Once the instructor showed Yuan how to hold the staff, he swung the staff around in a slow but precise manner, allowing Yuan to see every single one of his movents more clearly.
A few minutes later, the instructor stopped his movents and turned to look at Yuan before handing him the staff.
"Here. I showed a little more than I was supposed to, but I wanted to give you a grasp of what it ans to wield a staff."
After Yuan accepted the staff, the instructor went to grab another one for himself.
"Am I holding this properly?" Yuan asked.
"Yes, that's perfect. Now let's start with the basic movents."
The instructor then executed a single strike with the staff before freezing in that position…
Yuan followed his movents and executed the sa strike with perfection.
Of course, it was only a basic movent, so it wasn't that impressive.
"Here's a follow-up."
The instructor resud his movents and swung the staff again.
Yuan followed.
The two of them would continue in this manner until they executed most of the basic movents.
"Now try to do it all at once without any long pauses." The instructor said to him.
Yuan nodded and took a mont to rember all of the movents. Once he was ready, he started swinging the staff around with precise and smooth movents.
Although the techniques were the basics, they looked like it was perford by an expert.
'This guy…' The instructor was amazed by how fast of a learner Yuan was.
It had only been a few minutes since they started, yet Yuan was already performing like he was an expert.
"How did I do?" Yuan asked the dazed instructor after performing the basic techniques.
"N-Not bad. I don't have anything to say, which is a good thing. Practice like that a few more tis and we'll move to the next step."
"Okay."
Yuan began swinging the staff around again.
About ten minutes later, the instructor stopped him and started showing him more advanced techniques.
This continued for the rest of the day.
anwhile, on the fourth floor, ixiu was doing much better than the previous day.
"Looks like you're back to normal. I hope you've solved whatever was troubling you." The instructor said to her.
"Thank you for your concern." ixiu nodded.
At the end of the day, ixiu went to the first floor to et up with Yuan like usual, but when she arrived, Yuan wasn't there.
'Where did he go?' ixiu looked around while pondering. She couldn't imagine Yuan leaving without her.
When the instructor there noticed ixiu looking around, he approached her and said, "If you're looking for Player Yuan, he's on the third floor."
"Third floor?" ixiu tried to recall what was on the third floor, but she completely forgot.
After thanking the instructor for his information, ixiu went back up to two more floors until she arrived at the third floor.
When she opened the door and entered the gymnasium, she was surprised to see a large crowd gathered at the center of the room.
This instantly piqued ixiu's interest, so she approached the crowd to see what they were all looking at with such intensity.
Whoosh!
In the center of the crowd, Yuan was in the middle of sparring with a bulky man, both of them wielding a spear.
"Ha!"
The instructor stepped forward to thrust his spear at Yuan, but Yuan perfectly deflected the attack with his own spear and with relative ease.
After defending against the attack, Yuan swung his spear in a wide arc, suddenly stopping a few inches away from the man's body, barely missing him due to how flexible the spear was.
"You win… Again." The bulky man lowered his spear with a defeated smile on his face, but one could see clear excitent within his eyes.
"Thank you for the experience." Yuan lowered his spear and clasped his hand to the instructor.
"No, I should be thanking you. It's been a while since I have experienced such an overwhelming defeat." The instructor returned the bow.
"Anyways, are you sure today is your first ti using polearms? If that's true… You're truly a monster amongst monsters…" The instructor joked in a serious voice.
"Yes, today is my first ti using this kind of weapon. I usually use the sword or dagger… sort of." Yuan confird.
"Well, either way, you are now even better than , an instructor. Besides the Grand Elder, I don't think there is anyone in this place that can match you."
It was at this mont Yuan noticed ixiu standing in the crowd.
"It's ti I go. Once again, thank you for teaching how to use polearms."
The crowd around them made a clear path when they noticed Yuan walking towards them.
"Let's go ho, shall we?" Yuan said to ixiu, who nodded.
Chu Liuxiang and Sebastian followed them from behind.
"That was an amazing performance today. As expected of you, Brother Yuan." Chu Liuxiang said to him after they left the building, as she'd watched him train for the whole day.
Yuan smiled behind his mask and said, "To be completely honest with you, even though I have never held a staff or spear until today, I felt oddly comfortable with it the mont I held it in my hands, almost like I have used them before. It was like that when I first picked up the sword inside Cultivation Online."
"That's what you call a true genius, Brother Yuan. No matter what you touch, you master it with ease!" Chu Liuxiang said in a cheerful voice.
And she continued, "It was like that back at the orphanage, too. You would learn the harmonica and every single new instrunt the sa day you got it. Is there anything you cannot learn with ease?"
'Common sense…' ixiu said inwardly after hearing Chu Liuxiang's question.
Soti later, they returned ho to take a quick shower before heading to the Silver Restaurant for dinner.
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