Chapter 226: Special admission student Ding Yi
"What are you standing around for? Hurry up!"
Hearing Mo Qingxue urging them on ahead, the three children excitedly scrambled to their feet and ran after her.
"Qingxue, did you just draw your sword and kill a fly?"
"Qingxue, you're amazing!"
"Qingxue, are we going to learn that too? Is Shaoge as amazing as you?"
Their enthusiastic chatter was nothing like their earlier attitude.
Upstairs, beside the grand armchair, Old Master Mo could no longer hold back once he saw Mo Qingxue leave with the children.
"Shaoge, don't you think making those children get up before dawn to practice martial arts is too harsh?"
Mo Shaoge had known his grandfather would ask that.
"Grandpa, don't you think Qingxue and I have improved incredibly quickly?"
Old Master Mo stopped putting on airs.
"Incredibly quickly doesn't begin to describe it. I'm old, but I still know how far martial arts can take someone. Yet you two now... If you told me you'd eaten some heavenly treasure while running wild out in the wilderness, I'd believe you!"
"Heh heh..."
Mo Shaoge gave a mysterious smile.
"Actually, Grandpa, you're half right."
He leaned closer to his grandfather and spoke softly.
"Grandpa, what you knew before wasn't wrong, but in this world... some things in this world defy common sense. Qingxue and I met a true master who lives apart from the world!"
Old Master Mo instinctively lowered his voice too, asking in a hushed tone.
"A true master who lives apart from the world? What sort of person?"
"I can't tell you that, Grandpa. Just know that Qingxue and I had an extraordinary encounter. It's also why we suddenly changed our ways."
Using terms the old man could understand, Mo Shaoge described the world's crisis as