Chapter 316 Midnight Appointment

After Hu Zi finished speaking, he wiped away his previous sluggishness and became vigorous again. After taking a deep breath, he stood in horse stance under the waterfall again.

Looking at Hu Zi's appearance, I couldn't help but feel dumb.

"Hu Zi's personality... is indeed very suitable for practicing Pao Zhen's knife."

The knife is a weapon that breaks courage. People who use the knife must have a spirit of courage and forge ahead, even if there are thousands of people, I will go.

Especially the knife skills of the Pao family, when the knife is drawn, it is necessary to have a great spirit of "even if you are a god in the sky, I can chop you down with one knife."

If a person is always dragged down by the past, then when the knife is drawn, he will not be able to move forward and be focused.

Pao Zhen is the best example.

He is a genius. Although he is not as talented as his younger brother Pao Lei, he is also very outstanding.

Unfortunately, since the incident ten years ago, Pao Zhen's sword skills have not improved. Otherwise, with his qualifications, he would have figured out his own unique moves long ago.

And Hu Zi has a characteristic, that is

, he is open-minded. Being open-minded may seem to be belittling a person, but in fact, this kind of mentality is perfect for practicing swordsmanship.

No matter what kind of setbacks you encounter, you can laugh it off, and you won't have a root of disease in your heart because of something. Such people have the purest mentality and can draw their swords faster!

"Even Hu Zi has found the direction he is working towards, so where is my direction? Am I going to become a living ghost?"

I took a deep breath and slowly walked to the waterfall.

At this moment, the flowing water of the waterfall was like a mirror, reflecting my figure.

It was a face that was carved by a knife and axe, with clear edges and corners. Although he was only eighteen years old, he didn't look childish at all.

"Do I even have stubble?" I raised my hand and touched my chin, then shook my head and smiled bitterly. Then, I thought about the knife that Pao Zhen chopped yesterday.

That knife didn't have any fancy moves, just a simple unsheathing of the knife and then a single cut.

"That knife move should be the starting move that all knife practitioners know, but when Pao Zhen used it, it could exert such a great power. It's incredible."

After meditating on Pao Zhen's posture and force-generating techniques several times in my mind, my eyes suddenly focused, and then I raised my hand and grasped the handle of the knife.

"Cut!"

With a low shout from me, I heard a "swish" sound, and the Zhanling Knife was smoothly unsheathed, and then a light blue knife light was cut out by me.

I thought I had done this knife move perfectly, whether it was the force-generating technique or the force and angle when cutting, I had achieved a one-to-one high imitation.

But damn, the knife light that was cut out was too different.

The knife light that Pao Zhen cut out was extremely dazzling, and with one knife out, it was like a waterfall.

The light of my sword... was like a firefly in the dark night, so tiny, and after it chopped into the waterfall, it was like a drop in the ocean, not even a wave was raised.

"Master!" I cursed loudly, and even Hu Zi beside me couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Qian Yu, compared with the sword of my master yesterday, your sword is just a fart. How can this one be so small!"

"Fuck you!" I cursed Hu Zi.

When I swung the knife, Pao Zhen opened his eyes. Seeing that I was a little discouraged, he said, "Very good, not bad. It's rare that you can show such power the first time you swing the knife. However, you are just imitating me. If you do this, you will definitely get immediate results in the early stage, but you won't go far. What you need to do is to forget the knife I swung, and then use your heart to feel the knife in your hand. Once you truly achieve the unity of man and knife, then you will succeed."

"The unity of man and knife?" I looked at the Zhanling Knife on my waist, then shook my head with a bitter smile.

The Zhanling Knife was already giving me face by being unsheathed, but I got this at the cost of having my blood sucked by it once a month. If it was the unity of man and knife, wouldn't it suck me dry?

I took a deep breath and then closed my eyes again.

This time, I didn't think about the knife that Pao Zhen had chopped off. Instead, I gently stroked the handle with my palm and carefully felt the Soul-Slaying Knife.

I didn't know how long I had been stroking it like this. Suddenly, I seemed to feel a trace of... the Soul-Slaying Knife's emotional fluctuations.

And the Soul-Slaying Knife, as if responding to me, actually trembled with a 'hum'.

"Is this... because it sucked blood yesterday, so it has established a connection with me?"

I had this kind of connection before. It was in the Xu family mansion, when I faced the second master Xu and those hundred-year-old zombies. However, this emotion only appeared for a very short moment at that time.

But even so, it made me briefly enter a mysterious state.

Now that I think about it, that state should be what Pao Zhen called the unity of man and sword.

The next moment, my eyes suddenly focused, and I drew my sword out of its sheath again.

This time, I did not use Qi, but simply drew the sword out of its sheath, and then swung it.

Although the action is not as smooth as flowing water, it is also done in one go.

After the Zanling was unsheathed, it made a trembling "hum" sound, and I sheathed the sword again, and then drew the sword again, swung the sword...

For the whole afternoon, I stood in front of the waterfall, doing one action towards the waterfall.

That is to draw the sword out of its sheath, and then swing the sword.

I know that my qualifications in swordsmanship cannot be compared with Pao Zhen, and even compared with Hu Zi, there is a big gap.

In this case, I can only make up for my shortcomings with hard work.

I swung the sword thousands of times throughout the afternoon, and by the end, my entire right arm began to ache.

But I didn't stop, and continued to draw the sword and swing it.

I wanted to integrate this action into my bones and turn it into my instinct.

And I had to draw the sword as quickly as possible, so that the enemy had no time to react, and I could just draw the sword and kill him.

After swinging the sword hundreds of times, it was getting dark, and Pao Zhen suddenly stood up, looked at me and Hu Zi, and then said, "That's all for today, let's go back."

"Yes, sir!" Hu Zi couldn't bear it any longer. After hearing what Pao Zhen said, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been pardoned.

Ling'er had prepared the meal and was waiting for us. When she saw us coming back, she hurriedly set the dishes and chopsticks, and then set up a wooden barrel and started to boil water.

"Dad, the medicinal bath is ready." Ling'er said.

"Yes." Pao Zhen nodded, then looked at Hu Zi and said, "After dinner, you go soak in the wooden barrel for an hour."

"Oh." Hu Zi responded, then looked at the wooden barrel reluctantly.

I was puzzled by this. I thought that taking a medicinal bath is a good thing. It can not only quickly restore physical strength, but also strengthen the body and expel impurities in the body. Why does Hu Zi look unhappy?

Hu Zi seemed to see through my doubts, so he came over and whispered, "Qian Yu, you don't know, the medicinal bath is very hot, as if it was on fire. I only took a half-hour bath last night, and I felt so hot that I felt like I was on fire. I suffered so much."

I laughed when I heard that, and just as I was about to say something, Pao Zhen knocked on the table and said, "Don't talk while eating, don't talk while sleeping, eat."

We both fell silent immediately and started to eat.

After dinner, Hu Zi started to take the medicinal bath. My training intensity was not necessary, so I went back to the room, got two boxes of yogurt for Xiao Qi, and then sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to meditate on the scene of myself drawing a sword and swinging a sword in my mind.

I simulated the scenes of drawing the sword and then swinging it over and over in my mind. I kept meditating like this for several hours until I heard Hu Zi's snoring in my ears, and then I came to my senses.

"Hey, it's getting late, it's time to find Xiao Fei." Xiao Qi stood on my shoulder and said to me, "If you don't go tonight, Xiao Fei will be angry."

"I know." I nodded, put on my clothes and walked out of the room, and then I found that Pao Zhen was waiting outside the door.

"Uncle Pao." I lowered my voice and greeted Pao Zhen. .

"Well, let's go." Pao Zhen nodded, and then the two of us quickly walked towards the waterfall.