Chapter 3 Concentration
At night, the candlelight flickered in the room, flickering brightly and dimly.
Song Changming, who was off duty tonight, was looking at the parchment in the room.
The origin of the old man's ring is unknown. Whether it is good or evil, the risk is difficult to determine.
What if there was a big devil hiding here that was beyond his knowledge, who kept fooling him, and had designs on him, and it would be really bad if he stayed here.
And the secret of his immortality does not allow him to carry such a ring with him as a companion.
Therefore, he did not feel it was a pity that the ring was abandoned.
However, the martial arts recorded on this parchment are worthy of him taking a closer look.
If it was true, he might not be able to practice it accordingly.
As for practicing martial arts, in fact, he has already had an idea.
He can't always be a low-level night watchman. If he wants to improve his life, he has to continue to move up.
Each street patrol department in the city has patrol quota vacancies every year, which are either filled or expanded.
To become a patrolman, the most basic requirement is to have a certain level of physical strength.
To put it simply, it requires a martial artist who has practiced martial arts.
After all, this is an armed unit that maintains law and order, and anyone who fishes in troubled waters must be cautious.
Therefore, martial arts training is something Song Changming must be exposed to.
Not only to serve as a patrol, but also to be able to protect myself in the future and to be able to escape unscathed when faced with danger.
Originally, he wanted to choose a martial arts gym in the city to sign up for a class and practice martial arts.
However, if he wanted to enter a decent martial arts gym to practice martial arts, he would need to pay expensive tuition fees from the beginning. He didn't have the money at the moment and would have to save up some time.
And I heard that the cost of subsequent martial arts training is also very high. Money is needed everywhere, and the road to martial arts training is not easy.
At the moment, he cannot enter the martial arts hall for the time being, so he can only study the martial arts on this parchment.
Even if you fail to practice it in the end, it may still have some reference value.
The two folded pieces of parchment were quite large when spread out, and together they were enough to cover half of a square table.
It was densely packed with words, and the handwriting was scrawled, as well as some illustrations, but it was obvious that the person who copied it was not very good at drawing, and it was a little skewed.
It made Song Changming look like a grandpa on the subway looking at his cell phone with great effort.
"The Soul-Destroying Sword is a martial art of the Ghost Sword faction. The sword style is sinister and vicious. It is good at cutting throats and decapitating people. At the level of Xiaocheng, one can practice a wisp of the Ghost Sword's power, which disappears without a trace and is erratic."
After Song Changming read it through, he felt that it was in a fog, and many of the excerpts were completely incomprehensible.
The several sword diagrams were not clear, and he needed to add his own understanding to slowly figure out the essentials.
"It would be outrageous if you could practice it." Song Changming shook his head helplessly and looked at the second piece of parchment.
"Dali Niu Demon Kung Fu is a physical training martial arts, focusing on bone strengthening. You need to take one twenty-year-old wild ginseng every month, take a medicated bath once every half month, and take a bone building powder every five days, at least two kilograms a day. For big meat, lamb and calf are the best. If you practice it to perfection, you can gain the strength of nine cows!"
Looking at the complicated content, he finally understood why martial arts training was so expensive.
There are so many medicinal materials and foods that are needed to supplement this, and they are so precious. How can ordinary people's families afford them?
"This kind of martial arts training is indeed not something everyone can practice."
With the little money he received every month as a night watchman, it was not enough.
Not to mention 20-year-old wild ginseng, even two pounds of meat a day is already stumping him.
"What kind of family can eat meat every day?" Song Changming sighed secretly.
Anyway, there are very few of them in this Baiyi Street.
Fortunately, Song Changming was not discouraged. He had no foundation in martial arts, and he did not expect to be able to master these two martial arts secret records that he had unexpectedly obtained.
This is a completely new field for him, so he just needs to slowly ponder and study it. At night, the rain outside the house became heavier and heavier, with the potential to pour down. After dinner, Song Changming was still immersed in the exploration of these two martial arts.
Combined with the accompanying pictures and some annotations, we can understand its meaning word by word.
Comparing the body-training martial arts on the second parchment, the Soul-Destroying Sword obviously had a better chance of becoming famous through his training.
At least, there are no various expensive things as rigid training conditions for this sword practice.
"Try it."
After looking at it for a long time, Song Changming finally took out the official sword issued by the Patrol Division and tried to practice according to the content on the parchment.
Although he has never practiced martial arts in a systematic way, he has mastered the basic skills of wielding a sword, cutting and stabbing. The official sword he acquired is not a complete display for him.
This practice lasted until late at night.
As a result, little was gained.
Until.
[Today’s evaluation: A small and meaningful day, life span +3, obtain the limited-time status ‘concentrate’]
Concentrate: work with one heart, one mind, and a high degree of concentration.
"Finally changed the status effect, hope it helps."
Song Changming listened to the prompt, put down the knife, wiped the sweat from his face, and breathed a sigh of relief.
His panel ability will evaluate his daily performance in the early morning of every day. In addition to adding life span rewards, he will also be given a limited-time status that lasts for one day.
For example, his previous limited-time status was ‘Mediocre and inactive’.
Mediocre and inactive: fishing in the water, being mediocre and doing nothing.
In this state, his work efficiency is not high, and it has a serious negative impact on martial arts training.
In such a bad state, it is strange that he can become famous.
And the reason why he was still doing useless work and practicing hard was just to get rid of his negative state in the early morning.
The 'concentration' gained now is a good state, which can have a positive effect on his cultivation efficiency.
This is equivalent to opening a small hook.
Based on the idea that a small skill should not be counted as a skill, Song Changming focused more on practicing swordsmanship.
This time, the effect of practicing again was really different.
Some of the principles of sword use that had never been understood before were suddenly grasped like an epiphany.
I even felt that I was too stupid before and couldn't even learn this basic thing.
Gradually, he felt more and more that this set of soul-cutting knives was actually not difficult to master.
As the ring said before, this set of sword skills is indeed very suitable for people like him who have never been exposed to martial arts.
Those mysterious contents that can only be understood in the exquisite martial arts do not appear on this parchment. Most of the sword techniques and artistic conception are easy to understand.
But after Song Changming gradually mastered this set of sword skills, everything began to fall into place.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly, there was something new on his panel.
Name: Song Changming
Lifespan: 36,002
Spirit: seven
Root: ten
Related physique: Fear of water (grey)
Martial Arts: [Soul-Destroying Knife: Not yet started (0/100)]
Song Changming looked at the extra column of information on the panel, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.
(End of chapter)