Eighth Crown

Breathing, the full name of [Comprehensive Breathing], is a collective name for the techniques created by the swordsmen of the ghost killing team in all dynasties, which can fight against evil spirits with the body of a human being.

It mainly uses a special breathing rhythm to enhance the heart and lung function, so that the blood absorbs a large amount of oxygen, so that the user's physical energy increases in an instant, and in a short period of time, it can be improved to a level that is comparable to that of a ghost.

Enhance physical strength through breathing, and then fight with swordsmanship matched with breathing. This is how the swordsmen of the Ghost Killing Squad fight against man-eating evil spirits.

The original breathing method appeared in the Warring States period about 400 years ago, and it was called the [initial breathing]. Five basic breathing styles were created.

The five basic breathing styles are [Water Breath], [Lightning Breath], [Flame Breath], [Rock Breath], and [Wind Breath].

There is basically no distinction between the five basic styles of breathing methods, each with its own emphasis and characteristics, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages that other breathing methods do not have.

From these five basic breathing methods, there are also many other branch schools. Although they are derived from the basic breathing methods, they also have their own characteristics.

Among these breathing methods, except for the [initial breathing] of the ancestor of breathing methods, which has a transcendent status, no breathing method can be said to be absolutely superior to other breathing methods.

And what my wife Zenitsu has learned is the [Lightning Breath] which is the fastest and most explosive among these breathing techniques.

[Breath of Thunder], that is one of the most difficult breathing techniques to cultivate even among the ghost killing teams with various breathing techniques.

While possessing the fastest speed and the strongest explosive power, the user will naturally be required to have a physical quality that exceeds that of ordinary people. When the physical fitness is strong enough, learning [Breath of Thunder] can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Liu Xia's physical fitness has reached the limit of ordinary people. In terms of physical fitness alone, he has surpassed my wife Shanyi by a lot. It is more than enough to learn [Breath of Thunder].

"The key to learning breathing is how to effectively absorb a large amount of oxygen and then gather it into the blood, so the strength of cardiopulmonary function is the top priority."

In the ancient temple, although the moon was already on the willow branches, and my wife Shanyi had already felt some sleepiness, but in order to survive the final selection tomorrow, he still carefully taught the [Breath of Thunder] practice method to him. Lucia.

Of course, although it is teaching, he is actually just relaying what his trainer told him to Liu Xia. He has no experience in teaching others, so teaching will of course seem dry, not at all. Know how to be flexible.

Fortunately, Liu Xia is learning very fast.

If there really is such a person as a [genius] in this world, then Liu Xia is definitely one of them. The aptitude possessed by this kind of person is like a gulf, which lies in front of ordinary people with ordinary aptitude, causing countless people to be born. A sense of despair that cannot be chased, living in the shadow of such a person all his life.

After telling Liu Xia the main points of breathing and sword skills, my wife Zenitsu couldn't hold back the drowsiness that surged up and lay on the floor inside the ancient temple, slowly falling asleep.

Liu Xia was alone in the open space outside the temple, repeatedly practicing the [breathing method], and the low but rhythmic breathing sounded in the silent night.

And with the passage of time, the sense of agitation contained in this breathing sound has become stronger and stronger. It is obviously just normal breathing, but it makes people agitated in front of a beast, and is about to make a thunderous roar. illusion.

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The next day, morning.

The two had breakfast early, and when the sun had just risen above the horizon and the dew on the leaves in the forest had not completely melted away, they left the ancient temple and came to the vicinity of Tengxi Mountain.

The ancient temple is not far from the Fuji Xishan. After the two of them drove together for more than ten minutes, they came to the foot of the Fuji Xishan.

"I said, Liuxia-chan, are we really going to lift such a heavy box together?"

At the foot of the mountain, my wife Shanyi looked at the nearly 100-meter-long staircase in front of her, and turned her head to look at the suitcase that Liu Xia was holding, with a bitter look on her face.

"What exactly are in your box, why is it so heavy? Throw some away, or put it directly at the foot of the mountain?"

Liu Xia glanced at the suitcase in his hand. There was nothing special in the suitcase, just some things such as tents, flashlights, clothes, nylon ropes, etc. The most important things were placed in the piano case behind him.

"Carry it up and let the ghost killers take care of it."

Although things are not important, Liu Xia has no plans to give up.

Because in addition to the above items that are necessary for life in the wild, he also put some valuable jewelry in it. He has no money in other worlds. Of course, he has to prepare some hard currency. He does not want to be able to exchange money in all worlds, but At least to be able to sell in most of the world, at least be prepared.

My wife Shanyi sighed and had no choice but to lift the other corner of the suitcase, and together with Liu Xia, carrying the suitcase, they walked up the stairs step by step.

The only way to the mountainside is the ladder in front of you. Every candidate swordsman of the Ghost Killing Team needs to walk up this ladder step by step. Not far from the top of the mountain, you can see a red door. The building is there.

That is the torii called 'torii', also called 'Shenmen', which is usually an annex of the shrine, which means the place where the gods enter and exit. The reason why it was built on both sides of the end of the stairs is to tell others that there is a shrine here.

It took the two of them another ten minutes to walk down the stairs and arrive at the shrine on the mountainside.

As soon as I entered the shrine, my wife, Zenitsu, lay directly on the ground, not caring whether the haori on her body would be dirty, she was breathing heavily, sweating all over her body.

Compared with him, although Liu Xia's breathing was a little quicker, it felt like he had only run for a thousand meters, far from being as unbearable as him.

There are more than ten figures standing in the open space of the shrine.

These people stood around the open space and hardly talked to each other. From the outside, they were almost fifteen or so young people, and everyone's expressions seemed heavy.

Behind these people, the shrine was in the previous position, and there was a long table placed there. In front of the table stood two young people who were only about seven or eight years old.

The appearance of the two is almost identical, and it is completely impossible to distinguish between male and female, only the hair is pure black and white, which can make people barely distinguish which is which.

Although the two looked immature, the expressions on their faces were extremely calm, as if they had been used to such scenes for a long time.