Chapter 204: Changyu Is So Pitiful
On the front cliff of Qingyun Dao Sect, Chen Lingrou, w.a.n.g Zhuoyu, Xu Luochen, Xue Zhuan, and Lin Bei appeared.
Five figures appeared on the front cliff of Qingyun.
Everyone’s expression was full of curiosity as they looked at Su Changyu.
They really didn’t know what Su Changyu planned to do by calling all of them over in the middle of the night.
“Eldest Senior Brother, what did you call us here in the middle of the night for?”
Xu Luochen looked at Su Changyu with curiosity.
“Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters, I asked you here today for an important matter.”
Su Changyu said with a serious expression.
“Important matter? What is it?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, is your biological father here to look for you?”
“Yeah, Eldest Senior Brother, what happened?”
Everyone looked at Su Changyu with curiosity, unable to figure out what the big matter Su Changyu wanted to talk to them about was.
Looking at the curious crowd, Su Changyu did not leave them hanging and got straight to the point.
“Ye Ping may have suffered a huge blow after partic.i.p.ating in the Ten Nations Grand Tournament this time. Isn’t that an important matter?”
Su Changyu said in a slightly calm tone but his words made everyone even more curious.
“What is the Ten Nations Grand Tournament?”
“It sounds impressive.”
“Ten Nations Grand Tournament? Is it as impressive as the Qingzhou Sword Dao Meet?”
Everyone was somewhat bewildered because they knew nothing about the Ten Nations Grand Tournament, mainly because their levels of cultivation and statuses were too low. Their social circle was limited to only Baiyun Ancient City.
They couldn’t even imagine what the Jin Nation Grand Tournament was like, let alone the Ten Nations Grand Tournament. They didn’t feel anything about it.
It was akin to telling a less educated person, who had never even studied in any private schools, that a certain person partic.i.p.ated in the National Academy compet.i.tion.
They were completely clueless about it and had never even heard of a National Academy compet.i.tion.
All of a sudden, Su Changyu froze in shock.
He had previously thought about the reactions that his Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters might have, and also prepared many countermeasures to deal with it.
For example, they might ask, “What should we do, Eldest Senior Brother?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, what do you mean?”
“What? Ye Ping has suffered a huge blow? Eldest Senior Brother, hurry up and think of a solution.”
However, he didn’t expect his Junior Brothers and Junior Sisters to ask about what the Ten Nations Grand Tournament was.
That left Su Changyu somewhat speechless.
He felt really upset.
It was just like an emperor issuing an edict to pardon the sins of the world, only to have the people ask what an edict was.
It was almost the same feeling.
For a moment, Su Changyu was extremely upset as he didn’t know how he should answer their questions.
“Eldest Senior Brother, quick tell us what the Ten Nations Grand Tournament is.”
“Yes, Eldest Senior Brother, why do you like keeping us in suspense all the time?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, could it be that you don’t know what the Ten Nations Grand Tournament is?”
Everyone looked at Su Changyu with their eyes full of curiosity.
After hearing that question, Su Changyu couldn’t help but be stunned.
‘I don’t know?’
‘Why would I not know what the Ten Nations Grand Tournament is?’
‘Actually… I really don’t.’
However, although he really didn’t know what the Ten Nations Grand Tournament was, Su Changyu knew that they were clueless about it. In that case, he could just make things up.
At the thought of this, Su Changyu couldn’t help but say, “Hah, what a joke.”
“You guys have no idea what it is but you think I don’t either.”
“You guys are frogs in the well.”
Su Changyu seemed extremely confident and aloof.
Immediately afterwards, he continued, “The so-called Ten Nations Grand Tournament is a compet.i.tion between the ten strongest nations.”
Su Changyu said after deciphering the literal meaning of the tournament.
‘Just with this?’
“Eldest Senior Brother, we can understand what the compet.i.tion is about by taking the name of it literally. What else is there to the compet.i.tion?”
“Yes, what else is there?”
Everyone looked at Su Changyu curiously. They could understand the literal meaning of the name of the compet.i.tion and didn’t need Su Changyu to tell them about it.
“I’m not finished yet.”
Su Changyu looked at them in displeasure while various thoughts flashed through his mind. At this moment, Su Changyu’s brain was functioning rapidly.
“The content of the Ten Nations Grand Tournament consists of the Sword Dao, alchemy, Dao of array formations, Dao of talismans, and the Dao of treasure appraisal. We are all responsible for Ye Ping’s loss in the Ten Nations Grand Tournament this time.”
“This time, I have called all of you here for a discussion of a major issue.”
The content that Su Changyu made up seemed plausible and he really looked the part. Anyway, they did not know anything about it so he felt that none of them would know if it was true or not.
“Oh I see.”
“Sword Dao, alchemy, Dao of array formations, Dao of talismans, and the Dao of treasure appraisal? Isn’t that in line with what we’ve learned?”
“Yes, Eldest Senior Brother, surely you didn’t make it up, did you?”
Everyone looked at Su Changyu. Chen Lingrou seemed innocent and simply believed Su Changyu, but Xu Luochen and the others were not fools. They were well aware of what Su Changyu was like.
They discovered the flaw within it.
“Ridiculous!”
Su Changyu sneered but he didn’t continue to dwell on the matter of the Ten Nations Grand Tournament. After all, the more he said, the more mistakes he might make.
At the same time, Su Changyu also felt a little depressed because he had never failed when boasting to others outside, but in the sect, he would often get exposed.
At the end of the day, it was all because they understood him too well.
Thinking of this, Su Changyu understood that he really had to showcase some of his abilities. Otherwise, his lies would be exposed all the time.
“Okay, what we’re going to talk about now concerns Ye Ping, don’t talk about the other pointless issues.”
Su Changyu spoke up. He did not want the crowd to continue to dwell on the so-called Ten Nations Grand Tournament.
That was not the point at all.
“Senior Brother, what exactly do you mean then? What can we do now that Ye Ping has lost in the Ten Nations Grand Tournament?”
“Yes, it’s not like you don’t know who we are. We’re not confident to join the Baiyun Ancient City compet.i.tion, let alone the Ten Nations Grand Tournament.”
“Right, Eldest Senior Brother, what exactly are you trying to express?”
The curiosity on their faces never dissipated.
After all, they did not know what Su Changyu was trying to express.
In the face of the crowd’s questioning, Su Changyu coughed slightly and then slowly spoke.
“What I mean is very simple.”
“In the past, we’ve been casually giving Ye Ping pointers without paying serious attention at all.”
“If things are still the same as they used to, that’d be fine.”
“But we can’t go on like this now that things are different.”
Su Changyu told them of the plans he had.
However, as soon as he said that, w.a.n.g Zhuoyu spoke up too.
“Eldest Senior Brother, I understand what you mean but the problem is, as much as we want to teach Ye Ping seriously, it’s not that easy to teach him.”
After w.a.n.g Zhuoyu, Xu Luochen immediately spoke up too.
“Yes, it’s not that we’re not willing to teach him, but rather, what if we ended up messing up and led him astray?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, your theory doesn’t work at all. I used to think that you make some sense, but after thinking about it, I feel that if we can’t teach him, there’s nothing we can change about that. Ye Ping is talented. If we don’t do a good job, won’t we end up misleading him?”
Xu Luochen and w.a.n.g Zhuoyu spoke up one after another. They felt that they couldn’t teach Ye Ping.
However, Xue Zhuan and Lin Bei felt that he was average.
“Why do I think it’s not too bad?”
“Yes, Ye Ping might be somewhat talented but you don’t have to do this. He doesn’t have excellent apt.i.tude, does he?”
The two of them had only met Ye Ping a few times. Hence, they subconsciously felt that he was average.
Seeing their replies, even Su Changyu couldn’t help but unanimously have the same thought in mind.
‘He’s a toad.’
Faced with the words of the crowd, Su Changyu stayed calm.
“Wrong.”
He vetoed their words indifferently.
“I know what you’re thinking.”
“But have you guys ever thought that while Ye Ping is improving, you guys are improving too?”
“You both got creation in the mystic realm this time. Didn’t you grow at all?”
“Don’t you all have any sense of enlightenment?”
Su Changyu said.
He looked at everyone.
After he said that, everyone indeed fell silent.
“Besides, you guys keep saying that you’re scared of misleading Ye Ping.”
“Let me ask you guys one more thing, did Ye Ping manage to learn what you have taught him?”
Everything that Su Changyu said came from the bottom of his heart.
Everyone fell silent again.
Looking at the silent crowd, Su Changyu continued.
“Since Ye Ping has learned everything that we taught him, that just proves that what we taught was useful and not nonsense.”
“Now that Ye Ping has lost in the Ten Nations Grand Tournament and suffered a setback, he has fallen to rock bottom. As his Senior Brothers, are we supposed to stand by and do nothing?”
What Su Changyu said made the crowd speechless. He had said the right thing.
“Eldest Senior Brother, what do you think we should do?”
“To be honest, these days, I have gained some enlightenment. Eldest Senior Brother, tell us what you want us to do.”
“Yes, Eldest Senior Brother, just tell us straight and we’ll do it.”
Everyone was influenced by Su Changyu’s words.
What Su Changyu said was right.
In the beginning, they did teach Ye Ping casually, and that was because they didn’t have any strengths themselves.
However, now that they had received the inheritance of the Seven Kings, it was impossible that they hadn’t progressed at all.
They just didn’t know what to do next.
“Simple.”
Su Changyu took a deep breath before stating his plan.
“Let’s each formulate a rigorous training plan to increase his confidence.”
Su Changyu stated his plan, and now the crowd was confused again.
“Rigorous training plan?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, what training plan?”
“What do you mean?”
The crowd was full of curiosity as they couldn’t understand what he meant.
“To put it simply, it means that we should set some goals for Ye Ping in the fields that each of us are good in, which are impossible to achieve. To put it bluntly, we can’t let Ye Ping idle about.”
Su Changyu stated the core concept.
Regardless of whether there was a rigorous plan or not, they could not let Ye Ping slack off.
He could tell that Ye Ping had suffered a severe blow that caused him to be so despondent and decrepit.
Hence, he wanted to use his own methods to save Ye Ping.
He wanted to salvage Ye Ping’s confidence.
“We can’t let him idle about?”
“An unachievable goal?”
“I somehow feel like I’ve understood something.”
“Eldest Senior Brother, continue.”
Everyone spoke up and Xu Luochen seemed to have understood something.
“Let me tell you guys carefully.”
“Ye Ping must be in an extremely bad mood after losing the Ten Nations Grand Tournament but he naturally won’t blame us for it.”
“Actually, he could have gone back to the Jin Nation Academy this time, but why did he return to the sect instead?”
“What is it for at the end of the day?”
“In the end, it’s because Ye Ping thinks that only we can teach him real things.”
At this point, Su Changyu took a deep breath.
“So, in this situation, we absolutely cannot let Ye Ping down.”
“I know that you guys are afraid and worried that you can’t do a good job at teaching Ye Ping and will end up misleading him.”
“But have you guys ever thought that we don’t actually need to teach him at all? We just have to guide him along.”
Su Changyu said with a serious expression.
Everyone looked even more curious.
‘Guide? What is considered guiding?’
“The so-called guidance is to teach Ye Ping the true core of cultivation, which is to point straight to the Great Dao.”
“Simply put, we should let Ye Ping comprehend it himself but we can’t stand back and do nothing.”
“Do you understand?”
Su Changyu voiced the thoughts that he meant from the bottom of his heart.
His idea was actually very simple. He wanted to help Ye Ping with emotional healing.
‘Ye Ping must be devastated now, huh?’
If they ignored him now, Ye Ping would be even sadder.
Hence, they thought that they had to go and comfort Ye Ping.
However, Su Changyu was clear about Ye Ping’s character and knew that if they went forth to comfort Ye Ping verbally, it definitely wouldn’t work. It didn’t match their image either.
Hence, they could only try to teach Ye Ping all sorts of new knowledge so that he could overcome the trauma.
“Eldest Senior Brother, I roughly understand what you mean. To put it bluntly, it’s to give Ye Ping some things to do when he’s idling about but we can’t go overboard with it. We have to teach Ye Ping real things. Is that what you mean?”
“We should indirectly let Ye Ping understand that we still care about him and that we’re his strong backer and s.h.i.+eld. right?”
Xu Luochen sort of understood and stated his theory.
“That’s right.”
Su Changyu immediately nodded.
“I understand too but what does it mean to point straight to the Great Dao? I’m thick in the head, can you explain?”
Chen Lingrou said with some disbelief.
“You don’t even understand that? Lingrou, are you cultivating sword techniques again now?”
Xu Luochen spoke up and asked Chen Lingrou.
“Yes, that’s right.”
Chen Lingrou nodded. Ever since she went to the Seven Ancient Kings mystic realm, she had obtained the inheritance of the Sword King, and hence, she had been diligently learning sword techniques.
“In this case, is the core of the Sword Dao about breaking all laws with a single sword? Is it that everything in this world is just a sword?”
Xu Luochen continued.
“It seems to be the case.”
Chen Lingrou nodded.
“Isn’t that enough then? We just need to let Ye Ping go in that direction and leave the remaining parts for him to comprehend.”
“Is that the case, Eldest Senior Brother?”
Chen Lingrou immediately understood something.
Su Changyu, who was at the side, was a little stunned.
‘Breaking through everything with one sword? Everything in this world is just a sword?’
‘That’s impressive.’
‘Is this the ultimate core of the Sword Dao? It seems impressive.’
Su Changyu was a little surprised. ‘Why does Xu Luochen know so much about the Sword Dao?’
However, after hearing Xu Luochen’s voice, Su Changyu instantly came back to his senses and nodded.
“Pretty much.”
He seemed profound and mysterious.
“I understand, it’s just that I’ll be going down the mountain in a few days, so I won’t have time to teach Ye Ping.”
Chen Lingrou said with a slight frown.
“It’s okay, with Eldest Senior Brother around, you don’t have to teach the Sword Dao.”
w.a.n.g Zhuoyu told Chen Lingrou to rest a.s.sured.
“By the way, Eldest Senior Brother, it’ll take some time to draw up a training plan. Who will be the first to teach?”
Lin Bei asked Su Changyu.
“Since I’m the Eldest Senior Brother, I’ll be the first, but this time you all have to get serious.”
“Don’t slack around all day. Our agenda is not to let Ye Ping become stronger but to build his confidence again.”
“Ye Ping is a hardworking person who enjoys hards.h.i.+ps, so what you teach him must be extremely difficult and impossible to accomplish.”
“You should also prepare a second training plan. In case Ye Ping is extremely talented and ends up learning it well, we’ll at least have a backup plan. Do you understand?”
Su Changyu was the one who thought of that plan, and hence, he had long come up with a way to teach Ye Ping.
There was nothing wrong with being the first one.
“Got it.”
“Eldest Senior Brother, you’re really saving up for a rainy day this time.”
“Eldest Senior Brother, if Ye Ping finds out that you’re doing these all for him, I reckon he’d definitely be moved to tears.”
“Stop it, I’ll cry first.”
“Hey, Ye Ping lost the Ten Nations Grand Tournament, he’s clearly suffered a huge blow. It seems that the hopes of the Qingyun Dao Sect will fall on me. The pressure is ma.s.sive.”
Everyone spoke up and Chen Lingrou, in particular, seemed a little upset.
However, her words made them even more helpless.
Su Changyu was speechless.
Xu Luochen was at a loss for words.
So was w.a.n.g Zhuoyu.
“Okay, go back and draw up your training plans.”
Su Changyu told everyone to go back, and at the same time, he continued to contemplate if he should stay there or go back to get some rest.
After thinking about it, he thought that it would be better to go back and get some rest.
After all, there was nothing bothering him at the moment.
However, at this moment, Chen Lingrou suddenly walked over.
“Eldest Senior Brother, let me ask you something.”
She came and looked at Su Changyu with great curiosity, her eyes full of doubts.
“Shoot.”
Even when facing his junior sister, Su Changyu was still aloof and indifferent.
“Eldest Senior Brother, didn’t I get the Sword King’s inheritance a few days ago? During your absence, I practiced the sword techniques in the manual and managed to cultivate the Four Thunder sword momentum.”
“I wanted to cultivate the sword intent at first, but I heard from Senior Brother Luochen that you’ve also taught him other sword techniques that are stronger than the Four Thunder Sword Technique.”
“I thought that it would be better to learn a new sword technique. Eldest Senior Brother, teach me.”
Chen Lingrou said.
Su Changyu was speechless.
‘What?’
“Four Thunder sword momentum?”
‘I’ve only been gone for less than half a month.’
‘Yet, you’ve already learned the Four Thunder sword momentum?’
‘Are you lying to me?’
‘Do you think you’re Ye Ping too?’
‘You’re just my ordinary little Junior Sister.”
Su Changyu was confused.
“Show it to me once.”
He didn’t believe that Chen Lingrou had condensed the Four Thunder sword momentum.
Clang!
Without saying anything, Chen Lingrou raised her arm, and in an instant, an ordinary metal sword appeared. She then swung it backwards.
In an instant, there were sounds of thunder.
The Four Thunder sword momentum appeared.
Su Changyu was speechless.
“Eldest Senior Brother, how is it?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, why aren’t you talking?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, why are you looking at the stars again?”
“Eldest Senior Brother, are you afraid that I will outcla.s.s you and so you don’t want to teach me anymore?”
On the front cliff.
Chen Lingrou eventually left, somewhat exasperated.
On the other hand, Su Changyu looked at the stars alone with his back facing them, tilting his head 45 degrees to the sky as he tried to hold his tears back.
He was feeling terrible.
At the same time, In the guest room of the Qingyun Dao Sect.
The emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty was quietly watching Su Changyu who was on the front cliff.
Looking at Su Changyu’s lean and lonely back, the emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty was incredibly upset and somehow felt miserable.
His eyes were full of heartache.
He decided that he would protect Su Changyu well regardless of whether he was his own flesh and blood or not.
‘Changyu is so pitiful.’