Half-life immortal

Chapter 22 The Mystery of Sword and Dance, the Runaway Puppet

Boy Bai Yu was stunned, and said: "Master, let's rest today, it's okay to miss a day of practice."

Xue Qinglan shook her head and said, "That's not okay, I started later than others, and if I sleep too late, I'll be even worse."

After finishing speaking, she pulled herself together, activated the Wuxiang Mantra, picked up the new sword, and reviewed the basic sword moves taught by Feng Yutian today, realizing the gains from the whole day's practice, and then tried to practice light sword moves again. Spirit Sword Dance.

"No, it's still wrong. With the sword intent, it's still not good." She put away the sword and began to think hard again.Originally, she thought that what she lacked was a sword, so she deliberately learned the basics of swordsmanship from Feng Yutian.Although she only practiced for one day, she gained a lot. She thought it would be different to perform the Light Sword Dance again, but she still didn't feel that way.What is she missing?
Seeing her distress, Boy Yu also thought about it, and said, "I don't know how that dancer created this sword technique. I don't believe that she worked harder than the master."

Xue Qinglan's eyes lit up, and she said, "That's right! I got it!"

Boy Bai Yu looked bewildered, and said, "What what?"

While thinking about it, she said: "Qingling Sword Dance, you will know it as soon as you hear the name. Sword Dance, Sword Dance, there are swords and dances, and I have swords but no dance, so naturally I can't get the essence of it! The requirements of this set of swordsmanship That is, not only to learn the sword, but also to learn to dance."

"Learning to dance?" Boy Yu Bai was even more confused. What is the relationship between learning to sword and learning to dance?
Xue Qinglan didn't expect him to figure it out, so she urged, "Xiaobai, besides those exercises and secret books, are there any miscellaneous books in Taiqing Mountain?"

Boy Bai Yu thought for a while, and said: "There is a 'Taiqing Market' at the foot of Tianshu Peak Mountain, which is a transit point for internal and external sects, as long as you want to buy things, there is a second-hand bookstore, which is very large. It covers almost everything, and many ordinary disciples like to go there to search for books."

"Great!" Xue Qinglan cheered, "Xiaobai, go over there and help me see if there are any books about dance, any book is fine, and it would be even better if there are some introductions to dance. Help me find it back, go quickly."

Boy Bai Yu had no choice but to obey the master's instructions, and hurried to go before it was dark, and Xue Qinglan used this rare time to start practicing Tianyin Xuanshui mental method and water Taoism.

About an hour later, Boy Bai Yu came back with a stack of books. There were more than a dozen of them, which were exactly the dance books that Xue Qinglan needed most.

She hugged happily and started reading. She has never been exposed to dancing before, but it doesn’t mean she has no talent. On the contrary, she is smart and learns things quickly, and dancing is not a difficult stunt. At least it is much easier than practicing swords. .

After practicing the dance in the middle of the night, and then practicing the mental skills and resting in the middle of the night, she came to Tianxuan Peak on time at dawn the next day to continue practicing swordsmanship.But the strange thing is that Feng Yutian is not here today.

"Little boy, where did Feng Yutian go?" She was not used to calling him senior brother, so she just called him by his first name.

The little boy shook his head and said, "The master never lets me follow when he goes out, but the master has explained that the puppet is in the inner courtyard. If Miss Xue comes, he can go to the inner courtyard to practice by himself."

"Oh...that's fine." Since Feng Yutian had made all the arrangements, she didn't feel comfortable asking too much about his personal affairs, so she went to the inner courtyard to practice against the puppet.

After practicing, she felt that it was too boring to just stand still and swing the sword at the puppet, so she combined the dance steps and the lightness of the dance that she had practiced last night, and moved around the puppet with red dots all over her body. Use basic sword moves.Strange to say, after she moved, she practiced more and more smoothly, the whole movement became more and more coherent, and the sword moves became faster and faster, and the basic nine moves were quickly mastered in her hands.

If there are any deficiencies, it is that the accuracy is still a bit poor, and if you can't hit the sword evenly, there will inevitably be deviations, and the speed is not fast enough.Feng Yutian said that women's swords should be light and flexible, so they must be fast, not only fast, but also know how to change...

She was picking up on her faults in her heart, but she didn't expect that the puppet, which had been frozen all this time, would suddenly move, and it would pick up the wooden sword in her hand and strike at Xue Qinglan.

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa—"

Xue Qinglan screamed in fright, how could she have imagined that the puppet would move so suddenly and be chased around the yard immediately.

Feng Yutian said yesterday that the puppet can move, but it's not so fast, right?And why so suddenly?Do puppets need to be controlled by humans?Feng Yutian is not here!Is there a mistake?

She was flustered at first, but she calmed down quickly, thinking that this is a puppet specially used for practice, and it should not have much ability. Although there seems to be an accident, it is still a good training opportunity, right?Think of it as a rehearsal in advance, and see how many tricks you can do with the moving puppet?

Thinking of this, she no longer ran around, but used basic sword moves to deal with the puppet.Sure enough, under the pressure of actual combat, her swordsmanship increased at an astonishing speed, and she quickly became proficient in the slightly unfamiliar sword moves. The original jerky and stagnantness disappeared in the face of the pressure of life and death. went.

It's just that she didn't notice her great progress at all, and she focused all her energy on this super resistant stinky puppet.I have to say that although the setting of this puppet is not strong, its skin is so thick!Think about it, Xue Qinglan hacked it for a whole day without leaving a scratch, even Feng Yutian has practiced it for many years and has experienced countless swords and swords, how can such a weak sword like Xue Qinglan Could be affecting it?

"Help!!"

She fought with the puppet for a while, and felt that her only fate would be to exhaust her energy and be hacked to death by the puppet.

Sadly, Feng Yutian's small courtyard was already secluded, and there were no other disciples around, so her cry for help could only call two boys.But the two boys were still relatively shallow, not even as good as her. They were terrified to see the puppet out of control, and their screams were louder than hers.

"Ah——help——!" This is the scream of the little boy.

"Master, run—I—I will run with you too—!" Boy Bai Yu was somewhat loyal, but what he said made Xue Qinglan slander her.

What's the use of you saying you run with me too?Go and restrain the puppet?

She really wanted to complain like this, but she didn't have the time at all, so she should use her physical strength to escape.

So the three of them ran around in the small courtyard as puppets, regardless of whether they smashed the furniture or the tree, the sound of sword dancing, thumping the ground, and the sound of ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, etc. , quite a bit of a sense of chicken and dog jumping.

Before the small courtyard was completely destroyed, it got dark and Feng Yutian, who had gone out, also returned.

As soon as he came back, he saw a scene that surprised him: Xue Qinglan was having fun with the two boys and the copper puppets, chasing and fighting in the small courtyard...

But how did the puppet move?He remembered that before he left, he had set that if Xue Qinglan's swordsmanship did not reach a certain standard, the copper puppet would not activate on its own.

He didn't have time to think about it, in order to save the few trees in the small courtyard, he rushed to stop the puppet.

Xue Qinglan and the others saw him yell, squeeze out some kind of talisman in his hand, and then punch it into the puppet's back. The puppet immediately froze in place and resumed its standing posture.

"What's the matter?" He asked Xue Qinglan and the others suspiciously.

Xue Qinglan and the two boys had fled for a long time, and at this moment they were so exhausted that they supported their knees with their hands and gasped for breath, and no one had the energy to answer him.Especially the chubby boy Bai Yu, sweating profusely, as if dehydrated, almost rolled his eyes.At least this kind of exercise will consume a few pounds of his fat, and maybe it can help him lose weight or something.

Xue Qinglan still has relatively good stamina. After resting for a while, she finally straightened out her breath, rolled her eyes at Feng Yutian, and said, "It's not all about you as a puppet. I practiced well according to the sword moves you taught yesterday. As a result, this guy suddenly moved, chasing me and beating me wildly. Its skin is so thick, how can I beat him! If you can’t beat him, you can only run away! Fortunately, you came back quickly, otherwise this guy might kill him. Your house was demolished."

He looked at the three of them, but luckily none of them were injured, so he regained his doubts and asked, "This... did you do something to it?"

Xue Qinglan wiped the sweat from her head, and said, "What else can I do to it? Isn't it just chopping it with a sword. By the way, what is your puppet made of? Hundreds of thousands of times without a single scratch?"

Feng Yutian couldn't figure out what was going on, logically Xue Qinglan's swordsmanship was far from the standard for activating a puppet, why did the puppet start moving today?

He was not sure, and answered her words while thinking: "It is made of special materials, and its biggest feature is tenacity. No matter how exquisite your sword skills are, if your sword doesn't use aura, it can't hurt it at all. How you hit it before to make it move, do it again."

Xue Qinglan immediately made a bitter face, and said, "Huh? Now?" She was about to say that she was already half dead from exhaustion, but seeing Feng Yutian's persistence, she didn't seem to give up without getting to the bottom of it, so she had to pick it up again. Jian, asked cautiously: "Are you sure it won't move again?"

"I'm here." He said flatly, but his words showed infinite confidence.

After hearing this, she decided in her heart: what she said is true, with him around, so what if the puppet moves again?
She calmed down a little and moved her body, as if preparing to fight the puppet another three hundred times.In fact, these movements are unnecessary. Under the calming effect of the Wuxiang Zhenjing, no matter how lively she looks, her heart is as calm as water, and she is always in a fighting state. .

Picking up the sword again, she entered the state almost instantly, combining dance and sword, and performing basic sword moves around the puppet.Using the basic sword moves again this time, she obviously felt different, it seemed to be more coherent, and the jerky feeling completely disappeared.

Feng Yutian looked very surprised, although she was using basic sword moves, but her movement and the strength of her sword moves were completely different from yesterday, making people look like... dancing?It's just that dancing is generally not fast, but she draws the sword extremely fast, combining the speed of the sword with the slowness of the dance, it's no wonder that the puppet thinks that her swordsmanship has reached the standard.

Sure enough, she stabbed dozens of swords, and the puppet responded, swinging the sword in her hand towards her.

Feng Yutian just wanted to stop the puppet, but Xue Qinglan wasn't surprised at all. Facing the puppet's sudden stabbing sword, she sideways dodged lightly, and then flipped the opponent's sword away with her backhand. The whole movement was very smooth, and the sword was like her arm The extension is general.

"Huh?" He was slightly surprised, and stopped the movement of his hands, continuing to look at it.

After the puppet moved, Xue Qinglan's movements became more agile. If her movements were a little stiff because her opponent didn't move, now she really came alive.Although in Feng Yutian's eyes, her movements are still too immature, but they are very different from ordinary beginners.

Xue Qinglan saw that Feng Yutian didn't stop the puppet, or he wanted to test her level, so she continued to deal with the puppet calmly.Anyway, the person who can stop the puppet this time is right next to him, so he won't exhaust his energy and be hacked to death by the puppet, right?
It's just that she exhausted too much physical strength after all, and her movements slowed down after a while.Seeing this, Feng Yutian stopped the puppet in time, looked at her strangely, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Thinking of the way Master taught him, he still decided not to encourage her too much for the time being, lest she be complacent: "Well... your body skills are very strange, but your sword skills are far from reaching the standard of perfect foundation, just because Your sword is lighter and moves faster, so the puppet misjudged that you have a certain level. Tomorrow I will adjust the puppet to suit your situation."

Xue Qinglan wasn't too disappointed when she heard it. She thought it was the puppet that was out of control. She never thought that she had reached the standard after two days of practice, and she was curious about something else:

"Huh...huh...Speaking of which, you have been out for so long today, what are you doing?"

Feng Yutian shook his head slightly, and said, "It has nothing to do with you."

The more he concealed it like this, the more curious Xue Qinglan became, and she guessed wildly: "Could it be that he is swimming with other junior sisters?"

He was taken aback for a moment, then he couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "Don't make random guesses."

Xue Qinglan stuck out her tongue at him, and said, "If I don't say it, can't I guess in my heart? Hmph, it's definitely not good to be sneaky."

He said helplessly: "It's already dark, why don't you go back?"

Xue Qinglan lowered her head, tapped the ground with her toes, and said, "But if you don't tell me, I won't be able to sleep well. People are very curious, so I really can't tell? Could it be that Uncle Ziyuan is looking for you?"

"No. But if you don't go back, you will sleep on Tianxuan Peak."

She was a little reconciled, but she nodded reluctantly and said: "Okay, I'm going back, you should be careful of your puppets."

After she went back, she practiced dancing and kung fu as usual, and her life became very tight, but the next day she got up much earlier than usual, and arrived at Tianxuan Peak before dawn, and took Bai Yutong to hide behind a tree.

"Master, what are we going to do?" Boy Yu Bai was puzzled and asked in a low voice.

Xue Qinglan made a silent gesture to him, and said, "I want to see which pretty senior sister Feng Yutian is dating. Hmph, trying to hide this from Miss Ben? Miss Ben is such an easy fool ?"

(End of this chapter)