Wulin : Martial Heroes

Chapter 03: Sixteen Moves Swordplay

The use of inner skill is to absorb Qi more efficiently. When Li Xin was just playing the game, it was simple. He was just a character in the game

However now that he is in this world, it is not that simple.

The more powerful an inner skill was, the easier it is to absorb Qi. And as such, age is not the determinant of one inner energy.

Someone who is fifty years old might only have thirty-year worth of inner energy and a twenty-year-old might possess fifty-years’ worth of inner energy

This depends on many things. Some sect and martial arts school have powerful inner energy skill manual like the Bright Peak Temple.

The Bright Peak Temple or most widely known in Wulin as the Righteous Temple is one of the Three Great Sect.

The Righteous Temple is a lot like the Shaolin Temple. In this Tang dynasty, there is no Shaolin Temple but there is the Righteous Temple.

And the Righteous Temple has the Yijingjing which could quickly raise one inner energy among the many other benefits

When Li Xin was playing the game, he did think of trying to steal the Yijingjing. That is basically one shot to fame.

Now, however, Li Xin would want it simply to raise quickly his power level. At that time, the inner energy skill he has is the most basic of all.

But he had some advantages.

As for his inner skill, he ranks it up to Grandmaster level. Even though it could not be compared to high their inner energy skill, the Opening of Sea of Energy inner skill does help him gather Qi.

He however wanted a more powerful inner skill. Because unlike the martial artist in this world, he did not have a blockage in his meridian and there are no difficulties in breaking through

As long as he has the point, he could easily break through the power level instead of gathering Qi to break through

Of course, from what he had experimented on, it is also possible for him to breakthrough manually.

But in the beginning he had many points and he uses that point to raise his power level so that it would be easier for him to kill.

Of course because he did not have formal training, most of the skill that uses inner energy would be wasted a lot.

One simple sword strike imbued with his inner energy is powerful but lack controls.

The system helps a lot in this when he ranks it up. But the control of inner energy also depends on the type of inner cultivation that he practices.

He is now just practicing a simple but basic inner energy practice and as such even though he had a lot of inner energy reserve for a young man of his age, when he does use it, a lot of it is wasted.

It is great that he did not fight with any people. Because if he did, then he might accidentally kill people.

And Li Xin had never killed a person whether in this world or in his previous world.

He lives quite a peaceful life.

The world where he come from, while there is still small scaled war, there was never that big of a war after World War Three.

Li Xin then sense movement and his mind quickly focus back to the task at hand.

He smiles and mutters

‘Enjoy the little things’ Li Xin had promised himself that he would try to be optimistic and hopeful. He never wanted to feel like “that” again

He never wanted to entertain the thought of trying to die ever again.

How does most of the stories about people transmigrate to other worlds never mentioned the psychological burden it had on them, losing family and friends and the place where they are accustomed to?

Maybe because it is an absurd thought no one would think that when you really are transmigrated into another world, you would not really be that happy.

Especially not for him who came from a rich family, have good friends and good life.

He rebels here and there, but he did not do drugs, he was not arrogant, and he had friends from all spectrum of background.

He did not tolerate everything but he did not reject everything either. He had his own principle and he had his flaws.

There were a lot of sad things that happened in his life but there were also good things that happens in his life

all in all, he had a pretty good life.

So, when he really did get transmigrated into another world, happiness of going to another world is not really his feeling

Thinking about it again, those web novels he read are full of shit. You would really not like it if your life is turned upside down of all of sudden

He still craves the food he east, the leisure and luxuries that is present in the modern world. But then he shakes his head.

‘I’m doing it again’ he mutters to himself

He then slowly walked toward the cave. With each steps, there is a momentum building up

His ear could hear the wolves waking up and his nose could smell them coming.

He only smiles.

If this was the first day, he might be a bit afraid of a wolf pack.

But he is not the same man he was a week ago. The wolves are coming toward the entrance of the cave.

One of them look towards him and growl. And there are other behind that wolf

Li Xin narrowed his eyes and he could see them even in the darkness of the cave. There is a dozen wolf that is looking at him, thick saliva dripping down the side of its mouth

It looks more like a rabid wolf then a majestic creature.

‘What kind of drug did someone gave them? Is it the work of the Poison Valley? Or is it the Miao Tribe Poisons?’ Li Xin did not know much about sect and schools that uses poisons but he utters two names that is usually associated with poisons in Wulin

Still, he did not stop moving forward.

He did not even mind raiding the wolf cave. He had confidence. And this confidence is forged because of his strength.

His hand is at his left hip. One move and he could bring out the sword from the sheathe. Around him a certain aura formed.

He walks slowly and unhurried, like he was walking at an empty place and not a den of wolves. The wolves look at him and then one of them makes a move.

It jumped out from the entrance. The claws obstructed, the mouth opens and Li Xin unsheathe his sword.

Shinng!

The sound of the sword ringing echoes around the area. 

A sword light flashed by and the sound of skin being cut could be heard as the wolf that jumped toward him was cut into two.

A leave flutters down a tree, and as it falls down, that small leaves was cut into two in the middle, perfectly clean cut with perfect precision.

The range of the cut is large and wide, could not be seen by the eyes and leave a sword mark that stretched seven feet from where Li Xin is standing.

The wind blows his white robe and he shakes his head.

The wind rises and fall, the sword follows through and cut the wind, the appearance of a great hero shocks the world

That is the feeling that Li Xin is emanating right now

And he did not even arrive at the entrance yet

He smiles and then laughed.

‘You are too impatient and too stupid’

Li Xin smiling as he points his gleaming sharp sword to the wolf pack

With a confident smile, he simply said

‘Come’

The wolves of course could not understand human words but they probably could feel that they were provoked.

 If they were not as drugged up as this, they might already go away.

When Li Xin unleashed his inner energy force, if there is any martial artist right now, they would realize that Li Xin had around thirty-years’ worth of inner energy.

The system name this state the One with the World state.

But the Jianghu itself and the people in Wulin themselves have no term about this kind of thing and they did not classify levels and ranks.

Because in a battle, inner energy is not the only determining factor. Unless you are a grandmaster.

Now, that is a different class altogether. But as long as one is not a grandmaster level martial artist, inner energy is not the only way to win a fight

There are some that could fight people who have inner energy relying on just a superior swordsmanship, or one could also run away with exquisite lightness skill.

But having a large amount of inner energy does help. Like what Li Xin had done just a few second ago

It is the Sixteen Moves Swordplay. The Sixteen Moves Swordplay is modified from the Seven Moves swordplay.

He got the Modify skill when he broke through Understanding Oneself.

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Author Note

Yijin Jing - is an actual set of Shaolin Qigong, believed to have originated from Bodhidharma. In Wuxia stories, it is typically portrayed as one of the strongest neigong techniques in Wulin, most famously, in Jin Yong’s Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. In real-life, Yijin Jing is but one of many stretching techniques used by Shaolin monks for physical conditioning. The most popular version consists of twelve positions.