A Clash of Gods - Chapter 89

[Chapter 89 The Sword in the Painting]

Yang Ning pondered for a moment, then carefully wrapped the long flute in black silk again, and put it in the drawer of the dresser, only to reach the opposite room.

He thought that there were some things in this room, but after entering, he found that the room was empty, only a wooden board was placed in the corner, and a pile of hay was randomly piled on the side.

He walked over and found that there were two brushes and an inkstone in the corner of the wall. The ink on the inkstone had already condensed. He reached out and picked it up. It was just an ordinary inkstone. Stone.

He felt strange in his heart, thinking to himself that there was a woman living here back then. Could it be that this inkstone was also left by that woman?

Sweeping his eyes, he suddenly found a yellowed piece of paper on the ground. He picked it up and looked at it. The paper was very torn, but it seemed to have a painting on it. What is it, I was wondering, but I saw that there seemed to be half a sheet of paper exposed under the haystack, and immediately pushed the hay away, only to see that there were many papers scattered in a mess.

Yang Ning picked up a relatively complete piece of paper, got up and leaned closer to the window, and took a closer look at it by the moonlight, and found that it really had a picture of a villain on it.

The painter is actually not that good, but it can be clearly seen that the villain in the painting seems to be holding a long sword in his hand, slanting upwards, but his legs are slightly bent, and his movements are quite strange.

Yang Ning was stunned and wondered, could the woman living in this courtyard still know swordsmanship?

This picture is clearly a rather peculiar sword move.

He turned around quickly, moved all the hay away, and then picked up all the papers scattered on the ground, adding up to forty or fifty sheets, a thick pile.

Among them, there are more than ten broken sheets, but most of them are still very intact, but they are old and yellow. Yang Ning held the stack of papers, went out, and sat on the threshold in front of the door. He was not worried. It will be seen, and the entire old house will treat this yard like a ghost house, and no one will dare to approach it, not to mention that someone will suddenly climb over the wall and come in.

He flipped through them one by one, and sure enough, there were sword moves on the papers.

The villain on the paper is very casual, but roughly outlines the body of the hands and feet, the long sword in his hand, and it is only a thin long line, but the moves of the long sword are quite vivid.

Except for a few pictures that are normal, most of the movements of the people in the paintings are bizarre. Some are lying on the ground, some are lying on the ground, some are squatting on the ground, or jumping or jumping, and the changes in sword moves are also Weird.

In addition to practicing unarmed combat, Yang Ning naturally practiced using weapons before crossing. Although he never touched this kind of long sword, he still used sticks. Both are long weapons, although the difference in tactics is not small. But there are similarities in many places.

But many of the moves in the picture are beyond the scope of what he is familiar with.

He even felt that some moves were impossible to perform at all, completely violating the laws of body movement. For example, one of the moves was holding a sword in his right hand, but his right hand was raised above his head, while the long sword went around his back and slanted towards him. Under the left crotch, this movement looks unusually awkward. With normal swordsmanship, it is impossible for such a nonsensical move to occur, and in Yang Ning’s view, such a move does not seem to be able to cause any lethality to the enemy.

He suddenly thought that there is a type of swordsmanship that is not used for hurting the enemy, but for performance. Many noble families have a lot of dancers in the mansion. Although many dances are to show the softness of women, there are still some The dance is very special, and the sword dance is one of them.

This kind of dance also expresses its strength and sharpness in the soft beauty of women. The sword is combined with the dance, and the hardness and softness are combined, which has its own unique beauty.

However, the sword dance was created for dance after all, and it only emphasized the peculiarity and beauty of the movements, but had no practical value.

When Yang Ning saw this strange sword move, and there was a woman who lived in this house, he immediately thought that these pictures might be a set of sword dances, or that the woman was lonely and bored here.

That’s why I drew this set of sword dances in my spare time.

After thinking for a while, he picked up a wooden stick in the courtyard and imitated the action just now. He also raised his right hand over the top, and learned to wrap the stick from the top of his head to his back, with the end of the stick slanting towards his left hip. As soon as I get started, I feel extremely awkward and unnatural. Not to mention doing this action easily, it will take some time to perform this action.

After putting on this pose, Yang Ning felt like a fool, shook his head and smiled bitterly, thinking that he was a big man, if this is a sword dance, I think it is a woman’s dance, the flexibility of a woman’s body may be able to express this pose extremely beautifully. , I am a big man, and I can’t show beauty anyway.

He dropped the stick, sat down again, looked at a few more pictures, and suddenly frowned, realizing a problem.

Looking at the traces on this picture, it is full of strength, and although it is a very casual sketch, the stroke of the brush has a free and uninhibited meaning.

Yang Ning couldn’t help frowning.

He knows that the handwriting of men and women is actually very different. Women’s brush strokes are mostly delicate and serious, and the brush force is quite soft, but these sword strokes portraits are full of freehand brushwork and a sense of power, and the brush power is very heavy, and the brush is different from the later generations. , the hair is a soft thing, if it is not full of its own strength, and can move freely, a little force will make the handwriting out of shape.

Although these portraits are free and easy, they are not out of shape. The more Yang Ning looks at it, the more he feels like the handwriting of a man, and he feels strange, thinking that there used to be men in this yard?

Since Gu Qinghan said that there used to be women, one thing is certain, the former owner of this yard must be a woman. Even if someone serves here, it can only be a maid and a servant. It is absolutely impossible for a man to serve here, that man What does it have to do with the hostess of this yard?

As he pondered, he flipped the paper, and it didn’t take long for him to find a pattern in the stack of paper.

Of these dozens of drawings, seven or eight were lying on the ground, and five or six were squatting on the ground. The sword move he had seen before was not the only one, but one of them was Zhang is quite similar to that one, and his right hand is raised above the top, but the long sword does not go around his head and backwards, but diagonally to the left front.

He pondered for a moment, then sorted dozens of drawing papers into categories, put all the ones lying down together, and put them together again with similar sword moves. After arranging for a while, there were six piles.

Intuition tells him that these sword moves are extremely strange, not as simple as the sword dance, I’m afraid there is something else in them.

Although there were also broken pieces of paper, Yang Ning tried to restore them as much as possible, but it was impossible to restore them, so he could only make judgments based on some residual images.

After being divided into six piles, Yang Ning saw that the sheets of drawing paper lying on the ground were the most complete and not incomplete, and carefully looked at the eight drawing sheets.

When he sorted it out, he could actually see that the sword strokes of these eight sheets of paper were clearly separated into one, but there was no number on the picture quality, and there was no indication of which one to start with.

While thinking about it, I sorted out the order of the eight pieces of paper. The first piece of paper is the easiest to judge from the eight pieces of paper. Lying on the ground, holding the piece in the right hand, the tip of the sword is slightly raised, and there is not much movement, but it is very easy. Determined to be a starter.

Yang Ning has practiced fighting, and he is very clear about one thing. Sometimes the most important thing in a set of kung fu is the first move of the starting move. Only when there is no mistake in the starting move, the subsequent moves can be used. If there is a mistake at the beginning, then the next move will naturally be biased, so it will go wrong all the way.

After confirming the first move, Yang Ning felt that it was quite difficult to sort out the following moves, just because every move after that was very weird, and the number of moves was not the sword moves that ordinary people can think of. One of them is The left leg was slightly raised, and the long sword actually passed under the leg, slanting upward, and the posture was extremely strange.

He hopes to find the connection between the quality of the pictures. For example, there is a very natural transition from one move to the next, but the only thing in common with the eight-stroke lying-style drawing paper is that the body is all lying down. It is really difficult to find any connection in the moves.

Yang Ning ran over and picked up the stick again. He lay down on the steps in front of the door. First, he held the stick and lifted it up according to the starting style. He thought of the actions of the other seven pictures. After thinking about it, there was no one. The move can come out naturally like this, he closed his eyes, meditated and didn’t move, and after a short while, he lifted his arm and turned his wrist to the left. Out of a Wu hook.

He opened his eyes, looked up slightly to see his movements, and saw that the long stick in his hand was almost straight with his right leg, only slightly out of line, he hurriedly sat up and looked at the drawing paper, and saw that one of the drawings was exactly The movement he had just made, but the long sword on the drawing was parallel and straight to his right leg.

Although there was a slight deviation, Yang Ning was still quite excited. He thought to himself for a long time, but finally came up with a switch between the two moves. Although he didn’t know if it was right or not, at least he still tried it. It seems simple, but if you can’t go deep into it, trying to figure out how to better fit with the sword, you may not be able to do it.

In fact, Yang Ning didn’t know at this time whether the moves on the drawing paper had any value or not, or it was just someone who deliberately drew these bizarre movements to kill boredom. Even the people who drew these pictures may not be able to make these movements. However, Yang Ning thought again that this yard is strange and mysterious, and it is full of mystery in itself. This pile of drawing paper is yellow and old, and it has been a long time. Since it is still in the house, maybe there are some ways in it.

He had obtained Liuhe Divine Art from the hands of Mu Shenjun unintentionally, and obtained Xiaoyao Xing from Skull, both of which were obtained by accident. There is no need to talk about Liuhe Divine Art, but Xiaoyao Xing is miraculous and mysterious. This time, if these drawing papers are really a swordsmanship, it would be a great pity to ignore them and miss them.