The world is vast, but humanity is small.
Yun Shou has always believed this.
It's worth mentioning that this was Yun Shou's second time entering the simulation.
The martial world is vast because of the countless sword fights, the endless rivers and lakes, and the numerous sects that roam the mountains... One cannot experience the entire martial world in a lifetime.
That's why the world is so vast.
The world is very small. This means that when a person does not venture out into the world and experience its countless splendors, the place where he lives is only a small, confined space.
Perhaps you spend 99% of your life living in one city, only occasionally visiting neighboring villages or towns, or visiting relatives in other places.
Or sometimes we move, spending 49% of our time in one place and 49% of our time in another, basically only moving within a radius of ten miles.
That's why the human world is so small.
Although Yun Shou's foundation has been improved to a considerable level and his extraordinary martial arts talent has gradually emerged, he now has the demeanor of a second-rate expert and is expected to become a first-rate expert or even a martial arts master in the future!
But he still felt that he was living in the human world, not in the martial arts world.
His job is a security guard, a very high-ranking one, guarding homes and patrolling the streets.
Moreover, he was the head of the security team.
Twelve years ago, he chose to seek refuge with the Chu family, a wealthy family in the city.
Thanks to his good aptitude for martial arts, the Chu family treated him very well, providing him with food, clothing, shelter, some cultivation resources, and some training facilities, which was a great help to his martial arts journey.
Undeniably, the Chu family had been kind to him. Although this kindness wasn't enough for him to accept execution or even open his heart, it was still something he should remember.
Yun Shou felt that, based on the current trend, he would probably be able to step into the first-class realm in another ten years or so, and be a little stronger than ordinary first-class martial artists. With his ever-improving foundation, when he reached the age of sixty or seventy and was supposed to retire, he would probably become a generation of martial arts masters!
Qingcheng is a famous major city in the Qing Kingdom!
Even in a city like this, there are only three martial arts schools and a few martial arts instructors!
"Perhaps I can become a grandmaster a hundred years from now?" Yun Shou often thought to himself.
"At that time, relying on this meager friendship, I can still protect some of the old friends of the Chu family, and then travel far away to try to enter the martial arts world as a centenarian grandmaster."
He thought this was perfect.
As for finding a wife or something, he hadn't thought about it.
Although Ji Xiaoyu, Uncle Ji's daughter, had been pestering him for years, and the girl was pretty and cute, he never thought of marrying her.
One reason is that he didn't want to hold people back, and he didn't want to give up a whole forest for the sake of one tree.
Before getting married, he could go to the brothel without any guilt, but after getting married... he felt that was no good!
Moreover, this is a martial arts world, where some grandmasters are said to live to be over 100 years old, a full cycle of sixty years.
Yun Shou felt that he had a chance to become a Grandmaster in the end, but he also knew that being able to become a Grandmaster by using the cheat of adding points to the foundation did not mean that he could bring others to become Grandmasters as well!
He didn't want to experience life and death separations. Although life and death separations are unavoidable for mortals, the effects of separation from different people are different.
If that very radiant Xiao Hong from Baihualou were to die, he would at most sigh a few times.
If Xiao Hong, the bodyguard who had always followed him, were to die, he would probably grieve for several days, drowning his sorrows in alcohol, and would think of him from time to time in the future, and would also take care of his elderly parents.
If Ji Xiaoyu, who used to follow him around calling him "Brother Yunshou" when he was little, were to die, he would probably grieve for a long time and be unable to forget that girl.
But if it were his wife, Ji Xiaoyu, who had been with him for decades and whom he knew, loved, and was close to, died... he didn't want to experience that kind of pain.
I don't want to at all.
"...Xiaoyu is a young lady now."
When Ji Xiaoyu was mentioned, Yun Shou couldn't help but think of this.
Actually, she's considered an old maid, twenty years old and still unmarried. In this day and age, that's quite old; she could be called an older single woman.
Perhaps still clinging to a sliver of hope for him, Ji Xiaoyu remained unmarried, and her uncle and his wife did not pressure her much.
"I should have made things clearer to her sooner, been more decisive and firmer, and told her to find a good family sooner rather than later, so she wouldn't waste any more time on me..."
Yun Shou simply regarded her as a younger sister.
Having finished talking about Ji Xiaoyu, let's return to the present.
Yun Shou felt that he was not in the martial arts world, but living in the human world.
He lived in Qingcheng, and he only patrolled and wandered around the vicinity of the Chu family, so his contact area was actually very small.
His life was actually very monotonous, repetitive, and simple.
Every day consisted of patrolling, practicing martial arts, occasionally cracking down on petty thieves, sometimes beating up bullies and thugs, and then going to a restaurant or upstairs.
Someone like him should be far removed from the world of intrigue and scheming, where human nature is complex, unpredictable, and ever-changing.
The martial arts world filled with sword fights and shadows, like those in Jin Yong and Gu Long's novels from his previous life, should be far removed from him.
Yun Shou truly settled into a peaceful life.
The most intense battle was probably the fight with that thief half a month ago. Compared to him, the opponent was a true prodigy, a second-rate expert in his early twenties, whose martial arts talent was probably even higher than his current level.
However, he eventually forced them to leave with his men, and Yun Shou thought that the matter was over.
Although Chu Xian'er, the daughter of the Chu family, was very dissatisfied with him, what did a little girl know?
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