"...Aren't these all novels?" Cao Yuan frowned. "How could they be textbooks?"
"These are the textbooks." Zhou Ping spoke calmly. "Your training assignment this morning is to read."
Lin Qiye and the others exchanged glances.
"But how can reading novels improve our strength?" Lin Qiye could not help asking.
"Why not?" Zhou Ping asked doubtfully. "I learned all my swordsmanship from novels."
"..." Lin Qiye frowned slightly. "Are you joking?"
"I never joke." Zhou Ping said earnestly, "My swordsmanship really was learned from novels... Isn't yours?"
Zhou Ping's eyes were filled with confusion.
Looking into his eyes, Lin Qiye even began to feel that gaining power from novels was the most natural thing in the world...
Lin Qiye held it in for a long while before finally squeezing out two words: "No."
Zhou Ping pondered for a moment. "Perhaps you should try."
Lin Qiye and the others looked at one another, then helplessly each took a novel, sat down on little stools, and began reading seriously.
Since this was the training assignment arranged for them by the Sword Saint, they only had to follow it. Whether or not the training itself was effective was beside the point; if they refused the training, the Night Watchmen would never let them leave.
Resist? There was no point. The five of them together were not enough for Zhou Ping to cut down with a single sword...
Except Jialan.
Lin Qiye chose The Moon Also Shines for the Blade, not only because he had read several of the others before, but also because this book involved blade techniques... If what Zhou Ping said was true, perhaps the contents of this book really could improve his strength.
The moment that thought surfaced in Lin Qiye's mind, he even began to wonder whether he had gone