Chapter 456 – Sword Saint’s Work
”Aren’t these …… all novels?” Cao Yuan’s brows furrowed, “How can they be teaching materials?”
”These are the teaching materials.” Zhou Ping spoke calmly, “Your training content this morning is to read books.”
Lin Qiye and the others looked at each other in disbelief.
”But how can reading novels improve our strength?” Lin Qiye couldn’t help but ask.
”Why not?” Zhou Ping asked suspiciously, “I learned all my sword techniques from novels.”
”……” Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed slightly, “Are you joking?”
”I never joke.” Zhou Ping said seriously, “My swordsmanship, I really learned it from the novels …… Yours isn’t it?”
Zhou Ping’s gaze was filled with doubt.
Looking into his eyes, Lin Qiye even began to feel that gaining power from a novel was a matter of course ……
Lin Qiye held his tongue for half a day before finally stifling out two words, “No.”
Zhou Ping pondered for a moment, “Maybe you guys should try.”
Lin Qiye and the others glanced at each other, helplessly one person took a novel, sat down on the pony zipper, and carefully flipped through it.
Since this was what the Sword Saint had arranged for them to train, then they just had to do as they were told, leaving aside whether the training itself was effective or not, if they refused to undergo the training, then it was impossible for the Vigilantes’ side to let them leave.
Resist? It’s pointless ah, the five of them together are not enough for Zhou Ping to cut with a sword ……
Except for Garland.
Lin Qiye picked The Skyward Sword, not only because he had read a few other books before, but another reason was that this book involved sword techniques …… If what Zhou Ping said was true, then the contents of this book might actually be able to give him a boost in strength.
When this thought appeared in Lin Qiye’s mind, he even began to wonder if he was crazy.
Amidst the quiet sound of flipping through the book, the morning slowly passed.
By the time Lin Qiye finally closed the book and pulled his thoughts back to reality from Fu Hongxue’s revenge story, the aroma of a meal had already faintly filled the air ……
Hmm ……
The smell of paste.
Lin Qiye quickly walked to the kitchen, only to see Zhou Ping standing there, looking at the burning body of the pot as well as the unknown object in the center of the pot that had been battered into charcoal, as if he was seriously contemplating something.
”Sword Saint senior …… what are you doing here?” The corners of Lin Qiye’s mouth twitched slightly.
If he didn’t know who Zhou Ping was, he would more than likely think that this was some enemy who had come here to burn the kitchen.
”I’m trying to cook, but I seem to have failed.” Zhou Ping sighed melancholically, “Sure enough, aside from swords and cleaning, I can’t do anything well ……”
Lin Qiye quickly stepped forward and extinguished the flames, crying and laughing as he spoke, “Sword Saint senior, just leave this kind of thing to us, you can go rest first.”
Zhou Ping nodded.
”Right ……,” Lin Qiye said as if he remembered something, pointing at the white plates next to him, “Sword Saint senior, do you know, where did those original plates with carved patterns go? These don’t seem to be our plates.”
Zhou Ping tilted his head in confusion, “What carved plates? Aren’t those the plates that got dirty?”
”…… “Lin Qiye thought of a certain possibility and spoke tentatively, “Well …… Sword Saint senior, did you put the carvings last night …… Oh no, took the dirty plate and washed it white?”
”Right.” Zhou Ping nodded, “Those dirty things are quite difficult to wash, if not for me using my sword qi to scrape off a little bit, it can not be washed clean.” 仟韆仦仦仦仦仦
Lin Qiye: ……
”Is there any problem?”
”No, it’s fine …… Sword Saint senior, you go out and rest, leave this place to me.” The corners of Lin Qiye’s mouth twitched slightly.
Zhou Ping let out a hmm, turned around and walked out of the kitchen, and even backhanded the door on his way out.
He stood outside the door, looking down at his toes.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds.
He silently crouched down and hugged his knees, his whole body shrinking into a ball.
”It’s so embarrassing …… I want to go home ……”
Half an hour later.
Six people gathered around a small, low table, stuffing their heads and eating.
Lin Qiye’s cooking skills were still good, after all, he grew up poor and could only cook for himself when his aunt wasn’t at home, the six of them made seven dishes and one soup, which looked quite sumptuous.
Zhou Ping took a bite of tomato and egg and tasted it, “It’s not as good as my third uncle’s tomato fried tomatoes.”
Lin Qiye: ……
”Did you guys gain anything from reading books today?” Zhou Ping asked.
Lin Qiye and the others shook their heads.
”You’re reading The End of the Sky and the Moon Blade, right?” Zhou Ping looked at Lin Qiye, “Didn’t learn Fu Hongxue’s blade technique?”
”…… No.” Lin Qiye finally asked the question that had been in his mind, “It’s all just a story described in words, how could you possibly learn the blade technique?”
”When you were reading the book, didn’t you let yourself become Fu Hongxue?”
”Become Fu Hongxue?”
Lin Qiye looked at Zhou Ping blankly, “You mean, substituting for the character?”
”Uh-huh.”
”Substituted, but it doesn’t seem to be very useful ……”
”It could be that you didn’t substitute deeply enough.” Zhou Ping slowly spoke, “Experience the emotions of the characters in the book with your heart, experience the anger, grief, sorrow, and joy in their hearts ……
Dokuroku’s Dokuroku Nine Swords, Yan XIII’s Thirteen Swords of Life Snatching, and Xie Xiaofeng’s Xiejia Divine Sword …… My swordsmanship, all of them were learned in this way.”
Cao Yuan was silent for a moment, but he still opened his mouth and asked, “Senior Sword Saint, the fact that you were able to do all of this should be due to your Forbidden Ruin, right? We don’t have this Forbidden Ruin, so of course we can’t obtain power from the book.”
It wasn’t just Cao Yuan, the others were thinking the same thing in their hearts.
Zhou Ping’s ability to gain power from books should be due to his Forbidden Ruin’s ability, if other people could also gain power by reading books like this, then wouldn’t there be Great Summer Sword Saints everywhere?
”Forbidden Market?……” Zhou Ping muttered.
”Senior Sword Saint, what is your Forbidden Ruin?” Baili Chubby asked curiously.
”I’m not sure.” Zhou Ping stretched out his hand and placed it at the location of his heart as he lowered his head and muttered to himself, “It’s not just me, Ye Fan isn’t sure either, he said that it might be a kind of forbidden ruin that has never appeared before, then it seems like they discussed it for a long time, and they gave it a name, but I don’t know what it’s called exactly, I don’t know, and I don’t want to know either.
Forbidden ruins or something, should not become a measure of a person’s standard, the book of those warriors likewise do not have a forbidden ruins, but they are able to rely on their own heart of chivalry, become powerful people, become recognized by the Jianghu warrior ……
I, too, just want to be like them and become a great warrior.”
”Great warrior ……,” Baili Chubby recited these two words, “But, Sword Saint Senior, you have already become a Sword Saint.”
Zhou Ping shook his head, “But I always feel that something is still missing, Sword Saint is not enough ……”
”Sword Saint is not enough?” Baili Fatty grinned, “Then how is it considered enough? Sword Immortal?”
”Sword Immortal?”
Zhou Ping’s eyes gradually lit up when he heard these two words, “The title of Sword Immortal …… seems to be quite good as well.”