Chapter 237 236. Study
The training ground Madam Butterfly gave Lan En, according to her, was used when the wolf had not yet left the army.
The first reaction when I saw The Witcher was that it felt very similar to the Hong Kong and Taiwan kung fu movies I watched when I was a kid.
In it, the protagonist uses various life-like, wooden or bamboo instruments to practice. While you can see the fantastic ideas, you can also see the difficulty of the training itself.
Madame Butterfly gave Lan En a special bamboo tube.
It seems that this bamboo tube can only be exhaled using the breathing method matching the [Light Body Technique]. Paired with the [Strength] that comes with the [Light Body Technique], inserting the bamboo tube into the basin and exhaling can create a small whirlpool without raising blisters.
Ninjas use this method to judge the practitioner's basic attainments in [Light Body Technique]. Only those who pass these qualifications are qualified to be pulled up the cliff and run away. Let the breathing method and strength of [Light Body Technique] blend with your own exercise methods.
Lan En could only blow out a small vortex at the beginning, but this already made Madam Butterfly couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth.
Although the wolf had already told her how fast Lan En was progressing in his studies, as an old-school ninja, she had never seen someone who could practice like this in less than ten days after getting a ninjutsu book!
[Second Heart] has greatly increased Lan En's blood oxygen level. Even without the subsequent transplantation of the respiratory surgery - [Third Lung], his breathing efficiency is already several times that of ordinary people. !
This is very advantageous in breathing techniques.
Relying on this 'slight advantage' of physiological nature, Lan En completed the process that ordinary ninjas would need to practice for several years in less than two days.
The whirlpool he blew out with a special bamboo tube was already the size of a sea bowl.
Under today's objective conditions, this method has indeed allowed Lan En to make rapid progress.
The breathing method of [Light Body Technique] and the accompanying [Strength] were all introduced to him. Although the objective factors of the armor make it unlikely that he can fly away like a wolf by throwing out a hook lock.
But now Lan En would probably not be injured if he landed hard from a height of seven to eight meters without taking any other measures.
If he had done this when he first came here, his legs would have been broken into several sections.
Lan En’s interest in ninja skills basically ends at this level.
In terms of covert operations, he has learned through the "Lone Shadow Ninja Technique Book".
This skill is the foundation of ninja basics.
But because it is too basic, even the Seventeenth Yizi only has a gap in proficiency and understanding with ordinary Guyingzhong.
Using other ninja tools, eavesdropping on intelligence, etc.
To be honest, it is not as powerful as the demon hunter's alchemy skills and body mutation.
On the other hand, Lan En felt that he was a little unexpected when it came to Ashina Isshin's teaching.
The owl in the hidden Buddhist hall was dealt with by Ashina. Lan En didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he didn't care much about it, but he was probably dead.
Ashina Isshin set up a tribute table in front of the eleven-sided Avalokitesvara statue in the Buddhist hall, and enshrined a branch of the cherry blossom tree, but the cherry blossoms on the branch never seemed to fade.
It looks like an extraordinary item.
Lan En originally thought that this old man, who would be very excited whether he was cutting someone or being cut, would draw his sword directly during class and say, "Swordsmanship is a way to kill people, and it must be learned in battle." Something like that.
But when Lan En started to learn [Wei Mingliu] from him, he spent most of his time learning the basics and moves step by step.
Only at the end of each day's class, I will do two tricks as if by accident.
Now Lan En, holding a katana that matched his body data, was raising the sword to block Ashina Isshin's various swings.
[Wei Mingliu] In the final analysis, it is a Japanese swordsmanship, and there are still some requirements for the shape of the weapon.
At least for its unique skill - [Ashina Cross Slash], it is difficult to perform Iaijutsu movements with a hand-and-half-sword style like Alondette's. "Clang, clang, clang!"
Three or four knives in a row, each with a different angle, interval, and force.
But under Ashina Isshin's hands, these random and incoherent sword swings seemed to be as natural and close as flowing water.
Lan En's cat eyes were staring at the blade in the opponent's hand during this process, and he raised the knife to block in time.
Every time the blades collide, the friction of steel can burst out a circle of shining sparks.
Lan En also learned after practicing [Wei Mingren] that the sparks bursting out in a circle are a sign of success in [Dengli].
While resisting the enemy's attack, [Climbing Carp] will make the enemy's body posture more and more uncoordinated, and the coordination between muscles becomes more and more difficult.
In the end, even moving his feet would directly cause an imbalance in his center of gravity, and then he would be stabbed in the throat by Ashina-ryu swordsman while staggering without any resistance.
“Well, [Dengli] is already at this level.”
The skinny old man with a moon-like head curled his lips and looked at the young man in front of him who was staring at the blade intently.
Ashina Isshin couldn't explain how he felt looking at Lan En now.
On the one hand, the person who teaches is talented and intelligent, which is a very pleasant thing for the teacher.
He is not a jealous person, otherwise thirty years ago he would not have been able to entangle Wei Mingzhong and launch a war to steal the country. No matter how fast Lan En makes progress, he doesn't have any negative emotions.
But on the other hand
Damn it! Why didn't I meet this man decades earlier? !
Now it’s not easy for me to kill anyone, but God has sent me such a guy who is sure to be very happy to kill him!
What a shame!
Ashina Isshin's greatest pleasures in life were two things: drinking wine brewed from Longquan River water and slashing with people with a gold and steel knife.
He is a pure Wei celebrity, and the water, soil and customs of his hometown have taken root in his war-crazy heart.
The young man in front of me has super learning ability, super battle mentality and adaptability, super physical aptitude, and super vitality.
Lan En's gene seed and [Second Heart] provided his body with vitality that ordinary people could only dream of.
It’s not that Ashina doesn’t want to fight him, but he knows it. Under the conditions of sparring and avoiding a desperate situation, even if he collapses, Lan En will most likely still be in the same state as a normal person!
In the end, neither of them will be happy. It would be better not to fight at all.
He didn’t know that Lan En had gene seeds and [second heart] in his chest, but his many years of fighting experience were not in vain.
How much physical strength a person has and how resilient he is. He almost had a count at a glance.
As for Lan En's body, when he first met to spar, he already knew that he would not be able to hold on until the end.
The skinny old man grinded his teeth in displeasure, causing Lan En to raise his eyebrows in confusion.
"You have almost mastered [Climbing Carp] and [Down Carp]. Now let me see how far you have come with [Flowing Water] and [Truncal Breathing]."
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Digging out the fungal infection in my ears, I feel like my brain has been ripped out of my family.
(End of this chapter)