After the martial arts cāo is finished, you can start the training of swords. Everyone uses a knife to practice basic swords on the wooden tools. It is worth mentioning that the sword here is a bamboo knife made by Masayoshi. Nowadays, wooden swords are generally used, but this wooden sword is still very dangerous. If you don’t do it well, your hands and feet will be broken by the wooden sword. The most typical example is that Miyamoto Musashi later broke the head with a wooden sword in a decisive battle with Kojiro Sasaki. It is said that the first person to invent the bamboo sword was Nobusuka Uchizumi, but this was already after the late Warring States Period. Now Masayoshi invented the bamboo swords in advance. Of course, these things must be strictly controlled and can only be circulated in the Luo family territory.

In addition to these, Zhengliang also added some games, such as dividing these apprentices into two teams to play a joint battle game. The lost team will have to extend the training time.

Of course, Zhengliang couldn't watch here all day, so he found a suitable candidate for normal school students.

This normal school is Yoshida Shigemasa.

Why did Yoshida Shigemasa agree to Masara's invitation? This is something we have to start from the beginning.

After receiving the invitation from Masara to visit the Luo family's territory, Yoshida Shigemasa visited the Luo family as a guest while waiting for Kinisha Masara to heal Kinisha. After returning to the lord's residence, Masara originally thought he would stay in the village outside the residence to take care of Masara Kinisha Masara, but when Masara was about to go out to inspect the territory, he voluntarily asked to follow Masara to go with him, in the name of appreciating the scenery of the Luo family.

Masara agreed to his request without thinking. In fact, Yoshida Shigemasara has always maintained a vague response to Masara's recruitment. Masara took this opportunity to recruit him again. Of course, if Yoshida Shigemasara insisted on leaving in the end, then don't blame Masara for being ruthless. In order not to let some of the technology and situations in the territory be leaked, Yoshida Shigemasara has prepared for a period of "incarnation". For this reason, Masara has arranged for the Black Hawk to make preparations in secret, and he will never be able to leave the territory of the Luo family by then.

During the inspection, the two of them will also compete with each other in their spare time. Yoshida Shigemasa's close combat power is very average now. He is not a match for Masara's close combat power at all. He is not as good as Masara's close combat power, so he can only rely on the archery skills he relies on to be proud of, but Yoshida Shigemasa soon discovered it. Even his old capital is not as good as Masara's actual effect. The most direct manifestation is that the two compete in archery skills through hunting. As a result, Masara's gains far exceed those of Yoshida Shigemasa. Yoshida Shigemasa was a little disappointed in this.

Masara secretly laughed at this. Yoshida Shigemasa is only barely called an archery master, but it is still far from being a master of archery master after he became a master of archery. The reason is very simple. If you want to achieve something, you must go through some experience and insights. Yoshida Shigemasara is now just a young man who is just a fledgling young man. Compared with Masarasara who can quickly upgrade without learning, it is definitely worse than Masarasara who can quickly upgrade without learning.

After being depressed for a while, Yoshida Shigemasa took the initiative to ask Masara for his experience of archery. Masara, who was prepared, was of course very happy in his heart, but he looked pretentious and said: "Hongmasa, do you know what the great way is?"

"What Your Highness said is the Zen master's great way?" Yoshida Shigemasa asked in confusion. He grew up near Kyoto since childhood. He has a broad understanding of Zen.

"It is," Zhengliang nodded and said, "Zen is the 'normal mind', what the Zen masters say; 'normal mind' means 'eat when hungry and sleep when sleepy'. When bows, arrows, targets and self are all integrated, we can no longer separate them. There is no need to separate them. This is the highest level of archery. That is the great way of archery. What's ridiculous is that this is what Zen masters call 'normal mind'."

"This..." Yoshida Shigemasa was confused by Masara's words.

"To understand the highest level of archery, you must at least reach three levels first," Zhengliang said seriously.

"What are the three realms?"

"Use the heart to arrows, not to arrows, convey the heart to the heart," Zhengliang continued.

"Please give me any advice." Yoshida Shigemasa was obviously surrounded by Masarara's words.

"When the bow is completely pulled apart, it includes 'everything'." Masayora picked up the bow in his hand and stood in a solemn and solemn posture. He flicked the bow string several times, making a sharp and low string sound. Then he buckled an arrow on the string and pulled the bow very full.

"Arrow is not used to forge chain muscles. When pulling a bow, don't use the strength of the whole body, but just let your hands work hard, and your shoulders and arms are relaxed, as if they are just bystanders. Only when this is achieved can the preliminary conditions be considered to be completed, and the mind of pulling the bow and shooting arrows are spiritualized." Masara shoves the arrow out with a "whirlwind" and then turns his head to Shigemasa Yoshida. The arrows that were released accurately hit the trunk of a small tree less than 10 cm in diameter in the distance.

"Is that true?" Yoshida Shigemasa took the bow and arrow as Masara just now, raised his hands high above his head, stretched his arms almost flat, and pulled his arms to the left and right side by side, gradually pulled the bow away, and gradually moved his hands down until the left hand holding the bow reached the height of his eyes, his arms were straightened, and the right arm that pulled the string was bent, slightly higher than the right shoulder, so that the three-foot-long arrow only had a little tip protruded from the edge of the bow - forming a very large bow. He had to maintain this posture for a while before he could shoot the arrow. This special method of pulling the bow slowly made his hands start shaking and his breathing became a little heavy.

"Did you feel it?" When Yoshida Shigemasaki finally shove the arrow, Masarara said, "Your hands are shaking because your inhalation is incorrect. After inhaling, you should gently press down the air down to make it tense here." Masara patted his abdomen, "Hold on your breath for a while, then try to exhale slowly and evenly, pause for a while, and then take a quick breath. Then inhale in and out continuously, naturally forming a rhythm. If you can do it correctly, you will feel that shove arrows are easier day by day. Because from this breath, you can not only discover the source of all the power of the gods, but also make this source more abundantly and smoothly inject into your limbs, making you easier."

"Hold the bow, put the arrow, raise the bow, draw the bow and stay in the state of maximum tension, and then shoot the arrow. Each step starts with inhaling, then put the air screen on the abdomen and finally exhale it." Zhengliang picked up the bow again to demonstrate, "The result of this is to cooperate naturally with inhaling. After you persist for a period of time, your unique shè arrow technology will be formed, and your individual positions and hands will be fixed. And according to the different personal inhaling movements, all movements are weaved into a rhythmic process. This is to use the soul to shè arrow."

Yoshida Shigemasa listened carefully and he was completely trapped in Masara's point of view. In the past, he learned some shè arrow skills at home. However, this was the first time he heard such a novel and effective shè arrow method, and he found it too incredible.

"After reaching the first level, we can realize the second level," Zhengliang turned around, looked at the woods in the distance, and said quietly.

"The arrow without a arrow?" Yoshida Shigemasa, who was behind him, asked. He was even more confused about this realm. The arrow was originally for the target, but now he said that he was not for the arrow?

"You can shoot an arrow first," said Zhengliang.

Yoshida Shigemasa took the longbow in his hand as he spoke and pulled the bow again to prepare for the shè arrow. When he pulled the bow, his thumb circled the string and pressed it against the arrow. He pressed the thumb tightly into the palm. At the same time, he clamped it steadily. The arrow was to open the fingers holding the thumb and let it go. Because the string was very strong, the thumb would be straightened by force. When the bow string was shaken, the arrow would fly out. Ordinary samurai and foot light would tremble suddenly due to this action, which affected the stability of the bow and arrow. Therefore, it was impossible to shoot arrows smoothly. Needless to say, some arrows must be twisted and twisted. Now, because I have been carefully at home since I was a child, Yoshida Shigemasa has basically no problem, but it can still be seen that his shoulders are trembling slightly.

"Come to see me," Masarara raised his longbow again and began to demonstrate. All movements were no different from Yoshida Shigemasara, but as long as you observe carefully, you will find that although Masarara's right hand bounced backward due to the release of tension, it did not vibrate to his body at all. His right hand was at an acute angle before the arrow was shot, and after the arrow was bounced open, it was gently stretched back. The inevitable vibration was completely absorbed and offset by the buffer. If it weren't for the sharp "stretching" sound of the trembling bowstring and the penetration of the arrow, no one would have felt the power of the arrow. On Masarara, shooting arrows seemed so relaxed and ordinary, just like a child's play.

"Why is this happening?"

"Don't think about what you should do, don't think about how to complete it. Only when the hand is caught off guard can the arrow be shined smoothly. The bowstring should be cut through the thumb. You must never deliberately let go of your right hand." Zhengliang said.

Yoshida Shigemasa still seems to be unaware.

"It seems like a centipede. If it suddenly wants to figure out the order of its feet walking, what do you think will end up?" asked Zhengliang.

"That must be impossible to move," Yoshida Shigemasa replied after thinking about it.

Afterwards, Yoshida Shigemasa tried several times according to Masarara's method, but was still unsatisfied.

"You hold the unbuttoned bowstring, and you must hold the fingers that are stretched toward you like a baby. The power of his small fist is surprising, and when he lets go, there is no vibration at all. Do you know why? Because the baby won't think: I'm going to let go of my fingers to grab other things. He's moving from one thing to another, completely unconscious and has no purpose. We say that the baby is playing with things, and we can also say that it's the thing playing with the baby." Seeing Yoshida Shigemasa full of suspicion, Masato on the side

Liang said, "You know why you can't wait? Why do you breathe before you shoot? The correct arrow never happens because you refuse to let go of yourself. You are not waiting for completion, but are ready to face failure. As long as this continues, you have no choice but to summon something that should happen naturally by yourself. As long as you continue to summon like this, your hands will not be able to release them correctly like a baby's hand, and you will not be able to naturally bloom like a ripe fruit."

"This... is really something that cannot be understood," Yoshida Shigemasa said with his head down.

"When you have no desires when you have no target, the more you stubbornly learn to hit the target, the more you will be unable to succeed, and the goal will be farther and farther away from you. What hinders you is that you are too careful. You think if you don't do it yourself, things will not be possible.

", Masayoshi continued, "the hand penetrates the sky with the upper end of the bow, and the lower end of the bow suspends the earth with strings. If there is a slight vibration when shooting arrows, there is a danger of the bow string breaking. For those who are scheming and irritable, this breaking is permanent, and they fall into a terrible situation where they cannot go up to the sky and cannot go down to the ground."

"Is this a shè arrow that doesn't have a shè arrow?" Yoshida Shigemasa asked with his head raised.

"Well. Let go of yourself and discard everything about yourself until you have nothing, leaving only a kind of undeliberate tension. This is the second realm of archery, an arrow without a shè," Zhengliang nodded and responded.

"Is this seemingly what the Zen masters say, a stage on the way to emptiness and transcendence?" asked Yoshida Shigemasa.

"Yes, that's the way to the avenue of archery."

"So, Your Highness, what does the third realm of archery mean to convey the heart from the heart?" Although I cannot understand the first two realms of archery for the time being, Yoshida Shigemasa still decided to understand the last realm.

"This state must start with giving up all attachments and become completely selfless; so the soul will return to the inner world and enter the nameless, unscrupulous, endless original," Zhengliang pondered for a while, and finally said, "It's a pity that he can't reach this state even below."

After receiving Masara's guidance, Yoshida Shigemasa seemed to have a lot of insights. After that, he continued to accompany Masara to patrol everywhere while practicing archery, trying to understand the archery realm that Masara said. Seeing this, Masara laughed secretly in his heart. In fact, in terms of archery, Masara's level is actually only a little higher than Yoshida Shigemasara. But what Masara now brings out is the archery theory that has been proven by later generations, and of course it is much higher. Masara is planning to attract the other party through these profound archery theories and attract the other party again.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhengliang pretended to accidentally talk about the upcoming Roche Dojo, and even expressed his preparation to search for swordsmen with outstanding swordsmanship, archery and gun skills as the teacher training agent.
Chapter completed!