The First Master of History Chapter 1: The First Master Volume 1 Martial World Chapter 59: Progress

  Ye Wen's efforts were not in vain, as time passed, he gradually adapted to practicing with the heavy sword, but wanting to use this heavy sword to smoothly execute the Quanzhen Swordsmanship was still not an easy task. With his current abilities, he often only managed to wield it halfway before exhausting his internal energy, having no choice but to retreat and rest.

  At this time, Ye Wen would use that set of street-side Tai Chi Fist to slightly recover his body, of course, the heavy sword would still be carried on his back. It's just that Tai Chi Fist is slow when fighting, and carrying a heavy sword won't have too much impact, it can help relax the body and relieve muscle fatigue.

  And after more than a year of practice, he had become accustomed to recovering his internal strength through the way of Tai Chi boxing, so when he finished punching, his exhausted internal force would recover to its peak state.

  At this time, he will continue the swordsmanship training that was not finished earlier and continue to use this large iron block to train in the Quanzhen Sword Method. Moreover, because of using this big fellow, some Quanzhen sword moves that were previously difficult for him to understand now have new insights.

  The Quanzhen Swordsmanship is actually a very grand and steady swordsmanship, but Ye Wen had always thought that swordsmanship should use speed to defeat the enemy, so many moves he made very quickly, completely losing the thick and heavy feeling of Quanzhen Swordsmanship.

  Now holding this heavy sword, he can't move fast no matter how hard he tries, but instead, he has come to realize the awkwardness he had always felt before, and his swordsmanship has actually improved again.

  Having thought this through, he was relieved that when teaching his disciples swordsmanship, he hadn't carelessly expressed his own thoughts, otherwise it would have truly misled them.

  After practicing his sword skills, Ye Wen carefully wrapped up the heavy sword and slung it over his back. To others, it looked like a long rectangular package, and no one could have guessed what was inside.

  These days, whether it was Xu Xian or Ning Ruxue, they all saw Ye Wen carrying something on his back and wandering around, but neither of them asked him about it.

  It was actually his own little apprentice, Zhou Zhiruo, who looked at her master with great curiosity as he always carried something on his back. She asked him slightly and Ye Wen just smiled and said: "Master is practicing!" The little guy didn't ask again.

  Of course, Yue Ning, who was listening on the side, asked intentionally: "Master, should the apprentice also be like this?"

  Instead, Ye Wen was somewhat at a loss, and finally said: "You don't need to cultivate like this for now!" This was because he considered that Yue Ning was still growing up, and over-exerting himself in cultivation would not have any benefits, but instead harm his body.

  Yue Ning also just responded with an "oh" and the matter was settled.

  Having taken in two apprentices, Ye Wen continued his daily routine of practicing and teaching his apprentices, occasionally going to the front to instruct the remaining outer sect disciples.

  Although these people have already learned all the entry-level skills of Shu Mountain School, at most they just know how to do it, but if you say that they are proficient in it, they still have a long way to go. Staying on the mountain is not really having nothing to do.

  Ye Wen thought that staying here would make it difficult to make great progress, and more importantly, his own cultivation time was not much longer than these people. If he taught them every day, he feared that he would soon exhaust his own foundation, so he simply let them go down the mountain to practice on their own. If they could make a breakthrough, it would be a good thing.

  As for betraying, Ye Wen is not afraid! Firstly, the current Jianghu attaches great importance to the teachings of respecting one's master, beyond his own imagination. Secondly, he has confidence in making those who betray him pay a bloody price. As for this person hiding? Although Yue Shan Escort Agency is only a third-rate agency with limited strength, its connections and intelligence are quite impressive after years of operation, finding someone is not a difficult task.

  Moreover, these outer disciples cannot find a better place to learn martial arts than Mount Shu Sect. Probably only fools would be willing to leave!

  Spring went and autumn came, Ye Wen, who had been busy cultivating all day, hardly noticed the scorching heat of midsummer, only to find that autumn was slowly approaching. In his spare time, he once again summoned a book of Tai Yue's Three Qingfeng sword moves, and found that his internal strength cultivation had made another significant progress compared to several months ago, and his arm strength and palm power were no longer comparable to before.

  But it seemed that the ring still didn't think he had reached the next level, so he didn't waste more energy summoning unnecessary techniques and instead focused on cultivating his hand-to-hand combat skills, as he thought this level of martial arts was sufficient, so in these days he only used the ring when he thought of it.

  With nothing to do, Ye Wen also used a regular long sword, so that he wouldn't get too accustomed to using the heavy sword and forget the feeling of wielding a sword. He found that his wrist strength and agility, as well as the accuracy of his sword strikes, had greatly improved, and even the "One Sword Turns into Three Clears" technique from the Quanzhen Sword Method could be barely executed.

  Now he can only achieve two clears, and three clears are barely touching the threshold! But even so, it's exciting for Ye Wen, who could only barely do one sword to two clears a few months ago.

  Because this proves that one's cultivation method is correct, it is indeed a feasible method that can greatly improve one's strength in a short period of time.

  In his excitement, Ye Wen even forgot to bring his heavy sword and rushed straight out of his own courtyard.

  Nowadays, there is no one else in the yard. Ning Ruxue has been catching sparrows all day long. At first, she was very clumsy and often ended up exhausted without catching many birds. Later, as her lightness skill and internal strength improved, leading to a higher sensitivity of her five senses, she was no longer so clumsy.

  She can now catch forty-nine sparrows in the large practice room, and at this rate, Ning Ruxue may be able to complete the practice room stage by winter and start challenging the final stage of practicing this martial art outdoors.

  Ye Wen was surprised at Ning Ruxue's rapid progress, but upon careful consideration, it wasn't that surprising after all! When Yang Guo was training, he had Xiaolongnu by his side to guide him, and he himself was also exceptionally talented. However, the original Divine Eagle Hero didn't have a foundation like Ning Ruxue's.

  At that time, Yang Guo had only learned some introductory techniques of the Toad Skill and a bit of the Nine Yin Manual's reversal technique. Apart from this, he was taught the Quanzhen School's oral formula by Zhao Zhi Jing (without any specific internal skills or forms).

  When he entered the ancient tomb, it can be said that he had little foundation in martial arts. What lightness skill, throwing punches and grasping were all learned while practicing the Heaven and Earth Web Formation.

  While Ning Zhurui's martial arts skills may not be high, her foundation is much more solid than Yang Guo's at that time. Moreover, she has a strong internal energy as her base, and the Jade Maiden Sword Technique of the Ancient Tomb Sect also laid some foundation for her movements. Now with Tishi Zong's help, such progress is not surprising.

  As soon as he thought of Ti Yun Zong, Ye Wen came to the mountain cliff where he usually practiced his lightness skill. Since he discovered that this place was very suitable for practicing lightness skills, he would often come here to practice. Later, Ning Ruxue and Xu Xian also found out about this place and would occasionally come over.

  And this way, it reveals the gap in lightness kung fu between the three people.

  Ning Ruxue was extremely skilled at flashing and jumping due to her training in the Heavenly Net, so she jumped very high at first, but because of her insufficient internal strength and lack of endurance, as well as not having a suitable place to borrow force later on, she had no choice but to give up climbing and slowly fall down.

  Xu Xian was very straightforward, charging forward with the help of Ti Yun Zong's precision and his own agility. Every time he jumped up, he could jump higher than Ning Ruxue, but because he used too much force, when he fell down, he looked a bit disheveled. Fortunately, Ye Wen helped him out from behind.

  As for Ye Wen? He was never good at lightness skills to begin with, let alone now that he's carrying a big burden. So he simply gave up on showing off his clumsiness. However, he still insisted on coming here to train, only he never took off the heavy sword behind him, so he didn't know what level he could reach either.

  Today, in a moment of excitement, he forgot to put on his heavy sword and walked unknowingly to this mountain wall. He wanted to try out what level he was at.

  He looked around and saw that no one was on the side, Ye Wen immediately took a deep breath and jumped up with his inner strength, and actually jumped higher than usual by nearly twice.

  Not quite exciting, Ye Wen made a clever move with the Ti Yun Zong light skill, his body turned in mid-air and didn't change direction, but miraculously folded in mid-air and rushed towards a protruding rock.

  With a step on the protruding stone, taking the opportunity to catch his breath, Ye Wen continued to rise upwards. Just these two steps and Ye Wen was already higher than the highest place he had ever reached before.

  Although his second jump was not as high as the first one due to insufficient breath, he was still very pleased with this result. Moreover, since he felt that he had not exhausted his energy, he could continue to challenge even higher places.

  He looked up and saw that he had already climbed more than halfway, and vaguely saw that there seemed to be another platform on the top of the cliff. He hadn't noticed it before when he was below, but now that he saw it, he felt an urge to climb up and take a look.

  Although Ye Wen's lightness skill had improved greatly, his breath was still limited. When he jumped to three-quarters of the distance, he felt that his breath was almost exhausted, and although the remaining distance was not much, it was already an insurmountable chasm for him.

  Because of using lightness to climb upwards, often the higher you jump, the smaller the height will be. If there is no suitable foothold, when your breath is exhausted, you can only fall down following the trend.

  Ye Wen didn't want to fall to his death, so he prepared to give up and slowly use the last bit of breath to find a suitable foothold to land far away. After all, this place was just behind Mount Shu Sect, and he wouldn't be able to run with long legs in the future. He could come back later when his lightness skill had improved.

  Just as he was about to turn back, he suddenly saw a rattan rod in front of him right at his fingertips. Ye Wen's mind turned quickly and he secretly said: "Could it be that heaven is helping me?"

  Without hesitation, he reached out and grabbed the rattan pole, then hung in mid-air to catch his breath. With both hands and feet exerting force, he sprang up onto the platform with the agility of a monkey.

  On top of the platform, Ye Wen let out a breath and turned around to look back. He saw that the cliff was steep like an absolute wall, and it was even higher, making people dizzy. If not for the help of this vine, Ye Wen would never have been able to climb up.

  He sighed silently in his heart, feeling that luck was not bad, and Ye Wen began to take in the scenery of this platform. However, he saw that there was nothing on the platform, not even a few weeds, it was really boring.

  "Damn it! After all the trouble, it's just this broken place?"

  Just as Ye Wen was complaining, he suddenly saw a small winding road at the corner of the platform in front of him, which might have been overlooked if he hadn't been looking in that direction while complaining.

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