Many of the onlookers made way for her and couldn't help but feel admiration for her.
Xi Heng ignored it and came to the slowly flowing spring. He grabbed a bamboo tube to scoop up water, put it to his lips and drank it down.
At the same time, Senior Sister Hong Miao, who had finally explained the moves and techniques to several new sisters, also came over.
When he saw Xi Heng, his first words were:
“This is my cup.”
The tone sounded calm, as if he was just stating a fact rather than blaming someone.
"Oh oh." After hearing this, Xi Heng moved the bamboo tube closer to the corner of his mouth.
Hong Miao waited for Xi Heng to finish drinking, then she took the cup from Xi Heng and drank from it, saying casually:
"Go to the bamboo forest in the backyard and carve a bamboo tube."
Xi Heng had stayed in the Sword Academy for two years in his previous life, so of course he knew about this.
"No, it's too troublesome." But she found an excuse: "I'll use my senior sister's from now on."
"Isn't it bad?" Senior Sister Hong Miao felt strange.
"Why not?" Xi Heng took the bamboo tube back from his senior sister's hand, and without even brushing it with spring water, he put it directly on his lips.
Hong Miao watched from the side and said after a moment: "Don't you mind?"
"How could I dislike my senior sister?" Xi Heng smiled lightly, looking casual and natural.
"I'm talking about the bamboo tube."
"How could I dislike something that my senior sister has used?" Xi Heng also changed his words.
Hong Miao was speechless, looked away and changed the subject:
"Recently, three new people came to learn swordsmanship. I am not used to teaching several people swordsmanship at the same time. How about you help me?"
"Senior sister said I was lazy before, why do I always feel that she is more lazy?" Xi Heng teased.
"Just pretend I never said anything."
"Although I also want to share my worries, I also have moves to practice... Can I just teach you one or two moves when I'm free?"
"As long as Junior Sister Zhao is happy," said the senior sister.
Junior Sister Zhao...
It was the first time that Xi Heng heard this name.
Before, I just called her Junior Sister, or called her 'Junior Sister Xiheng'...
And now with the addition of the word "Zhao" before "Junior Sister", I always feel that there is a strange sense of alienation.
"Sister, just call me Xi Heng." Xi Heng reminded gently.
"Just call me by my name? I feel like that's not enough."
"It doesn't matter. Otherwise, just call her Junior Sister. Don't add the word Zhao. I don't like it."
When Xi Heng hears the word Zhao, he will recall the Great Zhao Kingdom or the Great Zhao royal family.
It seems that everything becomes many times more annoying once the word "Zhao" is added to it.
"Is that so? Then... Junior Sister?"
"Senior Sister." The girl chuckled.
……
Three days later.
After just a few days of practice, Xi Heng had memorized all the moves of the first level of the Red Line Sword Technique's Dark Power, and began to study some connecting techniques.
"It's just as Senior Sister said... After reaching the Dark Energy, it is already considered extraordinary."
"Pushing the muscles and bones of the whole body can bring about earth-shaking changes to the human body. It is not just about making the body joints more flexible, but also about polishing the whole body..."
"If a mortal has good tendons and bones, he or she will have a good talent for martial arts. Once he or she has pushed forward his or her tendons and bones and reached the dark energy, he or she will be considered what the mortal world often calls a genius."
"In terms of martial arts, it is naturally several times faster, and there are very few bottlenecks or obstacles..."
Every move and form I have learned recently is easy and natural, without any of the stagnation and stiffness that was common when I practiced martial arts when I was practicing Ming Jin.
After practicing for another thirty or so moves, Xi Heng returned to the spring to drink water. Seeing his senior sister resting there, he sat on a rock and grabbed the cup next to her and scooped up the sweet spring water.
"Why don't you go carve a bamboo tube? How about I help you?"
For some reason, Senior Sister Hong Miao often appears helpless when interacting with Xi Heng in recent times.
"No need." Xi Heng teased, "I think the spring water will be sweeter if I use Senior Sister's bamboo tube."
"..." Senior Sister Hong Miao felt more and more that this Junior Sister with extraordinary talent in Dark Energy who suddenly came to the Sword Academy was a little difficult to deal with.
Mingming was able to remain natural and calm when she was with all the other junior sisters, but when she was with this little junior sister, she always had the illusion that she was seen through by her.
To the point that she didn't know how to cope with it.
I had to change the subject: "Have you mastered the first level?"
"I still have some physical skills to master, but it will take at least another month to master the first level of swordsmanship to perfection, right?"
After all, sword techniques are just the basics. There are still too many aspects that require attention and coordination after practicing sword techniques.
"After you have mastered the sword moves, you still need to practice against each other. For a martial artist, it is not enough to just practice without fighting." said the senior sister.
"Sister, are you willing to practice with me?" Xi Heng asked naturally.
She originally planned to hone her sword skills by killing people after she had mastered the moves, while searching for immortals and learning the martial arts of Hua Jin.
The Red Line Sword is a sword of killing. Swinging the sword with murderous intent will always be better than ordinary sword fighting.
But since her senior sister mentioned this, she was also happy to practice sword fighting with her.
After becoming a dark energy warrior, Xi Heng often wondered how big the gap was between him and his senior sister... were they now evenly matched?
After all, she had killed so many people in her previous life, and the sword power in her body was extremely pure.
Senior Sister Hong Miao couldn’t have killed so many people... right?
"Every day at sunset, when the other sisters have finished their practice for the day, you and I can have a sword fight." The sister seemed a little interested.
"That couldn't be better." Xi Heng nodded.
……
Sunset.
The white light in the sky gradually faded, and on the western horizon, a red sun was slowly setting, and the light it scattered turned the sky red and orange.
In the huge Red Line Sword Academy in the west, there is a simple Tai Chi circle engraved on a stone slab on the ground, and the central sword-fighting field has a surface covered with sword patterns and cracks.
In Tai Chi's black and white eyes, Xi Heng stands in the black and Hong Miao stands in the white.
Hong Miao held the sword casually and did not make any stance moves, while Xi Heng held the sword seriously and did not relax at all.
Most of the younger sisters around had not left yet, and were gathered in groups of three or four around the sword-fighting arena.
The summer breeze blows by, and the girl's soft black hair sways slightly.
When she got on the field and picked up the sword, the senior sister returned to her usual natural appearance, with a hint of smile on her lips, and she hooked her finger at Xiheng.
"Come in."
Xi Heng exhaled, and at the beginning used the move he had practiced the most times and was most familiar with. With the blood and energy pushing hard, he suddenly stepped on his left foot, and the tip of the sword stabbed straight at his senior sister from a distance of several meters -
A red line suddenly appeared and chained to the other person's shoulder at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.
But the opponent was far from an ordinary person. He just turned his right wrist and the sword blade suddenly blocked the red line, leaving only a little spark.
Except for her wrists, her body still looked relaxed.
"So strong..." Xi Heng blinked.
The senior sister was obviously much stronger than her at the initial stage of dark energy.
And because she practiced the Red Line Sword together, the opponent could see through her moves before she made them and respond calmly.
So, after just one move, Xi Heng probably realized that he was doomed to fail.
But losing to her senior sister wasn't a big deal... and now she didn't have to worry about her senior sister not being able to take her moves, so she could just use her full strength without worrying about it.
The thought passed through his mind in an instant, Xi Heng took a step sideways, turned his body sharply, and the long sword in his hand drew a strange arc, and an arc-shaped red line of sword energy flashed.
Hong Miao at the front easily raised the sword and directly used the blade to cut off the attacking red sword energy, and just dodged it by turning sideways.
Only a strand of hair was uncontrollably floating in the wind, and was accidentally cut off by the incoming sword energy.
Her soft black hair fluttered down, and Senior Sister Hong Miao saw out of the corner of her eye that Xi Heng was approaching, with a long sword raised and turned deftly, just about to touch her sword-holding wrist.
Hong Miao also pressed down the blade, and the two swords collided, creating sparks.
Xi Heng continued to move closer regardless of the risk, the two swords collided and got stuck, and he hit his senior sister in the chest with his elbow.
Hong Miao narrowed her eyes slightly and raised her left palm to block her elbow, but the colliding sword suddenly turned in the moment her attention was diverted, and the hilt of the sword pushed towards her neck.
Senior Sister Hong Miao tried her best to push down Xi Heng's elbow, and then blocked the attack with her sword.
The two sword guards were stuck to each other, and the blades were stretched towards himself. The cold light flashed not far from his head, looking quite dangerous.
The sword was stuck, so Xi Heng had to continue using his free left hand for close combat.
He first stretched out his elbow and swung it into a fist, but his arm was still blocked by his senior sister's palm.
Xi Heng changed his fist into fingers and aimed them at the chest, but again he failed to touch the opponent at all, and his wrist was caught by the opponent's nimble left hand.
Unable to move her hands, the girl hooked her feet to try to disrupt her balance, but was kicked in the shin by Senior Sister Hong Miao. The pain made her brows tighten.
Her calf trembled slightly for a moment, and Senior Sister Hong Miao suddenly raised her leg, stood up and kneed her in the waist.
Xi Heng subconsciously stomped on the ground, using his left wrist, which was held tightly by his senior sister, as leverage to jump up. While dodging the attack, he also pulled out the entangled long sword.
The senior sister pulled with her left hand to break her balance, and Xi Heng's sword slashed down.
There was a clang and sparks flew.
Hong Miao blocked the sword and finally let go and took half a step back.
Xi Heng landed and prepared to strike again, but he heard his senior sister's voice:
"Stop it."
She was shocked and said, "Your fighting style is almost entirely about exchanging injuries for injuries. How did you learn that?"
"You don't have to learn it, right?" Xi Heng tilted his head: "As long as you always have the determination to fight to the death, you will learn it naturally."
"..." Hong Miao stared at Xi Heng for a long time, and then said after a moment:
"Your sword intent is too decisive. Although you can easily suppress other warriors of similar martial arts realm with this sword intent, if you have bad luck, you will most likely perish together with others... If you use this sword intent to fight the enemy for a long time, you will not live for too long."
"I understand too." Xi Heng's expression didn't change.
Hong Miao's eyes flickered, and she vaguely realized that the other party seemed to have a very complicated life story.
But who doesn’t have a story... Especially for younger dark energy warriors like them, who wouldn’t have reached this stage without some deep hatred.
"If you want to live longer, you should change this sword intent as soon as possible." Hong Miao planned to remind him only this time.
"Yeah." Xi Heng didn't say much.
Hong Miao sighed softly.
When fighting with other junior sisters, she could always give some martial arts advice in a gentle and natural manner.
But now, after fighting with this junior sister who also possesses the Dark Energy, he only felt a little sad.
She wanted to know more and more what kind of story her junior sister had that allowed her to hone such a life-and-death sword intent.
However, now is obviously not the time to beat around the bush.
She just waved her hand: "Let's stop the sword duel today. We'll continue tomorrow."
"Eh? No advice?" Xi Heng, who was still calm, pouted.
"You only used two moves just now. The first move was in accordance with the rules and regulations and did not need any guidance. The second move was too radical. It was your own style and personality. Why do you need any guidance?" Hong Miao shook her head: "Let's go to the cafeteria to eat."
"Oh."
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