Chapter 950: Undeserved Nicknas
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As the Ultimate Heaven Sect’s founding ancestor reflected upon the matter and sighed at the unpredictability of life, his peculiar encounter etched within him, he had specifically set similar challenges when he recruited disciples to test their temperant. However, the approach was incredibly risky as it was near impossible to overco unless one was highly gifted and fine in predisposition with exceptional determination. Otherwise, it was all too easy to break down and go crazy or turn dull-witted. Across the many generations of the Ultimate Heaven Sect’s legacy, many brilliant disciples whom their teachers had high hopes for had all succumbed at this stage, dying young in the middle of their cultivation journey.
Having the experience accumulated from past generations, the elders of the Ultimate Heaven Sect had finally perfected the drill. The intention of the Ultimate Heaven was more to warn themselves that there was a limit to heaven - what more, human.
Dong Qitian, who was the executor of the approach, had to supervise and prevent external disturbances while constantly observing to see that his trainees did not overexert or actually destroy their ridians. He had to pinpoint the maximum point of their limit during the process and intervene to rescue them.
Not only was this a toll on the physical aspect of a person, but it was also a test of experience and perception. If his timing was slightly earlier and the trainee had yet to reach his limit, it posed a deficiency to the cultivation process; if his timing had slacked and his trainee went past his limit, the trainee’s ridians could be severely damaged and the poor soul might even die. The optimal outco could only be achieved when the timing was accurately grasped. How could this be an easy job?
Although everyone who was drilled during this duration was exhausted, they could take so rest when they passed out from the training. Dong Qitian was the most exhausted as he dared not even blink. In the past, after the Art of Ultimate Heaven was perfected, a master had, at most, looked after two or three disciples; Dong Qitian had to care for nine people at a ti…
Dong Qitian felt like he had lost his sanity.
He knew that his trainees still had a lot to say but he thought that he would actually die if he did not get so sleep. Of course, a big part of his fatigue ca from the heart. He had been high-strung, especially when it ca to Yun Yang. His attention was wholly concentrated on the forr, afraid to even let his guard down in the slightest. Now that the drill had co to a break, the fatigue was overwhelming, despite his ecstasy.
“Tomorrow’s the official start?” Nine of them looked at each other, flabbergasted, when they heard Dong Qitian’s words.
It had not even begun when they were already trained to this state? They were all half dead. If this could be described as easy, what was difficult going to be?
Was the legendary Ultimate Heaven Sect actually so demanding, that there was no lack of mbers as of its reputation, or were they frogs at the bottom of the well, ignorant of the broader sky?
“Boss, this is Tie Qingcang, this is Ping Xiaoyi, and this is Guo Nuanyang.”
Lan Ruojun introduced the trio, changing the topic and soothing the current oppressive atmosphere. Dong Qitian’s words before he left had caused considerable damage.
Looking over, Yun Yang saw a man in black clothes and dark skin with a solid build like steel. He was probably Tie Qingcang. Another man was pale and thin like he could be blown away at any ti - this was most likely to be Ping Xiaoyi. These two n were like their nas, easily recognizable.
However, there was one more man who stood there and was naturally forgotten. Was he Guo Nuanyang? Yun Yang thought that the na and the man were rather contradictory but he recalled that Guo Nuanyang’s nickna was Day-Long Assassin and was pacified imdiately.
Since he was a renowned assassin, he naturally needed such a tactic to blur into the background, the best disguise an assassin could possess.
Young Master of Dark Fog, Shi Bujia, Day-Long Assassin, Guo Nuanyang, Tri-Autumn Swordsman, Shi Wuchen, Vicious Physician, Ping Xiaoyi, Traceless White Blade, Ren Qingkuang, Yellow Gowned Sword of Frost, Lan Ruojun, Gold-Hand Scholar Tie Qingcang, and Serene Soul of Nine Springs, Kong Luoyue!
The Demiurge-Flawed Ten was only lacking Violet Robed Golden Needles, Wu nghuan, and the Star-Souled Saber Knight, Luo Dajiang, as all eight others had gathered at the Residence of Nine Supres.
The more Yun Yang looked at them, the more he wished to tease them.
Starting from Shi Wuchen, the na Tri-Autumn Swordsman Shi Wuchen sounded so free-spirited and unrestrained, but since when did the lonesoness of tri-autumn ever present itself on the fellow? The most he had was dust and dirt (Wuchen also ans spotless or dustless) How could he ever live up to his na and nickna?
It was said that, perhaps, one could be misnad but nicknas could never go wrong. Yet this did not seem like the case for Shi Wuchen as both his na and nickna seed to have been given wrongly.
‘As for Yellow Gowned Sword of Frost Lan Ruojun, where’s your yellow gown? Where did it go? What does it an when you’re always in green?’
Young Master of Dark Fog Shi Bujia who was clad in black was, instead, the one whose image lived closer to his nickna but Gold-Hand Scholar Tie Qingcang…’You’re so muscular like you’re a blacksmith, one who’s utterly burnt too - please tell where did you get your ‘scholar’ reputation from? And Gold-Hand… where’s your gold hand?’
The remaining Traceless White Blade, Serene Soul of Nine Springs, and Vicious Physician… Other than the Vicious Physician who looked a little like the part, the other two seed quite undeserving of their nicknas. Yun Yang wondered how they got them. Could they have burned gifts in an exchange of lower-class spiritual stones?
“I have a question. How did this reputation of yours co by?” Yun Yang asked complying to his curiosity.
“We dare not call them reputation… These nicknas are from the discussion when we first road the martial world, sensational nas we made for ourselves… They’re made up entirely by us, they aren’t our reputation from fa…”
Ren Qingkuang was even more direct as he said, “Such a thing like nicknas… they exist once you hire a few people to spread words about it in the martial world. At most, we’ll add ‘I’m Tri-Autumn Swordsman, Shi Wuchen’ when we dwell in the martial world. After a few rounds of shaless promotion like this, it’ll naturally gain montum…”
Shi Wuchen raged, “Why don’t you give the example using your na?”
Ren Qingkuang rolled his eyes, answering, “How can I use my nickna as an example when it’s such a shaful matter? Of course, I must illustrate with the one who’s the most undeserving of his nickna!”
The group broke into a chorus of guffaws.
“This is really new knowledge to …” Yun Yang comnted slowly.
He was being honest. He had always thought that nicknas were only used when they were given by other martial practitioners and cultivators. Who knew that these fellows’ nicknas were given by themselves?!
Those were not monikers, those were prearranged nas!
“Boss, you’ve ascended to the Bound of Universe not too long ago and you must be an awe-inspiring cultivator in your original realm. You won’t know how hard it is to earn a reputation on your own without a background or belonging to any Celestial Luck Banner sect…”
Ren Qingkuang sighed, “It’s honestly difficult to make a na for yourself in the martial world if you don’t think of ways to do it. If you don’t create a moniker of your liking in ti and allow things to take a course of their own, it’s a possible lifeti disgrace once malicious disciples from other sects put a title on your head…”
“There’s such a thing?” Yun Yang was baffled.
Reviews
All reviews (0)