"..." The genius youth fell silent. It wasn't that he didn't know this point, but he had always felt that even if everyone knew his sword technique, as long as his cultivation level was deep enough, he could still unleash maximum power.
His thinking wasn't wrong, but he hadn't considered one thing, when competing against soone of equal or higher level who already knew your technique variations from the start, you were naturally at a disadvantage.
Of course, he had thought about this problem and put in effort, modifying the Demon Subduing Sword Technique to make it more suitable for himself and unpredictable to others.
Unless soone was very familiar with Demon Subduing Sword Technique, it would be difficult to see through his changes.
But today he was unlucky, encountering exactly such a person who understood Demon Subduing Sword Technique very well. The girl before him.
"Though you can practice new variations of Demon Subduing Sword Technique, there are still traceable patterns. I advise you to switch to other sword techniques, or you could create your own sword technique," the girl continued saying calmly.
"Creating one's own sword moves, how is that easy," The genius youth smiled bitterly. He hadn't reached grandmaster level yet.
"Is it difficult?" The girl seed confused. Soone she knew could create sword and palm techniques. What she practiced was taught by him, and why she understood Demon Subduing Sword Technique was also because of him.
At that ti, he not only had her break down Demon Subduing Sword Technique but had her morize almost all martial techniques he knew, then figure out how to counter them.
"..." Seeing the girl's expression, the genius youth felt she didn't understand. This girl seed to co from nowhere, appearing naive but with terrifyingly high strength.
Such people were like disciples of reclusive masters, but why would a reclusive master's disciple be in such a place? For training?
Thinking this, the genius youth asked: "Miss, may I ask your na?"
"Guxing!" the girl replied simply.
"Guxing?"
Everyone's minds began working, thinking of girls or even nas related to the words "Guxing," but none seed to match the girl before them.
"May I ask Miss Guxing's surna?"
Guxing felt like a given na or even a code na, not a full na.
"I have no surna. Guxing is my na, nothing else is needed. Nas are just code nas anyway,” the girl said faintly.
As she said, what the na was didn't matter. Real na or fake na, as long as it could represent this person, even a fake na would beco their na.
She was a Guxing. Whether this na was real or her original na didn't matter. She was now called Guxing.
"Excuse , is the match over? Did I win?" Guxing asked.
"Correct, you won!" the referee nodded.
"Can the next match begin?" Guxing continued asking.
"I think it's no longer necessary... Here's your jade plaque, proof of passing preliminaries. You will represent our Qingyun City people in the Dragon Gate Tournant. I hope you achieve good results." The referee handed a jade plaque to Guxing.
"??" Guxing's face was full of questions. Though she said nothing, her expression told everyone she didn't understand!
The referee continued: "Because you defeated Zhan Bai, you also gained his battle record. He was just one match away from qualifying, and you just won another match."
"Oh, I understand! Thank you!" Guxing bowed to the referee.
Then Guxing also bowed to the genius youth, Zhan Bai as the referee called him, saying: "Thank you too!"
"..."
The girl could skip other battles, so naturally she should thank Zhan Bai. But for Zhan Bai, this was definitely a blow.
He smiled without warmth and said helplessly: "You're welco!!"
"By the way, if you really can't create your own techniques, you can learn moves from various martial arts that suit your characteristics, could be several moves, one move, or even half a technique! This way there's less chance of being recognized..." Guxing seed to be repaying that gratitude, speaking to Zhan Bai.
"..." Zhan Bai was stunned, thinking of simple things he had never considered.
"If you continue long enough, you'll form your own martial techniques, taking the best from many schools. This inherits predecessors' experience and is much simpler than creating from nothing,” Guxing said faintly, then stepped away, leaving everyone with an infinitely beautiful departing figure.
Perhaps Guxing didn't know her words had made a genius beco a true genius, or rather, elevated this genius's level considerably. Her words opened the genius's thinking, giving him a broader sky.
However, this required the genius to continue forward. Fortunately, Zhan Bai was a genius among civilians who had experienced much and wasn't a hothouse flower. He withstood this blow and quickly turned it into motivation.
After Guxing left, Zhan Bai imdiately went to fight more battles, obtained a qualifying jade plaque, then imdiately sought martial arts manuals and found places for intensive cultivation. He still had considerable ti for improvent.
After civilian preliminaries ended, there would be ti before noble family preliminaries began, then more ti for an optional friendly match, then even more ti before national preliminary preparations started.
So there was plenty of ti.
Regarding preliminary rules, one more point should be added, being defeated didn't disqualify you. Like Zhan Bai after defeat, he could still find others to continue fighting. As long as he collected enough qualifying victories, he could still gain qualification.
All this was unrelated to the departing Guxing. She wouldn't care about this either. She just needed to go sowhere to et soone.
Many people were interested in Guxing's appearance and wanted to know her specific identity. Because of this, so sent people to follow her.
After about half an hour, those tracking returned. Without exception, they had all lost her.
Sowhere, so people were having conversations...
"What do you an lost her? You're all experts, how could you lose track of one person? Were you discovered?"
"We shouldn't have been discovered!"
"Then how did you lose her?"
"Because there were many people where she went..."
"So what if there were many people? That's no excuse!!"
"It is an excuse. In there, we couldn't even track soone if we knew exactly where they were, we got scattered by the crowd!!"
"...Don't tell you went to..."
"Right! The temple fair!!"
"Then forget it..."
...
Every year at this ti, there was a large temple fair near the City God Temple in Qingyun City. The liveliness could be described as a sea of people, especially in the first few days.
In such places, following soone undetected was easy, but keeping up was harder than reaching heaven. You'd lose sight in monts, swept away by crowds. Looking around, all you saw were masses of dark heads, who could tell who was who?
As for what Guxing ca here to do, no one could guess. After all, temple fairs had everything, who knew what she was really doing unless she said so herself.
Also, if soone could follow her in such difficult circumstances, they would discover she was actually looking for soone, a youth tinkering with temple fair viewing apparatus, with sothing like a furball beside him that seed alive and moving.
Also, this youth wore coarse cloth clothing that looked like so family's servant attire. Plus, the temple fair machinery all ca from the Mo family, so this youth was definitely a Mo family servant.
This servant youth was—
"Xiaoyao!" Guxing ca before the servant and called softly.
Right, this servant was Xiaoyao. He had been helplessly assigned here to maintain this equipnt and keep it running to add splendor to the temple fair.
On the fifth day of New Year, while others were still celebrating, few were willing to do this work, so it was pushed to Xiaoyao.
If this servant was Xiaoyao, then who was this Guxing? When had Xiaoyao t such a girl?
The answer was—
"Boss, you ca so quickly! How was it? Did you get a qualification?" Xiaoyao looked at Guxing and asked sowhat strangely.
Only one person could be called "boss" by Xiaoyao like this. The Mo family's Seventh Miss. There could be no second person.
Guxing was the Mo family's Seventh Miss. This was her first ti leaving the Mo family. She wanted to register for the Dragon Gate Tournant in her personal na, without any Mo family connections.
This wasn't because she wanted to prove sothing to the Mo family, but because she wanted to go with Xiaoyao to major sects and academies where there were more advanced martial arts manuals unavailable anywhere else.
They could only achieve this possibility through the Dragon Gate Tournant.
At the sa ti, Xiaoyao also felt participating in the Dragon Gate Tournant was good, it would let Guxing gain experience and practical experience.
The na she used was Guxing. Heavenly Fiend Lone Star. (Guxing an Lone Star)
"I already got it. Look, this is the qualification jade plaque!" Guxing took out the plaque, seeming to show off to Xiaoyao while looking at him expectantly. The aning in those eyes was about to burst forth.
Praise , praise ...
"Really good - you finished so quickly! I thought it would take a day or two!" Xiaoyao didn't stint on praise, making Guxing very happy.
"Actually I was lucky, eting soone who just needed one more match. I beat him and got this." Guxing said.
(End of Chapter)
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