Chapter 417: Teaching (2)
Su Yu's willpower churned as he produced praise after praise toward Marquis Xia in his mind. All the praise came from deep inside him. Marquis Xia looked at the kid and merely maintained a faint smile without saying anything.
After a while, he finally spoke, "Hide your disgusting thoughts. I can teach you the cultivation method, but cultivation methods are never things to be taught lightly. Defeating the puppet only gives you the qualification to learn it. But if you want to leave with the cultivation method, tell me. What can you give for it?"
Su Yu cautiously said, "Marquis, I'm only a student..."
"That's fine. You can sell your body. For example, you can serve in the army for 20 years after your graduation."
"Umm...Marquis..." Su Yu softly said, "I don't even know if I can live that long. What if I can't? That would be a loss for you! In that case, you might have to protect me for 20 years to not make a loss. Is this worth it?"
"..."
Marquis Xia looked at Su Yu silently. He had never heard of such an argument before. This kid was truly a genius in sophistry.
Suddenly, he recalled something. This was the same kid who had scammed a large amount of money from the single character faction. This kid was definitely a lot more treacherous than he let on!
"Tell me, then. What can you give?"
"If you can teach me this cultivation method, my grandteacher will teach Brother Huyou a cultivation method as well."
"Cultivation method?"
"Yeah." Su Yu seriously said, "Before this, my grandteacher already agreed that we can exchange cultivation methods. My grandteacher had spent 50 years creating the Thirty-six Souls - Heaven Shaking Sutra. It is a foundation cultural art with 36 apertures. I believe it is valuable enough to be traded for the Sky Sundering Saber."
Marquis Xia frowned and looked at Hong Tan.
Hong Tan continued looking at the ceiling. But when he noticed that Marquis Xia was still staring at him after a long while, he smiled and said, "So is that agreeable? Naturally, only Xia Huyou can be taught. It's the same case as your Xia Family's Sky Sundering Saber where those taught by you can't teach it to anyone else. I'll give Xia Huyou the cultivation manual once you give Su Yu the Sky Sundering Saber's manual."
"Where did you get it?"
"I created it."
Marquis Xia snorted coldly and said, "Are you trying to lie in front of me? If you are really capable of creating something like this, you won't be Hong Tan anymore."
"What do you mean?"
"Hong Tan is not someone with such ability. Which part of my statement are you not understanding?"
"..."
Hong Tan started cursing inwardly.
Marquis Xia's face fell instantly.New novel chapters are published on
Hong Tan was getting tired so he said, "Just tell me if you agree to this trade or not. If not, piss off."
Marquis Xia ignored Hong Tan and asked Su Yu, "Is this the same cultural art you talked about the other day? I noticed that Huyou seemed to have gotten a new cultivation manual after that. The so-called Xia Family's cultural art you mentioned was actually this Heaven Shaking Sutra, right?"
Almost. In that case, there were still some people out there who were stronger than them. Understanding dawned on Su Yu. That was understandable. After all, Great Xia King wasn't the strongest human around.
Nevertheless, he was still slightly excited. This was a top-tier heaven-grade cultivation method. This was the strongest cultivation method he had. It was even stronger than the Body Strengthening Art. And the supplementary martial technique would probably not be any weaker than the Time technique.
Marquis Xia was starting to get tired of this. He yawned and said, "This is it. Just remember to pass the Soul Devouring Art to Huyou later. Also, you only need to teach Huyou your Heaven Shaking Sutra. We won't steal it from you. Similarly, you are not allowed to teach anyone else the Sky Sundering Saber."
"I understand."
Su Yu gave the marquis a bow.
Hong Tan was happy to see this happen. Everything would be fine as long as they didn't need to pay. Fortunately, Su Yu had something valuable enough to trade for it. Getting this cultivation method would have been much harder otherwise.
"Then we'll be taking our leave."
Hong Tan wasted no time and left with Su Yu. He didn't want to spend more time here as he could see the odd look in Fatty Xia's eyes when looking at him.
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After the two left, Marquis Xia yawned lazily and said, "Nephew, are you aware that you're supposed to be in seclusion? Why are you moving around all the time? Do you call this seclusion?"
Xia Longwu stepped out of thin air and said, "Second Uncle, we need to figure out if there is really a ruin at Nanyuan. This Su Yu might be a future Sunmoon. When he grows strong, he will add to the strength of our Great Xia."
"I know that. You don't need to keep reminding me about it." Marquis Xia impatiently said, "Stop ordering me around. If you don't like how I do things, you're free to end your seclusion. Also, spend your own money to heal Xia Yuwen's injuries. I'm too poor for that."
Xia Longwu did not say anything about that.
After thinking about it, Marquis Xia said, "Huyou is still too weak. Should we let him advance through physical cultivation first?"
"There is no rush." Xia Longwu calmly said, "Give him some pressure and let him solve this issue himself. Members of the Xia Family can only rely on themselves if they want to grow truly strong. We have already given him everything we can."
"Sure."
Marquis Xia was indifferent. He started walking away. While walking, he asked, "Zhou Potian is near his breakthrough as well, right? The Zhou Family sure is good at producing geniuses. Both Zhou Potian and Zhou Polong have managed to reach this step. Do you think I should start cultivating my willpower as well?"
"Sure."
Xia Longwu returned the same noncommittal answer before vanishing into thin air.
Marquis Xia merely curled his mouth. Sure his ass.
He shook his head and sighed. They had a lot of powerful experts from the previous generation in Great Xia, but their newer generation was far weaker. He started wondering if he should give up on willpower cultivation and focus on physical cultivation.
This encounter did cause him to remember Su Yu's name, but he still didn't care too much about Su Yu. Great Xia had never lacked geniuses.
And Su Yu could only rely on himself in the path of cultivation. He wouldn't be able to catch more of Marquis Xia's attention before reaching the Mountainsea Realm. A future Sunmoon was not the same as a current Sunmoon.
But he was quite impressed with the kid's business acuity. Perhaps he could recruit the kid into the Xia Trade Company.
