Chapter 146: Condense into Sword
Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated
The sword energy was weak, and it hit the back of the seat before Hao Ren and vanished.
However, it was a still wonderful surprise to Hao Ren.
He almost forgot that even though the Spirit Concentration Scroll was the most basic technique, all the advanced cultivation techniques were built on it.
It worked the same way as math; even the most advanced math equations were based on the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
After being stuck for days, he finally got a feel of it.
Hao Ren tried to condense the five elements into his palm with the Spirit Concentration Scroll before circulating Nature Essence using the Splitting Light Sword Shadow Scroll. A cloud of grey energy that vaguely looked like a sword appeared in his palm.
“Shoot!” Hao Ren yelled in his mind while pushing his palm toward the outside of the window. The sword energy flew several meters before the nightly wind blew it apart.
Hao Ren condensed and released again. The sword energy looked barely like a sword, and there wasn’t any power in it.
From the rear-view mirror, the Bus Driver saw Hao Ren who was swinging his palm toward the window repeated, and he thought with a sigh, “It’s a pity that such a fine young man is mentally disabled.”
The bus stopped at the university, and Hao Ren jumped off, returning to his dorm to rest. The cultivation on the bus tired his body, but his spirit was high.
He felt like he had just solved a math problem that had puzzled him for a long time. A sense of achievement and relaxation made him dizzy.
Su Han had hoped that Hao Ren could progress steadily, and that was why she had only taught him how to absorb the five elements but not the method of using them. However, Hao Ren thought through the whole thing and learned how to do it himself; he was one step ahead of his teacher.
It was what the top students did; always one step ahead of the teacher’s curriculum!
Now, he could release the vague sword energy at will, though it would consume the Nature Essence he stored in his body. Hao Ren practiced while walking, and he only stopped practicing after he was proficient at it. After all, he didn’t want to consume all of the precious five elemental essences stored in his body.
He decided that he would ask Su Han tomorrow about how to accelerate his cultivation with the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll and reach Kan-level earlier.
In the night, Qin Shaoyang, who was in an elegant black shirt, stood on top of a building and watched Hao Ren who was happily playing with a dash of sword energy in his palm while walking into the dorm area. After a light snort, this man vanished.
On the second day, Hao Ren replenished the Nature Essence in his body with the Spirit Concentration Scroll in class, feeling like his 108 acupoints were full of Essence again.
The bell rang, and Hao Ren carried a stack of books to return to the library. He had been so busy recently that the books were due before he could finish them.
He was about to enter the library when someone called out to him.
He turned and saw the pink-faced Xie Yujia, who also had a stack of books in her arms, rushing toward him.
“Are you returning books too?” Hao Ren asked with a stiff smile.
“Why are you looking at me like that? I won’t eat you.” Xie Yujia smiled lightly and bumped him with her elbow before walking with him into the library.
Today, she was wearing a loose striped dress. Just like her usual clothes, it was simple but refreshing.
“Why did you avoid me these two days? Did you do something wrong?” Xie Yujia asked while walking.
“No. It’s because of… That thing.”
Hao Ren stammered, knowing that Xie Yujia would understand what he was referring to.
“In the beginning, I was indeed astonished. But now after some thinking, it is what it is,” Xie Yujia said.
The hall on the first floor of the library was divided into several sections by whiteboards; it was being prepared for tomorrow’s art exhibition.
Hao Ren stood beside Xie Yujia on the escalator that was moving up slowly. He asked, “What do you mean by ‘it is what it is’?”
“Then, what do you mean by ‘because of that thing’?” Xie Yujia returned the question.
Secretly admitting defeat, Hao Ren said with resignation, “I mean I’m you Little Older Brother.”
“And ‘it is what it is’ is also referring to the fact that you are my Little Older Brother,” Xie Yujia said lightly.
Knowing that the Class President was too smart for him, Hao Ren changed the subject by asking, “Did your dad go back?”
“Yeah, a little later than he had planned. I saw him off last night at the airport,” Xie Yujia answered.
Hao Ren thought for a moment and said, “I should have seen him off as well.”
His childhood memories were vague, but he still remembered that Xie Yujia’s dad had been kind to him.
“It’s ok,” Xie Yujia replied as she shook her head while holding the books in her arms.
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
Standing together on the moving escalator, they looked like one of the student couples commonly seen on campus.
“Oh, the little girl, Zhao Yanzi, pulled you to aside and talked to you last time. What did she say?” Hao Ren asked abruptly.
“Nothing serious. She just asked me if I like you,” Xie Yujia arched her eyebrows slightly and said breezily.
Hao Ren’s heart lurched, not daring to ask what her answer was.
“In fact, I was astonished when I found out that you are my Little Older Brother. I feel dumb thinking back to the words that I said to you,” Xie Yujia said as she bit her lip with her white teeth. Then, she pursed her lips and turned to Hao Ren abruptly, reaching out her soft white hand to him while holding the books against her belly with the other.
“Very nice to meet you,” she said.
“Huh?” Hao Ren froze.
“This is the scene that I had in mind about the meeting with my Little Older Brother,” Xie Yujia reached out her hand and said, “It is nice to meet you again, Little Older Brother. From now on, everything would restart from the beginning.”
“Restart from the beginning…” The words hit Hao Ren’s heart as all the memories he had with her re-emerged in his head.
Hao Ren reached out and shook her hand with his.
“You are supposed to say, ‘Nice to meet you, Little Carrot’,” Xie Yujia said with a smile.
While the escalator moved up slowly, the students on the first and second floor all looked at the beautiful girl who was holding a plain-looking guy’s hand.
Some of them were baffled, some were jealous, but none of them knew the backstory that covered a time span of more than ten years.
The escalator got to the top, and Xie Yujia released Hao Ren’s hand and exhaled deeply as if she was finally free from the pressure and the burden that had accumulated over the past ten years.
“Although the beginning is a bit different from what I had imagined, now everything is in its rightful place. We met each other again, and we can start again.” Xie Yujia looked at Hao Ren and smiled faintly as the wisps of black hair around her ears fluttered slightly.
“You are Little Older Brother in the second year, and I am Little Carrot in the second year.”
Like a clock that had readjusted to the correct time, Hao Ren’s messy thoughts and feelings began to clear with this simple hand-shake.
“I have two questions,” Hao Ren gritted his teeth and asked, “You waited for your Little Older Brother because you wanted to give him and yourself a chance, right?”
“Yes.” Xie Yujia nodded. She had wished for a reunion just like this. Although there might be no result, she had something to hope for.
“What if he doesn’t show up?” Hao Ren continued to ask.
“Then, I would probably leave the chance to a guy named Hao Ren, but that would be in the third year,” Xie Yujia said lightly before walking into the Borrowing Section with books in her arms.
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