Du Yuqi wailed in his heart, but he could only get up from the ground obediently, wipe some blood from his nose on his face, and add some dust, trying to make himself look as disheveled as possible.
At this time, Mr. Feng Lin returned to his weak and sad look, shook his head and said:
"Young people should be more realistic and stop using unorthodox methods to make up for their lack of strength. Your own ability is the most important thing."
Du Yuqi kept nodding and saying yes, like a chicken pecking at rice.
How could Feng Lin not see that he was saying one thing and thinking another? He disliked people like Du Yuqi the most, thinking that he was only clever but not wise. But he had no choice but to deal with him as fate had played tricks on him. He could only change the subject and say:
"Do you know that what I said before was actually directed to you?"
Du Yuqi hesitated for a moment and said:
"Is the teacher talking about why only Sicily came to chase Xi?"
Feng Lin's skill in cultivating Qi has reached perfection, but for some reason, at his age, he felt irritated when he heard Du Yuqi address him as such - the boy in front of him was really slick, he even called him teacher!
Xu's country has always emphasized respecting teachers, which is similar to the Confucian concept of heaven, earth, emperor, parents and teachers. Once a teacher, always a father. It's not a joke. I really want to ask you, little bastard, who is your teacher? But then I thought of his behavior of stepping forward and risking his life to save Suzanxi, which I couldn't fake, so I could only sigh:
"That's right."
Du Yuqi pondered and said:
"Since the teacher said so, I will make a bold guess. Could this matter be related to the teacher?"
"Yes." Du Yuqi had not expected that Feng Lin would admit it so readily. He was stunned and said, "How do you say this?"
Feng Lin first looked back at the unconscious Xi, then sighed and said:
"This is a long story, but you have to listen to it, because if you hadn't intervened, my plan would have been perfect!"
Du Yuqi couldn't help wiping the cold sweat off his face and nodded quickly:
"Okay, okay."
Feng Lin squinted his eyes and looked at the sunrise for a while, as if he was recalling the past. After a while, he slowly said:
"Every male in our family carries a very heavy responsibility and honor. My father's life was ruined because of this. I have also worked tirelessly all my life to live up to the glory of my ancestors."
"I was known as the person in the family who was most likely to surpass him. In the first few decades, even I thought so. When I killed two powerful awakened masters by myself, I even passed the second awakening stage! I was really proud of myself and felt that it was only a matter of time before I surpassed my ancestor..."
"However, it is not like that." Having said this, Feng Lin sighed deeply, as if he wanted to let out all the sadness and loneliness in his heart in this breath, and then he slowly said:
"Going through the Second Awakening is just the beginning. The next step is to sense the laws of the world, and then try to change and utilize them! Entering the realm of unity between man and nature, my problem lies here. I can sense the existence of the laws, but the power of following the laws has become a deep-rooted habit for my body. Therefore, if I want to try to challenge and change the laws, it is equivalent to challenging my own habits. This is like an insurmountable chasm for me..."
Du Yuqi smiled bitterly and said:
"However, for the vast majority of people, they are standing at the door of awakening and sighing in despair. How lucky are you?"
Feng Lin shook his head and said:
"An ancient wise man said that the more you know, the more troubles you will have. If I can only stop here in this life, then I would rather never be able to step onto the path of awakening in my life. Without further ado, since I found myself stuck here, I have been trying to find a way out from the outside world. Of course, for the children of our Feng family, there is a best example to refer to."
After hearing this, Du Yuqi said:
"It should be Senior Feng Zhen. He is the one who has been blazing the trail ahead. As his descendants, you can certainly refer to the actions of your ancestors."
Feng Lin nodded slightly and said:
"That's right. After I went home and carefully studied the relevant records, notes, and correspondence of my ancestor, I discovered that he actually had a very important turning point in his life. That was when he met the powerful Sarer of the empire at that time. My ancestor was originally a qigong master, but in the duel, Sarer broke his mind qi shield with a punch. He was deeply moved, so he finally practiced physical skills and entered the field of free fighting... In the end, he actually dabbled in almost all the skills of a fighter. In the end, I suspect that he has reached the conditions for the second awakening in multiple professions!"
"What! Isn't this completely contrary to the professional code on the continent of Arad?" Du Yuqi couldn't help but exclaimed after hearing this.
The mainstream view on the continent of Arad is to specialize in one thing and remember not to cast a wide net and dabble in various skills. Doing so will most likely lead to nothing. You can only identify a direction and practice hard to achieve success in the end. Even the skills of your own profession must follow this principle, let alone cross-professional skills.
However, Du Yuqi hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly:
"Yes, when you reach your level, your goal is to challenge the laws of the world and use them for your own benefit. If Senior Feng Zhen had not established his determination to challenge authority and rules since the first level, how could he have mustered the courage to challenge the laws of the entire plane later?"
"Huh?" Feng Lin looked at Du Yuqi deeply: "I didn't expect you to have such insight?"
Du Yuqi smiled and said:
"Then since the teacher has found the reason, why haven't you made a breakthrough yet?"
Feng Lin shook his head slightly and said:
"Because I lack that feeling, studying the skills of other professions now is completely different from studying the skills of other professions when I was at the first level. It's like when you were a kid, you enjoyed playing with mud and forgot to eat and sleep. Now you have mud to play with, can you find the same fun you had when you were a kid?"
(Du Yuqi: Hey, hey, hey! When I was a kid, I didn’t play with peeing or mud. I played C-Panda…)
"My ancestor climbed up step by step from the bottom with such a challenging mindset. It was his perseverance and persistence that allowed him to walk out his own unique path. Unfortunately, this path is not suitable for me, unless I can rejuvenate and start over again."
When asked this by Feng Lin, Du Yuqi could only say that what he said made sense.
Feng Lin suddenly turned his head and looked at the unconscious Xi. His eyes were complicated, like a father looking at his daughter, or a miser looking at his treasure. He said slowly:
"And Xi... is the breakthrough I found after seventeen years of hard thinking. She is also my daughter."
After hearing what Feng Lin said, Du Yuqi was stunned. How did the topic change to such a surprising turn? And what does Suzanxi have to do with his path to breakthrough? And Feng Lin, this old guy, seems to have the potential to be a storyteller. The previous sentence has already stunned Du Yuqi, and the news that came out later surprised him even more! After a long while, he couldn't help but say:
"Teacher, how old are you this year?"
Feng Lin said calmly:
"One hundred and eighteen."
Du Yuqi knew that on the continent of Arad, due to the existence of professionals, the potential of the human body was often developed thoroughly. Although the average life expectancy was similar to that on Earth, the proportion of elderly people was quite astonishing. Especially for the awakened strong ones, as long as they did not die abnormally, they could often live much longer than ordinary people, so it was not surprising that the old guy was so old.
"...Xi is not yet twenty, right?"
Wind Forest Road:
"I only figured out the way to break through when I was 91 years old, and then I spent several more years preparing for it, during which I failed many times... Maybe God has a blessing, and I finally succeeded!"
Next, Du Yuqi listened to Feng Lin telling his story. Even though he was a smart man, he couldn't help but feel shocked by the means Feng Lin used to seek a breakthrough!
Back then, after Feng Lin discovered his problem, he immediately found that it would be difficult for him to solve it. The reason was that life could not start over again. He could no longer find the feeling of being fearless and daring to question and challenge everything as in his youth.
And it is very difficult to describe this kind of feeling accurately with words, just like one who drinks the water, he knows whether it is hot or cold; it can only be understood, not expressed in words.
At this time, Feng Lin had no choice but to consider more about preparing to start training a successor and placing his hopes on his disciples.
One day, when he saw two children helping each other, and finally caught a cicada and smiled at each other with brilliant smiles, Feng Lin suddenly thought, these two children should be able to feel the joy in each other's hearts, right?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he immediately realized that there seemed to be a glimmer of hope for the difficult problem before him!
Then he began to conduct research in many aspects. Coincidentally, at this time in the Fengquanliu Dojo, there was a pair of twin brothers who came to study. Their strength was not strong, but when they joined forces, they could defeat the rest of the brothers, and won relatively easily.
After Feng Lin asked, he found out that there was some kind of mysterious induction ability between the twin brothers. Others also confirmed this. When their father died, the elder brother was clearly in the dojo, and only the younger brother went home. One day, the elder brother suddenly burst into tears for no apparent reason while practicing boxing. When others asked him why, he could only say that he didn’t know why, but he just found himself inexplicably feeling blocked in his heart… and later when the younger brother came back, he found out that when the elder brother was crying, it was also when their father died and the younger brother was crying loudly in front of the bed!!!
After Feng Lin heard about this, he was shocked and immediately began to investigate the cause in depth. He found the alchemy master Luo Meng. After looking through various materials left by his ancestors, this guy finally confirmed that this telepathic phenomenon was closely related to blood ties.