The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 262: Ten Years of Foundation Building Finally Completed

"Yes!"

Little Guo Jing responded loudly, stood up, wiped the grease off his mouth with his sleeve, and walked to the open space next to him.

Under the watchful eyes of the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, he took up his stance and began practicing the four techniques.

Different from the previous practice outside, when practicing one punch, two palms, three blocks and four steps together, each move is simple, direct, steady and powerful. Although there are only four steps, when they are performed from all directions, there are many more changes, and the speed is not slow.

Little Guo Jing punches and pushes his palms to rush to the east, raises his knees and bends his elbows to block to the west, pushes his palms and punches fiercely to the south, and pushes his palms sideways to attack and defend to the north.
There are four simple training methods, but due to different angles and directions, there are many variations.

Of course, not too much.
After practicing for dozens of times, Guo Jing's little body was steady yet agile, his little arms swung like wind-fire wheels, and his little fists waved vigorously.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that this child has already initially built up the basic framework of martial arts. What remains is to continuously strengthen this framework and, in the days that follow, slowly add to it, making it more and more solid and more and more stable, and finally forming a set of martial arts that is unique to him.

However, Xu Xingchen still overestimated the vision of the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan.

When the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan saw little Guo Jing's practice, they all exclaimed in disbelief.

"This kid's skills are already solid."

"Not bad, not bad, great progress"

"Master Xu must have spent a lot of effort to train this kid to this level."

"Hehe, who knows, Master Xu has been pissed off countless times."

After being amazed, Han Baoju ate the meat with big mouthfuls while shouting: "Jing'er, you have practiced these basic skills well. It seems that you have worked hard. Next, show us a set of boxing techniques."

Quan Jinfa swallowed the food in his mouth, took a sip of milk tea to moisten his throat, and then said, "Yes, Jing'er, show us a set of boxing skills, let us see if your boxing skills have improved too."

Little Guo Jing put away his fists, scratched the back of his head, and looked embarrassed: "Masters, Master Xu only taught me those four training methods, and didn't teach me other martial arts."

Xu Xingchen, who was gnawing on mutton, put down the bone stick in his hand and interrupted, "Everyone, I haven't taught him other things yet. Jing'er is still young, so it's not appropriate for him to be greedy and want everything."

"what?!"

The Seven Freaks of Jiangnan all looked at Xu Xingchen in astonishment, their faces full of confusion.

Zhu Cong put away the black paper fan, frowned and asked: "Master Xu, if I only teach those few training methods, wouldn't it be too little?"

Xu Xingchen shook his head and said, "Those four training methods are training methods that I tailored based on his physical qualifications. There are quite a few essentials contained in them. It took me two months to teach him at the beginning."

Hearing this, the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan were greatly shocked.

"A tailor-made training method?"

"Although it is simple, it contains many essentials of martial arts?"

"Jing'er is a little bit stupid, but it's a bit too much to take two months to learn these four training methods."

"Could it be that the moves Jing'er just practiced were really not simple?!"

Xu Xingchen didn't care what the Jiangnan Seven Freaks were thinking. After a moment's silence, he said to them, "Next, let me continue to teach Jing'er martial arts."

"You have done a good job in training Jing'er to stretch his muscles and temper his willpower in the first half of the year."

"In the last six months, he has already built up the necessary martial arts skills under my command. If you were to teach him, I'm afraid that the martial arts skills he has worked so hard to build would be wasted."

"How about you teach him something other than martial arts?"

The Seven Freaks of Jiangnan looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

In terms of martial arts, although they have never really fought with Xu Xingchen, they roughly estimated that they are no match for him.

In terms of gratitude, the sword skills left on the stone wall were of great help to them, so he could be called a "half-master".

In terms of teaching apprentices, he was able to tailor training methods based on Jing'er's physical fitness. Is this something that ordinary people in the martial arts world can do? !

Be it in terms of martial arts, gratitude, or the ability to teach apprentices, the seven of them had no advantages and naturally had no qualifications to refute.

In the end, I had no choice but to agree.

In the years that followed, Xu Xingchen continued to train little Guo Jing in martial arts, and the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan passed on their respective skills to little Guo Jing.

For example, Ke Zhenwu's hidden weapons, Zhu Cong's magic hands, Han Baoju's horse-judging skills, Zhang Asheng's method of butchering cattle, Quan Jinfa's arithmetic,
At the same time, Xu Xingchen did not forget to continue teaching little Guo Jing to read and write. He first practiced writing calligraphy on the ground with a branch, then poetry and songs, and then some Confucian classics, and finally the Taoist Canon of the Book of Changes.
Little Guo Jing memorizes things very slowly, but once he remembers something he will never forget it for a long time.

In this way, he memorized and accumulated knowledge day by day, and after more than ten years, he had memorized a lot of the book content. Of course, he memorized most of the content, but because of his young age and lack of experience, Guo Jing could not understand it yet, so he could only slowly experience it in his life in the future.

Over the years, the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan had a lot of free time and returned to the Central Plains many times. They brought back some pens, ink, paper and inkstones for Xu Xingchen and Guo Jing so that Guo Jing could practice calligraphy on paper. At the same time, they also sent people to the Quanzhen Sect in Zhongnan Mountain to deliver a letter, which recorded the news that they had found Li Ping and her son.

At the same time, they also learned from the reply letter that Qiu Chuji had also found Bao Xiruo and her child Yang Kang, and had accepted them as disciples and taught them the Quanzhen Kung Fu.

Time flies, water flows easily.

Ten years passed in a flash.

At the age of sixteen, Guo Jing had grown into a simple and honest young man with broad shoulders, a thick back, a strong waist and legs, and an extremely strong body.

He was practicing martial arts in an open space in the valley. The foundation was still the "old four", but some new content had been added.

There aren't many martial arts moves, only a dozen or so in total.

After a long period of practice, these dozen moves have been ingrained into Guo Jing's bones and become an unforgettable instinct.

His waist sank, and he became as steady as a mountain, not shaking or moving.
He leaped forward like a tiger, swift as the wind.
A punch was thrown out with the force of a cannon, blasting the air.
His feet stepped in the simple Four Elephants Steps, his body moved as fast as a phantom, and his palms slapped out in succession, his attack as continuous as the Yangtze River.

An occasional blocking defense is like a solid wall that no wind or rain can penetrate.

With just simple fist and kick skills, Guo Jing managed to display an invincible momentum that was as fast as lightning, as quick as a gale, as fierce as a tiger, and with a force that could penetrate three rivers.

Click!

A punch hit a rock as tall as a person, and spider-web-like cracks appeared in all directions with the fist as the center. The power was extremely astonishing.

“Good, great!”

"Jing'er's martial arts are becoming more and more advanced"

"Yes, at such a young age, he is even better than we were when we were twenty. He is simply a genius."

The Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, Han Baoju, Zhang Asheng and Quan Jinfa, who were watching from the sidelines, all clapped and cheered, looking very excited.

Ke Zhenwu couldn't see very well, but he heard everything clearly and nodded with satisfaction.

Zhu Cong waved a black paper fan and smiled at Nancy Ren, both of them sparkling with indescribable brilliance in their eyes.

Han Xiaoying showed a motherly smile on her face.

After ten years of vicissitudes, she has grown from a young girl into a beautiful middle-aged woman in her twenties.

It is not known if it was because Zhang Asheng had suffered a serious injury, but after ten years of marriage, the couple had no children.

However, they are both free-spirited men of the world, and even if they don't have children, it doesn't affect their relationship as a couple.

Han Xiaoying poured all her motherly love into Guo Jing!
Over the years, the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan have long accepted their fate and acknowledged Xu Xingchen's status as the "real master", while the seven of them were automatically downgraded to Guo Jing's "secondary masters", mainly teaching him some other skills and martial arts experience.

Of course, there is another reason why the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan were willing to accept their fate and feel proud of Guo Jing's improvement in martial arts.

That is, they also benefited greatly from Xu Xingchen.
The incident started when they returned from the Central Plains for the first time and brought Xu Xingchen some Jiangnan specialty cakes and a jar of osmanthus wine.

Xu Xingchen was so happy to receive the gifts that he exchanged martial arts with the seven of them. After the exchange, he gave them some pointers on martial arts.

The guidance they received was comparable to what they gained from understanding the sword marks on the stone wall. It was an unexpected and huge surprise.

Since then, every time the seven of them returned from Central Plains, they would bring back some special snacks from all over the Central Plains in exchange for Xu Xingchen's guidance.

Over the past ten years, the martial arts of the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan have made great progress.

The eldest brother Ke Zhen'e and the second brother Zhu Cong even transformed themselves again and became martial arts masters who achieved a second breakthrough.

The relationship between them and Xu Xingchen can be described as "half teacher and half friend", and is extremely close.

On open ground.
Guo Jing retracted his fist, slowly ended his training, and then let out a long breath.

After opening his eyes, he first clasped his fists and smiled at the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan, then turned to look at Master Xu not far away and said in a silly voice: "Master, I have broken this stone. Have I completed the basic skills?"

Xu Xingchen, who is also ten years older, looks exactly the same as he did ten years ago. The vicissitudes of time have not left any trace on his face, except for the light in his eyes, which has become more profound and unfathomable.

Hearing Guo Jing's question, he stood up from the stone, leaning on the Dragon Slaying Sword, and staggered to the big stone. He poked the crack on it with the scabbard of the sword, and saw the broken stones falling down. He couldn't help but sighed and said, "Yes, after ten years of foundation building, it is finally completed."

(End of this chapter)