Chapter 143 Except for the True Teachings, All Others Are Inner Sect

Xin Zhen said this and did this. He could even pass on his sword skills to the Qi Sect, let alone to the Sword Sect.

The Sword Sect is currently in the arduous start-up stage. The more outstanding the next generation of disciples are, the more solid the Sword Sect's foundation will be. Xin Zhen sees this more clearly than anyone else.

Xin Zhen took basic sword techniques as the subject, and passed on to his disciples his insights into the foundation of sword moves, sword manipulation, footwork, the connection between sword moves, skills in actual combat, etc. through basic sword techniques.

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Xin Zhen taught his disciples a way of thinking to solve problems through this course. Those disciples who are a little smarter can use this tool to dissect advanced sword techniques such as Yangwu Sword Technique and Chunfeng Sword Technique.

It only took Xin Zhen about ten days to teach his true disciples the advanced basic sword techniques, but in this course on sword-practicing skills, he went over the basic sword techniques over and over again for nearly three months.

It is to teach students various small tools repeatedly over and over again, so that they can really reach the level of being able to use them proficiently, and let them use these skills naturally when learning each kind of sword technique!

This matter attracted the attention of Feng Buping and his people, who also went to listen to the course. After listening, Feng Buping was very moved and said to Xin Zhen: "I have always thought that your sword skills are so high because you learned the Dugu Nine Swords, but after listening to your course, I realized that the gap between people is much greater than the gap between people and pigs."

Xin Zhen laughed when he heard this: "Brother, what you said is a bit outrageous. It's not that exaggerated."

Cong Buqi said: "When we were learning swordsmanship, we memorized them by rote. After we learned the whole routine, our master would show us how to break down the moves. But even then, it depends on how much we can understand individually.

But your various skills and tools are just like killing a pig with sword moves. Well, this piece belongs to the hind leg bone. If you make a cut from here, the hind leg will be separated.

This piece is the pork belly. If you go in from here, you can easily separate it...

According to our master, all kinds of profound and subtle mysteries need to be understood by oneself, but with you, they can all be explained and done!

If I had had a teacher like this, I don't know how much better my swordsmanship would be now."

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "There are indeed some profound and subtle mysteries in swordsmanship, but these things are not impossible to explain. If you can't do it, it only means that your swordsmanship attainments are not enough to analyze it."

In Xin Zhen's eyes, whether it is internal strength or swordsmanship, as long as they exist, they are science and belong to the category of sports.

No matter how sophisticated the swordsmanship is, it is just swordsmanship. It is something that can be analyzed, disassembled, and studied. In fact, it still belongs to the field of sports.

Xin Zhen was well-versed in both Chinese and Western learning, and had a broad understanding of the past, present, and future. Naturally, his thinking was less constrained than that of Feng Bu Ping, so he dared to break these superstitions, and the final result was naturally different.

In fact, the results also prove that Xin Zhen’s approach is correct.

After three months of courses, the four hundred disciples all had a new mental outlook.

The sword skills of these four hundred people were so solid that even Feng Qingyang, who came out of retreat later, was astonished.

Feng Qingyang spent nearly four or five months and finally figured out the secret sword technique manual. He was quite proud of himself and one day, he opened the door and went down the mountainside for a walk. He happened to see the Sword Sect disciples doing morning exercises.

The morning exercises of the Sword Sect disciples were to practice basic sword techniques together. Feng Qingyang didn't take it seriously at first, but after a few glances, he was stunned. Because the sword exercises in the field had reached the advanced stage, which were the sword moves after the boundless falling leaves and the phoenix coming. Although these sword moves were classified as basic sword techniques, their complexity was no less than the Yangwu sword technique and other warning sword techniques.

However, because these sword moves are just individual sword moves, they are classified as basic sword techniques, but they are quite difficult.

So even though these are the so-called Huashan basic sword techniques, some Huashan disciples find it difficult to master these sword techniques throughout their entire lives.

Even some disciples with good talents would have to spend several months to master it, and then spend more than ten years to comprehend it, before they could truly understand the mysteries and subtleties.

But what he saw now was that nearly four hundred disciples, without exception, performed these sword techniques without any hindrance.

Although their understandings were different, some had obviously grasped the essence while others had only barely mastered it, but without exception, all of them were able to display it!

"What happened? How come these disciples have such excellent talents that they have mastered all the basic Huashan sword techniques? This, this, this is too incredible!"

Feng Qingyang was impatient and immediately found Xin Zhen. Xin Zhen was summarizing his teaching work during this period. When he was teaching the course on sword-practicing techniques, he also realized some details that he had not noticed before and summarized them.

Just as Feng Qingyang raised the question, Xin Zhen handed Feng Qingyang the newly published book "Tips for Sword Practice".

Feng Qingyang quickly glanced through it and understood what Xin Zhen had done. He said happily, "This is not just some trick, it is clearly a rare sword technique secret book that is hard to come by!"

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "Master, you are overpraising me. These are really just some small tricks."

Feng Qingyang raised the "Sword Training Tips" and shook it, saying: "If this secret book of yours were to be spread out, I don't know how much blood and gore it would cause in the martial arts world!
You know, with this secret book of yours, the mysteries and subtleties of the world's swordsmanship are probably all available, just like observing the lines on the palm of your hand. The significance of this book is in no way inferior to the Dugu Nine Swords. Oh, maybe it's even more powerful than the Dugu Nine Swords.

The Dugu Nine Swords is naturally extremely powerful, but it requires extremely high talent from the practitioner. However, your secret book allows people with mediocre talents to have the opportunity to enter the highest realm of swordsmanship. Isn't this even more rare?"

Xin Zhen thought about it and smiled: "It is indeed difficult to think this way."

Feng Qingyang nodded and said, "This secret book cannot be passed on lightly. It cannot be passed on to anyone other than our true disciples."

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "In fact, I have already taught all the things in here to my disciples, even the outer disciples."

Feng Qingyang said: "There are no outer disciples. Except for the true disciples, the rest are inner disciples."

Xin Zhen: “…”

Feng Qingyang said earnestly: "Since they have learned this secret book, we can no longer let them wander around the world. We need to win them over to the sect. Otherwise, once it spreads out, the impact will be significant."

(End of this chapter)