Kiryu's tone was very calm, as if he only said a trivial matter.

Qingdeng's neck suddenly stiffened.

After a while, Qingdeng seemed to come back to his senses. He slowly asked:

"Cut off the steel or the mainmast of the battleship?"

Qingden's eyes seemed to be saying to Kiryu: Are you kidding me?

Steel? Battleship mainmast? Can these things be cut off with a sword?

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Kiryu laughed rarely.

"Tachibana-kun, you don't have to look like this."

"At first glance, you may think what I just said is unbelievable, but if you can master the secret, then there will be nothing in the world that you can't cut, be it wood or steel."

Kiryu seemed to have said something very powerful, and Qingto was confused and confused.

"Master...the secret?"

Qingto pondered, and then asked Kiryu with his eyes: What is the secret?

Kiryu chuckled, as if he was deliberately trying to put it off and was not in a hurry to give an explanation immediately.

He raised his wine glass very much like an old man from the village, took a sip of the wine, and then looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh that seemed to be very satisfied with the taste of the wine.

It wasn't until Qingdeng became anxious with waiting that he finally opened his lips again:

"Tachibana-kun, you should know about Tosuji, right?"

"Of course I know."

Qingdeng answered without hesitation.

To put it simply, the knife tendon is the movement trajectory of the knife.

By controlling the cutting trajectory and the target to be cut on the same level, you can naturally achieve the ideal cutting effect.

On the contrary, it is easy to fail to cut off the target smoothly and have burrs on the fracture.

Therefore, when using a knife, all force should be applied in a straight line.

The direction of the blade and the direction of force when slashing down must remain exactly the same.

Otherwise, the cutting effect will be unsatisfactory at best, and the blade will be damaged at worst.

"When the mind is calm, the sword tendons are easy to straighten; when the mind is disordered, the sword tendons are easy to bend. Therefore, no matter what sect or sect, they all attach great importance to 'training the mind'."

"No matter what situation you encounter, you will not be at the mercy of personal emotions and can always wield the sword calmly. Only by doing this can you be called a qualified swordsman."

Kiryu looked at Qingden meaningfully.

"So - Mr. Tachibana, let me ask you: If you can achieve the ultimate goal of not being at the mercy of personal emotions, what kind of situation will be born?"

Qingdeng was startled.

At this moment, he felt like there was a hanging thread hanging down in his mind, as if something was about to take the bait.

Kiryu smiled and gave Qingden a moment to think.

After a while, he continued:

"If you want to reach the state of being able to kill things that mortals cannot kill, you only need to meet two conditions."

Kiryu held out two fingers.

"First, have a good weapon."

"No matter how skilled a woman is, if you don't give her needles and thread, she won't be able to make beautiful clothes."

"The same goes for swordsmen."

"No matter how excellent a swordsman is in swordsmanship, if you don't give him a good sword, he won't be able to fully utilize his abilities."

"As for the second one...don't be confused."

"If the sword does not come out of its sheath, it is fine; if the sword does not come out of its sheath, it requires unity of mind and heart."

Qingdeng's eyes suddenly shrank.

The mind and the heart are united... This sentence is very familiar to Qingto - the introduction to the ability of "Wuxian no Hachiman" has almost the same content!

For a moment, Qingden held his breath subconsciously, and looked at Kiryu without blinking, as if the word "serious" was plastered on his cheeks.

Aonto's intuition told him: What Kiryu will say next may become a key clue to launch the "Wuxian Hachiman", so he must not miss it!

On the side, Makimura and Kinoshita Mai kept their silence very knowingly, creating as comfortable an environment as possible for the master and apprentice who were teaching.

"Boss Kiryu." Qingto asked back, "When you talk about 'unity of mind and heart'...does it mean to concentrate on concentration and not to have distracting thoughts?"

Kiryu shook his head.

"Concentrate on it, concentrate on it—this kind of thing can be done even by a child with a rough mouth."

"What I call 'unity of mind and spirit' is not just about being very focused. The most important thing is to maintain a high degree of unity between will and emotion, and to achieve a mental state in which you don't think about anything except 'cutting off what is in front of you.'"

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Doubt and confusion...and a complex expression that seemed to understand something, but seemed to understand nothing, appeared on Qingdeng's face.

"Boss Kiryu, can you explain it in more detail?"

Qingdeng asked tentatively.

Kiryu adjusted his glasses and said "Of course, why not?"

"Many times, you think you have entered a state of concentration, but in fact there are still quite a lot of distracting thoughts remaining in your mind."

"For example, when you are fighting someone, do you often can't help but think:"

"How will the opponent attack next?"

"If my attack fails, how should I remedy it?"

"If he takes such an offensive, how should I defend myself?"

"If I lose, will I have to say goodbye to my lover, relatives and friends forever?"

"When this happens, it means: you have not controlled your emotions."

"Ji Jun, if you find it troublesome, you can forget everything I just said and just remember this sentence - 'control emotions'."

"The will to fight that is harder to shake than a rock, and the firm purpose that will never give up until something is cut off. As long as you possess these two powers, you can cut through anything within its reach."

Qingden murmured these two sentences repeatedly as if chewing:

"A will to fight that is harder to shake than a rock...a firm purpose that will never give up until something is cut off..."

The hanging thread that hangs into my mind gives me the feeling of being entangled with something.

Something took the bait...

However, no matter how hard Qingden tried, he could not "finish" smoothly.

The unknown thing entangled in the hanging wire is very heavy, heavy, and slippery.

The harder you try, the harder it is to catch the fish.

Just when Aonto was troubled by "being unable to put away the hanging thread in his mind," Kiryu's sudden cry brought Aoto's consciousness back to reality:

"Tachibana-kun, there's only so much I can say. The rest, you can only rely on yourself to slowly understand."

"What?" Qingden said dumbfounded, "Boss Kiryu, don't stop talking in the middle of what you are saying! Please be sure to give me a few more words!"

Kiryu Wanji:

"My silly disciple, I didn't stop talking in the middle of what I said."

"I have taught you everything I can and should say without reservation."

"If this level of knowledge is taught too thoroughly, it will be harmful to you."

"Therefore, I must point it out to the end, leaving enough room for you to 'understand for yourself'."

"It's just like: before, you had been wandering around like a headless fly in a foggy wilderness."

"After listening to my instructions just now, you successfully escaped from the 'fog wilderness' and came to a crossroads."

"Leading you to this crossroads - that's all I can do."

"Next, whether you want to go north or south; whether you want to look east or go west, it all depends on your personal thinking and judgment."

"I can't share my past experience with you."

"Because there is no right answer as to which way we should go."

"No matter which path you choose, you can reach the destination."

"That's why I said that if I tell you too clearly, it will be easy to harm you."

"'Your master and I were heading south back then, so as long as you keep up with my master's footsteps, you will be right to go south as well' - once such words are said, it is very likely to cause you great harm.
To be continued...