Chapter 223

In a duel, when the opponent made one sword strike, he could withstand the equivalent of two from others; Wen Xu's movements were even faster.

Venerable Yanshan stared fixedly at his disciple.

"Why is Master staring at your disciple like that?"

Venerable Yanshan did not hide it at all. "Your master has discovered that you do know how to use some rather... normal words." Rather than like before, when Venerable Yanshan asked one question and Chen Zui answered one, and not even three blows of a stick could knock out a scrap of anything useful.

"This disciple does not understand what Master is saying." Chen Zui felt that he had clearly only been answering his master's questions. Why had his master started saying all sorts of irrelevant things?

"Your master does not expect you to understand. Enough, tell me about your understanding of yourself."

Chen Zui's response was, "Huh?"

"You can speak quite coherently about others, but what about yourself? And what of your blade?"

During the time Chen Zui had been stuck at Foundation Establishment, every senior brother and sister on Blade Peak, even the lazy calico cat by the entrance, had been observed by him. Yet when it came to himself, he had never truly observed himself carefully. It was not that he had never considered it, but he felt... There's nothing wrong with me, right? I've always been like this. I was able to improve before, so I definitely can in the future. I must only be lacking something everyone else has. As long as I find it, I'll successfully reach Foundation Establishment.

"I..."

"My blade is plain and unadorned, but it is very sharp. I like it very much. In my heart, nothing can replace it." As he spoke, he even cast his master an accusing