The snow falls.
Blood also fell.
The snow is cold.
The blood is colder.
In the white snow, there is a young man standing.
In his hand, he held a sword.
In front of him, there was a person lying upside down.
But there was no blood on the edge of his sword.
The blood is in the sky, on the snow, on his opponent's body, but not on his sword.
That day, he learned that as long as your sword is fast enough and your swordsmanship is high enough, you can kill someone without getting blood on your sword.
Seeing the man in front of him slowly stop breathing, the young man sighed softly.
That year, Lin Yuancheng was fourteen years old.
The person who fell in front of him was his master.
If there really is a so-called unique martial arts wizard in this world, then Lin Yuancheng... is undoubtedly this kind of person.
He practiced martial arts at the age of seven and held a sword for the first time at the age of eight. After the age of thirteen, he never lost again.
At the age of fourteen, he defeated and killed his master with his own hands, because in that year... his mentor, the famous "Seven Star Sword" Fan Zhengting, because Discovered his talent and wanted to harm him.
But Fan Zhengting miscalculated one thing - he thought that no matter how talented Lin Yuancheng was, it was impossible for him, as a swordsman who had been famous in the world for a long time, to be Lin Yuancheng's master at the same time. He will lose to this kid who has only been practicing swordsmanship for five or six years.
He was wrong.
A big mistake.
Things that can be measured or calculated using common sense are not considered "talents".
People who can be constrained or limited by common sense are not considered "geniuses".
It actually took Lin Yuancheng only one year to master the "Seven Star Sword Technique" for which Fan Zhengting became famous. In the second year of learning swordsmanship, his understanding of this set of sword techniques had surpassed His master.
In the following years, Lin Yuancheng actually learned nothing from Fan Zhengting at all. He was just dealing with his master and pretending that he could still learn something to protect his master's self-esteem. .
After all, Fan Zhengting was the mentor who picked him up and raised him. Even if the friendship between master and disciple is not mentioned, he still has the kindness to raise him.
Lin Yuancheng thought so...
But not Fan Zhengting.
Fan Zhengting has always been a hypocrite. On the surface, he talks about benevolence, justice and morality, and fights injustice everywhere; but secretly, he takes benefits from others, and then pretends to "uphold justice" and kills people to silence them.
His ability to say one thing and do another is much better than his swordsmanship. He does many things flawlessly and cleans up the aftermath, so he has a false good reputation. .
And Lin Yuancheng was just one of the many orphans adopted by Fan Zhengting.
Fan Zhengting will take in one or two such children almost every chance he gets, and start teaching them kungfu when they are very young.Husband; nominally, he has a master-disciple relationship with these children, but in fact... these children are his tools.
Those who are obedient will be trained as subordinates, and those who are disobedient will be quietly dealt with. Anyway, these children are orphans and no one will come to track them down.
So, when Fan Zhengting belatedly discovered that one of these children was actually a martial arts prodigy, and it was obvious that he would surpass him in martial arts sooner or later, his first reaction was to kill him. .
Although Lin Yuancheng had not shown any signs of disobeying him at that time, a villain like Fan Zhengting knew best - a person who is stronger than you cannot be your pawn for the rest of his life.
On that snowy night, the snow was not heavy, and the moon could still be seen in the sky.
Fan Zhengting called Lin Yuancheng to an open space in the deserted forest and said that he would teach him the essence of his swordsmanship.
After the two stood still, before Fan Zhengting's sword was unsheathed, Lin Yuancheng knew that the other party was not going to teach him anything, but to kill him.
Lin Yuancheng doesn’t understand people, but he understands swords.
People can lie, but swords cannot.
The murderous sword already carries the killing intent without unsheathing it.
"Does it have to be like this?" Lin Yuancheng asked.
Fan Zhengting smiled, knowing that he had been seen through: "What do you think?"
"Not necessarily." Lin Yuancheng said.
"Then do you think there is any other way?" Fan Zhengting asked.
"I'll leave and never come back." Lin Yuancheng said, "Don't let me meet you again, and I won't kill you. Repay your kindness."
Fan Zhengting listened. When he got here, he was shocked and angry: "Boy, you look down on my teacher too much, don't you?"
"Yes." Lin Yuancheng said coldly, "Of course I look down on you...I don't look down on you either. Even people look down on your martial arts." He paused, "But I'm different from you, I'm still a human being, so I want to give you another chance."
"You're a bullshit. I'll wait until you succeed." Let's talk about it later!" Fan Zhengting thought the other party was provoking him, so he shouted angrily and drew his sword.
The Seven-Star Sword Technique is originally a Taoist sword. It emphasizes that Qi moves through seven acupoints and the sword moves through seven stars. Each style can produce seven changes, a total of seven or forty-nine sword moves; and the sword technique itself It comes with a set of inner strength formulas that complement the moves.
Objectively speaking, Seven Star Sword Technique should be regarded as a first-class sword technique, with orthodox mental methods, both internal and external training, exquisite sword moves and many changes.
Fan Zhengting can be considered a quasi-first-class master. Although his qualifications are not very high, he has practiced first-class swordsmanship for so many years, so there is no reason why he should be weak.
His sword energy is calm and powerful, and his sword style is light and sharp.
But all of this, his decades of practice, seemed so clumsy...so pathetic...
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At that moment, there was a clanking sound.
Sword light, against the background of snow and moonA flash of surprise.
The three colors of black, white and silver bloomed in this cold night, and finally, in the wild scarlet, they sublimated into a beautiful picture.
Hiss——
The sound of blood spurting out from the wound is like the wind blowing wheat ears; when you close your eyes, this sound is like a pair of women's hands gently touching each other. The ground brushes against your skin.
"You..." Fan Zhengting held the sword in one hand to support his body from falling, while the other hand covered the wound on his neck, trying to slow down the blood flow; his eyes widened, He looked at Lin Yuancheng with an expression of disbelief, "...Who are you doing this swordsmanship with..."
Lin Yuancheng knew what the other party was going to ask, so he interrupted directly: "Seven-star swordsmanship..." , there is no need for forty-nine swords, only seven swords are enough." He paused, "The extra dozens of swords are reserved for those disciples who have no talent, because most of them are. , after all, the problem cannot be solved with just the first seven swords... This is what I realized when I was ten years old."
When he said this, Fan Zhengting had already knelt down due to excessive blood loss. He knelt down and gradually gave up.
But Lin Yuancheng's words are not finished yet: "As for what you just hit, it was the 'Eighth Sword' that I realized based on the real 'Seven Star Sword'. As long as you use the Kaiyang Sword Style against luck, It will have such power... Isn't it interesting?"
For him, it may be interesting.
For Fan Zhengting, these words will only make him feel despair and regret.
Not long after, Fan Zhengting fell.
Lin Yuancheng also sighed softly, put away his sword and left.
Actually, when he killed Fan Zhengting that night, he did not use his strongest swordsmanship; it was just that he felt that killing the opponent with the seven-star swordsmanship seemed ritualistic, so he chose this way.
The swordsmanship that Lin Yuancheng is really good at is a set of swordsmanship that he created by himself between the ages of ten and thirteen. He named this swordsmanship "Lingmin Tan".
This meaningless name also well reflects the young man’s lonely mentality due to invincibility...
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After that night , Lin Yuancheng left home.
Fan Zhengting is a very cunning person. In order to facilitate the disciples he cultivated to help him do dishonorable things in secret, and also to silence him, he has always only had one-way contact with his disciples, which also caused After his death, all his disciples became kites with broken strings.
Of course, these have nothing to do with Lin Yuancheng. He just needs to make sure that no one in the world knows his true identity.
A few months later, Lin Yuancheng came to Xingyimen in Cangzhou to learn from his master.
He said that he had been an orphan since he was a child, and later he studied martial arts with an unknown Taoist for several years. Now that the Taoist is dead, he wanted to come and become a disciple of the Xingyi Sect... The people in the Xingyi Sect heard this. , and I think it’s reasonable.
In this universe, young men who have practiced martial arts for several years and have some internal strength foundation are quite common in Jianghu Road. Let’s talk about the people of Xingyi Sect.It can also be seen that Lin Yuancheng's internal strength is indeed the orthodox Taoist internal strength, so he believed in him and accepted him.
But people like Lin Yuancheng cannot keep a low profile wherever they go.
More than two years have passed, and he has learned all the martial arts in Xingyimen... Of course, this is one of the reasons why he joined Xingyimen in the first place: the people in the world Everyone knows that Cangzhou is the hometown of martial arts, and Cangzhou Xingyimen has always been famous for the large number of martial arts secrets in the sect (just a lot, but not necessarily many excellent ones).
Later, Lin Yuancheng felt that there would be no improvement by staying with his classmates all day long, so he began to travel around the world, trying to improve through actual combat; soon after, he had the "Cangzhou Xiaoxia" name.
Previously, the "Kang Hai Jiao" group that Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai met in Longwang Cave had been dealt with by Lin Yuancheng, but Lin Xiaoxia felt that this group was too low. As he officially entered the world, The first group of people I killed...were a bit unqualified, so I gave them a chance.
To this day, Lin Yuancheng's name is still widely praised in the world.
He is also the "number one seed" in this Young Heroes Meeting. At least in the eyes of most of the leaders, Lin Yuancheng's strength is not at the same level as other peers.
For example, in the second game of the eight-to-four match, Lin Yuancheng went up and killed Di Gui, the nephew of Di Bujue, the leader of the Cao Gang, with one move. This scene made Feng Shunfeng and Feng Shushui in the audience watch. Their faces turned pale... Not only did they feel sorry for their eldest brother's nephew who was shot, but they also vaguely felt that they might be shot even if they went up.
To sum up, Lin Xiaoxia’s strength is quite astonishing.
Chunkong faced him, to be honest... he didn't even have a 20% chance of winning; if Lei Buji was promoted, and Lin Yuancheng didn't use the sword to change his empty hand, the fight would probably be 50-50. And presented a very exciting competition.
But assumptions are just assumptions after all.
Therefore, there was no earth-shattering battle in the first game of the semi-finals.
Under the premise that there was a certain gap in strength, Chunkong faced Lin Yuancheng who was holding a sword with his bare hands, and was quickly defeated - after five moves, the sword was placed on Chunkong's hand. on the neck.
Chunkong simply surrendered to "Amitabha", and Lin Yuancheng also politely saluted Chunkong and immediately stepped down.
Because they were playing so fast, Sun Yixie didn't get much rest, so he returned to the ring while calling his mother a dick.
As for his opponent, Song Nuxia, who had been waiting for a long time, she immediately jumped onto the stage, holding a knife and clasping her fists, saying: "Please!"