Daily life of slaying demons in the government

Chapter 142 Potential

The small courtyard of Yang Qian's house is not big, but not small either. These days, Xu Ying likes to tinker with the flowers and plants in the yard in the afternoon. She says that if she doesn't find something to do, her arms and legs will get rusty.

But no one dared to approach this courtyard today.

Yang Qian sat cross-legged on the ground with an unsheathed oxtail knife on his knees and his eyes closed. There was a frightening pressure emanating from his body, and if you got closer you would even feel a stinging sensation as if a sharp blade was scraping your face, which was quite terrifying.

As soon as he came back at noon, Yang Qian stayed in the courtyard like this. He asked his family members not to get close to him in advance. It was not because he was afraid of being disturbed, but because he was worried about hurting his family members.

If he moves to another house in the future, he will definitely build a large martial arts hall, which would be the safest choice.

After Jiang Yun left, Yang Qian came back and logged the two new sword techniques that he had been thinking about for a long time into his experience panel.

He had guessed that these two sword techniques would be different from the ones Yang Qian had encountered before and would be of a higher level. But he did not expect them to be so much higher.

"Evil Wind": Getting Started 0/80
"Drinking Snow": Getting Started 0/100
6 complete martial arts (expandable)

2 doors to perfect spiritual practice (expandable)

Available Experience: 1069
Yang Qian's first sword technique was the "Eight Styles of Oxtail Sword", which was specially used by constables in the police station. Based on his own practical experience, this sword technique actually performed quite well.

Yang Qian's second sword technique was the "Three Butterflies Soul-Breaking Sword", which was a sword technique that only the chief constable was qualified to learn. Because Yang Qian had made great contributions in eradicating the three major threats of Song Qixun, he was given the opportunity to learn it as an exception.

The starting experience for "Eight Styles of Oxtail Knife" is 20, and the starting experience for "Three Butterflies Soul-Breaking Knife" is 30.

Let's take a look at the starting experience of "Evil Wind" and "Drinking Snow". The former starts at 80, and the latter starts at 100. Just from the starting experience, we can see how big the gap is compared with the sword skills that Yang Qian had been exposed to before.

This is the result after removing the two major thresholds of "talent" and "understanding".

Yang Qian believed that an ordinary warrior would not even be able to reach the threshold of practicing "Evil Wind" and "Drinking Snow".

Or maybe it was that even among the cultivators, not everyone could practice these two sword techniques. Otherwise, the people of Tianhan Sect wouldn't have given them to him as a reward for their hard work.

Perhaps it was also because Yang Qian had already comprehended the meaning of the sword, allowing him to directly skip the biggest hurdle in practice.

With a thought in mind, Yang Qian decided to play it safe and add the experience to "Evil Wind" which consumes relatively less experience.

As for the "Drinking Snow" that Yang Qian was more curious about, the terrible initial experience forced him to step back a little.

"Evil Wind": Minor Success 0/160
[Congratulations! After your efforts, you have successfully mastered the "Evil Wind" skill. You have gained a certain understanding of the unpredictable nature of the wind and the power of the sword in the wind.]

There was no blind attempt to push the swordsmanship to a higher level all at once. Yang Qian hoped to have a solid adaptation process when he first came into contact with this new thing which was very different from the swordsmanship in martial arts.

The reason why Yang Qian sat cross-legged with his eyes closed was to feel the secrets of "Evil Wind" that were instilled into his mind after being analyzed by the experience panel.

It is said to be wind, but it is not. It is a knife technique based on the artistic conception of wind and the trajectory of the knife is based on the wind momentum.

But the core is not wind, it is evil.

Evil does not follow the ordinary path. Ordinary winds are violent or pervasive, or they are ever-changing.

However, the wind in "Evil Wind" is "cruel and cunning".

It's like an unusual tornado, where no one knows what will be caught in it. It could be mud, gravel, trees, or even living things.

This is "momentum." It is also something new that Yang Qian has never encountered before.

Secondly, understanding the situation does not mean that you can use it directly. Even if you have the experience panel, there will still be a period of awkwardness when dealing with something you have never encountered before.

Especially, it was still somewhat difficult to completely break away from the "one move and one style" that Yang Qian was already accustomed to. This was when Yang Qian's swordsmanship was no longer so rigid, and it would be even more difficult for someone whose swordsmanship was not as good as Yang Qian's to complete this transformation.

From noon until the sun sets, as time passed, the sharp aura emanating from Yang Qian's body became more and more complex, and finally formed a "tornado" with a diameter of three feet around him. The remaining wind blew out like a blade, leaving horrible traces of damage on the ground like knife marks.

Swish!
Yang Qian suddenly opened his eyes, picked up the oxtail knife on his knee and slashed it out. There was no innate true energy, no knife intent, and he didn't even use much physical strength. However, this knife had a very strange situation in its rapid movement: the blade was twisted!

The oxtail knife, which originally had an excellent chopping range and a sinking center of gravity like an oxtail, became twisted like a pretzel as Yang Qian swung it.

Coupled with the innate true energy and sword intent, the oxtail sword in Yang Qian's hand completely "breaks away" from the shape of a sword, and is twisted into a "whip", then like a chain saw, or even a spear.
The strange knife trajectories and the cut marks caused by the visual illusions on the ground were all extremely weird and crooked, as if they were really left by some alien weapon.

In fact, the Oxtail Knife remained the same. What changed was not the knife, but the wind that appeared when the knife was wielded. Yang Qian melted the knife into the wind, as if it had become a part of the wind.

After Yang Qian perfected the "Wind-Chasing Step" body movement, he also gained some understanding of the artistic conception of wind. In actual combat, he also liked to hide his sword moves in the wind caused by his body movement, and the effect has always been very good.

But this time, Yang Qian's knife was no longer hidden in the wind, but melted into the wind.

The knife moves in the direction the wind blows.

The wind was sinister and treacherous, and the sword's force followed suit.

Especially when the innate true qi was infused into the blade and the evil wind blade was in motion, Yang Qian could feel that the blade would have an extra layer of wind effect from the five qi. This was why there was that weird distorted visual effect and the reason for the rapid speed.

This is the trend?
Yang Qian looked at the knife in his hand, frowned, and shook his head slightly. He felt that the current "Evil Wind" was still far from "momentum".

Then, with a thought in his mind, "Evil Wind" was pushed to a higher level again.

"Evil Wind": Mastery 0/320
[Congratulations! After years of contemplation, your "Evil Wind" has finally reached the mastery level. Your understanding of the artistic conception of wind has become deeper, and your sword is no longer just following the wind, but the momentum follows the sword, and your sword skills are gradually improving.]

Once he mastered it, the new insights in Yang Qian's mind quickly made him understand the formation and evolution of the sword's momentum.

That is, first realize a kind of momentum of heaven and earth, such as the momentum of wind, water, or mountains, even falling leaves, rain and snow can become momentum.

Then, he would make use of the power of heaven and earth, from taking advantage of it to manipulating it, and finally perhaps blending into it and becoming one with it.

Yang Qian couldn't help but think: If I could push this sword technique to perfection, would it bring any new benefits to my sword skills?
(End of this chapter)