Chapter 517 - 225: 3 Consecutive Wins! Hua Hua’er! _3
Everyone was absolutely blown away; Zhou Xingcai’s poisonous milk of that year was still very powerful. Yuchi even recalled seeing some study materials that seemed to be called "Wu Can" or something? But he couldn’t quite remember the details, there seemed to be a lot of "Wu Can"s.
Finally, it was Wei Qingzhu’s turn to speak. She started talking about her adventures on her escape journey. When river pirates appeared, she was worried they would discover and torture her, so she proactively jumped into the river. Her swimming skills were quite remarkable; to exaggerate a bit, she could swim back and forth across two or three river bends without any issue.
But that night was too dark. In her haste, when she jumped off the boat, her head collided directly with a piece of driftwood floating down the river... and she just fainted right there.
This story, when told, really makes one feel both sympathetic and amused. What a stroke of bad luck! Otherwise, if she’d managed to escape directly from the river, at least her life wouldn’t be in danger. But whether she could have been discovered by Yuchi at that time remains uncertain...
"Meanwhile, I stood empty and bare in front of Sect Leader Senior Brother. Sect Leader Senior Brother’s eyes were emotionless, and at that moment I actually felt a great humiliation. After all, my mother said... there aren’t many men who can resist a figure like mine... but Sect Leader Senior Brother looked at me as if he was looking at some pork belly..."
Ugh, Yuchi held his forehead with a chuckle, the disciples beside him were laughing heartily as well. He mainly saw Wei Qingzhu’s grudge, and under such resentment, it wasn’t worth coveting someone else’s body. At least, from today’s perspective, the decision he made back then seems pretty normal.
Finally, Yuchi speaks of some matters... Seeing the few disciples beside him with high expectations, he feels a bit awkward. He wasn’t really a part of this world, and it seems like he had nothing particularly special in his past life.
Birth, school, first love, meeting the parents, university, graduation, being beaten, cursing the boss as a dog...
And so on and so forth, there wasn’t anything special at all.
But he still mentioned a small plan, saying that he’ll definitely have to leave the Third State in the future to visit other states. After all, the Third State is just the Third State; now that he’s here, how could he not explore around? As for the Lower Three States, he definitely plans to go there, thinking of the desert and ocean, just a thought makes it seem quite enticing.
But far from now, the guild is still small, Xufu Town is still small, Ascension Gate is still small, and the disciples are still young. There’s a lot of mundane affairs to handle, now isn’t the time to throw everything aside and go carefree; that would be irresponsible.
Lack of responsibility is often defined as carefree, and mythologized into "this is life".
The disciples responded very firmly that if that day ever came, they would definitely stick by their Sect Leader Senior Brother’s side and explore the world together!
Yuchi: My dear disciples, if one day you no longer need me to take care of you, then I can truly become carefree...
Yet seeing the radiant smiles on the disciples’ faces, he broke into a smile despite himself.
Damn it, this is life.
...
The next day, Shen Qinghan, the little girl, had her second match. With the experience from the first round, this second match, although still turn-based, wasn’t a problem given the little girl’s abundant foundation, she’s been consuming quality elixirs, her physique is really impressive.
Her health was continually drained by others, but at crucial moments she could simply get back up, just like an indestructible cockroach. Eventually, during the back and forth, it was all about the spiritual energy burst.
Spiritual energy burst is quite simple, it’s like having a gas tank at home. A normal gas tank’s destructive power is explosive, but Qi Cultivation Realm little girls don’t understand these things; they just open the gas tank and use it to spray, still causing quite significant damage, yet spiritual energy itself really isn’t meant to be used like that.
On the arena, it’s all about gathering some spiritual energy and exploding it out, then gathering some spiritual energy and bursting it out, a standard turn-based game.
In the end, Shen Qinghan won again, completely surpassing Yuchi’s own understanding of this Ascension Gate grand competition.
Apparently everyone first nurtures the disciples’ hard skills, then when hard skills become stagnant, only then do they start slowly learning various martial arts secret manuals; developing soft skills later on.
Rubbing the little girl’s forehead, seeing a layer of sweat appear on her brow, he nodded with a smile, "Well done."
It’s actually quite normal--martial arts secret manual techniques, having one or two to rely on is sufficient; the key is hard strength, once hard strength is formidable, then slowly learn martial arts, while increasing cultivation and starting to master various martial arts, as if everyone in the world is out to get you... there’s no need for that.
Unless the sect is too weak, then it forces one to self-preserve, a last resort indeed; otherwise, if cultivation can still be increased slowly, such damaging secret manual techniques are unnecessary.
Disciples going out, typically when cultivation cannot increase further, learn a couple of martial arts and then go out and live their lives.
"Perhaps our Ascension Gate can secure a nice ranking? Seems like the disciples have quite the resilience..."