Oh No, He Learned the Real Thing!

"Do you want to study under me?"

"Uncle Wang, to be honest, the majestic sight of you forking down one mighty deliveryman after another beneath the night sky has deeply captivated me! I want to become a good security guard like you!"

Su Yuan said with a face full of admiration to Uncle Wang, the security guard currently on patrol.

Uncle Wang patted Su Yuan on the shoulder and said in a weathered tone:

"There aren't many steady kids like you anymore. Compared to others, you've taken at least fifty fewer years of detours."

"People all say security guards suffer, security guards tire themselves out, that it's work only old relics too worn-out to compete would do. But only after truly becoming a security guard do you realize that the glory of youth is nothing more than passing clouds and flowing smoke. Plain and ordinary is what's real."

Watching the other man sigh with emotion, Su Yuan muttered to himself that Old Wang was a man with stories of his own.

"You're right, Uncle Wang. I want to join our community's Security Department now and learn at your side."

Su Yuan wore an earnest expression, then put on a look of heartfelt regret.

"Unfortunately, I'm still a student and can only spare time after six in the evening. I can't listen to your teachings at every moment."

Uncle Wang laughed heartily.

"It's fine, take it slow. I'm already very gratified that you have this kind of determination. Come on, Uncle will take you to handle the Part-time Job paperwork."

[Task: Take a Demon as Master]

[Task Progress: 30%]

After completing the paperwork at the property management Security Department and receiving a security uniform and an Anti-riot Fork, Su Yuan walked through the community with Uncle Wang, receiving his teachings both by word and example.

"Su Yuan, if you want to become a qualified security guard, you need to cultivate fine fork skills! Riding a fork through the air and forking without wounding are merely the basics."

"When you can break ten thousand techniques with one fork, guard a pass with one fork, and leave ten thousand deliverymen unable to pass, then your fork skills will have reached great mastery."

Su Yuan listened attentively, and the Task Progress shot upward in rapid leaps.

Judging by how quickly the Task Progress was rising, Su Yuan estimated that he would not need to wait until his fork skills reached great mastery. As long as he learned all of Uncle Wang's insights into fork skills, the task could be completed.

After Uncle Wang finished demonstrating his treasured Eighteen Divine Fork Styles, he said smugly:

"Kid, just learn! Learn it and you won't make a peep!"

"You've found the right door by studying under your Uncle Wang. Back in the day, your Uncle Wang was the instructor of eight hundred thousand security guards. My disciples were spread across every community, apartment complex, company, even schools, Shopping Malls, and hospitals!"

"Uncle Wang is mighty."

Su Yuan immediately applauded, fully delivering that emotional validation.

But his thoughts had become lively. Even if only ten or twenty percent of Old Wang's boasting was true, the number of security guards who had graduated under him would still be considerable.

Thinking carefully, those security guards Su Yuan had encountered while delivering food all faintly carried Old Wang's style when they made their moves.

Now that he had learned Old Wang's Eighteen Divine Fork Styles... hehe, when I deliver food, we were taught by the same master. You won't be able to break my moves—what are you going to use to catch me?

However, when Su Yuan looked at his Task Progress, he discovered that the bar had only reached 90%. It was still short by a small stretch before completion.

Could it be that Old Wang was holding back?

Seeing that Old Wang had no intention of continuing to teach fork skills and instead began riding his flying fork, taking him to patrol the various points around the community, Su Yuan could not help but grow anxious.

After turning the matter over and over in his mind, Su Yuan carefully asked:

"Uncle Wang, your Eighteen Divine Fork Styles are indeed exceptionally exquisite, but they're all just external techniques. As they say, cultivate martial arts without cultivating the heart, and in the end it all comes to nothing. Don't we have some kind of mental cultivation method?"

"A mental cultivation method?"

Old Wang stopped the flying fork beneath his feet and looked at Su Yuan in surprise. Two sharp rays suddenly burst from his cloudy eyes as he praised him:

"Su Yuan, Kid, your comprehension is extraordinary! So many of my disciples have spent decades without ever asking me this question!"

"You guessed correctly. I do indeed possess a set of mental cultivation methods, and I do not pass it on lightly. But since you have exposed the matter, my mental cultivation method is fated to be yours."

Su Yuan was speechless. He had only asked casually—there really was a mental cultivation method?

Then he saw Uncle Wang glance around. Only after confirming that there was no one nearby did he lower his voice and say:

"My ultimate mental cultivation method has only one sentence. Listen carefully—at the right time, fork the right person."

The instant Su Yuan heard this mental cultivation mantra, his task panel instantly filled to the brim, reaching one hundred percent.

[Task: Take a Demon as Master (Completed)]

[Task Reward: Randomly raise one martial art or Dao technique possessed by the host to the perfected stage (Distributed)]

However, although the system had clearly stated that the reward had been distributed, he felt no obvious change.

When will this skill level up? How does it level up? Will there be special effects?

Su Yuan muttered inwardly.

Yet in Uncle Wang's eyes, this pensive expression looked as though Su Yuan were contemplating the true meaning of that mental cultivation method.

He gave a light cough and said blandly, putting on an air of unfathomable profundity:

"The essence of this mental cultivation method is simple. Take those deliverymen as an example. They don't put the deliveries into the delivery lockers, but instead lower their heads and charge straight for the residents' homes. Is that truly their own intention? Of course not. It is at the residents' instruction."

"The moment those deliverymen enter the community, they should actually be forked down. But then the residents' demands cannot be met. If things go on like this, won't they develop resentment toward security guards like us?"

"But after the deliverymen hand the food over to the residents, if I fork them down then, it both serves the residents' interests and demonstrates the usefulness of security guards like us. It might even let the deliverymen earn tips from the residents... wouldn't that make everyone happy?"

Su Yuan: "..."

He understood!

A great, thorough enlightenment!

Being a security guard wasn't about fighting and killing! It was about human relationships and worldly ways!

It moved! The fork moved!

"Many of my previous apprentices were highly talented, but precisely because of that, they were arrogant and proud. They only knew how to throw their weight around in front of outsiders like food delivery riders and couriers, yet forgot about the residents' feelings, often drawing complaints."

"Su Yuan, you must take this as a warning..."

Security guard Uncle Wang spoke earnestly as he looked at Su Yuan.

But when he saw what Su Yuan was doing now, he froze in utter shock!

All around Su Yuan, fork shadows whirled through the air. The roars of dragons and tigers howled, while the sounds of wind and thunder exploded!

A straight thrust had warmth, a swung fork had force, a flying fork had precision, a raised fork had height, a slanted fork had angles—every fork had attitude!

This, this already carried the bearing of a grandmaster!

He was no ordinary beginner. Even fork-wielding prodigies who had trained diligently for over a year possessed nowhere near Su Yuan's current mastery of the fork!

He had only just taught Su Yuan the Eighteen Divine Fork Styles!

Security guard Uncle Wang had seen many geniuses, but before Su Yuan, those geniuses would have to call him a genius!

"Could it be... he truly comprehended something real from my mental cultivation method? Or is he the legendary Innate Security Guard Sacred Body?!"

Uncle Wang muttered in disbelief, his face full of shock.