A certain sword soul's infinite journey

Chapter 18

I don't know when it started, the flow of people on the King's Road has increased.

People appeared on the road day and night, there were old people, children, and women with babies in their arms. They rode everything they could, but most of them still walked on foot and hurried on their way every day.

These travelers included people from all walks of life, blacksmiths, whores, and bards, and each of them traveled in the opposite direction to the south, King's Landing they had just left.

Everyone carries one or two weapons more or less, maybe an axe, maybe a sickle, and few people with swords can be seen.

Every evening, there are always clusters of campfires in the woods.

"This is war."

Lin Yi said this to Arya.

Yoren tightened up the formation of the convoy and arranged for those adults to be on duty at night, but during the period from early morning to sunrise, no one else was assigned, but he himself was on duty.

This is of course for Arya who is learning sword from Lin Yi.

Although there are more and more people on King's Road, Lin Yi can always find a less crowded place for her to practice.

Ever since she learned the breathing method taught by Lin Yi, Arya felt that she slept more deeply every day, and sometimes she only slept for three hours a night, but she still woke up energetic.

This made Arya very excited, because it meant that she would have more time to practice the swordsmanship and footwork that Lin Yi taught her.

She practiced in the morning and memorized during the day, and she walked crookedly and muttered while she was on the road.

Gendry once thought she was in a daze, and wanted to hit the back of her head with a wooden stick, but she subconsciously took a step back to dodge, and her thin body bumped into Gendry's arms strangely.

When Arya looked up, she saw that she could easily drive the sword through her chin and into Gendry's head.

If she had drawn the sword, Gendry would be dead.

Arya thought so.

After this incident, Arya became even more fanatical about what Lin Yi taught.

Looking at Arya who was holding a wooden stick, circling around a tree, stabbing twice from time to time, Lin Yi showed a strange smile on his face.

It only took Arya four days to completely memorize the steps and formulas of the Eight Diagrams Step.

You must know that there are a total of more than 100 Chinese characters in the formulas of the Bagua step, which is a very serious challenge for a person who has never been exposed to Chinese characters.

But Arya did.

And Syrio's teaching of Arya is really great, it's definitely not like teaching a little superficially like in the play.

Her body is very flexible, and her core muscles are well exercised, and she can even stand on one toe for more than ten minutes.

"Water dancers can stand on one toe for hours."

When Arya said this, she obviously didn't realize how good her foundation was.

Under Lin Yi's guidance, Arya completed the first stage of the Jiugong Bagua step in ten days, and started the second stage of training.

Seeing Arya's rapid progress, Lin Yi decided to teach her another breathing method and the stabbing part of swordsmanship today.

So Lin Yi walked towards Arya.

When Arya was muttering and stepping on gossip, a wooden stick suddenly appeared at the place where she was about to take the next step, and it was about to catch her leg.

Arya would have jumped up, or fallen backwards, if it had been the case.

But now Arya just drew an arc with her right foot in the air, and there was no imbalance in the center of gravity while going around the stick.

The wooden stick hanging on the ground suddenly came from bottom to top. Feeling the sound of the wind in her ear, Arya didn't panic at all. She stood still in Zhonggong, stepped straight into the sun position with her right foot, and waded into the ridge with her left foot in an arc.

Hurry up the wooden stick, Arya stepped on Jiugong and passed it side by side.

After doing this three times, Lin Yi took back the wooden stick, smiled and nodded.

"You learn fast."

Arya was breathing heavily, and there was a hint of a smile on her small face.

"Next, I will teach you the breathing method when you are on the road, and the stabbing part of my swordsmanship."

Before Arya had time to be happy, she felt that her "sewing needle" appeared in Lin Yi's hands without knowing when.

Arya's eyes widened suddenly.

"So fast!"

Lin Yi smiled and shook the "sewing needle" in his hand, then stuffed it behind his back, and when he took out his hand again, the thin sword had miraculously disappeared.

Only then did Arya come to her senses, and quickly shouted, "My sword!"

"I'll confiscate it first." Lin Yi said with a smile.

"Give it back to me!" Arya rushed to Lin Yi's back, but no matter how hard she searched, she couldn't find her "sewing needle".

"Where did you hide?"

Arya clasped Lin Yi's arm with both hands, raised her head, a pair of thick eyebrows inherited from Eddard Stark raised up imposingly.

"Do you want to take it back?" Lin Yi smiled unfathomably.

"miss you!"

"Then it depends on your performance."

Arya and Lin Yi looked at each other for a while, then lowered their heads in frustration.

It seems that there is no way to get it from the teacher.

Lin Yi smiled slightly, and tapped his toes on the ground, and the wooden stick that Arya threw on the ground just now flew up.

Arya subconsciously caught it.

Lin Yi put his left hand behind his back, held a sword in his right hand, and danced a sword flower.

"Look, let me demonstrate it to you first."

As soon as the words fell, Lin Yi drew his sword and stood still.

Just a standing posture, Arya felt that Lin Yi seemed to be different. If it was said that it was hidden in the sheath just now to represent the mystery of the unknown, now it is slowly drawing the sword to show its sharpness.

Just when Alia was photographed in the gesture of Lin Yi's sword, a dazzling sword light suddenly broke through the whole picture in her eyes, and an illusion as if from another world came to her mind.

Arya was in a cold sweat. She knew that if it was a life-and-death struggle, she would have died when the teacher just drew the sword.

She cheered up, watched Lin Yi's demonstration of sword moves carefully, and memorized the strong and soft basic sword moves meticulously in her heart.

But then, Lin Yi's sword changed, and a brilliant sword light suddenly pointed at the trees in front of him.

Swah——

The branches of the trees in front of me looked like broccoli flowers whose umbrella cap had been chopped off with a knife, half of the branches were cut off in an instant, and the leaves were flying in the sky.

Lin Yi's sword light became more and more rapid, and his sword moves were complicated and changeable, as if seven or eight sword lights were pointed out in an instant, Arya's eyes were dazzled and her eye sockets were sore.

But even so, her eyes were still wide open, and she was unwilling to pull them down with a single movement.

In just a few seconds, Arya couldn't count how many swords he stabbed...

If Syrio's sword allowed her to see the hope that the agile can defeat the strong with the weak, then at this moment Lin Yi let her see the acme of agility and speed.

At this speed, even a knight in full armor cannot escape the fate of being pierced through the head, right?

Arya reached out a hand and caught the fallen leaf in her palm.

In the center of the veins of each leaf, there was a clear sword mark. The sword mark pierced the leaf precisely along the veins, but did not completely cut it in half.

Arya reached out her hands and caught more leaves, every one without exception.

Can this incomparably precise stabbing, as well as the pinnacle of control, really be possible for humans?
Arya stroked the leaves in her hand blankly.

Syrio was right, he was just not fast enough!

"Want to learn?"

At some point, Lin Yi was already standing beside Arya.

"Think!" Arya raised her head with a firm tone in her tone.

Lin Yi smiled.

"Arya, you have the foundation of a water dancer. Your body is flexible, your hands and feet are agile, your senses are keen, and your eyes are sharp. These are all good talents for sword practice. I will stab, hang, point, wipe, tease, etc. in my swordsmanship. Part of it is taught to you, and all you have to do is speed yourself up, make your sword faster, faster, until the opponent can no longer see your sword."

"When your sword reaches its limit, no one in this world will be your opponent."

"Including you?" Arya asked suddenly.

Lin Yi had a strange expression on his face, but he was not good at dismantling himself, so he nodded.

"If you can do it."

(End of this chapter)