Chapter Thirty-Five: Huang Seshu's Ambition
"Mozi, are you crazy...?"
"Qin Mo... don't fight to the death with someone like him, it's not worth it." Even the usually composed Qin Yuanze started to get impatient.
"No matter what kind of person they are, if we're going to settle things, it has to be fair. I chose this path, so I'll walk it to the end." Qin Mo knew that if she didn't dare to fight Huang Seshu fairly, her Dao heart would never be perfect.
"Okay...this time it's yours, I didn't force you." Wang Yuyan's beautiful face showed an indescribable expression, as if she was...regretful.
A servant from the Wang family brought paper and pen. Qin Mo blocked Qin Yumu and Qin Yuanze, and heavily signed her name. With this signature, the duel between the two would no longer violate the laws of the Great Xia Dynasty, and no one could stop them. If they went back on their word, they would be despised by lower-level martial arts cultivators. In the Great Xia society, where family honor is above all else, such a situation would never be allowed.
Huang Seshu stared at the black and white words and the red handprints on the paper, his hands, honed by years of practice, began to tremble slightly. Was the humiliation of three years ago finally coming to an end?
I come from a poor family. My elderly parents worked hard every day to support my studies. Just as I was about to come of age and take the exam, my parents passed away one after another. I am unable to carry anything, and although I have read a lot of books, I cannot even afford paper, pens, or the travel expenses to take the exam.
Huang Seshu saw those nobles and wealthy people, all dressed in fine clothes and eating sumptuous meals, with mountains of wealth in their homes, while he himself was about to starve to death. In a fit of anger, he joined the army and became a military scribe. After several brushes with death, he finally used his accumulated military merits to exchange for a copy of a martial arts manual and a vital energy potion.
He would never forget the night he felt the earth's primordial energy. The vital energy, rich in life force, seeped into his body, and he became a cultivator, a cultivator who was superior to ordinary people.
Huang Seshu became the second cultivator to be recruited by the Longxi Wang family. Although he was only a low-ranking retainer, he had still escaped the mortal class. He also knew that if he wanted to continue cultivating, he could not do without the resources and environment of a powerful family.
Huang Sese, born into a scholarly family, started from a different point than those who fought on the battlefield. His understanding of the "Breaking the Technique" far surpassed that of ordinary soldiers. Can you imagine an illiterate man scratching his head, trying to comprehend those obscure incantations? Huang Sese's cultivation speed was unbelievably fast. Soon, he received special training from the Wang family.
Three years ago, he was assigned to be a bodyguard for the second sister of the Duke of Wuwei. Because of one person, his sister suffered unprecedented humiliation. He decided to take a gamble, found an opportunity to provoke that person, and ultimately defeated him in a duel.
Then...then that friend came to my door and broke both my legs. If it weren't for Sister Wang stopping him, I might have been beaten to death.
But it was all worth it. After recovering from his injuries, he was accepted into the Wang family's sword chamber, and from then on, he was able to "touch" the threshold of the inner circle of the Wang family.
Each noble family in the Great Xia Dynasty possesses its own unique combat techniques, and these families often give their distinctive techniques impressive names, such as "Flowing Cloud Sword" or "Overlord Blade." However, the most established and powerful families do not employ such elaborate techniques, and some even refrain from naming their combat skills. Only extremely powerful moves are given names.
The Wang family's combat techniques are all taught and honed in the Sword Chamber. The master only points out the direction and mistakes in your cultivation; the rest is about sparring and exchanging skills with fellow disciples. In the Sword Chamber, many combat techniques are worthy of being passed down as family secrets, but here they are just ordinary, nameless moves. In the past two years, Huang Seshu has not only reached the peak of the Yellow Realm in cultivation, but his combat skills have also become completely different from before.
This year, the Wang family even secured Huang Seshu a position as a captain in the Wuwei Army. The Wuwei Army is one of the Imperial Guards, and many of its members are from the Wang family. As a military officer in charge of 1,500 men, Huang Seshu has officially entered the inner circle of the Wang family. Sometimes he would stare blankly at Wang Yuyan's back, his mind filled with countless thoughts.
Huang Seshu picked up the longsword, which possessed a sharp and alluring light, and infused it with vital energy. The dazzling brilliance forced everyone to squint. His confidence soared. He had defeated Qin Mo three years ago, and today... he would kill him.
Qin Mo looked at the light emanating from the longsword in Huang Seshu's hand and wondered, "Are you wasting your energy? This kind of magic array is most effective when suddenly activated during combat. You're keeping the array running at all times... are you showing off or just trying to fool me?"
When Qin Mo arrived in this world, he was already at the Profound Realm, and his control over vital energy was already second nature, forming a conditioned reflex in his body. He didn't know that at the Yellow Realm, activating the magic arrays on weapons would always be somewhat delayed, let alone controlling more than two magic arrays separately. Huang Seshu wasn't unwilling to conserve vital energy; he simply couldn't flexibly activate the two magic arrays on his longsword separately.
Today, Qin Mo and his two companions went out for a stroll without any weapons. The weapons carried by Qin Yumu and Qin Yuanze's guards were merely high-quality weapons with magic arrays. Qin Mo felt these were somewhat unworthy of his status, which was why he hadn't chosen a superior weapon for himself in Dayuan. The elves' pretentiousness was truly not an empty reputation.
Qin Mo turned around and walked to the shelf displaying scrap metal, picked up the chipped double-edged axe and asked Hoss, "Hoss, how much for this axe?"
"Your Highness has a keen eye. This double-edged axe was found by our Carlos family on a battlefield a thousand years ago. The magic array is perfect, the design is heavy, it is a..." Hoss, as expected of the Carlos family's business acumen, truly has exceptional skills in traveling thousands of miles to do business in Great Xia... his persuasive abilities are outstanding.
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