After Lin Ran entered the mine, he didn’t rush to experiment with this method, after all, Uncle Black said that it would take a long time to lure the lightning eels.
And once he started, he couldn’t stop until his true qi was depleted, which was Lin Ran’s biggest worry.
So the first thing he did after entering the pit was to start digging instead. Lin Ran was so strong that digging was naturally very easy for him, but he still dug for a good five or six hours.
It wasn’t until a large pile thick enough for a week had been piled up behind himself that he began to prepare for his retreat.
Xiao Jiu and Li had also been in the scroll space for too long, so Lin Ran moved them out as well, allowing Xiao Jiu to throw some of the ore from the cave out of the formation every other day so that the people outside could carry it away.
As for Li, it was a complete master’s treatment, as soon as he came out, he was served with wine and delicacies, and he drank all those good wines that Li Yi had packed for him when Lin Ran was at the Drunken Immortal House.
Lin Ran naturally didn’t want to take them out at first, but this guy was so dumb that he wouldn’t drink ordinary wine, so Lin Ran had no choice but to bring out this kind of wine.
After arranging everything, Lin Ran then started to pour his true qi into the rock wall in front of him.
There were many holes in the rock wall, so Lin Ran plugged up all the other small holes in order to be more efficient, leaving only the one in front of him.
As long as a lightning eel took the bait, it would definitely come out through this small hole.
With the infusion of true qi, the entire hole was soon filled with true qi, and it continued to emanate deeper and deeper into the hole.
While infusing true qi, Lin Ran carefully felt the situation inside the rock wall, as long as there was a shining eel near the exit, he would be able to sense it first.
However, as time pa*sed, Lin Ran was still a little too confident, thinking that he would be able to catch the king of the flash eels if he used this method.
Yet the truth was that two whole hours had pa*sed and Lin Ran hadn’t even seen a single flash eel, not to mention the Flash Eel King.
“I’m afraid I’ll have to die of old age by the time I find the king of the flash eels!”
Lin Ran was a bit tearful, no wonder Uncle Black kept stressing that the King of the Flash Eels had only appeared once so far, and even an old man like Uncle Black who worked in the mine had never seen one.
“Ai! I’m the one who’s in too much of a hurry, so I’d better go study the Way of the Sword!”
Lin Ran sighed helplessly and only had to divide his energy to take out the basic kendo moves he had in his arms.
The Lightning Dao was important, it was about whether or not Lin Ran could obtain the inheritance of the Thunder Djinn, while the Sword Dao was also very important to him.
When Lin Ran had first chosen these two dao, he had thought that it would actually be beneficial for him to build on either one.
After all, the sword was a weapon that he himself commonly used, and the Thunder Dao pearl contained the legacy of the Supreme Treasure Thunder Dao, so no matter which way he thought about it, these two dao cultivations were more suitable for him than the other dao cultivations.
While mobilising his true qi to channel it into the small hole in the rock wall, on the other hand, Lin Ran flipped open the Foundation of Sword Dao Stances and began to rehearse it.
The basic sword stances were actually very simple, Lin Ran had skimmed through them once before, and only the basic sword stances were not difficult to understand.
But the most important thing about these basic sword moves was not the number of sword moves, but the control of the sword moves, that is, the proficiency.
If you want to make these sword moves perfect, you need to keep practising them and make them your own instinct.
A fight between two kendo masters is a lightning bolt, let alone a fight between two kendo practitioners with true qi, and the speed is only faster, sometimes so fast that you can’t even think about what moves your opponent will make to target you, so you have to react.
Lin Ran got up, endured a random spot on one of those mined rock walls to his side, and began to practice.
Because he was in the middle of a mine and there were veins on both sides, he didn’t dare to use his true qi. If there was any explosion of true qi in such a place, it would instantly detonate the entire vein, and the loss would be a small matter, but if it involved several lives, it would be the most unacceptable for him.
“Bang!”
A sword thrust out, instantly stabbing the rock wall in front of him.
However, what Lin Ran didn’t expect was that his sword had actually missed, and was actually some distance away from his intended target.
“How could this happen?”
Lin Ran was puzzled and immediately followed with two more stabs, but after these same two stabs landed, they actually stabbed and cheated as well.
And yet, instead of narrowing the gap, it was getting bigger and bigger.
“What’s going on here?”
Lin Ran frowned, how did his own sword skill level become so poor when he arrived at the Immortal Realm.
Unable to understand in his mind, Lin Ran was busy going to ask Qing Zi.
Who knew that this nee-san could not help but not be surprised at hearing this, but instead, she smiled and affirmed.
“Master, this situation of yours is inevitable!”
“Why?”
Lin Ran was puzzled, when he used to be back home, a seven-coloured sword maneuver could be said to be unstoppable, how come it had dropped so much instead when he arrived in the Immortal Realm.
“Master, think about what is missing between you and when you were back home?”
Qing Zi asked with a smile.
Lin Ran frowned slightly at his words and said.
“Is it because of the difference in Dao?”
“But even without the Dao I was more powerful when I used the Frost Condensation Sword before ……”
Lin Ran didn’t finish his sentence before he froze himself.
Yes! What he himself lacked compared to before was not only Dao, but also True Qi, because deep in the mine pit he didn’t dare to use True Qi at all, this sword thrust relied entirely on the strength of his own arm.
Although the strength of his arm was also very strong, it was not even a fraction of what it would have been without his true qi and dao.
“You understand, Master!”
Qing Zi said with a smile.
“In the past, although your seven-coloured sword aura was powerful, but in the end, what was powerful was only your medical dao and the augmentation of your own strength, without these two aids, I am afraid that your sword moves alone could not even defeat a person who had been dedicated to practising the sword dao for a year!”
“So is that why I’m learning from the basic sword stances?”
Lin Ran asked, at this point, his mind was completely clear.
Thinking back to the time when he had used the Condensing Frost Sword was indeed because he had obtained it, plus he had used it while it was in his hand, which was why he had used it until now.
In retrospect, he had hardly invested anything in the sword move itself.
“Dang it, life doesn’t deceive anyone, what you do to him, he does to you!”
Lin Ran looked at the longsword in his hand and only at this moment did he truly understand exactly where he was falling short.
“I have the foundation of the medical dao and even more strength at the Heavenly Mansion realm, and since I didn’t learn the sword moves before, I’ll make up for it now!”
A hint of resilience flashed in Lin Ran’s eyes, and immediately raised his hand and continued practising his sword.
