The Spirit World

Chapter 549 Children

【Teatus Manor】

【Snapped! 】

The whip hit his body, and bloodstains appeared on the skin that was already covered with whip marks. The pain made him grit his teeth and groan.

"Move your horse stance down a little bit! Don't be lazy! Do you want the enemy to chop off your legs?! Do you want to be disabled?!"

A man holding a whip stood beside him fiercely, with a hideous and ferocious look, legs apart, fists clenched. He was like a prisoner serving a sentence, holding a long sword, stabbing deep from horse stance, and the horizontal sword blocking posture made him stand sideways and no longer move.

"Use your wrist! Keep it flat, don't turn your wrist! Do you want to be killed by someone's horizontal slash? Keep your wrist just right!"

【Snapped! 】

Another whip hit his hand. He squinted his eyes in pain and gently twisted his wrist.

"Swing the sword!" the man holding the whip shouted: "Third move!"

He obeyed the order, gritted his teeth, squatted down in a horse stance, stepped out with his right foot, pushed off the ground with his left leg and straightened it, then quickly slashed forward with the sword horizontally. When he was still, he took a bow step, touched the ground with the toes of his left leg, held the sword in both hands parallel to his arms, and stabbed in the middle.

But he never thought that maybe he had been in the horse stance for too long, and his body tilted slightly. He gritted his teeth and quickly straightened himself.

This sword was a real sword. It was very difficult for a child to hold it with both hands. With his thin body and thin hands, he managed to hold the sword and completed the last action while stabbing.

He was a little scared and waited for the whip to hit him.

But the attack did not come for a long time. He was sweating profusely, but he did not dare to let the sweat from his hands slip his sword.

Then comes the long lunge exercise.

He touched the ground with the tip of his left foot, stepped forward with his right foot, and thrust the sword with both hands. Maintaining this posture, he inevitably twisted his body again.

He was crooked in fear, almost in terror, and his short blond hair swayed majestically.

The man holding the whip watched coldly until he could no longer hold on and fell to the ground with a thud, splashing dust everywhere.

"If you went to the battlefield with this level of training, you would have died at the hands of the enemy long ago. The Chinese are all strong sword masters. Once you fight, you will definitely die on the spot!" The man with the whip snorted coldly and threw the whip on the ground. As he raised his hand to throw the whip, he subconsciously protected his hand. When he saw that the whip was thrown on the ground, he stood up tremblingly and lowered his head heavily.

"I'm sorry, brother."

He lowered his head and saw the butler's feet walk to his brother's side, say something, and then leave quickly.

"That's all for this year. You go back and rest. Butler, apply medicine to him." His brother turned and walked towards the living room, leaving him with the butler who was picking up the whip.

"Young Master Hall, please go back. I'll go get the medicine. You wait for me in the room. Okay?" The butler bowed and stood beside Hall.

Hall looked at the whip with some blood stains on it, then looked at his own bare arm, the bloodstains on it were so conspicuous, bright red.

"'Thank you for your hard work, Grandpa Butler. I'll go and wait for you.'

After Hall finished speaking, he began to walk tremblingly. His legs were cramping a little, and his left leg was stretched straight and difficult to move. There were also scars on it that could be seen through his clothes.

The housekeeper looked at the child who was slowly walking back to his room, then turned around and quickly headed in the opposite direction, where the medicine was stored.

Hall screamed in pain but never said a word. In this huge Tyatus Manor, it took Hall half an hour to walk to his room.

When the housekeeper came back with the medicine, Hall had just arrived at the bedside and sat down gently.

The butler gently rubbed the ointment on Hall's wound, and a strange green smoke slowly rose.

Hall's screams of pain caused the birds in the manor to fly away and everyone in the manor to stand still in shock.

【Carolingian Courtyard】

"Lightning explosion! explosion!"

【Bang! 】

A blue thunderbolt hit the target directly. Although it didn't hit the center of the target, it was almost right. That place was already charred black, but the blackness in other places was even deeper. The endless thunderbolts made the elements here extremely violent and unstable, so that the air began to burn.

She was sweating profusely, standing far away, holding her wand tightly in her hand, trying to create another lightning burst.

She was trembling, even gasping and coughing softly.

"Lightning! Explosion! Explosion!"

She shouted again, loudly, and a blue lightning quickly burst out from the wand, passing through the hot air, and slammed into the target, but this time, it deviated again.

She gritted her teeth in pain, unwillingly raised her wand again, ready to continue.

"Lilia..."

A young woman was sitting next to her, looking worried, and seemed to stop her. They both had beautiful white hair, and they were also born beautiful and dignified. They looked somewhat similar, with white eyelashes that looked like fluorescent white snow.

"Second sister..." Lilia turned around and looked at her second sister, Lilimaren, and said in a low voice, covering her mouth and coughing: "When did you come?"

"I came here early... didn't expect it?" The second sister patted her skirt and stood up, walking towards her happily: "The eldest sister asked us to come over. Her fiancé is visiting today, so we have to go meet our future brother-in-law."

Lilimaren touched Lilia's head. She was much taller than Lilia. She squatted down gently, put her other hand on her shoulder, and asked Lilia to turn around slowly.

"Brother-in-law..." Lilia was silent, looking at her second sister, frowning in confusion: "Is it the brother who went to join the army? I remember him, he is a very good person, and my eldest sister likes him very much..."

Lili Marlene shook her head lightly: "Not that brother..."

"Who could it be? That brother was chatting happily with my sister yesterday..."

"It's... another one..." Lili Marlene looked at the road ahead. In the flowerbed over there, there were two birds cuddling together, but they were driven away by the servant with a stick because the flowers in the flowerbed were precious enough that the two birds were too cheap: "Don't mention that brother... Now, our brother-in-law is another brother..."

"But..." Lilia wanted to say something, but was stopped by a cough.

"Now, our brother-in-law is another brother..." Lilimarlene seemed unaware that she was repeating herself. She looked at the servant angrily beating a bird to death on the ground with a sense of loss. The servant saw the two young ladies coming and quickly cleaned up.

"This brother is also very good... I mean, our brother-in-law, he is handsome... He is also a very good person..."

"What about sister?"

"I am accompanying him."

"Okay." Lilia lowered her head and looked at her wand, tightly grasping it: "Second sister, why don't you go to Fran, but go to Rastar to study?"

"This?" Lili Marlene looked at the sky. There were rows and rows of birds. No, there were so many birds flying there one by one. Their chirping was so pleasant to the ears.

They are happy when they have the sky, and they are depressed when they lose the sky.

"Because I'm a waste in my dad's eyes... Don't learn from me. Go to Fran, you'll get a better education. Lastal is just a pilot peace city, and no one knows whether it can be maintained behind the scenes." Lilimarlene said softly, gently pinching her sister's shoulders to relax her.

She watched her sister practice, practice, and practice for the entire afternoon. The feeling of having to yell at her was heavy in her heart, making her feel a little breathless.

"My second sister's magical power is in no way inferior to anyone back then!" Lilia didn't understand why her sister would voluntarily give up her qualification to compete in the Dragon Conference and insisted that her father send her to the pilot city of the New Testament, Lastal.

"Ahaha, it's all in the past! I'm doing pretty well now. My mentors are all geniuses. I've learned a lot from them. That's enough..."

"I want to go to Rastar too... I don't want to go to Fran..."

"I told you not to imitate me... Go study hard in Fran and tell everyone in Rav that everyone in our Carolingian family is a magic genius! Hahaha!"

"But I want to be with my sister..."

"Well...when you finish learning, we will play together again~haha~"

【Jungle Outpost】

"I did it……"

I actually did it...

As soon as Chang Yufeng woke up, he screamed and jumped for joy, completely ignoring the fact that his clothes had been torn to pieces by the explosion.

He was running almost naked, with only a pair of tattered pants holding him back.

All the children were frightened by him again. Yes, they were frightened again. The explosion almost frightened them to the point that they thought a huge beast had rushed out.

"It's not enough yet. It's just the beginning. There's still a long way to go. Since you're awake, practice quickly. There's still time." Erica looked at Chang Yufeng who was running. There was almost no wound on his white upper body. He was almost lazy in practicing the basics of swordsmanship, so sometimes, he couldn't even stand steadily during basic swordsmanship practice.

"Okay!" Chang Yufeng nodded loudly, quickly stood next to Erica, and began to spread out his palms again, trying hard to condense the dark elements in his palms.

Although this time it was very difficult and took a long time, there was no explosion, which was much better than the last time.

The dark element is the black breath, that is, black light.

The black light can be seen clearly in the sunlight, just like the flow of wind, slowly rotating.

They were in chaos, colliding left and right, as if no one cared about anyone else. Even though they were the same kind of dark element, they were colliding and even fighting simply because they did not have the same aura. In simple terms, the dark element's hostility was extremely strong.

There is almost no peace.

This time, Chang Yufeng collapsed due to exhaustion, but he just looked at the sky and smiled foolishly. Erica saw it and kept shaking her head.

"If you want to catch up with others, you can't be satisfied with this. Like I just said, this is just the beginning and there is still a long way to go."

"Can't we take a break?" Chang Yufeng leaned back with his hands and sat up. He was obviously very tired.

"Of course you can rest for a while, but after you get home it's rest time, and now it's practice time. You shouldn't rest during practice time, but you don't necessarily can't practice during rest time." Erica looked at him and shook her head quietly: "If you confuse the two times, it's easy to not even reach the normal amount of training."

She continued: “I said, smart effort. It includes not only planning what to learn, but also the efficient allocation of time.”

"Even though I don't quite understand, I'll get up and practice now. Okay?"

“You should ask yourself if you are good enough…Self-persistence is very important.”

"Then I'll practice now!"

"It's best to practice the basic sword stances as well. If possible, do both at the same time. You're competing with others, not just comparing yourself."

"Can't I learn one and then the other?"

"Then show me the basic sword skills you have learned."

"But even if I do it well, Erica, you don't know if it's up to standard or not... Erica is just a magician and doesn't know swordsmanship."

Although Chang Yufeng said this, he still lowered his body and took a not-so-formal horse stance.

"Well, I'm a magician." Erica sat on the grass, crossed her legs, put her hands on her knees, and gently closed her eyes: "But I never said I don't know swordsmanship."

"Erica also knows swordsmanship!" Chang Yufeng quickly got into position, stood at attention, and looked at Erica in surprise, who seemed to be meditating.

"Practicing horse stance does not mean that you have to stand in horse stance all the time when fighting in actual combat, but it makes your lower body more stable. Only by stabilizing your lower body, you will not be at a disadvantage when receiving swords, swinging swords, blocking swords, or even confronting others." Erica did not answer Chang Yufeng's words, but explained seriously: "Battles are always changing rapidly, and it is impossible to use all the moves and techniques you have learned. So what is being competed is the personal wisdom of skillfully using them and the basic abilities that are mastered."

“Basics, to some extent, are the most important thing.”

Chang Yufeng perked up. After completing the extraction of dark elements twice in a row, he had obviously changed. He was excited and happy. He now believed in what his sister said and even took action immediately without any excessive doubts.

"Lower body..." Chang Yufeng stretched out his toes and pressed his feet forward and downward, going deeper into the horse stance, but his feet began to tremble.

"Well, you are now practicing dark element extraction, and you are doing horse stance. Although basic swordsmanship is important, it also has its limits. Once you become proficient, if you want to improve further, the time and energy spent on a slight improvement in the basics will not be proportional."

"Proportional..."

"That is to say, basic training has an end. Unlike learning other people's moves or your own unique moves, the basic swordsmanship you learn is just a little bit. There is no such thing as studying hard to improve the basic swordsmanship."

"Turn out the flowers?"

"Everyone learned this way. With just the basic swings, it only takes a few minutes to block and break the attack."

"I understand this sentence...but I don't quite understand a lot of the words you said just now. I can only understand the general meaning..."

Chang Yufeng grabbed his right hand with his left hand and tried the dark element practice for the third time.

This time he was doing the horse stance in the basic swordsmanship. Of course, most of the basic swordsmanship was practiced with the sword, with standard movements for drawing the sword and swinging it, not just random practice. Otherwise, there would be no need to practice this basic swordsmanship.

Although Chang Yufeng was lazy, he still practiced a complete set of basic swordsmanship. Under Erica's supervision, he lazily completed three months of basic swordsmanship training.

Therefore, now, although his swordsmanship skills are not solid, they are not so terrible.

There are still three months before the Dragon Tournament, and only the first place in each group can go to Fran.

Chang Yufeng trembled as he watched the dark elements in his hand slowly generate again. This sense of accomplishment was great and sufficient, yet very small.

This is just the beginning. The dark element must be injected into the fire core of the fire element in the same palm of one's hand to form the shadowless flame that Xiaolan mentioned.

Although he was not sure whether everyone could use the Shadowless Flame, because it was a combination of the dark element and the fire element, he could not think of any reason why other magicians could not use it. In that case, everyone would be able to use the Shadowless Flame and everyone would be able to use the Shadowless Swordsmanship...

It would be bad to think like this...

This greatly reduced his happiness.

"Huh..." Chang Yufeng looked at Erica, and looked around Erica. There were blue light spots of different elements moving slightly all over her body, surrounding him.

He knew one thing, that was the origin of spiritual power in this world.

Erica's strength is so terrifying.

What kind of person is she?

"I succeeded three times..." He said, "But your legs are so sore, can I take a break? I really can't hold on any longer."

Chang Yufeng didn't expect that the time spent on successfully extracting the dark element this time was not that slow. On the contrary, the soreness in his thigh did not last very long.

Erica glanced at him and nodded.

As soon as she agreed, Chang Yufeng collapsed on the grass.

"Stretch your legs straight to get the blood flowing."

"it is good……"

Chang Yufeng suddenly lay down and stretched out his legs.

The sour and tingling feeling made him cry out.

The Dragon Assembly is the only relatively fair "competition" to screen talents.

Because children know nothing at the age of three or four, and there are only two years between the ages of five and six. The character and talent of children will be initially manifested in these two years. Their efforts can be said to be not long-lasting, but the gap is huge.

If their parents’ education cannot make up for it, it may be the biggest regret in their lives.

But their parents are different and have different resources, so choosing the year of six years old allows the most talented children to not be influenced by their parents' personalities for too long, and their talents will determine whether educational resources will be tilted towards them.

This in itself is not fair.

Fairness has been around for a long time, but it has never been achieved. This is true for everything. The more you emphasize something, the less it is achieved. Because if it is achieved, is there any need to mention it? I am not seeking credit or praise.

The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things. This is the truth.

Looking at the blue sky, a very strange idea popped up in Chang Yufeng's mind.

If I really become the best swordsman in the world.

after……

In his dark pupils, the blue sky was covered by a white cloud.

That cloud is floating...

So dazzling in the sun's rays.

(End of this chapter)