Lan Xin raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean, stealing his techniques? Lin Yi showed off in front of me himself. I learned them after watching once."
Xu Tong did not know whether to laugh or cry. If Lin Yi heard that, he really might smash his head against a wall.
He had spent so many days grasping something before finally managing to learn it, yet she had learned it after a single look.
"All right! Tell me, what's your relationship with Lin Yi?"
"What do you think? You're so shallow!" Lan Xin replied. "Do you think it can only be romance between a man and a woman? He helped me, so I'm returning the favor."
"Fine, that's a bond of fate too. Interested in becoming his fellow disciple?" Xu Tong asked.
Lan Xin exclaimed, "You... you want me to take you as my master?"
"Yes!" Xu Tong answered. "With talent like yours, you don't really need to work at comprehension. Or rather, as long as you're interested, learning anything should be easy for you."
"Not really." Lan Xin chuckled. "There are loads of things I'm no good at, like cooking, washing clothes, making money, and so on. I've never accomplished anything. Oh, and I'm no good at studying either."
"It was precisely because I couldn't do this or that that my family gave up on me."
Xu Tong suddenly found her fascinating. Someone like her was a true genius!
Heaven had closed off all her other avenues, but in cultivation alone, it had allowed her to reach the pinnacle!
"Your family gave up on you, so how did you learn all this?"
"By watching!" Lan Xin answered. "I was hungry, so I could only steal food, and then people beat me. Later, a rapist appeared in Mai Province. He