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Chapter 27 Strength and Guidance

Swish.

Wu Ming knew that Hong Jiu was going to test his spear technique, so he was completely focused. When his first strike missed, he immediately changed his move, gripped the butt of the spear with his right hand and exerted force. With a flick of his wrist, he swept the spear back, just like a gentle breeze brushing against a willow tree.

Faced with this attack, Hong Jiu merely swayed and gracefully retreated, as if his feet did not touch the ground. His movements were like a ghost, accurately and elegantly avoiding Wu Ming's gunshot.

Wu Ming's gaze was serious, and he thrust out three more times in succession. These were a few moves that he had honed through many actual battles and was barely proficient at. He used them in a continuous manner, but he still couldn't touch even a trace of Hong Jiu's clothes.

"All right."

Seeing Wu Ming thrust his spear at him again, Hong Jiu finally spoke leisurely. His left hand suddenly stretched forward, and two fingers moved with lightning speed, clamping the spear shaft. Then, with those two slender fingers, he gently shook the spearhead.

Wu Ming immediately felt a tremendous force traveling along the spear shaft, causing it to vibrate violently. In an instant, he lost his grip on the spear.

Hong Jiu pulled with two fingers.

laugh.

Wu Ming was hit by a violent shock and lost his grip on the spear. At this moment, Hong Jiu pulled him with the strength of two fingers, and he completely lost his grip. The spear flew out of his hand and flew forward, heading towards Hong Jiu's chest.

Hong Jiu snatched the gun with two fingers. With a flick of his fingers, the gun tip turned downwards and stabbed straight down into the bluestone brick ground beside him. It seemed powerless, but the moment it made contact, half of the unsharpened gun head quietly disappeared into the brick.

Is this the power of combining three blood clotting techniques into one?
Seeing this, Wu Ming's gaze turned solemn, and his heart was filled with turmoil. He had only known the power of three blood coagulations before, but now he was experiencing it firsthand. With just two fingers exerting force and generating a shockwave, he was able to take away the spear that Wu Ming was holding with both hands.

"Not bad, he's definitely good for practicing shooting."

After Hong Jiu seized the ox-tendon spear, he first looked Wu Ming up and down, then nodded slightly and made a leisurely comment. Then he reached out and grasped the spear's butt, gently pulled it out, and removed the spearhead that was stuck in the brick.

laugh.

A mark remains on the bluestone brick.

Wu Ming stared intently at the mark left on the bluestone brick. The mark was incredibly clear. The most astonishing thing was not that the unsharpened spearhead had pierced halfway into the bluestone, but that apart from the dented mark of the spearhead, there were no other traces on the bluestone brick, not even cracks or breaks!

Logically speaking, with such powerful force, being able to penetrate half of a bluestone brick would be enough to completely shatter that bluestone brick, and might even crack several other bluestone bricks nearby.

however,
In reality, however, there were no cracks on the bluestone bricks.

This demonstrates that the penetrating force is completely condensed and unified, without any diffusion whatsoever.

If taking the spear from his hand with the strength of two fingers demonstrated the formidable power of three blood-coagulations, then the fact that the spearhead could penetrate stone without cracking showed the powerful control achieved through the unity of skill and technique.

"old."

Hong Jiu's gaze was also fixed on the marks on the bluestone bricks, and he sighed with emotion.

If he were young and full of vigor, he could have pierced through the entire bluestone brick with just the strength of two fingers. But now he can only pierce half of it. His strength and physique have declined a lot compared to when he was young.

Wu Ming listened to Hong Jiu's sigh, lowered his head and stood quietly to the side, not saying much.

After a while,
Hong Jiu, carrying his ox-tendon spear, walked towards a locust tree planted on one side of the courtyard. "You have good talent. You were able to grasp the essence of spear technique in just ten days. However, spear techniques cannot be mastered by simply looking at diagrams and books. Diagrams are static, but people are dynamic. Especially the Falling Leaf Spear Technique, which emphasizes precision, speed, and power."

Say it.

boom!
Hong Jiu suddenly swung his spear, and the spearhead lightly struck the trunk of the locust tree.

The entire sturdy locust tree suddenly trembled, its huge canopy swayed, and leaves fluttered down from the treetops.

Swish, swish, swish, swish.

Hong Jiu stood under the tree, brandishing his spear. He executed all sixteen moves of the Falling Leaf Spear Technique from beginning to end, each move as swift as the wind and as fast as thunder, sweeping up gusts of wind.

After the final move was used, all the fallen leaves hanging from the locust tree disappeared. Upon closer inspection, a clear and complete stack of fallen leaves could be seen gathered together, all pierced by the spearhead and hanging on it!

"Go practice."

How much you can learn from it depends on yourself.

Hong Jiu held his spear horizontally in his right hand and thrust it backward, sending the entire spear flying through the air and landing on Wu Ming.

Wu Ming subconsciously reached out and caught it, his thoughts still immersed in the sixteen moves of the Falling Leaf Spear Technique that Hong Jiu had just displayed. The sixteen flexible moves corresponded one by one with the diagrams recorded in the Falling Leaf Spear Technique manual in his memory.

Previously, his understanding of the Falling Leaf Spear Technique was limited to the fixed diagrams recorded in the classics and his slow exploration in actual combat. But now, in addition to the fixed diagrams, he also has the sixteen moves personally demonstrated by Hong Jiu. Now, the movements and stillness are in harmony and all are in his mind. In the future, he can save at least half of the hard work in practicing this spear technique!

"This junior thanks Elder Hong for his guidance."

Wu Ming tried his best to memorize all sixteen moves that Hong Jiu had demonstrated, reinforcing his impressions several times before quickly gathering his thoughts, holding his spear, bowing to Hong Jiu in thanks, and then carefully leaving.

Hong Jiu stood with his hands behind his back under the locust tree, and only after Wu Ming left the courtyard did he cast a glance into the distance.

It was a spur-of-the-moment decision; he personally gave Wu Ming some pointers on marksmanship.

Although the martial artists in the outer hall were all those who failed to be selected for the inner hall, and most of them were mediocre, occasionally one or two outstanding ones would emerge. For ordinary martial artists in the outer hall, if you wanted him to give you some pointers, you would have to offer him thirty or fifty taels of silver, and it would depend on his mood. But for someone like Wu Ming, whose aptitude was not bad and whose talent was also decent, he would give him some pointers whenever he met him.

Although it is extremely difficult for these young people to achieve blood coagulation three times, and even more difficult to master the skills of the Unity Realm, it is hard to say for sure. Over the decades, a few similar figures have emerged sporadically.

He wouldn't lose anything by offering just a few pointers.

At his age, besides enjoying his retirement, all he wants is for his descendants to have some gold, silver, and good fortune.

If in the future someone does rise from this path and reach the level of third-stage blood clotting, then his guidance now will be a great favor. Even if he himself doesn't need it, his descendants can still benefit from this favor.

"I wonder how far this kid will go in the future."

Hong Jiu looked away.

He walked back to the armchair in front of the courtyard.

(End of this chapter)