Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1553 1525. Advanced Martial Arts
In the courtyard behind the castle tower, the sound of wooden practice weapons clashing with each other could be heard constantly.

Crisp and neat.

During the performance, there is also a clear female voice, and the sound of breath produced under the requirements of technique and intense exercise.

"Drink!"

Wuming had already fought with his opponent all the way from the dojo to the courtyard.

Her opponent was still an old samurai of Saito Dosan's hatamoto. Although he was holding an ordinary wooden sword, he was familiar with the naginata and sickle techniques beyond words.

But even so, she had already completed five consecutive victories ten days ago, and now she is challenging seven consecutive victories in a round-robin format!
Wuming's flexible waist swung out a perfect circle, and the powerful curve of his muscles was breathtaking to watch.

And the naginata sickle that she held in her hand and stretched out became even more ferocious and powerful as it was swung!
The wooden naginata sickle made a whistling sound as it went straight towards the opponent's lower calf!
With the special attack position of the sickle, if it were a real weapon, the person's calves would probably be cut in two from the back of the calf!
However, the old hatamoto warrior who practiced sparring was very familiar with the naginata and sickle.

He immediately turned the wooden sword in his hand upside down and inserted it vertically into the ground beside him!

With a "crack!", the wooden sword just blocked the long handle of the naginata sickle, so the sickle blade could not cut the calf from behind.

But the old warrior's face did not look good at all.

There was a layer of cold sweat on his forehead, which had been shaved because of his becoming a monk, and the Buddhist beads around his neck were rustling.

Almost the next moment after he blocked the naginata sickle that was attacking his lower body, the moves that Wuming had already arranged came one after another!

She jumped up straight up with a series of kicks in the air, and kicked the old monk right in the chest!

Special techniques are used to specifically weaken the enemy's physical strength!

The old warrior monk's physical strength was suddenly consumed without any reason, and his face almost turned pale!

[Naginata Scythe·Hollow Kick]!
If this technique can completely drain the enemy's stamina, then it can be used to perform even more dangerous consecutive moves afterwards.

But the old warrior monk was no wimp. The [Void Kick] did suddenly take away a large part of his physical strength, but he was not exhausted on the spot.

Immediately, he staggered back a step, and the wooden sword in his hand was ready to be re-positioned.

But then, there was a crisp "click" sound! The wooden parts of the mechanism engaged with each other and started!
[Naginata sickle: change of edge]!
The naginata sickle, which was in the form of a large sickle just now, had its blade suddenly straightened by a mechanism, turning it into a long-handled naginata.

The change of weapon form is equivalent to the change of posture in the naginata sickle technique system.

The smoothness of the naginata sickle technique also lies in the fact that other weapons often have a brief stiffness when changing postures, but the naginata sickle can utilize the movement of changing postures in one attack.

The naginata sickle, which had transformed into a long-handled naginata, was simply swung horizontally, and the wooden sword collided, causing the old samurai monk's wooden sword, which had just been positioned, to be slightly tilted.

Followed by!

After Wuming swung his sword horizontally, he had no intention of retracting it. Instead, he took advantage of the inertia and directly thrust the tail end of the long handle of the long-handled naginata into the opponent's chest!

[Naginata sickle·Yintang blade]!
This is another way of using special techniques to specifically weaken the enemy's physical strength!

Slashing and piercing wounds can easily cause direct damage to the enemy, but blunt attacks are more likely to directly attack the opponent's physical reserves.

His physical strength had been weakened twice, and the old monk who had almost eaten his fill had no strength to resist or react this time.

The warriors in this world have such precise control over their own and their enemies' physical strength that if they say they can drain their opponent's physical strength, they can actually beat their opponent to the point where he can't even take a step!

Facing a completely powerless opponent, Wuming was very calm.

The naginata sickle in his hand transformed again, turning back into a large sickle.

Then the curved sickle blade hooked the back of the old monk's neck and pulled him down.

It looks like just pulling the person down, but this is actually an execution-like action in the naginata sickle technique.

After all, if the blade of the sickle was a real weapon, hooking the back of the neck and pulling it down would be enough to cut off the head.

Completing the execution action is equivalent to determining the winner.

Wuming stretched out his hand and pulled up the old monk warrior who was still gasping for breath on the ground because he was exhausted and had just begun to recover.

This is what she has achieved in the past two months.

"The wooden sword has few variations!" The old monk held Wuming's hand and stood up, panting and making excuses for himself, "If I use it..."

When he said this, he looked down at the wooden naginata sickle in Wuming's hand, but shook his head without finishing his words.

"Hey, I've already made the decision, and I can't go back on it just because you beat me up."

He said this with emotion.

"You learn very quickly. You are worthy of being the Wuming of this generation. I believe that in a short time, you should be able to master the two mysteries of [Transformation of Raging Waves] and [Transformation of Prairie Fire]." "The technique of the naginata sickle has been completely passed on to you. However, as Wuming of the Chuye Arrow Clan, you must at least know some Yin-Yang magic, at least [Water Binding Talisman], [Fire Binding Talisman] and so on. You have to use them."

The monk warrior tried his best to persuade Wuming.

It's like facing an old senior who is somewhat reluctant to inherit his family's traditional craft.

Their identities and relationships with the Chu Ye Ya group were revealed ten days ago when Wu Ming won five consecutive victories against them.

It wasn't that surprising, after all, they had already stopped pretending before.

This group of old samurai hatamoto who followed Saito Dosan had indeed followed him since his youth.

At that time, Saito Dosan was still the leader of the Chuyeya clan, using the name "Wuming" which had been passed down from generation to generation.

Later, he fell in love with a monster and agreed to create a harmonious world between humans and monsters. Of course, he then left the Chuye Ya clan who made a living by hunting monsters.

He is the leader, and the impact of his separation from the Chu Ye Shi group is of course enormous.

The Chu Ye Shi group was directly divided into three factions.

One group followed him to Meinong to steal the country, and has continued all the way to this day.

For the sake of their ideals, they all gave up their naginata sickles, symbolizing that they were no longer obsessed with killing monsters.

The other faction simply gave up their hatred for monsters, but they did not believe that Saito Dosan could succeed, so they used their skills to live happily among bandits in the mountains.

Nowadays, the news of the originally hidden Chu Ye Ya clan has spread widely. The secret weapon, the Naginata Scythe, occasionally appears on the market and even attracts the research of warriors who are interested in it. It is all because of this group of people.

The last group is a group of people who are obsessed with their hatred of monsters and still make a living by hunting monsters. Wuming was adopted by this group of people and eventually inherited the name "Wuming".

But unfortunately, according to Wuming, their population has dwindled to the point where she may be the only one left.

This is also the reason why she didn't even inherit Chu Ye Yazhong's complete skills.

"Ah, I see." Wuming muttered impatiently, "But Yin-Yang magic can't be learned in a hurry. My brain can't connect the dots."

The monk opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated: "Then you have to be more careful. This skill is to save your life."

He muttered helplessly in a low voice.

Although they had left the Chuyeya clan with Saito Dosan, there was no doubt that they still had deep feelings for the Chuyeya clan.

Seeing that Wuming was the last seed of Chu Yeshi's group, none of them wanted to see her get into an accident.

Wuming turned his head at this time, looking past the old warriors who were watching and gathered around him, and looked into the hall of the dojo.

On the wooden floor that was so smooth that it could reflect people's shadows, two swordsmen, one old and one young, were standing opposite each other.

Tsukahara Bokuden stood on the teaching platform, still supporting himself with his hands on the wooden sword.

In front of him, a woman with waist-length white hair and cold white skin who was too beautiful to be human was calmly holding a wooden sword and facing him.

It was hard to tell which side was whiter, her cold white skin or the plain white swordsman's uniform.

Ah Xiu's breathing was very steady, even this breathing method made her a little too steady.

The wooden sword was held very upright in front of him. From Tsukahara Bokuden's perspective, the wooden sword just occupied the center line of Ah Xiu's body.

And along with steady breathing, a secret martial art began to be performed.

The wooden sword, which was originally held upright in the center of the body, began to slowly rotate clockwise in Ah Xiu's hand.

With the frequency of breathing, the vital energy in the human body is mobilized. Every time a breath passes, the vital energy on the wooden sword will leave an illusory sword shadow in the air.

After the wooden sword turned a circle in front of A Xiu, it was like leaving a phantom clock face in front of A Xiu.

Twelve rhythmic intermittent breaths left twelve sword marks of essence in one second, becoming the twelve hour hands on this illusory dial.

【Tachi·Full Moon Killing Method】!
The sword mark of essence and energy is like a full moon, and with this special technique, the power of the person holding the knife is stimulated and can be increased by nearly half in the next short period of time!

And then, the wooden sword, which was rotating clockwise, made a complete circle and returned to its original position on the center line of Ah Xiu's body.

"Swoosh!"*4
A series of sounds of breaking through the air suddenly exploded!

Ah Xiu's body left a white afterimage as it suddenly sped up!
The wooden sword that had just been used to perform the [Full Moon Killing Technique] still had a faint blue glow from the essence of the energy left on it.

The afterimage of the person and the faint light of the knife were pulled into a zigzag trajectory in the blink of an eye, flashing four times in a row!
【Tachi·Four-way Slash】!
Connected with the short-term power increase of [Full Moon Killing Method], [Four-Direction Slash] is an absolutely advanced martial art even in Tsukahara Bokuden's swordsmanship teaching!

(End of this chapter)