Chapter 52 Sword Stance
"This is not a knife skill. What is the society now? Where can there be such things? What I tell you is not a systematic knife skill or a secret skill. You think that the gorgeous knife skills in movies and animations are very wrong. This is just something that an old man has figured out. For me personally, I think it may be of some use to you, so I told you." Bai Yi explained.
"That old man called this thing...a sword force!" Bai Yi said, and with a straight knife, he fell from the air, and then suddenly hovered in the air.
"This is the most basic sword move!"
The most basic knife posture?
Everyone looked at Bai Yi's actions and looked at it for a while, but they had no idea why. The so-called most basic thing is not just a slash. Bai Yi saw the confused look of a group of people and suddenly felt very much like to laugh. Thinking about the beginning, he obviously learned cooking skills from that old man, but ended up learning a bunch of these messy things.
Hong Qihua looked at Bai Yi's movements, and suddenly her eyes lit up and she was completely still!
"Is it still?"
"Since someone finally saw it, yes, this is the most basic control of the knife's momentum. If even the knife's stillness cannot be done, there is no need to say anything else." Bai Yi said, and then signaled again. His right hand held the knife flat in the air, without moving at all.
Hong Qihua also pulled out one of her short swords and lifted them flatly in the air. Her two short swords were less than 25 centimeters and were very light in weight, which was completely incomparable to Bai Yi's straight-cut sword. However, when Hong Qihua lifted them flatly in the air, she immediately noticed that her own muscles were trembling involuntarily. It was not fatigue or because they were too heavy, but the muscles trembled automatically, which was not obvious, but they did exist.
After seeing Hong Qihua's movements, others raised their own swords. Everyone was like Hong Qihua and suddenly realized that when they held their own swords, their arms were always shaking slightly. No matter how they changed their postures, this kind of shaking always existed.
Bai Yi did not directly tell Hong Qihua and the others how to exercise, but waved to Momo.
"Momo, you can try it too!"
Momo looked at Bai Yi, and after a while, she nodded happily.
"Yeah!" Momo answered tenderly, clumsyly lifting the short knife that Bai Yi had chosen for her. The short knife was also a straight-cut knife, only more than half a meter long, but for Momo, it was just a long knife, and even the small hands needed both hands to grasp the handle of the knife. Bai Yi did not tell Momo how to do it, but just watched Momo clumsyly fiddling with the straight-cut knife.
Shapi looked at it from the side, suddenly opened her mouth and yawned, then continued to lie on the ground, looking at Bai Yi and the others lazily. The pet pig Pupu was a distance from Shapi, and his round body was also lying on the ground. As Bai Yi said before, creatures that parasitize active cells became smarter...even a pig.
After a while, Bai Yi smiled in Momo's watery eyes and taught Momo how to hold the knife step by step. After Momo held the knife tightly, Bai Yi looked at everyone. Only Hong Qihua was not distracted at all when she was just moving. She kept holding her right hand and staring at the movement of her right hand.
"There is no absolute stillness. Even if it is really still, it is just eyes deceiving you. What you need to master is to clearly grasp every pulsation of your muscles." Bai Yi pressed the straight-slashing sword on Hong Qihua's short sword.
Hong Qihua immediately discovered that the short knife in her hand stopped moving. However, it was not like relying on a stationary object. Instead, it seemed that Bai Yi's movement was adjusting with the trembling of his muscles. However, this change was absolutely still, which made people extremely strange.
The others watched and Bai Yi demonstrated one by one, and then Bai Yi sat down tiredly. The injured body was so troublesome that he couldn't hold on if he had a little movement.
"I hope you understand that I asked you to choose a knife, not to let you use a knife."
"What is that used?"
"Body!"
"The knife is just an extension of the body. I hope you master the physical strength that you gradually become stronger. If you are willing, it doesn't matter if you use axes, wooden sticks, empty handed boxing, etc. In essence, as long as you master and exert your own powerful strength. The reason why you choose a knife is that it is easier to obtain, and in the early stage, having weapons is definitely much safer than empty handed."
After everyone heard Bai Yi's words, they nodded slowly, thinking.
"Uncle Bai, are you a chef? Do you need to learn so many things to be a chef?" Hong Qihua asked curiously. The others also looked over. If the chefs are so powerful, how can they still behave?
"Ah...hahaha!" Bai Yi couldn't help but smile awkwardly when he heard this.
"Of course not. I guess only that old man is so crazy. The old man I mentioned is the master who teaches me cooking skills, active in the 1990s. At that time, ancient martial arts novels were popular. The old man was also crazy at that time, and he thought about the so-called "sword technique". Of course, he did not become a martial arts master, but in the end he became a chef who was not up or down. Later, when I was learning cooking, he was forced to learn a mess." After laughing, Bai Yi explained to everyone.
"However, I learned very carefully at that time, and I thought I had met a legendary master." Bai Yi suddenly remembered something and laughed.
"Oh, what's going on?" the others couldn't help but laugh.
"Actually, it's my own martial arts complex. Before I became a master and learned cooking skills, I happened to watch Stephen Chow's movie. I forgot my name, it was the one in Tathagata's Divine Palm. My father said that my academic performance was not good, so I asked me to just learn a chef. I went reluctantly, but found that the old man who taught cooking skills was actually a legendary 'master'. I was so excited at that time." Bai Yi said, and he laughed.
As long as it is in China, no one has ever had a dream of martial arts, especially for Bai Yi at that time, when he was fifteen or sixteen, he met a legendary master, how could he not be so excited that he died?
After hearing this, Hong Qihua couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckled.
Others certainly cannot understand that only Hong Qihua, who is also a Chinese, understands this martial arts complex in the bones of the Chinese.
No matter how strange Bai Yi's "sword stance" is, it is at least more useful now. Perhaps it does not have the amazing power in the movie, but just by looking at Bai Yi's much more exquisite control over the sword than others, you know that these things are still useful.
Bai Yi explained for several hours, which is the so-called "sword force", which is not just the static point of the previous one, but also some other things. In fact, these things are not complicated and not as magical as imagined. They are just precise control of the knives. People in the past didn't care about these because there was no need. Who would practice what kind of knife skills in modern society?
Bai Yi spoke dry mouth because these theories have a very heavy Chinese atmosphere, and only Hong Qihua can fully understand them. After translation into English, it always seems inappropriate, and I don’t know if others understand them.
Seeing that Momo was already dozing slightly, Bai Yi stopped explaining and asked everyone to rest.
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As it was night, everyone laid simple beds in two nearby classrooms and prepared to start resting. The school’s food was basically taken away, but there were still a lot of these things like quilts in the student dormitory. In this environment, we can’t expect more.
"Dad!" Momo pulled Bai Yi's right hand. Since she became sensible, Momo has been sleeping with Bai Yi. Now she is suddenly leaving, Momo is a little uneasy.
"Don't be afraid, follow Sister Hong Qihua and the others, but remember one thing..." Bai Yi quietly leaned over Momo's ear. "Don't wet the bed."
Momo's face suddenly turned red, and the slight fluff that grew was shaking.
"Talent, no!" Momo obviously didn't have much confidence when she said this.
"Hahahaha." Bai Yi couldn't help laughing when he saw Momo's appearance. Others heard Bai Yi's laughter, but they didn't know what Bai Yi was laughing at. Hong Qihua walked over and looked at Bai Yi and Momo in confusion. At this time, Bai Yi would certainly not spread the embarrassing story about his daughter. This is a secret.
"It's nothing, Momo asks you to take care of you." Bai Yi said.
"Shapi, you go over, be careful!" Bai Yi said to Shapi. Now one meter five meters long, the tall Shapi has already looked very ferocious and fierce.
"Wang!" Shapi shouted and followed Hong Qihua to the lady's classroom. Obviously, Shapi could really understand Bai Yi's words. After Hong Qihua brought Momo to the next classroom, Bai Yi returned to the classroom where the man was sleeping. As soon as he entered the room, Woolf sneaked to Bai Yi and then whispered.
"The owner of my quilt is definitely a girl, I smelled a scent." Woolf said proudly to Bai Yi.
"…!" Bai Yiran, Woolf, you guy.
"Idiot, all the beds and quilts here are taken from the girls' dormitory." Martin complained. The two started to quarrel again, and soon after, they seemed to start saying something quietly. Occasionally, Martin's proud voices, such as 'bra, lace', etc. Bai Yi was amused and laughed, but occasionally he couldn't help but interject a few words.
Chapter completed!