Chapter 23: Still Practicing Sword

The stupid disciple hugged, the soul of Qin Ran was not hugged, and should have taken the opportunity to let Li Shiyin decide to practice the gong method, but he stammered for half a day, always unable to say anything, and had to leave …… in a hurry to escape.

And then he didn’t show up again for an entire afternoon, shut up alone in the research building, not knowing what he was doing.

It wasn’t until the evening meal, when he had cleared the dishes and emerged from the kitchen, and saw the young girl teasing the cat on the couch, that he finally remembered what was important.

Having already built the foundation, then the matter of choosing a gong method could not be delayed any longer.

He coughed dryly, reminding Li Shiyin that he was about to speak. When the young girl picked up the cat and looked over, he looked out the window and spoke:

“Before Foundation Establishment, in order for you to have more choices, and in order for you to plant better qi cyclone seeds, I’ll let you practice the most basic Basic Feats, giving you enough time to think about whether to practice sword or alchemy.

“Now that you’ve already built your foundation, continuing to use the Basic Technique to cultivate will be a big drag on your cultivation progress. Therefore, you have to make a final decision.”

“I …… “Li Shiyin glanced at Qin Ran, lowered her head to look at the Xuanhe Spirit Tiger in her arms, hesitated for a long time, but still returned, “I don’t know.”

Qin Ran retracted his sight from the window and looked at Li Shiyin, the silly disciple was obviously an impulsive and reckless straightforward nature, otherwise she wouldn’t have been so bent on worshipping under him, but at this moment, she was hesitant and unable to determine her cultivation path.

He sighed and asked softly, “Why do you want to make pills?”

“At the beginning of the year ……,” Li Shiyin’s hand was on Chaser’s furry body as she replied softly, “Grandpa passed away.”

She did not directly answer why she had to refine pills, but her reason for doing so was quite clear. Qin Ran’s eyes also became soft as he looked at her, but did not speak.

“Grandpa was the founding general of the Northern Chu Kingdom, fighting for Northern Chu in the south and expanding the territory, making great achievements, a great hero that everyone admires.” The tone of the greatly grinning foolish apprentice disciple was suddenly very soft as she reminisced and said.

“Grandfather is very tall and powerful, his arms are thicker than my waist, and last year he killed the assassin who came to the house with one blow. He has an excellent-looking horse lance, and he juggled his lance in the snow during the first snowfall of winter. He says that when it is warm in the beginning of the year he will ask to go to war.”

As she spoke, she couldn’t stop the flow of tears. She wiped a handful of tears, smiled, glanced at Qin Ran, and continued, “Master, you must have thought that my grandfather was fierce, but no. Grandpa is very gentle and treats me very well, when he comes back from the court, he will buy me sugar gourds, when he is at home, he will make me toys, sharpen wooden swords, and he will protect me from being bullied by my brother.

……

“But …… but ……” she sobbed, “after that lance dance, Grandpa said he had knee pain… …”

She grew sadder and sadder, sobbing and unable to speak.

Qin Ran walked over and picked up the tissue on the table and handed it to her.

“I thought grandpa was invincible, I didn’t think that grandpa would live forever, but I never thought that grandpa would grow old, become emaciated, and lose weight to the skin and bones, and I thought that grandpa’s white hair was born white, and that grandpa’s wrinkles were born wrinkles ……” Li Shiyin cried for a while, dried her tears and continued.

“But Grandpa just died, suddenly. In the blink of an eye, it was as if there had never been a Li Konghe in this world.”

She reddened her eyes and looked up at Qin Ran, pitifully, “So I began to be afraid that my brother would suddenly die, my father would suddenly die, and my mother would suddenly die. No, it’s not fear, whenever I think about how people must die, I know they must die ……”

Qin Ran looked at her calmly.

“But I don’t want them to die, every time they get a little bit older, I feel panicked ……” Li Shiyin said, “I know that people are bound to die, but there are immortals in this world who live forever and never die, and there are immortal medicines that keep you young and prolong your life forever ……”

“Master ……,” she was suddenly firm and said to Qin Ran, “I want to refine pills!”

“What a silly disciple ah …… She doesn’t even realize what it really means to embark on the path of immortal cultivation.” Qin Ran sighed in his heart as he raised his head and looked through the window into the distant darkness, “Cultivating Immortality means loneliness, the same as the Monkey King taking on the Vajra Circle. The Immortal Cultivation Realm and the Human Realm, even though they are one world, they are like two parallel times and spaces.”

But at this time he did not intend to preach, he thought for a moment and spoke, “Have you ever thought that the immortal pills, do not necessarily have to be refined …… by yourself?”

Li Shiyin froze, then snapped out of it, her eyes slowly glowing as she stared at Qin Ran.

Then Qin Ran said, “You can raise your cultivation to find someone to rob,…… anyway, the cultivation world is the weak and the strong.”

The light in Li Shiyin’s eyes instantly disappeared as she shook her head, “Finding someone to rob? Forget it!”

“Yet you can still ask others to refine ……” Qin Ran retracted his gaze, no longer teasing, and laughed, “Since you have worshipped under me, I can help you refine whatever pills you want.”

Li Shiyin waited for this sentence for a long time, she looked at Qin Ran, “Master are you telling the truth?”

“Really.” Qin Ran nodded.

Li Poetry

Tone also stopped crying and jumped up with a bounce. The clueless Chasing Wind in her arms was suddenly thrown away, and she hurriedly changed her shape before landing on the ground. Li Shiyin, on the other hand, continued to pounce forward, trying to hug Qin Ran again.

Fortunately, Qin Ran discovered her intention in advance and reached out in time, pressing on her forehead to stop her “rude behavior”.

“So, alchemy or sword training?” Qin Ran asked as he pressed on Li Shiyin’s head.

“Practicing sword!” Li Shiyin affirmed, she was a tiger daughter of the general’s family, born to practice martial arts, it was really too difficult for her to go to the dance.

“Then pick a gongfu!” Qin Ran pushed Li Shiyin away and five merit laws appeared in his hand, in the past few days, he had unlocked another jade slip and obtained a new basic merit law of the Sword Dao, “The Great Diffraction Sword Technique, The Heavenly Sword, The Green Cloud Sword Technique, The Geng Jin Flying Sword Technique and The Nine Turns of the Starry Star Sword Technique.”

“Master which one do you think is suitable for me to practice?” Li Shiyin didn’t choose and asked Qin Ran’s opinion first.

“The Gengjin Flying Sword Technique ……” Qin Ran threw the Gengjin Flying Sword Technique to her and explained, “This is not only a sword technique, but it is also a metallic technique.”

Li Shiyin flipped the pages of the book, saw the feats recorded on it, and muttered, “Flying swords, huh?”

This tone was rather unsatisfactory, Qin Ran frowned and asked, “What happened to the flying sword?”

“Flying swords are no fun ……,” said Li Shiyin.

“How are flying swords not interesting anymore?” Qin Ran wondered.

Li Shiyin didn’t explain, she thought for a moment, looked at a few other techniques and asked again, “These are the ones chosen for me?”

“Right.”

“Then give it all to me!” Li Shiyin reached out.

“You want to practice them all?” Qin Ran was displeased.

“Not ……,” Li Shiyin shook her head, “I’ll look at them all and decide which one to practice after I read them.”

Qin Ran thought that it made sense, so he handed her the other four techniques as well, but warned once again, “Greed is not a good thing, you’re only allowed to choose one! Got it?”

Li Shiyin nodded her head repeatedly, looking at the gongfu and saying perfunctorily, “I know, I know.”

Seeing her like this, Qin Ran was particularly uneasy and added: “It is best to practice one basic technique to ensure pure mana, if you practice more than one, the mana will be refractory and prone to conflict.”

“I know!” Li Shiyin sat back down on the sofa, looking at the Great Diffraction Sword Technique, and returned without lifting her head, obviously a little impatient.

Qin Ran shook his head, stopped talking and turned around to go upstairs.