I became a Sword Emperor in the Martial Arts World

Chapter 33 Second Cup Half Price

In the classroom of Grade 11 (2), Yao Siyu noticed that Xu Yuebing seemed to be in a bad mood, so she asked with concern, "Did you and Ye Qingzhou have a fight?"

Seeing that the person asking the question was her best friend and deskmate, Xu Yuebing, who already had a desire to confide in someone, couldn't help but complain to Yao Siyu, "You have no idea, last night that guy Ye Qingzhou actually told me he wanted to have the surname Xu."

"!!!"

Yao Siyu leaned back, her eyes wide with shock: "My God, he's actually willing to marry into your family for you?"

"???"

Before she knew it, school was over. After her club activities ended, Xu Yuebing got into the car that was there to pick her up, all alone and furious.

"Uncle Yuan, let's go to Jiangshan Dijing."

"Aren't we waiting for Young Master Ye?"

"He has legs, he can walk by himself!"

When Uncle Yuan saw that his second young lady was angry, he immediately understood that the two of them had quarreled. He did not ask any further questions, but silently drove away.

It's normal for young people to bicker; they'll probably make up in a few days.

After all, I was young once too.

Back then, there was a radiant girl beside me, always making a ruckus, but alas…

As he gripped the steering wheel, Uncle Yuan reminisced about his youth.

Ye Qingzhou, who walked back home with Leon, immediately went into the backyard after arriving home, ready to start Leon's intensive training worth 500,000 yuan.

"Master Ye, I am ready."

Leon was extremely excited at this moment, and even a little impatient.

"Okay, first, insert all these wooden stakes into the ground in the positions I've drawn. As for the insertion depth, I've already marked it. Pay attention to the positions of the lines."

Leon rubbed his hands together, looking very confident: "Huh? Is Master Ye planning to enhance my strength and physical fitness? But seventy-two logs are far too easy for me. This level of difficulty is simply not enough."

"No, these wooden stakes are training equipment. You are a mature high school student now, and you need to learn to be self-reliant and do things for yourself."

"???"

Leon then realized that Ye Qingzhou had assigned him to do this kind of hard labor because he was too lazy to do it himself.

Soon, all seventy-two wooden stakes were erected, forming a powerful earthly formation. This was a cultivation technique that Ye Qingzhou had improved upon based on the plum blossom stakes in his previous life.

Looking back now, I still feel quite nostalgic.

Leon walked into the formation, looking left and right, somewhat bewildered like Louis XVI, the king of Europe: "Master Ye, will I have to practice hitting wooden stakes every day from now on?"

He reached out and tapped the wooden stake to feel its hardness: "These logs aren't very sturdy; I could smash them with my bare hands."

"I didn't tell you to hammer the wooden stake, stand on it."

"what?"

Ye Qingzhou didn't bother with any more words and directly demonstrated for himself. He leaped up and stood firmly on the wooden stake: "Plum Blossom Stakes is a type of stance training. You have strong explosive power, but your speed is not fast enough and your lower body is not stable enough. So now I will use this Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Formation to strengthen your movement technique."

"oh."

Leon jumped up.

"Ah~"

Leon fell down.

Standing steadily on a wooden stake that is only the width of a foot is obviously not an easy task, let alone Leon wanting to show off and leap up like Ye Qingzhou.

As a result, he didn't control his strength well and fell down from the other side as soon as he went up, landing face-first in the mud.

"Pfft~"

Xu Yuebing, who was watching the commotion from the sidelines, couldn't help but burst into laughter, and her mood improved considerably.

Ye Qingzhou stood on the wooden stake in a one-legged stance, shaking his head speechlessly: "You idiot, you haven't even learned to walk yet and you're already running. Start with basic stance training."

After five or six days of practice, Leon finally mastered the techniques of standing and walking stances. It can only be said that he was indeed very talented and learned very quickly.

However, Leon's boastful habit soon resurfaced.

"Master Ye, I've mastered the plum blossom stake technique!"

"Oh, really?"

Ye Qingzhou suddenly kicked Leon to the ground, sending him tumbling like a gourd.

"Oh no, Master Ye, why did you ambush me?"

"Not convinced? Then come up here. This time, I'll make sure you're ready."

"Isn't this inappropriate?"

Leon looked embarrassed. He was aware of his own limitations; he knew he probably wouldn't be able to block or dodge another kick, so he wouldn't invite trouble.

Seeing that Leon was standing under the wooden stake and refused to climb up again, Ye Qingzhou sighed and said, "See? You haven't learned it."

"Then how do you know when you've learned it?"

"You'll truly learn when you can move freely on the wooden stakes, performing rapid attacks, defenses, and dodges. The essence of swordsmanship is the accurate control of space and distance. If you can't even precisely control where you stand, you'll never comprehend truly superior sword techniques."

Then, in front of Leon, Ye Qingzhou practiced a swift and fierce plum blossom sword technique on a wooden stake with his eyes closed.

The sword tip pierced the air like a divine brush, drawing frigid plum blossoms in mid-air, as if defying frost and snow and blooming in anger.

The moves, combined with the body movements, were incredibly exquisite. Every action—pointing, turning, sinking, shifting, disarming, landing, leading, and advancing—was clean, crisp, and extremely fluid, without the slightest hesitation.

"Look closely, this move is called 'One Body,' which is a supreme secret technique in one-handed swordsmanship."

As Ye Qingzhou attacked, his entire body and the longsword in his hand remained in a straight line. The advantage of doing this was that it minimized the exposed area during defense and allowed him to combine offense and defense in combat, making it easier to advance and strike quickly.

Ye Qingzhou's movements were extremely agile. He stepped on the wooden stakes as if walking on flat ground, and his lower body was as stable as Mount Tai. Between leaps and bounds, his sword strikes were a mix of feints and real attacks, making it difficult for the audience to keep up.

Advancing like a storm, fierce and agile, retreating like a free cloud or a wild crane, light and nimble, Ye Qingzhou's swordsmanship was full of the ultimate beauty of martial arts, leaving Leon completely mesmerized.

At this moment, Leon understood perfectly well that he was a far cry from having "learned" it.

I can only stand on the wooden stakes; I have to walk step by step, very carefully, or I'll fall flat on my face.

And what about Ye Qingzhou?

He was no different on flat ground than on wooden stakes; he could not only run and jump, but he could even fight on the stakes. The difference was enormous.

But seeing the difference, Leon was greatly encouraged: "That 500,000 was well spent!"

As a second-generation cultivator from a martial arts family, Leon was clearly knowledgeable and knew what benefits the plum blossom stake training method could bring him.

Xu Yuebing, who initially thought it was just a farce, now completely changed her attitude. She bit her cherry lips and stepped forward, saying, "Ye Qingzhou, I also want to practice plum blossom stakes."

"Oh, you can learn by paying tuition."

"How much?"

"For you, 25 will suffice."

Seeing that Ye Qingzhou was offering a buy-one-get-one-half-price deal, Leon immediately protested loudly, "Teacher Ye, why does it cost me 50 to learn, but she only needs to pay 25? This is gender discrimination, it's not fair!"

Ye Qingzhou rolled her eyes at him: "You specialize in thunder, so practicing plum blossom stakes will be twice as difficult and half as effective. She specializes in wind, so she will learn twice as easily and half as effectively. It will be much easier for me to teach her, so it is reasonable to halve the fee."

(End of this chapter)