564: Chapter 101: A Muddy World, Clear-minded People 564: Chapter 101: A Muddy World, Clear-minded People Qi Refinement, Foundation Establishment, Qi Control.
For geniuses, these three major realms do not take much time.
Yet, for the vast majority of cultivators, even with diligent and arduous cultivation, it would take a decade or even dozens of years.
Xie Xuanyi originally thought that “Chu Guo” would be a genius.
But to his surprise.
“Chu Guo” couldn’t even compare to the majority.
Taoyuan Back Mountain, the leaves fluttering in the wind.
The young lad wielded a wooden sword, forcefully chopping at the wooden man dummy, creating crisp sounds.
Xie Xuanyi, pushing his wheelchair, slowly arrived beside Chu Guo.
“You’re half an hour late…
The first wooden dummy tonight is almost chopped down!”
Chu Guo was sweating profusely but stood up straight.
“…”
If this were the previous nights, Xie Xuanyi would probably have encouraged him with a few words.
But tonight, he chose to remain silent.
After some thought, Xie Xuanyi did not speak to the young man, not revealing the harsh reality.
As for others, by now they would have probably chopped down two or three wooden dummies.
If compared to himself…
It was far inferior by tens of thousands of miles.
Zhao Chunyang had set up a hundred wooden dummies in the Lotus Peak dojo when he taught Xie Xuanyi swordsmanship back then, demanding that he knock them all down within three days.
Hitting the wooden dummies is a “lesson” every Sword Palace Disciple must do, before officially starting Qi Refinement and exorcising demons, everyone must face such “dummies”.
Ordinary novice disciples, after practicing hard for six hours a day, could chop down two dummies in an hour.
Those with higher talent.
In an hour, could topple four to five wooden dummies.
These dummies may seem “ordinary”, but in reality, they are imbued with Primordial Energy and are resilient, not something that can be chopped down by mere brute force——
In his youth, Xie Xuanyi didn’t need three days to knock down those hundred wooden dummies.
He didn’t even use one night.
Strolling leisurely, he completed the dojo, and in less than an hour, all the dummies were shattered.
This news shocked the entire Da Sui Sword Palace, no one could believe that a child who had not yet begun cultivating Primordial Energy could, with intuition, draw the sword, and with every strike, precisely and accurately hit the dummies’ “weak points”, dispersing the thin Primordial Energy gathered inside the dummies, using leverage for extra efficiency!
He was indeed a natural-born Sword Immortal Seed.
As for Chu Guo…
Xie Xuanyi had sighed countless times in his heart these past few days.
Was this young lad’s “Imperial Blood” fake?
Even if sealed by the Book Tower, it shouldn’t have fallen to such a state.
In his previous life’s lecture, he had seen too many extraordinarily talented young cultivators come to ask Dao.
The journey of cultivation is long, and the most taboo is to overestimate oneself.
In this regard, Chu Guo did quite well; practicing sword moves and chopping dummies for several days in a row was extremely tedious, yet he did not complain at all.
About sword moves, sword momentum, and other matters, he never inquired even once.
Whatever Xie Xuanyi taught.
He would do.
Teachers all over the world like obedient disciples, and although Chu Guo was a bit “dull,” Xie Xuanyi was extremely patient, accompanying him on the side and continuously giving advice on the movements.
“Tonight, I will practice for two extra hours!
I will surely chop down more!”
Chu Guo’s fighting spirit was high.
[“Very good, very spirited.”]
This may have been what Xie Xuanyi would have said in the previous days.
But tonight.
He again chose to be silent.
Tonight was different from the past—
Xie Xuanyi asked Deng Baiyi to come and fetch him earlier.
It wasn’t because he had lost patience.
But rather, he needed to reassess whether he should teach Chu Guo swordsmanship.
Along the way.
The words Xie Xuanyi had wanted to say had been rehearsed many times in his heart, but thinking of what Deng Baiyi had said before parting, Xie Xuanyi decided to silently observe for a while longer.
This time.
No longer from a “master’s” perspective.
“What’s…
wrong with you?”
Chu Guo sensed something was off.
The atmosphere in the back mountain tonight seemed a bit more serious.
Xie Xuanyi pushed his wheelchair, silently moved behind Chu Guo: “You continue.”
“Okay.”
Chu Guo scratched his head and continued chopping at the wooden dummy.
Xie Xuanyi watched silently.
Over the years, delivering sword strikes directly at weak points had become a habit.
Xie Xuanyi, when looking at people, demons, living creatures, and inanimate objects, only noticed “weak points,” constantly contemplating how to maximize damage should he need to strike the next moment—a habit that made the cultivation of the Rule of Destruction immensely smooth.
At this moment, he tried to discard years of habit and reevaluate each of Chu Guo’s sword strikes.
Gradually, he saw something “different.”
Chu Guo is a Doctor.
Doctors are people who understand the body’s meridians better than anyone else in the world.
Theoretically.
Chopping at dummies with a sword should be quite fast.
Xie Xuanyi’s “fabricated” dummies basically conformed to mundane body traits.
As long as one understood the approximate meridians, they could find the wooden dummies’ weak points and quickly knock them down——
Each of Chu Guo’s sword strikes did indeed land on weak points.
But they weren’t aimed at the “Death Points.”
These past few days, Xie Xuanyi hadn’t taught Chu Guo specific swordsmanship, simply letting him express freely.
His original intention was for Chu Guo to go ahead according to his own thoughts, fully focus on chopping the wooden dummy to first understand what a “sword” is.
But looking at it now.
The “benevolence” brought about by medical practice became the weakness in Chu Guo’s swordsmanship.
“Why not pierce ‘Lianquan’ with this strike?”
After watching for a while, Xie Xuanyi couldn’t help but speak up.
Chu Guo was taken aback.
Looking at where the tip of his wooden sword landed, he said, “Lianquan?”
Xie Xuanyi said: “As a Doctor, you should be clear…
Chengjiang, Tiantu, Lianquan, hitting either one of these acupoints could seal the throat with a single sword strike, thus killing the enemy.”
“I don’t want to kill ‘them’.”
Chu Guo thought for a moment, then asked slowly, “As long as it is knocked down…
is there any need to be so cruel?”