Chapter 280 Return to the City

Duan Rong slept until the afternoon.

He got out of bed and felt a dry throat. Duan Rong picked his eye mucus and sighed that he had been getting irritated recently.

He walked slowly to the entrance of the cave, squatted down and picked a large piece of bone-in ribs from the several pieces of venison drying there.

Duan Rong picked up the ribs with one hand and jumped along the cliff to the stream.

He first picked up some dead branches, lit them with a fire starter, put the ribs on the fire to smoke, then walked to the stream, washed his face, and drank a few handfuls of water.

Duan Rong wiped the water stains on his mouth with his sleeves. He looked up. There was no wind in the valley at this time, and it was even more quiet.

The faint sound of birds singing and the gurgling sound of the stream were all very clear, which set off the tranquility of the mountains and forests.

Duan Rong suddenly drew his sword and stood on a big rock by the stream!

The warm afternoon sun shone on his face. He closed his eyes. There was a drop of water on his freshly washed face. Duan Rong held the knife in his right hand, straight forward, in front of him, motionless! He closed his eyes, recalling the feeling of emptiness and clarity last night! Duan Rong was sure that in that emptiness and clarity, he had briefly reached the state of great perfection! Duan Rong stood there like a petrified man for half an incense stick of time, and then suddenly his figure flashed, and the knife light danced... Duan Rong's eyes were still closed, but after a few rounds, he stopped. He did not enter the state of emptiness and clarity last night. Duan Rong opened his eyes and looked at his oxtail knife. The oxtail knife was emitting a cold light in the spring sun. After Duan Rong paused for a few breaths, he moved again, and the knife light danced. This time he did not deliberately try to enter the state of emptiness and clarity last night. Instead, he removed the distracting thoughts in his mind and immersed himself in the knife! As Duan Rong was fighting, he found that his feelings had changed!

He did not enter that state of emptiness and clarity, but broke through directly!

Just like jumping out of the water with a pop, everything in front of him became clear in an instant!

So!

Perfection is harmony!

Harmony is selflessness!

At this moment, Duan Rong finally understood the true meaning of the state of great perfection!

At this time, his knife momentum was neither fast nor slow, and there was no sense of flowing water!

On the contrary, each knife looked extremely ordinary, like an old farmer cutting rice.

Duan Rong's eyes were also peaceful!

The knife has never killed anyone, it is just a fact, without killing intention!

It is just your friend!

It just cut your throat and took your life with compassion!

It has no intention to kill, it just completed the fact of killing in peace!

Killing intention will only hinder your clarity and make you narrow-minded and irritable, while a real killer is compassionate and peaceful!

Only in compassion and peace can he control everything!

This is the true meaning of selflessness!

Duan Rong was immersed in the state of great perfection. He struck out the Five Tigers and Sheep Knife one after another!

At this time, Duan Rong truly understood the last meaning of Xiao Zongting's original words!

Martial arts, with martial arts as the method of attack, internal skills as the foundation, and mental power as the core!

And the final state of martial arts is to control everything with mental power!

And this kind of control is not a kind of strong drive, but a kind of harmonious and unified response!

Duan Rong fought for nearly an hour before he suddenly put away his knife and stood up!

The sun had already set a little, and the lazy sunlight passed through the treetops, shining the shade on Duan Rong's face. Duan Rong smiled lightly. After an hour of fighting, he had completely understood the state of great perfection.

Duan Rong had just put away his knife and stood up when he suddenly smelled a burnt smell.

"Not good!"

Duan Rong's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly jumped onto the big rock by the stream. He saw that the pile of pine branches had burned out, leaving only a pile of ashes. The mountain deer ribs had already turned black like charcoal.

Duan Rong touched his rumbling stomach, stretched his waist, and sighed, "What a pity for a piece of good meat!"

Duan Rong had no choice but to go back to the cave, take another piece of meat down, light a fire on the big white stone again, and roast the deer meat on the fire.

While roasting the deer meat, Duan Rong thought about the wonderful feeling after breaking through the state of great perfection!

Duan Rong thought about it, and he was itching to show off his skills. He turned the deer meat in his hand, and drew his sword on the big white stone again, and started to show off!

This time, Duan Rong was not using the Five Tigers and Sheep Knife, but the Ximen family's Thunder Smoke Knife Technique.

He had previously penetrated the state of great perfection with the Five Tigers and Sheep Knife, and this time he was using the already achieved state of great perfection to penetrate the Thunder Smoke Knife Technique!

However, within a few breaths, Duan Rong had already completed the breakthrough of the Thunder Smoke Blade!

At this moment, he was performing the Thunder Smoke Blade Technique of the Great Perfection Realm by the streamside of the Empty Valley!

If Ximen Yong saw this, he would definitely burst into tears, because no one in the Ximen family had been able to practice this sword technique to such a peak state for several generations!

Duan Rong fought for nearly half an incense stick before stopping. He stood with his sword horizontally, and his eyes showed a deep contemplation.

"Oh no!"

Duan Rong's nose moved slightly, and he smelled a faint burnt smell again...

Duan Rong leaped and came to the fire on the big white stone. With a pick of his sword, he had already picked out the large piece of venison in the fire.

The black venison fell on the sparkling white stone, splashing a piece of sparks.

Duan Rong looked at the venison. One side was burnt, but fortunately the other side was not burnt.

Duan Rong used the knife in his hand to cut off the burnt side, took the remaining venison, and began to eat.

The fragrant and tender venison was mixed with a faint burnt smell, giving the illusion of eating bacon.

Duan Rong sat on the stone by the stream, eating venison while watching the setting sun gradually sinking to the west, his eyes were deep and smart.

Duan Rong only fully understood the meaning of Xiao Zongting's other words after he advanced the Thunder Smoke Blade to the realm of great perfection.

The power of the Five Tigers Sheep Knife can only be truly displayed after achieving the realm of great perfection!

The most prominent feature of the Five Tigers Sheep Knife is balance, or in other words, Xiao Zongting initially started to improve this sword technique for the purpose of the realm of great perfection.

At the level of the Great Perfection Realm, the Five Tigers Sheep Knife and the Thunder Smoke Knife have their own merits, but once the Great Perfection Realm is broken through, the Thunder Smoke Knife will be left behind by the Five Tigers Sheep Knife, and it will not be able to drink.

The original balance of the Five Tigers and Sheep Knife, in the state of great perfection, formed a perfect fusion!

Duan Rong was almost certain that this was a certain limit level of the great perfection realm, and this was also where Xiao Zongting worked hard all his life!

The great perfection realm of this sword technique almost exhausted the inner breath realm!

No more progress, one more step, it is the true energy realm!

Duan Rong originally wanted to use the great perfection realm to penetrate a few more sword techniques, but when he finished eating the piece of venison in his hand, he had changed his mind.

Because he was convinced that in the realm of great perfection, no sword technique could compare to the Five Tigers and Sheep Knife!

In the few days that Duan Rong was away, Ximen Kankan came to Duan Rong several times, but he didn't see anyone. After the Elite Selection Meeting, Ximen Yong completely released his control over Ximen Kankan. Ximen Kankan was just trying to have a good time during the ten days of the public announcement. He came to Duan Rong, hoping that Duan Rong would take him to the gambling house for a big kill, but Duan Rong was not there several times.

The last time, Ximen Kankan even took advantage of the fact that there was no one around and climbed into Liulu. He checked and confirmed that Duan Rong was not there, then he sighed and left sadly!

That afternoon, Xiao Yu also walked slowly to the gate of Liulu.

Xiao Yu looked at the gate of Liulu, which was piled with various gifts and visiting cards, and her eyebrows slightly frowned.

She still went forward and knocked on the door. Seeing that no one answered for a long time, she said: "I don't know where this guy has gone to hide and relax?"

Xiao Yu almost drained her internal energy in the segmented life and death battle. After this life and death tempering, after she went back, she recovered and digested it in the past few days, and suddenly broke through the Dacheng realm that had been trapped for a long time!

Xiao Yu broke through the Dacheng realm, and her leg injury was almost healed. She was itchy for a while and wanted to find Duan Rong to teach her some moves to sharpen and consolidate her newly broken Dacheng realm, but she didn't expect Duan Rong to be there.

Duan Rong suddenly sneezed twice in a row in the valley of Wild Boar Mountain!

Duan Rong rubbed his nose. "There's no wind here. Why did I sneeze for no reason?!"

Duan Rong used his body to leap between the steep cliffs of the valley!

He still remembered that when he broke through the small success level of the Cloud Snake Step, he leaped freely between the valleys and occasionally gained something!

But at this time, Duan Rong used his great perfection level to re-master the Cloud Snake Step!

Duan Rong's figure was as fast as a ghost, like a wild mandrill.

No mistakes!

After the great perfection level, his understanding of martial arts was completely different. At this time, the Cloud Snake Step he performed had a sense of mist between the cliffs.

After Duan Rong re-cultivated the Cloud Snake Step, he began to try to use the great perfection level to master his hidden weapon techniques!

His hidden weapon technique originally combined the Plum Blossom Needle Technique, the Thousand-Handed Arhat and the Thousand-Leaf Three Transformations, three completely different techniques. In fact, there are many incomplete parts in this fusion.

After Duan Rong reconnected with the Great Perfection Realm, he opened up many barriers.

At this time, Duan Rong's hidden weapon technique was more harmonious and natural. In the forest with mottled shadows of trees, Duan Rong's figure flashed, and a plum blossom afterimage bloomed at his hand, and a scimitar came out silently, piercing the forest and hitting the leaves!

In the next few days, Duan Rong practiced hard in the mountains and fields!

After achieving the Great Perfection Realm, it is equivalent to entering the hall.

The first thing after entering the hall is to clean up, clean up the discarded things, and reorganize the things that can still be used.

After these days of hard practice, Duan Rong has climbed several levels in his swordsmanship, light skills, and hidden weapon techniques, and his overall strength can be said to be brand new!

On this morning, Duan Rong sat on a big rock by the stream, gnawing on the roasted but somewhat stale venison.

Although there were game everywhere in the mountains and fields, Duan Rong did not want to kill rashly. In Duan Rong's opinion, it was really against the harmony of nature to hunt a wild animal every day just to eat fresh game!

Duan Rong chewed the venison, and his eyes showed a deep contemplation.

After a few days of hard training, his understanding of the subtle relationship between mental power and martial arts has become more profound.

The reason why mental power is the core of martial arts is that it is the highest ruler!

Duan Rong suddenly thought of an allusion he had learned in his previous life, called Li Guang Shooting a Tiger!

This allusion comes from the Records of the Grand Historian: "Guang went out hunting and saw a stone in the grass. He thought it was a tiger and shot it. The arrowhead sank into the stone and saw it as a stone. So he shot it again, but it could not enter the stone again."

This story means that when Li Guang went hunting, he saw a stone covered with grass leaves and thought it was a tiger, so he shot an arrow and the arrowhead hit the stone!

But when he knew it was a stone, he tried to shoot the arrow into it again, but it could not penetrate the stone again.

In this story in the Records of the Grand Historian, Taishigong used the pen of the Spring and Autumn Period to prove the governing role of mental power on martial arts!

When Li Guang thought it was a tiger, he was connected inside and outside, and focused on one thing, so he could shoot an arrow into the stone!

When he knew it was not a tiger but a stone, even if he wanted to pretend it was a tiger, there was already a will in his subconscious mind telling him that it was not a tiger, but a stone.

When your mental power has flaws, its ability to integrate and control martial arts will weaken.

Therefore, Li Guang shot again, but he could not penetrate the stone again.

So, again, the reason why mental power is the core of martial arts is that it is the highest ruler!

After Duan Rong finished eating the last piece of venison, he flashed back to the cave!

After several days of hard training, his training in the mountains has been completed! Moreover, the ten-day public notice period is about to end, and he should go back.

Duan Rong stood at the entrance of the cave, his spiritual consciousness was released, he explored every inch of the cave, frowned and thought...

He will be in Taiyi Sect for three years at the shortest, and he may never come back at the longest!

This cave base he inherited from the evil doctor Shen Ping is also quite secretive. At this time, Duan Rong must get rid of everything and take only what is necessary to take away. The rest can only be left in this cave.

Once he has an accident outside, or never comes back, this cave and the various rare things in it will probably become ownerless ruins...

In Xiangu County, at an alley inside the East City Gate, in the corner of the tea shop, Xie Daohan sat there with his felt hat drooping on his head.

The owner of the tea shop wiped the counter, and his eyes glanced at Xie Daohan's back from time to time, with a strange look of curiosity in his eyes.

This man has been sitting here for several days in a row! Every time he has a pot of tea and a plate of peanuts.

The boss looked at him carefully, but his hat brim was pulled down so low that the boss couldn't see his face clearly.

The boss's eyes swept to the knife on Jie Daohan's waist. Although the boss was curious, he didn't dare to ask. Recently, there have been many major cases in Xiangu County. This man has acted so strangely. Why should he make himself uncomfortable?

Ancient wisdom tells him that it is better to have less trouble than more.

He runs a tea shop. It doesn't matter if others sit and drink tea. It doesn't disturb his business. Why does he care about so many trivial matters?

Jie Daohan pinched a peanut and chewed it slowly. When it was tasteless, he slowly took a sip of tea.

The tea was ordered in the morning. It was hot in the morning, but now, it is dusk, and the tea has already been cold, and it hurts your teeth!

Xie Daohan waited here for a few days, but still did not see Duan Rong. However, Xie Daohan was not anxious at all, because two days later, the ten-day public notice would end. Xie Daohan expected that Duan Rong would definitely return to the city in these two days!

Xie Daohan had just taken a sip of the cold tea when he saw a desolate figure riding a red horse, riding into the city with a tired face!

When Xie Daohan saw that figure, his heart skipped a beat and he immediately lowered his head!

The one riding into the city was Duan Rong!