"My spirit horse is called Diao Yan! It is the leader of my group of spirit horses, and it is jade-colored. And the word "Yan" has both the meanings of king and jade." Ouyang Xueye stroked the Diao Yan with his hand. Yan's horse hair said.
Xia Qiu followed his example and put the horse flute to her mouth and blew gently. Sure enough, her horse flute produced a different sextuplets from his. The green spirit horse Ouyang Xueye called Dragonfly ran towards her with its hooves flying in the wind and its long mane flying. It looked extremely majestic.
The dragonfly lowered its head, "humming humming" from its nostrils, but Xia Qiu was not afraid. Instead, she put her hand on its horse's mane and stroked it gently like Ouyang Xueye did. When it gradually became aware of her scent After getting used to being petted, a black leather saddle appeared out of thin air on its back.
"This is it?" Xia Qiu asked doubtfully.
"Spiritual horses come from the lake and are amphibious on land and water. No one knows how they reproduced, but they will come to the island by themselves soon after they are born. From that time on, they have their own saddles, However, saddles are usually invisible. They will only appear automatically when they encounter a rider they trust! Get on the horse and let me see how your riding skills are trained in the demon world!" After Ouyang Xueye said that, he flew onto the horse. , then looked back at her.
Xia Qiu skillfully grabbed the horse's reins and mane with her left hand, stepped on the stirrup with her left foot, and jumped up onto the horse's back. The whole process went smoothly and her posture was very beautiful. But Ouyang Xueye didn't seem satisfied. Instead, he shook his head and said, "Although the posture is standard, it takes too long. You have obviously regained the ability to fly and mastered basic flying skills. Why do you still do that?" Struggling to mount the horse in the most primitive way?!"
"Yeah!" Xia Qiu responded.
From his tone, she heard a harsh tone. In this regard, he looked very much like Ouyang Hongye. No wonder they were good brothers. He seems to be such a casual person at ordinary times, but when it comes to teaching others, he is very hard-spoken. And when he was training his flying skills, she had already learned that he followed his previous plan step by step and would never slow down just because you are a beginner.
"The boundless heaven is connected to the soul-living realm you have been in before, and the feeling of riding a horse is the same. Let me ask you, how should your body be when riding fast?" Ouyang Xueye suddenly asked a question.
"The body should lean forward and lie on the horse's back. This will make it easier to maintain balance." Xia Qiu answered him in a positive tone.
"Throw aside the skills you have learned before! Again, if a person knows how to fly, what will happen even if he falls off the horse?! You have to learn to be able to be free on the horse while traveling at extremely high speeds. All activities, whether using a knife or shooting with a bow, must be done with ease." Ouyang Xueye's tone did not sound like a joke at all.
"Okay!" Xia Qiu nodded. She knew that it was meaningless to express her doubts or refute Ouyang Xueye's words, because there was absolutely no room for doubt in what he had decided.
Ouyang Xueye thought that this little girl would complain about him, but she turned out to be unexpectedly calm. But it's no wonder. Although she only heard a general story, everything she experienced in the year when she became a blood pact was far beyond what a human can bear. Moreover, he saw in her a trait that was the same as his wife's, which was adaptability. Regardless of the environment or fate, their resilience was something that even he could not match.
"Then you go ahead! From here to Ziyunju, remember to straighten your body!" Ouyang Xueye ordered. He needed to follow behind to observe her riding posture.
"Okay!" Xia Qiu responded.
Then she just said "drive", and the spirit horse dragonfly rushed out. Dragonfly is as fast as lightning. At first, she always reflexively wants to lower her body, but she always forces herself to raise her head because she thinks of Ouyang Xueye's request, and she repeats this over and over again.
"Focus your eyes on Ziyunju!" Ouyang Xueye shouted behind her.
She tried to do what he said, although she was still a little timid, but she soon discovered that this was indeed the most effective way. The location of Ziyunju was in mid-air, which made her unconsciously He straightened his body and would not subconsciously lean on the horse again. Although there were countless times when her body almost fell off the horse due to the violent shaking, she saved the day countless times.
Finally arriving in front of Ziyunju, she tightened the horse's reins and called the dragonfly to stop with a "ha" sound. I thought that my performance just now would be praised by Ouyang Xueye, but I didn't expect that after he stopped Diao Yan in front of her, he said coldly: "Your understanding is so poor! And you haven't figured out who you are and your mount. The relationship between them, if you add all your own strength to it, how can you use its full speed?! And if the distance is longer, I’m afraid your body will be too bumpy to bear!”
Xia Qiu understood that she had not thought in advance to use Ziyunju as a reference to control her body, but she did not quite understand what Ouyang Xueye said later about the relationship between her and her mount, so she asked: "Can you To be more specific, standing up straight will make your body bump even more!"
"That's because you put all the weight of your body on the horse's back and rely on it to support you. The center of gravity of your body should still be controlled by yourself. Imagine that in the process of traveling, its body is countless A line connected by support points, and although you have to use these support points, whether you can move forward depends entirely on your own feet." Ouyang Xueye explained.
Xia Qiu seemed to understand, and roughly understood that dragonflies should not be the focus of all efforts, because in this case, riding a horse would be more strenuous than flying. When she thought about flying again, she suddenly realized that since she could fly by herself, she could use her own power to connect the support points composed of dragonflies. Perhaps this was what Ouyang Xueye meant.
"Continue to go back and forth the same way. You can stop when I say you are qualified!" Ouyang Xueye commanded.
He also felt that he might be too harsh. After all, she had just arrived in this unknown world and her future was uncertain. Her heart must be full of all kinds of fears. But he knew even better than she did that there was not much time left for them. It was unrealistic to master the ability to break through the barrier of the waterfall in the infinite heaven within forty-nine days. Let alone forty-nine days, even forty Whether this can be accomplished in nine months or even forty-nine years is unknown.
And losing all her power meant that everything had to start from scratch. Even if she could go out, the enemies she faced would not be easily defeated. There must be more powerful instructions hidden behind those white cloaks. By. Thinking of all this, he had to be cruel. Because he clearly felt that his son Ouyang Xiaoleng also needed her to be by his side, and sending her back to her original world might be the only thing he could do for his son in this boundless heaven.
While he was still thinking, Xia Qiu had already rushed out, and he followed closely behind. This time, her body was obviously much more relaxed than last time. Although she still hesitated to lower her body a few times, she had already corrected herself before he reminded her, and he seemed to feel that she was a little She understood what she just said that the focus should be on her own.
Although riding a horse like this was much less laborious than before, Xia Qiu was still tired and hungry after several rounds. In this world, her body seemed to feel hungry more easily than usual, but she didn't know how to speak to Ouyang Xueye. And he was obviously so focused on teaching her that he actually ignored that her body had already reached its limit.
On the way back to Ziyunju for the first time, she couldn't remember how many times she finally lost her strength and fell down. Ouyang Xueye quickly flew up from the horse and hugged her, carrying her unconscious She sat back on her back. He reached out and touched her and found that her whole body was hot. This was not a good phenomenon in the Infinite Heaven. Here, only when the spiritual power was used to the limit, the symptoms of body heat would appear. Only then did he realize that he might be too eager for success. It was over, but this silly girl was still holding on even though she could no longer bear it, which made him feel distressed.
After returning to Ziyunju, he ordered the Elk Fairy to put a large pool of hot water soaked in the flowers from the redbud antlers, and then threw her clothes into the bath. The scent of redbud flowers, together with the spiritual power they brought, entered her body continuously, and she regained consciousness after a while. In addition to the physical pain, the pain in her hands was particularly obvious. When she took her hands out of the water, she saw that they were covered with red blood marks and blisters, which were all caused by the horse's reins.
But the miraculous thing was that after she soaked her hands in hot water for a while, the blisters and red marks gradually disappeared, and the physical fatigue was relieved a lot. This was obviously the effect of the flowers used in the water. She simply sank her face into the pool and spit out bubbles one after another to block her urge to cry. She felt that she was really stupid. She wondered if she could still meet the forty-nine days deadline.
Although the dinner prepared by Elk Fairy was sumptuous, she had a little loss of appetite and was absent-minded while eating. Ouyang Xueye frowned and said, "Tomorrow's training will be even harder. If you feel you can't bear it, you can give up now."
"I can do it!" Xia Qiu retorted, and then started to eat hungrily.
Tears fell silently from the corners of her eyes. She thought she would not be seen by Ouyang Xueye if she lowered her head, but in fact, he had already discovered it. His heart was stung by the tears, but he was powerless. He could still protect her in the infinite heaven, but if she could really get out of here, she would have to rely on herself, so he had to make her strong. .
After dinner, Xia Qiu flew to the grass below Ziyunju. Her horse flute had been strung on a beautiful rope by the Elk Fairy so that she could hang it around her neck. When she played the horse whistle, Dragonfly walked over from the group of spirit horses. It must have been exhausted from the day's training, but it was obviously very familiar with her, and it pressed its face against hers like a puppy. Rubbing it on his face.
At this time, little Libai flew back from nowhere and landed on her shoulders. She felt that the little guy was a lot heavier again, and she didn't know how much food it had eaten.
Under the colorful moon, she silently made a wish in her heart, praying that the next training would go more smoothly. In the circle formed by seven moons, Ouyang Xiaoleng's face faintly emerged, and the deep night sky resembled his eyes.