Chapter 194: The Seed that Changes the Jianghu
Ten-year-old Tan Jinxi covered her ears, listening to the rumbling sound coming from outside the city.
This sound reminded her of a memory from a year ago, or rather, nine months ago.
At that time, there was also this rumbling sound, and she was held by her family and fled to her relatives in the countryside.
It was cold and crowded in the countryside, but it was a lot of fun, except that she couldn’t always get enough to eat.
Fortunately, after the New Year, she returned to Jicheng with her family.
Jicheng had changed a lot. Even though she didn’t know anything, she could tell from the almost empty streets.
Especially since her entire street only had her family, she didn’t know where the neighbors had gone.
Fortunately, as time went on, many people slowly returned to Jicheng, and even one of her neighbor’s families came back, which made her very happy.
Later, she and her neighbor Erni went to Qing Shan Martial Academy because they were of the right age.
The entrance exam for Qing Shan Martial Academy was very interesting.
“Have you ever learned or been exposed to martial arts?”
No!
“Have you heard of the 《Sacred Heart Manual》?”
No!
“Have you heard of Old Demon Shi’s deeds?”
No!
So she successfully enrolled and joined Qing Shan Martial Academy.
In the academy, a person called Academy Head Shi taught them a martial art called 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》, and also taught them what materialism and idealism were.
These two concepts were really strange.
At her age, it was indeed difficult to understand.
But Academy Head Shi didn’t have any specific requirements or urge them, he just let them practice martial arts step by step, do standing post exercises, and then learn pinyin and mathematics. He said that if they studied hard, they would understand in the future.
Life was very happy, except that she couldn’t go home when she was in school, she couldn’t talk about martial arts with her family, and the exams were very annoying, everything else was very good!
Especially since there was delicious food every day.
Even every seven or eight days, there was candy!
Not malt candy, but real candy, yellow rock sugar in chunks!
Therefore, she was very satisfied with life at Qing Shan Martial Academy. So she was very dedicated to cultivating the 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》.
As time went by, she gradually understood materialism and idealism.
It was like eating candy, you have to eat the candy first to feel the sweetness, it’s not that you have the sweetness first and then want to eat candy, so the candy appears.
Once she understood this idea, Tan Jinxi felt that she had a new understanding of the 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》.
Thinking of standing in the sword stance as the process of eating candy, then generating sword Qi, wouldn’t it be like generating “sweetness”? And if too much “sweetness” accumulated, it would form a huge candy, a candy that she couldn’t finish eating or using in a lifetime!
According to her self-justified logic, she just stood in the sword stance blindly, and after a period of persistence, she vaguely sensed sword Qi in her body, but it was fleeting and she couldn’t grasp it.
She happily told Teacher Huang, and Teacher Huang smiled and encouraged her to continue!
So she continued to persist, and today, she finally cultivated a faint sword Qi! She was about to report to Teacher Huang when she found that the entire Qing Shan Martial Academy was heavily guarded, and she and all the other students were arranged to hide in a cellar!
If the situation was not right, they would be taken away by Teacher Huang and escape Jicheng through the tunnel under the cellar!
Tan Jinxi looked at Teacher Huang’s expression, which was very serious and alert, even after the rumbling sound ended.
At this moment, there was a knocking sound from the cellar.
“Who is it?” Tan Jinxi saw Teacher Huang press down on the knife in his hand and said.
“The Academy Head won! The alert is lifted!”
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Tan Jinxi understood, Teacher Guan’s voice came from outside the cellar, and it was filled with joy!
“Really?” Tan Jinxi heard Teacher Huang’s voice filled with doubt.
“Of course! But the Academy Head is seriously injured! I’m going to have a look, you take care of things here!”
“Okay!”
After that, Tan Jinxi saw Teacher Huang cautiously open the thick iron door of the cellar and look outside first. It didn’t take long for the cellar door to be opened.
“Students, come out! Jicheng is safe now!” Tan Jinxi heard Teacher Huang’s voice.
“Oh~”
“Okay~”
Tan Jinxi followed the two classmates in her group and ran out. Passing by Teacher Huang, she said:
“Teacher Huang, I’ve succeeded!”
“Succeeded in what?” Huang Xueshu was maintaining order when he suddenly heard a student talking to him.
“I’ve succeeded in the Sword Finger!” Tan Jinxi said.
“Sword Finger?” Huang Xueshu was stunned and said: “The 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》?”
“Yes!” Tan Jinxi said: “This morning, I cultivated the first sword Qi! Do you want me to show it to you?”
“No! Don’t show it to me, show it to the Academy Head!” Huang Xueshu stopped her and said: “Come with me!”
“Okay!”
“No, you’re too slow! The Academy Head must be anxious!” Huang Xueshu picked up Tan Jinxi, and like a big bird, he crossed several rooftops and arrived at Shi Feizhe’s office.
Shi Feizhe had just changed his clothes when he saw Huang Xueshu holding a little girl in front of him.
“Ah? Xueshu, why did you bring a little girl here?” Shi Feizhe looked at the flustered Huang Xueshu and asked.
“Academy Head, she succeeded! She succeeded in the 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》!” Huang Xueshu said to Shi Feizhe.
The final task Shi Feizhe gave him was to see if anyone had succeeded in the 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》!
“Huh?” Shi Feizhe looked at Tan Jinxi. The originally cute little girl’s hair was messed up from being carried by Huang Xueshu all the way here. He asked: “Which group are you from?”
“Group Nine!” Tan Jinxi said.
“Group Nine! So that’s the materialism and idealism group?” Shi Feizhe said.
“Yes!” Tan Jinxi nodded.
“Since you’ve cultivated the sword Qi, why don’t you release one and let me see.” Shi Feizhe said, and then he added: “Just release a little bit. It’s quite uncomfortable after releasing all the sword Qi.”
“Okay!” Tan Jinxi did as she was told, and an almost invisible sword Qi flashed from her ring finger.
But Shi Feizhe recognized it at a glance, this was the 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》!
He listened to Tan Jinxi talking about the relationship between candy and sweetness with a strange expression on his face, to understand materialism and idealism. What he was thinking was.
He didn’t know what the Sword Emperor from a hundred years ago was thinking when he invented this 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》!
The Jianghu was truly unimaginable!
“Good, good, good! What’s your name?” Shi Feizhe only remembered to ask the little girl’s name after hearing Tan Jinxi finish speaking.
“My name is Tan Jinxi!” Tan Jinxi said.
“You are truly the mascot of our Jicheng, and the seed that changes the Jianghu!” Shi Feizhe gently patted the little girl’s head and said.
（End of Volume）
Tan Jinxi is the name left by a certain book friend in the Ma family’s post, and it is also the name of his daughter, who is to be a mascot.
