Chapter 136: Wisdom Also Follows People
Huang Goudan didn’t listen to Guan Shan’s advice, but instead returned to his room to carefully study the notes he had taken.
A few days ago, Shi Feizhe taught him martial arts.
He chose the very cool sword energy.
Shi Feizhe taught him the 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》, but he didn’t learn it.
Shi Feizhe taught him the 《Supreme Wisdom Sutra》 again, but he still didn’t learn it.
Huang Goudan was a little depressed.
He was at the bottom of the class during assassin training.
He barely survived by being a prop for others in the killing class and a test subject in the poison class, avoiding becoming a member of the back mountain.
Afterward, he couldn’t do anything well, except for eating, where he was number one. He was criticized every day in meetings, and he had become accustomed to this kind of life.
Because he once overheard the Grand Chief Manager say that people like him ate too much every day, and killing him with a single strike would result in a sunk cost that was too high. The higher-ups would blame them for not discovering it sooner and would deduct their bonuses.
It’s better to try and fool them.
What is a sunk cost? Why fool them? He didn’t understand.
He also didn’t understand why he occasionally still had achievements, even though he hadn’t done anything.
Life went on like this. After all, people had to live.
Until that day, when he met Academy Head Shi while going to the toilet during a meeting, his fate changed. What was even more surprising was that Academy Head Shi was willing to teach him martial arts.
Everyone in Ghostly Manor practiced the 《Ghostly Saber Technique》. He was very slow at learning it.
“Academy Head Shi, am I too stupid?”
After Academy Head Shi taught him several sets of techniques in a row, he said to Shi Feizhe in despair.
“You’re not stupid, maybe I didn’t explain it well!” Shi Feizhe persuaded, “There are many concepts in the 《Supreme Wisdom Sutra》, it’s quite profound, it’s normal that you don’t understand. I’ll explain it in detail in a few days.”
Thus, there was today’s lesson.
But Huang Goudan still couldn’t understand.
What to do if he couldn’t understand? Then copy the content he didn’t understand. This was what Two Four Nine told him when he was young.
As for Two Four Nine, it seemed that he never came back after the first time he went to Qiuyang City in the north to carry out a mission.
Huang Goudan carefully copied the notes, trying to understand the concepts of “materialism and idealism,” “objective and subjective.”
He couldn’t understand, so he copied it again.
He didn’t know how many times he had drawn the symbol Φ, over and over again, until he was sleepy, and it was already the hour of the Rat.
He only then remembered that he had something to do tomorrow!
If he didn’t sleep, he would delay tomorrow’s business.
Huang Goudan fell asleep quickly and soundly.
In his dream, his mind was full of the Φ he had drawn, so he dreamed of wisdom.
What is wisdom?
Everyone has their own understanding.
People at the age of twenty, thirty, and forty have different views on the same thing.
Wisdom is not static, nor is it fixed, standing there waiting for people to discover.
Rather, it changes with people’s cognition, it will also follow people, like a shadow!
When wisdom knocks on your heart, you will understand wisdom.
When you accept wisdom, have doubts, and think, then you will understand supreme wisdom.
Supreme wisdom only appears when you think.
Now supreme wisdom told him, is there a possibility…
You are not ordinary!
You just haven’t encountered something you’re good at!
Old Man Fan was also thinking the same thing. For an old fox who was counting on slacking off to save enough money for retirement, this transition period really made him scratch his head.
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Don’t let his appearance of only being in his sixties fool you, he was actually over eighty!
He practiced the 《Eternal Spring Life Nurturing Technique》, which was most effective for health preservation. With his Qi Sea cultivation, he could definitely live to one hundred and forty-nine years old.
Sometimes, he also thought that living a long life was not necessarily a good thing.
If he were an ordinary person, he could just enjoy family happiness with his children and grandchildren at home.
He couldn’t. He had to earn money.
Earn money for himself, and also for his children and grandchildren.
His sons were already over fifty, and his grandsons already had sons!
The money he earned in his early years had been spent by his several sons and a bunch of grandsons. Now, most of the expenses of the big family fell on him, the “grandfather” and “great-grandfather.”
There was no other way. His sons were over sixty, and they were all good-for-nothing See the Truth trash!
They were even worse than him!
Standing together, people would mistake them for brothers, and he would be the younger one!
He didn’t have several sons; he had found himself a bunch of fathers.
“Work hard for another twenty years, and when my great-grandsons grow up, I can probably retire, right?”
He often encouraged himself.
Every time he went home and saw his great-grandsons so cute, he couldn’t help but spend a lot of money.
In the middle of the night, Fan Xiang sighed, turned over, and continued to think.
Now he was caught between Academy Head Shi and the Jiang family. If he wasn’t careful, Academy Head Shi and the Jiang family would fight, and he would be the fish caught in the crossfire.
Oh, they had already fought!
In the first round, the Jiang family lost!
But the Jiang family would definitely not give up. Although the Jiang family only had Granny Jiang as a True Realm expert, they had quite a few Zhoutian martial artists.
For example, the Second Chief Manager of Ghostly Manor, plus Jiang Ning herself could find some helpers. At that time, four or five people would gang up on Academy Head Shi, and Academy Head Shi would definitely be in danger.
Logically speaking, he, an old fox of the Jiang family, should firmly stand on the side of the Jiang family.
But… in recent years, the Jiang family had become increasingly unfriendly to those old foxes who had been with them for many years. They deducted more benefits, and the salary was not as much as before.
Because the Jiang family knew that these old people had nowhere else to go if they left the Jiang family.
On the other hand, Academy Head Shi, although he seemed abstract, would see everything you did.
He knew you were working hard.
Even if he occasionally saw you slacking off, he wouldn’t blame you, let alone deduct your salary.
Everything was good, except that he was a bit petty sometimes.
Between the new employer and the old employer, Fan Xiang shamefully wavered.
Although he had only worked with the new employer for more than ten days, the egalitarian attitude of Academy Head Shi, compared to Jiang Ning’s condescending way of speaking, formed a stark contrast.
“Sigh, working is getting harder and harder. Where were these damn things before?”
Thinking about these things, Fan Xiang gradually fell asleep.
Being so conflicted that he didn’t sleep until so late today had already violated the schedule of the 《Eternal Spring Life Nurturing Technique》.
In fact, when his heart wavered, he had already made a choice.
In his Sea of Consciousness, the content of the 《Supreme Wisdom Sutra》 he had heard these days, as well as the content of Shi Feizhe’s class today, were intertwined, constantly churning.
When he was young, he also had doubts about the world. During his growth, he had also asked questions while reading some books. He had also thought about why people lived and why people lived so hard!
But the Jianghu did not allow him to ask so many whys.
In his eighty years of life, he had experienced countless things. He had seen many things but did not speak up, and he treated many things as if he had not seen them.
This was also wisdom.
When countless pieces of knowledge in his mind intertwined to form the symbol Φ, and years of accumulated experience transformed into wisdom, a bold thought came to him.
Why should I work like a horse for the Jiang family?
Why can’t I live for myself?
Why can’t I… become a True Person?
Listen, wisdom has arrived!
