Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Talent
Chen Shouyi couldn’t help but put himself in the place of the assessors. He wasn’t sure if he could pass, but he realized he could actually perform even better. His body was more agile than those being assessed, and his basic steps were becoming increasingly at his command.
The robot’s reactions always had slight pauses, making it not completely flawless.
As long as one kept their body in constant high-speed motion and didn’t linger too long at any mont, approaching the robot was entirely feasible.
"Next, No. 102, Chen Xingyue, for the assessnt."
Chen Xingyue imdiately stood up.
"Don’t be nervous, you got this," Chen Shouyi reassured her.
"Go for it!" Lu Shuyuan and Zhang Qianru also encouraged.
"Mm!" Chen Xingyue nodded heavily and walked to the ring.
Without hesitation, she took a deep breath and stepped into the sensing area.
"Assessnt begins."
Chen Xingyue picked up a wooden sword and moved slowly along the edge of the opponent’s attack zone. As she kept moving, the two chanical arms also moved slowly along with her.
Chen Shouyi watched his sister intently; it was his first ti seeing her fight, and he couldn’t help but feel a little nervous for her.
Then Chen Xingyue made a move; her steps were light as she advanced a step into the robot’s attack range.
The next mont, the chanical arm instantly moved, and the long spear thrust rapidly toward her, piercing the air with a hissing sound.
Fortunately, she seed to be prepared. She slightly tilted her body, easily dodging the spear, then suddenly accelerated, following the direction of the spear, her body crouched low, and started sprinting rapidly.
Her petite figure, leaning close to the ground as she ran, was like a swift, agile cat in a sprint.
The spear was retracting, and Chen Xingyue was advancing!
At this mont, another wooden sword of the robot quickly lunged forward.
Chen Xingyue, in high-speed motion, seed to have a sixth sense, rolling her body to the left and narrowly dodged the wooden sword.
Chen Shouyi broke out in a cold sweat watching, but soon realized her movents were all completely planned and even simulated countless tis in her mind. This direction was heading toward the chanical arm holding the spear, and as the spear retracted preparing for the next attack, it was precisely this robot’s blind spot.
With just a clean and efficient roll, her body transitioned from movent to stillness, standing up again, while simultaneously thrusting the wooden sword out like lightning.
"Pa!" A sound rang out.
The wooden sword shattered, and the robot instantly stopped moving.
"Assessnt passed!"
"Yay!" Hearing the result, the two girls imdiately jumped up with excitent.
Chen Xingyue exhaled a breath, dropped the wooden sword, and turned to walk off the ring.
As she passed Chen Shouyi, she still wore a calm face, trying hard to act as if nothing had happened.
However, she was, after all, just a fifteen-year-old girl, and faced with her classmates, she couldn’t hold her joy any longer. Her smile grew wider, and then she and her classmates hugged, bouncing and jumping, releasing the excitent in her heart.
......
After sharing the good news with her parents, a group of them quickly found a relatively upscale restaurant to celebrate.
"Brother Shouyi, what’s your WeChat number? Let
add you," Zhang Qianru, sitting next to him, asked during the wait for the food.
"Add
too, then we can chat together," Lu Shuyuan said, her face slightly reddening.
"I don’t use WeChat," Chen Shouyi said.
He found his sister’s two friends too enthusiastic, which made him, soone not used to interacting with girls, a bit uncomfortable.
The two seed incredulous; in this day and age, there are still people who don’t use WeChat.
"My brother uses an old phone that doesn’t support the new version of WeChat," Chen Xingyue explained on the side, "My mom is very strict."
"Then why is your phone new?" Zhang Qianru asked, a bit puzzled.
Chen Xingyue’s face paused slightly, thinking: This is my reward for being specially recruited by the first school, my brother didn’t perform well before, so of course, he didn’t get one, but this fact can’t be ntioned outright, she needed to co up with another excuse.
Before she could figure out what to say, Chen Shouyi smiled and said,
"I don’t have much need for it, I’m usually focused on studying. For , being able to make a call is enough."
Chen Xingyue gave him a complex glance, perhaps she had grown too used to her brother’s ordinariness and hadn’t noticed his changes over this period. He seed to beco more confident, no longer blushing easily when faced with other girls, making things awkward for her!
After lunch, everyone went back ho.
After the cab arrived at their doorstep, Chen Shouyi was about to get out when Chen Xingyue called out to him.
"Brother, wait, I have sothing to ask you."
"What is it?" Chen Shouyi turned back, sowhat surprised to find Chen Xingyue seed hesitant to speak.
This was unlike her usual self.
"Brother, have you... have you already beco a Martial Artist Apprentice?"
At his sister’s question, Chen Shouyi felt it was sowhat inexplicable and said, "You’re talking in your sleep, how could I possibly be a Martial Artist Apprentice?"
"Then have you completed the total refinent of your muscles in your ditative cultivation?"
Chen Shouyi was taken aback for a mont, then imdiately asked in confusion, "How did you know?"
He indeed had completed the refinent of all his muscles, but it was only a makeshift version, far short of achieving true refinent. However, even so, it benefited him greatly, making practicing swordsmanship easier, and mastering basic steps simpler. At tis, he didn’t even need to think; the movents ca naturally.
At the sa ti, it also allowed him to increase his awareness by 0.5 points, reaching 10.8.
Then, Chen Shouyi listened to Chen Xingyue’s explanation.
Realizing the actual reason, he realized that it wasn’t the effect of his ditative cultivation, or rather, his improvised version didn’t have such a significant effect.
The real reason was the aftereffect of frequently entering the mind of his redial teacher; over ti, his muscles subconsciously mimicked the gestures and movents.
But naturally, this wasn’t sothing he could explain to his sister, so Chen Shouyi hesitated for a mont, looking around, and whispered, "It’s a bit different from what you’re thinking. This isn’t the place to talk, let’s discuss it at ho."
After returning ho, they found their parents were busy and, after asking a few excited questions, gave them so privacy.
Quickly, the two were in the living room.
"There’s a secret I’ve been wanting to tell you for a while, just could never find the chance," Chen Shouyi began, organizing his thoughts silently.
He certainly wouldn’t reveal anything about the Book of Knowledge to Chen Xingyue; after all, such a thing was extraordinary, and the fewer people knew, the better.
"What secret?" Chen Xingyue’s curiosity was piqued by her brother’s mysterious deanor, and she quickly leaned closer.
"I discovered a trick to the ditative cultivation of refining oneself. It’s because of this trick that I can easily refine all my muscles."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xingyue’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Chen Shouyi was taken aback; he had never seen his sister with such an expression before.
But he quickly gathered his thoughts and described the optimized version of the ditative cultivation thod.
If it were the optimized 36 Forms of Body Refinent, he would never dare to bring it out, given the drastic changes that had been made. It wasn’t sothing that could be dismissed as a hidden ancient manual found in so corner.
The 36 Forms of Body Refinent were backed by the Martial Arts Bureau, and were the result of the combined wisdom of hundreds of related labs, even thousands globally, with tens of thousands of related researchers.
No matter how wise an individual, even if they spent their entire life, they couldn’t create a more optimized version, let alone soone like him.
However, ditative cultivation was entirely different; in terms of specific actions, the optimized version was virtually unchanged. It still began with ditation, followed by muscle refinent. What changed was the subconscious thought during ditation and refinent, concepts that were more taphysical.
"Is it that simple!" Chen Xingyue said, her mouth agape after hearing it.
"Simple? No, it’s not simple!" Chen Shouyi quickly denied, having looked up plenty of relevant information about ditative self-cultivation and had read up on so brain subconsciousness concepts online. Even a fool would understand how significantly the Book of Knowledge had changed ditative cultivation for him.
Its optimization was by no ans as simple as it appeared.
"First, your ditation must be very deep, and you must control your subconscious, knowing what you’re going to refine next."
"It’s like learning swordsmanship..." Chen Shouyi suddenly didn’t know how to describe it.
"Changing a person’s natural habits!" Chen Xingyue thought for a mont and said.
"Yes, exactly that. Normally, sensing the body, one feels it as a whole subconsciously. This thod, however, forcibly overturns the natural instincts of sensing, making it perceive outlines instead," Chen Shouyi realized.
Chen Xingyue was astonished, realizing this was much harder than changing one’s physical habits. After all, the forr is intuitive and, while difficult, can be mastered with effort. But the latter is exceedingly abstract, utterly elusive.
Soon, a huge doubt floated to the surface of her mind, and she asked directly, "Then, brother, how did you learn it?"
Listening to her question made Chen Shouyi’s face flush slightly, but he imdiately composed himself and said, "It might be my talent. I’m naturally able to control the subconscious."
Watching his skeptical sister leave, Chen Shouyi breathed a sigh of relief.
Facing the scrutiny of a smart sister is truly an imnse pressure.
If only she were a bit dimr, it would be better.
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