Chapter 741 Sword-Controlling Genius

When we arrived at the Demon Refining Mountain, the morning glow filled the mountain and the vegetation was lush and green.

It is obviously a dangerous mountain forest where monsters and beasts gather, but the ink painting is like an outing, with a relaxed expression, brisk steps, and humming a tune.

When he reached the bottom of a hillside, Mo Hua stopped, took out the fruit wine, pastries, and dried meat from his storage bag, and ate them deliciously while looking at the mountain scenery in the early morning.

After a while, a figure came from a distance.

Mo Hua stood up immediately, waved with joy and shouted:

"Situ, this way!"

A tall and handsome young man with his back to the fire sword smiled and said hello when he heard the sound, and walked towards Mo Hua.

The person who came was none other than Situ Jian.

He was also found by Mo Hua to be Yu Jian's "partner".

After all, both of them are from Lizhou, so they should be fellow villagers.

When Mo Hua was in Lizhou before, he had interacted with the Situ family and knew many monks such as Situ Fang and Situ Xiu, elder Situ Jin and other Situ family members.

However, the Situ family is very big, so these people should be considered as branches of the Situ family, and they are probably not familiar with Situ Jian.

There was no mention of ink painting.

The two of them were in the mountains, taking advantage of the morning glow and mountain scenery, eating fine wine and delicacies.

After eating and drinking, we officially started practicing sword practice.

Before practicing the sword, Situ Jian still had some doubts:

"Senior Brother, you are not a swordsman, are you? Why do you suddenly think of wielding a sword?"

Mo Hua looked serious and said nonsense:

"Duanjinmen is stingy by nature and uses despicable methods. Although it has temporarily ceased its activities, there is no guarantee that it will come back in the future, so we must take precautions before they happen and study more on sword control."

"And it's not just Jinmen. There are so many swordsmen in this state, so we must learn more to avoid falling into their trap in the future..."

“Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you fight a hundred battles without danger.”

"Oh." Situ Jian nodded slowly and praised, "As expected of my young senior brother, he has really thought far ahead."

"Is it very far?"

"Yes." Situ Jian said, "The real 'sword control' is a sword move that can only be learned in the late stage of foundation building and can only be achieved in the golden elixir realm."

Mo Hua was stunned, "So far?"

Situ Jian silently looked at the ink paintings and thought to himself, little senior brother, you don’t know anything...

Situ Jian sighed, then found a big rock to sit down and started talking about ink painting from the beginning:

"Any sword practice must start with sword energy. Turning spiritual power into a sword is the foundation for the introduction of swordsmanship."

"But in the beginning of sword training, the sword energy transformed by spiritual power is not strong, so it is necessary to use the spiritual sword to amplify the sword energy and enhance the killing power."

"The earlier one is, the shallower the cultivation level, the weaker the sword energy, and the stronger the sword cultivator's reliance on sword weapons."

"And in the later stages, as your cultivation deepens and your sword energy becomes stronger, you can be able to have no sword in your hand. Since your body is a sword, you are not particularly dependent on the sword."

"Of course a sword cultivator with a sword will still be very strong."

"This is because the 'sword control' method of combining sword energy and sword weapons, the two superimposed, has extraordinary lethality."

"How strong can it be?" Mo Hua was very curious.

Situ Jian shook his head, "I don't know..."

Ink painting: "..."

Situ Jian was a little embarrassed and said: "It's very strong anyway... but I haven't learned the real 'Lihuo Sword Control Technique' yet, so I don't know how strong it is."

"Then the Broken Gold Sword Controlling Technique we met before, that Brother Duanjinmen, used was not the real 'sword control'?"

"Which Brother Duan Jinmen?"

"The one who was stripped of his clothes, hung from a tree, and had a turtle painted on him."

"Oh." Situ Jian remembered it and nodded, "Yes."

Situ Jian explained to Mo Hua: "He has indeed practiced sword control techniques, but his cultivation and swordsmanship attainments are not enough to display real sword control, so his sword control is only a shallow level of sword energy." level..."

"The real sword-wielding..."

Situ Jian's expression was stern, his eyes full of yearning:

"First of all, we must cultivate the sword energy to be very powerful."

"Try to fuse the sword energy with the sword again."

"Then use your spiritual consciousness to control the spiritual sword fused with sword energy, lock onto the enemy, and kill the enemy with a flying sword from a long distance."

"Only this kind of sword-controlling method uses spiritual consciousness to control the sword, and also integrates the sword energy. The three are integrated into one. Only when you practice to a high level can you cultivate the 'sword intention' step by step..."

"Sword Intent?!"

Mo Hua's expression changed and he was shocked.

Situ Jian was startled and asked in a low voice:

"Senior brother, is there something wrong?"

Only then did Mo Hua realize that he was a little excited. He immediately pretended to be calm, patted Situ Jian on the shoulder and said:

"No, you're absolutely right!"

"go on……"

Situ Jian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said: "No more..."

Mo Hua was startled, "It's gone?"

Situ Jian nodded and said: "What happens after the sword intention is too profound. My current cultivation level is still shallow and I can't understand it..."

Not to mention the sword intention, he hasn't even learned much about "sword control" yet.

"Okay." Mo Hua sighed.

Although it was a pity that he couldn't ask about the deeper "Sword Intent", he at least understood an important point:

When wielding a sword with divine consciousness, the sword energy, sword weapon and divine consciousness are integrated into one, so that the "sword intent" can be nourished.

Sword control is the culmination of the method of integrating sword energy and sword weapon.

But at the same time, it is also the beginning of "Sword Intent".

This kind of thing is very important, and it is somewhat "super sectarian" and is not taught in the Taoist teachings of the sect.

The method of controlling a sword...

If you can only learn it at the later stage of foundation building, you can only achieve it at the golden elixir level.

That would be a method that could only be taught in the next post-foundation school year at least, and possibly even after entering the inner sect.

As expected, there must be a teacher from me when we are traveling among three people. It is always beneficial to ask my classmates for advice when there is nothing to do.

Mo Hua nodded secretly in his heart.

"Then how do you control the sword with divine consciousness?"

"Is it the same as the Divine Object Control?"

"Is it enough to control the spiritual sword with your spiritual consciousness and stab it from a distance?"

Mo Hua asked curiously again.

Situ Jian said: "The general process of controlling a sword is to first accumulate sword energy, then inject the sword energy into the spiritual sword, and then control the sword with spiritual consciousness."

"After the spiritual consciousness, spiritual sword, and sword energy are integrated into one, and the state of complete 'sword control' is reached, then the spiritual consciousness can be used to search for the enemy, the sword can be used to break through the air, and the enemy can be killed from a distance..."

"Sword control is based on control of objects. The stronger the control object, the better the foundation of sword control."

"But compared with ordinary sword control, it is more difficult, consumes more spiritual consciousness, and it is more difficult to track down enemies..."

Remember every word and every word of the ink painting.

However, he simply skipped the previous part of "accumulating sword energy and injecting the spirit sword".

Because his sword energy is too weak, it is useless to inject the spiritual sword into it.

He planned to directly replace it with "Sword Formation".

If these two parts are omitted, there is no need for so much "foreplay". Simply and directly, you can use your spiritual sense to detect the enemy, use your sword to break through the air, and kill the enemy from a distance.

For the rest, just leave it to the "formation".

"The specific method of wielding a sword with spiritual consciousness and killing enemies through the air is actually a special method of using divine consciousness. You need to learn a special sword-controlling method..."

When Situ Jian said this, he looked a little apologetic and said to Mo Hua, "My Situ family has the method of 'sacred sword control'. Before I entered the sect, my father asked me to take it with me and let me keep it for later. study……"

"But this is a family inheritance and cannot be passed on to others, and I can't tell you..."

Situ Jian was very candid.

"Yeah, it's okay." Mo Hua nodded.

He accepted Situ Jian's intention.

But he actually has the skills to control a sword.

The "Breaking Gold Sword Control Technique" obtained from the Broken Gold Jade Slip obtained from Boss Jiang, part of it contains the "Sword Controlling Technique".

Mo Hua had secretly studied it last night.

However, some kendo terminology is relatively obscure, and I didn’t understand it very well in Mo Hua.

Now that Situ Jian started from the basics of kendo and gave a more comprehensive explanation of how to handle a sword, Mo Hua gradually gained some understanding.

Mo Hua sighed slightly.

After all, I still have a very poor foundation in kendo.

There were some things that Situ Jian didn't say, he worked behind closed doors and couldn't figure it out at all.

"There is also the issue of spiritual consciousness..."

Situ Jian continued, "Drawing a sword with your divine sense. If your divine sense is not strong, you will naturally not be able to handle a sword, so your divine sense is also the key to handling a sword..."

"As we all know, the release of spiritual consciousness has a certain scope."

"From the beginning of foundation building, one line of spiritual consciousness is equivalent to a distance of about ten feet. Generally, for monks in the early stage of foundation building, there are about eleven lines of spiritual consciousness, which can be spread out for more than a hundred feet..."

"At the peak of foundation building, with the nineteen lines of spiritual consciousness, the distance of the spiritual consciousness is more than one hundred and dozens of feet, infinitely close to two hundred feet, but it will not reach two hundred feet..."

"If we break through the golden elixir, it will be four hundred feet away..."

Mo Hua nodded slightly, "So generally, for monks in the late stage of foundation establishment, the distance between their spiritual consciousness and their swords is only about one hundred and ninety feet?"

Situ Jian shook his head, "It's not that far."

Mo Hua was a little surprised, but after a moment's thought he understood:

"Will it still decay?"

"This is natural," Situ Jian nodded. "The spiritual consciousness is released freely, and the range is naturally the farthest, but once you control objects, the distance will decrease."

"If it is a higher difficulty sword control, the attenuation will be even greater."

"Generally speaking, if a Foundation-Building Sword Cultivator uses his spiritual consciousness to control the sword, the range of his spiritual consciousness may even be reduced to more than half."

Mo Hua was slightly startled, "So, even in the later stage of foundation establishment, the range of a general divine sense sword is only about a hundred feet?"

Situ Jian nodded slightly, "Excluding those talented swordsman geniuses, the average sword cultivator is almost like this."

"A talented swordsman? Do we have any in Taixu Sect?"

Mo Hua asked, then silently looked at Situ Jian, whose name had the word "sword" in it.

Situ Jian was a little embarrassed by the ink painting and sighed:

"Little senior brother, don't look at me... My talent is indeed among the best in the Situ family, or in the several states near the Situ family..."

“But when it comes to the Qianxue state border, it can only be in the middle.”

"As for those in the Taixu Sect, although there are some who are better than me in swordsmanship, they are not much better."

Situ Jian paused, looked at the ink painting, and said helplessly:

"Although this is a bit unpleasant, it is also true..."

"Generally speaking, a swordsman genius with such talent will be admitted to the Tianjian Sect, which ranks first in swordsmanship among the four major sects. Secondly, they will be selected from the other three sects among the four major sects."

"Such a swordsmanship genius will not join our Taixu Sect. After all, our Taixu Sect's swordsmanship inheritance is really lackluster..."

"It can't be said that there is nothing good to say. It's just some sword techniques, which are better than the best..."

Mo Hua's eyes narrowed slightly and he asked in a low voice:

"Situ, have you ever heard of 'spiritual thoughts turning into swords'?"

Situ Jian was startled, "Shen Nian turned into a sword? What kind of sword technique is this?"

Seeing that he hadn't heard of it, Mo Hua said, "It's nothing. I heard what the calligrapher said, but I don't know whether it's true or not."

Situ Jian felt helpless.

Can you believe what the storyteller says...

When the junior brother is reliable, he is really reliable.

But he occasionally talks nonsense, and seems a little... naive and out of tune.

Mo Hua said again: "I have learned a little bit of flying swords, can you help me see if the technique is correct..."

"Yeah." Situ Jian nodded, but halfway through nodding, he suddenly froze, with a confused look on his face:

"Junior brother, where did you learn 'flying swords'?"

"Besides, you are only in the middle stage of foundation building."

"Also, you are not a sword cultivator, you don't cultivate sword energy, the spirit sword and sword energy cannot be integrated, how can you fly a sword?"

Mo Hua "hushed" and whispered to Situ Jian: "I learned it secretly, don't tell others."

Although he said he "learned it secretly", his expression was righteous.

Seeing Mo Hua being so "frank", Situ Jian nodded blankly.

"I don't practice sword energy, I just use my spiritual consciousness to control the sword, to try out the effect, just for fun..."

Mo Hua took out a "broken sword" while saying this.

It's a broken sword, but it's not that broken, just dirty, I don't know where it's been stuck, it's been covered with dust for a long time, and there's rust on it.

It's the first time that Situ Jian has seen someone use a "broken sword" to practice controlling the sword...

As expected of a junior brother, his thinking and behavior are different from ordinary people.

"Okay." Situ Jian sighed, "Then let's try the range of the sword first."

He looked around, then chose a direction, pointed to the hillside on the other side and said, "Junior brother, you stand here and fly the sword to the opposite hillside."

"Okay!" Mo Hua nodded.

He then recalled the method of "Controlling the Sword" in the Broken Gold Sword Controlling Art, and began to operate his spiritual consciousness to control the old spirit sword.

The method of controlling the sword is a special method of "controlling objects".

Controlling ink with spiritual consciousness is also considered controlling objects.

However, controlling ink is about the complexity and flexibility of the spiritual consciousness.

And controlling the sword with spiritual consciousness is about instantaneous strong pressure and extremely fast flying sword.

But as long as it is a method of spiritual consciousness, it is not a difficult task for Mo Hua.

No matter how difficult it is to control the sword with spiritual consciousness, it cannot be compared with the calculation of the heavenly secrets and the unpredictable calculation of the heavenly secrets in the spiritual consciousness method.

Mo Hua began to control the sword.

He concentrated his mind, held his breath, released his spiritual consciousness, and "grasped" the worn-out spiritual sword in front of him, achieving complete "control of the object".

Then he glanced at the hillside opposite, and his spiritual consciousness suddenly strengthened and flowed at a high speed, giving the spiritual sword a strong potential energy.

Then a golden light flashed.

Situ Jian only heard a "whoosh" sound, and the sword light in front of him flickered, drawing a golden line, flashing and disappearing, and then the spiritual sword disappeared.

He didn't even react to what happened.

Too fast...

Situ Jian looked at the opposite hillside, his expression a little dazed.

"Where's the sword?"

It was clearly flying towards the opposite hillside, how come the sword is gone?

Situ Jian looked far away, and suddenly his expression was slightly shocked.

There was a forest behind the hillside.

This sword...

seemed to have flown over the hillside and disappeared into the opposite forest.

"No way..."

Situ Jian suppressed his surprise, performed a body technique, and arrived at the opposite forest in a few flashes. He released his spiritual sense and searched for a while, and indeed found a spiritual sword embedded in the forest.

The spiritual sword was worn out and rusty, and it was the broken sword of the junior brother.

Situ Jian looked back and estimated the distance, and a storm surged in his heart.

This is estimated to be...

One hundred and seventy or eighty feet? !

Situ Jian's scalp was numb, and he couldn't believe it.

This junior brother of his is a pervert.

Is it reasonable to fly a sword for 170 to 80 feet in the middle stage of foundation building?

Situ Jian sighed, picked up the broken sword, returned to Mo Hua, and couldn't help asking:

"Little brother, how strong is your consciousness?"

Mo Hua said vaguely: "It's just... the consciousness of the middle stage of foundation building, maybe a little bit stronger, after all, I am a formation master, drawing formations every day."

Situ Jian was in a complicated mood.

Your "little bit" is probably a bit too strong.

He and Mo Hua are from the same sect and live in the same disciple. They are considered to be together day and night. He also knew that Mo Hua's consciousness was strong, but he never expected that it could be so strong.

No wonder the little brother can learn the formation so well.

No wonder Mr. Xun appointed him as the "little brother" in the formation.

Situ Jian didn't get to the bottom of it.

Because everyone's cultivation talent is different, the little brother's blood and spiritual power are so weak, but he can be admitted to Taixu Sect. In other aspects, he must have outstanding qualities.

Just like some people are born with strong blood, some people are born with good spiritual roots, and some people are born with high talent for swordsmanship.

Junior Brother may be born with strong spiritual consciousness.

Situ Jian did not learn formations, did not cultivate spiritual consciousness, was not sensitive to the realm of spiritual consciousness, and did not quite understand what this meant.

He was more shocked by another thing:

"Junior Brother, the distance of your flying sword... has not decayed?"

Mo Hua was stunned, thought for a while, and nodded slowly:

"It seems to be..."

His current spiritual consciousness is at the peak of the seventeenth pattern, just a little short of the eighteenth pattern.

And the distance of flying the sword seems to be just stuck between 170 feet and 180 feet, which is the limit of his spiritual consciousness.

The distance of the spiritual consciousness is just the distance of flying the sword.

There is no decay at all.

Mo Hua thought about it for a while, and understood it in his heart.

The spiritual consciousness has changed!

Because of the qualitative change of spiritual consciousness, the spiritual consciousness is extremely tenacious and the load it carries is also high, so the distance of flying the sword will not decay.

Mo Hua's eyes lit up.

This means that the attack range of his flying sword is likely to be nearly twice as far as that of ordinary sword cultivators.

This is still compared with the same level of spiritual consciousness.

If it is compared with sword cultivators of the same level of cultivation, it may be even farther.

Situ Jian was stunned and lost his mind, and then exclaimed: "Little Senior Brother, you should also be considered a genius in swordsmanship..."

Then he felt something was wrong, so he corrected:

"You should be considered a genius in "flying the sword."

Because little senior brother is only good at flying the sword.

Apart from this, the attainments of swordsmanship, especially sword energy, are not worth mentioning at all...

Situ Jian sighed and said with deep regret:

"It's a pity, little senior brother, you fly the sword fast and far, you are a natural "flying the sword" genius, but if you don't cultivate sword energy, your sword has no power at all..."

Situ Jian sighed again.

You can only fly the sword, but there is no sword energy.

It's like a spear master, with unparalleled spear skills, but without a "spear head", he can't kill people.

It's such a waste of talent.

Situ Jian looked regretful.

Mo Hua smiled and said: "It's okay, I'm not a sword cultivator, I'm just practicing for fun..."

Thank you Huang Xiaolou and Qingcha Youxiang Yuwei Changliu for the reward~

I will add more today, but it may be a little later, probably before 10 pm~

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