Eastern culture

Chapter 1, Sword Drawing

Daming, Shen Residence.

　　Shen Pingan stood within the small courtyard, his feet as if they were rooted, standing still, but his right hand, was methodically performing other movements.

　The movements were simple.

　　Draw the sword.

　　Draw the sword.

　　Return to the sheath.

　　Simple enough that even a three year old child would be able to accomplish it with ease.

　　However, in Shen Pingan's hands, these three simple movements were filled with an ineffable smoothness.

The hand holding the sword was as stable as a rock.

　　Whether it was when drawing the sword out of the sheath or withdrawing the sword back into the sheath, it was all precise and swift, without the slightest hint of procrastination.

　　The yellowish sunlight scattered, a plain and elegant ink coat of Shen Pingan holding the sword and moving, handsome face is full of concentration as well as perseverance.

　　Anyone who sees it for the first time, can't help but secretly praise in their hearts “what a handsome gentleman.”

　Courtyard side.

　　A weak crown age, clean-cut youth and a fifteen or sixteen year old, snowy skin, a face clean and lovely young girl sitting on the steps.

　A short while later, Shen Qingshan rubbed his eyes with both hands, sighed lightly and said, “Ten years, cousin every day in this courtyard to do the simplest three movements, Drawing the Sword Art, this kind of martial arts can not even be considered a few basic sword strokes, as to let cousin so ten years as one day to cultivate?”

　　The words fell, but there was no sound of response from beside him for a long time.

　　Shen Qingshan inclined his head to look, but saw the young girl beside him with both hands resting on her chin, looking at Shen Pingan who continued to practice sword in the courtyard like a flower.

　　Shen Qingshan slightly helpless said: ''Fei Yan you this girl has come to the house for half a year, right!

You don't get tired of watching cousin practicing every day?”

　　Qu Fei Yan gently “hummed” and said: “Gongzi is so good-looking, why would I get tired of watching?”

　　Shen Qingshan's gaze moved to Shen Pingan's face, then touched his own face, the corner of his mouth grinned and then grunted coldly: “Shallow, you can't just look at whether a person is good-looking or not, you have to understand the inner self and the person.”

　　Qu Fei Yan glanced at Shen Qingshan with squinted eyes, then skimmed her mouth in disgust.

　　“The looks aren't even good anymore, who's interested in continuing to understand your inner self and person?”

It's true After saying that, Qu Fei Yan turned her head to continue looking at Shen Pingan who was practicing sword in the courtyard, and even adjusted her sitting position to aim the back of her head at Shen Qingshan.

　　“This niece, getting more and more exasperated.”

　　But thinking of Qu Feiyan's words just now, Shen Qingshan had the intention to retort, but inexplicably felt that there was some truth to it.

　　In this regard, when Shen Qingshan looked at Shen Pingan, his gaze could not help but add a few more points of resentment.

　　At this time, Qu Fei Yan touched Shen Qing with her arm then lowered her voice and said, “By the way, two days ago, I heard people in the Shen family say that the son of the first contact with the Shen family family's family sword, just read it once and then said a sentence after the sword will be practiced, is it true or not?”

　　Hearing Qu Fei Yan's question, Shen Qingshan immediately became interested.

　　“This you can be considered to ask the right person, back then when cousin first practiced the sword technique I was beside.”

　　“I'll tell you, back then, my father first taught my cousin and I the family tradition of the Shen family swordsmanship , just taught once.”

　　“Originally, my father's purpose was just to let the two of us see the subtleties of the sword before letting us practice the basic sword moves.”

　　“I didn't realize that when cousin got the sword, he immediately used the Shen Family Sword Technique.”

　　Listening to Li Changqing's narration, Qu Feiyan blinked.

　　“You learned it after only being taught once?

Is your son's talent that high?”

　　Shen Qingshan complacently said, “That's true, besides his outstanding talent in martial arts, cousin's literary talent, and his heart is also proud and unrivaled.”

　　“At that time, my father asked a gentleman to teach us to practice writing, no matter what article, cousin was able to memorize it after reading it a few times, causing that gentleman to exclaim in amazement.”

　　“It wasn't long before Cousin didn't need to be taught by a teacher, and he could just read whatever he wanted to read by himself in the Book Pavilion.”

　　.......　　Shen Qingshan said the eyebrows flying, next to the Qu Feiyan also listened to the interest, two big round eyes flashing.

　　Half a dozen times, as if thinking of something sighed.

　　“I think that years ago, when cousin improved my Shen family's Moon Returning Sword Technique and raised it to the top grade of the Xuan rank, my father and the other elders of the Shen family all felt that with cousin's talent, he would definitely be able to make a name for himself in the future.”

　　“But I don't know why, but starting ten years ago, cousin suddenly became obsessed with the shallow martial art of sword drawing.”

　　“Although on weekdays my father and the elders in the family have been letting my cousin go, in fact, every day they are also worried about it.”

　　While saying this, Shen Qingshan looked towards Shen Pingan who was “not doing his job” at this time, with a bit of resentment in his gaze.

　　Inside the courtyard.

　　Listening to Shen Qingshan's words behind him, the qi within Shen Pingan's body paused for a moment as if it was affected.

　　At the same time, the corners of Shen Pingan's mouth gently grinned.

　　No one knew that as early as ten years ago, Shen Pingan's memories of his previous life were completely revived due to a typhoid fever.

　　Only after the memory was digested did Shen Pingan become clear about the situation of the world he was in.

　　It was different from any historical dynasty that Shen Pingan understood.

　　In this world, there is Dayuan in the north, Daming in the south, Sui in the east, Qin in the west, and in the middle of the four countries is the increasingly weakened Great Song country.

　　Five countries stand side by side, surrounded by more than a hundred small countries.

　　The territory is so large that it far exceeds the Blue Star of the last generation.

　　In the country of Great Yuan, the demon master Pang Ban has a fierce reputation, his teacher Meng Chixing and the national master Bashi Ba, the royal master Si Hanfei as Mongolia's three great masters, decades ago the cultivation has entered the realm of celestial beings.

　　In the Qin Dynasty, it is rumored that Gai Nie of the Ghost Valley School has become the personal bodyguard of Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, and there are also such top forces as the Yin-Yang Family and the Taoist Family.

　　In the Sui Dynasty, the Cihang Jingzhai and the Yin and Kwai Sect are in full swing, and the Song Valve and the Yuwen Valve and other valves are competing with each other.

　　In the Song Dynasty, the North and South Beggar's Association and the North Shaolin prestige gradually thick, but also the North Qiao Feng, South Murong, such as but standing years will have stepped into the realm of the return of the master.

　　In the Ming Dynasty, Wudang and Shaolin are the leaders of the righteousness, and they are powerful, and in the imperial court, Iron Guts Divine Marquis Zhu Wuyi has established the Dragon Protector Villa, which is fighting with Cao Zhengchun, the East Chamber's governor.

　　In addition to Xie Xiaofeng and Yan Thirteen, the top swordsmen who had been famous for many years, there were also the rising stars of the sword path such as the Lord of Baiyun City, Ye Guicheng, and Simon the Snow Blower of Ten Thousand Plums Villa.

　It could be said that this piece of the world completely encompassed all of the martial arts characters that Shen Pingan had known in his previous life.

　　Not only is it a group of heroes?

The entire world can be completely described as “magnificent.

　　As for Shen Qingshan said those “the sky does not give birth to my Shen Pingan!