strictlysupreme Chapter 188: Learning martial arts is not easy
Chapter 188: Learning martial arts is not easy
"I don't understand why I am the only one in my family who is special. I want to learn martial arts and be like everyone else in Hengjian Villa, drawing my sword and taking revenge."
Yue Tianci was dejected, "Sister said I was not born suitable for it, but I couldn't persist in memorizing it..."
Lou Xiao picked up the cake crumbs on her fingertips and said, "If you can't even persist in memorizing, how can you possibly endure the hardship of practicing martial arts?"
She seemed to be mocking, "You don't think you can be the best in the world just by playing with the sword casually, do you?"
Yue Tianci was naturally not that naive, and waved his hands hurriedly, "No, no, no, I know practicing martial arts is very tiring, I have seen people practicing martial arts in Hengjian Villa.
I'm sure I won't be as good as you no matter how hard I try, and it's too late to learn martial arts at my age...
But even just listening to other people’s stories makes me happy.”
He asked Lou Xiao with a smile, "How can I be as powerful as you? Miss Lou's master must also be a master, right?"
Lou Xiao stopped eating and thought of the deceased old man, "My master is indeed a master."
She leaned over and asked him, "Want to know how I practiced?"
Yue Tianci nodded desperately like a chick pecking at rice. She chuckled and closed her eyes.
The breeze rustled the leaves, and the half-dried leaves fluttered down.
Lou Xiao didn't move. She just held the cake with two fingers and pinched them back. The leaves fell silently into her hands.
Yue Tianci blinked, but saw that this was not over yet.
She picked up the leaf with her fingers and flicked it behind her. The soft leaf pierced into the tree trunk not far behind them like a hidden weapon.
The trees shook as if struck by a great blow, and their leaves fell densely.
As the wind rose, she who was sitting in front of Yue Tianci moved.
She still had her eyes closed, dancing with the fallen leaves, her long sleeves rolling up every leaf, refusing to let them fall.
Slowly, a circle of rules was formed with her as the center.
The fallen leaves danced with her movements, not a single one fell to the ground, they floated around as if guided by someone and gathered together.
She seemed to hear someone coming, and the fallen leaves followed her instructions and flew towards Xiao Zhengdu, who had changed his clothes and was walking towards her.
The fallen leaves stabbed in front of his eyes like knives, but under Xiao Zhengdu's calm gaze, they shattered and collapsed one by one, and finally fell to the ground.
Crushed into powder.
Lou Xiao opened her eyes and smiled, "You came quietly, what do you want to do?"
With that young boy Yue Tianci here, why can’t he come?
"If I hadn't come, how could I have seen such a beautiful scenery?" Xiao Zhengdu said eloquently, not mentioning the shock that the scene just now brought to him.
If it weren't for him, what would the fallen leaves look like when they touched a person?
Lou Xiao, how far has it come?
Yue Tianci didn't know the identities of the two people yet, and when he saw Xiao Zhengdu, he just stood up and performed the student's etiquette.
Then he turned around and praised sincerely, "The heroine is so amazing."
"You didn't understand anything, and you say you're amazing?" Lou Xiao sat back down on the fallen leaves that had turned into powder, and Xiao Zhengdu also sat down next to her.
She stretched out her hand and looked at her palm, as if recalling the past, “Practicing martial arts is not just about knowing the moves.
You also need to practice and amplify your perception, and push the limits of your body.
When you can notice and respond to every little movement and change around you in the first time, and your perception of the world exceeds that of ordinary people, then you have entered the door.
It needs to be practiced day after day, year after year, in absolute physical and mental peace."
Just like when she was a child, she stood on the top of the misty mountain, facing the mountains, grass, stars and nightingales alone.
Close your eyes and you can picture everything in your mind.
The rustling of leaves, the crawling of insects in the grass, and the flapping of the wings of a nightingale.
She was almost defeated by loneliness, as if she had become a tree or a flower on the mountain.
You don’t have to think about or do anything, just sway with the wind and watch the clouds rise and fall in the sky, and the rain and snow falling.
Whenever I felt lost, I would be awakened by my master using a bamboo pole to hit me.
Is it bitter?
Complain?
But this is the path she chose.
When she woke up in her body, the only person she had to face was her master. Maybe when she got down the mountain, she could live an ordinary life like all the ordinary people in this world.
She stayed here on her own to learn martial arts.
Even though she had to face the hardship of living in the misty mountains and the loneliness that no one could tell her story to, she felt the pain but never cried.
Master said that only when you are in extraordinary situations can you develop extraordinary abilities.
The master is very good, but he is old.
She was alone on the mountain all year round. She used to talk to the birds and trees, and to herself. When she felt that she could not hold on any longer and was about to have a mental breakdown,
The senior sister walked out from the clouds on the mountainside, her body covered with water vapor, like the green pine on the other side of the mountain facing the rising sun, never bowing its head.
That's what she wanted to be.
A mountain girl who was almost driven crazy by loneliness met an eagle who was taking a break from the cruel struggle of the royal family.
The eagle told her about the vastness of the sky, led her to find inner consistency, and taught her to achieve true peace.
"When your state of mind is not good enough, no matter how good your martial arts are, you will end up going astray."
Lou Xiao thought a lot and sighed, "But most people who practice martial arts are competitive and their state of mind is not the most important thing. If it is just to strengthen the body, there is no need to think too much about it."
Yue Tianci seemed to understand, but not quite. The martial arts world in his eyes was different from what she described.
How can the state of mind be important in learning martial arts? Isn't it weapons, moves, and strength?
But she does look amazing...
Yue Tianci nodded and said, "The most important thing is to have a good master."
He really has no understanding.
Lou Xiao held her face and snatched the peeled walnut kernels from Xiao Zhengdu's hand.
"Yes, Master will urge you to practice martial arts before dawn every day, rain or shine, and if you make a mistake, he will beat you with a stick."
She laughed and said, "If you read something wrong, you will also be punished, right?"
No matter how unpopular he was, he was still a member of Hengjian Villa. Who would dare to really beat him with a stick?
Yue Tianci even had to be urged by his servant to get up every day. In comparison, studying was indeed much easier than practicing martial arts.
He was originally a little resentful, but he kept silent. Perhaps he really didn't understand his sister's painstaking efforts.
There are countless grudges and hatreds in the martial arts world. No one knows when they will offend someone and provoke a murder.
There are many people who disappear quietly because of their lack of strength, but there is an unwritten rule among the people in the martial arts world that they will not kill scholars.
Perhaps, sister wanted to protect him and that’s why she didn’t allow him to learn martial arts.
Yue Tianci's rebellious period was extinguished, and he felt embarrassed that he had let down his sister.
He made up an excuse, "I, I went back to memorize my lessons!" and stood up in panic.
Lou Xiao nodded, "Okay. Your sister has been waiting for you outside the courtyard gate for a long time."
Xiao Zhengdu glanced at the gate of the courtyard and saw a long stone path, rockery, and half a pond between them. He could not see Er Liu waiting outside at all.
But she just knew.