After nearly twenty days of practice, Yan Liqiang was able to slowly stand on the stone in the pool and gradually found the feeling of shaking the big gun.
Especially today, because he had something hidden in his heart that was difficult to vent, Yan Liqiang could only devote all his energy to selfless practice and practice even harder, because only in this way could he temporarily put out of his mind everything that would happen in Dijing four years later and gain temporary peace.
After the dragon-back steel spear weighing more than 400 pounds began to shake, as the force applied by Yan Liqiang on the spear barrel gradually increased, the frequency of the shaking of the spear barrel became faster and faster.
Yan Liqiang closed his eyes and focused his attention on his ears. Every cell, every tendon, every muscle, and even every bone in his body trembled with the vibration of the gun, but his legs were firmly fixed on the stone as if they were rooted in the stone...
Yan Liqiang didn't know how long he had been shaking. He only felt that as he exerted more and more force, the frequency of the shaking and trembling of the big gun became higher and higher, and the force transmitted to his hand became stronger. With his eyes closed, he slowly felt that the big gun in his hand was alive. The big gun was no longer a dead object, but a mad python dragon that he was holding, struggling, rolling, roaring and twisting, as if trying to slip out of his hand. Yan Liqiang's whole body was completely numb from the vibration transmitted from the gun barrel. He had no consciousness. Yan Liqiang couldn't even feel the existence of his hands, feet, and body. What supported him was only a strong will in his heart. He couldn't let go. As long as he didn't die, he would continue to shake...
Just when Yan Liqiang felt that he had reached his limit for the day, suddenly, a voice appeared in his ears.
"Buzz..."
The voice was deep and loud, like a dragon's roar, and it actually came from the spear in his hand.
Yan Liqiang opened his eyes suddenly, and found that the big gun had been shaken by him and turned into a ball of nothingness, vibrating at a very high frequency. At this moment, the big gun made of dragon-back steel was like the tuning fork that Yan Liqiang used to test his hearing during his physical examination in his previous life, and began to emit bursts of "buzzing..." sounds...
This sound seemed to have a mysterious power that penetrated Yan Liqiang's entire body at once. For some reason, in this tuning-fork-like "hum..." sound, Yan Liqiang's hands and feet, which had long been numb and had lost their perception, slowly regained consciousness at this moment, just like thawed food taken out of the refrigerator, with a warm feeling.
A line of water splashed down from the waterfall fell on the trembling gun barrel, and the water line suddenly turned into countless tiny crystal water drops, dancing on the gun body like countless cheerful water elves. In the process of dancing, the water line turned into water drops, the big water drops turned into small water drops, and the small water drops turned into water mist. Yan Liqiang was suddenly surrounded by a cloud of water mist, and when the sunlight shone down from above his head, a small artificial rainbow appeared above the pool of water.
Amid the low “hum…” sound, Li Hongtu, who had been sleeping in the thatched hut and almost never came to watch Yan Liqiang’s training process, had rushed out of the hut at some point and stood by the pool. He stared at Yan Liqiang, who was wearing a rainbow and was wrapped in a ball of white mist, with an indescribable look, with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open. He rubbed his eyes…
…
"Plop..." Just after his body's consciousness was fully restored, Yan Liqiang suddenly felt exhausted within a few seconds. He could no longer hold on to the wild python dragon in his hand, and it flew from his hand into the pool of water. He also lost his balance and fell from the stone into the pool of water.
Yan Liqiang climbed out of the pool, all wet, to the shore, only to find that his master Li Hongtu had arrived and was looking at him with a strange look.
"Master, why are you here..." Yan Liqiang panted, wiped his face, and walked in front of Li Hongtu.
"How did you feel just now?" Li Hongtu stared at Yan Liqiang's face and asked, "Did you feel anything unusual in your body?"
"This... At the beginning, I felt numb all over, as if my whole body didn't belong to me, as if it had disappeared. But when the gun barrel started making sounds, I felt as if my body had come alive again, and the numbness was gone. I slowly regained consciousness!" At this point, Yan Liqiang scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed, "Master, is my cultivation speed too slow? It took me almost twenty days to stand firmly on that stone..."
"Do you know how long it took your master to stand firmly on the stone and make the spear emit the sound of a dragon?"
"Well...will it take ten days?" Yan Liqiang estimated a number.
“Hahahaha…” Li Hongtu suddenly laughed, then stopped laughing, took a deep breath, looked at Yan Liqiang seriously, and said in a deep voice, “Almost. It only took me more than ten days, but your current cultivation speed is not slow…”
"Really? I feel like my cultivation speed isn't fast enough. It's still a little behind you, Master..." Yan Liqiang muttered.
Hearing Yan Liqiang's words, Li Hongtu's eyelids twitched twice, and he rolled his eyes in surprise, "Go and fish out the Dragon Spine Spear..."
Hearing what Li Hongtu said, Yan Liqiang was just slightly stunned, but without hesitation, he turned around and jumped into the pool again, fished out the dragon-back steel spear from under the pool, and then walked step by step to Li Hongtu with the spear.
"Stab him twice with the gun..." Li Hongtu ordered.
"Where to stab?"
"Of course I'm stabbing the void. Stab the empty space. Do you think I'm tired of living and want you to stab me?" Li Hongtu cursed.
Yan Liqiang smiled, picked up the spear, looked at the empty space in front of him, then stabbed it, retracted his hand, and stabbed it again...
Huh…
Just after stabbing twice, Yan Liqiang found that, unconsciously, the feeling of stabbing with the spear seemed different from before. He stabbed out casually, and the tip of the spear turned into a phantom in the air, instantly cutting through the space and fixing on the target point. Not only did he feel comfortable using the gun, but it was also effortless. The speed of drawing the gun seemed to be several times faster than before.
Yan Liqiang was still not satisfied, so he continued to perform two more moves and found that everything seemed to become very easy.
Yan Liqiang became excited, "Master, is this the true skill of spearmanship that you mentioned?"
"What real skills? This is just the beginning. The real skills are still behind. If you don't make progress on the road of cultivation, you will regress. You can't relax at all. You still have to come here to practice every day in the future without interruption..." Li Hongtu said sternly, and then pointed to the pool, "You practice on the rocks as usual in the morning. After lunch at noon, take your gun and go into the water to practice shaking the big gun..."
"Ah, to shake off in the water?"
"Of course, we'll talk about it when you can practice to the point where you can shake underwater for half an hour without coming up to breathe. Okay, go ahead, I'm going to sleep..." As he spoke, Li Hongtu yawned.
"Okay, Master, I'm leaving now. I'll come back tomorrow..." Yan Liqiang left the gun in the pool, put on his clothes, and left.
Li Hongtu kept watching Yan Liqiang leave with a serious expression. Only after Yan Liqiang walked away did he turn around and slowly return to the thatched hut.
What Yan Liqiang didn't see or hear was that the moment Li Hongtu turned around, the serious expression on his master's face suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by an extremely excited distortion. Li Hongtu's eyes lit up, his old face flushed, and he couldn't help but clench his hands tightly, muttering to himself, "It took me seven whole years, seven whole years to hear the first sound of the Dragon Spear, and you only took twenty days, twenty days to get to this point, how could there be such a peerless genius in spearmanship in this world..."
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After leaving the mountain behind the archery field, Yan Liqiang did not return directly to his residence. Instead, he went to pay a visit to Eunuch Liu first, greeted him, and then went to ask Xiao Lizi and Xiao Chunzi about what happened in the capital city last night.
Little Lizi and Little Chunzi are the eyes and ears of Eunuch Liu. Not only what happens in the Deer Garden, but also what happens in the capital, the two of them have to report to Eunuch Liu every day.
The news Yan Liqiang heard was that just last night, the Minister of Works Zuo Teng was assassinated at home...
(End of this chapter)