking of what she said to Ye Zhichen before, "Treat him like a father", Xue Qing couldn't help blushing slightly, thinking to herself that at this moment, with herself here, wouldn't it be like a family of three?

Three people, each with their own thoughts, cast three long shadows under the setting sun.

Just like a family.