Clearing Doubts and a Teaching Demonstration

Clearing Doubts and a Teaching Demonstration

"A Sheng!"

Less than two minutes after Chen Sheng sent the message, he heard Li Chenghu calling out.

The man was waving as he walked out from behind the main gate.

"Master."

Chen Sheng returned his smile and walked over.

"You came quite—"

Li Chenghu's voice abruptly cut off halfway through when he got close enough to see Chen Sheng.

He frowned.

"A Sheng, is something wrong?"

At that,

Chen Sheng's heart tightened.

He had nearly forgotten.

With Li Chenghu's years of professional experience, he could probably notice even the slightest change in Chen Sheng.

Chen Sheng's mind raced.

The next second, he rubbed his nose, his expression growing somewhat dim.

"Master."

"I've been thinking about what happened last night."

"That Xu Ziwen... was he really such a vicious Wanted Criminal?"

"After discovering someone in his room, he didn't drag innocent people into it. Instead, he—"

"If I ever accidentally killed someone too, would I become like him?"

Faced with Chen Sheng's question,

Li Chenghu put an arm around his shoulders and led him into the Martial Security Bureau.

"What you're thinking about now is something every Qi Sense User, myself included, has considered."

"Say a person was originally dirt poor, then suddenly gained a huge amount of wealth. They'd likely start spending in retaliation."

"They'd buy things they could never afford before, experience everything they once only dared to admire from afar, and use money to satisfy their desires."

"Most people are like that."

"Appetite, lust, greed—all kinds of desires."

"It is these desires that have driven humanity, from beginning to end, to constantly plunder, slaughter, and wage war, eventually making us the rulers of this planet."

At this point,

Li Chenghu gave Chen Sheng's shoulder a firm squeeze.

"But A Sheng, remember this."

"The reason humanity has the civilized society it does today is because of the persistence of a minority."

"Because of those humans who were never driven by desire."

"Do you understand?"

Li Chenghu stared directly into Chen Sheng's eyes, his expression extremely serious.

He seemed to be instructing him, yet also warning him.

Chen Sheng looked thoughtful.

After pondering for a moment, he slowly nodded.

"I'll think about it carefully."

Chen Sheng did not immediately give an affirmative answer.

Yet upon hearing this, a smile instantly returned to Li Chenghu's face.

"Come on."

"I'll take you to meet your students."

"When the time comes, hit them if you need to. Hit them hard. Don't hold back."

As he spoke,

he released Chen Sheng's shoulder and strode deeper inside.

Huh? Chen Sheng hurried after him, a trace of confusion appearing on his face.

Wasn't he here to teach martial arts?

Why did he need to hit people? Clearly,

Li Chenghu had no intention of explaining.

After passing along the path beside the flowerbeds, the two arrived before a small building behind the Martial Security Bureau headquarters.

"This is the Martial Security Bureau training ground. The people you'll be teaching are in Room 302 on the third floor."

Smack! Li Chenghu heavily slapped Chen Sheng on the back, making him stagger.

"Go on!"

"After you're done, I'll transfer your wages directly through WeChat."

Chen Sheng turned around.

The smile on Li Chenghu's face carried a deeper meaning.

A bad feeling immediately rose in his heart.

But he was already here.

Chen Sheng could only steel himself and walk into the building.

He made his way to the third floor.

"Kid Chen, over here."

Chen Sheng had been about to follow the room numbers to find 302 when he saw Brother Qiang, as tall and broad as a doorframe, standing some distance away and waving at him.

"Brother Qiang, what are you doing here?"

Chen Sheng cried out in surprise.

Ever since joining Xing Wu Martial Arts Hall, Chen Sheng had gone to the gym in the afternoons, so he had not seen Brother Qiang again.

"I'm the boxing coach here. I also handle some copywriting work on the side."

At that,

Chen Sheng nodded in realization.

No wonder Brother Qiang was so familiar with Li Chenghu. They both worked at the Martial Security Bureau.

"I don't know what your master was thinking, sending you here to teach these troublemakers."

"I'm free today, so I'll watch from outside."

"If you run into something you can't handle later, I'll step in."

Brother Qiang grinned wide and thumped his chest with loud bangs.

But rather than reassuring Chen Sheng, his words only left him more bewildered.

What exactly was going on? Still confused, Chen Sheng instinctively stepped into the training ground.

Whoosh! The moment he entered,

sixteen eyes turned toward him in unison.

"Hello, Coach!!!"

As though they had planned it beforehand,

the instant Chen Sheng walked in, an ear-splitting shout greeted him.

It made his ears itch.

Chen Sheng dug at his ears and looked over his students.

Most of them openly wore challenging expressions in their eyes.

"Mm, hello."

After what happened last night, even Chen Sheng's mental resilience had improved considerably.

Facing the hostile stares of so many people, he smiled and nodded before walking up to the students.

"Eh, it's you?"

Then,

he spotted Xu Rou among the students.

Xu Rou looked equally excited.

Before Chen Sheng arrived, Brother Qiang had warned them that the new martial arts coach had only trained for seven days, so they should not take things too far.

When she first heard that,

Xu Rou had been somewhat disappointed. She had thought that someone who had only trained in martial arts for seven days could not possibly teach her what she wanted to learn.

But she had not expected the person to be Chen Sheng.

"Hello, Coach!"

Xu Rou's crisp voice sounded far better than the other students' ducklike squawks.

Chen Sheng smiled and nodded in response.

He checked the time. It was eight in the morning.

According to the schedule Li Chenghu had given him, he needed to teach here for four hours, until noon.

"It's about time, so we'll just—"

Whoosh! Before Chen Sheng could finish speaking, he saw a hand rise from the crowd.

It belonged to the buzz-cut young man who had previously opposed learning martial arts.

"Reporting, Coach."

"We don't know much about martial arts, nor do we understand what benefits training can bring us!"

"We hope Coach can demonstrate it for us!"

At that,

Chen Sheng froze for a moment.

Didn't the Martial Security Bureau have any martial arts materials? But the buzz-cut young man's earnest expression did not seem fake.

Before Chen Sheng could answer,

Step! Another student stepped forward.

He was a young man of short stature, dark-skinned but solidly built.

"Reporting, Instructor. My name is Wang Dazhuang, and I am willing to cooperate with the instructor's demonstration."

The two seemed to have coordinated beforehand. One made the suggestion, and the other stepped forward.

They gave Chen Sheng no chance to refuse at all.

Seeing this,

Chen Sheng immediately understood what they were after.

They wanted to see just how capable he really was.

They called it a demonstration, but it was really a sparring match.

If Chen Sheng lost, how could he still have the face to teach martial arts here?

No wonder Li Chenghu had acted so mysteriously earlier. Even Brother Qiang had been acting strange.

Once Chen Sheng understood all this, he relaxed instead.

This was his first time being a teacher, and he had not known where to begin.

But since these students had proposed a plan themselves,

that could not have been better.

"No problem."

He immediately nodded in agreement.