Chapter 29 Flowing Clouds and Flowing Waters
"Seeing him like this, I felt guilty. After all, it was me who framed him."
"So when he asked me to practice swordplay with him, I naturally risked my life to accompany him."
"But later I found out that on weekdays, the eldest brother practiced martial arts on the top of the Jade Maiden Peak. He practiced swordplay day and night and spent most of the day there."
"The Cliff of Repentance is right at the top of the Jade Maiden Peak. Being confined in the Cliff of Repentance is like going home for him. It has no deterrent effect at all."
Upon hearing this, Yue Lingshan burst into laughter, and tears came out of her eyes.
"So you framed Senior Brother and ended up getting yourself in jail."
Linghu Chong sighed deeply, looking as if he couldn't bear to think back on the past.
"Since the eldest brother is so persistent, and you can't escape, you should just practice martial arts seriously with him. This will not only improve your swordsmanship, but also reduce trouble."
Yue Lingshan clapped her hands.
"Who knows? Maybe one day, you'll get wise and your sword skills will improve greatly. You'll be able to turn the tables and defeat Senior Brother!"
"I don't want to practice martial arts with him. That guy is so boring. He only practices sword fighting all day long."
Linghu Chong complained.
"I spend my free time every day practicing sword and qigong at Siguo Cliff."
"He is so old-fashioned, like an old man. I am afraid I will be suffocated if I stay with him for a while."
"Old-fashioned and hardworking, a lot like dad."
Yue Lingshan murmured.
"Indeed, sometimes, in front of my eldest brother, I feel like my master is in front of me." Linghu Chong said speechlessly, "That guy is obviously about the same age as me. I don't know how he developed such an old-fashioned temper. It's really annoying."
Hearing Linghu Chong's harsh words, Yue Lingshan's face changed, she glared at Linghu Chong and said angrily,
"Don't say bad things about Senior Brother. After all, Senior Brother is doing this for our own good."
"Yes, yes, yes! The eldest brother is the best! Just a rag doll, the second brother is thrown aside." Linghu Chong said with jealousy. "Obviously, he often makes you angry, but you never get angry with him."
Different from Linghu Chong who played with Yue Lingshan every day, Jin Renfeng never played around with Yue Lingshan and was busy practicing every day.
Moreover, he never tolerated Yue Lingshan's various naughty behaviors.
Once discovered, they will be advised. If the person does not change after the advice, they will go to the master's wife and report him to the master without any mercy.
It was because of this behavior that Yue Lingshan was often punished and sometimes even beaten.
But Yue Lingshan never resented Jin Renfeng.
"I treat my senior brother as my brother, so naturally I don't want to annoy him." Yue Lingshan said softly.
In fact, her attitude towards Jin Renfeng is quite complicated.
On weekdays, Jin Renfeng was very kind to her and often bought her snacks, toys, fruits and beautiful clothes.
Jin Renfeng didn't spend a penny of the pocket money his parents gave him. He spent it all on her.
As a result, he was short of money and didn't even buy new clothes all year round.
Although the blue shirt was clean, it was tattered and had many patches on it.
If it weren't for the New Year holidays, his mother would have been so upset that she would have made him a new set, making him look like a beggar.
Judging from all this, Jin Renfeng is obviously a very good person.
But he is harsh and strict with himself.
As a result, Yue Lingshan has a love-hate relationship with this senior brother.
. . . . . .
After returning from Chaoyang Peak, Jin Renfeng went up to the Cliff of Repentance alone.
This cliff is where the disciples of Huashan Sect were imprisoned and punished after breaking the rules. There is no grass on the cliff, not even a tree, and nothing except a cave. The founder of Huashan Sect used this dangerous cliff as a place to punish his disciples because there were no grass, no trees, no insects, and no birds. When the disciples were facing the wall to reflect on their mistakes, they would not be disturbed by external things and their minds would be distracted.
Therefore, this is also an excellent place to practice qigong.
Since he usually lives on the top of the Jade Maiden Peak, he is already familiar with everything on the cliff.
Placing the cushion on a flat boulder, Jin Renfeng sat cross-legged on it and began to practice Qigong and regulate his internal breath.
After four years of practice, the aura in his body has already changed into a completely different state.
In the Dantian, the internal energy is extremely strong and is transported through the mind method, like mercury flowing throughout the veins of the whole body.
Jin Renfeng is gifted with extraordinary talents. He practices internal skills and is better than others in ten days. After practicing Huashan internal skills for four years, his internal strength has improved by leaps and bounds.
Four years of practice is better than forty years of hard practice for ordinary people.
With just the internal strength accumulated over forty years, Jin Renfeng is now capable of becoming a top-notch talent.
However, as his skills became more advanced, his bottlenecks began to emerge.
After reaching the top level, each step upward becomes increasingly difficult.
Fortunately, Quanzhen internal energy is the authentic internal energy of Xuanmen, which has no end and can still make progress every day.
However, his internal strength is now very strong, and the internal strength gained from daily practice is just a drop in the bucket.
Just like a stream flowing into the sea, it increases every day but you can't feel it.
This is also the limitation of Huashan internal strength, or Quanzhen Heart Method, which makes progress slow.
Today, Huashan's internal strength is gradually failing to catch up with Jin Renfeng's speed of practice.
After meditating and practicing Qi for an hour, Jin Renfeng stood up, drew out his sword and practiced swordsmanship.
After days and nights of hard training, he has now mastered the Huashan swordsmanship to a great extent.
He memorized all the moves, techniques, and tips of Huashan swordsmanship.
Even his physical body can instinctively perform various sword moves easily, which can be said to be engraved into his bones.
However, at this point, he had reached the limit of Huashan swordsmanship.
If it were someone else, they would naturally be trapped in this situation. Because they don't know the right method, they can only hone their sword skills and experience, but their martial arts will not improve at all.
However, Jin Renfeng has the memories of a time traveler.
He had a clear idea of the direction of his future sword practice and progress.
In Jin Renfeng's eyes, he has now reached the end of his skills. If he wants to break free from the limitations of Huashan swordsmanship, he must naturally move towards the direction of having no skills.
Although he has not yet learned the Dugu Nine Swords, he can comprehend the techniques and artistic conception of the technique without any moves on his own.
On the Cliff of Repentance, Jin Renfeng stopped practicing Huashan swordsmanship and began to think about how to take apart the various sword moves and connect them together one by one.
If you want to reach the state of no moves, you must first make good use of sword moves.
In the past, when there were sword moves, each move had a certain order. Even though there were more changes in the moves, the sword paths were roughly the same.
What Jin Renfeng has to do now is to break those fixed sword paths one by one, practice again, and become able to move fluently and freely.
You can use sword moves at will and respond flexibly, thus creating your own sword path and expanding your sword skills.
In this way, the Huashan swordsmanship that had reached its end before is equivalent to starting a new journey and taking it to the next level.
After figuring out the way, Jin Renfeng tightened the sword in his hand and naturally used the "Phoenix Arrives". Before the sword moves became old, it had already turned into "Golden Goose Across the Sky". The sword passed over his head, hooked and raised, and lightly turned into the "Intercepting Hand Style". At the turn, it was seamless, and then the endless falling leaves and the green pines welcoming guests were also used one by one.
Dozens of Huashan sword techniques can be combined and connected at will in Jin Renfeng's hands, thus generating countless sword paths and sword techniques.
(End of this chapter)
