Book 15: Chapter 54

Book 15: Chapter 54

Willow leaves danced beside the plaque.

A Prince was not somebody to be disrespected.

Despite not officially taking Zizi as my disciple, despite me not having any money, I was an adult. How could an adult deprive a kid when he was acting as the kid’s guardian? Hence, we had to pick a secluded spot. I even bought two chicken drumsticks, 2.5 kilograms of beef, a pork thigh, and three jugs of wine to the spot. I let him carry all of it so that he wouldn’t feel bad about it. Once we arrived at our spot, I dug in. If I accidentally ate all of it, it was no biggie. Zizi still had money. You needed to respect the imperial family. Giving a Prince money was implying he was poor, man.

Whilst giving me a back massage, Zizi queried, “Shifu, who are they?”

“People after you.”

The reason we dined in a wild forest while the sun was still up was to wait for five folks to show themselves. They tailed us from the moment we left the capital. I had time to eat half a grilled chicken and one pork thigh before the unarmed quintet showed up with weapons.

“Why the surprise? If we were any later, they’d likely have called it a day. You think everyone is willing to come out to die on such a hot day?”The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.

I spent two days synthesising the two manuals into one. The manuals weren’t actually a problem. As a said previously, the end result was the same regardless of which manual one followed – as long as they could fathom my shifu’s madness and go along with it. Those two factors were unquestionably challenges for honest-to-a-fault Zizi. For that reason, I split it into “training” and “real combat” sections. I had him focus most of his time on refining his qi to prepare for upcoming real fights, which was when he’d truly be practicing the discipline.

If the discipline was too hard and complicated for Zizi, he could’ve sought out aid from his maternal grandparents. They would’ve been more than happy to provide him with manuals to learn. Regrettably, he had started on a path of no return because it was more than a month too late by the time I understood the manuals.

“You won’t get better staying cooped up in your room training, and it won’t earn you respect from your enemies. They won’t even think you’re worthy of dispatching someone decent to deal with you.” Ignoring the five strangers cursing and roaring, I questioned, “Answer me this: is fighting avoidable?”

Zizi cast his gaze from the five of them to the ground, stopped to think, then raised his head once he was ready. “Yes, but I do not want to.”

I smiled. “Had you said, ‘It is best to avoid conflict where possible,’ I’d have knocked you out, taken you back, and erased your training. People who want to avoid conflict aren’t cut for the discipline.”

When Grandmaster asked posed the question to Shifu back then, Shifu replied, “Why the hell should I avoid them? I want to see how tough they are.” That was what convinced Grandmaster that Shifu was the sort of man who wanted to see the world burn, or he wouldn’t be satisfied, and deemed it necessary to kidnap him back to Mount Daluo.

“As a Prince, avoiding conflict was impossible from the moment you were born. Pure Yang One Qi is the same. Once you stop training, your own energy will torment you endlessly. Choosing to engage in conflict is a path of no return. Are you sure you want to step onto it?”

Zizi marched to the forefront and proudly smiled. “Let’s see what you crooks are made of.”

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