Chapter 5: Go to Fujian

After a while, Yue Buqun came up to Deshan. Tang Jinlou understood the reason why Feng Qingyang left. Yue Buqun glanced at Tang Jinlou and said, "What are you standing here for?" Tang Jinlou reacted and said, "Oh, I was about to call the senior brother out, and the food was about to be cold."

Yue Buqun said "Yes" and said, "I'll go and let him come out. I'll also go and see this swordsmanship on the stone wall." Tang Jinlou was stunned and then replied, "Yes."

There is a secret cave on the Siguo Cliff of Huashan that records the unique skills of the Five Mountains. In addition to Yue Buqun and his wife, Linghu Chong and Tang Jinlou, no fifth person knows about this. In order to keep it secret, Yue Buqun never let Ning Zhongze come up with him to avoid being suspicious. He himself only went up the cliff once a few days later. What made Tang Jinlou very confused was that since he was so afraid of arousing suspicion, why not copy all the things on the stone wall and practice secretly on Chaoyang Peak?

Five or six days passed, and Feng Qingyang did not appear during this period. This day, Lin Pingzhi practiced the basic sword technique for half a day. After lunch, Tang Jinlou and Linghu Chong watched the sword technique in the stone cave for half an afternoon. At dusk, Linghu Chong had a whim and proposed to compete with Tang Jinlou. Tang Jinlou agreed happily.

Tang Jinlou and Linghu Chong's sword skills are already considered to be masterful at this time, and ordinary martial arts masters will definitely not get any benefits in their hands. The two are very familiar with each other's sword skills. They fight each other continuously. Linghu Chong's sword skills are good at changing. Tang Jinlou has high internal skills and has made a lot of progress in the past few months. The swords are faintly filled with purple air and are extremely powerful. The sword skills of the two are between the two, and it is unpredictable who will lose and who will win. When they fight for more than one hundred moves, Tang Jinlou shouted loudly, and the sword stabbed out with a sword, making a loud sound of breaking through the air. This is bullying Linghu Chong's internal skills are not as good as him. Linghu Chong blocked several swords and retreated backwards. Tang Jinlou did not pursue. Linghu Chong smiled and said, "Seventh Junior Brother, we are competing for swordsmanship, not internal skills."

Tang Jinlou pulled a sword flower and sent the long sword into the sheath, and said with a smile: "The essence of this sect's sword technique is to use energy to control the sword. Master, your internal strength must be practiced hard."

Linghu Chong smiled bitterly and shook his head. At this time, the sun had already closed its stunning light, becoming red and quiet. Tang Jinlou and the other two couldn't help feeling relaxed when they saw such a beautiful scenery. After a while, the sun completely set off the mountain. Tang Jinlou took out a fire note, went to the entrance of the cave to take a torch and lit it.

The two walked into the cave and saw a long shadow reflected on the wall under the light of fire, which was extremely abrupt. Tang Jinlou was shocked and looked at the shadow, then shouted in surprise: "Uncle Feng!"

The black shadow turned around, with long hair and long beards on his face, and it was Feng Qingyang. Feng Qingyang said, "Two little kids, they keep making trouble all day long. If I don't give you advice, I'm afraid I won't even sleep well."

Tang Jinlou was overjoyed and knelt on the ground with Linghu Chong, saying, "Thank you, Uncle Grand Master."

Feng Qingyang sat down on a flat rock, pointed at him and said, "Sit down." The two sat down as they said. Feng Qingyang slowly said, "Your swordsmanship has made great progress, which is far beyond my expectations." The two looked at each other, and they were both happy. Feng Qingyang said, "With your current swordsmanship, even if you look at the world, you will not dare to underestimate you. But it is not easy for you to beat them."

Tang Jinlou remembered the situation when he fought with Ding Mian, Fei Bin and others in Hengshan, and knew that Feng Qingyang was right. Feng Qingyang stood up from the seat and walked down the big stone. He said slowly: "There are thousands of people practicing martial arts in the world, most of them are mediocre, and a very small number of people are not very powerful even if they are stronger than others. People of your level can already be considered masters." Since Tang Jinlou learned martial arts, although he knew that his sword skills were "good", no one had ever told him that he was a master. Suddenly, he heard such a great master praising him like this, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud.

Feng Qingyang paced in the cave and continued, "It is difficult to make progress even harder than hard practice. If hard practice is of great use, how can the messy heads of this sect and the heads of that sect always find it difficult to go further?" After saying that, he sighed and said, "I will not come out to mention you if you can succeed by hard practice."

Tang Jinlou thought of Yu Canghai, Mu Gaofeng, Tian Boguang and others. Even if these people don’t win, they will never lose their lives. But Yue Buqun and Mr. Mo Da have made him feel unfathomable until now. He felt that Feng Qingyang said that day, "turning the complex into simplification" and that Yue Buqun competed with Yu Canghai in the woods. At that time, he only felt that his sword skills were so skillful that he could remove the Songfeng sword that the leader of Qingcheng had to do with all his strength. Now it seems that Yue Buqun has reached the advanced realm of turning the complex into simplification and making moves casually.

Feng Qingyang said, "Lou'er. Do you still remember the moves I asked you to take that day." Tang Jinlou said, "Disciple remembers that they are all moves in basic sword techniques. Uncle Taishi said, this is the realm of simplifying the complex into simplifying the complex." Feng Qingyang smiled and said, "Yes, it means simplifying the complex into simplifying the complex. Today I will tell you the principle of simplifying the complex into simplifying the sword technique."

Feng Qingyang lifted the corner of his clothes and jumped onto a big stone. He sat cross-legged across from the two of them and said, "Lu'er, how did you feel when I set out on the sword that day?"

Tang Jinlu said, "Every move is very ordinary, but when you use it, it makes me feel that I can't dodge and it's incomparable!" Feng Qingyang clapped his hands and said, "No, no, this is to simplify the complexity. All the tricks you have learned are continuous afterward moves. Often, the more complex the sword moves, the more brilliant it is. But as the saying goes, 'A movement is not as good as a quietness', one move is 'There is a phoenix', when you stab a sword, you can have four changes, but if someone uses the sword to attack, as long as you use the second move, there will be no more four changes. If the second move cannot deal with the opponent, then this move is no different from being broken."

The two of them seemed to understand, and Feng Qingyang continued, "Only if the back moves cannot be used, the change can be endless. All sword techniques are composed of simple movements such as stabbing, picking, wiping, chopping, and tweeting. The simpler your sword, the easier it is to be broken. This is because you change too little, but the sword moves are simple, your back moves can be infinitely changed, and your opponent is more afraid. It is just that people with low martial arts skills, once they use this straightforward sword technique, they will be stabbed to death by their opponents, because they are not simplifying the complex, but are sturdy and slamming hard."

Feng Qingyang saw that the two of them were still thinking hard, and it seemed not only difficult to understand. He even seemed to believe but not believe. He smiled slightly and said, "Simplifying the complex into simplification is a big obstacle that any martial arts master must go through. If you can make a breakthrough in two months under my guidance, I will be very happy."

Tang Jinlou and Linghu Chong said in unison: "Yes, thank you for your advice." Tang Jinlou said again: "Don't worry, uncle, we will work hard to achieve the state of simplifying the complex as soon as possible."

In the next month, Tang Jinlou and Linghu Chong practiced swordsmanship under Feng Qingyang's guidance, and their swordsmanship made great progress again without realizing it.

That morning, Lu Dayou came up to the Sijiu Cliff and said that Yue Buqun told Tang Jinlou that he had finished thinking and could go down the mountain, while Linghu Chong continued to stay on the Sijiu Cliff to observe the effect.

After Tang Jinlou said goodbye to Linghu Chong in confusion, he went down the cliff and went to the door. He was not doing anything for the Xuanli, Tang Jinlou knocked on the door outside the door and said, "Is Master here? Disciple Tang Jinlou asked for a visit."

Yue Buqun's faint voice came from the door: "Come in."

Tang Jinlou entered the door and saw Yue Buqun sitting next to the desk, Ning Zhongze stood beside her husband. Seeing Tang Jinlou, Ning Zhongze said, "Louer, I have been staying in Siguo Cliff for three months, and you have lost a little weight again." Tang Jinlou smiled and said, "It's not good for those who practice martial arts to be too fat. The disciple has lost a few pounds. I guess he should get a little faster with his light skills." Yue Buqun said, "I just went down the mountain, why are you so slickering again?" But his smile was faint on his face, and he obviously was not angry.

Tang Jinlou said, "Master, I wonder if there is anything wrong with asking me to come down from the Sijiu cliff this time?"

Ning Zhongze said: "You kid, Siguo Cliff is a place where you think about your mistakes behind closed doors. How come you speak, it seems like Siguo Cliff is your home." Tang Jinlou said embarrassedly: "Disciple, I saw that my master only asked me to come down, so I guessed this way." Tang Jinlou made a mistake ten times greater than Linghu Chong, and of course the impact on the outside world was almost zero - because no one knew it, but Yue Buqun obviously did not use this as the standard.

Yue Buqun said "Yes" and said, "You are smart and know how big a mistake you have made... This time I really have something to do..." He looked at Ning Zhongze, and Ning Zhongze smiled and said, "It's actually your junior brother Lin's business. He had nightmares a few days ago, so he asked us to take their parents' ashes back to Fujian for burial. You usually teach him sword skills, so I want you to accompany him back to Fujian."
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