Chapter 5: Analysis of Fast Knife

  Tian Boguang's name is renowned in the Jianghu for his swift and deadly knife skills, known as "Flying Sand and Walking Stone Quick Knife Thirteen Styles". He is famous for his speed and ruthlessness. In the previous version of "Martial Arts Myth" played by Ling Jing, Tian Boguang was also a system character, and the system's evaluation of this quick knife skill had already reached the level of superior martial arts, its power can be imagined.

  And if Ling Jing's conjecture is correct, Tian Boguang's strength should be roughly the same as the setting in "Wuxia Myth", at least a top-notch master of three products.

  But at this time, Linghu Chong had not yet practiced any top-grade martial arts, and his internal strength was only around the fourth grade. Although the Huashan swordsmanship also has superior sword techniques, this school takes a gradual approach, and many powerful moves have not been taught to him by Yue Buqun, so now Linghu Chong's sword technique can only be considered mid-grade.

  In comparison, Linghu Chong found it difficult to gain an advantage over Tian Boguang.

  At this moment, Tian Boguang suddenly shouted loudly: "Dong!"

  All he saw was a flash of the short knife in his hand, so fast that it almost left no trace.

  "Hah!"

  Linghu Cong suddenly felt a sting, his shoulder had already been cut by a knife, and fresh blood instantly dyed his shoulder red.

  Tian Boguang's swift swordsmanship, once unleashed, was a flurry of one swift stroke after another. Linghu Chong, despite his valiant efforts to counter with the Huashan Sword School, ultimately found his skills no match for Yue Buqun's superior mastery. In just a few breaths, he had already suffered multiple wounds.

  Linghu Cong's body had begun to sway, his entire being covered in blood, but on his pale face still hung a carefree smile.

  As soon as the two of them made a move, the wine guests in the Swan Goose Building immediately dispersed, and now only three tables of customers were left.

  At one table was a big monk drinking and eating meat, at another table was an old man with a thirteen or fourteen year-old girl, and the last table naturally had Ling Jing sitting alone in the corner.

  Ling Jing propped up her forehead, although her eyes were fixed on Linghu Chong and Tian Boguang, but the corner of her eye secretly glanced at the other two tables of people.

  He, who was familiar with the plot, naturally knew the identities of these two tables of people, but none of them were simple characters, they were all outstanding figures among the top-notch masters, and with his current strength, he couldn't afford to provoke them, so he pretended not to see.

  But at this moment, Tian Boguang's knife method gave him a lot of inspiration. After watching Tian Boguang demonstrate the thirteen fast knife methods one by one, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

  In the past, in "Wuxia Myth", among the top martial arts, there were also many that were known for their speed, and even the ultimate skill-level martial art "Devil-Expelling Sword Scripture" was renowned for its swiftness and strangeness.

  But in "Martial Arts Myth" the most controversial is a quasi-absolute fast sword, that is, the Zhōu Gōng Jiàn (周公剑) used by Zhuó Bù Fán (卓不凡), the "Sword God" of the Tiān Lóng Bā Bù (天龙八部) One Word Wisdom Sword School.

  Although in the original work, Zhuo Bufan was defeated by Xuzhu at the end, but at that time, Xuzhu had gathered the internal energy of Tian Shan Tong Lao, Li Qiushui and Wu Ya Zi, three great masters. In heaven and earth, only Xuzhu could have such deep internal energy.

  Moreover, at that time, Xuzhu had already mastered all the ultimate skills of the Carefree Sect, and it was not difficult to defeat Zhuo Bufan.

  However, in "Wuxia Myth", many people think that Zhuo Bufan's swordsmanship has reached the peak of that time, and this Zhou Gong Sword is the pinnacle of swordsmanship.

  Ke Ling Jing didn't believe in evil, with just one set of absolute grade sword techniques he dared to claim the pinnacle of sword techniques. What about the Six Pulse Divine Sword and the Dugu Nine Swords then?

  He then spent 9 points of innate talent to practice this sword technique to perfection, and began to challenge masters everywhere. As it turned out, the "Zhou Gong Sword" was indeed extraordinary, and even though he had already removed several divine equipment and suppressed his internal strength to a first-class realm, he still defeated dozens of top-notch masters in one battle, becoming famous overnight.

  He then made a video of the challenge process and put it on the game's official website, which caused a sensation in the game and sparked a wave of learning "Zhou Gong Jian".

  So for the martial arts known for their speed, Ling Jing truly had a deep understanding. In the past, he used one hand to wield the "Zhou Gong Sword" and defeated countless masters, allowing him to grasp the subtleties of the concept of "speed". However, wanting to cultivate the concept of "speed" to its peak was not easy, unless one was like Yue Buqun or Lin Pingzhi, who could wield their swords with such speed that it seemed like a blur, otherwise it would be difficult to achieve rapid progress.

  However, after watching Tian Boguang's Thirteen Fast Knife Techniques, he seemed to have gained some insight. In his mind, he kept simulating and recreating the entire process of Tian Boguang making a move, with flashes of sword light and shadows overlapping each other, constantly flashing back and forth in the depths of his mind. His eyes also gradually brightened up.

  His body has a high degree of enlightenment, and he himself has a deep understanding of the "Zhou Gong Sword", which is known for its speed. As soon as he saw Tian Boguang's fast knife, he quickly gained insight and involuntarily simulated this knife method, finally even deducing and improving the knife method one by one, and integrating it into his own swordsmanship.

  Until the last move was played out, a sudden voice of the system sounded in his mind, startling him.

  "Host Ling Jing analyzes Tian Boguang's superior martial art 'Flying Sand and Walking Stone Fast Knife Thirteen Styles' successfully, character expansion column unlocked."

  "Expanded Martial Arts 'Quick Sword Thirteen Styles' training successful, reward one talent point, Body Technique +5, Root Bone +5, Internal Strength +5, Enlightenment +1"

  "Triggering Quest: Supreme Martial Arts Collection Mania"

  "Task content: Cultivate ten superior martial arts, unlimited expansion of martial arts, no time limit"

  "Task progress: 1/10"

  "Quest Completion Reward: 10 Talent Points"

  "Task failure penalty: None"

  The system's voice disappeared again, and Ling Jing stared blankly at the character attribute chart in his mind. At some point, a new empty bar had appeared below the chart, consisting of countless empty squares, but now the first square was filled with an icon composed of numerous sword shadows.

  He focused his attention on this icon, and a line of small characters appeared.

  "Superior Martial Arts: Quick Sword Thirteen Forms, derived from 'Wanderer of Ten Thousand Miles' Tian Boguang's 'Flying Sand and Walking Stone Quick Knife Thirteen Forms', characteristics: fast, ruthless, accurate."

  Ling Jing slapped his forehead and muttered to himself, "Damn it! Expanding martial arts?" This thing is absolutely a system original creation. There's no such thing in "Martial Arts Myth".

  He never thought that his temporary whim of incorporating Tian Boguang's knife method into his own swordsmanship would cause such a huge commotion in the system.

  At this time, he suddenly paused: "Wait a minute, I think the system just gave me a reward. Let me take a look." The system had said many things earlier, but he remembered that it seemed to have given him an attribute reward.

  He first took a look at his current character attributes, and indeed, the four attribute values had changed to "Bone Frame: 55, Body Method: 95, Internal Energy: 125, Enlightenment: 100". Then he looked down at the bottom of the talent tree, where two lines of small text had also changed to "Current available talent points: 1" and "Current used talent points: 0".

  He was delighted in his heart, this was indeed a good thing that "fell asleep and someone sent a pillow", he didn't hesitate to add a point of innate talent to the inner strength of the first layer of the talent tree. The "inner strength" icon suddenly lit up with a faint light, and the "0/5" in the lower right corner of the icon also changed to "1/5".

  It's not that he didn't want to add talent points to the lower talent tree, but because the condition for lighting up the second layer of the talent tree is to spend more than 15 talent points on the first layer, and the third layer requires spending more than 50 talent points on the previous two layers. As for the last layer, it's not even worth mentioning... over 100 points...

  Internal strength is the foundation of a master, but Ling Jing's internal strength realm is still too low now. Even Lian Huachong, who has just started his career, can't compare with him. So now the most important thing for him is to improve his internal strength realm, so that he can quickly make himself one of the top masters and gain a certain right to speak in the Jianghu.

  Especially the task released by the system, the first one is to let him face Tian Boguang, a three-product peak master. If he can't quickly improve his strength, he really doubts whether he can survive the second mainline task.

  After the talent points were added, Ling Jing's gaze fell on his character attribute panel again, and indeed, his internal force attribute had changed from 125 to 149 ((125 + 20) x 1.03), which was almost at the threshold of the fourth rank.

  However, it's a pity that although his root bone attribute has also been improved, he still hasn't lit up any horizontal martial arts, and now the root bone attribute is simply to enhance his energy, but its use is not great.

  PS: In "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", Zhou Gong's sword, wielded by Zhuo Bufan, only appeared once with a brief description of its moves. However, Zhuo Bufan was able to split a table into nine pieces of identical size in an instant. In my understanding, this sword technique should be extremely swift. Therefore, I have set it as a quasi-absolute fast sword skill in "Martial Arts Myth".

  Of course, if everyone has different opinions, they can be raised and I will make corrections accordingly.

  Finally asking for a collection and recommendation, haha, you know what I mean...