As soon as Xu Ziqing stepped over the side of Jian Xiu who was sitting cross-legged, he stepped on it, and his whole feeling suddenly changed drastically.

There was an extremely violent wind blowing. The wind seemed to contain countless chilling meanings, like an invisible sword, blowing towards my face with a bone-chilling chill!

Xu Ziqing panicked slightly and seemed to want to retreat.

But the next moment, he silently moved his true energy under his feet and stabilized his steps.

Among those invisible swords, some are full of vitality, some have the meaning of endless moisture, some are thick, some are sharp, some are violent...respectively correspond to the power of the five elements of heaven and earth: wood, water, earth, metal, and fire.

Undoubtedly, this is the Five Elements Gangfeng.

Xu Ziqing turned around briefly. The sword cultivator guarding the cave was still sitting cross-legged, but the feeling was completely different from what he saw outside the cave.

When he was outside the cave, he couldn't feel the existence of the Gangfeng. The cave guard didn't even move his hair. But with just this step, the Five Elements Gangfeng was raging. It wasn't just attacking him.

The person who just entered the Sword Cave, even the cavekeeper, was constantly hit by strong winds on his back, causing most of the clothes on his back to be damaged, and his skin and flesh were cracked from time to time, leaving scars.

There is something in the two heavens inside and outside the cave that blocks the eyes of people outside the cave, so that they can only see the illusion. But when they arrive in the Sword Cave, everything returns to reality.

Xu Ziqing sighed secretly, feeling a bit of admiration for the hard-working cavekeeper. At the same time, he also understood that the Five Elements Gangfeng was the first test he had to undergo.

If you cannot pass this section of the journey, you will not be able to truly reach the interior of the Sword Cave.

Then go!

Xu Ziqing's eyes flashed with green light, his whole body was covered with true energy, and he walked towards the depths of the cave.

With every step, there are countless different sword winds coming, whether soft or hard, simple or lively, but they all belong to the same artistic conception of the sword. Therefore, no matter how careful you are, if the strong wind touches you, you will be injured.

Xu Ziqing walked forward slowly, and by accident, he felt that the true energy on the back of his hand was broken open, leaving thin wounds on the skin where the cold light passed, and strands of blood appeared. But immediately, Yimu's energy circulated.

, the wound quickly closed again and recovered as before.

Probably irritated by his rapid healing, the Five Elements Gang Wind began to become more violent. Suddenly, a piece of golden light approached. Xu Ziqing was startled and immediately turned his head - but the golden light still passed by his forehead and blew.

In an instant, a strand of hair fell, and was immediately blown by many strong winds, shattering and disintegrating.

This time, Xu Ziqing was really shocked.

There is no regular pattern when the Five Elements Gang Wind blows, sometimes big and sometimes small, and the attributes of the Gang Wind contained in the blowing wind are also different from time to time, making it difficult to grasp.

So now he has two ways to go.

One is to stay vigilant, dodge as quickly as possible when the strong wind blows, and move quickly when the strong wind blows, to get through this section of the road;

The second is to face the difficulties and fight against the strong wind with the swordsmanship learned, resisting hard all the way.

If it's the former, you can get in faster, but if it's the latter, it's more grinding and harder.

After thinking about it briefly, Xu Ziqing chose the second option.

Now that you are determined to hone yourself, you cannot be afraid of difficulties. The more difficult it is, the more gains you will gain after it passes.

Moreover...senior brother must have gone through countless hardships to achieve his current level of cultivation.

What he chose back then was definitely not to dodge, but to walk forward in the face of the strong wind!

After making a decision, Xu Ziqing's palm flashed with light, and the steel-wood sword was already held.

Senior brother once taught that if you learn swordsmanship, chopping, stabbing, cutting, and wiping... are the foundation.

Xu Ziqing concentrated, took a deep breath, and suddenly swung his sword——

hack!

He swings his sword 30,000 times a day, and the basic swordsmanship he has learned has been memorized by heart, and has gradually become instinctive. He knows the trajectory of each sword move, and can calculate the landing point of every basic sword move, regardless of the steps he takes.

No matter how I change my body shape, I can always maintain the most reasonable, regular and perfect posture, without any mistakes.

The strong wind blows violently and without any rules, but when a swordsman knows it well, there is nothing to fear.

Under Yun Lie's guidance, Xu Ziqing understood the principle of the unity of all swords, thus saving countless groping and summarizing.

Therefore, no matter how the Gangfeng blows or from which direction it comes, it is just equivalent to the enemy's attack from different angles. The Gangfeng has no intelligence, it only represents the most natural wind in the sword cave, so Xu Ziqing only needs to

Use your most natural posture to greet it, and in the end you can solve it with these basic sword moves!

Step by step, steadily, Xu Ziqing moved forward silently and seriously.

At the beginning, some fish slipped through the net and caused many small wounds on his body. But as he gradually found the feeling, the wounds became less and less, gradually approaching none...

Split, stab, chop, wipe... split, stab, chop, wipe.

From time to time, Xu Ziqing kept swinging his sword like a moving mechanism, forgetting all fatigue and where he was. He didn't know how long he had been walking, immersed in this ethereal state that was the same as before, just like before.

It's the same every day when I practice swordsmanship, so selfless, so focused.

Suddenly, all the strong wind disappeared!

Xu Ziqing suddenly woke up and took a closer look. In front of him was an extremely vast grotto.

He turned around in a daze, and then realized that he had walked out of the long passage, and just behind him, not far from the entrance of the grotto, were sitting cross-legged on the wall of the cave. More than ten people in clothes were sitting there.

The ragged monk.

These are all people who use the Five Elements Gangfeng to practice hard. Xu Ziqing understood in an instant.

Indeed, countless strong winds were raging on those people, but they only had a thin layer of true energy covering the surface of their bodies to endure it.

This layer of true energy is constantly being split apart and replenished. Under such tempering, their skin and flesh are integrated into the sharpness of the sword in the Gangfeng, making the physical body indestructible!

...Should I also practice hard here? Xu Ziqing suddenly thought.

Immediately, he rejected the idea.

His way is not the way of the sword, and his temperament is not suitable for the way of the sword.

Although he has not yet found out what kind of path his true heart is, Xu Ziqing, after being exposed to swordsmanship for a long time and seeing a real swordsman like Yun Lie, at least knows that he will not become a swordsman in the future.

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Even if he really hopes to move forward side by side with his senior brother, if he chooses the way of the sword... I am afraid he will never be able to reach the same level as his senior brother.

Moreover, the "Wanmu Zhongxin Dharma" in his body has actually already destined him to be a Dharma practitioner.

Practicing magic, mastering the methods of manipulating all the trees in the world, and seeking a path that is consistent with it - this is the path to immortality that he should take.

At this moment, Xu Ziqing also realized it.

Yes, he came to the Sword Cave to stimulate his potential and practice the "Four Seasons Sword Technique" through the training of the Sword Cave, instead of wasting time on tempering the sword body, which put the cart before the horse.

Thinking of this, his mind suddenly brightened, and then, without looking back, he stepped into the huge grotto.

In the grotto, there are rings within rings and holes within holes. There is no five-element wind, not even a trace of other winds.

There was silence everywhere, just like the inside of an ordinary cave, but it felt a bit more solemn than an ordinary cave.

Xu Ziqing didn't know what was going on in the sword cave. Seeing this scene, he naturally felt a little weird in his heart. But he immediately turned this weird feeling into vigilance - since it is a place of grinding, it must be

No matter what situation you will encounter later, caution is always necessary.

Then, he held the hilt of the sword and walked forward carefully.

One step, two steps, three steps... nothing happened.

What's going on?

The more it seemed easy, the more Xu Ziqing became more wary.

After walking a few steps, he came to a ring-shaped hole within a hole. He was about to step in, but stopped. Then, he moved his wrist slightly and slowly raised the steel-wood sword.

That's right, he can no longer be as careless as he was when we were on Si Xing Peak.

If we failed for this reason on the first day we entered the Sword Cave, it would be a huge disservice to our senior brother. Therefore, even if you want to explore this cave, you still have to be extra careful.

Thinking of this, Xu Ziqing decided to try it with a steel and wooden sword first.

If there is any ingenuity in the mechanism, it must be just this, and it can be touched.

So, under Xu Ziqing's watchful eyes, the steel-wood sword slowly pierced into the hole within the hole.

In an instant, ripples appeared where the sword tip pointed, and an extremely strong suction force came from the sword tip!

Xu Ziqing was frightened and was about to abandon his sword, but the next moment, he realized that the attraction was not malicious, but seemed to just bring him in. At that time, he no longer struggled, but just let its strength, relax and pour in.

Enter in person.

Sure enough, the world turned upside down, and there was a flower in front of my eyes. After I calmed down, what I saw was another world.

Xu Ziqing breathed a sigh of relief and looked forward.

I saw a greenish-brown mountain wall in the front, with no grass growing on it, and it had an extremely simple and remote meaning. And on the mountain wall were written two big characters, saying: Sword Room.

Xu Ziqing looked around again and found that it was just a stone room with a radius of several feet. It was very wide, but empty. He looked around all over, and there was no exit or entrance. All he could see was the four sides.

The mountain walls are generally the same and there is no difference. Even the word "Sword Room" can be found on all four sides of the mountain walls.

After taking a breath, he understood clearly that this was the first level of the sword cave where he practiced his sword.

I just don’t know what kind of secrets there are in this sword room that can force out his potential and make many swordsmen flock to him?

Xu Ziqing can't understand it, but if he doesn't understand it, he doesn't need to think too much. He will know after he gives it a try.

At this point, he needs to reflect on how this person in the Immortal Way practices swordsmanship, and how many levels there are in so-called swordsmanship, and how to judge it.
To be continued...