Chapter 224 (2/2)

Mo Shanshan said, ”When I was young, I followed my teacher to a mountain for Talisman Taoism cultivation. For more than 10 years, I only contacted two things—calligraphy and the talisman. I would like to invite Senior Brother to teach me how to fight and how to win.”

Ning Que looked at her conscientious expression and understood that it must have been the battle yesterday that made this naive but well-known female Talisman Master suffer a certain impact of her view of the world. Therefore, she had this kind of request.

Regarding the cultivation state, he knew his mediocrity compared with Senior Brothers and Sisters of Back Mountain, Prince Long Qing, and this female Talisman Master opposite him. But when it came to fighting, he had been struggling for his life and dancing on a blade since childhood. His whole life was non-stop fighting, which made him very confident.

”Fighting is a very simple matter. That is how to make your opponent lose his ability to hurt you under the premise of protecting yourself. Therefore, we must first understand what kind of strength we have and what kind of strength the enemy has.”

Ning Que pointed at the horse carriage roof above them and said, ”We must first know how high it is from the roof to the floor, and then know our height so as not to stand up to hit our heads. Of course, maybe we would pierce the roof. But I don't think many people would want to measure the hardness of the roof with their own head.”

He used very simple words and metaphors to clearly describe the preparation before a battle.

When Mo Shanshan was thinking, her eyes became more blank. He completely did not know where she was looking. She whispered softly, ”How can we judge that the opponent has lost his ability to hurt us?”

Ning Que most liked answering this kind of seemingly foolish but very important question. He leaned against the cotton pad beside the window, waving his hand in the air, and then replied. ”Breaking arms and legs is the most commonly used means of making others seriously injured. But if you need to make sure that the opposite side loses all his combatting power, keep in mind one sentence: You're only safe when you're dead.”

Upon listening to these words, Mo Shanshan's eyes looked a bit confused. It seemed that she did not understand why Ning Que always directly talked about death every time it came to fighting. In her childhood, she studied from Ink Lake teachers that, in the cultivators' contest, did not necessarily have to win by putting others to death.

Ning Que looked at her facial expression and realized this Calligraphy Addict was really a pure white lotus born in Ink Lake. Before she came to the Wilderness, she had actually been completely ignorant of the world's suffering. He could not help patiently saying, ”If you cultivate in Ink Lake, of course you don't need to think about these matters. Just like me, if I hide in the Academy to study at this time, all I would need to do every day is to play chess, hit iron, and listen to songs. What a happy life I would have. But outside the small building, the world is full of dangerous wind, snow, rain, and swords. Since you have set foot in it, you have to understand how the word 'sinister' is written.”

Mo Shanshan listened to his sincere words, nodding to show that she had understood him. At the same time, she gratefully glanced at him. But unfortunately, her gaze was still very casual, which did not make Ning Que feel her grat.i.tude clearly.

”Senior Brother Thirteen, if the strength of the opponent is far beyond yours, how do you beat him?”

”Hill Master...”

”Senior Brother Thirteen, you can directly call my name.”

”If the others know that, they will inevitably feel that I am not respectful.”

”Please call me Sister Shanshan.”

”Sister Shanshan, the question you just asked... basically has no solution. If anyone can answer this question perfectly, then he is the most powerful person in this world. Because he has more ways to defeat the person more powerful than himself.”

Mo Shanshan slightly furrowed her brows and seriously asked after a long moment of silence, ”Senior Brother, your words... are ironic?”

Ning Que stared at her and found an uncomfortable fact from the bank of this dark blue lake that, in addition to Sangsang, there was someone who finally appeared to be able to beat him numerous times in the world.

”Sister, you can think it is ironic. But please do not think too much. I often use irony in my speech to deepen the listener's impression. Because this is a very important matter.”

Mo Shanshan nodded and continued to ask, ”Then how can we defeat the enemies that are more powerful than us?”

Ning Que seriously answered, ”When we encounter a far stronger enemy than ourselves, I insist that we have only one choice.”

Mo Shanshan slightly raised her small face and asked with an expected look, ”What choice?”

Ning Que said, ”Escape.”

”... ”

”No need to be speechless. Escaping is also a kind of fighting. Because when facing an opponent far more powerful than yourself, you might not escape even if you want to. If you want to, I can start to teach you from the escape.”

”Senior Brother, it is indeed of very good character to consider failure before talking about success. But I still want to learn how to win first.”

Mo Shanshan sat on a small window sill with her hands holding an ink brush, and was ready to carefully record.

When Ning Que looked at this picture, he could not help feeling a little proud, recalling that, like her, he had carefully recorded every word of Mr. Lu's on paper with an ink brush in the horse carriage coming back from the Wilderness in the spring of last year. He had a lot of complicated feelings and carefully said after calming down,

”Your thought is correct too, there are not many other people in the world whose cultivation state can surpa.s.s yours. I believe most of the time the opponents you face are like the Horse Gang yesterday, far weaker than you.”

He said seriously, ”In the face of opponents weaker than ourselves, we should not be sympathetic and compa.s.sionate, or proud and arrogant. We should treat opponents as the most powerful enemies, rather than weak.

”But you have to remember that in the att.i.tude of war, you can't despise your opponent but should tactically choose the right fighting method. When you're strong and your enemy is weak, you should be as tough as a tiger to hunt him with your full power. Using your full power like a tiger is not really to use all the power in your palms to kill the weak rabbit, but to focus on your mind so you don't give the weak rabbit any chance of escape. A direct hunt for the rabbit can help you avoid chasing until exhaustion and entanglement so you can save your strength. If a hunting tiger appears, hundreds of rabbits don't dare to move.”

Mo Shanshan recorded those words and looked up at him to ask, ”What if two tigers meet?”

Ning Que said, ”You can pretend to be hurt and beg for mercy by saying that you have silently loved him for 10,000 years, trying your best to weaken his mind. You can hit his mother, kill his family, slap his children in the face, and try every way to anger the opposition. If you wear shoes, go to a th.o.r.n.y land. If you wear thick clothes, choose a bitterly cold place. Try everything possible to create a suitable background for your fighting. If he has great power and you have sharp claws, you can fight while running to cut his skin and make him continue bleeding. If he has sharp claws and you have great power, you can quietly wait and allow him to slightly harm you. Then you choose the perfect opportunity to kill him. All in all, try your best to hide your shortcomings and grab the best fighting chance.”

Mo Shanshan listened to his endless comments on various situations. She became more and more absentminded in her eyes and she subconsciously muttered, ”It sounds like it's very complicated. Where can I find so many methods?”

”If nothing works, you just have to remember the last one.”

Ning Que looked at her and seriously said, ”When two tigers meet, the brave one wins.”

Mo Shanshan seriously looked at him with her eyes open. After a long period of silence, she fully understood the meaning of his words. Then she softly said with lament, ”Senior Brother, you know so many things.”

Ning Que felt that her gaze always seemed to be focused elsewhere. Upon listening to this praise, he could not help feeling a bit weird. He said, ”Sister, you have countless admirers in the world. If you often praise me, I'll feel a bit overwhelmed.”

Mo Shanshan furrowed her inky eyebrows and puzzledly asked, ”Senior Brother, how do you know so many things?”

Ning Que adjusted his sitting position and said smilingly, ”The Academy teachers have taught us a sentence: Genuine knowledge comes from practice. Sister, if you had been fighting since childhood just like me, you'd naturally understand so many things.”

Mo Shanshan looked more and more confused on her face. ”Brother you've fought so many... Were you very naughty in your childhood?”

Ning Que felt his body slightly stiffen and felt it really hard to talk with this white lotus of Black Ink Garden.

Mo Shanshan asked, ”Senior Brother?”

Ning Que exhaustedly waved his hand and said, ”Sister, I also have a question to ask you.”

Mo Shanshan asked, ”What question?”

Ning Que looked at her eyes and asked, ”Why do you never look me straight in the eyes?”

Mo Shanshan looked at him and puzzledly asked, ”When?”

Ning Que felt that she was looking at the Wilderness outside the window and sighed, ”Anytime, anywhere. For example, now.”

Mo Shanshan suddenly thought of one thing and her expression became slightly stiff. After a short moment of silence, she quietly explained. ”I was fond of calligraphy since childhood and have copied too many sections. So my eyes are not very good.”

Ning Que slightly opened his lips and did not know what to say. Then he realized that the well-known Calligraphy Addict was actually short-sighted. Besides, from her eyesight, did she still have astigmatism?

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