Martial Forest

Chapter 41: In One Glance

By now, it is almost afternoon. He then went out of the stream wears his clothes and then stand on the clearing on the forest.

The area around him is trees and he unsheathed his sword and he closes his eyes.

By now Bai Pingting had already finished clearing the area of the hut and Bai Qingniu had already finished roasting the pheasant.

Bai Pingting is searching for Li Xian and she is close to the area. Li Xian of course did not know that the young girl is searching for him.

He closes his eyes and then he ranks up Drawing the Sword and Dragging the Sword to grandmaster level

The moment g he did that shadows appears in front of his eyes.

This is like image training. Li Xian had a premonition that he would gained more familiarity with sword skill if he experienced it with his body.

It is different in ranking up internal energy and external technique

Of course, he could always just rank up such skill while lying down on the ground but for some reason, Li Xian felt a need to try his experiment.

What if he practices what he sees in the vision instead passively just waiting for the benefits?

One of the words that the system never failed to mention to him was that forge your own path.

That words are almost imprinted in Li Xian mind right now.

Forge your path.

Li Xian is just trying it out as the system did not give him any clues sat all of how to strengthen himself other than simply getting points and ranking up skills.

The moment he ranks it up using up 30,000 martial skill point, this time he strengthens his will and instead of being sucked into a dreamland, he saw shadow in front of him and he knows that this is the enemy. The image training.

It is like he conjures up enemies so that he could practice with them. The opponent attack him as Li Xian position himself in the full passive hand position, his back of the hand facing upwards as he centers his hand downward.

Raising his sword and moving his sword tip forward, he targeted his opponent wrist, drawing to the right and seizing the opportunity to cut the wrist.

Another shadow appears and he apply the drawing technique, this time drawing from above, his left hand assists his right and moving to the side.

Stabbing to the wrist, and a drawing to the waist, then another shadow appears and Li Xian do a drawing cut to the shadow leg.

The shadows disappeared and he could feel that he had mastered all there is to know about drawing swords.

Right now, he is thinking of that attack he did against Shi Yuan.

If at that time he mastered this drawing technique, at that time, his sword glare would probably be able to hurt Shi yuan.

That would make his subsequent attacks even more full of momentum and it would be such a close call between life and death when he fights Shi Yuan before.

As Li Xian was practicing his sword, Bai Pingting could see him from the distance and she was about to shout to him

But then she saw Li Xian drawing his sword and executing moves, with an eye that shows complete focus and complete abandon of the surrounding, like he is in a trance.

Each time, Li Xian did a drawing motions, the leaves of the nearby tree would get cut and with the wind blowing, the leaves dances in the air before falling to the ground.

‘It is beautiful’ that is her thought.

The sound of streams, the breeze of the wind, and the elegance that is exhibited by Li Xian captivated her eyes….and her heart

She once heard the stories of the pleasure woman. Gentleman are hard to find, and heroes only love beauty.

She did not know whether Li Xian is a gentleman or a hero but she is intrigued and she felt her heart ripples.

Heroes only love beauty because beauties only love heroes.

Her heart beat and skips, the sword moves and her heart longs. In one glance, Li Xian captivated the young girl heart.

The wind blows her hair and she looks at Li Xian like she is viewing a beautiful painting.

With the white robe and the elegance that Li Xian is showing in using the sword, it was like the tall tale of wandering heroes of Wulin eradicating evil, upholding justice and saving people were brought alive and personified into this young boy.

She knows she felt fondness for the boy.

But she also remembers the pleasure ladies once told her that such feelings are fleeting, and the heart of a young girl that surely would change when she grew older.

But for some reason, Bai Pingting did not think that this feeling would easily be pull out from her heart.

Li Xian did not know or notice the appearance of Bai Pingting not far away from him. One of the reason is simply because Bai Pingting did not have any killing or malicious intent to him.

The other is because he is engrossed in the vision that fill his mind and the focus he puts in fighting the shadows that comes from his mind.

He then switches his position, ready to make use of the dragging method. He turns into a half passive position, the center of the hand centered.

He thrusted forward under the shadow enemy wrist, his body leaning back.

Another shadow attack and he sway to the side missing the enemy attack.

He slashes and then return to his original position, and then taking advantage that he is going to the rear, Li Xian drag along the enemy wrist to injure him

‘Upsetting an incoming attack’ he mutters to himself as he was enlightened of this skill.

The attack being “filling the ear” strike to the head.

His right foot become and his left foot behind become full. He dodges another attack and he could switch his feet alternatively like he had been practicing this dragging method all of his life

His left hand assist at his sword handle and moves along with it.

He also realizes he could also apply this to any of his sword technique.

If he did this with the Seven Transformation Swordplay the essence of the swordplay would be lost but at least, it would give variations on his attack.

But even if he did not sue any swordplay and uses this basic move of the sword, coupled with his powerful internal energy, he could force the enemy to be in disadvantage before he finishes with the powerful impact of the Seven Transformation Swordplay.

A shadow enemy thrusted a sword toward him and he moves his step backward and then do a dragging cut to the enemy wrist, and the shadow dissipated as another shadows appears.

This is the vertical blade dragging cut. He also uses a bit of horizontal sword dragging by sword circling before.

This time two shadows jump towards him and attacks him as he performs sword circling and direct the sword to the side before he finishes with a sword s***h that dissipate the shadows.

Another shadow appears and Li Xian move his sword.

The sword rings, the leaves flews and the wind dances around him, making the fallen leaves swirls around his body.

His sword tip going forward above the shadow wrist, Li Xian then drags the sword across to the left, taking the advantage of the opportunity to injure the shadow wrist.

If this is real life and that shadow is a real enemy, then the sword hand of the enemy is immobilized, the sword in the enemy hands would fall down to the ground, and Li Xian would then easily kill the enemy.

He advances and retreat with drawing and dragging. With his left hand assisting the right, he first draws the sword and then drag the sword, his left foot is full of force, his right foot is empty of force, understanding the basic, ensure sturdy foundation.

He circles his sword and the swirls of floating leaves follows the circles like a swirling wind is created by the point of the tip of the sword.

He stabs his enemies and then draw, the movement is lively and agile, there is no flaws and there is a lot of variations but whenever he draws the sword, an enemy would fall down and when he drags, no one could escape.

As he began to become more proficient, the target is no longer only the wrist. Li Xian begins targeting the throats and other vital points of the shadows.

When he stabs, his right foot in front is full of force, and when he drags, his right foot become empty of force.

Li Xian experimented with this and he could change the method according to the situation.

Sword glares flashes by and scratches fills the trees.

Of course all Li Xian could see right now is his sword, the point where his sword pointed and the shadows.

But as for Bai Pingting who is looking intently, all she could see that Li Xian is performing a very beautiful moves of swordplay.

She thought to herself how amazing to like this person. When Li Xian jumps he is like floating in the air and when he attacks, he is agile and swift.

Bai Pingting has always had admiration to those wandering heroes because she had grown up listening to stories about them

But she herself never saw anyone showing any kinds of martial arts in front of her.

But since she met Li Xian she was shown the Jianghu.

She wonders how could a kid that is the same age as her could kill people and still calmly sleep and rest, eating like there is no problem at all.

Bai Qingniu had a budding feeling of wanting to nurture an heir for the Scroll of Duke Jingwu of Wei.

And now, his granddaughter has a budding interest in learning martial arts. Li Xian then stopped and regain back his calm.

The leaves fall to the ground and the wind blows gently away and finally Li Xian could see Bai Pingting in the distance. He was startled before he nodded.

Blushing red, Bai Pinging then shouted

‘My grandpa has finished roasting the pheasant. Inviting young hero Li to eat with us’ she said. Li Xian nodded and simply said

‘I will come a bit later. I have something else to check’ he said.

Then simply ignoring her, Li Xian jump up and easily jump to one of the branches of the tree and then disappeared almost a few seconds alter.

Bai Pingting was dazed before she shook her head and then deicide to return home first.

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