Chapter 2281 - 2282: What You Need to Experience
The howling north wind was mercilessly beating down, the biting cold wind cutting into people’s faces like a knife, causing severe pain!
Thus making people walking on the road instinctively wrap their clothes tighter in hopes of warming themselves a little.
But on the mountain peak of an unknown highland in Huaxia stood a woman.
The mountain was completely covered by pristine white snow, and the biting cold wind was ravaging, thus causing wind sounds to intermittently echo through the night sky!
Yet this woman seemed unaffected by the cold, continuously maintaining a stance, horse stance, with two not too large but not too small stones hanging from her shoulders, together weighing over ten pounds!
The woman was very beautiful, her delicate features, whether separately or together, appeared exceptionally bright, and her eyes revealed a unique charm of elegance.
This charm wasn’t something acquired over time, but was innate, and her figure was also extraordinary, curvaceous enough to draw envy from countless women.
The woman stood like a sculpture, or perhaps frozen, never moving an inch from start to finish.
Who knows how much time passed when suddenly a white snowball shot towards the woman like a meteor.
At this moment, the woman’s ear twitched slightly, then she abruptly turned around, her right leg swiftly shooting out!
"Bang!"
Her foot landed heavily on the snowball, the huge force directly shattered the snowball.
Yet the next moment, several snowballs seemed to appear out of thin air, whistling before the woman, attacking her.
The woman’s charming eyes immediately shot out an intense light, her right leg kicked out again.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the woman had consecutively kicked out over a dozen times, shattering all the flying snowballs without further ado, yet the stones hanging from her shoulders showed no signs of falling!
At this moment, a round of applause suddenly echoed in the serene surroundings.
"You’re better than I imagined," a deep and resonant voice immediately resounded all around: "Also progressing faster than I imagined!"
Then, an old man in a grey cotton jacket seemed to emerge from nowhere, taking a seemingly simple step, yet actually crossing several meters, reaching the woman’s presence in just a few simple steps.
"Master..."
"Take a break!"
The woman nodded slightly, slowly placing the stones hanging on her shoulders on the ground.
"Are you tired?"
"Not too much!"
"Tomorrow, we’re changing our training!" The old man spoke softly.
"I’ll do whatever my master says!"
"Don’t you want to ask me what we’ll train for tomorrow?"
"If you want to tell me, you will!"
The old man chuckled lightly: "Tomorrow, I’ll stand here, and you’ll attack from below. No matter what methods you employ, as long as you can seize this position from me, then you’ve passed the test!"
"Master, isn’t this difficult for me? I’ve only been training with you for a short time, and you..."
"We’re only sparring, no Inner Strength!" the old man said casually: "If you can defeat me in techniques, it counts too!"
"Okay!" The woman immediately agreed: "But master, how long will we stay here, this place..."
"This place isn’t favorable, is it?"
"A bit!"
"Actually, you’re quite enduring, and your talent is quite outstanding. If not for your age being a bit older, you’d certainly be a good seedling. Even now, you’re an excellent candidate," the old man’s words and expression were filled with unabashed admiration: "It’s not been long, yet you can already distinguish positions by sound, truly not easy!"
"But this is just the beginning. Once you can defeat me in techniques and learn the Two Instruments Sword, then I’ll take you to real combat!"
"Two Instruments Sword?"
"Yes, Two Instruments Sword!" The old man spoke seriously: "I once told Ye Xunhuan, the Two Instruments Sword relies entirely on one’s intuition, and it has no techniques!"
"Indeed, the Two Instruments Sword is divided into Yin and Yang. Ye Xunhuan as a male, and you as a female, Yin and Yang blend, two swords united, forming the real Two Instruments Sword!"
"Only with Yin Yang Unity can the Two Instruments Sword exert its greatest power. If a woman could cooperate with the Evil Monarch in deploying the Two Instruments Sword, combined with the Evil Monarch’s power, the kings couldn’t do anything to the Evil Monarch!"
This old man is none other than Ming Yue from Wudang, who took Mei Hanqing away, and this woman is naturally Mei Hanqing!
After Ming Yue took Mei Hanqing away, he sincerely taught Mei Hanqing, not holding back in the slightest, totally imparting all his knowledge.
"Master, why didn’t you tell Xunhuan?" Mei Hanqing looked at Ming Yue with some curiosity and asked.
"Silly girl, if I told Ye Xunhuan, what role would you have in the Two Instruments Sword?" Ming Yue looked at Mei Hanqing with deep affection: "Master can see, you care about that kid very much, so I naturally keep a little bit of it for you!"
"But weren’t you afraid I wouldn’t go with you at the time?"
"Then I’d only have to tell you, and you’d tell him!" Ming Yue spoke softly: "But now, aren’t you here with me?"
"Master, you’re really unkind!" Mei Hanqing directly took Ming Yue’s arm, like a little girl.
During this time with Ming Yue, the bond between master and disciple had rapidly strengthened, and now Mei Hanqing almost completely saw Ming Yue as a father.
"Han Qing, once training here is complete, what I’ll take you to do is kill people, are you prepared?"
"I..."
"Almost every strong person crawled out of piles of the dead. Almost every strong person walked atop countless bones to the pinnacle of that pyramid," Ming Yue spoke seriously: "Ye Xunhuan is strong because he was hardened by life and death in the underworld, killing countless masters to attain his current prowess."
"If you don’t kill, don’t engage in real combat, no matter how high your skills, they’re merely superficial tricks, utterly useless."
"Master, can I... take it slow..."
"Han Qing, I wish I could let you take it slow, but in a life-or-death struggle, will the enemy give you time to take it slow?" Ming Yue smiled wryly: "You know, I always wanted to send you to Shennongjia, letting you survive alone, live or die determined by fate and luck!"
"But I was never able to harden my heart!" Ming Yue took a deep breath: "But now I must steel myself. After this place, you and I will enter the Middle East, where there’s warfare, slaughter, death, artillery fire, and all of which you need to experience!"