A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 141 Yuan Style
After Xiao Zongting finished the three moves, he was already exhausted and out of breath. He sighed and said, "I am getting old after all!"

Xiao Zongting looked at the broken-blade broadsword in his hand and said with a self-deprecating smile: "Old buddy, my old bones can no longer lift you!"

Duan Rong stood there in a daze. Although Xiao Zongting had stopped, Duan Rong's mind kept replaying the three nameless moves that Xiao Zongting had just performed.

Xiao Zongting looked at Duan Rong standing there, his eyes shining, staring intently into the void, and he knew that he had seen through the three moves just now.

"This kid... is quite insightful..." Xiao Zongting chuckled. To be honest, even if Duan Rong was completely confused and at a loss after reading it, he thought it was normal. On the contrary, he was surprised by the fact that Duan Rong was now in deep thought.

Xiao Zongting put the broken-blade broadsword back into the house, then he left Duan Rong standing there in a daze while he limped out of the yard.

He still had things to deal with in the backyard.

Xiao Zongting walked to the outer courtyard, looked at Zhu Xiaoqi, and asked, "Duan Rong is in the inner courtyard, don't disturb him!"

"Oh." Zhu Xiaoqi didn't understand, but seeing Xiao Zongting's serious expression, she still agreed.

Xiao Zongting took two steps and warned again: "Don't talk to him either."

"I understand!" Zhu Xiaoqi pouted, seeming to be annoyed by Xiao Zongting's nagging.

Only then did Xiao Zongting leave the yard.

Zhu Xiaoqi looked at Xiao Zongting's back, and then glanced through the moon door at Duan Rong who was standing there stupidly. He said unconvincedly, "Who wants to talk to him?"

Xiao Zongting left the yard, crossed the martial arts field, and went to the backyard.

Xu Shouxian, Zhou An, Wang De'an, and Zhu Shicheng have all been detained. Xiao Zongting is going to go over and pour them a cup of tea and ask them to smile apologetically. This will at least ease the conflict. After all, they will have to work together in the future.

Xiao Zongting went to Xu Shouxian's room first, and the one guarding outside Xu Shouxian's door was Xiao Yu.

As soon as Xiao Yu saw Xiao Zongting, he hurriedly asked, "Dad! Why were Duan Rong, Lu Feng and the others called to the Juyi Hall? I saw that Lu Feng looked very unhappy, as if his father had died. What happened?"

"What's the matter? Just stand guard! Why are you asking so many questions?" Xiao Zongting glared at Xiao Yu and scolded.

Xiao Yu was slightly stunned. Xiao Zongting hadn't scolded her for a long time. But the more Xiao Zongting scolded her, the more Xiao Yu felt that something was wrong. However, she had to fulfill her duty and couldn't leave her post. She just stood there, anxious...

Duan Rong just stood there in Xiao Zongting's yard, motionless, for nearly an incense stick of time.

Zhu Xiaoqi was already standing at the Moon Gate and had looked at him several times. If Xiao Zongting had not instructed her to do so, she would have gone over to call Duan Rong long ago.

"Why are you standing there like an idiot? Are you possessed?" Zhu Xiaoqi muttered while picking vegetables.

Suddenly, Duan Rong pulled out his oxtail knife and scared Zhu Xiaoqi, who was sitting in front of the Moon Gate and picking vegetables.

The oxtail knife flashed with a cold light, but Duan Rong held the knife and did not move for a long time.

Duan Rong had gone over Xiao Zongting's three nameless moves in his mind several times, but when he wanted to perform them himself, he felt like he had no idea where to start.

It's like a dance, you know all the moves, but he can't find the rhythm.

Without rhythm, or rhyme, the movements won't flow together.

For general knife techniques, the rhythm is easy to grasp. As long as you practice, the rhythm will come naturally.

But these three moves are Yuan styles, and even when Xiao Zongting performed them, there was a sense of incoherence.

But it is not really incoherent, but the rhythm of these three styles is restrained and hidden, and not easy to detect.

Although Duan Rong felt like he had no idea where to start, he still gritted his teeth and practiced the first move.

Duan Rong's movements were intermittent, and Zhu Xiaoqi, who was picking vegetables in front of the Moon Gate, covered his mouth and laughed.

Despite this, Duan Rong fought again.

Do this for the third time, and the fourth time!
But the feeling of not knowing where to start has not diminished in the slightest.

Duan Rong closed his eyes and thought again, recalling Xiao Zongting's moves in his mind. Xiao Zongting's moves also had a sense of discontinuity. But Xiao Zongting's sense of discontinuity was completely different from Duan Rong's intermittent style of fighting.

Xiao Zongting's fighting style was rhythmic, but the rhythm was relatively hidden, so it appeared to be incoherent.

"Just because the rhythm is hidden doesn't mean there is no rhythm. I just need to find that hidden rhythm!"

Duan Rong recalled Xiao Zongting's actions in his mind again, but this time his focus was different.

Duan Rong gradually realized that Xiao Zongting's sense of incoherence was a deliberate, controlled pause.

Duan Rong's eyes lit up, as if a bolt of lightning illuminated his heart.

He suddenly realized that the pause between Xiao Zongting's moves was actually a chance for him to change his tactics!

"These three moves are incomplete! You need to use alternative moves to fill in the gaps before you can complete the moves!"

"In other words, by filling them with different variations, these three moves will evolve into different moves!"

"These three styles are just the soul, but its body can be varied!"

Duan Rong realized this and suddenly felt a chill in his body. "Xiao Zongting is really a genius. He can actually create such an open-ended sword move!"

"If you master these three moves, you can even transform any sword technique into something magical and elevate it to a higher level."

Duan Rong instantly understood why Xiao Zongting wanted to teach him these three moves at this time. If he could learn these three moves in a short period of time, he could raise his martial arts skills to a higher level. In this way, when he sent the gold to the mass grave, he would have a better chance of survival.

But the prerequisite is that he can understand it!
As soon as Duan Rong understood it, he immediately started to show off his skills. Although he had mastered many sword techniques, the one he was most familiar with was the Five Tigers and Sheep Sword.

He wanted to try first, and incorporate the changes of the Five Tigers and Sheep Swords into these three nameless moves.

After repeated attempts, Duan Rong finally split up the Black Tiger Climbing the Mountain and Leopard Diving into the Forest moves and incorporated them into the first move.

Although the three styles are integrated, the first style of the nameless three styles is still the soul. It commands the Black Tiger Climbing the Mountain and the Leopard Drilling into the Forest, and actually injects something new into the original moves.

The first move after the fusion was erratic and strange, and Duan Rong discovered that this move actually had a looping structure.

That is, a leopard goes into the forest, followed by a black tiger climbing a mountain, followed by a leopard goes into the forest again...

The cycle goes on and on...

This is determined by the original structure of the first formula...

Duan Rong fought non-stop in the yard, his eyes focused and excited, his sword flashed like water, and kept turning...

At this moment, Xiao Zongting returned to the yard. When he saw Duan Rong surrounded by a flash of sword light, Xiao Zongting was stunned. He was originally planning to come back and give Duan Rong some pointers after he had thought deeply and tried it himself, but Duan Rong actually understood it on his own.

"This……"

Seeing Duan Rong perform the sword moves he created so well, Xiao Zongting felt indescribably moved.

Yes, it’s touching!

Because he really wants to pass on his things!
But these three moves were so strange that he was always afraid that no one would be able to understand them.

But Duan Rong actually understood it himself.

"Boy, we two martial arts fanatics really have a lot in common!"

In fact, with Duan Rong's current level of martial arts, it was impossible for him to comprehend such strange and weird moves.

However, he had absorbed more than a dozen sword techniques that had reached a minor level of success, and after several life-and-death trials while escorting a caravan, his horizons had been broadened, and his understanding of martial arts had become more profound.

These are things that ordinary people cannot possibly possess.

In this world, there is no one who can master more than ten sword techniques to the level of minor success!
(End of this chapter)