Liver into a martial arts legend: starting with Embroidered Spring Blade

Chapter 12: Sword Skills Mastery [Seeking Follow-up Reading]

The next day.

As soon as Jiang Xuan arrived at the yamen, he received a piece of news.

Got promoted again.

The seventh-rank general flag!

Although it was not as exaggerated as being directly promoted to a centurion, he was promoted twice in just a few days, and from a captain without rank directly to a general flag officer of the seventh rank. This was a journey that most Jinyiwei had to take after serving for several years or even more than ten years.

This is not an exaggeration at all.

In the Jinyiwei, it is extremely difficult to get promoted, because they investigate serious and important cases, which are extremely dangerous. After all, only a few people dare to fight and fight, and even fewer can survive and get promoted.

Therefore, most people rely on small cases to accumulate merit, and then slowly build up their qualifications and spend money to build relationships to get promoted.

Just like Jiang Xuan's father, he served as a Jinyiwei for more than ten years, but when he retired and died in the line of duty, he was just an ordinary captain.

The same is true for Yin Cheng. He has been working for five or six years, and was only promoted to a small flag officer last year through connections.

It is indeed extremely rare for someone like Jiang Xuan to be promoted twice in such a short period of time thanks to a few cases within less than half a year of joining the company, and to have spent almost no money on building relationships.

Therefore, Jiang Xuan gradually became famous in the Northern Pacification Division. Many people remembered this unconventional general, and some even began to take him as their goal. They worked more passionately and hoped that they could be the next one to be promoted.

In addition to Jiang Xuan, the other people who participated in solving the case also received rewards.

Pei Lun fulfilled his wish and was successfully transferred from the Southern Division to the Northern Division. He was also promoted one level higher and was promoted to the fifth rank deputy captain.

Coincidentally, he was also transferred to serve in the front army command under Lu Wenzhao.

Yin Cheng and Wen Lianggong, two veteran Jinyiwei who had served in the small flag position for several years, were also promoted one level each. Like Jiang Xuan, they both reached the rank of seventh-rank general flag.

In addition, each person was rewarded with twenty taels of silver.

Although it was not much, it greatly motivated other people in the yamen.

Everyone is happy.

The task was completed above and the rewards were received below.

But just as Jiang Xuan said, the case is indeed not over.

While bestowing the rewards, Xu Xianchun also assigned them a task, asking them to continue investigating the cause of Guo Zhen's death and who instructed Ding Baiying and others, and he also made a promise that whoever could find the mastermind behind the scenes would be promoted to the next level.

Although the temptation was great, except for Wen Lianggong, Pei Lun and Yin Cheng kept Jiang Xuan's instructions in mind. They only agreed verbally but gave up the idea of ​​continuing the investigation in their hearts.

They can't afford to offend the people behind them.

If the truth is really found out, it will not benefit anyone.

So, this matter has come to an end.

Then, life returned to normal.

As usual, Jiang Xuan continued to work and practice martial arts.

At the same time, the crisis was over and he had just enough money in his hands, so he asked someone to start rebuilding his house. After all, it was not very convenient to always live under someone else's roof, even if it was a close relative.

However, during the construction period, he had nowhere to live, so he temporarily stayed at Yin Cheng's house.

Just like that, time passed quickly and half a month passed.

This night.

The moon is like a round disk, illuminating the night sky.

Jiang Xuan stood in the yard, shirtless, with the Embroidered Spring Knife in his hand moving with him, making bursts of whistling sounds.

Finally, after the last round of swordsmanship practice was completed and the system interface popped up the words "Progress +1", Jiang Xuan put away his sword and stopped.

hum~
Countless insights into swordsmanship flashed through his mind like fragments, and Jiang Xuan closed his eyes to take them in carefully.

Martial arts are divided into four stages from low to high: entry, minor success, major success, and perfection.

Getting started means getting a glimpse of the basics. It is the initial stage of learning a martial art. It is just a simple grasp of the moves and postures of the martial arts. When fighting with others, at most you just hit randomly according to the moves. Once you hit one, you will lose strength to continue. And it is impossible for the enemy to cooperate with you according to your moves.

Therefore, the biggest advantage of warriors at this stage is not their martial arts skills, but their physical fitness that is stronger than that of ordinary people through daily training. Relying on this advantage, they can deal with one or two ordinary people with weapons, but they will be defeated if there are more.

Minor success means that one has mastered a martial art through integration and has initially mastered it. One can also apply basic operations in actual combat, understand various force-generating techniques, maximize the power of each move, and possess the power to kill enemies on the battlefield.

Therefore, as long as one has mastered a martial art to a certain extent and three or five ordinary people cannot get close to him, he can be called a third-rate martial artist.

At this moment, as his swordsmanship became more and more sophisticated, a large amount of combat experience flooded into Jiang Xuan's mind, including how to coordinate each move, how to flexibly change moves to deal with various complex situations, and even how to control the breathing rhythm when making a move.

Just like after years of hard practice, you can achieve success overnight.

It is obvious that he has reached the level of perfection. Just relying on his swordsmanship and current physical fitness, it may not be a problem for him to deal with a dozen armed bandits.

According to the classification of the martial arts world, he has already become a second-rate master, and is at the same level as Shen Lian, Pei Lun, Wen Lianggong and others.

"call……"

After a long time, Jiang Xuan slowly opened his eyes and exhaled deeply.

He felt it carefully, and his body seemed to become stronger as well.

In fact, he practiced diligently every day during this period, and was also constantly increasing his experience in swordsmanship and improving his physical fitness. However, when the progress was full and he broke through to the great success, it seemed as if a qualitative change had occurred, and both his swordsmanship and his physical body broke a limit at the same time.

Holding the knife again, a familiar feeling came over me, as if I was controlling it with my arm.

Compared with the previous minor success stage, the strength has increased by more than several times.

Jiang Xuan had a feeling that if he met a master of Ding Baiying's level again, he wouldn't dare to talk about winning the battle, but he would definitely not escape in a panic like he did that night.

If one's physical and archery skills have also reached perfection, even finding an opportunity to counterattack is not a fantasy.

"He's already so formidable even at the Great Perfection stage. It's hard to imagine how terrifying he'll become once he reaches perfection, even developing the legendary 'momentum' and 'intention'!"

In external martial arts, perfection is not the limit.

Perfection simply refers to the perfection of a technique. It's said that after reaching perfection, some gifted individuals can further develop this foundation, cultivating 'momentum' and 'artistic conception'. At that point, they're no longer bound by technique, and any single strike can unleash immense power.

Rumor has it that the ten most powerful swordsmen in the Ming Dynasty were all masters of "momentum" and "artistic conception".

There are also people like Fu Hongxue, who has become quite famous in the martial arts world in the past two years and is known as the "fastest swordsman in the world", and the famous thief Xiao Shiyilang, who have all reached this stage.

"I wonder when I can reach the level of 'momentum' and 'artistic conception'..."

Jiang Xuan whispered to himself, his heart full of anticipation.

As long as one reaches the level of "momentum" and "artistic conception", he will no longer be an unknown person in the world.

By that time, it would even be enough to leave the court and venture into the world.

[Martial Arts: Embroidered Spring Sword Technique (Great Mastery)]

【Progress: 0/3000】

Glancing at the system panel, Jiang Xuan suppressed his excitement.

Soon!

According to his current training progress, he would be able to reach perfection in no more than two months and enter the stage of practicing "Shi".

However, he also practiced his body movements and archery skills at the same time, so the time might be slower, but even if it was slower, it would not exceed half a year at the latest.

At this moment, his proficiency in body movement and archery has exceeded half, and in half a month at most, he will be able to reach perfection.

By then, my strength will be able to make a major breakthrough.

Jiang Xuan is full of hope for the future.

……

The next day, Jiang Xuan and Yin Cheng got up and went to the yamen together.

It has been like this since I started living in his house. The two of us go to and from work together.

However, Yin Cheng was too lazy. He had to be called several times in the morning before he would get up. Sometimes he would go out to drink and have fun at night. Jiang Xuan tried to persuade him several times but failed, so he just let him do what he wanted.

Everyone has their own pursuits, and he cannot expect everyone to pursue martial arts as wholeheartedly as he does. Moreover, not everyone has extremely high talent for martial arts and not everyone has a system panel.

For Yin Cheng, perhaps such a simple life is what he yearns for.

"Sir, are you here?"

As soon as I arrived at the yamen, someone came up to greet me with a respectful expression.

"Well, have the others arrived?" Jiang Xuan nodded casually.

After being promoted to the general flag, one can manage five small flags and fifty captains.

However, three general flags were raised this month, so there were enough captains, but not enough replacement small flags. At the moment, he only had three small flag officers under his command.

This person is one of the three small flag officers under him, named Xu Longqing. He has a good talent for martial arts and uses a goose-feather knife. His swordsmanship has also reached a breakthrough and reached the second-rate level.

The other two are named Chu Mo, also a second-rate master, and Du Ziqi, a third-rate one.

In the Jinyiwei, strength is important, but it is not the main factor for promotion.

"Reporting to the Lord, Chu Xiaoqi and Du Xiaoqi are here and are reporting in inside." Xu Longqing said respectfully.

He looked to be nearly thirty years old, but he was a bit dull, came from a poor family, and didn't know how to flatter his superiors, which was why he had never been promoted.

This time, Jiang Xuan was promoted twice, which caused quite a stir in the Northern Pacification Office. He specially applied to be transferred to work under Jiang Xuan just to learn from his experience.

"Well, let's go, report for duty."

Jiang Xuan nodded lightly and took Xu Longqing to report for duty.

"grown ups!"

"See my lord!"

As they entered the yamen, the people in his team greeted and saluted one after another. Standing in the front of the team were two people, both of whom were not very old. They were Chu Mo and Du Ziqi.

Jiang Xuan casually glanced around and saw that no one was absent, so he made arrangements for today's work: "Except for the night patrol last night, the rest of you will continue as usual, taking turns on duty and patrolling the streets. Notify me if there is any progress."

"Yes!" Everyone took the order and left.

Jiang Xuan nodded with satisfaction and then went to the Hundred Households Office to report the situation.

It is a big taboo in the officialdom to investigate cases and handle matters privately without consulting superiors.

He had been the exception before.

Shen Lian, the captain of the Shangguan family, was wanted, and Lu Wenzhao, a captain of the Qianguan family, was an accomplice of the rebels, so they went directly to find the pacification envoy Xu Xianchun.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, if there is a case that cannot be solved, it must be reported to the centurion first. If the centurion cannot solve it, it must be reported to the thousand-householder. This is the normal process.

Shen Lian's case has been sentenced to execution in the autumn. The person who is now vacant to replace him is a centurion named Zhang Ying.

Although this person was a little greedy, perhaps because of the previous case, he valued Jiang Xuan very much. Therefore, Jiang Xuan also gave him a lot of face. After taking office, he went to the Hundred Households Office every day to report on his work situation, and occasionally brought him some gifts. Although they were not very expensive, they were thoughtful things.

Zhang Ying was also very satisfied with this capable and sensible subordinate, so they got along quite well during this period.

But today, as soon as Jiang Xuan entered the hall, he felt that the atmosphere was not right.

There was a person sitting in the main seat, and Zhang Ying stood respectfully beside him waiting.

Yin Cheng also stood aside with his head down. When he saw Jiang Xuan coming, he quickly winked at him.

Jiang Xuan looked at the man in the main seat and couldn't help but blink: "Lu Wenzhao? What is he doing here?"

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