Chapter 385: Ku Ding
There is a word called "Ku Ding Jie Niu", which comes from the pre-Qin period, Zhuang Zhou's "Zhuangzi? The original text said: "Ku Ding is Wen Huijun to relieve the cow, the hand touches, the shoulder leans, the foot walks, the knee kicks, the sword is natural, the knife is played, and the alto is not alto." ”
In these four characters, the word "庖丁" means "a chef with the surname Ding", "Ding" is the name, and "庖" means cook. Ku Ding Jie Niu generally refers to when a person does one thing thousands of times, after mastering the rules, he can be as comfortable and handy as Cu Ding Jie Niu.
This is the case with Hao Mu at the moment.
In a conversation with King Liang Hui, Ku Ding said that when he first started slaughtering cows, all he saw was a whole cow. After three years, he could no longer see the whole cow, but only the muscles and bones of the cow. Later, he didn't even have to look with his eyes, he could follow the texture of the cow's body, split the large gaps between the muscles and bones, and make knives along the holes between the bone joints. And the knife of the cattle slaughterer will never again touch the places where the meridians are connected, and the places where the muscles and muscles that cling to the bones are coalescing.
Skilled cooks change their knives every year because they use them to cut meat. Skilled cooks change their knives every month because they use knives to chop bones. The knife that Ku Ding had used at that time for nineteen years, slaughtering thousands of cattle, but the edge of the knife looked like it had just been sharpened from a whetstone. Because there are gaps in the joints of the ox's body, but the blade is not thick, it must have been more than enough to run the blade when piercing the joints with gaps with such a thin blade, so it took nineteen years and the blade still looked as if it had just been sharpened from the whetstone.
But even so, Ku Ding will still encounter places where it is difficult to slash, and he needs to be careful to go to the knife in the hand of the imperial envoy.
Hao Mu is not the same as Ku Ding because he is not Ku Ding.
First of all, he doesn't have more than ten years of experience in killing cattle, which is where he is inferior to Ku Ding. But he can also reach the realm of Kuding, because although he has not killed cattle for more than ten years, he has to slaughter a large number of livestock every day. And Ding is just a cook, that is, a cook, but Hao Mu is not just a butcher, he can also do martial arts.
And his martial arts are not ordinary, very unusual, because his martial arts are learned from forty-nine reliefs. The forty-nine reliefs also have a name, which is called the God of War Catalogue.
Ordinary people practice martial arts, even if they are as talented as Mu Xiaojiu, when they first get started, they first learn the moves, and then understand the reason. But Hao Mu is different, he first understands the concept as soon as he comes up, and then he goes to create his own moves.
His moves don't have any nice names, no, his moves don't even have names, because each of his knives is learned from the process of killing pigs and chickens. Because of this, each of his knives is actually the same knife.
This knife is to first sense the position of the connection between the enemy's bones, and then use the knife to split the enemy's two bones in half with one sword. If Hao Mu really wants to give his knife technique a name, then I'm afraid it can only be called Ku Ding Jie Niu, or he can do it with ease.
The sharp and sharp boning knife was tightly held in Hao Mu's hand, and the sharp blade cut through the enemy's skin, passed through the enemy's flesh, and then embedded directly into the gap between the bones of the Fusang man in front of him. Then, I didn't see how Hao Mu moved, as if he just shook his wrist slightly, and the person's arm was completely separated from his shoulder.
How fast is this knife?
Hao Mu doesn't like to use knives, perhaps because of the slaughter of livestock slaughtered more, for Hao Mu, short combat, knife blood, knife into the meat is the most refreshing, but also the most enjoyable.
So he never used knife qi, whether it was when he killed pigs in the past, or now when he killed these Fusang people in front of him, he didn't use knife qi, he just swung out one knife at a time.
It is precisely because he likes hand-to-hand combat that he must be fast, both in terms of body and knife skills. In the past, if he was not fast enough, he could not get close to the pig if he was not fast, and if he was not fast with the knife, he could not make the pig die as soon as possible, which would cause the pig to struggle; Although the situation is different now, there are similarities, now his body technique is not fast enough, he can't get close to the Fusang people whose weapons are longer than him, and the sword technique is not fast enough, he can't kill these Fusang people as soon as possible, and reduce his opponents.
So he was fast, fast enough to surprise all the Fuso.
There are a total of forty-nine God of War catalogs, but there are no light skills, no martial arts, and no internal skills in these forty-nine God of War catalogs. That's right, there are no things in the God of War catalogue that people in the martial arts regard as treasures. However, many people in the martial arts are eager to see this God of War catalogue and want to see it. Why? Because although the God of War catalogue does not have light skills, martial arts, and internal strength, it has the concept of martial arts. And as long as you realize the concept of martial arts, whether it is light martial arts, martial arts or internal skills, you can create them yourself.
In other words, as long as you have your own martial arts concept, these things can even be readily available. And Haomu's body method came from here.
As soon as Hao Mu entered the game, he entered the God of War Temple, and as soon as he came out of the God of War Temple, he was in Qidong County, and as soon as he arrived in Qidong County, he was inexplicably arranged by the system as a butcher. Fortunately, Hao Mu is a person who is at ease with what he encounters, anyway, with martial arts, he is happy to stay here as a butcher and practice martial arts every day.
Sometimes in the restaurant in Qidong City, when I hear those storytellers talk about the stories outside, as well as the list that symbolizes the honor of players, Hao Mu is actually a little tempted. But he is not in a hurry, first, because he knows that he will shine, so he is not in a hurry to shine now; The second is because he is waiting, waiting for the day when he has to shine, for the simple reason that he is very lazy, and he is too lazy to shine until the critical moment. Hao Mu knew his character very well, so he waited with peace of mind.
Today, it's time for him to shine.
Hao Mu clearly remembered that from the time he came down to the present, he had swung a total of 347 knives and killed 312 people. The reason why there was not a single knife was because thirty-five of them were used by him for experiments. He never resisted, because his knife was fast, steady enough, accurate enough, and most importantly, sharp enough.
Such a knife can already allow him not to resist and defend, because he does not need to, because he can kill the enemy before he can hurt him.
In his eyes, these hundreds of Fusang people are no different from hundreds of chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and they are all the same to kill anyway.
And for those people in Qidong City, they also saw the most shocking scene in their lives so far - in the screams that were joined together, only one person was dancing wildly, and the others could only become the souls of his swords. Even many people can't see Haomu's figure clearly, all they can see is a shadow.
A shadow dancing wildly on the tip of a knife in the rain of blood.
When the afterglow of the setting sun stained the last clouds on the horizon, the earth and the sky had become the same color. The sky is red with the setting sun, and the earth is red with blood.
Hao Mu stood there without a little panting, holding a boning knife that was still dripping with blood in his hand, standing upright with a normal expression. If it weren't for the corpses all over the ground and the blood all over his body, I'm afraid no one would think that he had just killed hundreds of people.
Apart from him, only one person was still standing.
The person who can still stand is the leader of this Fuso elite squad.
Just as the two of them were facing each other from afar, a burst of applause suddenly rang out. The person who applauded was Mu Xiaojiu, and he had only been here for a few minutes, but he just happened to see Hao Mu's most pinnacle performance in this solo dance.
Mu Xiaojiu was very surprised, he didn't expect that there was such a master in such a small county, although the bloodied young man in front of him was still a line away from the master realm, but it was just a line of distance, and it was the kind of line that could be crossed at any time.
That's right, unlike other masters of the Transformation Realm, although Hao Mu is also a Transformation Realm, he is no longer far from the master. If it is said that there is a mountain between the other peak martial artists of the Transformation Realm and the Master Realm, then Hao Mu, the peak dancer of the Transformation Realm, is probably separated from the Master Realm by a layer of air.
Mu Xiaojiu knew that this person was accumulating, and if he wanted to, he could become a master at any time.
"Since you're so powerful, I won't make a move." Mu Xiaojiu finished applauding, and said very casually, "He is yours." ”
Hao Mu gritted his white teeth and laughed, "That's right, he's mine." ”
Mu Xiaojiu also smiled, "Since that's the case, then I'll go back and inform the others and let them go to the coast to support." Although I don't know how to march and fight, but judging the situation is my strength, and after so long, no one has come to support Qidong City, I'm afraid that this Fusang team is just marching first, the purpose is to attract the attention of the garrison on the north bank. If my guess is correct, I am afraid that as soon as the garrison comes to this side, the army of the Fuso will come ashore and attack from the rear. ”
Looking at the leader of Fusang, whose face had changed very badly, Mu Xiaojiu raised his eyebrows, "Tsk, you can understand the Central Plains dialect, and your expression has become like this, it seems that I guessed correctly." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and left, leaving a sentence before leaving, "Get to know me, Mu Xiaojiu." ”
Hao Mu was startled, looked at Mu Xiaojiu's back as he gradually moved away, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"Is he the number one person on the list, Mu Xiaojiu?" Hao Mu muttered to himself, as if he regarded the Fusang leader who was like ashes as air, "It's really powerful...... It's faster than me, and it's ...... martial arts."
"I don't want to admit it, but I still seem to be better than me......"
As he spoke, the smile on Hao Mu's face became even brighter, "But no matter what is useless, anyway, right now, you are mine." He pointed to the leader of the Fusang team, and then held the boning knife in his backhand, "Come on, kill you quickly, I have to go back to the city to collect the stall." Play a little longer, and I won't be able to eat on time tonight. ”
The leader of Fusang settled down, then tightly held the knife in his hand, stared at Hao Mu's eyes with a face of death, and then said in a half-baked and lame Zhongyuan dialect: "Come on, Zhongyuan people, you are very powerful, I beg you to give me the glorious death of a warrior!" ”
After speaking, the leader of Fusang suddenly shouted and rushed straight towards Haomu.
Hao Mu held the boning knife in his backhand, and walked towards the extremely fast Fusang leader lightly and unhurriedly.
The distance between the two men slowly narrowed—twenty steps, fifteen steps, ten steps......
One step away! The Fuso leader suddenly slashed down, and this knife obviously used all the strength of the Fuso leader. And after this knife, the face of the leader of Fuso suddenly showed a look of relief. He knew that he was not Hao Mu's opponent, so this sword, he just wanted to prove his glory as a samurai.
The phrase "Long live the emperor......" was uttered by the Fuso team leader in Fuso dialect.
The boning knife held by Hao Mu in his backhand suddenly rose to meet it, and directly blocked the Fusang leader's all-out knife - to put it bluntly, this Fusang leader is just a small warrior who has reached the realm of the hall, and for Hao Mu, he is no different from those Fusang soldiers.
But in Haomu's opinion, he didn't want to kill this Fusang leader so simply.
So he first held up the knife of the Fusang leader, and then wiped his left hand on his waist, took out the thick bone chopping knife, and swung it out.
With this knife, Haomu did not cut off the head of the Fusang leader, but cut off his right hand.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, the right hand of the leader of the Fuso team flew out along with the knife in his hand. Although it is said that the leader of Fusang holds a knife with both hands, Haomu's knife not only cut off his right hand, but also cut off most of the handle of the knife in his hand.
The expression of the leader of Fuso instantly became stunned, and then, he knelt down very weakly.
"Why?"
Hearing the question of the Fusang leader, Hao Mu suddenly felt a little funny, "In my opinion, you are no different from those pigs waiting to be slaughtered in the pigsty." ”
"What's more—" Hao Mu paused, then bent down and said softly: "-As an aggressor, you have scared so many people, Brother Li has been scared like that, and it is estimated that his little girl is also scared." Tell me about you, you have scared so many people, including my neighbors, why should I give you a glorious death? ”
As he spoke, Hao Mu showed his white teeth again, "Do you think I'm an angel?" Would it be so kind to you? You want a samurai's glorious death, okay, I've got you a left hand, you seppuku. It's just a pity that there are no wrong people here, and there is no white cloth, so you can only cut your own stomach and endure a little more pain. ”
The leader of Fusang looked at the figure of Hao Mu turning away, the corners of his eyes twitched twice, and then pulled out a short knife from his waist.
"The Emperor...... Banzai! The first two words, the leader of Fusang said very quietly, but the last two words, he shouted almost like a roar.