Chapter 79 Please Give Me Advice

Mu Jin used all his strength in this palm strike, which made a whistling sound and went straight towards Jiao Ran.

He had been forcing her to do this since the past few days, saying that in the process of practicing, maybe she would be able to slowly break through the restrictions.

Jiaoran could clearly see his palm coming and was ready to dodge it, but just as she was about to move, his palm stopped in front of her face.

Mu Jin's clothes fluttered in the wind, looking quite elegant. She couldn't help but smile when she saw her. She looked so beautiful.

He withdrew his palms, turned around suddenly, and this time he used both palms to attack Jiaoran's vital point.

Jiaoran moved slightly, but this time he still couldn't dodge it.

He was a little anxious because Jiaoran was obviously absent-minded. "What are you doing?!"

Jiaoran leaned forward and said, "Nothing, I just wanted to see you."

He had already expected that she would use this trick again, so he pushed her head away and said, "Practice quickly."

As he said this, he put his fingers together, lowered his shoulders, and stabbed Jiaoran's shoulders with two fingers.

All I heard was Jiaoran groaning, and he suddenly shrank back in pain, but he didn't move away.

Mu Jin was completely enraged. He turned his palm into a fist and punched her diagonally in the chest.

He shouted, "Why don't you take it?"

Jiao Ran said helplessly, "I would like to take it, but you have plenty of internal energy, and I'm like someone with my hands and feet tied and unable to walk fast. How can I take it?"

He said, "Aren't I trying to figure out a way for you to break through? If I could just untie it for you, why would I bother letting you break through on your own?"

Seeing that Jiaoran didn't want to practice anymore, he took a sword and said, "Why don't you practice sword fighting first today and practice the sword techniques you know a few more times. Maybe it will be effective."

Jiaoran said, "I'm so tired. Let's go back. I don't want to practice anymore."

He had already grasped her hand from behind, telling her to hold the sword tightly, and then he swung the sword horizontally and slashed it into the air.

"What kind of sword technique is this?" Jiaoran asked.

"Haven't you used this move before? Now that I remember it, I'll practice it with you."

She said with a smile, "I didn't expect you still remember my sword moves, sir?"

He told her not to slack off and to practice a little longer.

She had no rules under her feet, so Mu Jin had to teach her what he knew.

With your feet in the "Li" position, turn around to the "Zhen" position, and swing the sword with your backhand.

He held her sword-holding wrist and taught her each move.

Halfway through the practice, Jiaoran's sword force suddenly changed, and he slashed towards Kun position fiercely. Mu Jin was shocked, because when he thought about it carefully, Jiaoran's move was actually to break his previous move. He didn't expect that Jiaoran could change his sword moves in such a short time.

I was just about to ask her how she came up with that idea.

Jiao Ran asked even faster than him, "Who taught you your swordsmanship?"

"Cha Che." He did not hide it.

"Xiao Ju also gave me some pointers."

Jiaoran was a little unconvinced, "So, they are all your teachers?"

"To be precise, I only have one master, Chai Che. Have you ever seen the teacher who teaches young children in a private school? Chai Che taught me martial arts in a similar way."

Jiaoran took the sword and stabbed it from the "坎" position. The sword's momentum turned rapidly, and his footwork matched it with his moves. His sword skills were extraordinary, but much slower than before.

"If I were your master, I would definitely teach better than him." Jiaoran said.

What is Chai Che?

Mu Jin saw her fighting spirit. She never liked to obey Chai Che, so she deliberately said, "That's not necessarily true."

Jiaoran was furious and started swinging his sword at his side, suddenly moving forward, backward, left and right. For half an hour, not a single move was repeated.

"So how about this? Compared to Chaiche."

Mu Jin couldn't help but laugh. She turned her head away and waited until things calmed down before turning back. "Chai Che's moves are faster than thunder and sudden like wind and rain. Do you think you can beat him with these moves?"

Jiao Ran complained, "If I hadn't been sealed, there's no telling who would win between him and me!"

"Yes, if you hadn't been sealed, but don't you think that it was he who sealed you, so logically speaking, his internal strength, moves, and body movements are far superior to yours."

Jiao Ran stamped his feet and said, "He was the one who plotted against me. You don't know that I was so worried about you that day that my heart was in turmoil and I had already lost my composure. He took the opportunity to attack me."

"If you really have better skills than him, how could you give him the chance to stand there and plot against you?" Mu Jin wanted to motivate her to practice hard. If she continued like this, she would become more lax day by day.

"So, in your eyes, I'm not as good as Chai Che?"

"I think you can see it for yourself without me saying anything. His movements are never chaotic. When he uses gentle kung fu, he can overcome hardness with softness. When he uses strong kung fu, he can use both hardness and softness at the same time. Can't you see that his kung fu has reached the highest level?"

At the moment, Jiaoran had fought with him for hundreds of moves, but he really didn't gain any advantage.

But when she heard Mu Jin praising Chai Che so generously, she felt dissatisfied in her heart, "So you think I will never be as good as him?"

Mu Jin said, "I didn't say that, but if you continue like this, it will only—"

"Enough!" Jiaoran yelled, "You're so annoying."

"I..." He was about to explain when he heard Jiaoran say, "So in your heart, Chai Che is the best person?"

What's the connection? Mu Jin really didn't know why she came up with this idea. "I mean, he has some good qualities in martial arts. You should learn from his strengths and make up for your weaknesses."

"You just think Chai Che is better than me in everything..."

"I didn't say that."

"You have."

"I don't."

"Why don't you have any?"

"We are talking about practicing the exercises, not anything else."

"I'm just talking about other things, not practicing."

"Can you please study hard? If danger comes, and your martial arts are sealed, what will you do then?"

"Then I'll go ask Chai Che to save me. Didn't you say he's the most powerful person in the world?"

"Don't talk nonsense! Just because I praise someone doesn't mean I think they are the best at everything."

"Then if you think he's not good, why do you praise him?"

"I am--"

Seeing her serious expression, as if she was really angry, Mu Jin turned and asked, "What's wrong? I can't mention him today?"

Jiaoran held the sword in his arms and said nothing.

"What's wrong? I just want you to practice well, I don't mean anything else. Why are you angry for no reason?"

Jiaoran said, "Sister Xiaoju said that he was your first friend in this Governor's Mansion."

"So?" Mu Jin didn't understand what she meant.

"That day, he thought I had shot you, and he came to me in a rage to teach me a lesson. Later, he said that if he broke his promise to you once, you would kill him. I thought you were always too lazy to get angry with others, but now I think about this incident. You must have been the best friends in the world, right?"

Mu Jin chuckled, "Are you jealous because of this?"

She refused to admit it, "No, I'm not jealous."

"You are obviously." He took her sword and said, "Chai Che is indeed my first friend here. It was because of him that I chatted with him and practiced martial arts with him. That's how I gradually learned to speak like a normal person."

He stared at her lips, wanting to kiss her, but hesitated. "But you are the person I love most in this world. Cha Che has betrayed me many times. Although we are still at peace on the surface and can help each other, we can't go back to the friendship we had before. He is a person who puts the overall situation first. Do you know what it means to put the overall situation first?"

Jiaoran shook his head and said, "Isn't it just about putting the overall situation first?" What else could that mean?

"Putting the greater good first—ha, that's the most hypocritical thing people like them say. It means that if you're not beneficial to the greater good, they can just get rid of you. Whether it benefits the greater good or not is entirely up to people like them. If the greater good ever requires you to give up something of yours, they'll take it without hesitation, claiming it's all for the greater good."

Jiao Ran had never thought about it so deeply. "Actually... when Chai Che made some decisions, he seemed to be in a difficult situation. That day when he sealed my power and my senior sister confronted him, I could see that he was very sad."

He wielded the sword with incredible force, then abruptly withdrew, saying coldly, "But the outcome will always be his. His dilemmas and hesitations will not affect him in the slightest."

"But I still feel—"

"Stop talking. You have to be careful of him in the future. If he asks you to do anything, you have to tell me. Don't hide it from me."

The two of them suddenly switched positions. He was speaking well of him just now, and now it was her turn to speak well of Chai Che, but he was impatient to interrupt and was too lazy to listen to any more.

"If Zhuxing asks you to come over, you have to tell me before you go, understand?"

Jiaoran suddenly hissed.

"What? Now you don't want to listen to anything I say?" Mu Jin frowned.

Jiaoran's power was sealed, but his five senses were still more sensitive than ordinary people, and there was someone in the forest.

The footsteps were light, but Jiaoran already noticed them.

A gust of palm wind suddenly hits——

Jiaoran took a deep breath. Facing the palm strike as fast as the wind, she took a step forward and took it calmly.

In terms of skill, this person is not shallow, and now she is much weaker than before, both in attacking and receiving.

Jiaoran glanced sideways and saw that behind the girl who made the move stood a beautiful woman in her thirties with a unique charm.

A precious two-color purple chrysanthemum was pinned in her hair, and her lips were painted with vermilion lip balm.

Mu Jin walked over and said, "How dare you! This is the territory of Siyuyuan. How dare you sneak attack us here?!"

The girl, no more than fourteen or fifteen, sneered, "With your mediocre skills, you dare to show off in front of such a beautiful scene."

Mu Jin glanced at the woman behind her and said, "If you are a guest of the Governor's Mansion, please be respectful and don't disturb the peace of the host family."

Jiaoran was stunned for a long time and couldn't say a word.

Until the woman covered her mouth and laughed, "Xieying, stop being naughty."

The girl responded and walked back to the woman, "Master, shall we go?"

"You are Master Mu, right?" the woman asked.

"My name is Mu Jin, may I know who your wife is?"

The woman looked at Jiao Ran behind Mu Jin and said, "Just think of me as a rare guest at the Governor's Mansion. My master and I came here from Chang'an to do some business. Once we're done, we'll be leaving."

Chang'an, it turned out that she really went to Chang'an.

That day in the dream, Zhu Su told her that if she did not believe in the illusion, someone in reality would soon prove the truth in the illusion to her.

I didn’t expect it to be her, Senior Sister Mingguang.

Twenty years have passed in a flash, and Sister Mingguang has grown from a young girl into a graceful woman.

She finally went to Chang'an, the place where the legend said the ground was paved with gold bricks and the sky was inlaid with silver.

"Aran, you don't recognize me? Please don't blame me for making a fool of myself as your little apprentice."

Xieying said, "Master, why are you so polite to her? She is a servant in the Chai family. She must be the same kind of person as the Chai family. Brother Axu almost died at the hands of the Chai family. If I see that bitch Chai Xiao, I will definitely teach her a lesson."

"Mr. Lu Xu, do you know who this girl is?" Mu Jin asked.

Xieying said, "I am Lu Xieying, the only daughter of the seventh branch of the Lu family. Lu Xu is my brother from the same clan."

After not seeing each other for so many years, Jiaoran could still sense Mingguang's dislike for her, but she also felt a strong dislike for Mingguang. Her expression changed as she stepped forward and said, "It's been a long time since we last met, Senior Sister. I wonder how you've been these past few years?"

Mingguang smiled slightly after hearing this, "Very good, how about you, little sister?"

Jiao Ran said, "I have broken with Huiying Sect. Just like my senior sister back then, I will be a free man from now on."

Mingguang's expression suddenly changed. "Your mother treated you well, and you betrayed your master?"

"When you're in the underworld, who knows what will happen one day? She is no longer my mother."

Upon hearing this, Mu Jin glanced at Jiaoran, his eyes filled with a myriad of emotions.

"Since we haven't seen each other for twenty years, I wonder if Junior Sister is still as fragile as she was when she was little."

Mu Jin pulled Jiaoran and told her not to move rashly.

Jiao Ran was not afraid. "Senior Sister, do you want to teach me?"

"It's just some feints. Are you scared, A'ran?"

Jiao Ran shook his head. "It's my honor."

After saying that, he snatched the sword from Mu Jin's hand.

What she was thinking in her mind was, firstly, to test Mingguang's skills and see how strong her skills were now, and secondly, even if she was defeated, Mingguang would not kill her in the Governor's Mansion, even though she hated her.

Mingguang said, "Junior sister, watch this. This move of mine will go straight for your arm."

With a hissing sound, Jiaoran's sleeve was pierced before she could make a move, leaving a cut on her arm, and blood flowed down her sword-holding hand.

Mu Jin quickly blocked it with her body, "Since it's just instruction, stop there."

He quickly stood in front of Jiaoran.

"Junior sister, you haven't made any progress in all these years?" Mingguang laughed.

Mu Jin was already furious, ready to strike. Jiao Ran gently tugged at his clothes and said, "It's not shameful to lose a move in a competition with my own senior sister. Jiao Ran is convinced."

Xieying was a competitive man. Seeing that Jiaoran couldn't take a single blow, he snorted and said, "If you still refuse to accept my defeat, I will beat you until you do. But seeing how cowardly you are, my master doesn't even need to do anything. I think too highly of you."

If she had lost under normal circumstances, Jiaoran would have fought to the death seeing the enemy so complacent, but today she was very strange, her tone was gentle and her expression was calm.

Mu Jin didn't know what was going on with Jiaoran for a moment.

Jiao Ran clasped his fists and bowed, "I haven't been feeling well lately. I haven't practiced for a long time, so I'm not very good at it. How about making an appointment with Senior Sister for another time?"

Lu Xieying burst into laughter. "You're quite an interesting person. You lost so miserably, yet you still dare to challenge me to a fight?"

Mingguang sneered, "Since you want to ask me out next time, I won't show you mercy next time."

After the two of them left, Mu Jin asked her, "You seem to have a very strange attitude towards this person."

Mu Jin didn't know what happened back then, or how her senior sister became enemies with her, so she naturally couldn't understand Jiaoran's reaction.

"Why is it strange?"

"She's your senior sister, but when you saw her, you didn't show any joy at all. Instead, you acted as if you were facing a formidable enemy. But when we actually fought, you burst out with murderous intent. I haven't seen such a deep murderous aura in you in a long time."

Jiaoran laughed out loud, then looked down to see his hands bandaging her wound and applying hemostatic medicine.

"There's no murderous intent here. You're seeing things wrong."

"You hate her?"

Jiao Ran avoided answering, as if he hadn't heard, and hissed, "It hurts. I hope it won't leave a scar."