"Dingyan, you may go down as well," Gao Wenyuan said.
"teacher……"
Shi Dingyan looked somewhat conflicted.
"You saw that he had good mental strength, so you got the idea?"
"Yes." Shi Dingyan nodded.
“He can’t untangle your knot in your heart,” Gao Wenyuan said softly. “Let’s go.”
Upon hearing this, Shi Dingyan looked disappointed, but he didn't say anything more. He bowed respectfully to Gao Wenyuan and then turned and left the platform.
Shen Qian listened with confusion, but he could roughly guess that Shi Dingyan wanted to take him as a disciple for some special reason.
However, Gao Wenyuan didn't offer any explanation, so Shen Qian obediently didn't ask.
At this moment, Gao Wenyuan stood up from the sofa and turned to look at Shen Qian.
I only saw Gao Wenyuan's profile before, but now that I'm looking at him directly, I realize that he is indeed a very handsome guy, especially his eyes.
It seems to contain the stars and the sea, the vicissitudes of a hundred generations, as deep as the sky.
"Several hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye, countless geniuses have emerged, and I have even seen one or two with bodies possessing nine orifices."
Gao Wenyuan looked at Shen Qian and suddenly sighed, "I never thought that I could see a true perfect body, a body with ten orifices."
This single sentence resounded like thunder in Shen Qian's mind.
This shock was ten times stronger than when Shen Qian had just heard Gao Wenyuan want to take him as a disciple.
After a while, Shen Qian recovered from his shock and looked at Gao Wenyuan, who had a half-smile on his face. He couldn't help but ask, "How did you know?"
"When you stand tall, nothing can hide from you."
Gao Wenyuan walked to the edge of the platform and gazed at the buildings below. "I watched you running around during those few days when you had your breakthrough."
"I'm just curious, how did you learn about the existence of the 'Gate of Life and Death'?"
These words both alarmed Shen Qian and reassured him.
The reason for his alarm was that Gao Wenyuan was able to monitor the entire city, which meant that the other party must also know about his assassination of the scavenger.
He felt at ease because, since Gao Wenyuan had asked him that question, it seemed that he was unaware of the system's existence.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Qian respectfully replied, "Actually, I didn't know there was a tenth aperture. After opening nine apertures, I obtained a map from a scavenger I killed. Since I've lived in Jingcheng since I was a child, I had the idea of going out to take a look..."
"Then I encountered an iron-eating beast outside the city. In the face of life and death, I inexplicably opened my tenth acupoint. Only then did I realize that the navel is also an acupoint."
Shen Qian's words were half true and half false, but they were the best explanation he could think of.
Gao Wenyuan remained noncommittal, then said, "Do you know why I said none of them could teach you?"
He shook his head before sinking in.
"Because they couldn't understand what the concept of the perfect body of martial arts was. I didn't know it back then either. It was only much later, when I reversed the mysteries of the human body, that I discovered that the nine orifices still had shortcomings."
Gao Wenyuan casually gestured, "Give me the map."
Playing magic again...
Shen Qian stared wide-eyed at a scroll that had appeared out of nowhere on the table.
The scroll is made of some kind of animal hide, and its dirty surface gives it a sense of vicissitude. Because it is rolled up, it is impossible to see what is painted on it.
“Thirty-three years ago, I retrieved this map from the bottom of Kunlun Mountain. After sending it to the Huaxia Martial Arts Academy for verification, it was found that it was probably from 18,000 years ago,” Gao Wenyuan said.
"Eighteen thousand years?"
Shen Qian was taken aback. Wasn't China's history only five thousand years?
"what is it?"
"A scroll depicting cultivation."
"Cultivation?" Shen Qian was even more confused.
What is the first sentence in the history of modern martial arts?
"On December 22, 2022, a mysterious comet passed by Earth, and spiritual energy revived..."
"What do you mean by recovery?" Gao Wenyuan asked again.
Shen Qian was stunned, then realized, "You mean?"
Gao Wenyuan nodded slightly, "Our era is not the first era to possess spiritual energy."
Shen Qian, who had never thought about this question carefully before, suddenly had an epiphany.
"So, this cultivation scroll is something left behind by people or creatures from the ancient spiritual energy era?"
"That's one way to understand it."
Gao Wenyuan stared at the scroll on the table. "This cultivation manual is very basic, roughly corresponding to the stage before we become martial artists, but... no one can cultivate it."
"Why?" Shen Qian guessed what was going on, but still asked.
"Because the human body is naturally prone to blockages."
"The human body is naturally prone to blockages..."
He muttered to himself before finally understanding: wasn't this sentence the opening line of the first chapter of the "Ice Soul Awakening Method"?
"So, Master... do you mean that only those with a body possessing all ten apertures, that is, a perfected body, can cultivate this scroll?"
Shen Qian subconsciously wanted to call him "Big Boss," but after thinking about it again, he immediately changed his mind.
"That's something you'll need to verify," Gao Wenyuan said gently, without objecting to Shen Qian's form of address.
Shen Qian felt completely at ease, immediately took a few steps back, and respectfully bowed three times to Gao Wenyuan, thus completing the apprenticeship ceremony.
As depicted in the TV series, the next step is serving tea...
Shen Qian glanced at the iced cola on the table, then immediately dismissed the idea.
Gao Wenyuan didn't nitpick about Shen Qian's etiquette. After Shen Qian bowed three times, he nodded and said, "From today onwards, you will be my ninth student. However, your cultivation level is too low, so I don't have anything to teach you for the time being."
"After Changqing comes out of seclusion, I will have him teach you for a period of time. You can ask him if you have any questions."
"Huh?" Shen Qian felt embarrassed when he thought that it was Liu Changqing who wanted to take him as a disciple in the first place.
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