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Ding Ning looked down at the bamboo in his hand. Although he knew that Feng Ping did this to help him out of good intentions, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

In these three years in the Mang Shan Sect, there were nineteen kinds of swordsmanship that the disciples of the Mang Shan Sect had been cultivating everyday. It was not that Ding Ning had not learned them, it was just that the way he trained the sword was different from others, which was why he gave others the illusion that he had never learned a set of swordsmanship.

If one removed the fact that his realm had increased, just in terms of the way of the sword, Ding Ning had always thought that he was not worse than Lu Shiyi and Song Yao. Therefore, and Chen Su's swordsmanship, naturally did not catch his eye.

After hesitating for a while, seeing that Feng Ping was staring at him without blinking, Ding Ning tightened his grip on the bamboo branch, and could only helplessly practice the swordsmanship move by the side of the creek.

"No, no!" "The Nine Thunder Blades' starting move, Yun Qi's right hand should be raised by another two inches ?"

"Wrong, wrong!" "When you turn around and use your sword, the force of your sword attack should be from the bottom up ?"

"The Limitless Sword, its name has already explained the meaning behind this sword strike. The sword should not be able to return, and the sword should not be able to advance forward!"

"Hey! Junior brother Ding, why do I feel that this sword move of yours is so incoherent? It's wrong, it's wrong, the Triple Layered Waves is only able to unleash its full power when you use the force from your sword, and when you use the combined power of three sword flowers! "

Feng Ping stood at the side, frowning as he watched Ding Ning demonstrate the swordsmanship. Feng Ping felt that he finally understood why Ding Ning had not been able to improve even after three years of practice, because even the set of moves within the swordsmanship were extremely stiff when used by Ding Ning. With the connection between the previous moves and the subsequent moves, it looked as if the two swordsmanship s had suddenly changed their style!

After looking at Ding Ning's Nine Thunderclap Sword, Great River swordsmanship and Pursuing Wind swordsmanship, Feng Ping felt that there was no need to continue looking at the other sword techniques. After waving his hand to indicate Ding Ning to stop, Feng Ping frowned and said to him: "Junior Brother Ding, the reason why a set of swordsmanship is called a set of swordsmanship is because of the connection between each technique.

Was Feng Ping right? Naturally, there was no mistake, because this was the most simple truth of the way of the sword. Anyone who had just begun learning the way of the sword would have practiced this way in the beginning ? It was not like Ding Ning did not know, that training in the sword should be like what Feng Ping said.

Then, was Ding Ning purposely training in the sword because he was hiding his abilities? Of course, this was part of the reason, but not all of it. The main reason was that, three years ago, when Ding Ning had first witnessed the Mang Shan Sect's sword competition, he and his fellow disciples had naturally comprehended a principle during the competition.

A set of swordsmanship, actually didn't need one move. According to the book, although it was important to link all the moves together smoothly, the most important thing was to be able to kill the opponent when fighting them.

To Ding Ning, lifting up the simplest columns, like the two moves of the Nine Thunder Swords, [Pressure City] and [Shocking Dragon], it could totally be placed together, and not just in the middle. In Ding Ning's opinion, this was entirely for the sake of watching the moves carefully.

What Ding Ning trained was a killing sword!

What he wanted was to kill his opponent as fast as possible, not to show off his moves.

For those who had just started learning sword arts, most masters would teach their disciples swordsmanship, and they would teach their disciples to correct their mistakes, meaning that when disciples practice sword arts, their moves and mistakes would be pointed out.

However, after being righted, my master would also let me ask for something so that I can let nature take its course ? What it meant was, according to how he handled it himself, he would be able to unleash the maximum power of the swordsmanship!

These two points sounded somewhat contradictory, but in reality, it wasn't the case. Because this was a relationship that was established and then broken apart ? And the reason why Ding Ning practiced the sword this way was because he had already figured it out by himself before he had even received a master to teach him swordsmanship.

Ding Ning's swordsmanship, in Feng Ping's eyes, was completely useless because there was not a single point where the sword could link up with the sword, and also because Ding Ning's all of his sword moves were too straight and too rigid. One at a time, each move, all seemed to have lost the sword's agility and elegance ?

However, Feng Ping did not realize that there was one thing most people could not do within Ding Ning's swordsmanship, and that was when Ding Ning used every move and every move, the sword in his hand (bamboo shoot) was exceptionally stable and precise! Feng Ping did not notice that the movements of the swordsmanship that Ding Ning was demonstrating in front of him was exactly the same as the last time he saw Ding Ning practicing with the sword!

The reason why Ding Ning was able to do this, was naturally because of hard work!

For example, Feng Ping and the others, as well as the other disciples of the Mang Shan Sect, when they practiced the sword, after they mastered the set of swordsmanship, they would rarely spend any more time and effort on understanding the swordsmanship itself. Even if they tried to lay a foundation for a while more, it would be impossible for them to be as serious and attentive as when they first came in contact with the set of swordsmanship.

But Ding Ning was different. Not only did he separate and train all of the Mang Shan Sect s into different parts, he also practiced each and every move, over a thousand times ? Just like the last two moves of the Nine Thunder Swords, the white rainbow light and the heavenly crack, Ding Ning had to train harder and harder for hundreds of thousands of times. This was definitely not because his talent was poor but he was stupid.

In the Mang Shan Sect, Song Yao and Lu Shiyi were considered to be geniuses in the way of the sword, because the two of them had some kind of photographic memory for the swordsmanship, but in reality, Ding Ning also had this kind of memory.

If the nineteen types of swordsmanship that the Mang Shan Sect disciples practiced could only be used as an example, Ding Ning would have actually entered the Mang Shan Sect less than a month ago. Watching the disciples of the Mang Shan Sect practice the sword on the Sword Testing Plains, Ding Ning would have already memorized all the swordsmanship already.

In order to have a solid foundation, he requested the stability and accuracy of each sword stroke. In fact, he had another very bold thought, which was to fuse all nineteen different types of swordsmanship s learned by the disciples of outer sect together, and then link them together and insert different moves from the swordsmanship!

In Ding Ning's opinion, there was no need to use the complete set of swordsmanship to kill. As long as the sword was sharp enough, fast enough, and accurate enough, one only needed one sword to seal the throat! What he wanted to practice, was a killing sword!