Make Me Take a Sixteen-Year-Old Girl as My Teacher? What a Joke!

Had the system really arrived five hundred years early?

Thinking of the Dog System's occasional insane notifications, Qin Yang gradually came to understand.

Whether it was the Undying Cockroach or the Purple Soul Demon Spider... these creatures might be weak today, easily crushed into pulp beneath a single foot.

But five hundred years later, that would be another matter.

After being tempered by centuries of time, coupled with the enhancement of this world's Star Power—

No matter how weak a creature was, as long as it survived for hundreds of years—

Even a pig would probably evolve into a powerful Beast King or Beast Emperor!

"Damn, isn't this way too bugged?!"

The more Qin Yang thought about it, the more shocked he became!

This Dog System really did not play by any rules!

"Maybe I blamed the Dog System before."

Qin Yang shook his head with a bitter smile, suddenly understanding.

It seemed the Dog System really had not lied to him.

The cockroach and little spider he had stepped on really were existences comparable to Beast Kings and Beast Emperors.

It was just that they would only reach the form it described five hundred years later.

These future overlords were nothing but weak ants in the present, five hundred years before their time.

Five hundred years east of the river, five hundred years west of the river.

Do not bully...

Well, he had stomped them to death five hundred years ahead of schedule.

"So I've made a contribution to humanity too?"

Beast Kings and Beast Emperors were absolutely enormous threats to humanity.

He had eliminated danger in its cradle.

And that girl really was an Empress-level expert.

Just like those future Beast Kings, she would only reach the level displayed by the system five hundred years later.

"Does this count as glimpsing the future in some sense?"

Qin Yang kept his expression neutral and glanced back at the girl.

At that moment—

A prompt suddenly rang out in his mind again, urging him onward.

"Ding! Detected that the host is moving away from the Empress! Please heed the advice and quickly return to the Empress's side to kowtow and take her as your teacher!"

"This heaven-sent opportunity will only come once! Do not miss it!"

"Otherwise, the host will regret it for the rest of his life!"

The system's tone carried a hint of frustration, as if he were about to miss an enormous opportunity.

After hearing the system's urging, Qin Yang fell silent.

According to the system's prompt, this girl before him would become an Empress five hundred years from now, possessing astonishing strength.

But asking him to become her disciple now? Come on...

He was an Innate Realm Expert now! And it wanted him to take a sixteen-year-old girl as his teacher?

What kind of joke was that? "No."

Qin Yang waved his hand irritably, trying to dismiss the voice in his mind.

Setting aside the age gap between him and Li Zixuan—

They were complete strangers. If he suddenly asked a sixteen-year-old girl to take him as her disciple, how could she possibly agree?!

She might even take him for a lunatic.

If he made a fool of himself and left a bad impression on her, completing this apprenticeship mission would become even more impossible.

And more importantly—

The instant Qin Yang approached Li Zixuan, he had already noticed her cultivation.

She was only at the Acquired Realm Eighth Stage... "Uh, all right. Reaching the Acquired Realm Eighth Stage right after turning sixteen is indeed a little outrageous..."

"As expected of the future Empress."

Qin Yang pondered this in puzzlement, but he had to admit that she was talented.

Li Zixuan's aptitude was truly impressive.

At such a young age, she had already reached the Acquired Realm Eighth Stage. Entering the Innate Realm was only a matter of time.

With talent like hers, no one in all of Jianghai City could rival her.

But becoming her disciple was still out of the question.

There was nothing he could learn from her anyway.

After Qin Yang left, the onlookers around them gradually dispersed as well.

The usual tranquility returned around Li Zixuan.

"He's finally gone."

She raised her eyes to look at Qin Yang's departing back, not taking the little incident to heart.

After all, those librarians had ordinary identities and were merely common people. They were not worth disturbing her state of mind over.

She was the publicly recognized number one genius of Jianghai Martial Arts Academy!

She would not lower herself to argue with a library administrator over something so trivial.

Li Zixuan tucked the hair beside her ear behind her ear, then took out her earphones and put them on, continuing to read the sword technique manual in her hands.

Gentle Daoist Music played through the earphones. Cinnabar Song, Startling Swan's grand human voices chanted supreme sword ballads, complementing the detailed illustrations and explanations of the sword techniques in her book.

This allowed her comprehension of the Sword Dao to advance rapidly.

These unique Sword Dao melodies were all resources her family had compiled and sent to her.

They had woven together the insights of collected Sword Dao Masters into songs, hoping to forge Li Zixuan's Sword Heart through them.

Ever since she was little, she had received the finest resources.

Even after entering Jianghai Martial Arts Academy, she had studied under its principal, a Sword Dao Expert, specializing solely in the Sword Dao.

But in truth—

Li Zixuan had not liked the Sword Dao in the past.

Under the crushing pressure from her family throughout her childhood, she had almost never had time to do anything she enjoyed.

Her family had long declined over the past century. Only in Li Zixuan's generation had a Sword Dao genius like her emerged.

Thus—

Everyone's hopes had been placed upon her shoulders.

There was no entertainment, only countless expectant gazes and endless days and nights spent holding a sword and comprehending the Dao.

Anyone would grow sick of such a life after living it for sixteen years.

She was no exception.

Until that day... Li Zixuan secretly looked around. Seeing that no one was approaching nearby, she carefully opened her phone and stared blankly at a photograph.

It showed a mountain peak that had been sheared flat by a sharp weapon, its cut smooth and even.

The swordsman had used heaven-reaching power to sever the peak with a single strike, slicing off its summit.

This photograph was one Li Zixuan had secretly taken at the time, from extremely close by.

That mountain had long since been sealed off by the Star Police Department. The photos online had all been taken from several miles away and were only barely usable.

Though they looked shocking, they remained somewhat blurry.

The reason the photograph in Li Zixuan's hand had been taken from so close and preserved until now—

Was entirely thanks to the principal stepping in.

"One Sword Breaks Peak..."

Looking at the photograph in her hand, Li Zixuan's heart pounded as she imagined the elegant bearing of that senior's strike.

For a moment, she was utterly captivated.

Ever since she had witnessed the severed peak that day, she had never been able to forget it. Only then had she finally developed an interest in the Sword Dao.

So this was the power one could possess after mastering the Sword Dao! As long as one cultivated it to the utmost limit—

One could naturally cleave through every obstacle ahead, with nothing able to withstand one's blade!

Without realizing it, a seed of the Sword Dao had sprouted in Li Zixuan's heart.

She quietly put away her phone, then continued reading the contents of her swordsmanship book with focus.

"One day, I'll become a Peerless Swordsman like that senior too... Then I'll personally seek guidance from them!"

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