Chapter 90: Discussion
"well--"
I sat at the door and watched Liu Hong practice sword.
It has been three months since I received that bag of exercises, and I have made encouraging progress.
Immortal Lord Ling Ye doesn't use a sword, but for some reason, he gave me a sword - based on what I've seen and heard in this world, there's no good ending for being a sword cultivator.
Most sword cultivators practice the ruthless way, and are usually addicted to swords. Then, their destined lover will appear out of nowhere, and the two will torture themselves and their hearts between the great way and love for hundreds or thousands of years. Either they die and are reincarnated, or they go through untold hardships to achieve the right result, and they don't want the great way but the beauty.
There are also some who go astray in their cultivation and become demon cultivators, deciding to prove their truth through killing. Then a true love appears and tries to influence them, causing them to suffer physically and mentally for hundreds of years.
The sword cultivator's love index is too high - causing the already low chance of ascension to drop even more.
It's so depressing.
You can never be a sword cultivator.
So Liu Hong and I switched, I gave him the long sword and he gave me the nine-section whip, and Ling Ye didn't say no.
I got security, my brother got handsomeness, and a world that everyone is satisfied with was created.
Let my younger brother suffer the pain of love, he is destined to be the protagonist, he is not afraid.
I slapped my face and decided to get up and practice. Ling Ye placed a restriction on Liu Hong and me - we can't leave the sect before we reach the Nascent Soul stage. However, breaking through the Nascent Soul stage will not be as easy as before. It requires comprehension.
It is also from the Nascent Soul stage that character begins to matter more than talent.
Cultivating immortality also starts with cultivating the mind, just like learning mathematics, if you don’t know how to do it, you just can’t do it. No matter how hard you try, you still can’t solve the problem.
Liu Hong was very interested, and because I climbed the fairy platform faster than him, he was working harder than before.
As expected of the protagonist, he works hard to become stronger without anyone pushing him.
And my problem is also very obvious - I have no interest in cultivating immortals or the great Dao.
Now all the driving force is to complete the tasks in this world.
[This means that the host's motivation is not enough to cultivate immortality.]
You're a bit competitive!
No, not at all. Furthermore, this world's mission is to help the world consciousness educate children... How can such a mission be exciting?!
[…Please don’t set such a flag. Wouldn’t it be better to do a more leisurely mission?!]
[Xiaoyu, why don't you go find someone to fight? ]
...Former people’s policeman, what are you talking about?
"There are many people in this world who achieve breakthroughs through sparring and fighting. I see you're just not used to such a leisurely life. Looking at the scroll, you haven't really found the feeling of scrolling yet."
No, I don't want to curl at all?!
"Brother, what's wrong?" Liu Hong had already finished practicing a set of sword techniques and heard my sigh.
I looked at him and reached out to pick up a branch nearby.
"Let's have a sparring match."
I looked at him. Liu Hong had only been practicing sword for a month and was already quite good at it.
It’s much faster than my sword practice in my previous world.
"Okay, let's go to the back mountain."
Liu Hong's eyes lit up, and without saying a word he grabbed my hand and prepared to walk towards the back mountain.
"Big Brother——"
Before we moved, we heard a familiar voice coming from not far away.
It’s Ye Yingying, Amusa... and Kong Yan.
Ye Yingying and Amusa looked excited, and Kong Yan waved and smiled from behind.
Great, the protagonists have appeared.
"What are you doing here?"
Liu Hong stood in front of me and looked at them with displeasure.
"Hey, recently I heard that Senior Brother's realm has stagnated, so we came to help you—" Ye Yingying pointed at Kong Yan behind her, "Junior Brother Kong has already reached the Nascent Soul stage, wouldn't it be faster to ask him?"
"And my master has been keeping a close eye on my cultivation lately, so I finally have an excuse to come out and get some fresh air..." Her voice gradually became smaller, and she looked towards the closed cabin next to her.
She mouthed to me, "Master Uncle isn't here, right?"
I looked at her with pity, "Yes."
But the master wouldn't care about these things. He was a taciturn cultivator who mainly followed a laissez-faire approach. Even if he heard what Ye Yingying said, he wouldn't care.
But I wasn't going to tell her.
Ye Yingying shut up, "You guys are going to spar, how about including us?"
"The sect competition will be held in three months. If you can't beat the other disciples, you will be a laughing stock!"
Thank you so much for her reminder.
“…I’m just getting started!”
"Other disciples don't care when you joined." Ye Yingying's eyes rolled. "These disciples from big sects and aristocratic families don't care about your past background, they only care about your current position."
She pushed us towards the back mountain.
"Who made you, Senior Brother Liuluan, take the position of Lingye Immortal Lord's first disciple?"
I'm so sorry, brothers, for taking up this seat as soon as I arrived.
"I don't think Junior Master needs to worry so much," Kong Yan followed behind, fanning himself. "Disciples who have reached the Out-of-Body stage or above cannot participate in the sect competition. As long as Junior Master reaches the Nascent Soul stage, there will be no problem."
He changed into the uniform of a disciple of the sect, and looked well-groomed. I thought about how strict Zhang Tian Zhenren was, and he probably couldn't stand Kong Yan's previous look.
What he said was true, but the word "only" really deserves a beating.
How many people have lived their entire lives without ever reaching the Nascent Soul stage? Now asking me to reach the Nascent Soul stage in three months is a bit too much to ask - even though Liu Hong and I are both half a step away from the Nascent Soul stage.
But Kong Yan is a bit weird. Maybe he really saw something from the Heavenly Dao.
——After all, as my client, it’s not too much for the world consciousness to cheat for me, right?
[…Host, you weren’t like this before! ]
My thinking is called second-party thinking. If I have any problems, of course I will ask the first party to solve them! Otherwise, I will be stuck here and no one will do anything for the first party!
Then suddenly a loud thunderclap struck my feet.
Everyone looked up at the sky.
"……ah?"
The others looked confused, but I kept smiling and looked up into the sky.
Party A, you are here——
【Are you still talking nonsense? 】
No, no, isn't it said that old customers are easy to talk to?!
[Do you want to take a look at what you are saying——]
…
When we got to the training ground on the back mountain, it became a round-robin battle where I took on them all by myself.
Liu Hong was the first to come. He looked at the branch in my hand and pouting, "Brother, are you sure you want to use this?"
I swung the branch and used it to make a sword flower. "You'll know if you try. The last time we sparred was a year ago, right? Let me see if you've improved."
He raised his eyebrows, "Then I won't be polite."
He swung his sword forward and rushed forward, carrying the snow on the ground.
Taking advantage of the sword's momentum, my branch touched a certain point on the sword. With a force, the entire sword was tilted out, and then under inertia, he rushed to my left, and my branch went straight into his throat.
He dodged sideways and swung his sword towards me. My branch hit his calf, and under the influence of spiritual power, it directly displaced his left leg. When his center of gravity was unstable and he was about to fall, the branch went up and stabbed straight towards his chin.
He had nowhere to hide, and my branch hit him in the face.
In just one or two breaths, he lost.
...As far as the use of swordsmanship is concerned, he is still a novice. In the previous world, I was a mortal, but I also practiced swordsmanship for more than ten years. The Zhou family's swordsmanship is not an ordinary swordsmanship. Now in this world, I still know it by heart.
"Is Senior Brother so good with the sword?!" Ye Yingying clapped her hands.
"As expected of the eldest senior brother, he defeated Senior Brother Liu Hong simply by using his sword without any sword skills." Amusa also applauded, "And he used a tree branch."
"I'm next!"
Ye Yingying raised her hand and rushed forward with her umbrella in hand. "Big Brother, you're not going to use a branch to fight me, are you?"
I looked at her. Now that she had nothing to hide her cultivation level, she was in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm and was not a sword cultivator.
I pulled out the flute from my waist and put the branch aside.
That's why they say that the more worlds you visit, the more things you learn. In this world, I learned the orthodox art of taming beasts.
"Come on." I put the flute to my lips and blew a few notes. In an instant, several bird-shaped spiritual balls appeared and surrounded me.
Ye Yingying flew into the sky with an umbrella in hand. A golden spiritual power flew towards me, followed closely by the pendant on the umbrella that could perform long-range attacks.
While dodging the pendant, I blew out rapid flute music to command the spirit bird to attack.
This looks like a competition between cultivators.
The flute sounds were sometimes high and sometimes low. I stepped on more and more spiritual birds and jumped into the air, rushing towards Ye Yingying. The spiritual birds wrapped the flying pendant. Seeing that the situation was not good, Ye Yingying was about to go around behind me with an umbrella. I pinched my left hand and a stream of water flew out from my fingertips and turned into a rope that wrapped around Ye Yingying's feet. Then I pulled it, and the golden spiritual power on her body tried to break free from the confinement.
But water is soft by nature. The water ropes split into several strands and wrapped around her hands and feet, then pulled in front of me. I tapped her head with the white jade flute.
"You lose too."
Then he picked up the little girl and dropped her to the ground next to Liu Hong.
Amusa rushed over consciously, "Big Brother, I'm here!"
Then, without waiting for my nod, he rushed towards me with a scimitar in his hand. I quickly blocked his scimitar with my water blade, but who knew that there was a chain behind his scimitar, connected to a small dagger. The dagger swung from bottom to top in front of me and hit me in the face.
No...you really don't give me any time to rest!
I quickly shook his hand.
Fortunately, I have water spirit roots in this world, and water is really useful. Looking at the dagger that was barely blocked by water, I silently calmed down.
Fortunately, I have rich combat experience - otherwise I would not be able to react at all.
The biggest problem for Ye Yingying and Liu Hong is that they have little practical experience, but Amusa is obviously different. He is worthy of being the one who survived the hands of the evil cultivators.
We exchanged blows back and forth, and I picked up the very useful branch along the way. I covered it with a film of water to make it harder, otherwise it would not be able to stop Amusa's scimitar at all.
I don’t know what kind of magical weapon this is.
We fought back and forth, and then I chose the right moment and tapped his wrist. When his wrist shook, I grabbed it and twisted it. The water rope took the opportunity to wrap around his knife and rolled the entire knife to my side.
Then the branch touched his neck.
"I lost." He was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized, "Big Brother is really amazing."
"Just trying to please others." I shook my head.
After all, I didn't fight in so many worlds in vain, so it's not wrong to say that I was trying to please others.
Thinking back to the last world where I followed Zhou Tianqi, it was so hard. I was fighting almost every day for a long time.
Then I looked at Kong Yan next to me and said, "Junior Brother Kong, are you coming?"
He shook his head readily, "I'm not good at close combat, and since you have this kind of skills, you don't have to worry about the sect competition."
"I might as well comfort my brother quickly," he pouted to the side, "Master Liu Hong has a lot to ask."
I looked at Liu Hong who was holding a sword next to me. He rolled his eyes when he heard Kong Yan's words, then looked at me.
"Brother, when did you learn sword?"
There was a lot of resentment in his tone. It was true that I had never used a sword in front of him before. Liu Yuan knew something about it, but Liu Hong knew nothing about it.
I looked up at the sky and down at the earth, but not at him. "I learned that in the past."
"Aluan is naturally gifted with swordsmanship."
A voice came from not far away from us.
We all looked over and found Ling Ye standing there.
I don't know how long he had been looking, but no one noticed him before he spoke.
He walked towards us, then walked up to me and patted my head and Liu Hong's head. "But Ah Hong's talent is no worse than my brother's."
“It’s just that there are too few actual combats.”
He looked at me again, "Aluan's sword skills were honed through actual combat, so they're not suitable for sparring...right?"
I was silent again.
That's true. After all, I originally practiced sword skills in order to kill anomalies...so all I practiced were killing moves.
Later, when I came to this world, I didn’t practice swordsmanship deliberately. I only used it when I went down the mountain.
Liu Hong looked at me with a wronged look on his face again.
I thought about it and said, "Ahem...I went down the mountain with my mother before and killed a lot of monsters. You were at home looking after the house."
This is the truth, and it is true that I have used the sword in actual combat, but the proportion of using the sword is relatively small - but except for Liu Yuan, they don’t know it.
[How wonderful, host! You've grown to the point where you can now rack your brains to explain why you're so strong...]
Don't say such things in such a comforting tone.
I was forced to roll it up!!!
"So why not practice swordsmanship?"
Ling Ye asked me.
"...Maybe because I'm a little genius? I can learn anything?"
Everyone: ...
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?!
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