Chapter 24 (1/2)

Book 1 - What Is A Genius

Chapter 24 - The Skill Compet.i.tion At The Beginning Of The Year

03 Aug 2016

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Sorry for no releases last week. Had to make a trip back home. Anyways, releases will resume.

Translated by:

toomuchnoob

He Yiming eventually let out a long sigh after cultivating all these techniques. The huge rock, which had been weighing down on his heart, for the past several months was also finally lifted.

Five months ago, he felt a dense killing intent coming from Xu Xiangci, Senior Xu-second.

Against an eighth layer cultivator, He Yiming wasn’t the least bit sure of his chances. Whenever he thought about how such a high-level expert was actually watching him like a predator, he felt his blood go cold.

However, at this moment, he was not afraid anymore. Instead, he was excited; he didn’t mind running into the former and exchange some blows in secret. Of course, if he could win and teach him a lesson, that would be the best.

He Yiming slowly calmed himself as he silently thought about the enormous transformation that had occurred during this time period of about a year.

He knew that the source of all of these things was that day’s strange encounter in the lake. If he’d not obtained that strange and mysterious opportunity, perhaps he would still be that small youngster who endlessly worried over his breakthrough to the sixth layer, instead of being a high-level cultivator of the eighth layer.

While cultivating for about a year, He Yiming had gradually adapted to his body’s transformation.

Furthermore, he’d also summed up the qualities that made him stand out from the ma.s.ses.

First of all, as long as he cultivated with a calm heart, be it the primary cultivation techniques, battle skills, or even supplementary skills, his Internal Energy always increased by some amount. Although the extent of the increase differed, the point still held true.

And perhaps this was the cause of He Yiming’s cultivation speed being so fast.

Apart from this extraordinary feature, when his Internal Energy attained the peak of a level and touched the corresponding bottleneck, as long as he cultivated a new technique, even including supplementary type techniques, he could easily break through the bottleneck and attain the next level.

This matter defined the heavens to the extreme. He Yiming’s age was not much and he was not a sharp and ill.u.s.trious child prodigy either, but he at least knew that he couldn’t tell this matter to anyone; not even to the people closest to him.

Furthermore, ever since his encounter in the lake, he could master any technique in a very short amount of time. Especially, the battle skills; he could attain their peaks without any difficulty whatsoever.

What he found inconceivable was that his physique also seemed to have gone through an indescribable transformation. Regardless of the attribute of the techniques, he could apparently cultivate them all, and furthermore, the speed and the results of cultivation could cause anyone to be tongue-tied as well.

In addition, He Yiming’s true strength lied in the fact that he didn’t draw people’s attention. The amount of strength he chose to display became his true strength in the eyes of other people. This point could be affirmed by the fact that, previously, He Wude couldn’t discern that he’d attained the sixth layer.

These were the various strange transformations that allowed him to attain the realm of the eighth-level Internal Energy within a brief time period of less than a year. Even when taking the whole Tai Cang county into consideration, his true strength could definitely enter the top five rankings.

Of course, this was nothing more than his speculation. Thus, he couldn’t be completely certain without actual combat.

Sorting out all the stuff properly, He Yiming returned to his room, when he suddenly heard a soft bell- sound at his door. Faintly started, he opened the room’s door and saw his third uncle, He Quanyi, standing on the courtyard’s doorway.

He Quanyi stepped forward at once and entered the room. He Yiming respectfully said:

“Third uncle, why have you come personally? If there is something, you could have just asked some servants to inform me.”

He Quanyi heartily laughed and said:

“You have been bitterly cultivated for these past few months and haven’t stepped outside your room. You didn’t even attend a single banquet at the beginning or the middle of the month.”

He Yiming’s face was slightly red as he said:

“Third uncle, your small nephew has been somewhat neglectful due to being excessively focussed on cultivation and ask for forgiveness.”

He Quanyi waved his big hand and said:

“You are so engrossed in cultivation, your third uncle couldn’t ask for more.” He continued after a pause: “But with your small age, you cannot continue cultivating like this. Interacting with your siblings and others in the family is also very essential. This time, if not for your eldest uncle asking to bring you out, I wouldn’t even have known.”

Now He Yiming knew why his third uncle would come to his place. He nodded as he listened while maintaining a respectful appearance.

He Quanyi, however, felt that he couldn’t see through this small nephew of his. This kind of feeling caused astonished him incessantly. With his experience, even when facing the number one figure among the third generation, He Yitian, he was certain that he could see through the latter. However, why would this small nephew had such a huge transformation in merely a single year?